Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12185106
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for providing interactive services to a device. For example, a method may include determining service authorization information for a device, the service authorization information being associated with an interactive service on a wireless network. The method may also include determining device policies for the device based on the service authorization information. The method may also include transmitting the device policies to the device, wherein the device policies cause the device to select a cloud rendering server for the interactive service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Ching-Yu Liao
  • Patent number: 12182674
    Abstract: The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for providing locally trained models for detecting individual sounds using electronic devices. Local detection of individual sounds with a detection model at an electronic device can be provided by obtaining training samples for the detection model with the electronic device, and generating additional negative and positive training samples based on the obtained training samples. A two-stage detection process may be provided, in which a trigger model at a device compares an audio input to a reference sound to trigger a detection model at the device. The detection of individual sounds with a detection model at an electronic device can also leverage audio capture capabilities of multiple devices in an acoustic scene to capture multiple concurrent training samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Huang, Miquel Espi Marques, Carlos M. Avendano, Kevin M. Durand, David Findlay, Vasudha Kowtha, Daniel C. Klingler, Yichi Zhang
  • Patent number: 12185170
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for integrated access and backhaul radio link failure and handover scenarios in wireless communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sarma V. Vangala, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Murali Narasimha, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12182377
    Abstract: Providing a bridge interface for managing virtual workspaces is disclosed. A plurality of workspace images is presented in a user interface, each workspace image corresponding to a different virtual workspace available to a user of a computer system. A user can generate new virtual workspaces using an appropriate user input, such as by selecting a user interface object for generating new virtual workspaces. In some implementations, a new thumbnail image representing the new virtual workspace can be automatically created after the user opts for creation of the new workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bas Ording, John Louch
  • Patent number: 12182952
    Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, one or more environmental sensors, and a display. The method includes determining a first positional value associated with a physical agent based on environmental data from the one or more environmental sensors. The method includes determining that a portion of computer-generated content satisfies an occlusion criterion with respect to a corresponding portion of the physical agent, based on the first positional value. The method includes, in response to determining that the occlusion criterion is satisfied and determining that the physical agent satisfies a movement criterion or a pose criterion, generating a mesh associated with the physical agent based on the first positional value, and displaying the mesh on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Pavel Veselinov Dudrenov, Edwin Iskandar
  • Patent number: 12182916
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for using electronic diffusers to implement message indicators are described. A segment of a diffuser attached to an electronic device is configured to indicate an informational message in response to signals that result in a change to an optical property. A set of information to be displayed using the segment is determined, and a signal is transmitted to the segment to display the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Joel S. Armstrong-Muntner
  • Patent number: 12182669
    Abstract: The subject technology provides a framework for executable machine learning models that are executable in a zero-runtime operating environment. This allows the machine learning models to be deployed in limited memory environments such as embedded domains. A machine learning compiler is provided to generate the executable machine learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Fogal, Adam Nemet, Gerolf F. Hoflehner
  • Patent number: 12185330
    Abstract: This disclosure describes the following enhancement to improve the PDCCH reliability: PDCCH aggregation and multi-beam PDCCH reception for a 5G wireless communication system. The disclosed techniques entail obtaining repeated PDCCH by processing a PDCCH-Config, ControlResourceSet, or SearchSpace configuration parameter including an information element (IE) indicating a number of consecutive slots in which the PDCCH is repeated. In another embodiment, a gNB generates the PDCCH-Config, ControlResourceSet, or SearchSpace configuration parameter for configuring a UE to receive the repeated PDCCH and employ the multi-beam PDCCH reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12182373
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to techniques and user interfaces for transitioning between a standard display mode and a low power display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Chao, Kevin W. Chen, Aurelio Guzman, Paul T. Nixon, Kevin M. Lynch
  • Patent number: 12182146
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a user enters a search term (or a portion thereof) in a search field associated with one or more resource types that may be searched. The user may be presented with a pop-up menu containing a list of likely matches. The user selects the desired preference control from the pop-up menu, and the corresponding preference pane, or other container, containing the selected data item, control, or other resource is displayed. In one aspect, as the user enters the search term (or portion thereof), certain icons are highlighted. Specifically, those icons that represent containers containing matching data items (such as preference panes having controls that match the search term) are highlighted. Different types of highlighting can be used depending on the degree of certainty as to which container is likely to contain the correct match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Maxym I. Runov, Bas Ording, Steve Ko, Gregory N. Christie, Kevin Tiene
  • Patent number: 12185315
    Abstract: A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a system, a method and a machine-readable medium. The device includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface. The processing circuitry is to: cause communication with a NR evolved Node B (gNodeB) on a first bandwidth part (BWP); determine a BWP switching delay for an uplink (UL) communication from the UE to the gNodeB, the BWP switching delay based on a timing advance (TA) for the UL communication; encode the UL communication for transmission to the gNodeB; switch from the first BWP to a second BWP at an expiration of the BWP switching delay; and cause transmission of the UL communication on the second BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhan Zhou, Rui Huang, Yang Tang, Hua Li, Jie Cui, Qiming Li
  • Patent number: 12185322
    Abstract: Methods and architectures for establishing an uplink control channel in a fifth generation (5G) or new radio (NR) wireless network includes transmitting scheduling requests (SRs) at sub-slot level/symbol-level periodicities and determining whether SR transmit opportunities will collide with downlink (DL) signals being received and halting an SR transmission if the timing of DL symbols overlap at an OFDM symbol with the SR transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Sergey Panteleev
  • Patent number: 12183980
    Abstract: An electronic device may include communications circuitry, sensing circuitry, and a set of antennas having first and second feeds for covering different polarizations. The communications circuitry may transmit signals with a first polarization using each of the antennas and may concurrently transmit signals with a second polarization using all but a selected one of the antennas. The sensing circuitry may concurrently transmit sensing signals with the first polarization using one of the antennas and may receive sensing signals with the second polarization using the selected antenna. The sensing signals may include chirp signals generated to include muted periods that correspond to a range of frequencies that overlap frequencies at which the wireless circuitry is subject to radio-frequency interference. This may allow for concurrent wireless communications and sensing operations without interference between the communications circuitry and the sensing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Kerner, Flavio De Angelis, Gilad Kirshenberg, Mik Cohen, Roman Rainov, Sharad Sambhwani
  • Patent number: 12182959
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a mapping application that displays a rotation of a 3D map and corresponding rotation of a set of map labels overlaying the 3D map in response to receiving input to rotate the 3D map. When a particular map label in the set of map labels rotates towards an upside down orientation, the mapping application also replaces the particular map label with a version of the particular map label arranged in a right side up orientation to prevent the particular map label from being displayed in the upside down orientation in the 3D map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Anders Mikael Adlers, Christopher F. Marrin, Elisabeth Lindkvist, Jeffrey Paul McCurdy Hultquist, Ian MacDonald Henderson, II
  • Patent number: 12184294
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to power management for digital-to-analog converters (DACs). As electronic devices and the components therein become increasingly smaller to satisfy the desire for more compact/portable devices, the operating voltage may be reduced to reduce the likelihood of shorts and/or voltage/current bleeds. To maintain comparable power output with the reduced operating voltage, the current may increase proportionally to the decrease in voltage. Consequently, in scaled devices and applications, high-current low-voltage regulators may be beneficial. As such, a low-dropout regulator (LDO) including one or more operational amplifiers and multiple pass devices may be implemented between a power supply and the DAC to regulate the power supply to the DAC. Moreover, the LDO may include one or more feedback loops to maintain a desired voltage regulation of the pass devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Passamani, Timo W Gossmann, Adrien F Vargas, Guillaume Gourlat
  • Patent number: 12184387
    Abstract: A distributed multi-antenna system includes a first access point configured to emit first beams to a user equipment device. The first access point is also configured to receive, from the user equipment device, an indication of a first beam selected from the first beams via a beam sweeping procedure. The distributed multi-antenna system also includes a second access point configured to receive, from the user equipment device or the first access point, the indication. The second access point is also configured to emit a second beam of second beams corresponding to the second access point to transmit data to the user equipment device based on the indication and a location of the second access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wanlu Sun, Sharad Sambhwani
  • Patent number: 12184969
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to creating and editing user avatars. In some examples, guidance is provided to a user while capturing image data for use in generating a user-specific avatar. In some examples, a user interface allows a user to intuitively customize a user avatar. In some examples, avatars are generated for a messaging session based on an avatar model for a user of the messaging application. In some examples, an avatar editing interface updates a user avatar in response to gestures and based on the type of gesture and the avatar feature that is selected for editing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Wilson, Guillaume Barlier, Sebastian Bauer, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Aurelio Guzman, Tiffany S. Jon, Johnnie B. Manzari, Nicole R. Ryan, Nicolas Scapel, Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: D1055915
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1055925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 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, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1055959
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Christopher I. Wilson