Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12177602Abstract: A device may include a light-folded projector that may include an infrared (IR) light emitter and a light folding element. The light folding element may receive IR light emitted from the IR light emitter and fold the IR light one or more times to guide the IR light passing through the light folding element to exit the device to an environment. The device may also include a detector that may detect and/or recognize an object in the environment using the IR light from the light-folded projector, and a front-facing camera to capture images of the environment in front of the device.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yoshikazu Shinohara, Takeyoshi Saiga, Ligang Wang
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Patent number: 12175066Abstract: At an electronic device, a user input is detected that corresponds to a respective user interface element in a portion of a user interface that is associated with a first standard gesture recognizer and a first supplemental gesture recognizer. The user input is processed in accordance with the first standard gesture recognizer and the first supplemental gesture recognizer. In accordance with a determination that content associated with the respective user interface element cannot be added to a drag operation, the device fails to recognize the user input using the first supplemental gesture recognizer, and processes the user input using the first standard gesture recognizer. On the other hand, in accordance with a determination that the content associated with the respective user interface element can be added to the drag operation, a gesture is recognized using the first supplemental gesture recognizer and the content is added to the drag operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Bruce D. Nilo, Christopher K. Thomas, Dominik Wagner, Michael T. Turner
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Patent number: 12177940Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for enhancement of multi-SIM devices, such as UE 106. A network may increase paging retries for known MU-SIM devices, e.g., based on an indication of capabilities from a MU-SIM device. The indication may be via a NAS registration request, an RRC capability procedure, and/or an RRC UE assistance procedure. Additionally, a network may include an indication of a paging priority to the UE. The UE may then determine a response to the page based, at least in part, on the indicated priority. Further, the UE may indicate a tune-away to the network. The indication of the tune-away may include a cause and/or duration for the tune-away and may be provided at an RRC level or a network access stratum (NAS) level.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Krisztian Kiss, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Sang Ho Baek, Shivani Suresh Babu, Srinivasan Nimmala, Utkarsh Kumar, Vijay Venkataraman, Viswanath Nagarajan, Yifan Zhu
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Patent number: 12174984Abstract: The subject technology provides systems and methods for logging data access by applications. A first process executing on an electronic device may receive an access request from a second process executing on the electronic device. The access request may include a request to access data corresponding to a protected data category. Subsequent to receiving the access request, the first process may determine whether the second process is authorized to access the data. In response to determining that the second process is authorized to access the data, the first process may grant the second process access to the data, and then generate and store log data corresponding to the access of the data by the second process.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marion Patricia Daly, Ada D. Avery, Lina J. Butler, Brian J. Dawbin, Garrett F. Robinson
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Patent number: 12175796Abstract: A method includes displaying, via a display, an environment that includes a representation of a person associated with the device. The representation includes a virtual face with virtual facial features corresponding to respective physical facial features of the person associated with the device. The method includes detecting, via a sensor, a change in a physical facial feature of the person associated with the device. The physical facial feature indicates a physical facial expression of the person. In response to determining that the physical facial expression breaches a criterion, modifying one or more virtual facial features of the virtual face so that the virtual face indicates a virtual facial expression that satisfies the criterion.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Ian M. Richter
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Patent number: 12174673Abstract: This is directed to providing a cosmetic finish on a component constructed by connecting several elements. A single manufacturing process, such as machining or grinding, can be applied to the connected elements to remove material from some or all of the elements and to form a smooth and continuous surface across interfaces between the individual elements of the component. In some cases, settings of the material removal process can be adjusted based on the material of the component elements. For example, the settings can be adjusted based on the manufacturing or mechanical properties of each element material.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Scott Myers, Richard Heley, Matthew Theobald, Adam Stagnaro, Tang Tan, Richard Dinh, David Pakula
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Patent number: 12177704Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for carrier-specific scaling factor for measurements with or without measurement gaps.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12175063Abstract: A personal display system with which a user may adjust the configuration of displayed media is provided. The personal display system may include an electronic device operative to provide media to a personal display device operative to display the received media. Using one or more optical and digital components, the personal display device may adjust displayed media to overlay features of a theater, thus giving the user of the personal display device the impression of being in the theater. In some embodiments, the personal display device may detect the user's movements using one or more sensors and may adjust the displayed image based on the user's movements. For example, the device may detect a user's head movement and cause the portion of media displayed to reflect the head movement.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: John G. Tang
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Patent number: 12174841Abstract: Techniques for suggesting media assets, the technique including: requesting a set of candidate media assets for a set of user media items based on a knowledge graph metadata network describing the set of user media items; receiving metadata for the set of candidate media assets; determining one or more sets of ranked media assets based on the received metadata; and outputting the determined one or more sets of ranked media assets.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nathaniel B. Chapman, Patrick H. Kelly, Eric Circlaeys, Kevin Bessiere, Brian J. Rogosky, Alfredo Ramos-Alvarez, Bruno J. Conejo, Matthias Mauch, Hao Yang, Bruno Di Giorgi, Jeremy P. Bogle, Zachary H. Smith, Betim Deva, Daniel Cartoon, Neil C. Foley, Menelaos D. Kokolios, Lewis Kaneshiro, Jorge A. Herrera Soto, James E. Hewitt, Casey W. Baker, Alexa Rockwell, Alexis H. Durocher, Trevor M. Slaton, Cristina N. Smith
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Patent number: 12175716Abstract: A system receives encoded data regarding a points in a point cloud. The data includes a prediction tree having a nodes generated based on spatial information regarding the points and properties of a sensor system that obtained the spatial information. A value of each node represents first spatial coordinates of a respective one of the points according to a first coordinate system, and the value of at least a first node in the prediction tree is determined based on ancestor nodes of the first node and the properties of the sensor system. The system decodes the data to determine first data, including the first spatial coordinates of at least some of the points, and quantization parameters associated with the first spatial coordinates. The system determines second data based on the first data, including second spatial coordinates of at least some of the points according to a second coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Khaled Mammou, David Flynn, Alexandros Tourapis
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Patent number: 12177567Abstract: Devices, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are disclosed herein to repair or mitigate the appearance of unwanted reflection artifacts in captured video image streams. These unwanted reflection artifacts often present themselves as brightly-colored spots, circles, rings, or halos that reflect the shape of a bright light source in the captured image. These artifacts, also referred to herein as “ghosts” or “green ghosts” (due to often having a greenish tint), are typically located in regions of the captured images where there is not actually a bright light source located in the image. In fact, such unwanted reflection artifacts often present themselves on the image sensor across the principal point of the lens from where the actual bright light source in the captured image is located. Such devices, methods and computer readable media may be configured to detect, track, and repair such unwanted reflection artifacts in an intelligent and efficient fashion.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ahmed T. Kamal, Feng Li, Florian Ciurea, Jianping Zhou, Saeed Izadi, Sebastien X. Beysserie, Stephane S. Ben Soussan
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Patent number: 12175375Abstract: The subject technology provides receiving a neural network (NN) model to be executed on a target platform, the NN model including multiple layers that include operations and some of the operations being executable on multiple processors of the target platform. The subject technology further sorts the operations from the multiple layers in a particular order based at least in part on grouping the operations that are executable by a particular processor of the multiple processors. The subject technology determines, based at least in part on a cost of transferring the operations between the multiple processors, an assignment of one of the multiple processors for each of the sorted operations of each of the layers in a manner that minimizes a total cost of executing the operations. Further, for each layer of the NN model, the subject technology includes an annotation to indicate the processor assigned for each of the operations.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gaurav Kapoor, Cecile M. Foret, Francesco Rossi, Kit-Man Wan, Umesh S. Vaishampayan, Etienne Belanger, Albert Antony, Alexey Marinichev, Marco Zuliani, Xiaojin Shi
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Patent number: 12175162Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein provide systems and methods that determine relationships between objects based on an original semantic mesh of vertices and faces that represent the 3D geometry of a physical environment. Such an original semantic mesh may be generated and used to provide input to a machine learning model that estimates relationships between the objects in the physical environment. For example, the machine learning model may output a graph of nodes and edges indicating that a vase is on top of a table or that a particular instance of a vase, V1, is on top of a particular instance of a table, T1.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Angela Blechschmidt, Daniel Ulbricht, Omar Elafifi
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Patent number: 12177624Abstract: This application relates to earbuds configured with one or more biometric sensors. At least one of the biometric sensors is configured to be pressed up against a portion of the tragus for making biometric measurements. In some embodiments, the housing of the earbud can be symmetric so that the earbud can be worn interchangeably in either a left or a right ear of a user. In such an embodiment, the earbud can include a sensor and circuitry configured to determine and alter operation of the earbud in accordance to which ear the earbud is determined to be sitting in.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Phillip Qian, Edward Siahaan, Erik L. Wang, Christopher J. Stringer, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Daniel Max Strongwater, Jason J. LeBlanc
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Patent number: 12177643Abstract: A method performed a local device that is communicatively coupled with several remote devices, the method includes: receiving, from each remote device with which the local device is engaged in a communication session, an input audio stream; receiving, for each remote device, a set parameters; determining, for each input audio stream, whether the input audio stream is to be 1) rendered individually or 2) rendered as a mix of input audio streams based on the set of parameters; for each input audio stream that is determined to be rendered individually, spatially rendering the input audio stream as an individual virtual sound source that contains only that input audio stream; and for input audio streams that are determined to be rendered as the mix of input audio streams, spatially rendering the mix of input audio streams as a single virtual sound source that contains the mix of input audio streams.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sean A. Ramprashad, Peter D. Callaway, Jae Woo Chang, Martin E. Johnson, Daniel K. Boothe, Kostyantyn Komarov, Patrick Miauton, Christopher M. Garrido, Austin W. Shyu, Karthick Santhanam
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Patent number: 12177999Abstract: The disclosure provides textured glass components as well as electronic device cover assemblies and enclosures which include the textured glass components. In some cases, a protruding portion of the glass component includes a textured region provided over a camera assembly of the electronic device. One or more openings may be provided in the textured region. The textured region may be configured to provide a translucent or hazy appearance to the electronic device while providing a desirable “feel” to the electronic device and level of cleanability.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jason P. Shannon, Andi M. Limarga
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Patent number: 12177768Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide for storing a temporary certificate on a mobile device for accessing services in association with a primary number. A device determines that a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card, previously used by the device, is not available for use by the device. The device determines that a second SIM card is available for use by the first device within a predetermined time period after the first SIM card is determined to be not available for use by the device. The device confirms that a communication identifier of the first SIM card is strongly tied to a user account associated with the device. The device stores a temporary certificate that attests to continued ownership of the communication identifier by the device and allows the device to access at least one service in association with the communication identifier.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nelson M. Leduc, Lauren E. Tappana, Nicholas Joseph Circosta, Andrew J. Daley, Guozhi Huang, Daniel B. Pollack, Robert D. Butler, Vitalii Kramar
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Patent number: 12177811Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitoring for a page in a 5G network. The UE monitoring a paging occasion corresponding to the UE in a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) to determine whether the paging occasion includes paging downlink control information (DCI), when the PDCCH includes the paging DCI, decoding the paging DCI to determine whether the paging DCI includes scheduling information for a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), determining, based on at least the scheduling information, whether to receive the PDSCH in a scheduled slot that is offset N slots from a scheduled slot in which the paging DCI is received and when it is determined to receive the PDSCH, decoding the PDSCH.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sarma V. Vangala, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: D1055047Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: 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, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1055319Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Juan Fernandez Royo, Karim Ayache, Megan Suyehira, Gregory James Ranes, Karim Alexis Akika, Paul N. Wass, Adeline Piel, Manish Jain, Ashish Jain, Stefan Behling, David Summerfield