Apple Inc. patent applications published on November 30th, 2023

Summary of the patent applications from Apple Inc. on November 30th, 2023

Apple Inc. has recently filed several patents related to electronic devices, power-saving techniques, communication channels, buffering messages, managing network operators, messaging systems, altering visual media, and displaying images. These patents showcase Apple's ongoing efforts to innovate and improve various aspects of their products and services.

In terms of electronic devices, Apple has filed a patent for a display with pixels in an active area, where a hole or inactive region is formed within the active area. Multiple gate lines carrying the same signal are merged together before being routed around the hole to reduce congestion. Dummy circuits are added to increase the parasitic loading on the merged segments. This innovation aims to maximize the active area and accommodate multiple sub-display sensor components.

In the power-saving techniques patent, Apple describes a device that can be set to a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, receiving signaling to wake up or go to sleep. The signaling can be specific to a group of devices, focusing on improving power efficiency.

For communication over common control channels, Apple's patent involves a User Equipment (UE) determining a selected Common Control Channel (CCCH) message configuration and generating an Uplink (UL) CCCH message according to the selected configuration. The UL CCCH message includes a Medium Access Control (MAC) header with a Logical Channel Identify (ID) field, transmitted to a Next Generation Node B (gNB) over a logical channel.

In the ultra-wide band (UWB) network, Apple's patent describes a system for coordinating and managing communication channels using an out-of-band (OOB) channel arbitration scheme. Devices periodically transmit advertisement packets containing UWB channel usage patterns, enabling efficient and coordinated use of the UWB channel.

In the messaging system patent, Apple introduces a method for two different messaging apps on separate devices to exchange messages and transmit content from extension apps. The content can be processed by the extension apps and displayed in message bubbles within a conversation transcript.

Apple's patents also cover user interfaces for altering visual media, displaying a stream of images, and managing media capture. These user interfaces allow for capturing, playing back, editing, and managing visual media with synthetic depth-of-field effects.

Notable applications:

• Electronic device with a display and hole/inactive region for accommodating sub-display sensor components.
• Power-saving techniques for devices, focusing on improving power efficiency.
• Communication over common control channels, including UL CCCH message generation and transmission.
• Coordinating and managing communication channels in a UWB network using an OOB channel arbitration scheme.
• Buffering paging or notification messages during ongoing procedures.
• Managing a list of preferred network operators and selecting a PLMN based on the list.
• Messaging system allowing exchange of messages and content between different apps on separate devices.
• User interfaces for altering visual media with synthetic depth-of-field effects.
• Displaying a stream of images with focus on a specific area of the display.
• Efficient transportation and storage of image data using superframes.

Patent applications for Apple Inc. on November 30th, 2023

Seals for Optical Components (18447209)

Main Inventor

Zachary M Beiley

Controlled Deployment of Structures (18134136)

Main Inventor

Arturo Llamazares Domper

Sensor Module Having an Intermediate Pedestal on Which One or More Die Are Mounted (18125649)

Main Inventor

Caleb C. Han

Built-in Self-Test for Die-to-Die Physical Interfaces (18303401)

Main Inventor

Fabien S. Faure

A lidar system with enhanced performance (18154880)

Main Inventor

Vladimir Koifman

Electronic Device With Facial Sensors (18447045)

Main Inventor

Muhammad F. Hossain

ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH MAGNETIC FIELD SENSOR DESIGN FOR DETECTION OF MULTIPLE ACCESSORIES (18231725)

Main Inventor

Christopher M. PINCIUC

ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH STRUCTURAL GLASS MEMBERS (18233362)

Main Inventor

Jeremy C. Franklin

Input Devices Incorporating Biometric Sensors (18231896)

Main Inventor

Robert Y. Cao

Hinged Wearable Electronic Devices (18448081)

Main Inventor

Paul X. Wang

Scalable, Hierarchical Power Delivery System (18326430)

Main Inventor

Keith Cox

ADAPTIVE WAKE-UP FOR POWER CONSERVATION IN A PROCESSOR (17664999)

Main Inventor

Ping Zhou

DEVICES, METHODS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING A REPRESENTATION OF A USER (18131833)

Main Inventor

Amy E. DEDONATO

Electronic Device with an Input Device Having a Haptic Engine (18233112)

Main Inventor

Tyler S. Bushnell

GESTURE DETECTION, LIST NAVIGATION, AND ITEM SELECTION USING A CROWN AND SENSORS (18232710)

Main Inventor

Colin M. ELY

Devices, Methods, and User Interfaces for Processing Input Events (18234259)

Main Inventor

Jason Clay Beaver

NAVIGATING USER INTERFACES WITH MULTIPLE NAVIGATION MODES (18325378)

Main Inventor

Christopher J. SANDERS

DIFFERENTIAL ACOUSTIC TOUCH AND FORCE SENSING (18325565)

Main Inventor

Marduke YOUSEFPOR

INPUT LOCATION CORRECTION BASED ON DEVICE MOTION (18231649)

Main Inventor

Adam S. Meyer

METHODS FOR RELATIVE MANIPULATION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT (18298994)

Main Inventor

Benjamin H. BOESEL

HANDWRITING KEYBOARD FOR SCREENS (18141754)

Main Inventor

Ryan S. DIXON

Private Memory Management using Utility Thread (18362686)

Main Inventor

Benjiman L. Goodman

Secure Public Key Acceleration (18301860)

Main Inventor

Timothy R. Paaske

MANIPULATION OF HANDWRITTEN CONTENT ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE (18325968)

Main Inventor

Jennifer P. CHEN

Electronic Devices With Optical Identification Sensor (18446228)

Main Inventor

David D. Dashevsky

SEMANTICS PRESERVATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS DEPLOYED AS DEPENDENT ON OTHER MACHINE LEARNING MODELS (18228645)

Main Inventor

Edouard GODFREY

Two-Layer Bandit Optimization for Recommendations (18318513)

Main Inventor

Siyong Ma

Changing Locked Modes Associated with Display of Computer-Generated Content (18200552)

Main Inventor

Gregory Lutter

INSERTING IMAGERY FROM A REAL ENVIRONMENT INTO A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT (18233653)

Main Inventor

Bertrand NEPVEU

Systems, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Displaying and Manipulating Virtual Objects in Augmented Reality Environments (18219627)

Main Inventor

Nicolas V. Scapel

METHOD AND DEVICES FOR PRESENTING AND MANIPULATING CONDITIONALLY DEPENDENT SYNTHESIZED REALITY CONTENT THREADS (18233867)

Main Inventor

Ian M. Richter

Systems and Methods for Switching Vision Correction Graphical Outputs on a Display of an Electronic Device (18141751)

Main Inventor

Sung Chang Lee

DIGITAL ASSISTANT RESPONSE FRAMEWORK (17944752)

Main Inventor

Rebecca P. FISH

REDUCING THE NEED FOR MANUAL START/END-POINTING AND TRIGGER PHRASES (18231135)

Main Inventor

Philippe P. PIERNOT

DIGITAL ASSISTANT INTERACTION IN A VIDEO COMMUNICATION SESSION ENVIRONMENT (18232267)

Main Inventor

Niranjan MANJUNATH

DETECTING VISUAL ATTENTION DURING USER SPEECH (18132793)

Main Inventor

Maxwell C. HORTON

SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR MULTIPLE USERS USING SPEECH PROFILE COMBINATION (17939805)

Main Inventor

Leo LIU

Embedded Packaging Concepts for Integration of ASICs and Optical Components (18316962)

Main Inventor

Kishore N. Renjan

DISPLAY WITH EMBEDDED PIXEL DRIVER CHIPS (18303929)

Main Inventor

Hsin-Hua Hu

BATTERY CONFIGURATIONS HAVING THROUGH-PACK FASTENERS (18308672)

Main Inventor

Dylan Erb

BATTERY PACK BUS SYSTEMS (17804822)

Main Inventor

Abraham B. Caulk

BATTERY PACK BUS SYSTEMS (17804817)

Main Inventor

Abraham B. Caulk

BATTERY PACK BUS SYSTEMS (18329558)

Main Inventor

Abraham B. Caulk

Electronic Devices with Interconnected Ground Structures (17828859)

Main Inventor

Siddharth Ravichandran

Data Detection on Serial Communication Links (17823952)

Main Inventor

Vishal Varma

Ultra-Wide Band Channel Access–Opportunistic Reservation (17951280)

Main Inventor

Lochan Verma

BEAMFORMING MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS (18448051)

Main Inventor

Yushu Zhang

Reference Clock Switching in Phase-Locked Loop Circuits (18152492)

Main Inventor

Hairong Yu

Analog Channel Equalization and Channel Adaptation (17804476)

Main Inventor

Lizhi Zhong

Data Encoding and Packet Sharing in a Parallel Communication Interface (18326246)

Main Inventor

Dany Davidov

GROUP COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM (18232822)

Main Inventor

Bruno M. SOMMER

ACCELERATED TASK PERFORMANCE (18204884)

Main Inventor

Ari WEINSTEIN

ENVIRONMENT FOR REMOTE COMMUNICATION (18231437)

Main Inventor

Devin W. CHALMERS

TRANSMISSION AND CONSUMPTION OF MULTIPLE IMAGE SUBFRAMES VIA SUPERFRAME (18231648)

Main Inventor

Yung-Chin Chen

System and Method for Displaying a Stream of Images (18214752)

Main Inventor

Eberhard Schmidt

USER INTERFACES FOR ALTERING VISUAL MEDIA (18228591)

Main Inventor

Johnnie B. MANZARI

MESSAGING SYSTEM INTERACTING WITH DYNAMIC EXTENSION APP (18231230)

Main Inventor

Stephen M. LOTTERMOSER

Steering of Roaming PLMN List Update and Management (18324706)

Main Inventor

Sridhar Prakasam

PAGING COLLISION WITH 5GMM SPECIFIC PROCEDURE OR SERVICE REQUEST PROCEDURE (18044937)

Main Inventor

Nitin KUPPELUR

Ultra-Wide Band Channel Access-Periodic Reservation (17951328)

Main Inventor

Lochan Verma

APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATION OVER COMMON CONTROL CHANNELS (18233571)

Main Inventor

Sudeep PALAT

Systems, Methods, and Devices for Signaling for Power Saving (18335762)

Main Inventor

Toufiqul Islam

Reducing Border Width Around a Hole in Display Active Area (18449611)

Main Inventor

Warren S. Rieutort-Louis