Apple Patents Granted

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

  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 11971759
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing that defines an internal volume. The electronic device can also include a component within the internal volume that divides the internal volume into a first volume and a second volume. The first volume and second volume can be fluidically isolated except at an aperture defined by the component. An air-moving system can produce a positive air pressure in the first volume and a negative air pressure in the second volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Brett W. Degner, Eric R. Prather, Michael E. Leclerc
  • 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: 11971753
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display. The electronic device may have housing portions that are rotatably coupled to each other so that the flexible display may fold along one or more bend axes. A device may have rollers that store a flexible display and that help deploy the display from within a housing when additional display area is desired. A touch screen in a housing may be overlapped by a flexible display that has been scrolled outwardly from the housing. Wireless transmitter and receiver circuitry may be used to convey image data to display driver circuitry. The display driver circuitry may display images on a pixel array in a flexible display based on the image data. Magnets may be used to outwardly bias edge-mounted bistable support structures to help prevent a rolled flexible display from wrinkling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Scott A. Myers
  • Patent number: 11972538
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a multi-mode demosaicing circuit able to receive and demosaic image data in a different raw image formats, such as Bayer raw image format and Quad Bayer raw image format. The multi-mode demosaicing circuit demosaics Quad Bayer image data by interpolating a green channel of the image data along each of a plurality of directions, generating a gradient of the image data along each of the plurality of directions, modifying the interpolated green channels based on respective gradients to generate full-resolution green channel image data, which is combined with red and blue image data to generate the demosaiced image data. Interpolation is performed for non-green pixels based on neighboring green pixels along a specified direction, modified by a residual value based upon values of one or more nearby same-color pixels and a correlation between values of the same-color pixels and neighboring green pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sarvesh Swami, David R Pope, Sheng Lin, Amnon D. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11971574
    Abstract: Configurations for an interferometric device used for multiplexing and de-multiplexing light are disclosed. The interferometric device may include a first input waveguide, a second input waveguide, an interferometric waveguide, and an output waveguide. A fundamental mode of light may be launched into the first and second input waveguides, and the interferometric waveguide may receive the fundamental mode and generate a higher order mode of light, where the two modes of light may be superimposed while propagating through the interferometric waveguide. The two modes of light may be received at an output waveguide that collapses the two modes into a single mode. The light propagating through the interferometric device may be used for increasing optical power even though the wavelengths of light may be different from one another. Additionally, the interferometric device may reduce coherent noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Kuei Wu, Lucia Gan
  • Patent number: 11972103
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on a touch screen display of a portable multifunction device. The displayed portion has a vertical position and a horizontal position in the electronic document. An object is detected on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document. In response to detecting the object, a vertical bar and a horizontal bar are displayed on top of the displayed portion. The vertical bar has a vertical position on top of the displayed portion that corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed portion. The horizontal bar has a horizontal position on top of the displayed portion that corresponds to the horizontal position in the electronic document of the displayed portion. After a predetermined condition is met, display of the vertical bar and of the horizontal bar is ceased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Forstall, Henri C. Lamiraux, Andrew Emilio Platzer, Michael Matas, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11972526
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that present a view of a device user's face portion, that would otherwise be blocked by an electronic device positioned in front of the face, on an outward-facing display of the user's device. The view of the user's face portion may be configured to enable observers to see the user's eyes and facial expressions as if they were seeing through a clear device at the user's actual eyes and facial expressions. Various techniques are used to provide views of the user's face that are realistic, that show the user's current facial appearance, and/or that present the face portion with 3D spatial accuracy, e.g., each eye appearing to be in its actual 3D position. Some implementations combine live data with previously-obtained data, e.g., combining live data with enrollment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gilles M. Cadet, Shaobo Guan, Olivier Soares, Graham L. Fyffe, Yang Song
  • Patent number: 11972143
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for balancing write commands directed to a non-volatile memory. According to some embodiments, a method may include caching a plurality of write commands into a write cache, and, in response to determining that an available capacity of the write cache satisfies a first threshold value: performing at least one write operation by directing data associated with the write commands in the write cache to the first partition of the non-volatile memory in response to determining that an available capacity of a first partition of the non-volatile memory satisfies a second threshold value; and performing at least one write operation by directing data associated with the write commands in the write cache to a second partition of the non-volatile memory in response to determining that the available capacity of the first partition of the non-volatile memory does not satisfy the second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Byom, Tudor Antoniu, Alexander Paley, Andrew W. Vogan, Muhammad N. Ashraf
  • Patent number: 11971651
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics. Some embodiments include a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator module to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Some embodiments include suspension arrangements. Some embodiments include flexure arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shashank Sharma, Alfred N. Mireault
  • Patent number: 11972164
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays and allows user interaction with content on multiple displays. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays three-dimensional content using coordinated views on multiple displays. In some embodiments, an electronic device shares content while displaying a video conferencing user interface. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates the display or keeping private of content on multiple displays. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates the display of information from applications using a shared graphical input coordinate space. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents indications of notifications. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of items of content that are related to content presented on the one or more electronic devices. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces including a soft keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Steven Hulbert, Madeleine Cordier, Seung Wook Kim, Brigit E. Lamberson, Gemma Roper, Max L. L. McCarthy, Mikael Silvanto
  • Patent number: 11972713
    Abstract: An electronic device may display image content via an electronic display by controlling light emission from display pixels of the electronic display. A processor of the electronic device may receive image data destined for a defective display pixel (e.g., dim pixel, dead pixel). The processor may convert a gray level of the image data into a luminance domain to generate a target luminance that would have been emitted by the defective display pixel had the display pixel not been defective. After selecting a compensation mask, the processor may distribute the target luminance of the defective display pixels to nearby non-defective pixels of the electronic display to conceal the presence of the defective display pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hari P. Paudel, Chaohao Wang, Hopil Bae, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Wei Chen, Wei H. Yao
  • Patent number: 11972070
    Abstract: Mitigation techniques can be used to reduce noise generated by wireless communication circuitry (e.g., near-field communication circuitry) in an electronic device including a display, touch, and wireless communication circuitry. In some examples, a touch screen can have a backplane including a mesh of routing traces connected to an array of chiplets. In some examples, the chiplets can repeat signals to prevent the accumulation of noise induced by an NFC coil. In some examples, the ratio between vertical and horizontal resistances of routing traces can be configured to mitigate noise induced by the coil. In some examples, the routing traces of the mesh can be configured to share a common geometric centroid. In some examples, a plurality of routing traces can be routed in a twisted pair configuration. In some examples, the routing traces and chiplets can be routed to minimize traversal through regions of relatively high electromagnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William Paul, Christoph H. Krah, Stanley B. Wang, Yongjie Jiang
  • Patent number: 11971931
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cloud-based techniques that may be used to manage how digital content is arranged and distributed. For example, a non-transitory, computer-readable medium may include instructions that, when executed, are configured to cause processing circuitry to provide a cloud-based application that maintains an editable draft issue comprising a plurality of draft articles, generate a published issue that has a plurality of published articles corresponding to the plurality of draft articles based on the draft issue, and provide the published issue to one or more electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: George R. König, Rachana K. Gupta, Suchita C. Doshi, Taskin Ahmed Rahman, Deepak Batra, Andreas Jozef Maria Abelmann, Vincent T. Frisina, Pepijn T. Zoon, Caroline J. Crandall, Gregory Vincent Gaudio
  • Patent number: 11972083
    Abstract: Touch input devices are provided with the capability of sensing a capacitive load in a two-dimensional array while also being able to sense deflection or movement of the input device in multiple different locations under an input pad. A touch input device can beneficially be used in a remote control device and can be used with multiple input buttons or platforms overlaying multiple capacitive touch input regions on a capacitive touch sensor substrate. Movement and position of a capacitive load can be tracked and calculated via output signals from a set of electrodes or other capacitance sensors with irregular shapes, with inconsistent distances from the capacitive load, and which are positioned below variable materials and material compositions. Thus, tracking gestures and taps can be detected using the capacitance sensing devices, and deflection input can be detected using switches or other actuators situated under the capacitance sensing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Reuben J. Williams, Clark E. Waterfall, Eng Eow Goh, Karan S. Jain
  • Patent number: 11974037
    Abstract: Systems and methods for previewing newly captured image content and reviewing previously stored image content using an electronic device are provided. The previously stored image content may include an individual distinct image or at least two consecutive video frame images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael Matas, Mallory Paine
  • Patent number: 11973859
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a method on a mobile electronic device to facilitate the transmission of encrypted user data to a service provider, such as an emergency service provider. An encrypted data repository stores user data to be transmitted to the service provider. A key to decrypt the encrypted data repository is wrapped using a key associated with a publicly trusted certificate for the service provider. In response a request received at the mobile device to initiate an emergency services request, the mobile device can transmit the encrypted data repository and wrapped cryptographic material to a server that is accessible by the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Frederic Jacobs, Yannick L. Sierra
  • Patent number: 11974362
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods for determining resources for scheduling side-link communications. The resources may be semi-persistent and/or dynamic resources. A user equipment device (UE) may determine a resource map for use in scheduling semi-persistent resources for side-link communications with at least one wireless node. The UE may transmit a resource map request message indicating preferred resource blocks, where each resource block may be defined by a time and a frequency. The UE may receive a confirmation message that may include a report regarding a set of resource blocks. The set of resource blocks may be from the preferred resource blocks included in the resource map request message. The UE may determine, based, at least in part, on the confirmation message, resource blocks to be used for the side-link communications and initiate the side-link communications using the determined resource blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pengkai Zhao, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Sami M. Almalfouh, Wanping Zhang, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 11972607
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of generating a plane hypothesis is performed by a device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a scene camera. The method includes obtaining an image of a scene including a plurality of pixels. The method includes obtaining a plurality of points of a point cloud based on the image of the scene. The method includes obtaining an object classification set based on the image of the scene. Each element of the object classification set includes a plurality of pixels respectively associated with a corresponding object in the scene. The method includes detecting a plane within the scene by identifying a subset of the plurality of points of the point cloud that correspond to a particular element of the object classification set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Ulbricht, Angela Blechschmidt, Mohammad Haris Baig, Tanmay Batra, Eshan Verma, Amit Kumar Kc
  • Patent number: 11974235
    Abstract: Activating an uplink (UL) gap at a base station may include decoding a user equipment (UE) UL gap capability report received from a UE. A radio resource control (RRC) UL gap configuration may be encoded for transmission to the UE. A power headroom report (PHR) medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) received from the UE may be decoded. The PHR MAC CE may include at least one of a P value or a power management maximum power reduction (P-MPR) value. Decoding the measurement information may include determining that the P value is equal to one or the P-MPR value is greater than zero. Based on determining that the P value is equal to one or the P-MPR value is greater than zero, the UL gap configuration may be implicitly activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Jie Cui, Laxminarayana Pillutla, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Sharad Sambhwani, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11973705
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications by a network in communication with a UE that is moving rapidly. The network may adapt communication techniques in response to the UEs motion. For example, reference signals may be transmitted to the UE from additional transmission and reception points and/or using different configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11973894
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the utilization of context information by an electronic device. In one example, a context affordance associated with a contextual category is displayed. In response to detecting an input, a plurality of options associated with the contextual category are displayed, including a first option corresponding to a first status that is a current status for the contextual category and a second option corresponding to a second status that is not the current status for the contextual category. When an input is detected that corresponds to the second option of the first plurality of options, the current status for the contextual category is set to the second status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Golnaz Abdollahian, Krishna Dayanidhi, Patrick T. Dillon, Aaron R. Zinman
  • Patent number: 11972823
    Abstract: A controller includes an interface and circuitry. The interface communicates with memory cells arranged in multiple address locations. Storage nodes holding storage values included in the memory cells are accessible using select transistors powered by an adjustable supply voltage. The circuitry reads data units protected by an Error Correction Code (ECC) from the memory cells and decode the ECC of the data units. Upon detecting, using the ECC, that a given data unit read from a given address location contains one or more errors, the circuitry logs an error event specifying at least a time of occurrence associated with the error event and the given address location. The circuitry identifies that the select transistors experience physical degradation due to aging, based on the times of occurrence and address locations logged in the error events, and adjusts the supply voltage provided to the select transistors to compensate for the physical degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Assaf Shappir
  • Patent number: 11974275
    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: decode a downlink (DL) communication from a NR evolved NodeB (gNodeB), the DL communication including DL Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) assignments for respective DL SPS transmissions from the gNodeB, the DL communication further including a SPS Configuration (SPS-Config) parameter, the SPS-Config parameter including information on a symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS transmissions from the gNodeB; determining the symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS transmissions from the SPS-Config parameter; and decoding the DL SPS transmissions based on a determination of the symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 11974364
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process one or more configuration transmissions from the gNB carrying a rule for Uplink (UL) collisions and process a first Downlink (DL) transmission and a second DL transmission. The second circuitry may be operable to identify a first UL transmission for the first DL transmission and a second UL transmission for the second DL transmission, the first UL transmission overlapping with the second UL transmission in at least one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. The third circuitry may be operable to generate at least one of the first UL transmission and the second UL transmission in accordance with the rule for UL collisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Alexey Khoryaev, Sergey Panteleev, Hong He, Yushu Zhang, Yongjun Kwak
  • Patent number: 11974345
    Abstract: Systems, method, and devices provide for recovery from backhaul failures for Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) communication systems with multi-hop routing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Murali Narasimha, Qian Li, Jaemin Han, Alexander Sirotkin
  • Patent number: 11972853
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to computer user interfaces, and more specifically to techniques for presenting activity trends and managing workouts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aled H. Williams, Julie A. Arney, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Molly P. Wiebe
  • Patent number: 11974213
    Abstract: During integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node setup, a distributed unit (DU) is configured to transmit synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) for inter-IAB-node discovery and measurement. In parallel to SSB transmission by the DU, user equipment (UEs) and IAB-mobile terminations may be configured to search for and measure on SSBs at specific time instance. In the IAB case, the DU and MT configuration are coordinated to enable inter-node SSB measurements subject to the half-duplex constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • 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: D1025075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 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, Eric Wesley Bates, Mu-Hua Cheng, Sawyer Isaac Cohen, Markus Diebel, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Hugh J. Jay, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • 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