Apple Patent Applications
Apple patent applications that are pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20250077865Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a texture unit circuit in a neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit includes a tensor access operation circuit with the texture unit circuit, a data processor circuit, and at least one neural engine circuit. The texture unit circuit fetches a source tensor from a system memory by referencing an index tensor in the system memory representing indexing information into the source tensor. The data processor circuit stores an output version of the source tensor obtained from the tensor access operation circuit and sends the output version of the source tensor as multiple of units of input data to the at least one neural engine circuit. The at least one neural engine circuit performs at least convolution operations on the units of input data and at least one kernel to generate output data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventor: Christopher L. MILLS
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Publication number: 20250070772Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to circuits and a method for mitigating effects of power supply variations on a driver circuit. For example, the circuit can include a first transistor device with a first source/drain (S/D) terminal and a second S/D terminal. The circuit can also include a second transistor device with a third S/D terminal and a fourth S/D terminal. The driver circuit can further include a resistor device electrically connected between the first and third S/D terminals or between the second and fourth S/D terminals. The resistor device can mitigate variations in a high-level output voltage of the driver circuit due to power supply variations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sumit RAO, Mitesh D. KATAKWAR, Chung-Chi HUANG, Craig B. BYINGTON
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Publication number: 20250071423Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera system having an actuator arrangement for rotating a lens group together with an image sensor to provide optical image stabilization (OIS). For example, the actuator arrangement may be used to rotate the lens group and the image sensor, as a pair, about multiple axes orthogonal to an optical axis of the camera system, to implement OIS. According to various embodiments, the actuator arrangement may also be configured to move the lens group or the image sensor to provide autofocus (AF). For example, the actuator arrangement may be used to move the lens group or the image sensor in at least one direction parallel to the optical axis, to implement AF. Furthermore, the camera system may include a suspension arrangement configured to suspend the lens group and the image sensor and to allow motion enabled by the actuator arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alfred N Mireault, Nicholas D Smyth, Zachary W Birnbaum, Scott W Miller
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Publication number: 20250071550Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus. systems, and methods for pairing UICC/SIM with device components.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Li Li, Abishek Kumar Vaidyanathan, Aurelien P. Raboisson, Dennis D. Conway, Hunny Verma, Kanuganti Rajeswar Reddy, Keizo Marui, Mohanasundaram Kattavoor Sivakumar, Ngabin S. Ng, Rajeev Verma, Vidur Gupta
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Publication number: 20250071779Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatuses, systems, and methods for technologies for managing discontinuous reception timers in wireless networks.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ralf Rossbach, Fangli Xu, Weidong Yang, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Zhibin Wu, Alexander Sirotkin, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Pavan Nuggehalli
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Publication number: 20250069541Abstract: An electronic display device designed to a method and device that corrects for distorted luminance and colors due to data-to-scan coupling in a flat-panel display.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jongyup Lim, Jie Won Ryu, Nicolas Le Dortz, Hyunwoo Nho, Sun-Il Chang, Patrick R. Cruce
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Publication number: 20250071233Abstract: A device may include a light-folded projector that may include an infrared (IR) light emitter and a light folding element. The light folding element may receive IR light emitted from the IR light emitter and fold the IR light one or more times to guide the IR light passing through the light folding element to exit the device to an environment. The device may also include a detector that may detect and/or recognize an object in the environment using the IR light from the light-folded projector, and a front-facing camera to capture images of the environment in front of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yoshikazu Shinohara, Takeyoshi Saiga, Ligang Wang
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Publication number: 20250071888Abstract: The present disclosure describes a structure with a substrate, a damping structure, and a capacitor structure. The damping structure is disposed over the substrate and includes a rigid material layer and a damping material layer disposed on the rigid material layer. The damping material layer includes a damping material with a tensile strength of about 20 MPa, a Young's modulus of about 0.5 GPa, and an elongation of about 10%. The capacitor structure is disposed over the damping structure, in which the damping structure mitigates (or eliminates) a transfer of piezoelectric and electrostrictive vibrations generated by the capacitor structure to the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shawn X. ARNOLD, Zhongqing GONG, Anping GUO
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Publication number: 20250071632Abstract: Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a network (NW) comprising a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN), one or more messages comprising pre-configured measurement gap (pre-MG) configurations for at least one pre-MG, wherein the UE is in dual connectivity (DC) with the MN and the SN; and determining, from the pre-MG configurations, respective pre-MG statuses for the at least one pre-MG, wherein the MN comprises a master cell group (MCG) and the SN comprises a secondary cell group (SCG).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Qiming Li, Yang Tang
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Publication number: 20250060939Abstract: The present disclosure describes an in-memory computing (IMC) circuit including a first set of IMC cells having a first number of IMC cells and a second set of IMC cells having the first number of IMC cells. The first set of IMC cells can generate a first bit-product of a weight number having a first number of bits and a first bit of an input number having a second number of bits. The second set of IMC cells can generate a second bit-product of the weight number and a second bit of the input number. A first IMC cell of the first set of IMC cells includes a first bit-wise multiplication circuit configured to multiply a first bit of the weight number and the first bit of the input number.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yildiz SINANGIL, Lei WANG, Michael L LIU, Jaewon SHIN
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Publication number: 20250063417Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform measurements on reference signals or synchronization signal. In an example, timing requirements for performing such measurements can be dynamically changed depending on, at least, a measurement on one of the reference signal or the synchronization signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Javier Mauricio Paredes Riano, Jianshu Zhang, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Shengshan Cui, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
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Publication number: 20250063463Abstract: Techniques are described herein for network slice availability based de-prioritization. An example, method includes receiving user equipment (UE) routing selection policy (URSP) information. The method further includes starting an application associated with a network slice while registered with a standalone (SA) network. The method further includes evaluating routing selection descriptor information in the URSP information to determine an availability of the network slice of the SA network. The method further includes determining whether to de-prioritize the SA network based on a determination of availability of the network slice as indicated by the routing selection descriptor information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Muthukumaran Dhanapal
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Publication number: 20250060226Abstract: Some embodiments provide a commute application that provides a first presentation of several stops along a route. The commute application also receives a selection of a stop from the several stops along the route. The commute application further provides a second presentation for displaying several different routes that traverse through the selected stop.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: May-Li Khoe, Joseph A. Hagedorn, Marcel van Os
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Publication number: 20250063562Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide rate matching for inter-cell, multiple transmit-receive point operation in wireless communication systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu ZHANG, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Chunhai YAO, Haitong SUN, Wei ZENG, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Sigen YE, Weidong YANG, Chunxuan YE, Oghenekome OTERI
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Publication number: 20250063289Abstract: This application relates to earbuds configured with one or more biometric sensors. At least one of the biometric sensors is configured to be pressed up against a portion of the tragus for making biometric measurements. In some embodiments, the housing of the earbud can be symmetric so that the earbud can be worn interchangeably in either a left or a right ear of a user. In such an embodiment, the earbud can include a sensor and circuitry configured to determine and alter operation of the earbud in accordance to which ear the earbud is determined to be sitting in.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Phillip Qian, Edward Siahaan, Erik L. Wang, Christopher J. Stringer, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Daniel Max Strongwater, Jason J. LeBlanc
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Publication number: 20250062939Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for generating and using slot format indicator (SFI) and channel occupancy time (COT) structure in new radio (NR) systems operating on unlicensed spectrum. For example, some embodiments are directed to a base station that includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to generate a slot format indicator (SFI) associated with a channel occupancy time (COT) structure. The SFI indicates whether one or more slots associated with the COT structure are to be used for downlink (DL) symbols, uplink (UL) symbols, or flexible symbols. The flexible symbols form one or more gaps in the COT structure in response to the flexible symbols not being overridden as a DL transmission or a UL transmission. The processor circuitry can further be configured to transmit the SFI to a user equipment (UE).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yingyang LI, Salvatore TALARICO, Yongjun KWAK
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Publication number: 20250063479Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for slice prioritization implementation for frequency re-selection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Rohit R. Matolia, Vijay Venkataraman
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Publication number: 20250056449Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing downlink transmission and interlace uplink transmission. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a base station including a transceiver configured to communicate over a wireless network with a user equipment (UE) and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor divides a plurality of candidate Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) positions in a time window into a plurality of groups and communicates, using the transceiver, information associated with the plurality of groups of candidate SSB positions to the UE. The processor further performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure. In response to the LBT procedure being successful, the processor determines a first group of the plurality of groups and transmits, using the transceiver, one or more SSBs on one or more candidate SSB positions of the first group to the UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong HE, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Jie CUI, Oghenekome OTERI, Pengkai ZHAO, Wei ZENG, Wei ZHANG, Weidong YANG, Yang TANG, Yuchul KIM, Yushu ZHANG, Zhibin WU
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Publication number: 20250056451Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for carrier aggregation operations in wireless communication systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
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Publication number: 20250054197Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. The encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. The encoder packs patch images into an image frame and fills empty spaces in the image frame with a padding. The encoder is also configured to determine quantized minimum depths and/or maximum depths patch images in the image frames, wherein depth information is signaled relative to the quantized minimum depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexandros Tourapis, Fabrice A. Robinet, Jungsun Kim, Khaled Mammou, Valery G. Valentin, Yeping Su
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Publication number: 20250055508Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for a signaling mechanism for user equipment (UE) assistance feedback in a wireless communication system. At least a radio frequency integrated circuit can be configured to receive a first configuration signal, and transmit a first message comprising a UE assistance feedback, generated based on the first configuration signal, in an uplink (UL) channel. The first message can contain an index of a profile with information on a service requirement, a traffic characteristic, or a combination thereof of a network. A processor, coupled to the radio frequency integrated circuit, can be configured to generate the UE assistance feedback based on the first configuration signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Toufiqul ISLAM, Hong HE, Grigory ERMOLAEV
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Publication number: 20250055624Abstract: The present invention discloses one or more computer-readable media comprising instructions to: determine SRS resource allocation information to configure uplink resources for an SRS, the uplink resources to include a plurality of bandwidth ranges within a sounding bandwidth; perform a LET procedure in individual bandwidth ranges of the plurality of bandwidth ranges to detect at least one bandwidth range available for the SRS; and generate the SRS for transmission within the at least one bandwidth range.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lopamudra KUNDU, Bisharup Mondal, Gang Xiong, Yongjun Kwak, Daewon Lee
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Publication number: 20250055936Abstract: A mobile device can include ranging circuitry to determine distance to another mobile device. A first wireless protocol can establish an initial communication session to perform authentication and/or exchange ranging settings. A second protocol can perform ranging, and other wireless protocols can transmit content. In one example, the distance information can be used to display a relative position of another device on a user interface of a sending device. The user interface can allow a user to quickly and accurately select the recipient device for sending the data item. As another example, the distance information obtained from ranging can be used to trigger a notification (e.g., a reminder) to be output from a first mobile device or used to display a visual indicator on a receiving device. Proximity of a device (e.g., as determined by a distance) can be used to suggest recipient for a new communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brent M. Ledvina, Marc J. Krochmal, Robert W. Brumley, Sriram Hariharan
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Publication number: 20250055506Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a network node can support sounding reference signals (SRS) based antenna beam pair selection for simultaneous uplink transmission with multi-panels by the UE. One or more antenna beam pairs of a UE having a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel may be used to transmit SRSs to a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second TRP simultaneously using SRS resources configured by one or more SRS configuration sets from the network node. The UE can configure a SRS spatial filter for a SRS resource to indicate a direction of an antenna beam, while some of the SRS resource is configured by the one or more SRS configuration sets received from the network node. The network node can select an antenna beam pair among the one or more antenna beam pairs based on indications of signal strength of SRSs received.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Qiming LI, Haitong SUN, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Dawei ZHANG
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Publication number: 20250056485Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to identify resources for body position sensing and utilize the resources for body position sensing operations via user equipment of a wireless communication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Wei Zeng, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Weidong Yang, Sigen Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu
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Publication number: 20250054274Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to selecting a subset of keypoint descriptors of two images for match operation based on their orientation angles indicated in headers of the keypoint descriptors. The keypoint descriptors in the two images are matched by first comparing their headers and then performing vector distance determination. During the header comparison operation, a header of a descriptor of a first image is compared only with headers of keypoint descriptors of a second image in a discrete orientation angle range corresponding to an orientation angle indicated by the header of the first image descriptor or keypoint descriptors of the second image in adjacent discrete orientation angle ranges. After the headers of the keypoint descriptors satisfying one or more matching criteria are determined, distance determination operations are performed between the keypoint descriptors while the remaining keypoint descriptors are discarded without determining their distances.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Assaf METUKI, Lukas POLOK, Danny GAL, Liran FISHEL
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Publication number: 20250056558Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for managing dormant cell(s) within a set of cells for multi-cell scheduling. For example, a UE can be configured to receive information associated with a set of cells for multi-cell scheduling and determine a first reference cell based on the received information. The UE is further configured to determine a second reference cell for performing one or more of blind decode counting and control channel element counting in response to determining that the first reference cell is in a dormant mode. The UE is further configured to perform the one or more of blind decode counting and control channel element counting using the second reference cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ankit BHAMRI, Wei ZENG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Dawei ZHANG, Chunxuan YE, Chunhai YAO
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Publication number: 20250048159Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to configure a synchronization signal block (SSB)-less secondary cell (SCell) for layer 1 measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Dawei Zhang
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Publication number: 20250044879Abstract: A voice-controlled electronic device that includes a device housing having a longitudinal axis bisecting opposing top and bottom surfaces and a side surface extending between the top and bottom surfaces. The device can further include one or more microphones disposed within the device housing and distributed radially around the longitudinal axis; a processor configured to execute computer instructions stored in a computer-readable memory for interacting with a user and processing voice commands received by the one or more microphones and first transducer and second transducers configured to generate sound waves within different frequency ranges.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Craig M. Stanley, Simon K. Porter, John H. Sheerin, Glenn K. Trainer, Ethan L. Huwe, Sean T. McIntosh, Jason C. Della Rosa, Christopher J. Stringer, Molly J. Anderson, Erik L. Wang
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Publication number: 20250048192Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for supporting voice services during roaming.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Xiaoyu Qiao, Dawei Zhang, Huarui Liang, Haijing Hu, Shu Guo, Fang Li, Lanpeng Chen
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Publication number: 20250047996Abstract: Systems and methods for down-scaling are provided. In one example, a method for processing image data includes determining a plurality of output pixel locations using a position value stored by a position register, using the current position value to select a center input pixel from the image data and selecting an index value, selecting a set of input pixels adjacent to the center input pixel, selecting a set of filtering coefficients from a filter coefficient lookup table using the index value, filtering the set of source input pixels to apply a respective one of the set of filtering coefficients to each of the set of source input pixels to determine an output value for the current output pixel at the current position value, and correcting chromatic aberrations in the set of source input pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Guy Cote, Simon Wolfenden Butler, Joseph Anthony Petolino, JR., Joseph P. Bratt
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Publication number: 20250046043Abstract: Some embodiments provide a mapping application that displays a rotation of a 3D map and corresponding rotation of a set of map labels overlaying the 3D map in response to receiving input to rotate the 3D map. When a particular map label in the set of map labels rotates towards an upside down orientation, the mapping application also replaces the particular map label with a version of the particular map label arranged in a right side up orientation to prevent the particular map label from being displayed in the upside down orientation in the 3D map.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Erik Anders Mikael Adlers, Christopher F. Marrin, Elisabeth Lindkvist, Jeffrey Paul McCurdy Hultquist, Ian MacDonald Henderson, II
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Publication number: 20250048255Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for performance of candidate beam detection operations with discontinuous transmission implementation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunxuan Ye, Dan Wu, Dawei Zhang, Peng Cheng, Yang Tang
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Publication number: 20250046955Abstract: A flexible busbar comprises a first busbar layer including a first plurality of busbar segments and a first bend between first busbar segments of the first plurality of busbar segments and a second busbar layer coupled to the first busbar layer. The second busbar layer includes a second plurality of busbar segments and a second bend between second busbar segments of the second plurality of busbar segments. The first plurality of busbar segments is substantially colinear with the second plurality of busbar segments and the second bend is substantially parallel with the first bend.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2023Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pengchuan Wang, Brian J. Haskins, Claire E. Dalke, Matthew A. Mayer, Michael H. Tsai, Nathan J. Bohney, Sam Pan
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Publication number: 20250046941Abstract: A battery pack that comprises a plurality of battery cells and a plurality of plates coupled between adjacent battery cells of the plurality of battery cells. The plates include a plate body and support ledges extending from the plate body. The battery pack further comprises a plurality of support tabs. Each support tab of the plurality of support tabs is positioned between, and abuts against, support ledges of adjacent plates of the plurality of plates. Each support tab of the plurality of support tabs secures adjacent plates of the plurality of plates to each other. The battery pack further comprises a busbar electrically coupling the plurality of battery cells together.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2023Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pengchuan Wang, Brian J. Haskins, Claire E. Dalke, Matthew A. Mayer, Michael H. Tsai, Nathan J. Bohney, Sam Pan
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Publication number: 20250036415Abstract: A processor may include a conditional instruction prediction tracking circuit. During fetch of a conditional instruction from memory to an instruction cache of the processor, the conditional instruction prediction tracking circuit may predict whether the conditional instruction is biased. Responsive to a prediction that the conditional instruction is biased, the conditional instruction prediction tracking circuit may cause the conditional instruction to be executed according to the predicted bias. Sometimes the conditional prediction tracking circuit may cause the conditional instruction to be re-coded such that it may be executed as an unconditional instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Deepankar Duggal, Pruthivi Vuyyuru, Ian D. Kountanis
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Publication number: 20250036416Abstract: A processor may include an indirect control transfer prediction circuit. During fetch of an indirect control transfer instruction from memory to an instruction cache of the processor, the indirect control transfer prediction circuit may predict whether the indirect control transfer instruction is biased. Responsive to a prediction that the indirect control transfer instruction is biased, the indirect control transfer prediction circuit may cause the indirect control transfer instruction to be executed as an unconditional direct control transfer instruction according to the predicted bias.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Muawya M Al-Otoom, Pruthivi Vuyyuru, Andrew H Lin, Ian D Kountanis
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Publication number: 20250038936Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for performing bandwidth part (BWP) switching.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Dawei Zhang, Yuexia Song, Jie Cui
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Publication number: 20250038706Abstract: The present disclosure describes a circuit that includes a first inductor circuit, a second inductor circuit, a first capacitor circuit, and a second capacitor circuit. The first inductor circuit includes a first inductor and a first driver circuit. The second inductor circuit includes a second inductor and a second driver circuit. The first inductor circuit operates at a first frequency. The second inductor operates at a second frequency. The first capacitor circuit provides a first signal to the second inductor circuit to adjust a first magnetic coupling generated by the first inductor circuit. The second capacitor circuit provides a second signal to the first inductor circuit to adjust a second magnetic coupling generated by the second inductor circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bo SUN, Jafar SAVOJ, Sanjeev K. MAHESHWARI
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Publication number: 20250039779Abstract: Techniques are described for slice based public land mobile network selection. An example method includes a network node of a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) transmitting configuration information to a user equipment (UE) to configure the UE to receive enhanced slice-based steering of roaming (SoR) information during a registration process with a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN). The method further includes the network node determining that the UE is registering with the VPLMN. The method further includes the network node transmitting the enhanced slice-based SoR information to the UE based on the determination that the UE is registering with the VPLMN.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vivek G. Gupta, Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar, Basant Kumar, Nirlesh Koshta, Shashanka Totadamane Ramappa, Sridhar Prakasam
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Publication number: 20250037510Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing a notification indicating an identity of a first person based on face-associated body characteristics. For example, a device performs facial recognition to identify the identity of the first person shown in a first video feed. The device also identifies and stores physical characteristic information of the first person from the first video feed, the stored information associated with the identity of the first person based on the recognized face. Subsequently, the device receives a second video feed showing a second person whose face is determined to not be recognized by the device. The device compares the stored physical characteristic information of the first person with additional physical characteristic information of the second person shown in the second video feed. Based on the comparison, the device provides a notification indicating whether the identity of the second person corresponds to the identity of the first person.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nitin Gupta, Jingwen Zhu, Jonghoon Jin, Andrew C. Edwards, Floris Chabert, Vinay Sharma, Hendrik Dahlkamp
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Publication number: 20250039796Abstract: A user equipment (UE) having enhanced configured grant transmission is provided. The UE operates by determining whether a wake-up signal (WUS) indicator is received. The UE also determines whether a wake-up trigger condition is met, and based on a determination that the trigger condition is met, it determines whether the UE is configured with a power-save wake up (ps-WakeUp) parameter. Based on a determination that the UE is configured with the ps-WakeUp parameter, the UE determines whether the ps-WakeUp parameter is set to false. Further, based on a determination that the ps-WakeUp parameter is set to false, and based on a determination that the WUS indicator is not received, the UE transitions from a sleep state to an active state during a next discontinuous reception (DRX) on-duration period.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sushant VIKRAM, Ajay Singh, Gibran Ali
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Publication number: 20250039606Abstract: Techniques for routing communication to a common audio output device connected multiple audio signal source devices are disclosed. For each of audio signal source devices, a set of inputs are assessed. The set of inputs can include: an operational state of the audio signal source device, an interaction with the audio signal source device, an audio-producing application being executed by the audio signal source device, or a degree of user interaction with the audio-producing application. At a point in time, an audio routing score is generated for each of the audio signal source devices according to a weighted calculation of the set of inputs based on the assessing. Finally, an audio signal routing decision is made, to route an audio signal from one of the audio signal source devices to the audio output device, based on the audio routing score for each of the audio signal source devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aarti Kumar, Bob Bradley, Natalia A. Fornshell, Deepak Iyer, Astrid Yi, Michael J. Giles, Sriram Hariharan, Kang Sun, Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa, Jonathan A. Bennett, Taylor G. Carrigan, Anthony J. Guetta
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Publication number: 20250039806Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel to enable wireless communication with a first base station and a second base station respectively and a processor communicatively coupled to the first antenna panel and the second antenna panel. The processor is configured to determine that a total transmission power of the first antenna panel and the second antenna panel is greater than a threshold and determine a first back-off value for the first antenna panel and a second back-off value for the second antenna panel. The processor is further configured to generate a report that indicates the first back-off value and the second back-off value and transmit, via the first antenna panel or the second antenna panel, the report.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Jie CUI, Haitong SUN, Yuexia SONG, Qiming LI, Dawei ZHANG
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Publication number: 20250037503Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing a notification that a person is at a particular location. A method can include accessing a first image of a first face of a first person, the first image captured by a first camera of the first device. The method can further include generating an image cropping comprising a first portion of the first face. The method can further include receiving, from a second device comprising a second camera, a second image comprising a second portion of a second face of a second person, the second camera having a viewable area comprising a particular location associated with the first device. The method can further include determining a score that corresponds to a level of similarity between a first set of characteristics associated with the first portion of the first face and a second set of characteristics associated with the second portion of the second face.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hendrik Dahlkamp, Vinay Sharma, Nitin Gupta, Floris Chabert, Andrew C. Edwards, Mitchell Williams, Jonghoon Jin, Nicholas M. Fraioli, Aravindhan K. Krishnan, Patrick L. Coffman
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Publication number: 20250039506Abstract: In some implementations, a user device can predictively route media content to a remote playback device based on playback context information obtained by the user device. The playback context can include local playback context information related to the state and/or context of the user device. The playback context can include remote playback context information related to the state and/or context of available remote playback devices. Based on the playback context information obtained by the user device, the user device can generate a predictive score for each available playback device that indicates or predicts the likelihood that the user will want to send media content to the corresponding playback device. The user device can generate and present a graphical user interface that can identify the playback devices having predictive scores over a threshold score. In some instances, the user device can automatically route selected media content to a predicted playback device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brian D. Pietsch, Craig M. Federighi, Adam A. Sonnanstine, Taylor G. Carrigan, Johannes P. Schmidt, Astrid Yi, Deepak Iyer, Thomas Alsina, Jonathan A. Bennett, Patrick L. Coffman, Cesar de Camargo Barscevicius
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Publication number: 20250030572Abstract: A first device can identify a trigger. The trigger can include a triggering event and an action to be performed on an accessory device in response to detecting the triggering event. When the trigger is delegated to the first electronic device, the first electronic device can execute the trigger by monitoring for the triggering event and transmitting a control message to the accessory device in response to detecting the triggering event. When the trigger is delegated to a second electronic device, the first electronic device can monitor a status of the second electronic device for a condition indicating that the second electronic device is unavailable to execute the trigger and execute the trigger in response to detecting the condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anush G. Nadathur, Kevin P. McLaughlin, Nathan E. Carroll
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Publication number: 20250031061Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for enhanced layer 3 (L3) measurement reporting that supports L3 measurement assisted group-based beam reporting (GBBR). Some embodiments include a user equipment (UE) that can receive a first reference signal from a network at a first angle of arrival (AoA), and receive a second reference signal from the network at a second AoA. The UE can perform L3 measurements on the first reference signal and the second reference signal, and generate and transmit to the network, an enhanced L3 measurement report that includes L3 measurements as well as: a corresponding identity of an antenna panel of the UE; bits that correlate an antenna panel with a respective L3 measurements, or an implication that the L3 measurements in the enhanced L3 measurement report correspond to different antenna panels. The UE can receive simultaneous downlink transmissions from the network that are based on the enhanced L3 measurement report.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Qiming LI, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Konstantinos SARRIGEORGIDIS
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Publication number: 20250030751Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for initiating transient sessions on a communal device. An example method includes a receiving, from a media streaming device, a request for a session of a streaming service, the request associated with a user account. The method can further include determining that the user account is associated with the streaming service. The method can further include transmitting a session token to the media streaming device based at least in part on determining that the user account is associated with the streaming service, the session token comprising an expiration parameter for ending the session.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Manuel Roman Cuesta, Yagil Burowski
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Publication number: 20250030518Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for Remote Interference Management (RIM) in wireless networks, including RIM reference signals (RIM-RS) transmitted to assist victim Radio Access Network (RAN) nodes to identify aggressor RAN nodes due to, for example, atmospheric ducting. The RIM-RS is also bandwidth-flexible in order to enable detection of the RIM-RS by aggressor RAN nodes with different bandwidth configurations. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hassan GHOZLAN, Qian LI, Dawei YING, Geng WU