Patents by Inventor Simon I

Simon I has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12113142
    Abstract: Strings of solar cells having laser assisted metallization conductive contact structures, and their methods of manufacture, are described. For example, a solar cell string includes a first solar cell having a front side and a back side, and one or more laser assisted metallization conductive contact structures electrically connecting a first metal foil to the back side of the first solar cell. The solar cell string also includes a second solar cell having a front side and a back side, and one or more laser assisted metallization conductive contact structures electrically connecting a second metal foil to the back side of the second solar cell. The solar cell string also includes a conductive interconnect coupling the first and second solar cells, the conductive interconnect including a strain relief feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Pei Hsuan Lu, Tyler D. Newman, Paul W. Loscutoff, George G. Correos, Yafu Lin, Andrea R. Bowring, David C. Okawa, Matthew T. Matsumoto, Benjamin I. Hsia, Arbaz Ahmed Shakir, John H. Lippiatt, Simone I. Nazareth, Ryan Reagan, Todd R. Johnson, Ned Western, Tamir Lance, Marc Robinson
  • Patent number: 11550420
    Abstract: A method may include presenting an image capture user interface on a display device of a multipurpose device including a live view portion configured to display a live view of image data currently sensed by an image capture device of the multipurpose device and a recall portion configured to display a thumbnail preview of stored image data most recently captured by the image capture device; receiving an indication of a first touch input on the display device, the first touch input starting at a first position on or near the recall portion of the user interface; receiving an indication of a swiping gesture from the recall portion to a second position with contact being maintained of the first touch input; and in response to the first touch input, displaying an enlarged preview of the stored image data, the enlarged preview being larger in size than the thumbnail preview.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Simon I. Bovet, Elliott Harris, Andreas J. Karlsson
  • Patent number: 11314402
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user may zoom in on a particular asset to show an all assets view that displays larger assets in a grid, and zoom out to show multiple smaller assets in another grid at different zoom levels while maintaining focus on the particular asset. Particularly, a GUI may display cells of a grid at a first zoom level, receive zoom input to transition to a second zoom level, and display cells of a different size in a second grid while maintaining focus on and positioning of the particular asset across the zoom levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple lnc.
    Inventors: Andreas J. Karlsson, Matthieu Lucas, Serhii Tatarchuk, Simon I. Bovet, Graham R. Clarke
  • Publication number: 20210408313
    Abstract: Strings of solar cells having laser assisted metallization conductive contact structures, and their methods of manufacture, are described. For example, a solar cell string includes a first solar cell having a front side and a back side, and one or more laser assisted metallization conductive contact structures electrically connecting a first metal foil to the back side of the first solar cell. The solar cell string also includes a second solar cell having a front side and a back side, and one or more laser assisted metallization conductive contact structures electrically connecting a second metal foil to the back side of the second solar cell. The solar cell string also includes a conductive interconnect coupling the first and second solar cells, the conductive interconnect including a strain relief feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Pei Hsuan Lu, Tyler D. Newman, Paul W. Loscutoff, George G. Correos, Yafu Lin, Andrea R. Bowring, David C. Okawa, Matthew T. Matsumoto, Benjamin I. Hsia, Arbaz Ahmed Shakir, John H. Lippiatt, Simone I. Nazareth, Ryan Reagan, Todd R. Johnson, Ned Western, Tamir Lance, Marc Robinson
  • Patent number: 10871868
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for presenting a synchronized content scrubber. For example, a user device may store digital content items for presentation on a screen of the user device. A user interface may be configured with multiple viewing areas. An image that represents a content item may be presented in the first viewing and the second viewing area. However, in the second viewing area, the image that represents the content item may be presented in a visually distinct manner from other images in the second viewing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Britt S. Miura, Andreas J. Karlsson, Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava, Justin S. Titi, Simon I. Bovet, Nicholas D. Lupinetti
  • Publication number: 20200379631
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user may zoom in on a particular asset to show an all assets view that displays larger assets in a grid, and zoom out to show to show multiple smaller assets in another grid at different zoom levels while maintaining focus on the particular asset. Particularly, a GUI may display cells of a grid at a first zoom level, receive zoom input to transition to a second zoom level, and display cells of a different size in a second grid while maintaining focus on and positioning of the particular asset across the zoom levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas J. Karlsson, Matthieu Lucas, Serhii Tatarchuk, Simon I. Bovet, Graham R. Clarke
  • Publication number: 20200225834
    Abstract: A method may include presenting an image capture user interface on a display device of a multipurpose device including a live view portion configured to display a live view of image data currently sensed by an image capture device of the multipurpose device and a recall portion configured to display a thumbnail preview of stored image data most recently captured by the image capture device; receiving an indication of a first touch input on the display device, the first touch input starting at a first position on or near the recall portion of the user interface; receiving an indication of a swiping gesture from the recall portion to a second position with contact being maintained of the first touch input; and in response to the first touch input, displaying an enlarged preview of the stored image data, the enlarged preview being larger in size than the thumbnail preview.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Simon I. Bovet, Elliott Harris, Andreas J. Karlsson
  • Patent number: 10628010
    Abstract: A method may include presenting an image capture user interface on a display device of a multipurpose device including a live view portion configured to display a live view of image data currently sensed by an image capture device of the multipurpose device and a recall portion configured to display a thumbnail preview of stored image data most recently captured by the image capture device; receiving an indication of a first touch input on the display device, the first touch input starting at a first position on or near the recall portion of the user interface; receiving an indication of a swiping gesture from the recall portion to a second position with contact being maintained of the first touch input; and in response to the first touch input, displaying an enlarged preview of the stored image data, the enlarged preview being larger in size than the thumbnail preview.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Simon I. Bovet, Elliot Harris, Andreas J. Karlsson
  • Publication number: 20200012745
    Abstract: A system and method for secure data management and access using field level encryption and natural language understanding. The system includes a component for securely managing queries to a database by pushing the encryption and data access responsibilities to the individual fields in the database. Dynamically allocated ports are further used to separate the functions of query processing from the requestor. The system uses a standard SQL front-end but all access control, encryption, and data management are handled by the field. The actual data may not reside in the field but may be pointed to by a data pointer. The system also includes a natural language understanding component that processes queries similarly to how people process language, by maintaining context to disambiguate terms and by allowing the use of new terms by learning which known terms they may refer to and then executing the query and returning the response in natural language form expected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventor: Simon I. Bain
  • Patent number: 10310728
    Abstract: Messages are presented so as to make effective use of the display area to convey information to the user. For example, message content of primary interest to the user (e.g., new content) can be distinguished from secondary content (e.g., content quoted from a previous message), and the message can be initially displayed with the secondary content hidden using an expandable visual indicator that the user can expand to reveal the secondary content. Different elements within a message, such as textual content and graphical content elements, can be scaled independently using magnification factors optimized for each element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Apple, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon I. Bovet, Cristobal Baray, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Patent number: 9607101
    Abstract: Embodiments of tokenized search suggestions include generating, by at least one suggestion engine executing on a data processing system, first suggestions based on first text input in a text input field. The first suggestions are displayed on a display device and a selection of one of the first suggestions is received. The first text input is replaced with a first token corresponding to the selected one of the first suggestions. The at least one suggestion engine generates second suggestions based on second text input in the text input field and filters the second suggestions using the selected one of the first suggestions. The filtered selections are displayed on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne R. Loofbourrow, Julien Robert, Alexandre Moha, Olivier Bonnet, Simon I. Bovet, Stephen Frederick Decker, Brendan John Langoulant, Julien Jacques Jalon
  • Publication number: 20160357353
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for presenting a synchronized content scrubber. For example, a user device may store digital content items for presentation on a screen of the user device. A user interface may be configured with multiple viewing areas. An image that represents a content item may be presented in the first viewing and the second viewing area. However, in the second viewing area, the image that represents the content item may be presented in a visually distinct manner from other images in the second viewing area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Britt S. Miura, Andreas J. Karlsson, Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava, Justin S. Titi, Simon I. Bovet, Nicholas D. Lupinetti
  • Publication number: 20160357415
    Abstract: A method may include presenting an image capture user interface on a display device of a multipurpose device including a live view portion configured to display a live view of image data currently sensed by an image capture device of the multipurpose device and a recall portion configured to display a thumbnail preview of stored image data most recently captured by the image capture device; receiving an indication of a first touch input on the display device, the first touch input starting at a first position on or near the recall portion of the user interface; receiving an indication of a swiping gesture from the recall portion to a second position with contact being maintained of the first touch input; and in response to the first touch input, displaying an enlarged preview of the stored image data, the enlarged preview being larger in size than the thumbnail preview.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Simon I. Bovet, Elliot Harris, Andreas J. Karlsson
  • Publication number: 20160196031
    Abstract: Messages are presented so as to make effective use of the display area to convey information to the user. For example, message content of primary interest to the user (e.g., new content) can be distinguished from secondary content (e.g., content quoted from a previous message), and the message can be initially displayed with the secondary content hidden using an expandable visual indicator that the user can expand to reveal the secondary content. Different elements within a message, such as textual content and graphical content elements, can be scaled independently using magnification factors optimized for each element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Simon I. BOVET, Cristobal BARAY, Stephen O. LEMAY
  • Patent number: 9245259
    Abstract: Messages are presented so as to make effective use of the display area to convey information to the user. For example, message content of primary interest to the user (e.g., new content) can be distinguished from secondary content (e.g., content quoted from a previous message), and the message can be initially displayed with the secondary content hidden using an expandable visual indicator that the user can expand to reveal the secondary content. Different elements within a message, such as textual content and graphical content elements, can be scaled independently using magnification factors optimized for each element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Simon I. Bovet, Cristobal Baray, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Patent number: 8983999
    Abstract: Embodiments of tokenized search suggestions include generating, by at least one suggestion engine executing on a data processing system, first suggestions based on first text input in a text input field. The first suggestions are displayed on a display device and a selection of one of the first suggestions is received. The first text input is replaced with a first token corresponding to the selected one of the first suggestions. The at least one suggestion engine generates second suggestions based on second text input in the text input field and filters the second suggestions using the selected one of the first suggestions. The filtered selections are displayed on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne R. Loofbourrow, Julien Robert, Alexandre Moha, Olivier Bonnet, Simon I. Bovet, Stephen Frederick Decker, Brendan John Langoulant, Julien Jacques Jalon
  • Publication number: 20130332850
    Abstract: Messages are presented so as to make effective use of the display area to convey information to the user. For example, message content of primary interest to the user (e.g., new content) can be distinguished from secondary content (e.g., content quoted from a previous message), and the message can be initially displayed with the secondary content hidden using an expandable visual indicator that the user can expand to reveal the secondary content. Different elements within a message, such as textual content and graphical content elements, can be scaled independently using magnification factors optimized for each element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Simon I. Bovet, Cristobal Baray, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Publication number: 20130290291
    Abstract: Embodiments of tokenized search suggestions include generating, by at least one suggestion engine executing on a data processing system, first suggestions based on first text input in a text input field. The first suggestions are displayed on a display device and a selection of one of the first suggestions is received. The first text input is replaced with a first token corresponding to the selected one of the first suggestions. The at least one suggestion engine generates second suggestions based on second text input in the text input field and filters the second suggestions using the selected one of the first suggestions. The filtered selections are displayed on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Wayne R. Loofbourrow, Julien Robert, Alexandre Moha, Olivier Bonnet, Simon I. Bovet, Stephen Frederick Decker, Brendan John Langoulant, Julien Jacques Jalon
  • Patent number: 8489573
    Abstract: A search engine for generating an improved search query, the engine comprising: input means for receiving a search request, the search request comprising N search terms; processing means arranged to formulate a search query from the received search request; output means arranged to output the search query wherein the processing means is arranged to formulate the search query by generating a plurality of search strings, each search string comprising a different combination of a subset of the N search terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Business Partners Limited
    Inventor: Simon I. Bain
  • Patent number: 8473507
    Abstract: Embodiments of tokenized search suggestions include generating, by at least one suggestion engine executing on a data processing system, first suggestions based on first text input in a text input field. The first suggestions are displayed on a display device and a selection of one of the first suggestions is received. The first text input is replaced with a first token corresponding to the selected one of the first suggestions. The at least one suggestion engine generates second suggestions based on second text input in the text input field and filters the second suggestions using the selected one of the first suggestions. The filtered selections are displayed on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne R. Loofbourrow, Julien Robert, Alexandre Moha, Olivier Bonnet, Simon I. Bovet, Stephen Frederick Decker, Brendan John Langoulant, Julien Jacques Jalon