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.
Apple Patents by Type
- Apple Patents Granted: Apple patents that have been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
- Apple Patent Applications: Apple patent applications that are pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Displaying relevant user interface objects
Patent number: 12088755
Abstract: Techniques for displaying relevant user interface objects when a device is placed into viewing position are disclosed. The device can update its display in response to a user approaching a vehicle. Display updates can be based on an arrangement of user interface information for unlocking the vehicle.
Type: Grant
Filed: April 25, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Gary Ian Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Daniel C. Gross, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Natalia Maric, Christopher Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang
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Easy location sharing
Patent number: 12089121
Abstract: Systems and methods for sharing location information during a message conversation are provided. An electronic device displays a message region for displaying a message transcript of messages sent between a first participant and a second participant in a message conversation. The electronic device displays a location-sharing affordance. The electronic device detects a selection of the location-sharing affordance, where detecting a selection of the location-sharing affordance by the first participant comprises detecting a single contact by the first participant. In response to detecting a selection of the location-sharing affordance, the electronic device enables the second participant to obtain the first participant location information and displays a modified location-sharing affordance.
Type: Grant
Filed: August 11, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Megan M. Frost, Joshua B. Dickens, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel Van Os, Richard R. Dellinger, Lawrence Y. Yang
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Relay UE-assisted RAN notification area update procedure
Patent number: 12089182
Abstract: This disclosure relates to a relay user equipment device (UE) assisting one or more remote UEs in performing a radio access network notification area (RNA) update procedure in a cellular communication system. The relay UE establishes a first relay connection with a first remote device. The first relay connection relays communications between the first remote device and a network. The relay UE transmits a first message to the network to initiate the RNA update procedure for the first remote device, receives an acknowledgment message from the network including updated connection information for the first remote device, and transmits the updated connection information to the first remote device.
Type: Grant
Filed: October 22, 2020
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen
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Techniques for relaying audio messages to devices
Patent number: 12089120
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for transmitting an announcement to one or more devices. In one example, a first device receives a first message that includes an announcement, the announcement associated with a voice that spoke the announcement. The first device may determine the announcement from the first message, and then identify one or more devices for receiving the announcement. The one or more devices may have a particular device type of a plurality of different device types comprising at least a mobile device. The first device may determine a network path through which a second message is transmitted based at least in part on the location of a second device. In accordance with a determination that the second device is located within a local area network associated with a home environment, the first device transmits the second message over the local area network.
Type: Grant
Filed: April 20, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Richard M. Powell, John A. Aguilar, Patrick L. Coffman
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Secure sharing of credential information
Patent number: 12088740
Abstract: A first user device may be used to request provisioning of a secure credential on a second user device. A provisioning system may facilitate the provisioning in a manner that ensures security and privacy of the requesting parties. The provisioning requests may be made using an application on the first user device such as a third-party application or using a web application via a browser. The credential may be added to a digital wallet on the second user device. The credential may be useable by the second user device to perform one or more contactless transactions.
Type: Grant
Filed: January 31, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Morgan J Grainger, Russell Fenenga, Brandon K. Leventhal, Sourabh Dugar
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System and method for channel occupancy time (COT) sharing in an unlicensed spectrum
Patent number: 12089253
Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for a shared channel occupancy time (COT) procedure in a wireless channel of unlicensed spectrum. The shared COT can be utilized among one or more user equipment (UE) and a 5G Node B (gNB). A UE contends for access to the channel to acquire the COT, and transmits in the uplink (UL) according to the UEs time-domain configuration. When the UL transmission does not utilize the entire COT, the UE can signal to the gNB that the COT can be shared. In particular, the UE transmits an indication of a COT boundary that the gNB can use to determine when to transmit DL data in the shared COT. The COT can also be shared between two or more UEs in addition to the gNB.
Type: Grant
Filed: February 16, 2020
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Jose Armando Oviedo, Yingyang Li, Salvatore Talarico, Yongjun Kwak
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Systems and methods of account verification upgrade
Patent number: 12086231
Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that converts an account associated with an application to use a single sign-on service is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives an indication of a weak password associated with the account. The device further sends a request to verify an account credential for a user associated with the device. In addition, the device receives the verification of the account credential. The device additionally requests a single sign-on credential for the account and receives the single sign-on credential. Furthermore, the device sends a message to a server associated with a service for the application that the application is registered for the single sign-on service.
Type: Grant
Filed: September 5, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Inventors: Richard J. Mondello, Jay S. Mulani, Jonathan Birdsall, Dmitry V. Belov, Reza Abbasian, David P. Quesada, Patrick L. Coffman
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Waveguide deformation sensing
Patent number: 12085724
Abstract: A head-mounted device may have projector, a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and an optical bridge sensor coupled between the first and second waveguides. An input coupler may couple light with a calibration pattern into the first waveguide. The calibration pattern may be included in visible or infrared light produced by the projector or may be included in infrared light produced by infrared emitters mounted to the first waveguide. An output coupler may couple the light having the calibration pattern out of the first waveguide. An additional output coupler may be used to couple visible light from the projector out of the waveguide and towards an eye box. An image sensor may generate image sensor data based on the light having the calibration pattern. Control circuitry may process the calibration pattern in the image sensor data to detect deformation or warping of the first waveguide.
Type: Grant
Filed: May 31, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Scott M DeLapp, Hyungryul Choi, Vikrant Bhakta
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Electronic devices with low-reflectance coatings
Patent number: 12085734
Abstract: A head-mounted device may have optical modules that present images to a user's left and right eyes. Each optical module may have a lens barrel with a low-reflectance coating, a display coupled to the lens barrel that generates a visible-light image, a lens mounted to the lens barrel through which the image is viewable from an eye box, an infrared light-emitting diode that emits infrared light that illuminates an eye box at an infrared wavelength through the lens, and an infrared camera that captures an image from the eye box at the infrared wavelength. The low-reflectance coating may be a low-visible-reflectance-and-low-infrared-reflectance coating that exhibits low-reflectance for visible light from the display and for infrared light at the infrared wavelength that is generated by the light-emitting diode.
Type: Grant
Filed: March 19, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Alan Kleiman-Shwarsctein, Cole Snider, James A. Curran, Jan K. Quijalvo, Leon J. Garcia, Jr., Paisith P. Boonsom, Zechariah D. Feinberg
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Tunable diffractive optics
Patent number: 12085740
Abstract: An optical component includes a substrate and a piezoelectric film formed on the substrate and configured to deform in response to an actuation voltage applied thereto into a pattern of peaks and troughs configured to deflect optical radiation that is incident thereon. The pattern has an amplitude determined by the actuation voltage.
Type: Grant
Filed: April 13, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Inventors: Sebastien Bolis, Nachiappan Chidambaram
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Monitoring a user of a head-wearable electronic device
Patent number: 12086304
Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for monitoring a user of a head-wearable electronic device with multiple light-sensing assemblies.
Type: Grant
Filed: November 28, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Joel S. Armstrong-Muntner, Nicholas P. Allec, James E. Stark
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Synchronous display pipeline systems and methods
Patent number: 12087252
Abstract: An electronic device may include a first display pipeline that may output image data via an output path. The electronic device may include first frame merge circuitry coupled to the output path. The electronic device may also include a first multiplexer coupled to the first frame merge circuitry and to the output path. The first multiplexer may transmit the image data from the output path to an electronic display, and, in response to a first control signal associated with the first frame merge circuitry generating a merged output, the first multiplexer transmits the merged output to the electronic display.
Type: Grant
Filed: May 4, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Assaf Menachem
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Glass device housings
Patent number: 12083649
Abstract: An electronic device may have a glass housing structures. The glass housing structures may be used to cover a display and other internal electronic device components. The glass housing structure may have multiple glass pieces that are joined using a glass fusing process. A peripheral glass member may be fused along the edge of a planar glass member to enhance the thickness of the edge. A rounded edge feature may be formed by machining the thickened edge. Raised fused glass features may surround openings in the planar glass member. Multiple planar glass members may be fused together to form a five-sided box in which electronic components may be mounted. Raised support structure ribs may be formed by fusing glass structures to a planar glass member. Opaque masking material and colored glass may be used to create portions of the glass housing structures that hide internal device components from view.
Type: Grant
Filed: March 20, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Inventors: Peter N. Russell-Clarke, Jonathan P. Ive, Michael K. Pilliod
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Touch input for head-mountable devices
Patent number: 12086299
Abstract: A head-mountable device can be provided with an ability to detect whether a touch input provided to an input detecting element is intentional or unintentional. For example, multiple touch sensors can be provided at different locations on a housing of a head-mountable device. A first one of the touch sensors can be operated to detect a first touch input. A second touch sensor can be operated to detect a second touch input only when the first touch input is detected and/or above a threshold.
Type: Grant
Filed: June 21, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Prashanth Reddy Duvvuru Kamakshi, Muhammad F. Hossain
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Laser-formed features
Patent number: 12083623
Abstract: Embodiments are directed to laser-based processes for forming features on the surface of a part. The feature may include a geometric element, a color element, and/or a surface finish element. In some cases, the laser-formed features are formed as a pattern of textured features that produce an aesthetic and/or tactile effect on the surface of the part. In some cases, the texture features may be sufficiently small that they may not be discerned by the unaided human eye. Also, in some cases, a multiple laser-based processes are combined to form a single feature or a finished part having a specific aesthetic and/or tactile effect.
Type: Grant
Filed: June 9, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Inventors: Peter N. Russell-Clarke, Michael S. Nashner, Houtan R. Farahani
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Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing feedback during interaction with an intensity-sensitive button
Patent number: 12086319
Abstract: At a device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and one or more tactile output generators, a button configuration user interface that includes a plurality of tactile output settings for a button is displayed on the display, wherein the button is available on the device in a plurality of different contexts to cause performance of a respective operation in response to an input of a first type detected on the button. While a respective tactile output setting for the button is selected in the button configuration user interface, in response to detecting a first input of a first type on the button, a respective tactile output that corresponds to the respective tactile output setting is generated without causing performance of the respective operation.
Type: Grant
Filed: February 24, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Inventors: Camille Moussette, Jean-Pierre M. Mouilleseaux, Imran A. Chaudhri, Sebastian J. Bauer, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Donald W. Pitschel, Bronwyn A. Jones, Matthew I. Brown
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Techniques to disambiguate angle of arrival
Patent number: 12085657
Abstract: In some aspects, a mobile device may receive, from a transmitting device, the signal by a plurality of antennas. The mobile device may measure one or more phase differences among the signal received at the plurality of antennas. The mobile device may determine a first set of possible values for the angle of arrival that are consistent with the one or more phase differences. The mobile device may measure one or more signal values using one or more sensors of the mobile device. The mobile device may for each of the first set of possible values, determining a confidence score based on the one or more signal values. The mobile device may select, based on the confidence scores, one of the first set of possible values as the angle of arrival.
Type: Grant
Filed: June 4, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Qiang Chen, Robert W. Brumley
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Generating transaction identifiers
Patent number: 12086769
Abstract: To facilitate conducting a financial transaction via wireless communication between an electronic device and another electronic device, the electronic device determines a unique transaction identifier for the financial transaction based on financial-account information communicated to the other electronic device. The financial-account information specifies a financial account that is used to pay for the financial transaction. Moreover, the unique transaction identifier may be capable of being independently computed by one or more other entities associated with the financial transaction (such as a counterparty in the financial transaction or a payment network that processes payment for the financial transaction) based on the financial-account information communicated by the portable electronic device.
Type: Grant
Filed: June 8, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: George R. Dicker, Christopher B. Sharp, Ahmer A. Khan, Yousuf H. Vaid, Glen W. Steele, Christopher D. Adams, David T. Haggerty
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Privacy films for curved displays
Patent number: 12085736
Abstract: A privacy film may have a light-blocking layer that is interposed between first and second transparent substrates. The light-blocking layer may have a plurality of opaque portions and a plurality of transparent portions. The opaque portions may be shaped to ensure light from the display is directed only to the primary viewer of the display. Each opaque portion of the light-blocking layer may extend along a respective longitudinal axis between the first and second transparent substrates. Privacy films used to cover curved displays may have opaque portions that extend along longitudinal axes that have different angles relative to the transparent substrates. Opaque portions in the edge of the privacy film may have longitudinal axes that are at non-perpendicular angles with respect to the transparent substrates. A privacy film for a curved display may also include a light-redirecting layer such as a prism layer or a liquid crystal layer.
Type: Grant
Filed: October 10, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Yi Huang, Steven M. Scardato, ByoungSuk Kim, Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin, Wenyong Zhu
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Logical slot to hardware slot mapping for graphics processors
Patent number: 12086644
Abstract: Disclosed techniques relate to work distribution in graphics processors. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes circuitry that implements a plurality of logical slots and a set of graphics processor sub-units that each implement multiple distributed hardware slots. The circuitry may determine different distribution rules for first and second sets of graphics work and map logical slots to distributed hardware slots based on the distribution rules. In various embodiments, disclosed techniques may advantageously distribute work efficiently across distributed shader processors for graphics kicks of various sizes.
Type: Grant
Filed: August 11, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Andrew M. Havlir, Steven Fishwick, David A. Gotwalt, Benjamin Bowman, Ralph C. Taylor, Melissa L. Velez, Mladen Wilder, Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Fergus W. MacGarry
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Interactive interface for navigating in a user interface associated with a series of content
Patent number: 12086186
Abstract: The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device provides, for display on a display device, a user interface including a first set of columns, two or more columns in the first set of columns each including two or more menu items. The electronic device receives a selection input. In response to receiving the selection input, in accordance with a determination that the selection input corresponds to selection of a first column the electronic device provides, for display on the display device, a second set of columns, two or more of the columns in the second set of columns corresponding to different subsets of menu items that were displayed in the first column that was selected in response to the selection input.
Type: Grant
Filed: October 3, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Joe Howard, Joshua Mc Glinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L Robbin, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress
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Contextual action predictions
Patent number: 12086383
Abstract: This relates generally to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to provide intelligent contextual action predictions by the intelligent automated assistants. An example method includes, at an electronic device displaying a content to a user, receiving a user input on a display area of the displayed content, determining a content type associated with a content object of the displayed content in response to receiving the user input, extracting one or more data items from the determined content type, determining one or more action types of each of the one or more data items and one or more action parameters for the each of the action types, determining one or more suggestive actions based on the determined one or more actions types; and presenting, to the user, at least one suggestive action from the one or more suggestive actions.
Type: Grant
Filed: February 9, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Pallavika Ramaswamy, Cameron Burgess, Gokcen Cilingir, Mert Dumenci, Rishab Mehra, Ari Weinstein, Ilkyu Lee
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Reference switch architectures for noncontact sensing of substances
Patent number: 12085500
Abstract: This relates to systems and methods for measuring a concentration and type of substance in a sample at a sampling interface. The systems can include a light source, optics, one or more modulators, a reference, a detector, and a controller. The systems and methods disclosed can be capable of accounting for drift originating from the light source, one or more optics, and the detector by sharing one or more components between different measurement light paths. Additionally, the systems can be capable of differentiating between different types of drift and eliminating erroneous measurements due to stray light with the placement of one or more modulators between the light source and the sample or reference. Furthermore, the systems can be capable of detecting the substance along various locations and depths within the sample by mapping a detector pixel and a microoptics to the location and depth in the sample.
Type: Grant
Filed: February 20, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Miikka M. Kangas, Mark Alan Arbore, David I. Simon, Michael J. Bishop, James W. Hillendahl, Robert Chen
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Display module and system applications
Patent number: 12087749
Abstract: A display module and system applications including a display module are described. The display module may include a display substrate including a front surface, a back surface, and a display area on the front surface. A plurality of interconnects extend through the display substrate from the front surface to the back surface. An array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are in the display area and electrically connected with the plurality of interconnects, and one or more driver circuits are on the back surface of the display substrate. Exemplary system applications include wearable, rollable, and foldable displays.
Type: Grant
Filed: May 11, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Andreas Bibl, Kapil V. Sakariya, Vikram Pavate
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Venues map application and system
Patent number: 12085406
Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can provide a map application providing a representation of a physical structure of venues (e.g., shopping centers, airports) identified by the application. In addition, the application can provide an inside view that includes the physical layout and geometry of the venue's structure as well as the location, structure and layout of points of interest (e.g., stores, security check points, restrooms) within the venue. The views become more detailed as the user zooms into the venue to reveal points of interest and to give the user a feel for traversing the venue.
Type: Grant
Filed: November 16, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Ryan D. Shelby, Ryan W. Apuy, Vincent P. Arroyo, Sunny Chan, Jae Woo Chang, Megan M. Frost, Brett L. Lareau, Sean P. O'Brien, Tadayasu Sasada, Sebastian A. Araya
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Avoiding paging collisions in a device with multiple subscriptions
Patent number: 12089180
Abstract: In an example method, a user equipment (UE) determines a first identifier assigned to the UE for use on a first wireless communications network and one or more first time slots for monitoring the first wireless communication networks. The UE determines a second identifier assigned to the UE for use on a second wireless communications network and one or more second time slots for monitoring the second wireless communication networks. The UE determines that the one or more first time slots at least partially overlap the one or more second time slots, and in response, transmits to the second wireless communications network, a request for a third identifier to be assigned to the UE for use on the second wireless communications network and/or a request that the one or more second time slots be offset by an interval of time.
Type: Grant
Filed: May 28, 2020
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Ching-Yu Liao, Sudeep Palat, Sheetal Bhasin
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Systems with overlapped displays
Patent number: 12086496
Abstract: A system may include electronic devices that communicate wirelessly. When positioned so that a pair of devices overlap or are near to one another, the devices may operate in a linked mode. During linked operations, devices may communicate wirelessly while input gathering and content displaying operations are shared among the devices. One or both of a pair of devices may have sensors. An orientation sensor, motion sensor, optical sensor, and/or other sensors may be used in identifying conditions in which to enter the linked mode and to identify a region where displays in the pair of devices overlap.
Type: Grant
Filed: March 2, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Paul V. Johnson, Aaron Wang, Dinesh C. Mathew, Jiaying Wu, Paul X. Wang
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Selectable monolithic or external scalable die-to-die interconnection system methodology
Patent number: 12087689
Abstract: Multi-die structures and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a multi-die structure includes a first die, a second die, and die-to-die routing connecting the first die to the second die. The die-to-die interconnection may be monolithically integrated as a chip-level die-to-die routing, or external package-level die-to-die routing.
Type: Grant
Filed: October 17, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Jun Zhai, Jung-Cheng Yeh, Kunzhong Hu, Raymundo Camenforte, Thomas Hoffmann
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Flicker detection using event-based readout circuits
Patent number: 12088925
Abstract: An image capture device may include an image sensor having a plurality of light-sensitive pixel sensors to capture light from a scene for generating images and a flicker detection circuit to detect flicker in the light captured by the image sensor. The flicker detection circuit may include one or more event-based readout circuits and at least one event-based processing circuit. The event-based readout circuits may detect a series of events associated with the flicker in the light captured by the image sensor. The event-based processing circuit may determine a frequency of the flicker in the captured light based on the series of events detected by the event-based readout circuits. In some embodiments, the frequency may be used to adjust the exposure time of the image sensor, e.g., to identify intervals for exposure when the captured light is bright.
Type: Grant
Filed: September 13, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Francesco Cannillo, Emanuele Mandelli
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Intelligent automated assistant
Patent number: 12087308
Abstract: The intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.
Type: Grant
Filed: June 25, 2020
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Thomas R. Gruber, Adam J. Cheyer, Daniel Keen
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Capacitive gap sensor ring for an input device
Patent number: 12086331
Abstract: An input mechanism for a portable electronic device includes a rotational manipulation mechanism, such as a cap or shaft. The input mechanism also includes a sensor having first capacitive elements coupled to the manipulation mechanism, second capacitive elements, and a dielectric positioned between the first and second capacitive elements. Movement of the manipulation mechanism alters the positions of the first and second capacitive elements with respect to each other and is determinable based on capacitance changes resulting therefrom. In some implementations, the second capacitive elements may be part of an inner ring or partial ring nested at least partially within an outer ring or partial ring.
Type: Grant
Filed: September 22, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Collin R. Petty, Adam T. Clavelle
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Rechargeable battery features and components
Patent number: 12087915
Abstract: Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a housing characterized by a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The batteries may include a set of electrodes located within the housing. The set of electrodes may be positioned within the interior region of the housing. The set of electrodes may include a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode may include a tab coupled with a surface of the housing at a distal end and coupled with the first electrode at a proximal end. The tab may be coupled with a first surface of the first electrode. A first insulating material may be applied along a second surface of the first electrode across a section corresponding to a location where the tab is coupled with the first electrode. The batteries may also include a cap at least partially contained within the interior region of the housing. The cap may be characterized by a first surface facing the set of electrodes.
Type: Grant
Filed: March 1, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Christopher R. Pasma, YooEup Hyung, Brian K. Shiu, Stephen J. Wisler
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Dynamically resizable content for electronic devices
Patent number: 12086371
Abstract: Dynamically resizable UI views for electronic devices are disclosed. The dynamically resizable UI views may be UI views for widgets. In one or more implementations, an application provides, to a system process, multiple states for a user interface (UI) view for the application, and one or more transition definitions each defining a transition between two of the multiple states. When a user, or content of the UI view, triggers a change from one of the multiples states to another of the multiple states of the UI view, the system process may animate the change according to the one or more transition definitions. In one or more implementations, an application provides system animated transitions between application UI States, and provides application data to be displayed in the rendered UI view.
Type: Grant
Filed: April 11, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: John S. Harper, Jacob A. Xiao, Neil N. Desai, Patrick R. Metcalfe
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Remotely updating a hearing aid profile
Patent number: 12089008
Abstract: Broadly speaking, the embodiments disclosed herein describe replacing a current hearing aid profile stored in a hearing aid. In one embodiment, the hearing aid profile is updated by sending a hearing aid profile update request to a hearing aid profile service, receiving the updated hearing aid profile from the hearing aid profile service, and replacing the current hearing aid profile in the hearing aid with the updated hearing aid profile.
Type: Grant
Filed: February 14, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Edwin W. Foo, Gregory F. Hughes
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Device, method, and graphical user interface for adjusting a display property of an affordance over changing background content
Patent number: 12086398
Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying the user interface of an application in a first mode, displays an affordance with a first appearance over a portion of the user interface, and values of display properties of the affordance change in accordance with a change in values of display properties of the portion of the user interface that underlies the affordance, in accordance with a first set of rules. Upon transitioning from displaying the user interface in the first mode to displaying the user interface in a second mode, the affordance is displayed with a second appearance, and values of display properties of the affordance change in accordance with a change in the values of display properties of the portion of the user interface that underlies the affordance, in accordance with a second set of rules that are different from the first set of rules.
Type: Grant
Filed: August 16, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Inventors: Wan Si Wan, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Bartosz Ciechanowski, Benjamin E. Nielsen
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Artificial intelligence based channel state information framework
Patent number: 12088380
Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for providing an artificial intelligence based framework for performing channel state information reporting in a wireless communication system. A cellular base station may provide system information for a cell to a wireless device. The system information may indicate that the cell supports artificial intelligence based channel state information reporting. The wireless device may provide wireless device capability information to the cellular base station. The capability information may indicate that the wireless device supports artificial intelligence based channel state information reporting. The wireless device may determine an artificial intelligence model to use to perform channel state information reporting with the cell, and may perform channel state information reporting using the selected artificial intelligence model.
Type: Grant
Filed: November 19, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye, Sigen Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Dawei Zhang
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Device, method, and graphical user interface for media playback
Patent number: 12086399
Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a display, and an input device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a playback status indicator regarding playback of a media item. The method includes displaying, on the display, an image associated with the media item. The method includes detecting an input interacting with the image. In response to a first portion of the input, the method includes adjusting the appearance of the image on the display in accordance with the first portion of the input. In response to a second portion of the input, the method includes changing playback of media items on the device in accordance with the input in accordance with the second portion of the input.
Type: Grant
Filed: December 20, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Alan Dye, Christopher P. Foss, Cyrus D. Irani, David Chance Graham, Drew R. Domm, Eric Lance Wilson, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Matthew J. Cielak, Monika Ewa Gromek, Ofer Morag, Prashant Desai, Stephen O. Lemay, Taylor G. Carrigan, William M. Bachman
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Method and device for masked late-stage shift
Patent number: 12086945
Abstract: In one implementation, a method of performing late-stage shift is performed at a device including a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes generating, based on a first predicted pose of the device for a display time period, a first image. The method includes generating a mask indicating a first region of the first image and a second region of the first image. The method includes generating a second image by shifting, based on a second predicted pose of the device for the display time period, the first region of the first image without shifting the second region of the first image. The method includes displaying, on the display at the display time period, the second image.
Type: Grant
Filed: October 30, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Inventors: Thomas G. Salter, Ganghun Kim, Ioana Negoita, Devin William Chalmers, Anshu Kameswar Chimalamarri, Thomas Justin Moore
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Video pipeline
Patent number: 12086919
Abstract: A mixed reality system that includes a device and a base station that communicate via a wireless connection The device may include sensors that collect information about the user's environment and about the user. The information collected by the sensors may be transmitted to the base station via the wireless connection. The base station renders frames or slices based at least in part on the sensor information received from the device, encodes the frames or slices, and transmits the compressed frames or slices to the device for decoding and display. The base station may provide more computing power than conventional stand-alone systems, and the wireless connection does not tether the device to the base station as in conventional tethered systems. The system may implement methods and apparatus to maintain a target frame rate through the wireless link and to minimize latency in frame rendering, transmittal, and display.
Type: Grant
Filed: June 29, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Arthur Y Zhang, Ray L. Chang, Timothy R. Oriol, Ling Su, Gurjeet S. Saund, Guy Cote, Jim C. Chou, Hao Pan, Tobias Eble, Avi Bar-Zeev, Sheng Zhang, Justin A. Hensley, Geoffrey Stahl
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Methods for conforming non-terrestrial network communication to terrestrial standards and regulations
Patent number: 12088401
Abstract: User equipment may configure a transmitter or receiver to conform to regulations or standards of a geographical region to communicate with non-terrestrial networks (e.g., satellite networks). In one embodiment, the user equipment may receive an indication of a regulation or standard to which to conform to from a terrestrial communication node, and apply an emission mask to the transmitter based on the regulation or standard. The user equipment may additionally or alternatively configure the receiver to be compliant with a noise level tolerance of a received signal specified by the regulation or standard. In some embodiments, the user equipment may implement a frequency offset between the received signal and an interfering signal associated with the noise level tolerance that is scaled based at least on a channel bandwidth associated with the desired signal. Moreover, the user equipment may scale the noise level tolerance based on the frequency offset.
Type: Grant
Filed: April 8, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Anatoliy S Ioffe, Elmar Wagner, Daniel Popp, Fucheng Wang, Camila Priale Olivares, Alexander Sayenko
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Generating an image from a perspective of an intermediate location between first and second image capture points
Patent number: 12086926
Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can simulate a virtual parallax to create three dimensional effects. For example, the computing device can obtain an image captured at a particular location. The captured two-dimensional image can be applied as texture to a three-dimensional model of the capture location. To give the two-dimensional image a three-dimensional look and feel, the computing device can simulate moving the camera used to capture the two-dimensional image to different locations around the image capture location to generate different perspectives of the textured three-dimensional model as if captured by multiple different cameras. Thus, a virtual parallax can be introduced into the generated imagery for the capture location. When presented to the user on a display of the computing device, the generated imagery may have a three-dimensional look and feel even though generated from a single two-dimensional image.
Type: Grant
Filed: February 21, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Gunnar Martin Byrod, Jan H. Bockert, Johan V. Hedberg, Ross W. Anderson
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System information scheduling for reduced capability devices in wireless communication
Patent number: 12089209
Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for system information scheduling for reduced capability devices in wireless communication systems.
Type: Grant
Filed: July 29, 2020
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Sigen Ye
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Electronic devices with deformation-resistant displays
Patent number: 12087187
Abstract: A flexible display in a foldable electronic device may have a display cover layer and display panel that bend around a bend axis. The display panel may have an array of pixels configured to display an image through the display cover layer. The pixels may be formed from thin-film display circuitry that is supported by a flexible display panel substrate. The flexible substrate may be supported by a display support plate that bends about the bend axis. The display may be configured to allow attachment of the display panel substrate to the display support plate while helping to prevent undesired localized deformation of the thin-film display circuitry.
Type: Grant
Filed: January 20, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Yasmin F. Afsar, Ben Hightower, Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, Chang-Chia Huang, Hoon Sik Kim, Paul S. Drzaic, Prashant Mandlik, Terry C. Lam, Wen-I Hsieh, Zhichun Shao
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Multi-transmission and reception point operation
Patent number: 12089210
Abstract: Supporting transmission of multiple hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgments (HARQ-ACKS) within a single slot may include encoding a first HARQ-ACK and a second HARQ-ACK within the single slot for transmission to a base station. The first HARQ-ACK may be transmitted via a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and the second HARQ-ACK may be transmitted via a second PUCCH. Based on encoding the first HARQ-ACK and the second HARQ-ACK within the single slot, one or more additional uplink (UL) signals colliding with at least one of the first HARQ-ACK and the second HARQ-ACK within the single slot may be responded to based on a configuration of the UE.
Type: Grant
Filed: September 27, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jia Tang, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
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Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Patent number: D1041480
Type: Grant
Filed: June 6, 2021
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Daniel T. Preston, Christopher Daryl Soli
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Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Patent number: D1041484
Type: Grant
Filed: June 5, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Graham R. Clarke, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Alan C. Dye, Christopher P. Foss, Deena Ahmed Khattab, William McMillan Tyler, Eric Lance Wilson
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Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Patent number: D1041492
Type: Grant
Filed: April 19, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Aurelio Guzmán, Christopher Daryl Soli
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Electronic device or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Patent number: D1041499
Type: Grant
Filed: September 13, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Steffen Gehring, Andrea Gozzi, Raphael Anselmo Hene
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Display screen or portion thereof with icon set
Patent number: D1041505
Type: Grant
Filed: December 21, 2022
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: Joseph Andrew Magnani, Joseph Stanley Phillips, Erick Orlando De La Rosa, Hannah Rose Suvalko
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Building
Patent number: D1041683
Type: Grant
Filed: June 28, 2023
Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc.
Inventors: James O'Callaghan, Graham Coult, Vladimir Marinov, Peter Lenk, Stefan Behling, David Summerfield, David Nelson, James McGrath, Roger Ridsdill-Smith, James Bishop, Rafe Bertram, Robert Bridger, Jonathan P Siegel
