Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and graphical user interfaces for providing feedback pertaining to device position adjustment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 5, 2024
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Praveen Gowda Ippadi Veerabhadre Gowda, Thomas Berton
Abstract: Embodiments for a device locator application are described. In an embodiment, one or more inertial displacement measurement values may be received using the inertial sensor and received camera sensor data, a trajectory based on the one or more inertial displacement measurement values may be determined, a beacon signal from a target wireless device and determine at least one signal strength value from the beacon signal may be received, at least one proximity value to the target wireless device may be estimated based on the at least one signal strength value corresponding to at least one position along the trajectory, and an indicator of the at least one proximity value to the target wireless device may be presented along the trajectory in a user interface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 6, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
APPLE INC.
Inventors:
Benjamin A. Werner, Brent M. Ledvina, Tunc Ertan
Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for downlink control resources sets and RACH procedures during initial access in wireless communication, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond, including methods for CORESET#0 configuration, SSB/CORESET #0 multiplexing pattern 1 for mixed SCS, time-domain ROs determination for 480 kHz/960 kHz SCSs, and RA-RNTI determination for 480 kHz/960 kHz SCSs.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 6, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that are capable of adjusting the appearance of computer-generated objects (e.g., augmentations) that are predicted to be outside the current focus of an optical-see-through HMD user's attention. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a first computer-generated object and a second computer-generated object on an optical-see-though display of a HMD. In some implementations, the first computer-generated object is identified based on a prediction that the attention of a user is directed to the first computer-generated object, and an appearance of the second computer-generated object is adjusted to change from a first state to a second state.
Abstract: Some implementations disclosed herein present multimedia content to a user, identify a comfort state of the user (e.g., happy, unhappy, distressed, etc.) based on body data of the user (e.g., facial expressions, hand movements, physiological data, etc.), and update the multimedia content based on the identified comfort state.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 18, 2023
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Akiko Ikkai, Grant H. Mulliken, Izzet B. Yildiz, Sterling R. Crispin
Abstract: Systems and methods of placeshifting media playback between two or more devices are provided. For example, a method for placeshifting media may include downloading onto a first device an index of files accessed or modified on a second device via a data storage server, at least one of the files being a media file played on the second device. The first device may display a user selectable list of the files on the first device before issuing a request for the media file to the data storage server. The data storage server may send the media file to the first device from the data storage server, and the first device may play back the media file where the second device left off.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 10, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Rosenblatt, Gloria Lin, Amir Mahmood Mikhak, Taido Lantz Nakajima, Sean Anthony Mayo, Andrew Hodge, Anthony Michael Fadell, Jeffery Theodore Lee, Shawn A. Ellis, Policarpo Wood, Alan Christopher Cannistraro
Abstract: A chemical treatment process has been identified as a simple and effective means of improving the bonding of injection-molded polymer to titanium surfaces. This process forms an oxide layer on a titanium surface that includes a layered double hydroxide. The layered double hydroxide both raises the bond strength and minimizes air or water leakage. The process enables the use of titanium alloys with injection molded polymer structural bonds in strong, lightweight, and water-resistant enclosures for consumer electronics.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
APPLE INC.
Inventors:
James A. Curran, James A. Yurko, Todd S. Mintz
Abstract: A method for physical downlink control channel (PD-CCH) monitoring by user equipment (UE includes receiving a specification indicative of a monitoring pattern for a search space set including a plurality of slots. The monitoring pattern includes one or more monitoring spans within the search space set. Each of the one or more monitoring spans is associated with a set of parameters defining that particular monitoring span. The method includes selecting at least one monitoring span of the one or more monitoring spans. The method includes assigning the UE to monitor the at least one monitoring span. The method includes performing, by the UE, PDCCH monitoring during the selected at least one monitoring span.
Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses for performing a channel validation by an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) and non-AP MLD are described. An AP MLD may transmit information about multiple affiliated APs. A non-AP MLD and AP MLD may validate multiple links for communication.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 20, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Jarkko L. Kneckt, Jinjing Jiang, Qi Wang, Su Khiong Yong, Tianyu Wu, Yong Liu
Abstract: Wearable head-mounted displays, such as virtual reality systems, present immersive experiences and environments to a wearer. However, the head-mounted displays, as well as the immersive environments that they produce, limit the wearer's ability to interact with outside observers. For example, a wearer may not be able to see outside observers, and outside observers may not have any insight to what the wearer is experiencing or where the wearer's attention is directed. Accordingly, a wearable electronic device may include an outward-facing display configured to display information to outside observers, such as images of the wearer's face or images that represent or indicate the state of the wearer and/or the head mounted display.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 25, 2023
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
APPLE INC.
Inventors:
Jonathan Ive, Julian Hoenig, Julian Jaede, Seung Wook Kim, Chris Wilson, William A. Sorrentino, III, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay
Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a tensor access operation circuit in a neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit further includes a data processor circuit and at least one neural engine circuit. The tensor access operation circuit indirectly accesses at least a region of a source tensor in a system memory having a rank, and maps one or more source components of the source tensor into an input tensor having another rank. The data processor circuit stores an output version of the input tensor obtained from the tensor access operation circuit and sends the output version of the input tensor as multiple of units of input data to the at least one neural engine circuit. The at least one neural engine circuit performs at least convolution operations on the units of input data and at least one kernel to generate output data.
Abstract: Methods for performing power management of a multi-interface transponder (MIT) device, e.g., such as positional tag device. The MIT device may transition between various power states, e.g., based on detected events, such as detecting movement of the MIT device, receiving a wakeup signal, receiving an indication of a transition in transportation mode, and/or detecting that the MIT device may be lost, such as based on a lack of contact with another device for more than a threshold period of time.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 28, 2023
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
James H. Foster, Marlene Nilsen, Paul G. Puskarich
Abstract: Embodiments relate to identifying frequencies to be protected at a victim integrated circuit (IC) and sending protection information including the identified frequencies to an aggressor IC. The aggressor IC configures its subsystems or circuits to operate using operating frequencies that prevents spurs that may interfere with the frequencies identified in the protection information. If not all of the frequencies in the protection information can be protected, the aggressor IC selects a subset of the frequencies to be protected. Then, the aggressor IC configures the operating frequencies of its subsystems or circuits so that spurs that they generate do not interfere with the selected frequencies.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 25, 2023
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
APPLE INC.
Inventors:
Helena Deidre O'Shea, Ali Moaz, Tim Schoenauer, Rahmi Hezar
Abstract: Logic may receive an initial communication from a user device, the initial communication comprising capabilities. Logic may determine, based on an indication of a capability to support new radio frequency layers from the capabilities for the user device, a measurement gap configuration for the new radio frequency layers and a measurement gap configuration for a channel state information reference signal. Logic may send a frame with a preamble to a physical layer comprising the measurement gap configuration. Logic may send an initial communication to a physical layer, wherein the initial communication comprises capabilities for a user device. Logic may decode downlink data with a measurement gap configuration. And logic may parse the measurement gap configuration to determine at least one measurement gap identification and at least one offset for the new radio frequency layers and a channel state information reference signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 23, 2023
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Candy Yiu, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Youn Hyoung Heo
Abstract: A wearable electronic device including a display, a frame attachable to the display, a facial interface movably attached to the frame, and a linkage assembly movably connecting the facial interface to the frame. The linkage assembly can include a first arm pivotably attached to the frame, the first arm comprising a first end and a second end, a second arm pivotably attached to the first end and attached to the facial interface, and a third arm pivotably attached to the second end and attached to the facial interface.
Abstract: An electronic device may receive, at a first system routine from a client application, a provisioning request indicating that the application includes code for evaluating a machine learning model, wherein the first system routine executes in user space of memory on the device. The device may provision the code for execution on one or more of the circuit engines. The device may receive, at a second system routine from the application, an inference request for evaluating the machine learning model containing input data, wherein the second system routine executes in kernel space of memory on the device. The device may receive, at the second system routine, information about the circuit engines. The device may assign the inference request to one or more of the circuit engines where the request is evaluated. The device may provide a result of the inference request to the application.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 19, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Sundararaman Hariharasubramanian, Xiaozhong Yao, Andrew Yanowitz
Inventors:
Wenjie Zhuang, Robert Boyd, Duy P. Le, Jeffrey Scott Croyle, Joseph F. Dembs, Guillaume Raoult, James Swasey, Christopher Kuh, Robert Brunner
Inventors:
Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Ismael Basso, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anna Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang