Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12175783
    Abstract: A device obtains a point cloud of a scene including a plurality of points. Each point has three-dimensional coordinates in a three-dimensional coordinate system. A first cluster of points has a first semantic label. The device obtains a two-dimensional image of the scene with a camera with an intrinsic parameter. The device detects, in the two-dimensional image, a representation of a first object corresponding to the first semantic label. The device determines two-dimensional coordinates in a two-dimensional coordinate system of the two-dimensional image corresponding to the first object. The device determines, from the first cluster of points, three-dimensional coordinates in the three-dimensional coordinate system of the scene corresponding to the two-dimensional coordinates in the two-dimensional coordinate system of the two-dimensional image of the scene. The device estimates the intrinsic parameter based on the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Payal Jotwani
  • Patent number: 12175038
    Abstract: Sensors capable of detection of user objects within different detection zones can be used to reduce power consumption of a touch screen interface of an electronic device, even while the device is in a suspended or sleep state. At least one object sensor, such as a capacitive sensor, has a detection zone or range exceeding the range of a touch screen sensor, so the touch screen sensor can be placed into a low power state until the object sensor detects a user object in a position approaching the touch screen. The object sensor(s) are positioned around or within the perimeter of the interaction area of the touch screen. The object sensor(s) can have less power consumption than the touch screen sensors, so the electronic device can have extended standby battery life or other more energy efficient operation. Object sensors are also used to detect gestures or user object positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Tavys Q. Ashcroft
  • Patent number: 12174901
    Abstract: Systems, controllers and methods for contextual-based searching are provided. A system includes one or more devices configured to collect at least one audio stream and a contextual search system. The contextual search system includes a data analyzer and a search engine. The data analyzer is configured to receive the at least one audio stream from among the one or more devices and to determine contextual information from the received at least one audio stream. The search engine is configured to perform a search of at least one search term using the contextual information, to produce a search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven W. Goldstein, Jordan Cohen
  • Patent number: 12177897
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for mitigation of listen before talk conflicts in the unlicensed spectrum. A wireless device may receive one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) from a base station (BS) as part of a measurement procedure with listen before talk (LBT). The wireless device may determine one or more LBT failures associated with one or more receive beams of the wireless device. Furthermore, in response to determining the one or more LBT failures associated with the one or more receive beams of the wireless device, the wireless device may extend a measurement period for the one or more receive beams of the wireless device. The wireless device may then receive one or more additional SSBs on the one or more receive beams of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12178029
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and at least partially defining an internal volume of the electronic device, an electromagnetic radiation emitter and an electromagnetic radiation detector disposed in the internal volume, and an optical component disposed in the aperture. The optical component can include a first and second transparent portions disposed above the electromagnetic radiation detector and the electromagnetic radiation emitter, and an opaque portion disposed between the first and second transparent portions. A conductive component can be in electrical communication with the opaque portion and one or more components of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Maegan K. Spencer, Brian R. Land, Naoto Matsuyuki, Erik L. Wang, William C. Lukens, Steven C. Roach
  • Patent number: 12177729
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for supporting cell set based mobility. A network may provide configuration information to a wireless device, relating to a current cell and possibly to one or more other cells in one or more cell sets. The wireless device and network may take various measurements. In response to the measurements and the configuration information, the wireless device may perform a cell change to one of the other cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Xu Ou, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12177826
    Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to determine one or more configured grant (CG) transport blocks (TBs) of one or more CG uplink transmissions and determine one or more dynamic grant (DG) TBs of one or more DG uplink transmissions. The processor is further configured to determine that a first CG TB of the one or more CG TBs overlaps with a first DG TB of the one or more DG TBs in time and determine that a priority level of the first CG TB is lower than a priority level of the DG TB. The processor is further configured to determine that the priority level of the first CG TB is lower than the priority level of the first DG TB and transmit, in the first DG TB, a first DG uplink transmission corresponding to the first DG TB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Sigen Ye, Oghenekome Oteri
  • Patent number: 12177748
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to embodiments New Radio (NR) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. Some of embodiments generate system information block (SIB) messages having configurations for V2X communication modes, and transmit the SIB messages to a user equipment (UE). V2X communication modes include unicast, groupcast and broadcast modes. An example configuration includes a sidelink communication using a V2X communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ansab Ali, Kyeongin Jeong, Sangeetha L. Bangolae, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 12175855
    Abstract: A connectible component is connected to a housing. A sensor of the housing is utilized to detect an identity element of the at connectible component. The connectible component is identified utilizing the at least one sensor. In some implementations, identification of the connectible component may identify whether or not a connectible component is connected to the housing. In other implementations, identification of the connectible component may identify the type of connectible component that is connected. In such implementations, the housing may house an electronic device and the electronic device may be configured based on the type of connectible component that is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Erik G. de Jong, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Trevor J. Ness
  • Patent number: 12175015
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that adjust image content to reduce motion sickness during an experience. For example, an example process may include determining a first zone and a second zone of a display, generating images of a three-dimensional (3D) environment, identifying image content of each of the images corresponding to the second zone of the display, and reducing at least one of contrast or spatial frequency of the image content of each of the images corresponding to the second zone of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hermannus J. Damveld, Grant H. Mulliken
  • Patent number: 12176942
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are presented to transmit fragmented communication frames, such as fragmented ultra-wideband (UWB) frames. In some implementations, a communication frame may be divided into a plurality of fragments, and the fragments may be transmitted across a plurality of regulatory test intervals. E.g., each fragment may be transmitted within a mutually-exclusive regulatory test interval. In some implementations, each fragment may be constrained in time and/or transmission power, such that the total energy emitted during transmission of the fragment remains within a maximum energy limit defined for the regulatory test interval, e.g., by a regulatory entity. In some implementations, the sum of the energy emitted during transmission of two or more fragments may exceed the maximum energy limit defined for the regulatory test interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joachim S. Hammerschmidt, Ersen Ekrem
  • Patent number: 12177483
    Abstract: A method for decoding an image according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: deriving a residual coefficient of a current block; dequantizing the residual coefficient; deriving a common residual signal by performing inverse transform of the dequantized residual coefficient; and deriving a first residual signal of a first chroma component and a second residual signal of a second chroma component on the basis of the common residual signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bae Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 12177639
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device may be formed from a layer of fabric having opposing first and second ends. The ends may have first and second respective ear openings that receive a user's ears and may have speakers for playing audio. A soft central portion of the fabric between the ends may overlap the user's eyes. The wearable electronic device may have control circuitry that receives power from a power source. Sensors may be used to gather sensor information such as biometric sensor information. The sensors, control circuitry, and power source may be mounted in a stiff edge portion of the fabric. The stiff edge portion of the fabric may have an elongated strip shape and may extend along an upper edge of the central and the electronic device. Stiffener structures sandwiched between inner and outer layers of the fabric may be used to support speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea L. Blakemore, Amit S. Barve, Donald L. Olmstead, Joshua A. Hoover, Samuel G. Smith, Seulbi Kim, James G. Griffin, II, Linda D. Benavente-Notaro
  • Patent number: 12177924
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate reduced frequency of triggering a RLF (Radio Link Failure) timer and/or a false RLF procedure via employing one or more mechanisms for associating BFR (Beam Failure Recovery) and RLF. A first mechanism that can be employed in various embodiments can perform one or more RLF-related actions (e.g., stopping a T310 timer, resetting a N310 counter) upon BFR success. A second mechanism that can be employed in various embodiments can comprise revising one or more RLF parameters (e.g., N310, N311, T310, Out-of-sync threshold, in-sync threshold, etc.) based on the presence of a strong BFR mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lili Wei, Qian Li, Dawei Ying, Daewon Lee, Yushu Zhang, Geng Wu
  • Patent number: 12175159
    Abstract: A method performed by a processor of a computer system including a headset that is to be worn on a head of a user. The method drives a speaker of the headset with an input audio signal to output sound into an environment. The method determines that the speaker is at least partially covered with a cupped hand. In response to determining that the speaker is at least partially covered with the cupped hand, applying a gain to the input audio signal to reduce an output sound level of the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolas T. Vitt, Jonathan D. Sheaffer, Neal D. Evans, Christopher T. Eubank, Jae Hwang Lee
  • Patent number: 12177082
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for coordinating state information between devices in a network of devices. In one example, a first user device can obtain event information identifying an event (e.g., triggering of an alarm) associated with another user device and state information identifying a state of the other device. The first user device can report the state and event information to devices in the network. Observers corresponding to each user device can identify the occurrence of the event corresponding to the event information for each user device. An action (e.g., output an audio chime) can be performed by each device with an observer that identifies the occurrence of the event corresponding to the event information for each user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott M. Marshall, Jiten L Mehta, Darren S. Litzinger, Jeremy A. Wyld, John J. Iarocci
  • Patent number: 12176934
    Abstract: A predistortion circuit for a wireless transmitter includes a signal input configured to receive a baseband signal. Further, the predistortion circuit includes a predistorter configured to generate a predistorted baseband signal using the baseband signal and a select of one of a first predistorter configuration and a second predistorter configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Menkhoff, Gunther Kraut, Andreas Langer
  • Patent number: 12174037
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a commute application that provides a first presentation of several stops along a route. The commute application also receives a selection of a stop from the several stops along the route. The commute application further provides a second presentation for displaying several different routes that traverse through the selected stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: May-Li Khoe, Joseph A. Hagedorn, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: 12175248
    Abstract: Disclosed techniques relate to re-use of speculative results from an incorrect execution path. In some embodiments, when a control transfer instruction is mispredicted, a load instruction may have been executed on the wrong path. In disclosed embodiments, result storage circuitry records information that indicates destination registers of speculatively-executed load instructions including a first load instruction. Control flow tracker circuitry may store information indicating a reconvergence point for the control transfer instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuan C. Chou, Deepankar Duggal, Debasish Chandra, Niket K Choudhary, Richard F. Russo
  • Patent number: D1055056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Marine C. Bataille, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier