Patents Assigned to Apples Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240187916
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a network, that includes: determining quality of service (QoS) information for a plurality of data flows with different QoS attributes, transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a configuration message generated based on the QoS information, wherein the configuration message includes configuration information for at least one configured grant (CG); and receiving, from the UE based on the at least one CG, uplink data based on the plurality of data flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Murtaza A. Shikari, Ralf Rossbach, Sarma V. Vangala, Srinivasan Nimmala
  • Publication number: 20240184080
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a camera voice coil motor (VCM) actuator configured to shift a lens and/or an image sensor along multiple axes. The VCM actuator may include a bottom flexure and a top flexure that connect one or more dynamic members to one or more static members. The VCM actuator may include stationary magnets and coils held by dynamic members. In some cases, the VCM actuator may be configured to move the image sensor along an optical axis, to move the image sensor in directions orthogonal to the optical axis, and/or to tilt the image sensor relative to the orthogonal axis. In some examples, the VCM actuator may be configured to move the image sensor in directions orthogonal to the optical axis, to move the lens along the optical axis, and/or to tilt the lens relative to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shashank Sharma, Douglas S. Brodie, Scott W. Miller
  • Publication number: 20240187938
    Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a serving cell and a target cell and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a handover command from the serving cell. The handover command comprises an epoch index and ephemeris information of the target cell. The processor is further configured to determine an epoch time of the target cell based on the epoch index and perform time synchronization with the target cell using the epoch time and the ephemeris information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Fangli Xu, Chunxuan Ye, Yang Tang, Hong He, Qiming Li, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240187919
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for concatenating in the packet data convergence protocol sublayer or the service data adaptation sublayer in wireless networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ralf Rossbach, Fangli Xu, Alexander Sirotkin, Bobby Jose, Dawei Zhang, Francois E. Deparis, Haijing Hu, Mohamed Mounir Mohamed Abdelrahman, Murali Narasimha, Murtaza A. Shikari, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Pavan Nuggehalli, Ralf Itjeshorst, Sarma V. Vangala, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Vijay Venkataraman, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Publication number: 20240185539
    Abstract: An AR system that leverages a pre-generated 3D model of the world to improve rendering of 3D graphics content for AR views of a scene, for example an AR view of the world in front of a moving vehicle. By leveraging the pre-generated 3D model, the AR system may use a variety of techniques to enhance the rendering capabilities of the system. The AR system may obtain pre-generated 3D data (e.g., 3D tiles) from a remote source (e.g., cloud-based storage), and may use this pre-generated 3D data (e.g., a combination of 3D mesh, textures, and other geometry information) to augment local data (e.g., a point cloud of data collected by vehicle sensors) to determine much more information about a scene, including information about occluded or distant regions of the scene, than is available from the local data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick S. Piemonte, Daniel De Rocha Rosario, Jason D. Gosnell, Peter Meier
  • Publication number: 20240188030
    Abstract: A method includes causing, at a first user equipment (UE), transmission of at least one positioning reference signal (PRS) to a second UE via a sidelink (SL) communication based on first positioning assistance data. The transmission enables the second UE to determine positioning measurements from at least part of the at least one PRS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Jie Cui, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Weidong Yang, Yuqin Chen
  • Publication number: 20240186746
    Abstract: Power connectors that are easy to connect, have a low profile, and can convey one or more data signals. One example can provide a power connector that is easy to connect by providing an axisymmetric connector receptacle and connector insert. Magnets can be used to help guide a connection between a connector insert and a connector receptacle. Canted springs can be used to provide a tactile response to the insertion of the connector insert into the connector receptacle and to help to secure the connector insert in place when mated with the connector insert. Keying or self-aligning features can be included on either or both the connector insert and the connector receptacle to help guide mating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Harper, Davood Mousanezhad Viyand, James M. Jeon, Mahmoud R. Amini, Rui Zhou, Sajjad Mohammadiyangijeh
  • Patent number: 12002042
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for managing contextual transactions. In some examples, at a sender electronic device, a first user provides authorization to purchase an item for a second user. In some examples, at a recipient device, the second user selects one or more attributes for the item and requests to claim the item. In some examples, an electronic device displays a representation of an item and a purchase affordance for purchasing the item using a payment system that is available on the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple, Inc
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Peter D. Anton, Donald W. Pitschel, Simon Tickner
  • Patent number: 12003300
    Abstract: A base station or other network component (next generation NodeB (gNB)) can operate to transmit a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for channel state information (CSI) feedback. The CSI feedback can be received as corresponding to one or more frequency parts at hierarchical precoding levels of a frequency band based on a hierarchical precoding scheme in response to providing the CSI-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12002227
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for partial point cloud registration. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a first set of three-dimensional (3D) points corresponding to an object in a physical environment, the first set of 3D points having locations in a first coordinate system, obtaining a second set of 3D points corresponding to the object in the physical environment, the second set of 3D points having locations in a second coordinate system, predicting, via a machine learning model, locations of the first set of 3D points in the second coordinate system, and determining transform parameters relating the first set of 3D points and the second set of 3D points based on the predicted location of the first set of 3D points in the second coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Donghoon Lee, Thorsten Gernoth, Onur C. Hamsici, Shuo Feng
  • Patent number: 12003452
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for physical uplink shared channel transmissions with repetitions on different transmit beams with phase tracking reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu
  • Patent number: 12001933
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for utilizing a virtual assistant as part of a communication session. One or more of the participant users can select to utilize a virtual assistant to assist the participant users with tasks during the communication session. A user can use a communication application to enter a message directed to the virtual assistant. The virtual assistant can analyze the entered message and determine that the message was directed to the virtual assistant. As a result, the virtual assistant will assist the user with the identified task. A virtual assistant can assist a user with a variety of different tasks. For example, the virtual assistant can gather requested data for the user from one or more web servers, such as weather data, traffic data, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mehul K. Sanghavi, Jeffrey P. Schwerdtfeger
  • Patent number: 12003343
    Abstract: A method is provided that includes receiving, at a media device and from a client device, a request for a temporary identifier for a group chat session, and provisioning, by the media device, the temporary identifier based on a device identifier of the media device. The media device provides the temporary identifier to the client device. The media device receives from a server an invitation to join the group chat session, where the invitation is directed to the temporary identifier, and the media device joins the group chat session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jad Osseiran, Xudong Liu, Andrew J. Daley, Adam Y. Syed, Nicholas J. Circosta, Sunil S. Rao, Zak C. Wegweiser, Jingyao Zhang, Wan-Ya Chen
  • Patent number: 12001753
    Abstract: An audio output device case that includes one or more input devices and is in communication with at least one or more audio output devices and an audio source, performs a method, while the audio source is in communication with the one or more audio output devices, that includes receiving an input via the one or more input devices of the audio output device case, and in response to receiving the input, causes the one or more audio output devices to perform an operation associated with the received input while maintaining communication of the audio source with the one or more audio output devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Darius A. Satongar, William D. Lindmeier, Per Haakan Linus Persson
  • Patent number: 12003432
    Abstract: In one example, a method for a user equipment (UE) includes generating uplink (UL) signal data. The UL signal data includes UL control information (UCI) and UL shared channel (UL-SCH), the UCI includes a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) feedback or a channel state information (CSI) report, and the CSI report includes a first CSI part and a second CSI part. One or more resource regions are allocated to transmission of the HARQ-ACK feedback or the first CSI part and the second CSI part. When frequency hopping is enabled for a transmission of PUSCH, the allocated one or more resource regions for the transmission of the HARQ-ACK feedback or the first CSI part and the second CSI part are substantially equally divided into two portions, and each portion is transmitted in each frequency hop, frequency first mapping is applied to the transmission of PUSCH in each frequency hop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Alexei Davydov, Seunghee Han, Yushu Zhang, Joonyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 12001751
    Abstract: A system can include head-mounted devices that collaborate to process views from cameras of the respective head-mounted devices and identify objects from different perspectives and/or objects that are within the view of only one of the head-mounted devices. Sharing sensory input between multiple head-mounted devices can complement and enhance individual units by interpreting and reconstructing objects, surfaces, and/or an external environment with perceptive data from multiple angles and positions, which also reduces occlusions and inaccuracies. As more detailed information is available at a specific moment in time, the speed and accuracy of object recognition, hand and body tracking, surface mapping, and/or digital reconstruction can be improved. Such collaboration can provide more effective and efficient mapping of space, surfaces, objects, gestures and users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marinus Meursing, David A. Schmuck, Brian S. Lau, Jeremy C. Franklin
  • Patent number: 12000967
    Abstract: An acoustic imaging system coupled to an acoustic imaging medium to define an imaging surface. The acoustic imaging system includes an array of piezoelectric acoustic transducers formed at least in part from a thin-film piezoelectric material, such as PVDF. The array is coupled to the acoustic imaging medium opposite the imaging surface and formed using a thin-film manufacturing process over an application-specific integrated circuit that, in turn, is configured to leverage the array of piezoelectric actuators to generate an image of an object at least partially wetting to the imaging surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gordon S. Franza, Gregory T. Minteer, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Dale Setlak, Marcus C. Yip, Ehsan Khajeh, Aaron S. Tucker, Andrew W. Joyce, Brian M. King, Giovanni Gozzini, Jason S. Griesbach
  • Patent number: 12002588
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to logging health-related events and for health-related coaching. In some embodiments, an event is logged by associating an action with a specific time and a user sentiment. In some embodiments, an event challenge, associated with a log entry, is transmitted to an external electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv B. Kumar, Susie H. Bui, Louis Chatta, Kelsey Dedoshka, Justin P. Dobson, Shonn P. Hendee, Brett L Lareau, Jay C. Mung, Andrew Plummer, Ryan D. Shelby, Helen T. Vo
  • Patent number: D1029865
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Yeo Been Chung, Aurelio Guzmán
  • Patent number: D1029873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Per Lindgren, Wyatt R. Mitchell, Allison Styer