Apple Patents
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures and markets smartphones, tablets and personal computers, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac. It also produces the iPod, Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as the operating systems and applications that support these devices. The company also sells digital content and applications through its iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, iBooks Store and Apple Music.
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Patent number: 12027120Abstract: Circuits, systems, methods, and devices are provided for isolating the first ground domain from the second ground domain while transmitting and receiving data between the two ground domains. The proposed high-voltage ground-isolating level shifter may be formed by AC coupling capacitors and a memory cell. The circuit under the high voltage ground domain may be located in an engineered high-voltage isolation well with a relatively large breakdown voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jaeyoung Kang, Baris Cagdaser, Yaser Azizi
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Patent number: 12026858Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display to display an image based on compensated image data in a panel space. The electronic device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the compensated image data. Further, generating the compensated image data may include determining a first inverse mapping of a pixel grid from the panel space to a rendering space and determining a forward mapping of the pixel grid from the rendering space to the panel space based on the first inverse mapping. The forward mapping may include corrections for multiple different warp operations stacked in a single warp operation. Additionally, the image processing circuitry may apply the forward mapping to input image data to generate the compensated image data.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jim C. Chou, Jian Zhou
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Patent number: 12028105Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a transceiver, and an antenna. The transceiver may include a transmit path, a receive path, and a loopback path that couples the transmit path to the receive path. A passive all-pass filter may be interposed on the loopback path. Control circuitry may calibrate I/Q mismatch of the wireless circuitry using the all-pass filter to optimize the radio-frequency performance of the wireless circuitry. Performing I/Q mismatch calibration using the all-pass filter may serve to minimize area consumption in the transceiver, may minimize calibration time, and may allow for calibration over a relatively wide bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Krishna Chaitanya Reddy Gangavaram, Ali Parsa
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Patent number: 12026800Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device with a controller and a display. The method includes identifying, within a first memory, a first object that satisfies a locked criterion. For example, the first object corresponds to a head-locked object or a body-locked object. The first object is associated with a first plurality of pixel values. The method includes blitting, via the controller, the first plurality of pixel values from the first memory to a second memory. The method includes displaying, on the display, the first object by obtaining the first plurality of pixel values from the second memory. In some implementations, the method includes rendering, via a graphics processing unit (GPU), a second object that does not satisfy the locked criterion, such as a world-locked object. As compared with GPU rendering, blitting is less computationally expensive.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Thomas G. Salter, Gregory Patrick Lane Lutter
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Patent number: 12028098Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a front-end module coupled between the transceiver and the antenna. The front-end module may include one or more power amplifiers for amplifying a signal for transmission through the antenna. A power amplifier may include a phase distortion compensation circuit. The phase distortion compensation circuit may include one or more n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors configured to receive a bias voltage. The bias voltage may be set to provide the proper amount of phase distortion compensation.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Saihua Lin
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Patent number: 12028421Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for collecting, storing, and transmitting account information in a matchable form, and for using this information to quickly set up accounts. Account information is maintained and shared between one or more client devices and an intermediate server. Account information can be reconciled locally to determine whether to add or enable an active account or an account proxy to a client device. Account proxies can be quickly enabled by a single user action. The methods and systems allow enabled accounts and account proxies to be removed from a first client device without propagating the deletion to a second client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Michael McDougall, Steve S. Ko, John William Scalo, Patrick L Coffman, Aaron Matthew Everitt
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Patent number: 12028385Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, an electronic device associated with an account can generate links, such as links for joining an electronic conferencing session. In some use cases, multiple electronic devices can be associated with the same account. Aspects of the subject technology provide for synchronization of links generated by multiple electronic devices associated with the same account.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nelson M. Leduc, Elliot T. Garner, Justin R. Etzine
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Patent number: 12026302Abstract: A head-mounted device may use head pose changes for user input. In particular, a display in the head-mounted device may display a slider with an indicator. The slider may be a visual representation of a scalar quantity of a device setting such as volume or brightness. Based on head pose changes, the scalar quantity of the device setting and the position of the indicator on the slider may be updated. The direction of a head movement may correspond to the direction of movement of the indicator in the slider. The scalar quantity of a device setting may only be updated when gaze input from a user targets the slider. The slider may be displayed in response to gaze input targeting an icon associated with the slider.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Gregory Lutter
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Patent number: 12028844Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for coordinating transmission and reception of data according to multiple communication standards over a frequency band. In particular, one or more base stations/mobile electronic devices may determine a first data size of first data to be sent conforming to a first communication standard and a second data size of second data conforming to a second communication standard. A first time period may then be determined for which to send the first data based on the first data size, and a second time period may be determined for which to send the second data based on the second data size. In response to determining that the frequency channel is clear of other transmissions, the first data may be sent according to the first standard in the first time period, and the second data may be sent according to the second standard in the second time period.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe, Alexander Sayenko
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Patent number: 12027166Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example process for performing a task includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving a spoken input including a request, receiving an image input including a plurality of objects, selecting a reference resolution module of a plurality of reference resolution modules based on the request and the image input, determining, with the selected reference resolution module, whether the request references a first object of the plurality of objects based on at least the spoken input, and in accordance with a determination that the request references the first object of the plurality of objects, determining a response to the request including information about the first object.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong Yu, Saurabh Adya, Shruti Bhargava, Myra C. Lukens, Jianpeng Cheng, Lin Li, Alkeshkumar M. Patel, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Stephen G. Pulman
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Patent number: 12026348Abstract: Generating for display an indicator of hidden objects in response to user input is disclosed. An input for moving a pointer presented in a user interface toward a first virtual boundary is received. The movement of the pointer toward the first virtual boundary is generated for display. An action is triggered in response to receiving input for movement of the pointer across the first virtual boundary after the pointer crosses the first virtual boundary. An object is generated for display in the user interface in response to receiving input for movement of the pointer across a second virtual boundary.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: John Louch, Alessandro Sabatelli
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Patent number: 12028884Abstract: A method for allocating channel resources for transmitting data by user equipment (UE), includes receiving a resource allocation specification for a PSCCH transmission on PSSCH resources. The resource allocation specifies a PSCCH decoding unit of N symbols by M PRBs. The decoding unit is larger than a resource element group (REG) associated with the PSSCH resources. The method includes causing transmission, by a transceiver, of the PSCCH transmission in using the decoding unit specified by the resource allocation specification.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sergey Panteleev, Alexey Khoryaev, Mikhail Shilov, Kilian Roth, Leonardo Gomes Baltar
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Patent number: 12028436Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing communication in a wireless communication system. The communication may be semantic communication and/or may use a programmable protocol stack. A protocol stack at a transmitter and/or receiver may include customization from an application platform, e.g., which may replace one or more layers relative to a non-customized protocol stack. A transmitter may transmit data, via the customized protocol stack, using a best effort data channel, e.g., with transmission characteristics that are relatively lossy in comparison to a data channel used by the non-customized protocol stack. A receiver may receive the data and may, e.g., if the data is corrupted, select one or more model to recover the data and/or determine whether reception is successful, e.g., from a semantic point of view. The proposed system may support higher data rates, less retransmissions, and/or better quality of user experience.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Danila Zaev, Ayman Naguib
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Patent number: 12028766Abstract: Aspects are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for secondary cell group (SCG) addition. A wireless device may establish communication with a first base station that is comprised a master cell group (MCG). The wireless device may receive signaling from the first base station configuring a second base station in a secondary cell group (SCG). The wireless device may establish communication with the second base station based on the signaling received from the first base station. At a first time, the wireless device may set the second base station in a deactivated state based on the signaling from the first base station configuring the second base station or establishing communication with the second base station. At a later time, the wireless device may set the second base station in an activated state and communicate with the first base station and the second base station.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 12028936Abstract: A wireless communication device (UE) may provide information pertaining to one or more operating capabilities of the UE to LTE and 5G-NR networks. The UE may transmit information to an LTE base station directly, and to a 5G-NR base station directly, or indirectly via the LTE base station. The information may include preferred values corresponding to any number of different operating parameters associated with wireless communications or wireless communication capabilities of the UE in both LTE and 5G-NR networks, to inform and/or request the LTE and 5G-NR networks to make provisions based on the transmitted information for the wireless communications of the UE on those networks. The UE may thereby provide assistance information to LTE and 5G-NR networks in a multi-radio-access-technology dual-connectivity setting to request the respective networks to adjust certain operating capabilities of the UE in order to alleviate one or more operating issues that may be affecting the UE.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Christian W. Mucke, Haijing Hu, Dawei Zhang, Matthias Sauer, Johnson O. Sebeni
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Patent number: 12026317Abstract: An electronic device includes air input sensors that gather air input from a user's fingers, a stylus, or other object in a volume of air near the electronic device. The air input sensors include ultrasonic transducers that emit ultrasonic signals towards the volume of air and that detect the ultrasonic signals after the signals reflect from the external object. Using time-of-flight measurement techniques, control circuitry tracks the movement of the external object in the volume of air near the electronic device. A display provides visual feedback of the air input, such as shadows that preview where the input will be directed to on the display. The volume of air where input is detected is divided into multiple input zones that trigger different actions from the electronic device. The ultrasonic transducers include acoustic lenses.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Bogdan T. Bucheru
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Patent number: 12028196Abstract: A vehicle may wirelessly communicate with another vehicle via a physical channel (a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) channel) that is robust and reliable under high mobility propagation conditions. The physical channel may be created by modifying an existing long-term evolution (LTE) physical channel, such as an LTE sidelink (SL) channel. For instance, the V2V physical channel may be created by increasing, by a particular factor, the subcarrier spacing of legacy LTE channels (e.g., from 15 kilohertz (kHz) to 30 kHz). Additionally, a symbol duration and a fast Fourier transform (FFT) size for the V2V physical channel may each be reduced by the same factor. Doing so may enable the V2V physical channel to be implemented without significant modifications to other aspects of the LTE standard.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Andrey Cheryakov, Dmitry Belov, Mikhail Shilov
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Patent number: 12028611Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein include techniques for determining autofocus for a camera on a mobile device. In various instances, a depth imaging system (e.g., a time-of-flight autofocus system (ToF-AF system)) is used to determine distance of a subject in order to determine autofocus for a camera. In some instances, however, the ToF-AF system may be unable to detect a subject that is very close to the camera when the objects are below a minimum detectable distance of the ToF-AF system. In such instances, an existing IR detector outside of the ToF-AF system may be implemented to measure reflected signals from the ToF-AF system. A power ratio may be determined from the reflected signals and used to determine information about the distance of the subject from the camera.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mark N Gamadia, Zhongmin Wang, Moshe Laifenfeld, Yingjun Bai
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Patent number: 12027117Abstract: Systems and methods may reduce or eliminate image artifacts due to a defective pixel of an electronic display. An electronic display may include pixels that respectively include a self-emissive element, pixel drive circuitry that supplies a pixel drive current to drive the self-emissive element, and signal routing circuitry that reduces or eliminates a visual artifact due to a defective pixel among the pixels. The signal routing circuitry may do this by turning off the self-emissive element, supplying image data from the pixel drive circuitry to a first adjacent pixel, or receiving image data from other pixel drive circuitry from the first adjacent pixel or a second adjacent pixel.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: John T. Wetherell, Cheuk Chi Lo, Chun-Yao Huang, Lingtao Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Henry C. Jen, Hasan Akyol, Xuebei Yang, Chung-Lun Edwin Hsu, Patrick Bryce Bennett, Chun-Ming Tang, Yingkan Lin, Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Runjie Xu, Shingo Hatanaka
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Patent number: 12028982Abstract: Fabric may include one or more conductive strands. An insertion tool may insert an electrical component into the fabric during formation of the fabric. The electrical component may include an electrical device mounted to a substrate and encapsulated by a protective structure. An interconnect structure such as a metal via or printed circuit layers may pass through an opening in the protective structure and may be used to couple a conductive strand to a contact pad on the substrate. The protective structure may be transparent or may include an opening so that light can be detected by or emitted from an optical device on the substrate. The protective structure may be formed using a molding tool that provides the protective structure with grooves or may be molded around a hollow conductive structure to create grooves. An electrical component mounted to the fabric may be embedded within printed circuit layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bilal Mohamed Ibrahim Kani, Benjamin J. Grena, Kyusang Kim, David M. Kindlon, Pierpaolo Lupo, Kishore N. Renjan, Manoj Vadeentavida
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Patent number: 12026309Abstract: The invention is concerned with a method for performing a calibration procedure for calibrating an eye tracking device (12), wherein a stimulus object (S) is displayed within a certain display area (22), such that the stimulus object (S) is at least temporarily moving along a defined trajectory (26) and images of at least one eye (16) of at least one user (18) are captured during the displaying of the stimulus object (S). Based on the captured images gaze data are provided and in dependency of the gaze data gaze points (P) of the at least one eye (16) of the user (18) with respect to the display area (22) are determined. Further, at least one calibration parameter (a1; a2; a3; a4; a5; a6; a7; a8; a9; a10; a11; a12; a13; a14; ?; R; K; a; b; r) of at least one predefined calibration model (M, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6) is determined in dependency of a first analysis at least of positions of at least part of the respective gaze points (P) with regard to the defined trajectory (26) of the stimulus object (S).Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Walter Nistico, Andrii Nikiforov, Borys Lysyansky
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Patent number: 12028122Abstract: An approach is described for a source device associated with a source cell, where the source device includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to transmit configuration information to a user equipment (UE); transmit a request for a transmission or receiving time offset (TO) to the UE; receive the transmission or receiving TO from the EE. The processor circuitry is further configured to transmit the configuration information and the transmission or receiving TO to a second source device associated with a second source cell for a CLI reference signal measurement, wherein the EE is associated with the source cell, and the configuration information comprises an SRS instruction for the EE to enable an uplink (EE) CSI acquisition or tracking.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Honglei Miao
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Patent number: 12028473Abstract: A portable multifunction device displays a first widget on a touch screen and detects a first gesture on a settings icon on the first widget. In response to the first gesture, the device displays user-adjustable settings for a plurality of widgets, including settings for the first widget. The device detects one or more additional gestures to change one or more settings for one or more widgets in the plurality of widgets. In response to the additional gestures, the device changes one or more settings for other widgets, including changing one or more settings for a respective widget other than the first widget. Upon detecting a widget selection gesture and a finishing gesture on the touch screen, the device displays a second widget in the plurality of widgets other than the first widget.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Timothy P. Omernick, Andre M. J. Boule, Richard Williamson, Imran Chaudhri, Freddy Allen Anzures, Greg Christie
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Patent number: 12028753Abstract: Methods and devices for selecting an edge application server (EAS) to service a user equipment (UE). One exemplary method incudes determining that a current protocol data unit (PDU) session of an application being executed by a UE is being serviced by a first EAS, determining that the first EAS is no longer suitable to service the application, selecting a second EAS to service the application and instructing the UE to use the second EAS for future PDU sessions for the application.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rohit R. Matolia, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Jathurshun Sivaloganathan, Krisztian Kiss, Longda Xing, Mohammed Sadique, Srinivasan Nimmala, Vijay Venkataraman
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Patent number: 12028838Abstract: A wireless device may establish communication with a network node and determine a relationship between transmission configuration indication (TCI) and bandwidth part (BWP). The wireless device may then receive an indication of one of TCI or BWP from the network node followed by determining the other of TCI or BWP based on the indication and using the relationship between the TCI and BWP. Finally, the wireless device may perform downlink communication using the indicated one of TCI or BWP and determined other TCI or BWP. The network node may be comprised in a non-terrestrial network and may specify via RRC signaling the relationship between TCI and BWP for the wireless device. The indication of the TCI or BWP may be provided by downlink control information (DCI), medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), an inactivity timer, or RRC reconfiguration commands.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen
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Patent number: 12028437Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronizing a timebase is disclosed. A timebase management circuit includes limit circuitry, in a first clock domain, which generates, based on a global timebase, an initial timebase limit. The timebase management circuit includes, in a second clock domain, adjustment circuitry that generates an adjusted timebase limit based on the initial timebase limit. A storage circuit in the second clock domain stores a local timebase. Update circuitry, coupled to an output of the storage circuit, generates an updated local timebase using a clock signal in the second clock domain, wherein the updated local timebase is subject to the adjusted timebase limit.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher D. Finan, Alexander Ukanwa, Charles F. Dominguez, Jean-Didier Allegrucci, Jeffrey J. Irwin, Kalpana Bansal, Michael Bekerman, Remi Clavel
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Patent number: 12026098Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to updating page pools in the context of cached page pool descriptors. In some embodiments, a processor is configured to assign a set of processing work to a first page pool of memory pages. Page manager circuitry may cache page pool descriptor entries in cache circuitry, where a given page pool descriptor entry indicates a set of pages assigned to a page pool. In response to a determination to grow the first page pool, the processor may communicate a grow list to the page manager circuitry, that identifies a set of memory blocks from the memory to be added to the first page pool. The page manager circuitry may then update a cached page pool descriptor entry for the first page pool to indicate the added memory blocks and generate a signal to inform the processor that the cached page pool descriptor entry is updated.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Arjun Thottappilly, David A. Gotwalt, Frank W. Liljeros
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Patent number: 12028711Abstract: A wearable device can establish a verified session with a host device (e.g., by establishing that the wearable device is present in the vicinity of the host device and is currently being worn). The existence of such a verified session can be used to control user access to sensitive information that may be stored in or otherwise accessible to a host device. For example, the host device and/or application programs executing thereon can be configured to restrict a user's ability to invoke program functionality that accesses sensitive information based on whether a verified session with a wearable device is currently in progress.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Zachary Maragoudakis
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Patent number: 12028731Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for configuration of System frame number (SFN) and Frame Timing Difference (SFTD) measurement in an E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)—NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) network, and an NE-DC network. Various embodiments describe how to configure and perform the SFTD measurement in the EN-DC or NE-DC network of various conditions to facilitate adequate SFTD measurements and improve measurement accuracy and system performance. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuhan Zhou, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Hua Li, Rui Huang
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Patent number: 12028927Abstract: Techniques, systems, and devices to support user equipment (UE) in an extended discontinuous reception mode are described. A described technique performed by a radio access network (RAN) includes managing UE that is in an extended discontinuous reception mode and in an inactive state; sending a notification message to an access and mobility management function (AMF), the message comprising buffer support information for a user plane function (UPF) to buffer data; receiving a notification request message from the AMF, the notification request message comprising a request to obtain information regarding reachability of the UE; sending a notification response message to control when the UPF provides downlink data to the RAN for transmission to the UE; performing a connection resume procedure with the UE to cause the UE to switch to a connected state from the inactive state; receiving the downlink data; and transmitting the downlink data to the UE.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde, Puneet Jain, Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Robert Zaus
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Patent number: 12027979Abstract: A power system for a battery powered device can include a first stage power converter, a charge injector, and a bypass switch. The first stage power converter can be configured to have an input coupled to a battery and operable to convert a battery voltage to a level higher than a main voltage bus of the battery powered device. The charge injector can include an input coupled to the output of the power converter and an output configured to be coupled to the main voltage bus. The bypass can include one or more bypass switches operable to selectively couple an output of the power converter to the main voltage bus, bypassing the charge injector. The charge injector may be selectively operable as a current source configured to draw power from an output of the power converter and the battery to reduce voltage dips of the main voltage bus.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Adriane S. Niehaus, Parin Patel
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Patent number: 12028870Abstract: An example method for wireless communication includes: transmitting by a base station, to a user device in a reduced power state, resource information for receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and tracking reference signal (TRS); transmitting the CSI-RS and TRS based on the transmitted resource information to the user device, wherein the user device has exited the reduced power state; determining whether there is paging information to transmit in a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission for the user device; transmitting a downlink control information message, wherein the downlink control information message is based on the determination that there is paging information for the user device, and wherein the user device has synchronized with the base station; and transmitting the first PDSCH transmission, based on the determination that there is paging information for the user device.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun, Sarma V. Vangala, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Yuchul Kim
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Patent number: 12028809Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for relaxing signaling characteristic evaluation measurements in wireless communication systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye
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Patent number: 12028822Abstract: Embodiments of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node, a User Equipment (UE), and methods of communication are generally described herein. An IAB node may operate as a relay between an IAB donor and a UE. The IAB node may receive, from the IAB donor, first signaling that indicates a first timing advance (TA) offset between the IAB donor and the IAB node. The IAB node may determine a second TA offset between the IAB node and the UE. The second TA offset may be based on a timing difference between a transmission time of a downlink frame transmitted to the UE and a reception time of an uplink frame from the UE. The IAB node may transmit, to the UE, second signaling that indicates the first TA offset and the second TA offset.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dawei Ying, Geng Wu, Lili Wei, Qian Li
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Patent number: 12026364Abstract: A device detects, while displaying a first user interface that includes a first plurality of notifications in a list of notifications, a first user input that includes a first input. In response to detecting the first user input, the device, in accordance with a determination that the first input includes a swipe input in a first direction and a determination that an end of the list of notifications has been reached, displays a search input region. In response to detecting the first user input, the device, in accordance with a determination that the first input includes the swipe input in the first direction and that an end of the list of notifications has not been reached, displays a second plurality of notifications that are between the first plurality of notifications and the end of the list of notifications.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Nathan de Vries
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Patent number: 12027027Abstract: In an example method, a mobile device obtains sample data generated by one or more sensors over a period of time, where the one or more sensors are worn by a user. The mobile device determines that the user has fallen based on the sample data, and determines, based on the sample data, a severity of an injury suffered by the user. The mobile device generates one or more notifications based on the determination that the user has fallen and the determined severity of the injury.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hung A. Pham, Stephen P. Jackson, Vinay R. Majjigi, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Adeeti V. Ullal, Yann Jerome Julien Renard, Telford Earl Forgety, III
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Patent number: 12028475Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for allowing a user to switch between wearable items that have been paired or associated with an electronic device, such as a smartphone, are described. In one embodiment, the wearable items automatically detect a removal of a first wearable item from a user's body and an attachment of a second wearable item to the user's body. Messages from the wearable items are transmitted to the electronic device to allow the electronic device to switch the active wearable item from the first wearable item to the second wearable item. The switch can occur while the electronic device is in a locked state, and the electronic device can synchronize the second wearable item with data received from the first wearable item. Other embodiments are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: David C. Donley, Julien A. Poumailloux, Pierre J. De Filippis, Tyler D. Hawkins, Craig P. Dooley, Daniel B. Pollack, James C. Grandy, Gregory B. Novick, Todd A. Shortlidge, Aroon Pahwa, David T. Wilson, Yan Yang, Nicholas Joseph Circosta
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Patent number: 12024820Abstract: An assembly with multiple structures, each having different tensile strengths, is integrated into a band used with various electronic devices. The assembly may include a low-tensile structure designed to elongate under an initial tension, thus allowing the band to stretch and lengthen. However, additional tension applied to the band is transferred to other structures of the assembly. Further, when the applied tension causes the structure with the highest tensile strength in the assembly to straighten (or substantially straighten), the high-tensile strength structure prevents the band from further elongation. The low-tensile strength structure allows the band to conform to a user, while the high-tensile strength structure protects the low-tensile strength structure from damage or unwanted deformation.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: William Leith, Charlotte M. Baravian, Le Zhao
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Patent number: 12028876Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to acknowledgement signaling sent by a user equipment (UE) in response to downlink control information (DCI) received from a base station that schedules the use of multiple physical uplink control channels (multi-PUSCH) or multiple physical downlink control channels (multi-PDSCH). Acknowledgement signaling may inform the base station that DCI scheduling the multi-PUSCH/multi-PDSCH was received (or not), so that the base station may reclaim those scheduled resources in the case that the UE remains unaware of them. Methods for performing this signaling include, e.g., the use of HARQ-ACK codebooks (whether in a semi-static or dynamic manner), and aperiodic sounding reference signals (A-SRS). Embodiments involving such DCI received across multiple component carriers of different serving cells of the UE are contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12026170Abstract: The present disclosure relates to search techniques. In one example process, the device concurrently displays remote search results and local search results. In another example process, the device provides previews of search results that include actionable user interface objects. In another example process, the device concurrently displays options for initiating a search using various search engines.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeremiah Daniel Shaw, Lawrence Y. Yang
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Patent number: 12023153Abstract: This relates to an electronic device configured for optical sensing having shared windows and including light restriction designs. The light restriction designs can include one or more of optical layers, optical films, lenses, and window systems configured to reduce or eliminate crosstalk between optical components. A plurality of accepting sections and a plurality of blocking sections can be employed to selectively allow light having an angle of incidence within one or more acceptance viewing angles and block light with angles of incidence outside of the acceptance viewing angles. In some examples, the light restriction designs can include variations in optical and structural properties can allow the light restriction designs to have spatially varying acceptance angles. Variations in structural properties can include, but are not limited to, differences in widths, heights, and/or tilts of the accepting sections and/or blocking sections.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Guocheng Shao, Mathieu Charbonneau-Lefort, Ueyn L. Block
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Patent number: 12026197Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory, receiving a first natural-language speech input indicative of a request for media, where the first natural-language speech input comprises a first search parameter; providing, by a digital assistant, a first media item identified based on the first search parameter. The method further includes, while providing the first media item, receiving a second natural-language speech input and determining whether the second input corresponds to a user intent of refining the request for media. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the second speech input corresponds to a user intent of refining the request for media: identifying, based on the first parameter and the second speech input, a second media item and providing the second media item.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: David Chance Graham, Cyrus Daniel Irani, Aimee Piercy, Thomas Alsina
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Patent number: 12025721Abstract: Systems and methods of a wireless communications system using signals not traditionally used for positioning purposes for positioning measurements in both uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) are described herein. A user equipment (UE) may generate a UE capability information message indicating one or more signal types that the LE can process for DL positioning measurements and/or that the UE can send for UL positioning measurements. The one or more signal types so indicated may include signals not traditionally used for positioning measurements. The UE may send, to the base station, the UE capability information message. The wireless communications system may then configure the base station and/or the UE to use such signal types with one or more positioning methods. In some embodiments, the base station may also indicate to the UE a subset of signals of an indicated type which should be processed for DL measurements/sent for UL measurements.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 12026108Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to controlling performance state of a memory element based on latency information for a processor. In some embodiments, a level of a memory hierarchy is configured to operate at multiple different performance states at different times. Processor circuitry may execute programs that generate requests to access the memory hierarchy. Bandwidth-based control circuitry may generate, based on bandwidth conditions for the processor circuitry, bandwidth performance state signals. Latency-based control circuitry may generate, based on latency information for processor requests to access the memory hierarchy, latency performance state signals. Performance control circuitry may control the performance state of the level of the memory hierarchy based on the bandwidth performance state signals and the latency performance state signals. Disclosed techniques may improve processor performance in certain operating scenarios.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Karthik Ramani, Mohamed Ismail, Tian You Wang
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Patent number: 12028847Abstract: Latency reduction techniques for radio access networks are described. In various embodiments, a reduced transmission time interval (rTTI) may be implemented in order to reduce air interface latency in a radio access network. In some embodiments, an rTTI block may be defined, and some operations may be performed in rTTI block-wise fashion in order to reduce the marginal overhead associated with implementation of the rTTI. In various embodiments in which an rTTI is implemented, DM-RS granularity may be improved by use of techniques that enable data and reference signals to be multiplexed within a same OFDM symbol. In some embodiments, a current transmission time interval (TTI) may be maintained, and latency reduction may be achieved via the use of novel techniques for one or more of code block (CB) segmentation, uplink (UL) resource element (RE) mapping, and HARQ cycle timing. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christian Ibars Casas, Seunghee Han
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Patent number: D1033379Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Steven P. Jobs, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas B. Satzger, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1033413Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: 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
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Patent number: D1033450Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Aurelio Guzmán
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Patent number: D1033451Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Diogo Jose Da Silva Valente Soares, Aurelio Guzmán
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Patent number: D1033476Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Richard D. Lyons, Dan Tobin Smith, Wan Si Wan, Christopher I. Wilson