Apple Patents

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures and markets smartphones, tablets and personal computers, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac. It also produces the iPod, Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as the operating systems and applications that support these devices. The company also sells digital content and applications through its iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, iBooks Store and Apple Music.

Apple Patents by Type
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  • Publication number: 20240090015
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: determining a scheduling conflict between an uplink transmission and a downlink reception; determining a type of the scheduling conflict; and applying, based on in part on the type of the scheduling conflict, a prioritization rule that prioritizes at least a portion of the uplink transmission or the downlink reception in order to mitigate the scheduling conflict.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Oghenekome OTERI, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240085968
    Abstract: A system for a given device may include a plurality of systems on a chip (SOCs). Each SOC may include an interface circuit and a bridge circuit for communicating with other SOCs. The interface circuit of an SOC may include a plurality of communication devices to transfer data packets from/to the SOC to the other SOCs. The bridge circuit may provide various control functions for the interface circuit. An indication may be generated when the system enters an idle mode. In response, the bridge circuit may generate signal(s) to cause some of the communication devices of the interface circuit into a low power state. The interface circuit may obtain the signal(s) and accordingly transition some of the communication devices to the low power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tzach Zemer, Lior Zimet, Sagi Lahav
  • Publication number: 20240089933
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing time domain bandwidth part (TD-BWP) switch for balancing between the UE power consumption and a latency of the UE. For example, a UE can be configured to add a plurality of padding bits to a transport block (TB) to reach a predetermined slot capacity for one transmission time interval (TTI) associated with UE traffic in response to determining that a parameter associated with the UE traffic meets a condition. The UE can be further configured to transmit the TB over the TTI to the base station and receive a message from the base station. The UE is further configured to change a time domain bandwidth part (TD-BWP) based on the received message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sushant VIKRAM, Gibran ALI, Pradeep S. SHARMA, Ajay SINGH, Deepankar BHATTACHARJEE, Guillaume MONGHAL
  • Publication number: 20240089880
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide uplink synchronization for a user equipment with one or more uplink transmissions to be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Ping-Heng Kuo, Ralf Rossbach
  • Publication number: 20240082641
    Abstract: Notifications for instructing user behavior can be determined and presented when appropriate. Current fitness data are accessed. This data is used to determine whether a user fitness goal is likely to be achieved. If not, a notification may be determined and presented at a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Kriz Blahnik, Aaron P. Thompson, David S. Clark, Julie A. Arney, Brian R. Drell, Keith P. Avery, Kevin M. Lynch
  • Publication number: 20240086062
    Abstract: The systems described herein provide a remote keyboard service for a media device on a computing device without having to invoke an application or unlock the computing device. The computing device can receive a message indicating that a text input field on the other device is selected and present a notification to the user prompting the user to invoke the virtual keyboard on the computing device to provide text input to the selected text input field. The computing device can receive user input selecting the notification and present a virtual keyboard for providing text input to the other device. The computing device can receive keyboard input from the user selecting characters and send the characters to the other device. The other device can then user the characters as text input to the selected text input field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Sanciangco, Bob Bradley, Marc Krochmal, Graham Clarke
  • Publication number: 20240090007
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing time domain bandwidth part (TD-BWP) switch for balancing between the UE power consumption and a latency of the UE. For example, a UE can be configured to add a plurality of padding bits to a transport block (TB) to reach a predetermined slot capacity for one transmission time interval (TTI) associated with UE traffic in response to determining that a parameter associated with the UE traffic meets a condition. The UE can be further configured to transmit the TB over the TTI to the base station and receive a message from the base station. The UE is further configured to change a time domain bandwidth part (TD-BWP) based on the received message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sushant VIKRAM, Gibran ALI, Pradeep S. SHARMA, Ajay SINGH, Deepankar BHATTACHARJEE, Guillaume MONGHAL
  • Publication number: 20240085734
    Abstract: A panel includes an outer layer and an inner layer. A mask layer is positioned between the outer layer and the inner layer. An active layer is positioned between the mask layer and the inner layer and adjacent to an outer edge of the panel. The active layer extends from the outer edge of the panel toward a central portion of the panel and includes an independently controllable active element configured to limit viewing of the mask layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David E. Kingman, Paul M. Connolly, Peter F. Masschelein
  • Publication number: 20240090014
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for improving a scheduling request transmission between a UE and a base station. The transmission of the scheduling request is postponed, by implementing a threshold that the data in the transmission buffer has to reach, before a transmission of the scheduling request is triggered. In one variant, the data in the transmission buffer needs to reach a specific amount, to trigger a scheduling request. The invention refers to further improvements: the PDDCH monitoring time window is delayed after sending a scheduling request; the dedicated scheduling request resources of the PUCCH are prioritized differently such that low-priority scheduling requests are transmitted less often.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Takahisa Aoyama, Prateek Basu-Mallick, Takashi Tamura, Martin Feuersaenger
  • Patent number: 11928483
    Abstract: An electronic device presents a user interface including an output property that represents a first type of output. The device detects a first input associated with modifying the first type of output via a first behavior model, and changes the output property over time based on the first behavior model and updates the user interface based on the changes in the output property. While updating the user interface, the device detects a change to the user input; and changes the output property over time based on a second behavior model based on: a value of the output property determined based on the first behavior model; and a first derivative of the value of the output property with respect to time determined based on the first behavior model. The device updates the user interface based on the changes in the output property that occur based on the second behavior model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Brandon M. Walkin, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Dmitry A. Gorbik, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Nathan de Vries, Joseph P Cerra, Emanuele Rudel
  • Patent number: 11928779
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein generate a mesh representing the surfaces in a physical environment. The mesh is generated using multi-resolution voxels based on detected depth information, e.g., from a depth camera. The techniques may use multiple hash tables to store the multi-resolution voxel data. For example, the hash tables may store each voxel's 3D position and a truncated signed distance field (TSDF) value corresponding to each voxels' distance to a nearest surface. Each of the multiple hash tables may include data corresponding to a different level of resolution and those resolutions may depend upon distance/noise or other factors. For example, voxels close to a depth camera may have a finer resolution and smaller size compared to voxels that are further from the depth camera. Techniques disclosed herein may involve using a meshing algorithm that combines multi-resolution voxel information stored in multiple hash tables to generate a single mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Maxime Meilland, Andrew Predoehl, Kyle L. Simek, Ming Chuang, Pedro A. Pinies Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11927761
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may have rear-facing display that displays a three-dimensional image to rear eye boxes. The head-mounted device may also have a front-facing display that faces away from the rear eye boxes. The front-facing display may cover a front face of the head-mounted housing. To share content such as content being displayed by the rear-facing displays with external viewers, the head-mounted device may use the front-facing display or a separate display to display images. An accessory that is coupled to the front face of the housing may reflect an image on the front-facing display towards a viewer for viewing. Sensors in the device may detect presence of the accessory. Display projectors and waveguides or optical layers on the front face that overlap the front-facing display may be used to display three-dimensional images to front eye boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad F. Hossain, Syed F. Mohiuddin
  • Patent number: 11928317
    Abstract: A device with a display and, optionally, a touch-sensitive surface detects a first input corresponding to a request to share first content from a first application while displaying the first application on the display. In response to detecting the first input, the device displays a sharing interface that includes a plurality of options for sharing the first content. While displaying the sharing interface, the device detects selection of an affordance in the sharing interface. In accordance with a determination that the affordance is a respective user-first sharing option for a respective user, the device initiates a process for sharing the first content with the respective user. In accordance with a determination that the affordance is a protocol-first sharing option for a respective protocol, the device initiates a process for sharing the first content using the respective protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeremiah D. Shaw, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Martin O. Pedrick, Marcel van Os, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11928780
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of enriching a three-dimensional scene model with a three-dimensional object model based on a semantic label is performed at a device including one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining a three-dimensional scene model of a physical environment including a plurality of points, wherein each of the plurality of points is associated with a set of coordinates in a three-dimensional space, wherein a subset of the plurality of points is associated with a particular cluster identifier and a particular semantic label. The method includes retrieving a three-dimensional object model based on the particular semantic label, the three-dimensional object model including at least a plurality of points. The method includes updating the three-dimensional scene model by replacing the subset of the plurality of points with the three-dimensional object model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Payal Jotwani
  • Patent number: 11927757
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display panel with an array of display pixels. Light from the display panel may be focused by a lens assembly towards a viewer. The presence of the lens assembly may cause geometric distortion for a viewer viewing images on the display through the lens assembly. To mitigate geometric distortion, geometric distortion compensation may be performed in the electronic device. The electronic device may include both a fixed lens element and a removable lens element in the lens assembly. The removable lens element may be changed, allowing the distortion function associated with the lens assembly to change over time. To dynamically compensate for geometric distortion caused by a lens assembly with a removable lens, ray tracing may be used to determine the geometric distortion caused by the lens assembly depending upon the particular removable lens that is present in the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Milad Akhlaghi Bouzan, William W Sprague, Anup Rathi, Duncan A McRoberts, Tahereh Majdi
  • Patent number: 11928467
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a processor comprises an atomic predictor circuit to predict whether or not an atomic operation will complete successfully. The prediction may be used when a subsequent load operation to the same memory location as the atomic operation is executed, to determine whether or not to forward store data from the atomic operation to the subsequent load operation. If the prediction is successful, the store data may be forwarded. If the prediction is unsuccessful, the store data may not be forwarded. In cases where an atomic operation has been failing (not successfully performing the store operation), the prediction may prevent the forwarding of the store data and thus may prevent a subsequent flush of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian R. Mestan, Gideon N. Levinsky, Michael L. Karm
  • Patent number: 11928387
    Abstract: A method for controlling target sound playback. A display screen of a control device is configured to display a target sound user setting for controlling target sound playback, wherein the target sound user setting controls a stored target sound level parameter that is stored within memory of the control device. A target sound sequence is generated in accordance with the user setting. A speaker is driven with the target sound sequence. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cecilia Casarini, Ian M. Fisch, Jakub Mazur, Mitchell R. Lerner, Pablo David Brazell Ruiz, Stephen W. Ryner, Jr., Tyrone T. Chen
  • Patent number: 11927874
    Abstract: Some embodiments include methods and/or systems for using multiple cameras to provide optical zoom to a user. Some embodiments include a first camera unit of a multifunction device capturing a first image of a first visual field. A second camera unit of the multifunction device simultaneously captures a second image of a second visual field. In some embodiments, the first camera unit includes a first optical package with a first focal length. In some embodiments, the second camera unit includes a second optical package with a second focal length. In some embodiments, the first focal length is different from the second focal length, and the first visual field is a subset of the second visual field. In some embodiments, the first image and the second image are preserved to a storage medium as separate data structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Claus Molgaard, Iain A. McAllister
  • Patent number: 11929021
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using an optical crosstalk compensation (OXTC) block to compensate for optical crosstalk resulted from a combination of viewing angle change across field of view (FoV), color filter (CF) crosstalk, and the OLED various angle color shift (VACS) of a foveated electronic display. One or more two-dimensional (2D) OXTC factor maps are used to determine OXTC factors for input image data of the OXTC block, and the OXTC factors are updated on a per frame basis. Offset values are determined using a parallel architecture and used to determine the OXTC factors. Compensation weights are used to determine weighted OXTC factors to improve processing efficiency. Output image data are obtained by applying the weighted OXTC factors to the input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shereef Shehata, Jim C Chou, Sheng Zhang, Shengchang Cai
  • Patent number: 11928301
    Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain flexible displays that are bent to form displays on multiple surfaces of the devices. Bent flexible displays may be bent to form front side displays and edge displays. Edge displays may be separated from front side displays or from other edge displays using patterned housing members, printed or painted masks, or by selectively activating and inactivating display pixels associated with the flexible display. Edge displays may alternately function as virtual buttons, virtual switches, or informational displays that are supplemental to front side displays. Virtual buttons may include transparent button members, lenses, haptic feedback components, audio feedback components, or other components for providing feedback to a user when virtual buttons are activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Myers, Stephen Brian Lynch, Anthony S. Montevirgen
  • Patent number: 11929950
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for calculating and compensating for Doppler shift in a high-speed environment. When in a high-speed environment, Doppler shifts on a transmitted radio frequency signal can become extremely large, which may make it difficult or even impossible for a receiving device to accurately decipher the signal. Therefore, embodiments of the present disclosure describe how tracking reference signals can be transmitted from multiple transmission/reception points, and processed by the UE. For example, the TRS transmitted from the TRP can be enhanced to allow for TRS information from two different TRPs. Additionally, or alternatively, a flag can be set within TRS information that identifies it as having originated from either a first TRP or a second TRP. Additionally, the UE can calculate Doppler shift information and report that information back to the base station in a report message, such as an SRS message. In this manner, the base station can precompensate for the Doppler shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11927988
    Abstract: The disclosure provides members formed from multiple layers as well as enclosures and electronic devices that include the members. The members include glass members formed from multiple layers of glass. In some cases, the members include a protruding feature provided over a camera assembly of the electronic device. The member may define one or more through-holes that extend through the protruding feature. The protruding feature may define a textured region that may be configured to provide a matte or glossy appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joseph C Poole, Matthew S. Rogers, Dale N. Memering
  • Patent number: 11930170
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: determining whether a picture is to be divided into multiple sub-pictures; when it is determined that the picture is to be divided into multiple sub-pictures, dividing the picture into multiple sub-pictures; and determining whether the multiple sub-pictures are independent of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bae Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 11928303
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing shared-content sessions. In some embodiments, content is shared with a group of users participating in a shared-content session. In some embodiments, the content is screen-share content that is shared from one device to other participants of the shared-content session. In some embodiments, the content is synchronized content for which output of the content is synchronized across the participants of the shared-content session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Taylor G. Carrigan, Marcel Van Os, Elliot A. Barer, Kyle William Horn, Kaely Coon
  • Patent number: 11930413
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for a network-initiated packet data network connection in communication systems are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre S. Stojanovski, Muthaiah Venkatachalam
  • Patent number: 11929388
    Abstract: A display may be formed by an array of light-emitting diodes mounted to the surface of a display substrate. The light-emitting diodes may be inorganic light-emitting diodes formed from separate crystalline semiconductor structures. An array of pixel control circuits may be used to control light emission from the light-emitting diodes. Each pixel control circuit may be configured to control one or more respective passive matrices. To control partial pixel cells in the display, a donor pixel control circuit in a partial pixel cell may control the pixels in a receptor partial pixel cell without a pixel control circuit. To mitigate the size of an inactive area of the display, fanout signal lines for the display may be formed in the light-emitting active area of the display. The fanout signal lines may be formed between a row of pixel control circuits and a bottom edge of the light-emitting active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sandeep Chalasani, Steven E Molesa, Anatole Huang, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xia Li, Yongjie Jiang, Mittul Gupta, Stanley B Wang
  • Patent number: 11930443
    Abstract: An apparatus of a next generation Node B (gNB) comprises one or more baseband processors to generate an indication for a user equipment (UE) to indicate which synchronization signal block (SSB) based measurement timing configuration (SMTC) occasion can be used by the UE for one or more measurements, and to send the indication to the UE. The apparatus can include a memory to store the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Hua Li, Manasa Raghavan, Yuhan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11928200
    Abstract: An electronic device performs techniques related to implementing biometric authentication, including providing user interfaces for: providing indications of error conditions during biometric authentication, providing indications about the biometric sensor during biometric authentication, orienting the device to enroll a biometric feature, and providing an indication of the location of the biometric sensor to correct a detected error condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Peter D. Anton, Lynne Devine, Daamun Mohseni
  • Patent number: 11929045
    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels such as liquid crystal display pixels. The display may include short pixel rows that span only partially across the display and full-width pixel rows that span the width of the display. The gate lines coupled to the short pixel rows may extend into the inactive area of the display. Supplemental gate line loading structures may be located in the inactive area of the display to increase loading on the gate lines that are coupled to short pixel rows. The supplemental gate line loading structures may include data lines and doped polysilicon that overlap the gate lines in the inactive area. In displays that combine display and touch functionality into a thin-film transistor layer, supplemental loading structures may be used in the inactive area to increase loading on common voltage lines that are coupled to short rows of common voltage pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shin-Hung Yeh, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Ting-Kuo Chang
  • Patent number: 11929522
    Abstract: Batteries according to embodiments of the present technology may include a housing including a first terminal disposed on a first side of the housing and a second terminal disposed on the first side of the housing. The batteries may include an electrode stack positioned within the housing. The electrode stack may include an anode current collector. The anode current collector may define an anode tab along a first side of the anode current collector, and be electrically coupled with the first terminal. The electrode stack may include a cathode current collector. The cathode current collector may define a cathode tab along a second side of the cathode current collector. The cathode tab may extend from the cathode current collector in a direction normal to a direction the anode tab extends from the anode current collector. The cathode tab may be electrically coupled with a busbar disposed within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Campbell, Nivay Anandarajah, William A. Braff, Oskar Dondelewski, Russell A. McLellan
  • Patent number: 11930267
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with control circuitry, wireless transceiver circuitry, and a display. The electronic device may be used to provide information to a user in response to being pointed at a particular object. The control circuitry may determine when the electronic device is pointed at a particular object using wireless control circuitry and/or motion sensor circuitry. In response to determining that the electronic device is pointed at a particular object, the control circuitry may take suitable action. This may include, for example, displaying information about an object when the electronic device is pointed at the object, displaying control icons for electronic equipment when the electronic device is pointed at the electronic equipment, and/or displaying a virtual object when the electronic device is pointed at real world object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adam S. Meyer, Peter C. Tsoi, Duncan Robert Kerr, Martha Evans Hankey, John B. Morrell, James H. Foster
  • Patent number: 11929802
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle can be configured to adjust a beam direction, provide path information, act as a base station, act as a cluster head, include an improved directional antenna or array of directional antennas, communicate in a collaboration using belief propagation, receive communications from a serving station aiding in navigation or improved signal performance, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Xue, Mustafa Akdeniz, Seong-Youp John Suh, Shu-Ping Yeh, Eduardo Alban, Philippe Auzas, Jonathan Byrne, Mark Davis, David Gomez Gutierrez, Timo Huusari, Bradley Alan Jackson, Ranganadh Karella, Sreenivas Kasturi, Mengkun Ke, Ching-Yu Liao, Tiefeng Shi, Daniel Tong, Candy Yiu
  • Patent number: 11930337
    Abstract: An audio device can sense sound in a physical environment using a plurality of microphones to generate a plurality of microphone signals. Clean speech can be extracted from microphone signals. Ambience can be extracted from the microphone signals. The clean speech can be encoded at a first compression level. The ambience can be encoded at a second compression level that is higher than the first compression level. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc
    Inventors: Tomlinson Holman, Christopher T. Eubank, Joshua D. Atkins, Soenke Pelzer, Dirk Schroeder
  • Patent number: 11929779
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) tunes a transceiver of the UE to a first frequency associated with a first channel, transmits a first short packet to a second UE on the first channel and determines whether a first indication was received from the second UE in response to the first short packet. The first indication indicates that the first channel satisfies one or more predetermined criteria. The UE transmits then the primary data to the second UE on the first channel in response to the first indication being received from the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tomar Alon, Alon Paycher, Moche Cohen
  • Patent number: 11930471
    Abstract: Technology for an Information Centric Networking gateway (ICN-GW) operable to modify an ICN message received from a user equipment (UE) in a Fifth Generation (5G) cellular network is disclosed. The ICN-GW can decode the ICN message received from the UE via a Next 5 Generation NodeB (gNB) and an ICN point of attachment (ICNPoA). The ICN-GW can modify the ICN message to produce a modified ICN message. The ICN-GW can encode the modified ICN message to route the modified ICN message to a data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Gabriel Arrobo Vidal, Geng Wu, Qian Li, Zongrui Ding, Ching-Yu Liao
  • Patent number: 11930420
    Abstract: A handheld electronic device may include a microphone for receiving voice commands, a speaker for providing audio feedback, a display for providing visual output and receiving touch input, and a motion sensor for receiving gesture input. The handheld electronic device may include control circuitry that processes voice commands differently depending on the application running on the handheld electronic device and the icon being displayed on the display. The control circuitry may determine the location of the handheld electronic device and may provide content based on the location. For example, a remote control interface for controlling an external device may be displayed when the handheld electronic device approaches the external device. A head-mounted device may display virtual images based on the location of the handheld electronic device. The virtual images may include a live video feed from a video call, virtual images associated with voice commands, or other virtual images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Per Haakan Linus Persson, Seung Wook Kim, William D. Lindmeier, Paul G. Puskarich, Peter C. Tsoi
  • Patent number: 11930522
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate reduced density CSI (Channel State Information)-RS (Reference Signals). One example embodiment can be employed at a UE (User Equipment) and can comprise processing circuitry configured to receive and process a configuration message that comprises one or more configuration parameters for one or more CSI (Channel State Information)-RS (Reference Signal) APs (Antenna Ports) of a configurable density CSI-RS. The configuration parameters indicate a density of CSI-RS resource per Physical Resource Block (PRB) per CSI-RS AP and a PRB offset. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine a set of REs (Resource Elements) for the one or more CSI-RS APs of the configurable density CSI-RS based on the one or more configuration parameters and perform measurements on the configurable density CSI-RS from the set of REs to determine one or more CSI parameters. The one or more configuration parameters are provided per CSI-RS resource configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Gregory V. Morozov, Sameer Pawar
  • Patent number: 11929794
    Abstract: Performing user equipment (UE) coordination based beam management may include determining resources for measuring beams and reporting measured beam information. The resources may be configured for a first user equipment (UE) of a plurality of coordinated UEs. The determined resources may be transmitted to the first UE via radio resource control (RRC) or medium access control-control element (MAC CE). Measured beam information received from the first UE for configuring beam sharing between multiple UEs of the plurality of coordinated UEs may be decoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 11930519
    Abstract: Measurement resources are often limited in 5G and 4G-LTE communications. As a result, SMTC and CSI-RS measurement windows will occasionally be assigned to the same resource elements of a signal frame. This results in a collision that must be resolved, since both measurements cannot be performed simultaneously. The collision can be resolved using restriction, where overlapping resource elements are assigned to either the SMTC or the CSI-RS measurements, or can be resolved using measurement sharing, where overlapping resource elements are divided among the two measurements according to a measurement sharing factor. Various factors, including priority or window periodicity may be taken into account by the measurement rules that dictate collision resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 11930381
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing backup link establishment and operation for multi-link wireless communication networks such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). Some aspects relate to an electronic device including a transceiver configured to communicate over a wireless network and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor receives a message including information associated with a backup link from a second electronic device. The processor further receives data associated with data traffic from the second electronic device on a primary link of the wireless network. In response to a quality of the primary link being below a threshold, the processor receives a notification frame from the second electronic device on the backup link and receives additional data associated with the data traffic from the second electronic device on the backup link or on an other link informed by the notification frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Yong Liu, Jinjing Jiang, Jarkko L. Kneckt, Lochan Verma, Tianyu Wu, Su Khiong Yong, Guoqing Li
  • Patent number: 11930442
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for reducing wireless device service interruptions. An indication of a disaster condition may be provided to a wireless device. The disaster condition may affect a home public land mobile network of the wireless device. The wireless device may perform cell selection in a manner influenced by the indication of the disaster condition. This may include considering cells associated with a forbidden public land mobile network for the cell selection, or excluding cells associated with the home public land mobile network of the wireless device that are unavailable, for example due to the disaster condition, among various possibilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Roland Gruber, Nirlesh Koshta, Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar, Sridhar Prakasam, Mona Agnel, Krisztian Kiss, Vijay Venkataraman, Haijing Hu, Robert Zaus
  • Patent number: 11930474
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The UE includes a processor circuitry, and radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to determine and indicate, to a core network via a radio access network (RAN), one or more cellular internet of things (CIoT) features that are required by the UE and CIoT network behavior expected from the core network to support the one or more CIoT features that are required by the UE. The processor circuitry is configured to select either an enhanced packet core (EPC) or a 5G core (5GC) to establish a wireless connection with the core network, based on a first set of CIoT features supported by the EPC and a second set of CIoT features supported by the 5GC received from the core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde, Puneet Jain, Ching-Yu Liao, Vivek Gupta
  • Patent number: 11930449
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a user equipment (UE) may enter into an E-UTRAN Routing Area Paging Channel state, and is configured with an E-UTRAN Routing Area and an Anchor identifier to identify an anchor evolved Node B (eNB) for the UE. The UE selects to a new cell without performing a handover procedure, and performs a cell update procedure. The UE also may enter into a Cell Update Connected state, and is configured with an Anchor identifier. The UE selects to a new cell, performs a cell update procedure, performs a buffer request procedure, and performs a cell update procedure to download buffered data and to perform data transmission with the new cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre S. Stojanovski, Ana Lucia A. Pinheiro, Richard C. Burbidge, Candy Yiu, Youn Hyoung Heo, Sangeetha L. Bangolae
  • Patent number: 11930460
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE), comprising performing, based on acquired information, in at least one of an idle mode and an inactive mode, at least one of an intra-frequency neighbor cell measurement and an inter-frequency neighbor cell measurement. The acquired information comprises at least one of a group of a periodicity of synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB)-based measurement timing configuration (SMTC) and a periodicity of SMTC2-long periodicity (SMTC2-LP) and a physical cell identifier (PCI) list of SMTC2-LP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Yang Tang, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He
  • Patent number: 11930313
    Abstract: A low-profile earbud is disclosed that sits securely within an ear of a user. The earbud includes a protruding portion that passes through a channel defined by the tragus and anti-tragus of the ear. In some embodiments, the protruding portion can take the form of a cable configured to supply power and transfer data to the earbud. In some embodiments, the protruding portion can provide additional space for electrical components and sensors supporting the earbud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn K. Trainer, Scott C. Grinker, Ethan L. Huwe, Craig M. Stanley
  • Patent number: D1017538
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: 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, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1017603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: 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, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1017627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Butcher, Aled Williams
  • Patent number: D1017628
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Lynn Angquist, Teresa Finch Perera, Daniel J. Wiersema
  • Patent number: D1017639
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Taylor Gerard Carrigan