Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12182619
    Abstract: The subject technology provides for dynamic task allocation for neural network models. The subject technology determines an operation performed at a node of a neural network model. The subject technology assigns an annotation to indicate whether the operation is better performed on a CPU or a GPU based at least in part on hardware capabilities of a target platform. The subject technology determines whether the neural network model includes a second layer. The subject technology, in response to determining that the neural network model includes a second layer, for each node of the second layer of the neural network model, determines a second operation performed at the node. Further the subject technology assigns a second annotation to indicate whether the second operation is better performed on the CPU or the GPU based at least in part on the hardware capabilities of the target platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Francesco Rossi, Gaurav Kapoor, Michael R. Siracusa, William B. March
  • Patent number: 12184316
    Abstract: A receiver circuit associated with a communication device is disclosed. The receiver circuit comprises a digital data compression circuit configured to receive a plurality of digital receive signals derived from a plurality of analog receive signals respectively associated with the receiver circuit. The digital data compression circuit is further configured to compress the plurality of digital receive signals to form one or more compressed digital data signals based thereon, to be provided to an input output (I/O) interface associated therewith. In some embodiments, a compressed digital signal dimension associated with the one or more compressed digital data signals is less than a digital signal dimension associated with the plurality of digital receive signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Peter Sagazio, Farhana Sheikh, Junyoung Nam, Shilpa Talwar
  • Patent number: 12183307
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be formed from liquid crystal display pixels, organic light-emitting diode pixels, or other pixels. The display may have an active area that is bordered along at least one edge by an inactive area. The active area contains pixels and displays images. The inactive area does not contain any pixels and does not display images. The inactive area may have a layer of black ink or other masking material to block internal components from view. The active area may have an opening that contains an isolated portion of the inactive area or may contain a recess into which a portion of the inactive area protrudes. An electrical component such as a speaker, camera, light-emitting diode, light sensor, or other electrical device may be mounted in the inactive area in the recess or opening of the active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mikael M. Silvanto, Dinesh C. Mathew, Victor H. Yin
  • Patent number: 12185142
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for port selection codebook configuration. A user equipment (UE) may decode a channel state information (CSI) report configuration (CSI-ReportConfig) from a base station. The CSI-ReportConfig configuring a port selection codebook comprising a port selection matrix W1, a combinational coefficient matrix W2, and a frequency basis selection matrix Wf. Based on the CSI-ReportConfig, the determines, for the port selection matrix W1, up to L CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) ports out of P CSI-RS ports configured for measuring and reporting CSI. For the frequency basis selection matrix Wf, the UE determines up to Mv frequency basis out of N frequency basis. For the combinational coefficient matrix W2, the UE determines up to L*Mv entries per layer. The UE reports one or more of the port selection matrix W1, the combinational coefficient matrix W2, and the frequency basis selection matrix Wf to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12185262
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining channel raster(s) and synchronization signal raster(s) for New Radio (NR) unlicensed spectrum are disclosed herein. For each of a plurality of data objects an NR channel raster position is determined using Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (NR-ARFCN) numbers. For each corresponding NR channel. Global Synchronization Channel Numbers (GSCNs), a number of Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) based on channel subcarrier spacing (SCS). NR channel raster position placement, channel edges, synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (SSB) edges, and an SSB raster position are calculated. The plurality of data objects may then be down selected based on e.g., corresponding Long Term Evolution (LTE) channel raster positions and/or entries of a second plurality of data objects calculated for NR channels that use a second SCS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yang Tang, Dae Won Lee, Prerana Rane, Bishwarup Mondal, Jiwoo Kim, Yongjun Kwak, Suenghee Han
  • Patent number: 12185096
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provides analyzing a recording of content within a field of view of a device, the analyzing including recognition of a set of objects included in the content. The subject technology identifies a subset of the set of objects that are indicated as corresponding to protected content. The subject technology generates a modified version of the recording that obfuscates or filters the subset of the set of objects. Additionally, the subject technology provides the modified version of the recording to a host application for playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ranjit Desai, Maneli Noorkami, Joel N. Kerr
  • Patent number: 12185400
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) user plane (UP) integrity protection (IP) for a user equipments (UE) and radio access network (RAN) nodes operating in Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access-New Radio dual connectivity (EN-DC). In an attach procedure, a UE may indicate a UE security capability for support of relay node (RN) PDCP UP IP used in LTE. Based on the LIE security capability, a master e Node B (MeNB) security capability, and a secondary g Node B (SgNB) security capability, the MeNB may determine whether to use UP IP between the UE and the MeNB, the UE and the SgNB, and/or in a split bearer between the MeNB and the SgNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Shu Guo, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Huarui Liang, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12185049
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display is paired with a set of wireless audio output devices, including a first wireless audio output device for outputting audio to a right ear of a user and a second wireless audio output device for outputting audio to a left ear of the user. In response to a request to display status information about the set of wireless audio output devices, the electronic device displays a status user interface, including concurrently displaying a first battery status indicator for the first wireless audio output device with an indication that battery status indicator relates to the device for outputting audio to the right ear of the user and a second battery status indicator for the second wireless audio output device with an indication that battery status indicator relates to the device for outputting audio to the left ear of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Fleizach, Edwin W. Foo, Ian M. Fisch, Eric Taylor Seymour
  • Patent number: 12184428
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments supporting multi-PDSCH transmission with multiple PUCCH resources by signaling the PDSCH-to-HARQ_feedback timing indicator, K1; identifying the PDSCH set associated with a PUCCH; constructing a Type 1 HARQ-ACK codebook; and constructing a Type 2 HARQ-ACK codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12185138
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) reports radio access capabilities to a network. The UE receives a request from a network for radio access capabilities of the UE, determining one or more radio access capabilities related to physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) blind decoding by the UE, generates a message that includes the one or more radio access capabilities of the UE and transmits the message to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Chunhai Yao, Fangli Xu
  • Patent number: 12184869
    Abstract: Encoding an extended-reality (XR) video frame may include obtaining an XR video frame comprising a background image and a virtual object; obtaining, from an image renderer, a first region of the background image over which the virtual object is overlaid; dividing the XR video frame into a virtual region and a real region, wherein the virtual region comprises the first region of the background image and the virtual object and the real region comprises a second region of the background image; determining, for the virtual region, a corresponding first quantization parameter based on an initial quantization parameter associated with virtual regions; determining, for the real region, a corresponding second quantization parameter based on an initial quantization parameter associated with real regions; and encoding the virtual region based on the corresponding first quantization parameter and the real region based on the corresponding second quantization parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Yi Zhou
  • Patent number: 12185088
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure enable a user equipment (UE) to performing inter-Radio Access Technology (RAT) measurements. The UE determines whether one or more inter-RAT measurement object (MO) is configured with or without a measurement gap (MG). When the one or more inter-RAT MO is on an NR serving component carrier (CC) with the MG, the UE performs an inter-RAT measurement on the NR serving CC based on whether the MG is fully overlapped or partially overlapped with synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) of a target MO of the one or more inter-RAT MO. When the one or more inter-RAT MO is on the NR serving CC without the MG, the UE performs the inter-RAT measurement on the NR serving CC based on whether a target SSB of the target MO is within or outside an active bandwidth part (BWP) of the NR serving CC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12184974
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that obtain sensor data from one or more sensors in a physical environment, and a context is determined based on the sensor data, where the context includes a location of the physical environment and an occurrence of an activity in the physical environment. Camera parameters are selected based on historical parameter data identified based on the context, where the historical parameter data is identified based on camera parameters previously used in the location during prior occurrences of the activity. Then, a camera is configured to capture an image using the selected camera parameters in the location during the occurrence of the activity. In some implementations, the adjusted camera parameters are selected based on context and shared information from a different electronic device regarding camera parameters that were used in the same physical location and during the same activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anselm Grundhoefer, Ivan Kolesov, Sivalogeswaran Ratnasingam
  • Patent number: 12185123
    Abstract: A wireless device is configured to select a beam and/or an antenna based on detection a detected position and/or orientation of the device relative to a remote device. The device obtains motion data indicating a change in position or orientation of the wireless device. The device determines its pose relative to the remote device. The device accesses a coverage map that associates, for each potential pose for the device with respect to the remote device: an antenna for communicating with the remote device and/or a beam for communicating with the remote device. The device selects a particular antenna and/or a particular beam for communicating with the remote device; and causes transmission or reception of data to or from the remote device by the particular antenna and/or the particular beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ioannis Pefkianakis, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Chia-Feng Lin, Satish Doraiswamy, Prashant H. Vashi, Sai Sravan Bharadwaj Karri, Guillaume Monghal
  • Patent number: 12182360
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device dynamically assigns functionalities to one or more buttons depending on an orientation associated with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan R. Edwards, Morgan A. Price, Bryant A. Jow, Nathan De Vries, Nahir A. Khan, Simon J. Parsons
  • Patent number: 12185018
    Abstract: A sensor stack is described. The sensor stack includes first and second electromagnetic radiation sensors. The first electromagnetic radiation sensor has a high quantum efficiency for converting a first range of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths into a first set of electrical signals. The second electromagnetic radiation sensor is positioned in a field of view of the first electromagnetic radiation sensor and has a high quantum efficiency for converting a second range of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths into a second set of electrical signals and a low quantum efficiency for converting the first range of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths into the second set of electrical signals. The first range of wavelengths does not overlap the second range of wavelengths, and the second electromagnetic radiation sensor is at least partially transmissive to the first range of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gennadiy A. Agranov, Zachary M. Beiley, Andras G. Pattantyus-Abraham, Oray O. Cellek, Xiaofeng Fan, Gershon Rosenblum, Xiangli Li, Emanuele Mandelli, Bernhard Buettgen, Yuchuan Shao
  • Patent number: D1055586
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Gady, Kameron Gad, Martynas Laurita, Simona M. Szabados, Joshua Robert Edwards, Gabriel J. Lamb, Gregory Guillaume Lespinard, Oladapo Onikuyide, Seung Chae Kang, Indhu V. Solayappan, Hyun Jin Kim, Jake A. Nelson
  • Patent number: D1055917
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Molly Anderson, Guillaume P. Barlier, Kevin Will Chen, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Hanwen Fan, Lynnette Lucille Galloway, Aurelio Guzmán, Andre Ricardo Jointe, Gilbert Esrome Kuruneri, Bobby Cole Martin, Jr., Dana R. Mason, Jr., Michael Tettey Nartey, Oladapo Onikuyide, Clement Tissandier, Vincenzo Vuono
  • Patent number: D1055926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1055968
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Evashevski, Richard D. Lyons, Bobby Cole Martin, Jr., Diego Monzon Del Pino, Carlos Eduardo Nogueira Da Silva