Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12175943
    Abstract: A display system may include a memory external to a pixel that stores a first digital data value, a memory internal to the pixel that stores a second digital data signal, where a combination of the first digital data signal and the second digital data signal may indicate a target gray level assigned to the pixel for a particular image frame. The pixel may be driven for a first duration of time according to the first digital data signal and for a second duration of time according to the second digital data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bilin Wang, Tien-Chien Kuo, Kanghoon Jeon, Chun-Yao Huang
  • Patent number: 12174396
    Abstract: Fiducial patterns that produce 2D Barker code-like diffraction patterns at a camera sensor are etched or otherwise provided on a cover glass in front of a camera. 2D Barker code kernels, when cross-correlated with the diffraction patterns captured in images by the camera, provide sharp cross-correlation peaks. Misalignment of the cover glass with respect to the camera can be derived by detecting shifts in the location of the detected peaks with respect to calibrated locations. Devices that include multiple cameras behind a cover glass with one or more fiducials on the cover glass in front of each camera are also described. The diffraction patterns caused by the fiducials at the various cameras may be analyzed to detect movement or distortion of the cover glass in multiple degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tushar Gupta, Aleksandr M. Movshovich, Arthur Y. Zhang, Ray L. Chang, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
  • Patent number: 12177586
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for image data processing. In certain embodiments, an image processing pipeline may be configured to receive a frame of the image data having a plurality of pixels acquired using a digital image sensor. The image processing pipeline may then be configured to determine a first plurality of correction factors that may correct each pixel in the plurality of pixels for fixed pattern noise. The first plurality of correction factors may be determined based at least in part on fixed pattern noise statistics that correspond to the frame of the image data. After determining the first plurality of correction factors, the image processing pipeline may be configured to apply the first plurality of correction factors to the plurality of pixels, thereby reducing the fixed pattern noise present in the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Cote, D. Amnon Silverstein, Suk Hwan Lim, Sheng Lin, Haitao Guo
  • Patent number: 12174671
    Abstract: Electronic devices including a display layer and a cover layer including a foldable region are disclosed herein. The display layer and the cover layer are configured to be moved between a folded configuration and an unfolded configuration by bending the cover layer along the foldable region. Methods of making a cover layer for an electronic device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Jones, Dale N. Memering, Christopher C. Bartlow
  • Patent number: 12177739
    Abstract: An approach is described for a method for a radio access node (RAN) node in a fifth generation (5G) wireless communication or a new radio (NR) system that includes the following steps. The method includes generating a request for location information of a user equipment (UE). The method further includes transmitting the request to an access and mobility function (AMF). The method further includes receiving a response from the AMF, wherein the response comprises the location information of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Sirotkin, Yi Guo
  • Patent number: 12177527
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a media content user interface. A media content provider includes storage for storing and serving video content to subscribers. The media content provider records and or otherwise stores video content from around the world. Subscribers are provided a user interface to the system that includes a side bar. The side bar includes multiple elements representing different categories of video content. By selecting a given category, available content is filtered according to the selected category and presented. Content which is presented may include live broadcast video for multiple channels on multiple television networks or other content providers. The side bar may further include a collection category specific to a given viewer. Selection of such a category may display video content within the collection. Subcategories in the side bar may be selected for further filtering of available content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey Robbin, Jim Young, Joe Howard, Marcel Van Os, Patrick L. Coffman, Stephen O. Lemay, Jeffrey Ma, Lynne Kress
  • Patent number: 12177918
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform substantially concurrent communications with a next generation network node and a legacy network node. The wireless device may be configured to stablish a first wireless link with a first cell according to a RAT, where the first cell operates in a first system bandwidth and establish a second wireless link with a second cell according to a RAT, where the second cell operates in a second system bandwidth. Further, the wireless device may be configured to perform uplink activity for both the first RAT and the second RAT by TDM uplink data for the first RAT and uplink data for the second RAT if uplink activity is scheduled according to both the first RAT and the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Zeng, Haijing Hu, Yuchul Kim, Dawei Zhang, Xiangying Yang, Zhu Ji, Yang Li, Beibei Wang, Jia Tang, Sami M. Almalfouh, Johnson O. Sebeni, Wei Zhang, Tianyan Pu, Vijay Venkataraman, Christian W. Mucke
  • Publication number: 20240416957
    Abstract: A rules of the road module and database determines rules using information about segments identified from locally captured image data and observables identified in the image data. The rules are generated without reliance on a high-definition map. Also, in some embodiments, the rules are determined in real-time, or near-real time by the rules of the road module during travel based on acquired images and sensor data about a path being travelled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dimitar H Lukarski, Karsten Ahnert, Sayanan V. Sivaraman
  • Publication number: 20240419158
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) system for wafer defect detection may include a CIS device configured to mount to track equipment and to transmit a scanned image of a wafer to a database; and a server configured to learn the scanned image, to distinguish a defect of the wafer for each defect category, to learn defects that occur in exposure equipment and the track equipment for each type, and to perform real-time monitoring. The server is configured to change a periodic sampling inspection to a total inspection method through the CIS device in response to occurrence of the defect in the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: APPLE T Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Han Chul LEE
  • Publication number: 20240421323
    Abstract: Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a first cell and a second cell disposed adjacent the first cell. The devices may include a stacked current collector coupled between the first cell and the second cell. The current collector may include a grid or matrix, and may include a combination of conductive and insulative materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew C. Chu, Christopher T. Campbell, Qingcheng Zeng, Kenzo Nagai, Isaac S. Harper, Donald G. Dafoe
  • Publication number: 20240419842
    Abstract: Techniques for storing health data can include a multi-node data structure. A data node, a category node, and an institution node of a multi-node data structure can be generated in accordance with a configuration file. The data node can include health data and can be identified by a first unique data identifier and encrypted using a first cryptographic key. The category node can include the first unique data identifier and the first cryptographic key. The category node can be identified by a second unique data identifier and encrypted using a second cryptographic key. The institution node can include the second unique data identifier and the second cryptographic key. The institution node can be identified by a third unique data identifier and encrypted using a third cryptographic key. The data node, the category node, and the institution node can be shared with a service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo Antonio Gonzalez Cervantes, Mohan Singh Randhava, Jorge F. Pozas Trevino, Samuel A. Mussell, Isaac Pinol Catadau, Steven A. Myers, Dongsheng Zhang, Suhail Ahmad, Zhengjun Jiang, Yannick L. Sierra, Amir H. Jadidi
  • Publication number: 20240419825
    Abstract: After NFC transaction information is sent from the first device to the second device via the NFC protocol, the second device sends the NFC transaction information to the third-party. Both the first device and the third-party compute the same transaction identifier utilizing the NFC transaction information, and both the first device and the third-party register with a host server utilizing this transaction identifier. The first device may then send a public key to the host server with the transaction identifier, and the host server may send the public key to the third-party. The third-party may encrypt a document using the public key and may send the encrypted document to the host server with the transaction identifier. The host server may then send the encrypted document to the first device, where the first device may decrypt and present/store the decrypted document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Shearer, Sunil Nair, Felix-Johannes A. Visée, Eric K. Kimn, Salma Elshatanoufy
  • Patent number: 12170579
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for managing live communication between multiple participants using a computer system in accordance with some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Stern Meyer, Durrell Bishop, James H. Foster, Peter C. Tsoi
  • Patent number: 12169395
    Abstract: An electronic device, with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, one or more processors and memory, displays a first representation of a first controllable external device, where the first controllable external device is situated at a location. The device detects a first user input corresponding to a selection of the first representation of the first controllable external device. The device, after detecting the first user input, adds data identifying the first controllable external device and a first state of the first controllable external device in a scene profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick L. Coffman, Arian Behzadi, Christopher Patrick Foss, Cyrus Daniel Irani, Ieyuki Kawashima, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher D. Soli, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 12170892
    Abstract: The presence of a wireless device and/or accessory that cannot maintain an independent network connection can be detected by network connected wireless devices and the location of the detected device and/or accessory can be reported to a device location service. As the wireless devices and/or accessories do not have independent network connections, periodic maintenance is performed on those devices by nearby owner devices to which the wireless devices and/or accessories are paired or associated. Described herein are systems, methods, and associated devices to maintain a locatable wireless device by a set of multiple owner devices for that wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth U. Victa, Benjamin A. Detwiler, Nikhil Nilakantan, Todd Wheeler, Robert W. Mayor, Brent M. Ledvina, E Thomas Erdmann, IV, Sriram Hariharan
  • Patent number: 12170089
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example, a plurality of speech inputs is received from a first user. A voice model is obtained based on the plurality of speech inputs. A user input is received from the first user, the user input corresponding to a request to provide access to the voice model. The voice model is provided to a second electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiong Hu, Jiangchuan Li, David A. Winarsky
  • Patent number: 12170376
    Abstract: Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a first battery cell. The first battery cell may include an anode current collector, and an anode active material disposed on the anode current collector. The first battery cell may include a cathode current collector and a cathode active material disposed on the cathode current collector. The current collectors may be polymeric materials. The batteries may include a first conductive band electrically coupled with the first battery cell. The first conductive band may be seated on the second surface of one of the anode current collector or the cathode current collector. The first conductive band may extend about a perimeter of the one of the anode current collector or the cathode current collector. The batteries may include a cell module including a first flexible extension electrically coupled with the first conductive band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan Erb, Abraham B. Caulk, Ross L. Johnstal, Paul W. Firehammer, Edward T. Hillstrom, Christopher T. Campbell, Andrew C. Chu
  • Patent number: 12168413
    Abstract: A device includes a body structure, a seat assembly that is connected to the body structure, and an inflatable structure. The inflatable structure includes one or more surfaces that are configured to react forces by engaging with a first feature to control motion of a second feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Adam J. Golman, Arturo Llamazares Domper, Nicholas A. White, Jesse T. Buehler
  • Patent number: 12171038
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing implicit radio resource control state transitions in a cellular communication system. A wireless device may establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a cellular base station. A data inactivity timer length and a target RRC state for implicit RRC transitions may be determined. A data inactivity timer having the determined data inactivity timer length may be initiated. It may be determined that the data inactivity timer has expired. The wireless device may transition to the target RRC state based at least in part on determining that the data inactivity timer has expired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A Lovlekar, Murtaza A. Shikari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Haijing Hu, Fangli Xu, Yuqin Chen, Longda Xing, Xu Ou, Li Su, Vijay Venkataraman, Dawei Zhang, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivas Burugupalli
  • Patent number: D1054421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 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