Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 10694225Abstract: Determining that a client device is in a supplemental content restriction mode, creating a shell of a supplemental content item, delivering the shell of the supplemental content item to the client device, and reporting a presentation event of a supplemental content item being served to the client device.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Mehul K. Sanghavi, Sagar A. Joshi
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Patent number: 10694169Abstract: In some embodiments, an image sensor structure includes a super-pixel sensor comprising a plurality of micro-pixel sensors. The image sensor structure includes a plurality of micro-lenses affixed to focus light on the plurality of micro-pixel sensors. In some embodiments, each micro-lens of the plurality of micro-lenses directs light to locations on a respective one or more of the plurality of micro-pixel sensors. In some embodiments, the image sensor structure includes one or more color filters affixed at locations for filtering light directed by the micro-lenses to a first set of color image micro-pixel sensors comprising one or more of the plurality of micro-pixel sensors for capturing color image data and one or more polarization filters affixed at locations for filtering light directed by the micro-lenses to a second set of polarization micro-pixel sensors comprising one or more of the plurality of micro-pixel sensors for capturing depth map data.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2015Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard J. Topliss, Albert A. Ho, Thomas M. Gregory, Ning Y. Chan, Richard H. Tsai
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Patent number: 10691209Abstract: A stylus can include a housing and a tip. A force-sensing system can detect movement of the tip relative to the housing when a force is applied to the tip. A haptic feedback system can move the tip relative to the housing, for example by inducing a magnetic field in magnetic elements connected to the tip and the housing. The haptic feedback can be used to render texture sensations to simulate drawing on a textured surface with the stylus. As such, the same tip that is used to provide inputs can receive haptic feedback during use. The user can continue to use the tip for input even as haptic feedback is also being applied to the tip.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard G. Huizar, Qiliang Xu
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Patent number: 10694364Abstract: This disclosure relates to providing local address information while roaming. A wireless device may connect to a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point in a roaming location. The wireless device may communicate with one or more servers of a home network via the WLAN access point. The wireless device may provide a local address of the wireless device to the home network in one or more messages related to a service. The home network may be configured to determine a location of the wireless device based on the local address and determine whether to provide the service based on the location of the wireless device. In response to the home network determining to provide the service based on the location of the wireless device, the wireless device may perform the service using the home network via the WLAN access point.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli, Christopher A. Volkert, Krisztian Kiss, Prashant H. Vashi, Rohan C. Malthankar, Yogesh D. Karandikar
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Patent number: 10694629Abstract: A magnetic stand for a tablet device is disclosed. The magnetic stand is configured to rigidly hold a portion of the tablet device in place and to shield the magnetic field from adversely affecting nearby devices susceptible to strong magnetic fields. The shielding portion of the magnetic stand allows for significant increases in magnetic field strength when compared to similarly configured, unshielded products.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Matthew D. Rohrbach
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Patent number: 10691165Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided having internal components mounted to a structural glass support member. The structural glass support member may have a planar front surface that forms a front surface of the device. The structural glass support member may have bent portions that form sidewall surfaces of the device. Portions of the structural glass support member may form a transparent display cover layer. A rigid or flexible display may be mounted to the structural glass support member. Additional internal device components may be mounted to the display. A thin enclosure for enclosing the internal components in the device may be mounted to the structural glass support member. The thin enclosure may be mounted to the structural glass support member using a peripheral member. The thin enclosure may be free from attachments to internal components or may be adhesively bonded to one or more internal components.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, John P. Ternus, Kevin D. Gibbs
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Patent number: 10691610Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing and accessing sparse data is disclosed. A sparse array circuit may receive information indicative of a request to perform a read operation on a memory circuit that includes multiple banks. The sparse array circuit may compare an address included in the received information to multiple entries that correspond to address locations in the memory circuit that store sparse data. In response to a determination that that the address matches a particular entry, the sparse array may generate one or more control signals that may disable the read operation, and cause a data control circuit to transmits the sparse data pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael R. Seningen, Ben D. Jarrett, Edward M. McCombs, Greg M. Hess
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Patent number: 10687707Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method of detecting activity by a wheelchair user. In one aspect, a method comprises collecting motion data of a user device located on an appendage of the user; detecting, by a processor circuit, that one or more activities by the wheelchair user occurred based on the motion data; calculating, by a processor circuit, an energy expenditure by the user based the one or more activities by the wheelchair user occurred; and outputting, by a processor circuit, the energy expenditure estimation.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Xing Tan, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Adeeti Ullal, Umamahesh Srinivas, Mrinal Agarwal, Daniel Trietsch, Alexander Singh Alvarado, Hung A. Pham, Ronald K. Huang, Adam Howell
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Patent number: 10687752Abstract: A method and a system for determining an energy expenditure of a user by detecting unmeasurable loads using heart rate and work rate are described. Time-stamped heart rate data and work rate data can be collected by one or more sensing modules. A processor circuit can calculate a heart rate-based energy expenditure and a work rate-based energy expenditure. The processor circuit can output a hybrid energy expenditure based on a heart rate confidence parameter, an exercise type, a fraction of heart rate reserve, and a hear rate-based metabolic equivalents of task.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hung A. Pham, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Hengliang Zhang, Edith Merle Arnold
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Patent number: 10693863Abstract: A method of enabling applications to reference user information is provided, including receiving a request for a user identifier that references a user of the application and sending a second request for the user identifier to a server. The second request may include a second user identifier that references the user and a second authentication token for the second user identifier. Furthermore, the second user identifier and the second authentication token are not accessible by the user. The method includes receiving the user identifier and an authentication token for the first user identifier. The user identifier corresponds to the second identifier; and providing the user identifier and authentication token to the application. A method of enabling an application to identify users associated with a user of the application is provided; the method may include receiving, from the server, user identifiers that reference one or more users scoped to the application.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Derrick S. Huhn, Jeremy M. Werner, Amol V. Pattekar
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Patent number: 10691230Abstract: The present disclosure relates to manipulating a user interface on a wearable electronic device using a mechanical crown. In some examples, the user interface can be scrolled or scaled in response to a rotation of the crown. The direction of the scrolling or scaling and the amount of scrolling or scaling can depend on the direction and amount of rotation of the crown, respectively. In some examples, the amount of scrolling or scaling can be proportional to the change in rotation angle of the crown. In other examples, a speed of scrolling or a speed of scaling can depend on a speed of angular rotation of the crown. In these examples, a greater speed of rotation can cause a greater speed of scrolling or scaling to be performed on the displayed view.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Aurelio Guzman, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Duncan Robert Kerr, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang, Gary Ian Butcher, Jonathan P. Ive, Kevin Lynch
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Patent number: 10693986Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can use notification extensions for applications to preprocess a notification received by the computing device and present content associated with a notification. For example, applications installed on the computing device can provide a service extension for preprocessing the notification. When a notification associated with the application is received, the notification system on the computing device can invoke the service extension for the application to preprocess the notification (e.g., to download additional content, encrypt/decrypt notification data, etc.). Applications can provide content extensions to present notification content. For example, a content extension associated with the application can be invoked by the notification system to present media content (or other content) associated with a received notification in an application specific manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthew E. Shepherd, Benjamin T. Sherratt, Michele Campeotto
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Patent number: 10694014Abstract: The disclosed embodiments of haptic locomotion use one or more actuators to: 1) determine the properties of contact surfaces to improve various applications that use haptic locomotion; 2) automatically improve power transfer efficiency during wireless charging or cellular or wireless signal reception; 3) increase device accessibility for visually or hearing impaired users; 4) improve speaker and microphone performance; 5) protect a free falling mobile device from impact damage by orienting the mobile device to a low-risk orientation during free fall, or by driving the mobile device away from a high-risk orientation during free fall; and 6) control asymmetric surface friction using a directional magnetic field provided by an actuator to improve haptic locomotion in a desired direction of travel.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jere C. Harrison, Alex J. Speltz, Sheng Liu
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Patent number: 10694453Abstract: Systems and methods of providing communications between UEs are generally described. A notification resource indicating subsequent transmission of a discovery message is transmitted from a UE to another UE using a discovery ID selected from a limited number of discovery IDs stored in the other UE. The other UE transmits a random access request to the UE having a temporary ID. The UE may not respond if the temporary ID is already used or may transmit data transmission information scrambled by the temporary ID. The other UE transmits a contention resolution PDU to the UE and may receive an ACK to indicate ID contention is not present, or either no response or a NACK to indicate the presence of ID contention. The other UE may either select a new temporary ID or use a backoff timer to retransmit the random access request at a random time.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Satish Chandra Jha, Qian Li, Guangjie Li, Yaser M. Fouad, Joonbeom Kim, Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade, Lu Lu, Dawei Ying, Hassan Ghozlan, Xiaoyun May Wu, Geng Wu
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Patent number: 10690837Abstract: A display such as a liquid crystal display may have an array of pixels that is illuminated using backlight illumination from a backlight. The backlight may have a light guide layer that distributes light from light-emitting diodes across the display. The light guide layer may have a planar portion that provides backlight illumination to the array of pixels and may have bent edge portions that curve out of the plane of the planar portion. Light scattering structures may be formed in the planar portion to extract backlight illumination from the light guide layer. A light sensor adjacent to the bent portion may monitor leaked light. The light guide layer may have two bent portions on opposing edges of the light guide layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rong Liu, Mengyang Liang, Yu P. Sun, Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin
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Patent number: 10693930Abstract: This document describes a protocol for transferring unbounded streams of multimedia data. It specifies the data format of the files and the actions to be taken by the server (sender) and the clients (receivers) of the streams. It describes version 2 of this protocol.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Roger Pantos, William B. May, Jr., David Biderman, Alan Tseng
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Patent number: D888048Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D888080Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Bradley William Griffin, Jonathan P. Ive, Tiffany Jon, Chanaka Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Daamun Mohseni, Hoan K. Pham, William McMillan Tyler, Wan Si Wan, Giancarlo Yerkes
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Patent number: D888086Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Peter Anton, Jennifer Patton, Marcel van Os
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Patent number: D888089Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan P. Ive, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson, Chun Kin Minor Wong