Apple Patents Granted

Patents granted to Apple by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11979945
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to determine a radio access technology availability indicator to present. A wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular network via a cell that operates according to a first radio access technology. The wireless device may determine if access to the cellular network is also available via a cell that operates according to a second radio access technology, by configuration by the serving cell or from another standalone cell. The wireless device may select a radio access technology availability indicator to present based at least in part on determining if access to the cellular network is also available via a cell that operates according to the second radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sofheem Mohammed, Rohit Thareja, Vijay Venkataraman, Shivani Suresh Babu
  • Patent number: 11979656
    Abstract: An electronic device with a camera obtains, with the camera, one or more images of a scene. The electronic device detects a respective feature within the scene. In accordance with a determination that a first mode is active on the device, the electronic device provides a first audible description of the scene. The first audible description provides information indicating a size and/or position of the respective feature relative to a first set of divisions applied to the one or more images of the scene. In accordance with a determination that the first mode is not active on the device, the electronic device provides a second audible description of the plurality of objects. The second audible description is distinct from the first audible description and does not include the information indicating the size and/or position of the respective feature relative to the first set of divisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher B. Fleizach, Darren C. Minifie, Eryn R. Wells, Nandini Kannamangalam Sundara Raman
  • Patent number: 11979934
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing radio resource control procedures for remote wireless devices in a wireless communication system. A remote wireless device may transmit a radio resource control message that includes information configured to be relayed to a cellular base station to a relay wireless device, which may relay the information to the cellular base station. The cellular base station may also transmit a radio resource control message that includes information configured to be relayed to the remote wireless device to the relay wireless device, which may relay the information to the remote wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Longda Xing, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sree Ram Kodali
  • Patent number: 11979657
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide power efficient object detection for electronic devices. Power efficient object detection can be provided in order to allow extended tracking of objects by portable devices such as battery powered devices. In one or more implementations, a recommendation engine including a machine learning model and/or a rule-based recommendation process may be provided that has been trained to output a sensor recommendation indicating at least one sensor for object tracking. The sensor recommendation can indicate which of several sensors to operate to track a particular object and/or an accuracy level for operating the recommended sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Anselm Grundhoefer
  • Patent number: 11979911
    Abstract: Current 5G provisions for wireless communications do not allow for the differentiation of channel access by User Equipments (UEs) with different priorities. Approaches are described by which priority access for UEs in a controlled environment using frame based equipment (FBE), and in particular for different UEs or the same UE that has different configured grants. The approaches are particularly helpful for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) UEs. In one approach, the UE performs a clear channel assessment (CCA) in an idle period before the fixed frame period (FFP), followed by a channel access priority test. In an alternative approach, the UE performs a channel access priority test before the UE performs a clear channel assessment (CCA) in an idle period before the fixed frame period (FFP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Huaning Niu, Weidong Yang, Sigen Ye, Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11979926
    Abstract: Relay service is enabled between a residential gateway and a remote user. For example, a 5G residential gateway (5G-RG) may include a relay user equipment (UE) to enable relay service for a 5G core (5GC)-capable UE behind the 5G-RG to connect to the 5GC. The relay UE of the 5G-RG may provide a trusted/untrusted non-3GPP access network for L2 or L3 transport connection to the 5GC-capable UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Yu Liao, Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde, Alexandre Saso Stojanovski
  • Patent number: 11979939
    Abstract: Emergency services support is indicated to roaming devices in a wireless network. A user equipment (UE) may receive a message from the wireless network indicating at least one public land mobile network (PLMN) that provides emergency services support for devices in limited service. The UE may store, in a non-volatile memory (NVM), an identifier of the at least one PLMN in a whitelist of limited service emergency services support. In response to a trigger in a roaming limited service condition of the UE, the UE may establish an emergency session with a selected PLMN based on the whitelist of limited service emergency services support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Vijay Venkataraman, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Krisztian Kiss, Mohammed Sadique, Nirlesh Koshta, Rohit R. Matolia, Sirisha Madduri, Sridhar Prakasam, Srinivasan Nimmala, Xiangpeng Jing
  • Patent number: 11979836
    Abstract: Methods and systems in which a portable electronic device can be voice activated are disclosed. The portable electronic device can be a multi-function electronic device. The voice activation can be robust and context sensitive. The voice activation can also be utilized without any preparatory user action with respect to the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device can also interact with a media system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Freeman, Derek B. Barrentine
  • Patent number: 11978035
    Abstract: A wireless device can store account identifiers and facilitate transactions. The wireless device can be loaded with user account identifiers and can be presented to various checkpoint devices. When presented, the wireless device can transmit a selected account identifier to the checkpoint device. In the context of a purchase transaction, the checkpoint device can be a point-of-sale terminal and the account data can be financial account data. In some instances, the wireless device can also facilitate a purchase transaction, e.g., by obtaining information about products to be purchased, constructing a purchase order from the product information, and transmitting the purchase order to a point-of-sale terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Zachary Maragoudakis
  • Patent number: 11979829
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may perform sounding reference signal (SRS) switching by transmitting one or more SRS using a plurality of SRS resources of an SRS resource set configured for SRS switching according to a first combination of downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) antenna ports. For UE power saving, the UE may turn off one or more of the DL and UL antenna ports. The UE may then reconfigure the plurality of SRS resources of the SRS resource set for SRS switching according to a second combination of the DL and UL antenna ports. In response to a power saving message from a UE, a base station may generate SRS configuration information to configure an SRS resource set for SRS antenna switching based on a combination of active DL and UL antenna ports at the UE, and send the SRS configuration information to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 11977411
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to context-specific user interfaces. In some embodiments, methods are provided for displaying a watch user interface including a clock face and a user interface element at least partially surrounding the clock face. In some embodiments, methods are further provided for receiving a request to add a respective complication to a respective location on the clock face and, in response to receiving the request: in accordance with a determination that the respective complication is a first complication, displaying the first complication in the respective location and replacing at least a portion of the user interface element with content associated with the first complication; and in accordance with a determination that the respective complication is a second complication, displaying the second complication in the respective location without replacing the portion of the user interface element with content associated with the second complication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Taylor G. Carrigan, Alan C. Dye, Nicholas D. Felton, Aled Hywel Williams, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 11977683
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing defining an aperture. An input device extends through the aperture and has a user input surface external to the housing. An inertial actuator is mechanically and fixedly coupled to the input device and positioned within the housing. A mechanical wave dampener provides mechanical wave dampening between the input device and the housing. The electronic device enables haptic feedback to be provided locally to the input device. In some cases, the mechanical wave dampener may dampen shaking of the input device with respect to the housing by at least an order of magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Riccardo Tarelli, Muhammad F. Hossain
  • Patent number: 11977729
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for navigating and providing physical activity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julie A. Arney, Chandler S. Bachman, Jay K. Blahnik, Edward Chao, David S. Clark, Brett L. Lareau, Emily Pedersen, Matthew M. Sun, Eduardo Valencia Paz
  • Patent number: 11979354
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing designs for configurations of resource elements to carry reference signals for a user equipment (UE). A reference signal can be processed by the UE according to the configuration of resource elements to carry reference signals. The configurations can be determined by the base station, and received from the base station by the UE. The base station determines the configurations based on information or parameters provided by the UE, e.g., a coherence bandwidth of the channel, a coherence time of the channel, a preference associated with channel status information reference signal, or a preference associated with demodulation reference signal for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye
  • Patent number: 11977726
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and one or more sensors that detect intensities of contacts on the touch-sensitive surface displays, on the display, a user interface. While displaying the user interface, the electronic device detects an input that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the input while displaying the user interface, and while continuing to detect the input on the touch-sensitive surface: If an intensity of the contact satisfies an activation intensity threshold, the electronic device performs a first operation associated with the activation intensity threshold. The activation intensity threshold is determined based on whether or not prior inputs by the user on the touch-sensitive surface exceed a respective intensity threshold. If an intensity of the contact does not satisfy an activation intensity threshold, the electronic device forgoes performing the first operation associated with the activation intensity threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Aram D. Kudurshian, Christopher P. Foss, Gary I. Butcher, Patrick L Coffman, Nicole M. Wells, Wayne C. Westerman
  • Patent number: 11977573
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for automatic tagging of terms within a document and generating visual representations specifying the identifications to terms in the document and tags assigned to each term. Particularly, responsive to obtaining a document, a term auto-tagging system can implement machine learning and/or natural language processing techniques to compare terms included in the document with a database maintaining a mapping of terms and tags corresponding to each term to assign one or more tags to relevant terms. The identified terms and tags can be provided in a visual representation for processing/review at a client device, and the visual representation can be modified according to actions selected for the identified terms. The modified visual representation can be provided to a client device, and metadata for each term/tag can be uploaded to a database for training the term auto-tagging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nirali K. Sanghvi, Andrew C. Cofano, Connor R. Batch, Kenneth Samuel, Veerandhar Veluvolu, Vlad Costin Pirvu, Nikita Dubnov
  • Patent number: 11977731
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments are directed to a media capture lock affordance for a graphical user interface displayed by a media capture device. The media capture lock affordance allows a user to lock and unlock a capture state of the media capture device using a simple and intuitive touch gesture that can be applied by the user's finger (e.g., the user's thumb) while holding the media capture device in one hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anton M. Davydov, Jane E. Koo, Johnnie B. Manzari, Grant R. Paul, William A. Sorrentino, III, Andre Souza Dos Santos, Daniel J. Wiersema
  • Patent number: 11978248
    Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein provide systems and methods that match a current relationship model associated with a user's current environment to a prior relationship model for a prior environment to determine that the user is in the same environment. The current relationship model is compared with the prior relationship model based on matching characteristics of the current relationship model with characteristics of the prior relationship model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Angela Blechschmidt, Alexander S. Polichroniadis, Daniel Ulbricht
  • Patent number: 11977951
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that match image portions of a first set of image portions and image portions of another set of image portions. This may be performed in a such a way that the sum of descriptor distances of the matched image portions is optimized in a globally optimal way. In some implementations, the matching is subject to one or more constraints, e.g., ensuring that each image portion of the first data set is matched with at least one image portion of the second data set and ensuring that each image portion of the second data set is matched with only one image portion of the first data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Charles Bernard Marcel Bazin, Anselm Grundhoefer, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad
  • Patent number: 11977593
    Abstract: A device implementing a system for providing location based search results includes at least one processor configured to detect that a location of a device is within a location of a store or within a threshold distance of the location, and establish a connection with a wireless network of the store. The at least one processor is configured to access an intranet associated with the store, the intranet being accessed via a network identifier previously stored on the device in association with the store, and receive user input for a search. The at least one processor is configured to obtain, via the intranet, at least one of a query completion suggestion or search result having been targeted to the location of the store or the threshold distance of the location, and display the at least one of the query completion suggestion or the search result in association with the search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anubhav Malhotra, John M. Hornkvist
  • Patent number: 11979236
    Abstract: A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface, the processing circuitry to: determine that the UE is configured with a feature of multiple Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources with HARQ-ACK feedback within a slot; determine a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource to carry Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback in response to a scheduled Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) resource; and encode for transmission to a NR evolved NodeB (gNodeB) the PUCCH resource, the PUCCH resource to carry the HARQ-ACK feedback and: another PUCCH resource carrying Uplink Control Information (UCI) other than HARQ-ACK feedback, and a scheduled Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Toufiqul Islam, Sergey Panteleev
  • Patent number: 11979764
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses for measurements and reports in integrated access and backhaul networks. An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node is configured to: receive radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a IAB donor node, the RRC signaling to include configuration information with respect to reference signals of the IAB donor node or one or more neighboring IAB nodes; perform one or more measurements based on the reference signals of the donor node or the one or more neighboring IAB nodes; and transmit measurement report to the IAB donor node, the measurement report to include an indication of results of the one or more measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lili Wei, Qian Li, Dawei Ying, Geng Wu
  • Patent number: 11978436
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. For example, an intelligent automated assistant obtains a static vocabulary entry for an application and registers the static vocabulary entry to a knowledge base. While the application is running, the intelligent automated assistant receives a request from the application to register a dynamic vocabulary entry, and also registers the dynamic vocabulary entry. Upon receiving a user input, the intelligent automated assistant determines whether a matching vocabulary entry for the application has been registered and causes the application to perform a task based on the matching vocabulary entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis N. Perkins, Pierre Belin, Deniz Dizman, Kevin D. Pitolin
  • Patent number: 11978098
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may obtain an original digital media asset published to a server device along with a distributed ledger that tracks ownership of the original digital media asset. The computing device may generate a customized digital media asset that replaces the original digital media asset, and modify the distributed ledger to indicate the customization or modification of the original digital media asset and identify the customized digital media asset and the ownership thereof. The computing device may publish the customized digital media asset to a server device for distribution. Upon transfer of ownership of the customized digital media asset to a new owner, the distributed ledger may be modified to indicate the new ownership of the customized digital media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Gaddis, Jeremy J. Templier
  • Patent number: 11978422
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a billboard circuit that stores context information received from various component circuits in an electronic device. The context information indicates an operating status of the corresponding component circuit, system or shared resources. The stored context information may be retrieved by one or more component circuits when events (e.g., turning on of a component circuit) are detected. By using the billboard circuit, a component circuit may detect changes in the operating status of other components circuits and configure or update its operations even when the changes occurred while the component circuit was asleep or disabled. The billboard circuit may monitor updating of the context information by the component circuit and initiate notification to other components circuits when certain entries of the context information is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Helena Deirdre O'Shea, Matthias Sauer, Jorge L. Rivera Espinoza
  • Patent number: 11978469
    Abstract: Signal to noise ratio, SNR, is determined in an acoustic ambient environment of an against-the-ear audio device worn by a user, wherein the acoustic ambient environment contains speech by a talker. When the SNR is above a threshold, dynamic range control is applied, as positive gain versus input level, to an audio signal from one or more microphones of the audio device. When the SNR is below the threshold, the dynamic range control applies as zero gain or negative gain to the audio signal. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John Woodruff, Yang Lu, Tom-Davy W. Saux
  • Patent number: 11978385
    Abstract: This disclosure provides various techniques for providing fine-grain digital and analog pixel compensation to account for voltage error across an electronic display. By employing a two-dimensional digital compensation and a local analog compensation, a fine-grain and robust pixel compensation scheme may be provided to the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yao Shi, Wei H Yao, Hyunwoo Nho, Jie Won Ryu, Kingsuk Brahma, Li-Xuan Chuo, Hyunsoo Kim, Myungjoon Choi, Ce Zhang, Alex H Pai, Shengkui Gao, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Shatam Agarwal, Vehbi Calayir, Chaohao Wang, Steven N Hanna, Pei-En Chang
  • Patent number: 11979030
    Abstract: A transmitter device is configured to transfer energy to multiple receiver devices. The transmitter device includes multiple transmitter coils, and a shared power converter is coupled to each transmitter coil. The shared power converter includes a leading half bridge and multiple trailing half bridges. Each transmitter coil is coupled between the leading half bridge and a respective one of the trailing half bridges. The shared power converter is dynamically configurable in that the leading half bridge may be coupled to multiple trailing half bridges when energy is to be transferred wirelessly to two or more receiver devices. The leading half bridge simultaneously operates with each trailing half bridge as an independent full-bridge phase shift inverter. A signal supplied to each transmitter coil is independently regulated by controlling a phase shift of a respective trailing half bridge with respect to the leading half bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Weihong Qiu, Zaki Moussaoui, Rohan Dayal
  • Patent number: 11979828
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide an interruption mechanism for deactivated secondary cell measurement in new radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Huaning Niu, Wenshu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11978825
    Abstract: Methods and structures for forming arrays of LED devices are disclosed. The LED devices in accordance with embodiments of the invention may include an internally confined current injection area to reduce non-radiative recombination due to edge effects. Several manners for confining current may include etch removal of a current distribution layer, etch removal of a current distribution layer and active layer followed by mesa re-growth, isolation by ion implant or diffusion, quantum well intermixing, and oxide isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly McGroddy, Hsin-Hua Hu, Andreas Bibl, Clayton Ka Tsun Chan, Daniel Arthur Haeger
  • Patent number: 11979721
    Abstract: A wearable device can provide an audio module that is operable to provide audio output from a distance away from the ears of the user. For example, the wearable device can be worn on clothing of the user and direct audio waves to the ears of the user. Such audio waves can be focused by a parametric array of speakers that limit audibility by others. Thus, the privacy of the audio directed to the user can be maintained without requiring the user to wear audio headsets on, over, or in the ears of the user. The wearable device can further include microphones and/or connections to other devices that facilitate calibration of the audio module of the wearable device. The wearable device can further include user sensors that are configured to detect, measure, and/or track one or more properties of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Podhajny, Joshua A. Hoover, Nicholas R. Trincia, Yue Chen, Seul Bi Kim, Chad J. Miller, Kristen L. Cretella, Yi Zou, William Leith
  • Patent number: 11978578
    Abstract: Radio frequency filtering circuitry blocks certain frequencies in an outgoing signal so that the signal may be transmitted over a desired frequency. The radio frequency filtering circuitry includes a first inductor having a first coil and a second inductor coupled to and disposed within the first coil. The second inductor has a second coil and a third coil symmetrical to the second coil. When current is applied to the radio frequency filtering circuitry, the current in the second coil causes a first induced current in the first coil and the current in the third coil causes a second induced current in the first coil, wherein the second induced current is approximately equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the first induced current. As such, the second induced current may compensate for the first induced current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hongrui Wang, Saihua Lin, Abbas Komijani, Sohrab Emami-Neyestanak
  • Patent number: 11979768
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for providing DRX enhancements in LTE systems are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a system control module is provided for controlling communications via a communications interface. A processor is coupled to the system control module and is arranged to implement an inactivity timer and an on-duration timer for determining an active time for monitoring subframes on the physical downlink control channel for control signals, the processor further monitoring subframes after the active time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Youn Hyoung Heo, Yujian Zhang, Jong-Kae Fwu
  • Patent number: 11979760
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in multiple component carriers (CC). The UE determines if the UE is operating in carrier aggregation (CA) mode having a first CC in a first frequency band and a second CC in a second frequency band. When the UE is operating in CA with a first CC in the first frequency band and the second CC in the second frequency band, the UE determines a span pattern for PDCCH symbols being received on the first and second CC and selects a PDCCH monitoring type based on, at least, the span pattern. A UE also determines if a first CC and a second CC of a CA combination are collocated and selects a PDCCH monitoring type based on, at least, the determination of whether the first and second CC are collocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Amir Farajidana, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Keith W. Saints, Linbo Li, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11979759
    Abstract: In a communication system comprising user equipment (UE) and a radio access network (RAN) comprising a plurality of cells is configured for receiving, by the UE, a radio resource control (RRC) information element (IE) indicating a high speed scenario (HST); and monitoring, by the UE in response to receiving the RRC IE indicating HST, a first number of frequency carriers that is reduced relative to a second number of frequency carriers monitored by the UE during a non-HST.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Yuhan Zhou, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Shuang Tian
  • Patent number: 11979467
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces and techniques for monitoring fitness activity. In accordance with some embodiments, user interfaces and techniques for transitioning between a user interface mode for measuring an activity metric to a user interface mode for measuring a different activity, based on detecting that a user characteristic has changed, are described. In accordance with some embodiments, user interfaces and techniques for measuring activity data and providing activity commentary in response to activity-based events, where different activity commentary is provided based on a characteristic of a user, are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Sundstrom, Julie A. Arney, Niharika M. Bedekar, Jay Blahnik, Gary I. Butcher, Brett L. Lareau, Danvin Ruangchan, Paul W. Salzman, Molly P. Wiebe
  • Patent number: 11979794
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) positioning within a 5G New Radio (NR) network may be determined by receiving a downlink (DL) position reference signal (PRS) resource set indicating a plurality of DL PRS resources and receiving a DL PRS report configuration that indicates a set of measurements to be performed by a UE for each of the plurality of DL PRS resources within the DL PRS resource set. Position measurements may be performed for each of the plurality of DL PRS resources within the DL PRS resource set, including generating a reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement by estimating a timing of a first arrival path from at least two of the plurality of DL PRS resources and determining a reference signal received power (RSRP) metric or a signal to noise and interference ratio (SINR) metric associated with the at least two DL PRS resources. The performed position measurements may be reported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Sergey Sosnin, Mikhail Shilov, Sergey Panteleev, Suenghee Han
  • Patent number: 11979703
    Abstract: Embodiments describe an eartip including an eartip body having an attachment end and an interfacing end opposite from the attachment end. The eartip body can include an inner eartip body having a sidewall extending between the interfacing end and the attachment end, the sidewall defining a channel and having a first thickness near the attachment end and a second thickness different from the first thickness at the interfacing end. The eartip can also include an attachment structure coupled to the inner eartip body at the attachment end, the attachment structure having an inner surface and an outer surface. The attachment structure can include an upper region interfacing with the sidewall and defining discrete through-holes, a lower region below the upper region where the inner surface defines a plurality of recesses positioned around the lower region, and a mesh extending across the channel and into the upper region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sean T. McIntosh, Jason C. Della Rosa, Samuel G. Parker, Benjamin A. Cousins, Ethan L. Huwe
  • Patent number: 11979572
    Abstract: Improved video coding and decoding techniques are described, including techniques to derive quantization step sizes adaptively with quantization step size table templates. Quantization techniques described provide finer-grained control over quantization with a more flexible quantization step size especially at higher degrees of quantization. This may result in improved overall compression quality. Other coding parameters, such as in-loop filtering parameters, may be derived based on the more flexible quantization parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Krishnakanth Rapaka, Jaehong Chon, Alexandros Tourapis, David W. Singer
  • Patent number: 11979734
    Abstract: A system and method is described for determining whether a loudspeaker device has relocated, tilted, rotated, or changed environment such that one or more parameters for driving the loudspeaker may be modified and/or a complete reconfiguration of the loudspeaker system may be performed. In one embodiment, the system may include a set of sensors. The sensors provide readings that are analyzed to determine 1) whether the loudspeaker has moved since a previous analysis and/or 2) a distance of movement and/or a degree change in orientation of the loudspeaker since the previous analysis. Upon determining the level of movement is below a threshold value, the system adjusts previous parameters used to drive one or more of the loudspeakers. By adjusting previous parameters instead of performing a complete recalibration, the system provides a more efficient technique for ensuring that the loudspeakers continue to produce accurate sound for the listener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce C. Po, Richard M. Powell, Aram M. Lindahl, Baptiste P. Paquier, Phillip A. Kamp
  • Patent number: 11971746
    Abstract: A system may include ring devices. A ring device may have a housing that is configured to be worn on a finger of a user. Sensors such as force sensors, ultrasonic sensors, inertial measurement units, optical sensors, touch sensors, and other components may be used in gathering input from a user. Control circuitry may wirelessly transmit information gathered from sensors and other input devices to an associated electronic device. The information may be used in controlling operation of the electronic device. The housing of the ring device may have an annular main body and an expandable portion coupled to the main body. The expandable portion may include a flap with a hinge, a rotatable housing member, a housing with an internal adjustable frame and a cover, an expandable housing formed from an expandable tube coupled between first and second annular devices, and other expandable structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Dinesh C. Mathew
  • Patent number: 11972068
    Abstract: A user input system including a stylus and an electronic device. A user may manipulate the stylus across an input surface of the electronic device and the movement may be detected using axially-aligned electric fields generated by the stylus. The stylus may also include a force-sensitive structure that can be used to estimate a force applied to the electronic device by the stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aidan N. Zimmerman, Wingshan Wong, Kevin Armendariz, Nathan Bohney, Christopher Pasma, Mahmoud Amini, Brenton A. Baugh, Ryan P. Brooks
  • Patent number: D1025043
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 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: D1025122
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Cho, Daniel Huy Mai, Wyatt R. Mitchell, Lorraine Sohee Shim
  • Patent number: D1025678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rebecca M. Cully, Jennifer Ross Wynn, Christopher M. Green, Christopher Daniel Peak, David Kahl Peschel, Stefan Behling, James Sherman, Vasileios Bakas
  • Patent number: D1025794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 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, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1026016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Nathan de Vries, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D1026020
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian James Andrich, Woon Yung Choi, William Nevin Danner, Nicholas Provenzano
  • Patent number: D1026023
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin James Crick, Richard R. Dellinger, YunJae Kim, Eileen Y. Lee, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton
  • Patent number: D1026026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Butcher, Joseph Chan, Victoria Elaine Hinn, Jennifer Patton, Eric Lance Wilson