Patents Assigned to Apples Inc.
  • Patent number: 11876632
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for transcription of audio content during a conferencing session, such as an audio conferencing session or a video conferencing session. The transcription can be generated by the device at which the audio input is received, and transmitted to a remote device at which the transcription is displayed. Video content can also be provided from the device that generates the transcription to the remote device that displays in the transcription. The transcription can be provided with time information corresponding to time information in the video content, for synchronized display of the transcription and the corresponding video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Maury, James A. Forrest, Christopher M. Garrido, Patrick Miauton
  • Patent number: 11876383
    Abstract: A wireless charging system having a power transmitting device may wirelessly transfer power to a power receiving device. The power receiving device may include a voltage regulator that operates independently from the power transmitting device. The voltage regulator may output a rectified voltage and may activate pull-down rectifier switches during zero voltage crossings to boost the rectified voltage. The power receiving device may send control error packets to the power transmitting device to direct the power transmitting device to adjust the transmit power level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Alireza Safaee
  • Patent number: 11877245
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods to indicate power transmission capability for a wireless device. A wireless device may connect to a base station (BS). The wireless device may transmit information regarding transmit power capability to the BS. The wireless device may indicate support for full power transmit capability for a subset of TPMIs for which it provides full power transmit capability, e.g., in a bitmap. This subset of TPMIs may be less than all of the available TPMIs (i.e., it may be a strict subset of the available TPMIs). Full power transmission capability of these indicated TPMIs may be provided via antenna switching and/or antenna virtualization. The wireless device may perform uplink transmission to the BS according to the transmit power capability indicated in the information. For example, the UE may transmit data using the antenna virtualization related to the subset of the TPMIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Wei Zhang, Tianyan Pu, Pengkai Zhao, Jia Tang, Yushu Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 11874126
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a rule that is associated with a segment of a map, determining a state for use in evaluation of the rule, evaluating the rule using the state, identifying an action to be performed based on a result of evaluating the rule using the state, and utilizing the action to be performed as an input to an automated control system of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David A. Rosenthal, Andreas H. Bockert, Jessica A. Butorac, Gunnar Martin Byrod, Shane T. Hinerman, Kjell Fredrik Larsson, William W. Luciw, Patrick L. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 11875016
    Abstract: A computer system receives, by a first application, a plurality of shared media items and receives a request to display a view of a media application that includes the media library that includes a first plurality of media items. The computer system displays a collection of media items in the media application that are selected based on first criteria. Displaying the collection of media items includes displaying a second plurality of media items selected from the media library based on the first criteria. In accordance with a determination that a first shared media item from a set of one or media items that have not been added to the media library meets display criteria, the display criteria including the first criteria, displaying the first shared media item in the collection of media items concurrently with the second plurality of media items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Nicole R. Ryan, Chia Yang Lin, Graham R. Clarke, Aaron Moring, William A. Sorrentino, III
  • Patent number: 11874128
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for an application executing on a mobile device. The method renders an animated navigation presentation for output to an external display screen not part of the mobile device. The navigation presentation includes an animated map showing at least a portion of a route to a destination. The method simultaneously displays information regarding a maneuver along the route on a display screen of the mobile device without displaying a same animated map on the mobile device. In some embodiments, the displayed information regarding the maneuver comprises a graphical instruction and a text instruction for a next maneuver along the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bradford A. Moore, Emanuele Vulcano, Jorge Fino, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: 11877131
    Abstract: A wireless speaker audio system configured to receive audio information wirelessly transmitted by an audio source including first and second wireless transceivers. The first wireless transceiver establishes a bidirectional secondary wireless link with the audio source for receiving and acknowledging receipt of the audio information. The first and second wireless transceivers communicate with each other via a primary wireless link. A wireless audio system including an audio source and first and second wireless transceivers. The first and second wireless transceivers communicate via a primary wireless link. The audio source communicates audio information to the first wireless transceiver via a secondary wireless link which is configured according to a standard wireless protocol. The first wireless transceiver is configured to acknowledge successful reception of audio information via the secondary wireless link. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Clarke S. Watson, Benjamin W. Cook, Axel D. Berny, Jason A. Trachewsky
  • Patent number: 11874736
    Abstract: A memory controller includes an interface and a processor. The interface communicates with memory cells organized in multiple Word Lines (WLs). The processor is configured to read a Code Word (CW) of an Error Correction Code (ECC) from a group of multiple memory cells belonging to a target WL, to calculate for a given memory cell (i) a first soft metric, depending on a first threshold voltage of a first neighbor memory cell in a first WL neighboring the target WL, and (ii) a second soft metric, depending on a second threshold voltage of a second neighbor memory cell in a second WL neighboring the target WL, to calculate a combined soft metric based on both the first and second soft metrics and assign the combined soft metric to the given memory cell, and to decode the CW based on the combined soft metric, to produce a decoded CW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yonathan Tate, Nir Tishbi
  • Patent number: 11874559
    Abstract: A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a direct-lit backlight unit. The backlight unit may include an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on a printed circuit board. The display may have a notch to accommodate an input-output component. Reflective layers may be included in the notch. The backlight may include a color conversion layer with a property that varies as a function of position. The light-emitting diodes may be covered by a slab of encapsulant with recesses in an upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Meizi Jiao, Joshua A. Spechler, Jie Xiang, Zhenyue Luo, Chungjae Lee, Morteza Amoorezaei, Mengyang Liang, Xinyu Zhu, Mingxia Gu, Jun Qi, Eric L. Benson, Victor H. Yin, Youchul Jeong, Xiang Fang, Yanming Li, Michael J. Lee, Marianna C. Sbordone, Ari P. Miller, Edward J. Cooper, Michael C. Sulkis, Francesco Ferretti, Seth G. McFarland, Mary M. Morrison, Eric N. Vergo, Terence Chan, Ian A. Guy, Keith J. Hendren, Sunitha Chandra
  • Patent number: 11877348
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a system and method for providing flexible receiver configuration in wireless communication systems, such as 802.11 WLAN systems. In one embodiment, a wireless device may transmit a first data frame including first configuration information specifying a first configuration of the receiver to notify a remote device that the wireless device intends to configure its receiver according to the first configuration. After receiving an acknowledgement frame confirming the first configuration information, the wireless device may configure the receiver according to the first configuration. In another embodiment, a wireless device may receive a first data frame including first configuration information and further including a request that the wireless device configure its receiver according to the first configuration. In response, the wireless device may configure the receiver according to the first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chiu Ngok E. Wong, Christiaan A. Hartman, Zheng Zeng, Joonsuk Kim, Su Khiong Yong, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 11876099
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Osawa, Kyung-Wook Kim, Ming-Chin Hung, Shih Chang Chang, Yu-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11877112
    Abstract: An in-ear listening device having a device housing including a speaker housing and an elongated tube protruding away from the speaker housing, an audio port formed through the speaker housing, a speaker disposed in the speaker housing and aligned to emit sound through the audio port, a microphone port formed through the elongated tube, a microphone disposed in the elongated tube and operatively coupled to receive sound through the microphone port, a rechargeable battery and a wireless antenna disposed within the device housing, wireless circuitry coupled to the wireless antenna and configured to input and output radio frequency signals for wireless communications, a user-interface touch control disposed on the device housing and operable to control a function of the earbud, and battery charging circuitry coupled to the rechargeable battery and positioned within the device housing and operable to charge the rechargeable battery when coupled to receive power from an external power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: M. Evans Hankey, Emery A. Sanford, Christopher D. Prest, Way Chet Lim
  • Patent number: 11877105
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an image sensor and an image processor. The image sensor includes an array of pixels. At least one pixel in the array of pixels includes an array of phase disparity subpixels. The array of pixels includes a set of filter elements arranged in a filter pattern, with different subsets of pixels receiving light through different types of filter elements in the set of filter elements. The image processor is configured to receive values measured by at least the phase disparity subpixels; estimate phase disparities between the received values; generate, using the estimated phase disparities, a set of corrected values for the phase disparity subpixels; and generate, using the set of corrected values for the phase disparity subpixels, a set of demosaiced values for each image plane in a set of image planes. Each image plane is associated with a different type of filter element in the set of filter elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Gennady A. Manokhin
  • Patent number: 11875427
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display to display an image based on processed image data. The electronic device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the processed image data based on input image data and previously determined data stored in memory. The image processing circuitry may also operate according to real-time computing constraints. Cache memory may store the previously determined data in a provisioned section of the cache memory allotted to the image processing circuitry. Additionally, a controller may manage reading and writing of the previously determined data to the provisioned section of the cache memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Natarajan, Christopher P. Tann, Rohit K. Gupta
  • Patent number: 11877228
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are provided for user equipment (UE) that supports enhanced coverage and may operate with a voice centric usage setting or a data centric usage setting. When the UE's usage setting is set to voice centric, the UE may not operate in coverage enhancement (CE) mode B. When the UE's usage setting is set to data centric, then the UE may operate in CE mode B. The UE may indicate the UE's usage setting in an Attach or Tracking Area Update (TAU) request message, and a mobility management entity (MME) may indicate to an evolved NodeB that CE mode B is restricted or not restricted based on the usage setting. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Puneet Jain, Robert Zaus, Ahmed Soliman, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Stefania Sesia
  • Patent number: 11876664
    Abstract: Provided is a transmission method that improves data reception quality in radio transmission using a single-carrier scheme and/or a multi-carrier scheme. The transmission method includes: generating a plurality of first modulated signals and a plurality of second modulated signals from transmission data, the plurality of first modulated signals being signals generated using a 16QAM modulation scheme, and the plurality of second modulated signals being signals generated using uniform constellation 64QAM modulation; generating, from the plurality of first modulated signals and the plurality of second modulated signals, a plurality of first signal-processed signals and a plurality of second signal-processed signals which satisfy a predetermined equation; and changing the predetermined equation when a 64QAM modulation used to generate the plurality of second modulated signals is switched from the uniform constellation 64QAM modulation to a non-uniform constellation 64QAM modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11877157
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a method to increase the efficiency of security checkpoint operations. A security checkpoint kiosk serves as a Relying Party System (RPS). The RPS establishes a secure local connection between the RPS and a User Mobile-Identification-Credential Device (UMD). The RPS sends a user information request to the UMD, via the secure local connection, seeking release of user information associated with a Mobile Identification Credential (MIC). The RPS obtains authentication of the user information received in response to the user information request. The RPS retrieves user travel information based on the user information. The RPS determines that the user travel information matches the user information. When the user travel information matches the user information, the RPS approves the user to proceed past the security checkpoint kiosk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haya Iris Villanueva Gaviola, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Vinay Ganesh, Irene M. Graff, Martijn Theo Haring, Ahmer A. Khan, Franck Farian Rakotomalala, Gordon Y. Scott, Ho Cheung Chung, Antonio Allen, Mayura Dhananjaya Deshpande, Thomas John Miller, Christopher Sharp, David W. Silver, Policarpo B. Wood, Ka Yang
  • Patent number: 11875714
    Abstract: A display system may display image frames. The system may include a scanning mirror and an array of staggered light emitting elements. The light emitting elements may emit image light and collimating optics may direct the light at the scanning mirror, which reflects the image light while rotating about an axis. Control circuitry may selectively activate the light emitting elements across tangential and sagittal axes of the image frame while controlling the scanning mirror to scan across the sagittal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arman Hajati, Robert S. Upton, Yuval Gerson
  • Patent number: 11877149
    Abstract: Systems and methods of protecting an initial NAS message are described. Depending on whether a security context for a serving PLMN is stored, the UE uses either a public key from the serving PLMN or a key from the security context to encrypt parts of the initial NAS message. An initial NAS message containing the encrypted parts is then sent to an AMF of the serving PLMN. The serving PLMN public key is transmitted via a SIB. Prior to transmission of the initial NAS message or in parallel with it, an RRC message is sent to the base station. The RRC message contains the UE identifier and/or a NSSAI encrypted using the serving PLMN public key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Robert Zaus, Farid Adrangi, Raimund Wloka, Abhijeet Ashok Kolekar, Ahmed Soliman
  • Patent number: D1011378
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Raphael Anselmo Hene, Vincent Peter Reuter