Apple Inc. patent applications on January 25th, 2024
Patent Applications by Apple Inc. on January 25th, 2024
Apple Inc.: 110 patent applications
Apple Inc. has applied for patents in the areas of H04L5/00 (14), H04W72/23 (10), H04B7/06 (8), H04W72/1273 (8), H04L1/1812 (7)
With keywords such as: device, transmission, user, information, display, based, data, include, control, and channel in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by Apple Inc.
20240023830.Method and Device for Tiered Posture Awareness_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Thomas G. Salter of Foster City CA (US) for apple inc., Adeeti V. Ullal of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Alexander G. Bruno of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Daniel M. Trietsch of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Edith M. Arnold of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Edwin Iskandar of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ioana Negoita of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., James J. Dunne of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Johahn Y. Leung of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram of Frederick MD (US) for apple inc., Matthew S. DeMers of Lexington KY (US) for apple inc., Thomas J. Moore of Northglenn CO (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): A61B5/11, G06F3/01
Abstract: in one implementation, a method is performed for tiered posture awareness. the method includes: while presenting a three-dimensional (3d) environment, via the display device, obtaining head pose information for a user associated with the computing system; determining an accumulated strain value for the user based on the head pose information; and in accordance with a determination that the accumulated strain value for the user exceeds a first posture awareness threshold: determining a location for virtual content based on a height value associated with the user and a depth value associated with the 3d environment; and presenting, via the display device, the virtual content at the determined location while continuing to present the 3d environment via the display device.
20240025154.Laminated Windows_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): David E. Kingman of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Albert J. Golko of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Dale N. Memering of New York NY (US) for apple inc., Peter F. Masschelein of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): B32B17/10, B32B1/00, B60J1/00
Abstract: a window in a system may have inner and outer window layers. the inner and outer window layers may be formed from molded glass plates. the inner window layer may have a molded convex surface formed by molding a first glass plate against a mold with a concave surface. the inner window layer may have an opposing non-molded surface that does not contact the mold during molding operations and is smoother than the molded convex surface. the outer window layer may have a molded concave surface formed by molding a second glass plate against a mold with a convex surface. the outer window layer may have an opposing non-molded surface that is not contacted by the mold during molding operations and is smoother than molded convex surface. a layer of polymer may join the inner and outer window layers with their molded surfaces facing each other.
20240025313.Storage Area_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Philipp J. Wolf of Capistrano Beach CA (US) for apple inc., James J. Dowle of Laguna Beach CA (US) for apple inc., Per G. Isaksson of Gothenburg (SE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): B60N2/30
Abstract: a body defines a compartment. a bottom and a back are positioned in the compartment and reconfigurable between a first configuration and a second configuration. the bottom defines a storage area therebelow. the bottom and the back are coupled to and supported by the body. in the first configuration relative to the second configuration, the bottom is positioned toward a central portion of the compartment and the back is pivoted away from the central portion. the storage area is accessible from the central portion of the compartment.
20240025324.Support Structures_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Pranay Kumar Reddy Valluru of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Trent Storm of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Lukas Hornung of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Arturo Llamazares Domper of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew I. Woods of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): B60N3/02
Abstract: a support assembly includes a bracket coupled to a structural portion. the bracket is configured to prevent relative motion between the end portion and the bracket when a first load is applied in a first direction, and the bracket is configured to allow relative motion between the end portion and the bracket when a second load is applied in a second direction that is different than the first direction. in some implementations, relative motion may be allowed when the second load exceeds a threshold value.
Inventor(s): Shanni A. Weilert of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ryan Studelska of Bethlehem GA (US) for apple inc., Ren Wang of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Ievgeniia Gutenko of Port Jefferson NY (US) for apple inc., Fang Ji of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Andrei Makhanov of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Aditya Rane of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Jarad M. Fisher of Los Angeles CA (US) for apple inc., Akila Suresh of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ashish C. Nagre of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Andrew Williams of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Victor Shugaev of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01C21/36, G01C21/32, G01C21/34, G06N20/00
Abstract: the present technology improves points-of-interest (pois) in applications by the gathering and use of data available from various sources to improve metadata of pois in applications (e.g., map applications) or any other metadata or information that may be of interest to a user regarding any given poi. the present technology resolves transactions to pois or brands (in a map application, for example) and improves, updates, creates, and removes pols/brands. the present technology can also gain a clear name, granular and correct categorization, a url, phone/chat contact info, etc. of the transactions.
20240027570.ULTRA-WIDEBAND CHANNEL USAGE COORDINATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Lochan Verma of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Robert Golshan of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Robert W. Brumley of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yong Liu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01S5/02, G01S17/50, H04W64/00
Abstract: a wireless device may coordinate uwb channel usage with neighboring devices. in some embodiments, an initiator may periodically send an ultra-wideband acquisition packets (uwb-ap). the uwb-ap may comprise information of future uwb channel usage of the initiator. neighboring uwb devices may receive the uwb-ap and adjust channel usage based on the uwb-ap.
20240027654.GLASS LAMINATE WITH AN OUTER GRADIENT LAYER_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Lijie Bao of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Que Anh S. Nguyen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Tyler R. Roschuk of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ralf Hofmann of Soquel CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew S. Rogers of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B1/14, C23C14/10, C23C14/06, C23C14/34, C23C14/00, C03C17/34
Abstract: an electronic device can include a housing, a display positioned within the housing; and a cover glass disposed over the display and attached to the housing. the cover glass can include a glass sheet; a hard coat layer disposed on the glass sheet, having a hardness greater than a hardness of the glass sheet; and a gradient layer deposited on the hard coat layer and having a composition that transitions from a first composition at the hard coat layer to a second composition at a top surface of the gradient layer. the first composition can be predominantly a composition of the hard coat layer and the second composition is different than the first composition. the second composition can be predominantly sio2. the hard coat layer can include sion. the cover glass can include an intermediate gradient layer disposed between the glass sheet and the hard coat layer.
20240027753.Electronic Devices With Rearward-Facing Sensors_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Michael J. Oudenhoven of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Brian S. Lau of Sacramento CA (US) for apple inc., Cameron A. Harder of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Depeng Wang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Vikrant Bhakta of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/00, G02B17/08, G06F3/01, G06F1/16
Abstract: a head-mounted device may have a housing with a frame that supports lenses. each lens may have a positive bias lens element and a negative bias lens element. a waveguide may overlap the lens. during operation, images from the waveguide may be provided to an eye box through the negative bias lens element. an eye sensor such as a gaze tracking camera may operate through the negative bias lens element. the negative bias lens element may have a protruding portion through which the sensor operates, may have a surface facing the sensor that has a curved surface to provide a desired lens characteristic, may have a prism for helping to couple light from the eye box to the eye sensor, and/or may have other features to facilitate use of the eye sensor to monitor the eye of a user in the eye box.
20240027772.Electronic Devices With Sensors_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Michael J. Oudenhoven of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Brian S. Lau of Sacramento CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan M. Anderson of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01, H03K17/96
Abstract: electronic devices such as head-mounted electronic devices may include displays for presenting images to users. to accommodate variations in the interpupillary distances associated with different users, a head-mounted device may have actuators that move left-eye and right-eye optical modules with respect to each other. to hide internal structures from view, the rear of a head-mounted device may be provided with a cover. capacitance sensor circuitry and/or switch-based sensor circuitry may use electrodes to measure nose contact arising from movement of the optical modules towards each other against the sides of a user's nose. the actuators may be halted or may otherwise be moved in response to sensor measurements, thereby avoiding undesired nose pressure as the optical modules are moved towards each other to accommodate a user's interpupillary distance.
Inventor(s): James E. Pedder of Oxfordshire (GB) for apple inc., Igor Stamenov of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Richard J. Topliss of Cambridge (GB) for apple inc., Thomas M. Gregory of Cambridgeshire (GB) for apple inc., Michael D. Simmonds of Kent (GB) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01, G02B3/14
Abstract: a lens module may include a first lens element, a lens shaping structure that is coupled to the first lens element, and a plurality of actuators that are configured to adjust a position of the lens shaping structure to adjust the first lens element. the lens module may also include a second lens element and a fluid-filled chamber between the first and second lens elements. to allow dynamic adjustments of the second lens element without requiring additional actuators, the second lens element may be a semi-rigid lens element. when the actuators adjust the curvature of the first lens element, the gauge pressure applied to the second lens element is changed. this causes a change in curvature of the second lens element. the actuators may therefore adjust the curvature of both the first and second lens elements even though none of the actuators are attached to the second lens element.
20240027778.Head-Mounted Electronic Device_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ivan S. Maric of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Aidan N. Zimmerman of Poway CA (US) for apple inc., Brian Baillargeon of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Evan D. Christensen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jason C. Sauers of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Jia Tao of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Phil M. Hobson of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., Sivesh Selvakumar of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01, G02C5/02, G02C9/00
Abstract: a head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. the housing may include a chassis with left and right openings that overlap respective left and right optical modules that present images eye boxes. each optical module may have a lens and display that presents an image through the lens. the chassis may have an inner frame and outer frame. a middle portion of the chassis may form a stiffened nose bridge structure. components in the housing such as a display, a fan housing, a heat sink layer, optical module guide rods, and a rear cover may span the width of the housing and may be attached to edge portions of the chassis, thereby forming a box-shaped structure that provides rigidity and helps prevent housing deformation.
20240027847.Pixel Layouts for Electronic Device Displays_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yuechen Wu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Xiaokai Li of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Cheng-Ho Yu of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Zhibing Ge of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02F1/1343, G02F1/1335
Abstract: increasing resolution of liquid crystal displays may result in small distances between adjacent liquid crystal display pixels. this tight pixel spacing may reduce transmission through the liquid crystal display pixels and may result in cross-talk between the liquid crystal display pixels. to increase transmission and, correspondingly, display efficiency, a reflective layer may be included in the liquid crystal display. the reflective layer recycles backlight that may otherwise be absorbed, improving transmittance and efficiency. to reduce color shift and color mixing caused by cross-talk, the pixels may have their pixel electrodes arranged in a zigzag layout. each pixel electrode may have a height that is less than or equal to the total height of the pixel divided by two. the pixel electrodes in a given row are also alternatingly coupled to first and second gate lines. this zigzag layout results in an increased distance between adjacent pixel electrodes, mitigating pixel cross-talk.
20240028059.SPLIT PASS DEVICE APPLICATIONS FOR DAC SUPPLY SYSTEMS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Antonio Passamani of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Timo W. Gossmann of Neubiberg (DE) for apple inc., Adrien F. Vargas of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Guillaume Gourlat of Munich (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G05F1/46, G05F1/56, G05F1/575, H03M1/66, H03F3/45
Abstract: the present disclosure relates to power management for digital-to-analog converters (dacs). as electronic devices and the components therein become increasingly smaller to satisfy the desire for more compact/portable devices, the operating voltage may be reduced to reduce the likelihood of shorts and/or voltage/current bleeds. to maintain comparable power output with the reduced operating voltage, the current may increase proportionally to the decrease in voltage. consequently, in scaled devices and applications, high-current low-voltage regulators may be beneficial. as such, a low-dropout regulator (ldo) including one or more operational amplifiers and multiple pass devices may be implemented between a power supply and the dac to regulate the power supply to the dac. moreover, the ldo may include one or more feedback loops to maintain a desired voltage regulation of the pass devices.
20240028060.SPLIT PASS DEVICE APPLICATIONS FOR DAC SUPPLY SYSTEMS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Antonio Passamani of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Timo W Gossmann of Neubiberg (DE) for apple inc., Adrien F Vargas of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Guillaume Gourlat of Munich (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G05F1/46, H03M1/66, G05F1/56, G05F1/575, H03F3/45
Abstract: the present disclosure relates to power management for digital-to-analog converters (dacs). as electronic devices and the components therein become increasingly smaller to satisfy the desire for more compact/portable devices, the operating voltage may be reduced to reduce the likelihood of shorts and/or voltage/current bleeds. to maintain comparable power output with the reduced operating voltage, the current may increase proportionally to the decrease in voltage. consequently, in scaled devices and applications, high-current low-voltage regulators may be beneficial. as such, a low-dropout regulator (ldo) including one or more operational amplifiers and multiple pass devices may be implemented between a power supply and the dac to regulate the power supply to the dac. moreover, the ldo may include one or more feedback loops to maintain a desired voltage regulation of the pass devices.
20240028070.Coatings for Textured Glass_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Laura S Connelly of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Que Anh S Nguyen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew S Rogers of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Tyler R Roschuk of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/16, C03C17/22, C03C17/23, C03C17/34
Abstract: electronic devices may be provided with optical components such as displays and sensors that emit and/or detect visible and/or infrared light. the optical components may be mounted in a housing and covered by a textured glass cover layer. the textured glass cover layer may have an antireflection coating formed from a stack of alternating higher index and lower index inorganic dielectric layers. an outermost one of the inorganic dielectric layers may have a hardness greater than quartz to help the antireflection coating resist abrasion. the coating may optionally include a layer of diamond-like carbon to reduce friction and an oleophobic polymer coating to resist fingerprint smudging.
20240028072.Devices With Detachable Headbands_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Toria F. Yan of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ryan M. David of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Ryan Fernandez of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Tingqing Liao of Shenzhen (CN) for apple inc., Yunhe Huang of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc., Bingda Liu of Shenzhen (CN) for apple inc., Hao Zhu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Lauren D. Gerardi of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Benjamin A. Shaffer of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Robert V. Tang of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Richard P. Howarth of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Nicolas Lylyk of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Thomas Richard Routh of Pemberton (CA) for apple inc., Alex Warburton of Squamish (CA) for apple inc., Uwe Michael Homm of Squamish (CA) for apple inc., James Russell Griffin of Squamish (CA) for apple inc., Michael Scott Pritchett of Pemberton (CA) for apple inc., Kathryn Lorraine Pritchett of Pemberton (CA) for apple inc., Sion Gwynn of Whistler (CA) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/16
Abstract: a head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing containing rear-facing displays that display images for a user when the head-mounted housing is worn by the user. the head-mounted device housing may have housing structures such as elongated housing members with protruding posts. a headband may be removably coupled to the head-mounted device housing. the headband may have a strap with openings configured to receive the posts. releasable latches may be provided to allow selective engagement and disengagement between the headband and the housing. the latches may contain movable latch members that are biased using magnetic biasing mechanisms, spring-based biasing mechanisms, or other biasing mechanisms. to release each latch, a tab, button, toggle lever, slider, or other release mechanisms may be actuated by a user. this moves the movable latch member from a closed latch position to an open latch position that releases the headband from the housing.
20240028103.Mechanism for Saving Power on a Bus Interface_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Itay Franko of Toronto (CA) for apple inc., Derek Iwamoto of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Mark Ferdinand Damarillo of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., William O. Ferry of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yi-Chun Chen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/3234, G06F1/3296, H04B3/36, G06F11/30, G06F1/3209
Abstract: systems, apparatuses, and methods for saving power on a bus interface are described. a system includes a host, a device, and a repeater interposed between the host and the device. while the host and device are in a low-power state, the repeater monitors a first bus to determine if the device has woken up. when the repeater detects a remote wake-up event initiated by the device, the repeater generates an interrupt which is sent to the host. the host responds to the interrupt by initiating a resume wake-up event procedure that assumes the device is still asleep. in this way, the host is able to stay in the low-power state longer while also using a wake-up procedure that does not require the host to be aware of the existence of the repeater.
Inventor(s): Julian K. Missig of Burlingame CA (US) for apple inc., Rachel L. Ciavarella of Pompton Plains NJ (US) for apple inc., Jeffrey Traer Bernstein of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Linda L. Dong of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/02, G06F3/04847, G06F3/04883, G06F3/0482, G06F3/04817, G06F3/041, G06F21/32, H04M1/72403
Abstract: an electronic device with a display and an embedded fingerprint sensor displays a lock screen on the display. while displaying the lock screen, the electronic device detects a first touch input on the embedded fingerprint sensor. in response to detecting the first touch input on the embedded fingerprint sensor: the electronic device, in accordance with a determination that first timing criteria are met, displays content of a plurality of messages; and the electronic device, in accordance with a determination that second timing criteria, different from the first timing criteria are met, ceases to display the lock screen and displaying a home screen use interface for the electronic device with a plurality of application icons.
Inventor(s): Sagar R. VAZE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Marduke YOUSEFPOR of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Amit NAYYAR of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/041, G06F3/044
Abstract: differential driving and/or sensing can reduce noise in a touch screen. in some examples, the touch screen can include column and row electrodes routed vertically in the active area. in some examples, the touch electrodes and/or routing traces can be implemented using metal mesh in first and second metal layers. to improve optical performance, overlapping portions of metal mesh can be designed to provide an appearance of uniform width/area. in some examples, a dielectric layer can have an increased thickness and/or a reduced dielectric constant, and/or metal mesh in the first metal layer can be flooded with a transparent conductive material. in some examples, routing traces can be disposed beneath touch electrodes and/or metal mesh for touch electrodes can be flooded with a transparent conductive material without flooding metal mesh for routing traces. in some examples, touch electrodes can be interleaved within a touch node to improve differential cancelation.
Inventor(s): Dylan R. EDWARDS of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Morgan A. PRICE of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Bryan A. JOW of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Nathan DE VRIES of Alameda CA (US) for apple inc., Nahir A. KHAN of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Simon J. PARSONS of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/041, G06F3/04842, G06F3/0488
Abstract: in some embodiments, an electronic device dynamically assigns functionalities to one or more buttons depending on an orientation associated with the device.
Inventor(s): Jason N Gomez of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Hyunwoo Nho of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Jason C Hu of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Kwang Soon Park of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Kyung Wook Kim of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., James E Brown of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Won Ryu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Myungjoon Choi of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yao Shi of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., ByoungSuk Kim of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Vehbi Calayir of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Peng Li of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Evan P Donoghue of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/041
Abstract: an electronic display may include a touch sensing system configured to perform touch sensing in an active area of the electronic display and display driver circuitry configured to program display pixels of the active area to emit light. the electronic display may also include the active area. the active area may include a first portion and a second portion that are at least partially electrically separated. the display driver circuitry may program the display pixels in the first portion while the touch sensing circuitry may perform touch sensing in the second portion.
Inventor(s): Israel PASTRANA VICENTE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Benjamin H. BOESEL of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Shih-Sang CHIU of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., Graham R. CLARKE of Scotts Valley CA (US) for apple inc., Miquel ESTANY RODRIGUEZ of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Chia Yang LIN of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., James J. OWEN of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan RAVASZ of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., William A. SORRENTINO, III of Mill Valley CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04815, G06T17/00, G06T3/40, G06T5/00, G06F3/01, G06F3/0488, G06F3/04845
Abstract: the present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for electronic devices, including user interfaces for viewing and interacting with media items.
20240028282.DEVICE CONNECTORS FOR SENSOR INTEGRATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Darshan R. Kasar of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Grant H. Mulliken of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Javier Mendez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Erin M. Bosch of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/14, G06F3/01
Abstract: an apparatus includes a display, a facial interface, a sensor attached to the facial interface, and at least one of a communication interface or a power interface coupled to the sensor.
Inventor(s): Niket K. Choudhary of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Mary D. Brown of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Ethan R. Schuchman of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Ronald P. Hall of Cedar Park TX (US) for apple inc., Ian D. Kountanis of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Douglas C. Holman of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Ilhyun Kim of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Abhishek Kumar of Chicago IL (US) for apple inc., Siavash Zangeneh Kamali of Austin TX (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F9/38, G06F12/0875
Abstract: an apparatus includes an instruction cache circuit and an instruction fetch circuit. the instruction fetch circuit is configured to retrieve, from the instruction cache circuit, a fetch group that includes a plurality of instructions for execution by a processing circuit, and to make a determination that the fetch group includes a control transfer instruction that is predicted to be taken. a target address associated with the control transfer instruction is directed to an instruction within the fetch group. the instruction fetch circuit is further configured to, based on the determination, alter instructions within the fetch group in a manner that is based on a type of the control transfer instruction.
20240028429.MULTIPLE NOTIFICATION USER INTERFACE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Hugo VERWEIJ of Portola Valley CA (US) for apple inc., Mitchell LERNER of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., David Chance GRAHAM of Columbus OH (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F9/54, G06F9/48, G06F3/16
Abstract: the present disclosure generally relates to audio output for time-based notifications. enhanced alerts for time-based notifications based on various notification conditions provides users with clarity about which notifications are being output, thereby providing an improved user interface.
20240028689.SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ACCOUNT VERIFICATION UPGRADE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Richard J. Mondello of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Jay S. Mulani of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan Birdsall of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Dmitry V. Belov of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Reza Abbasian of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., David P. Quesada of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Patrick L. Coffman of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F21/41, G06F21/46
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.
20240028890.DISTRIBUTED LABELING FOR SUPERVISED LEARNING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Abhishek BHOWMICK of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Ryan M. ROGERS of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Umesh S. VAISHAMPAYAN of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Andrew H. VYRROS of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06N3/08, G06N3/04, G06N3/10, G06N3/044, G06N3/045
Abstract: embodiments described herein provide a technique to crowdsource labeling of training data for a machine learning model while maintaining the privacy of the data provided by crowdsourcing participants. client devices can be used to generate proposed labels for a unit of data to be used in a training dataset. one or more privacy mechanisms are used to protect user data when transmitting the data to a server. the server can aggregate the proposed labels and use the most frequently proposed labels for an element as the label for the element when generating training data for the machine learning model. the machine learning model is then trained using the crowdsourced labels to improve the accuracy of the model.
[[20240028894.SPLITTING OF INPUT DATA FOR PROCESSING IN NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSOR_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)]]
Inventor(s): Christopher L. MILLS of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06N3/08, G06N3/06, G06N7/04, G06N3/045
Abstract: embodiments of the present disclosure relate to splitting input data into smaller units for loading into a data buffer and neural engines in a neural processor circuit for performing neural network operations. the input data of a large size is split into slices and each slice is again split into tiles. the tile is uploaded from an external source to a data buffer inside the neural processor circuit but outside the neural engines. each tile is again split into work units sized for storing in an input buffer circuit inside each neural engine. the input data stored in the data buffer and the input buffer circuit is reused by the neural engines to reduce re-fetching of input data. operations of splitting the input data are performed at various components of the neural processor circuit under the management of rasterizers provided in these components.
Inventor(s): Chihsin WU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., David R. Pope of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Sheng Lin of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Amnon D. Silverstein of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T3/40, H04N23/88
Abstract: a foveated down sampling and correction (fds-c) circuit for combined down sampling and correction of chromatic aberrations in images. the fds-c circuit performs down sampling and interpolation of pixel values of a first subset of pixels of a color in a raw image using down sampling scale factors and first interpolation coefficients to generate first corrected pixel values for pixels of the color in a first corrected version of the raw image. the fds-c circuit further performs interpolation of pixel values of a second subset of the pixels in the first corrected version using second interpolation coefficients to generate second corrected pixel values for pixels of the color in a second corrected version of the raw image. pixels in the first subset are arranged in a first direction, pixels in the second subset are arranged in a second direction, and the down sampling scale factors vary along the first direction.
20240029210.DETECTING KEYPOINTS IN IMAGE DATA_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): David R. Pope of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T5/00, H04N9/64, G06V10/46, G06V10/56, G06V10/94, G06T7/10
Abstract: methods and systems for detecting keypoints in image data may include an image sensor interface receiving pixel data from an image sensor. a front-end pixel data processing circuit may receive pixel data and convert the pixel data to a different color space format. a back-end pixel data processing circuit may perform one or more operations on the pixel data. an output circuit may receive pixel data and output the pixel data to a system memory. a keypoint detection circuit may receive pixel data from the image sensor interface in the image sensor pixel data format or receive pixel data after processing by the front-end or the back-end pixel data processing circuits. the keypoint detection circuit may perform a keypoint detection operation on the pixel data to detect one or more keypoints in the image frame and output to the system memory a description of the one or more keypoints.
20240029334.TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING AN AVATAR ON A LOCK SCREEN_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Raymond S. SEPULVEDA of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Kevin N. ARMSTRONG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Amaury BALLIET of Paris (FR) for apple inc., Adam M. COTUGNO of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., Lisa K. FORSSELL of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Thomas GOOSSENS of Paris (FR) for apple inc., Aurelio GUZMAN of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Guilherme JACINTO of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Steve S. KO of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Jason D. RICKWALD of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Nicolas V. SCAPEL of London (GB) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T13/40, G06F3/04842, G06F3/04815, G06F3/0482
Abstract: the present disclosure generally relates to an avatar on a lock screen. a received user input causes a respective change in a respective element of the lock screen other than the avatar and an animation is displayed, over time, of the avatar transitioning through a plurality of poses.
20240029351.SCENE TRACKS FOR REPRESENTING MEDIA ASSETS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): David J. ADDEY of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Alessandro ANGELI of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Shalini SAHOO of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher L. FLICK of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., John Samuel BUSHELL of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Yi ZHOU of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Courtland M. IDSTROM of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T17/00
Abstract: improved media processing techniques includes media data formats with a “convenience” sample having both a snapshot and a delta description of a scene at the same media time. in other examples, improved media processing techniques include creating a temporary media sample having a merged snapshot or a merged delta in a context of a pre-render thread to improve performance of rendering performed in a context of a separate rendering thread.
20240029371.ENVIRONMENT APPLICATION MODEL_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Aaron M Burns of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Alexis H. Palangie of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Nathan Gitter of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Pol Pla I. Conesa of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, G06F3/04815, G06T19/20
Abstract: various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable presenting environments including visual representations of multiple applications. in one implementation, a method includes presenting a view of an environment at an electronic device on a display. the view includes visual representations of a plurality of applications. the method further includes determining to provide a first application with access to a control parameter. the control parameter is configured to modify at least a portion of the view of the environment with virtual content, and the portion of the view includes at least a portion of content outside of a view of a visual representation associated with the first application. the method further includes restricting access to the control parameter by other applications which prevents the other applications from modifying the at least the portion of the view of the environment via the control parameter.
Inventor(s): Fiona P. O'Leary of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Julian K. Missig of Burlingame CA (US) for apple inc., Mark K. Hauenstein of Richmond (GB) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T19/20, G06T19/00
Abstract: a computer system displays a three-dimensional environment and detects, via an input device that includes a first portion and a second portion that can be physically coupled in a first configuration and physically decoupled in a second configuration, a first input. in response to detecting the first input while the first portion is coupled to the second portion of the input device in the first configuration, the computer system performs a first operation in the three-dimensional environment. while the first portion of the input device and the second portion of the input device are decoupled in the second configuration, the computer system detects a sequence of one or more inputs that includes movement of the first portion of the input device relative to the second portion of the input device. in response to detecting the sequence of one or more inputs, the computer system performs one or more second operations.
20240029381.EDITING MIXED-REALITY RECORDINGS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Matthew S CONNOLLY of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., David J ADDEY of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Daniel MOLINA GOMES FIGUEIREDO E SILVA of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Michael D ROSEN of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T19/20, G06T19/00
Abstract: improved techniques for editing and rendering a mixed-reality recording are provided, including receiving such a mixed-reality recording including parameters of the natural and/or synthetic elements, and then responsive to a user selection of a selected element of a plurality of elements in the recording, building an animation track based on the selected element including parameter(s) of the selected element. responsive to a user modification input, modifying the parameter(s) of the selected element based on the user modification input, and storing a modified recording including the modified parameter(s).
Inventor(s): Anup RATHI of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Mark LINDER of Westminster CO (US) for apple inc., Julia BENNDORF of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Duncan A. MCROBERTS of Boulder CO (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06V10/50, G01M11/02, G06T5/00, G06T7/90, G06T5/40
Abstract: a surface material on one or more optical components of an optical sensing system can be detected. in some embodiments, a method of detection includes generating a first image using the optical sensing system. in accordance with a determination that one or more criteria are satisfied, the one or more criteria including a criterion that is satisfied when a proportion of the first image having an intensity of light in a first intensity range is greater than a threshold, a surface material is detected on the first attachable lens.
20240029598.Image Enhancement Devices With Gaze Tracking_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ramin Samadani of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., Christina G. Gambacorta of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Elijah H. Kleeman of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Nicolas P. Bonnier of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/00, G06F3/01, G06T7/20, G06T3/40, G02B27/01, G02B27/00, G06T19/00, G06V20/20, G06V40/16, G06V40/18
Abstract: an electronic device may have a display and a camera. control circuitry in the device can gather information on a user's point of gaze using a gaze tracking system and other sensors, can gather information on the real-world image such as information on content, motion, and other image attributes by analyzing the real-world image, can gather user vision information such as user acuity, contrast sensitivity, field of view, and geometrical distortions, can gather user input such as user preferences and user mode selection commands, and can gather other input. based on the point-of-gaze information and/or other gathered information, the control circuitry can display the real-world image and supplemental information on the display. the supplemental information can include augmentations such as icons, text labels, and other computer-generated text and graphics overlaid on the real world image and can include enhanced image content such as magnified portions of the real-world image.
Inventor(s): Saman Saeedi of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Hyunwoo Nho of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Myungjoon Choi of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Won Ryu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Kyung Wook Kim of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Vehbi Calayir of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Kingsuk Brahma of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Jason N Gomez of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Kwang Soon Park of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/20, G06F3/041, G09G3/32
Abstract: systems and methods for programming an electronic display in a double-row manner are provided. a system may include processing circuitry that generates image data and an electronic display that programs multiple rows of display pixels with different pixel data of the image data at the same time. this may allow double-row interlaced driving to reduce or eliminate image artifacts due to intra-frame pauses.
20240029661.Foveated Display_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Cheng Chen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jason C. Sauers of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Fletcher R. Rothkopf of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., David W. Lum of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Chun-Yao Huang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Graham B. Myhre of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Bennett S. Wilburn of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Paolo Sacchetto of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Shih Chang Chang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Wonjae Choi of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Cheuk Chi Lo of Belmont CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/3266, G09G3/3275, G09G3/3225, G09G3/20, G09G3/36
Abstract: an electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays. the display may have regions of lower and higher resolution to reduce data bandwidth and power consumption for the display while preserving satisfactory image quality. data lines may be shared by lower and higher resolution portions of a display or different portions of a display with different resolutions may be supplied with different numbers of data lines. data line length may be varied in transition regions between lower resolution and higher resolution portions of a display to reduce visible discontinuities between the lower and higher resolution portions. the lower and higher resolution portions of the display may be dynamically adjusted using dynamically adjustable gate driver circuitry and dynamically adjustable data line driver circuitry.
20240029687.BACKLIGHT RECONSTRUCTION AND COMPENSATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Mahesh B. Chappalli of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G5/10, G09G3/20
Abstract: a processor or other circuitry may obtain emissive element strength information for an array of emissive elements of an electronic display. the processor or other circuitry may reconstruct backlight information at multiple locations within the electronic display. the processor or other circuitry also compensates display of image data based at least in part on the reconstructed backlight information.
20240029734.VIRTUAL ASSISTANT ACTIVATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Stephen O. LEMAY of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Brandon J. NEWENDORP of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan R. DASCOLA of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G10L15/22, G10L15/28, G06F3/16
Abstract: at an electronic device with a display, a microphone, and an input device: while the display is on, receiving user input via the input device, the user input meeting a predetermined condition; in accordance with receiving the user input meeting the predetermined condition, sampling audio input received via the microphone; determining whether the audio input comprises a spoken trigger; and in accordance with a determination that audio input comprises the spoken trigger, triggering a virtual assistant session.
Inventor(s): Eran Tal of Petach Tikva (IL) for apple inc., Ariel Lipson of Tel Aviv (IL) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G10L21/0232, G01S15/89, G01S7/52, H04R1/22, G01H9/00, G10L25/84
Abstract: an electronic device includes a microphone, an array of coherent optical emitters, an array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors, and a processor. each balanced coherent optical vibration sensor in the array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors is paired with a coherent optical emitter in the array of coherent optical emitters. the processor is configured to analyze a set of waveforms acquired by the array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors; identify, using the analysis of the set of waveforms, a set of one or more voices in a field of view; and adjust an output of the microphone to accentuate a particular voice in the set of one or more voices.
20240029754.AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION FOR AUDIO DEVICES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Carlos M. AVENDANO of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., John WOODRUFF of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan HUANG of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc., Mehrez SOUDEN of Los Angeles CA (US) for apple inc., Andreas KOUTROUVELIS of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G10L21/028, H04R1/10, G06N20/00, G10L21/0232
Abstract: implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for providing audio source separation for audio input, such as for audio devices having limited power and/or computing resources. the subject technology may allow an audio device to leverage processing and/or power resources of a companion device that is communicatively coupled to the audio device. the companion device may identify a noise condition of the audio device, select a source separation model based on the noise condition, and provide the source separation model to the audio device. in this way, the audio device can provide audio source separation functionality using a relatively small footprint source separation model that is specific to the noise condition in which the audio device is operated.
20240029922.INJECTED INTERNAL STRAIN RELIEF FOR ELECTRICAL CABLES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ronald G. POWERS of Scotts Valley CA (US) for apple inc., Robert V. WEBER of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01B13/00, H02G15/007
Abstract: this application relates to a dispensed or injected structural reinforcement or hardening element, such as an injected internal strain relief, as incorporated into electrical cables. an electrical cable includes a cable portion comprising one or more electrical conductors that are positioned within an internal volume of the cable portion. additionally, an electrical connector component is positioned at a terminating end of the cable portion. in addition, an internal strain relief element is positioned within the internal volume of the cable portion such that the internal strain relief element at least partially surrounds one or more of the electrical conductors, wherein the internal strain relief element comprises a cured injectable fluidic substance.
Inventor(s): Szu-Ying Ho of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jeng-Wen P Chen of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Hsiu-Ping Wei of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01L23/00, H01L23/58, H01L21/78
Abstract: systems and methods are provided for reducing damage caused by defects from a scribe lane of an integrated circuit, which may arise during or after a silicon wafer is singulated into separate integrated circuits. an integrated circuit may include an active area and a scribe lane. the scribe lane may include a crack energy release zone or a crack take-off zone, or both. the crack energy release zone may dissipate fracture energy in an event that a crack were to form in the scribe lane. the crack take-off zone may, in the event that the crack were to form in the scribe lane, guide the crack out of a surface of the integrated circuit in the crack take-off zone.
Inventor(s): Seyed Mohammad Hossein Mohammadnezhad of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Xi Yao of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Aly Ismail of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H03F1/32, H03F1/56, H03F3/19
Abstract: an electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver circuit, a front-end module, and an antenna. the front-end module may include amplifier circuitry such as a low noise amplifier for amplifying received radio-frequency signals. the amplifier circuitry may include non-linearity suppression circuitry that suppresses or reduces non-linear behavior of components such as a core amplification transistor and a degeneration inductor within the amplifier circuitry. the non-linearity suppression circuitry may include an intermodulation distortion suppression circuit having an auxiliary amplification transistor. the non-linearity suppression circuitry may include a frequency-selective filter coupled to the degeneration inductor.
20240030929.DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER WITH HYBRID COUPLER_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Filipe Tabarani of Hohenlinden (DE) for apple inc., Timo W Gossmann of Neubiberg (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H03M1/00, H03M1/06, H04L27/36, H04L27/20
Abstract: the current disclosure is related to a column and line digital-to-analog converter (dac) with a hybrid coupler for generating quadrature analog signals. the dac may include an array of unit power amplifiers (cells). a first portion of the cells of the array may be coupled to a first column decoder to receive in-phase components of digital signals and a second portion of the cells may be coupled to a second column decoder to receive quadrature components of the digital signals. the first portion of the cells of the array may generate in-phase components of analog signals and the second portion of the cells of the array may generate quadrature components of the analog signals. a hybrid coupler of the dac may receive the in-phase and quadrature components of the analog signals with a similar phase, delay the quadrature components by a phase delay (e.g., 90 degrees), and output the resulting analog signals.
20240030947.DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER WITH HYBRID COUPLER_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Filipe Tabarani of Hohenlinden (DE) for apple inc., Timo W Gossmann of Neubiberg (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B1/04, H03M1/74
Abstract: the current disclosure is related to a column and line digital-to-analog converter (dac) with a hybrid coupler for generating quadrature analog signals. the dac may include an array of unit power amplifiers (cells). a first portion of the cells of the array may be coupled to a first column decoder to receive in-phase components of digital signals and a second portion of the cells may be coupled to a second column decoder to receive quadrature components of the digital signals. the first portion of the cells of the array may generate in-phase components of analog signals and the second portion of the cells of the array may generate quadrature components of the analog signals. a hybrid coupler of the dac may receive the in-phase and quadrature components of the analog signals with a similar phase, delay the quadrature components by a phase delay (e.g., 90 degrees), and output the resulting analog signals.
20240030971.PORT SELECTION CODEBOOK ENHANCEMENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai YAO of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/06
Abstract: apparatus and methods are provided for port selection codebook configuration. a user equipment (ue) may decode a channel state information (csi) report configuration (csi-reportconfig) from a base station. the csi-reportconfig indicates up to l csi reference signal (csi-rs) ports for selection by the ue out of p csi-rs ports configured for measuring and reporting csi. the ue determines selected csi-rs ports out of the p csi-rs ports. the selected csi-rs ports include the l csi-rs ports or less. the ue generates a port selection matrix wcorresponding to the selected csi-rs ports. the ue also generates an indication of the port selection matrix wto the base station. the csi-reportconfig may further configure the ue to select a subset of frequency basis. the ue determines a selected subset of frequency basis and generates a frequency basis selection matrix wcorresponding to the selected subset of frequency basis.
20240030984.Channel State Information Reporting_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Haitong SUN of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai YAO of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ismael GUTIERREZ GONZALEZ of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome OTERI of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong YANG of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/06
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) configured to report channel state information (csi) to a wireless network. the ue transmits a first sounding reference signal (srs) on an uplink (ul) channel, receives a first channel state information reference signal (csi-rs) on a downlink (dl) channel, wherein the first csi-rs includes a first configuration of csi-rs parameters based on the first srs, performs first csi-rs measurements based on the first configuration of csi-rs parameters, transmits a first csi report including the first csi-rs measurements, transmits a second srs on the ul channel, receives a second csi-rs on the dl channel, wherein the second csi-rs includes a second configuration of csi-rs parameters based on the second srs, performs second csi-rs measurements based on the second configuration of csi-rs parameters and transmits a second csi report including the second csi-rs measurements.
20240030986.CSI FEEDBACK FOR MULTI-PDSCH TRANSMISSION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Oghenekome OTERI of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong YANG of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen YE of Whitehouse Station NJ (US) for apple inc., Chunhai YAO of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/06
Abstract: some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for implementing channel state information (csi) feedback for multi-physical downlink shared channel (pdsch) transmissions in a wireless communication system. some embodiments enable a user equipment (ue) to determine channel quality indicators (cqi) and/or precoding matrix indicators (pmi) for multi-pdsch transmissions that account for effects of a duration of the multi-pdsch transmission including the maximum interval between the first and last pdsch transmissions on the cqi and pmi determinations. some embodiments include a base station that detects a need for a change in a beam direction and adjusts the beam direction accordingly based on the pmi determinations. some embodiments enable a desired hybrid automatic repeat request (harq)-ack feedback transmission from a single multi-pdsch transmission. some embodiments include performing harq bundling with an update to the type 1 harq-ack codebook based on the multi-pdsch transmission.
Inventor(s): Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Gang Xiong of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Alexei Davydov of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Yingyang Li of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Guotong Wang of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/06, H04L5/00, H04W52/28, H04W52/32
Abstract: apparatuses, systems, and methods for multiplexing of pucch for beam failure recovery and other signals. a ue may determine a transmission dropping rule and a transmission power scaling rule for a pucch which is dedicatedly configured for secondary bfr transmission, such as a pucch-bfr, when it is multiplexed with bfr multiplexed with at least one other signal. the pucch-bfr and the at least one other signal may be multiplexed in a cc or in multiple ccs. the ue may determine a transmission dropping rule, e.g., so that ue can transmit an uplink signal with higher priority and drop the other uplink signal with lower priority to avoid beam collisions. the ue may determine a transmission power scaling rule, e.g., so the ue may scale transmission power within a cc and/or across ccs. the ue may multiplex the pucch-bfr with the at least one other signal according to the rules.
Inventor(s): Franz J. EDER of Neubiberg (DE) for apple inc., Adrian Carlos Loch NAVARRO of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Andre JANSSEN of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Holger NEUHAUS of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Kenan KOCAGOEZ of Fürth (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/08, H04B7/06
Abstract: some aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for selecting a receiving beam based on hybrid channel based beamforming and codebook based beamforming. a user equipment (ue) can determine, based on a first measurement related to signal to noise ratio (snr) and predetermined threshold values, whether the ue is in a low snr state. if the ue is in a low srn state, the ue can derive an estimated channel covariance matrix rfor channels at a set of antenna elements of the ue based on channel based bearmforming (chbf). afterwards, a set of test bears {0, . . . n−1} is selected based on the channel covariance matrix r, and a set of codebook measurement beams is further selected based on the set of test beams. a receiving beam is selected based on a set of measurements performed on the set of codebook measurement beams at the measurement opportunity for codebook based beamforming (cbbf).
20240030998.MULTIPLE RECEIVER COMBINING FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Nishant Pattanaik of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Jay P Shah of Newark CA (US) for apple inc., Lohit Sarna of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Mehran T Baghaei of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Venkateswara Rao Manepalli of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Sudeep Bhattarai of Hayward CA (US) for apple inc., Seshu Tummala of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Sudhir K Baghel of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/08, H04W56/00
Abstract: user equipment includes a receiver, a first antenna and a second antenna coupled to the receiver, and processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the receiver and configured to cause the receiver to receive a first signal via the first antenna and a second signal via the second antenna, adjust the first signal based on a first time offset and a first frequency offset associated with the first signal to generate a first adjusted signal, adjust the second signal based on a second time offset and a second frequency offset associated with the second signal to generate a second adjusted signal, and decode downlink information based on the first adjusted signal and the second adjusted signal.
Inventor(s): Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dan ZHANG of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ruoheng LIU of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong YANG of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Idan BAR-SADE of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/185
Abstract: mechanisms are provided for a user equipment (ue) to determine a transmission frequency or a time advance for an uplink transmission from the ue to a base station in a non-terrestrial wireless network (ntn) without global navigation satellite systems (gnss) information available to the ue. a communication connection between the ue and a base station can be established. the ue can determine that gnss information is not available, and report to the base station that the gnss information is not available. the ue can receive, from the base station, an indication of one or more parameters for an uplink transmission from the ue to synchronize the uplink transmission. the ue can determine, based on a current transmission frequency and the received indication of the one or more parameters, a next transmission frequency and transmit the uplink transmission at the determined next transmission frequency.
20240031010.REPEATED UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS IN AN NTN_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/185, H04L1/18
Abstract: indicating a transmission gap at a user equipment (ue) in a non-terrestrial network (ntn) may include decoding a physical uplink shared channel (pusch) aggregation factor associated with a distance to a serving satellite in the ntn. a transmission gap information communication may be decoded. the transmission gap information communication may include at least information associated with a pusch transmission gap and a maximum number of repetitions before the pusch transmission gap. uplink (ul) pusch transmissions equal to the maximum number of repetitions may be encoded before occurrence of pusch transmission gap.
20240031075.AGGREGATED RETRANSMISSION SCHEMES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haijing Hu of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sarma V. Vangala of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (US) for apple inc., Zhu Ji of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L1/1812, H04L1/1829, H04L1/1867
Abstract: systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for supporting aggregated retransmissions. in one example, a method includes receiving control information that indicates resources including one or more slots for communication of a physical downlink shared channel (pdsch) or a physical uplink shared channel (pusch) transmission that includes at least one pdsch/pusch retransmission a slot group to which a selected one of the one or more slots belongs is identified. the method includes configuring operation to receive the pdsch transmission or to transmit the pusch transmission based on the resources. in response to determining that a pdsch/pusch retransmission of the pdsch/pusch transmission is scheduled for a slot outside the identified slot group, operation is configured to provide hybrid automatic repetition request (harq) feedback based on pdsch/pusch retransmissions scheduled for slots within the identified slot group, wherein the harq feedback is not based on pdsch/pusch scheduled for slots outside the identified slot group.
Inventor(s): Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L1/1829, H04L1/1812
Abstract: disclosed are embodiments supporting multi-pdsch transmission with multiple pucch resources by signaling the pdsch-to-harq_feedback timing indicator, k1; identifying the pdsch set associated with a pucch; constructing a type 1 harq-ack codebook; and constructing a type 2 harq-ack codebook.
Inventor(s): Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Haijing HU of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zhibin WU of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00, H04L25/02
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to configure and used demodulation reference signals for device-to-device communications in, for example, new radio.
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00, H04W72/1273
Abstract: configuring non-zero-power channel state information reference signal (nzp-csi-rs) may include encoding a channel state information (csi) configuration communication for transmission to a user equipment (ue) that is in connected mode with both a first transmission and reception point (trp) associated with a serving cell and a second trp associated with a neighbor cell. the nzp-csi-rs configuration communication may establish a plurality of parameters for nzp-csi-rs in the serving cell and the neighbor cell.
Inventor(s): Qiming Li of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Yang Tang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Manasa Raghavan of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Xiang Chen of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Rolando E Bettancourt Ortega of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Yuexia Song of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00
Abstract: techniques discussed herein can facilitate transmission and reference signals (rs) associated with layer-1 (l1) operations outside of a configured carrier bandwidth (cbw) of a user equipment (ue). one example aspect is a ue with one or more processors configured to transmit ue capability information. the ue capability information includes a frequency separation threshold, where the frequency separation threshold represents a frequency separation from a cbw of the ue. the one or more processors are further configured to receive a rs within the frequency separation threshold and outside of the cbw, and subsequently perform a l1 operation based on the rs.
20240031223.CONFIGURING ACCESSORY NETWORK CONNECTIONS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Franco Travostino of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Keith W. Rauenbuehler of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Marc J. Krochmal of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Nicholas M. Fraioli of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Anush G. Nadathur of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L41/0806, H04L41/22, H04L43/0811
Abstract: embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques for adjusting a network connection of an accessory. in some examples, the computing device can determine that the accessory is not connected to a network (e.g., the same network to which the computing device is connected). the network may utilize a first connection type. using a second type of connection, the computing device may determine an appropriate network for connection with the accessory. the computing device may then transmit instructions to the accessory, using the second type of connection, to adjust its network connection to be connected to the determined network. the determined network may use the first connection type.
20240031313.USER INTERFACES FOR MESSAGING CONTENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Christian X. DALONZO of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L51/04, H04L51/216, G06F3/0485
Abstract: in some embodiments, an electronic device displays a plurality of content items or user interface objects corresponding to messages of a messaging conversation. in some embodiments, the electronic device displays a messaging user interface including a first user interface object and a second user interface object in a first layout. in some embodiments, an electronic device displays messaging activity to a messaging conversation.
20240031414.TRANSIENT SETUP OF APPLICATIONS ON COMMUNAL DEVICES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Manuel Roman Cuesta of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Yagil Burowski of Glendale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L65/1069, H04L69/329, H04L65/1094, H04L65/61
Abstract: techniques are disclosed for initiating transient sessions on a communal device. an example method includes a system receiving, from a media streaming device, a request for a transient session token for initiating a transient session of a streaming service. the system can transmit, to the media streaming device, an authentication request for authenticating a user account that is associated with the streaming service. the authentication request can be transmitted based at least in part on the receipt of the request for the transient session token. the system can receive, from the media streaming device, an authentication response based at least in part on transmitting the authentication request. the system can authenticate that the user account is associated with the streaming service based at least in part on receiving the authentication response. the system can transmit the transient session token to the media streaming device. the transient session token comprises an expiration parameter for ending the transient session of the streaming service.
Inventor(s): Lee E. Hooton of New York NY (US) for apple inc., Alexander W. Williams of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04M1/02, H05K5/03, H05K5/04
Abstract: electronic devices are disclosed that include metal members bonded to members including a polymer material via a porous metallic layer. the polymer material may at least partially fill and mechanically interlock with pores of the porous metallic layer to form an interlock region.
20240031540.FOVEATED DOWN SAMPLING OF IMAGE DATA_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Chihsin Wu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., David R. Pope of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Sheng Lin of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Amnon D. Silverstein of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N9/64, G06T3/40
Abstract: a foveated down sampling (fds) circuit for down sampling of pixels in images. the fds circuit down samples a first subset of pixels of a same color in an image using first scaling factors to generate first down sampled pixels in a first down sampled version of the image. the fds circuit further down samples a second subset of the first down sampled pixels of the same color using second scaling factors to generate second down sampled pixels of the same color in a second down sampled version of the image. pixels from the first subset are arranged in a first direction, and pixels from the second subset are arranged in a second direction.
Inventor(s): Yi-Pai Huang of Zhubei (TW) for apple inc., Yang Li of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yi Huang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Pretesh A Mascarenhas of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Menelik Baye Yimam of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Guru Moorthy Ravi of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yunhui Hou of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Fu-Chung Huang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Sheng Zhang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N13/383, H04N13/305, H04N13/38
Abstract: an electronic device may include a stereoscopic display with a plurality of lenticular lenses that extend across the length of the display. the lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. the display may have different viewing zones that account for horizontal parallax as a viewer moves horizontally relative to the display. the display may be dimmed globally based on the detected vertical position of the viewer. the magnitude of dimming applied to the display may increase with increasing deviation of the viewer from a baseline viewing angle. the display may render content that compensates for the real-time vertical position of the viewer. another option for the stereoscopic display is to include a lens film that has an array of lenses. each lens in the array of lenses spreads light in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction.
Inventor(s): Bae Keun Lee of Seongnam-si (KR) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N19/105, H04N19/107, H04N19/132, H04N19/159, H04N19/176, H04N19/46
Abstract: a video decoding method according to the present disclosure includes determining a reference sample line for a current block, deriving an intra prediction mode for the current block, and performing intra prediction of the current block based on the reference sample line and the intra prediction mode.
Inventor(s): Alan CANNISTRARO of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N21/422, G08C17/00, H04N21/258, H04N21/41, H04N21/436, H04N21/485, H04N21/6543, H04N21/6547, H04N21/658, H04N21/84, H04N7/035, H04N5/60, H04N7/08
Abstract: recommending and activating scenes in a multimedia system are provided. the techniques of the present disclosure can allow the states of the components in the multimedia system to be captured in a scene. once the scene has been saved, the scene can be activated at a later time. a controller device for recommending scenes by comparing the current state with states of components in saved scenes is also provided. the controller device can also determine if media is playing in a current scene, and activate a selected scene without playing the media content. once the selected scene is activated, the media playing in the current scene can be switched, and the media playing in the selected scene can be played.
20240031716.Display System Having An Audio Output Device_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Neal D. Evans of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., James W. VanDyke of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Andrew M. Hulva of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Robert D. Silfvast of Belmont CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher T. Eubank of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04R1/10, G02B27/01, H03G5/02, H04R5/02, H04R5/033
Abstract: a display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a detachable speaker unit. the head-mounted display unit outputs visual content to a user and provides a visual pass-through of a real environment to the user. the detachable speaker unit is detachably coupleable to the head-mounted display unit for providing aural content to the user. at least one of the visual content or the aural content is changed according to a position of the detachable speaker unit relative to the head-mounted display unit.
20240031771.Location Systems for Electronic Device Communications_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Adam S. Meyer of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Duncan Robert Kerr of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W4/02, H04W68/02, H04W76/14
Abstract: an electronic device may be provided with control circuitry, wireless transceiver circuitry, and a display. the control circuitry may determine where nearby devices are located relative to the electronic device. when a wireless communications link is established with a nearby device, the control circuitry may use the display to inform a user of the status of the wireless communications link and the location of the nearby device. the display may produce images such as a line extending in the direction of the nearby device. the line may move on the display in response to movement of the nearby device. in an environment with multiple devices that are in range for wireless communications, the display may show a notification for each nearby device. the location and size of each notification on the display may be based on the location and proximity of the nearby device.
20240031795.ENTERPRISE REMOTE MANAGEMENT FOR CELLULAR SERVICES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Can XIONG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Sherman X. JIN of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Eric ZELENKA of Bend OR (US) for apple inc., Graham S. McLUHAN of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Li LI of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Rafael L. RIVERA-BARRETO of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Raj S. CHAUGULE of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Rohan C. MALTHANKAR of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W8/20, H04W4/50, H04W12/30, H04W8/18
Abstract: this application describes mechanisms for enterprise remote management of cellular services provided via access credentials, e.g., subscriber identity modules (sims) and/or electronic sims (esims), for wireless devices. to minimize requirements for user interaction, installation and management of business-supplied cellular service profiles on the wireless device can intercept alert notifications to reduce interruptions and allow for background management of the business-supplied cellular service profiles. additionally, a business enterprise can use multiple, distinct services to initiate installation of an esim to a wireless device. when two different services attempt to install esims on the wireless device in parallel, management software on the wireless device can control an order of installation and disallow duplicate installations of an identical esim to the wireless device. the management software can also monitor esim installations and manage alert notifications that occur during the esim installation process.
Inventor(s): Mehran T. Baghaei of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Nishant Pattanaik of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sudhir K. Baghel of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc., Lohit Sarna of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Sudeep Bhattarai of Hayward CA (US) for apple inc., Seshu Tummala of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Venkateswara Rao Manepalli of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W24/04, H04W56/00, H04B7/0408
Abstract: an electronic device includes a transceiver and processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to transmit uplink signals to a secondary communication node in response to determining that an uplink beam of a primary communication node is non-functional while continuing to receive downlink signals from the primary communication node using a downlink beam. using multi-beam coverage by multiple communication nodes provide more reliable communications for the electronic device when a beam of a communication node is non-functional.
Inventor(s): Qiming Li of Cupertino (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Manasa Raghavan of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Xiang Chen of Cupertino (US) for apple inc., Yang Tang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W24/08
Abstract: methods and systems are disclosed for a ue to perform measurements of measurement resources transmitted by a network when the ue is configured with multiple concurrent measurement gap patterns (mgps). the measurement resources may be carried on multiple carrier frequencies. the ue may receive measurement resource configuration parameters identifying time and frequency locations of the measurement resources transmitted on the multiple carrier frequencies. the ue may receive measurement gap configuration parameters for multiple concurrent mgps specifying measurement intervals that may be used to perform the measurements. the ue may determine a linkage between the measurement resources on a carrier frequency and one of the concurrent mgps so that the ue may independently measure the measurement resources received on the multiple carrier frequencies using their respectively linked mgps. the linkage may be made through information elements in the measurement resource configuration parameters or the measurement gap configuration parameters containing the mgp.
Inventor(s): Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Qiming Li of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Manasa Raghavan of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yang Tang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W24/10, H04W56/00, H04W76/30, H04L5/00
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide intra-frequency measurement enhancement in new radio high speed train.
20240031882.USER-EQUIPMENT-BASED MOBILITY OPTIMIZATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Alexander SIROTKIN of Herzliya (IL) for apple inc., Fangli XU of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haijing HU of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Naveen Kumar R. PALLE VENKATA of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Pavan NUGGEHALLI of San Carlos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W36/00, H04W76/20, H04W36/36
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for user equipment (ue)-based mobility optimization are described herein, including machine learning (ml)-assisted techniques.
20240031898.5G New Radio Mobility Enhancements_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shadi ISKANDER of Ergolding (DE) for apple inc., Tamer Adel Darweesh Hassan DARWEESH of Munich (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W36/24, H04W36/00, H04W24/08
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) is configured to receive an inter-frequency measurement configuration comprising a plurality of frequencies, wherein neighbor cells transmit at at least one of the frequencies, the inter-frequency measurement configuration further comprising a priority associated with each of the frequencies, performing the frequency measurements of the neighbor cells according to the inter-frequency measurement configuration and reporting inter-frequency measurement results of the neighbor cells according to the priority in the inter-frequency measurement configuration.
Inventor(s): Anatoliy S Ioffe of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Alexander Sayenko of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Camila Priale Olivares of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Brandy Jo F Sykes of Bath (GB) for apple inc., Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/02
Abstract: a wake-up signal (wus) network (separate from a cellular network) includes wus nodes that broadcast wuss targeting wus receivers of user equipment (ue). the wuss may have low frequencies, such as within a television whitespace spectrum. when the cellular network determines that a ue should enter a power saving mode, or when a cellular receiver of the ue enters an idle state, the cellular network may request resources for the ue from a wus node and activate a wus receiver of the ue. when the cellular network has data to send to the ue or a threshold time has expired, the cellular network may request a wus from the wus network, which broadcasts the wus that may be received by the ue. if the ue has data to transmit to the cellular network, the cellular network may request that the wus node stop providing resources to the ue.
Inventor(s): Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of Whitehouse Station NJ (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/14, H04W52/32
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to determine physical uplink control channel transmission power for a multiplexed uplink control information.
Inventor(s): Honglei MIAO of Munich (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/14, H04W52/36, H04W72/044, H04W72/23
Abstract: technology for a base station operable to encode a physical uplink control channel (pucch) resource indicator field length for transmission to a user equipment (ue) for enhanced ultra reliable low latency communications (urllc) (eurllc) is disclosed. the gnb can determine the pucch resource indicator field length that indicates a length of a pucch resource indicator field, wherein the pucch resource indicator field length is related to transmission of a number of pucch symbols for eurllc. the gnb can encode the pucch resource indicator field length for transmission in downlink control information (dci) to the ue.
Inventor(s): Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen YE of Whitehouse Station NJ (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong YANG of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/36, H04W52/14
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for providing a power headroom report with respect to repetitions of uplink data transmissions with different beams in wireless communication systems.
Inventor(s): Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/36, H04W52/24, H04W52/14
Abstract: techniques described here related to a power headroom power headroom report generation trigger. one aspect of the disclosure includes a user equipment (ue) configured to measure a first path loss change of a first physical uplink shared channel (pusch) transmission transmitting from the first antenna panel to a first transmission and reception point (trp). the ue can further measure a second path loss change of a second pusch transmission transmitting from the second antenna panel to a second trp, the second pusch transmission transmitting simultaneously to the first pusch transmission. the ue can further determine whether to generate a powerhead report (phr) based on the measured first path loss change and measured second path loss change. the ue can further generate the phr based on the determination.
Inventor(s): Ankit BHAMRI of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Yang TANG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W56/00
Abstract: this application relates to wireless communications, including methods and apparatus to manage uplink (ul) transmit switching with multiple timing advance groups (tags) for wireless devices. a wireless device is configured to select n≥2 radio frequency carriers for ul transmission from m>n available radio frequency carriers and subsequently send ul transmissions to a cellular wireless network based on the configuration. the m available radio frequency carriers are divided into distinct tags, each tag having a distinct timing advance value, and the n radio frequency carriers belong to a single tag. the wireless device is further configured to switch to a second set of n ul radio frequency carriers, after an uplink switching gap time period, based on a tag medium access control (mac) control element (ce), received the cellular wireless network, which specifies a second tag from which to select the second set of n ul radio frequency carriers.
Inventor(s): Ankit BHAMRI of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Yang TANG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W56/00, H04L5/00
Abstract: this application relates to wireless communications, including methods and apparatus to manage uplink (ul) transmit switching with multiple timing advance groups (tags) for wireless devices. a wireless device is configured to use multiple carriers selected from a set of available carriers that can be associated with different tags. when a second set of carriers, used after switching from a first set of carriers, includes carriers that belong to different tags, the wireless device determines whether to transmit on one or more first uplink transmission occasions for each of the carriers in the second set of carriers based on whether a first ul transmission occasion for at least one carrier overlaps a switching gap time period. the wireless device can disallow transmission on first ul transmission occasions of one or more carriers to accommodate the overlap.
Inventor(s): Gabriel Arrobo Vidal of Hillsboro OR (US) for apple inc., Geng Wu of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Qian Li of Beaverton OR (US) for apple inc., Zongrui Ding of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Ching-Yu Liao of Portland OR (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W60/00, H04W48/00
Abstract: technology for an information centric networking gateway (icn-gw) operable to modify an icn message received from a user equipment (ue) in a fifth generation (5g) cellular network is disclosed. the icn-gw can decode the icn message received from the ue via a next generation nodeb (gnb) and an icn point of attachment (icn-poa). the icn-gw can modify the icn message to produce a modified icn message. the icn-gw can encode the modified icn message to route the modified icn message to a data network.
20240031983.METHODS FOR FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATION OF PAGING OCCASIONS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sigen Ye of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Fangli Xu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Sethuraman Gurumoorthy of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W68/02
Abstract: methods and systems are disclosed to configure different paging occasions for enhanced ues that support, and for legacy ues that do not support, the enhanced feature of the paging early indication (pei) in paging procedure for 5g/lte networks. different paging occasions for the enhanced and legacy ues may be configured by providing separate paging occasion parameters for the enhanced and legacy ues. the network may use the separate paging parameters to design the pei to save signaling overhead. the network may reuse paging format for the paging pdcch to serve as the pei that is transmitted in advance of the paging occasions for the enhanced ues, or may keep legacy paging pdcch at its current locations to serve as the pei for the enhanced ues. a scheduling offset may be configured to separate in time the paging pdcch serving as the pei and the paging pdsch containing the paging message.
20240032002.DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Xiaolong Tu of Shanghai (CN) for apple inc., Kai Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Lele Cui of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Lijie Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/0446, H04W72/56
Abstract: provided is a method for a user equipment (ue). the ue obtains a slot allocation information from a network device. the slot allocation information indicates a first slot and a second slot. the first slot is configured to communicate voice traffic and the second slot is configured to communicate traffic other than voice. the ue communicates the voice traffic in the first slot and the traffic other than voice in the second slot.
Inventor(s): Yuqin Chen of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haijing Hu of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Qiming Li of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/0457, H04W72/51
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for measurement configurations and user equipment capability reporting in wireless networks.
20240032021.User Equipment Configuration for SIB and MIB Decoding_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Tudor NINACS of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Onurcan ISCAN of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Amir FARAJIDANA of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Amir Aminzadeh GOHARI of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Dan ZHANG of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Herbert R. DAWID of Herzogenrath (DE) for apple inc., Keith W. SAINTS of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ruoheng LIU of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sami M. ALMALFOUH of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Sung Eun LEE of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Wenshu ZHANG of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Yihong QI of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Yuanye WANG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/1263, H04W72/232
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) is configured to receive, from a cell of a network, a system information block (sib), determine values for scheduling information for the sib without decoding a physical downlink control channel (pdcch) corresponding to the sib and decode the sib using the scheduling information. a ue is also configured to receive, from a cell of a network, a message to be decoded, receive, from a source different from the cell, additional information related to a portion of the message, determine the portion of the message using the additional information and decode the message based at least in part on the determined portion of the message.
20240032022.PRIORITIZING TRANSMISSIONS BY USER EQUIPMENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Jie CUI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Laxminarayana PILLUTLA of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Manasa RAGHAVAN of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Qiming LI of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Sharad SAMBHWANI of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Xiang CHEN of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Yang TANG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/1268, H04W72/566, H04L1/1829
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for determining priority between body proximity sensing (bps) transmissions and other transmissions by a user equipment (ue) (e.g., in frequency range 2 (fr2)).
20240032029.SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PDSCH BASED CSI MEASUREMENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/1273, H04L5/00, H04B7/06, H04W72/232
Abstract: systems and methods provide channel state information (csi) measurement based on measuring a demodulation reference signal (dmrs) for a physical downlink shared channel (pdsch) transmission. a ue may determine the dmrs for the pdsch transmission with frequency hopping, and measure the dmrs for the pdsch transmission to determine a csi measurement. the ue may then report the csi measurement to a base station.
Inventor(s): Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/1273, H04W72/0446, H04W72/232, H04L1/1812
Abstract: systems and methods for using hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (harq-ack) codebooks to as part of acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ack/nack) signaling regarding multiple physical downlink shared channel (pdsch) transmissions (also termed “multi-pdsch”) scheduled by a single downlink control information (dci) corresponding to multiple candidate pdsch monitoring occasions are discussed herein. rate matching indicators for one, multiple, or all of the pdschs of a scheduled multi-pdsch are discussed. effects of invalid symbol signaling, where one or more resources corresponding to a candidate pdsch monitoring occasion corresponding to the dci has been indicated for uplink (ul) use or not for dl use by a base station, are discussed. effects of a bandwidth part change (in ul or downlink (dl)) occurring near or during the dci, the multi-pdsch, and a physical uplink control channel (pucch) containing the ack/nack signaling (e.g., containing or corresponding to all or part of the harq-ack codebook) are discussed.
20240032032.Type-2 HARQ-ACK Codebook for Multi-Cell Scheduling DCI_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sigen YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome OTERI of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong YANG of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/1273, H04W72/23, H04L1/1812
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) is configured to receive at least a first downlink control information (dci) from a base station of a network, the first dci scheduling multiple physical downlink shared channels (pdsch) across multiple cells of the ue, construct a type 2 hybrid automatic repeat request (harq) acknowledgement (harq-ack) codebook based at least on a number of dci scheduling pdsch corresponding to the type 2 harq-ack codebook and transmit the type 2 harq-ack codebook feedback in a physical uplink channel.
20240032038.UPLINK TRANSMISSION BEAM SELECTION IN A SECONDARY CELL_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yang TANG of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Qiming LI of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Manasa RAGHAVAN of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Xiang CHEN of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jie CUI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/21, H04W16/28, H04B7/06, H04W74/08
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) is provided to select an uplink transmission beam to communicate with a base station in a secondary cell of a carrier aggregation (ca) scheme. the ue can communicate with a first base station in a primary cell (pcell), and receive a command from the wireless network to activate a physical uplink control channel (pucch) transmission to a second base station in a secondary cell (scell). the second base station can be in a being-activated state. the ue can determine whether an uplink spatial relation configuration is provided to the ue, and determine whether the ue supports beam correspondence. based on the determinations, the ue can select an uplink transmission beam for the pucch transmission to the second base station.
Inventor(s): Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/21, H04L5/00
Abstract: techniques are disclosed herein for single downlink control information based simultaneous physical uplink control channel transmission over multi-panel. an example embodiment can include a user equipment (ue) configured to receive a first indication as to a multi-panel simultaneous transmission scheme for simultaneous transmission of a physical uplink control channel (pucch) transmission in the frequency domain (fd) based on a radio resource control (rrc) transmission, the pucch transmission including a first pucch transmission through a first panel over a first fd part and a second pucch transmission through a second panel over a second fd part. the ue can transmit the first pucch transmission through first panel over the first fd part via the multi-panel simultaneous transmission scheme. the ue can further simultaneously transmit the second pucch transmission through the second panel over the second fd part via the multi-panel simultaneous transmission scheme.
[[20240032054.ENHANCEMENT ON SCHEDULING AND HARQ-ACK FEEDBACK FOR URLLC, MULTIPLEXING SCHEME FOR CONTROL/DATA CHANNEL AND DM-RS FOR NR, AND ACTIVATION MECHANISM, SCHEDULING ASPECTS, AND SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL (SS) BLOCKS FOR NEW RADIO (NR) SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE BANDWIDTH PARTS (BWPS)_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)]]
Inventor(s): Gang Xiong of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Jeongho Jeon of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Joonyoung Cho of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Debdeep Chatterjee of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Sergey Panteleev of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/23, H04L5/00
Abstract: an apparatus, method, system and machine-readable medium. the apparatus may be an apparatus of a new radio (nr) gnodeb or of a nr user equipment (ue), and may include a memory and processing circuitry. the processing circuitry for the apparatus of the gnodeb is to: configure a plurality of bandwidth parts (bwps) associated with respective numerologies; determine a physical downlink control channel (pdcch) including downlink control information (dci), the dci including information on scheduled resources including bwp index for a data transmission to or from a user equipment (ue), the data transmission to occupy one of the plurality of bwps or multiple ones of the plurality of bwps; encode the pdcch for transmission; and process the data transmission based on the dci. the apparatus of the nr ue is to: process a physical downlink control channel (pdcch) from a nr gnodeb, the pdcch including downlink control information (dci) indicating scheduled resources for a data transmission to or from the ue, the data transmission to occupy one or multiple ones of a plurality of bwps configured by the gnodeb; and process the data transmission based on the dci.
[[20240032055.ENHANCEMENT ON SCHEDULING AND HARQ-ACK FEEDBACK FOR URLLC, MULTIPLEXING SCHEME FOR CONTROL/DATA CHANNEL AND DM-RS FOR NR, AND ACTIVATION MECHANISM, SCHEDULING ASPECTS, AND SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL (SS) BLOCKS FOR NEW RADIO (NR) SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE BANDWIDTH PARTS (BWPS)_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)]]
Inventor(s): Gang Xiong of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Jeongho Jeon of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Joonyoung Cho of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Debdeep Chatterjee of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Sergey Panteleev of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/23, H04L5/00
Abstract: an apparatus, method, system and machine-readable medium. the apparatus may be an apparatus of a new radio (nr) gnodeb or of a nr user equipment (ue), and may include a memory and processing circuitry. the processing circuitry for the apparatus of the gnodeb is to: configure a plurality of bandwidth parts (bwps) associated with respective numerologies; determine a physical downlink control channel (pdcch) including downlink control information (dci), the dci including information on scheduled resources including bwp index for a data transmission to or from a user equipment (ue), the data transmission to occupy one of the plurality of bwps or multiple ones of the plurality of bwps; encode the pdcch for transmission; and process the data transmission based on the dci. the apparatus of the nr ue is to: process a physical downlink control channel (pdcch) from a nr gnodeb, the pdcch including downlink control information (dci) indicating scheduled resources for a data transmission to or from the ue, the data transmission to occupy one or multiple ones of a plurality of bwps configured by the gnodeb; and process the data transmission based on the dci.
20240032074.RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR CO-CHANNEL COEXISTENCE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/40, H04W72/02, H04W72/563, H04B17/318
Abstract: systems and methods for user equipment (ue) capable of performing sidelink (sl) communications that account for overlapped sl resource pools of multiple radio access technologies (rats) are disclosed. a ue may select, based on prioritizing non-overlapped resources over overlapped resources, one or more candidate resources and/or one or more transmission resources; may determine a power control configuration without considering sl pathloss corresponding to a first rat when a second power control configuration determination for a second rat does not consider sl pathloss; may select physical sidelink feedback channel (psfch) locations for psfch use from first psfch locations of resources of a first sl resource pool on a first rat that do not overlap with a second sl resource pool on a second rat according to a bitmap; and/or may select one of a psfch transmission and psfch reception using a data priority rule and/or a pool sharing rule.
Inventor(s): Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/40, H04W28/26
Abstract: systems and methods for utilizing inter-ue coordination regarding reserved resources of a sidelink (sl) resource pool are described herein. a first user equipment (ue) may identify that a first sl resource pool on a first radio access technology (rat) overlaps with a second sl resource pool on a second rat, sense for reservation signaling on the second sl resource pool to determine reserved resources on the second sl resource pool, and transmit resource reservation information indicating those reserved resources on sl on the first rat. a second ue may receive the resource reservation information on the sl, identify, within the first sl resource pool, corresponding resources that overlap with the reserved resources of the second sl resource pool, select, from the first sl resource pool, transmission resources to use for a sl transmission by prioritizing resources other than the corresponding resources; and perform the sl transmission using those transmission resources.
20240032083.LATENCY REDUCTION FOR BEAM FAILURE RECOVERY_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Qiming Li of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of Whitehouse Station NJ (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/54, H04L5/00
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for latency reduction for beam failure recovery (bfr), with respect to transmit-receive point (trp)-specific bfr.
Inventor(s): Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Irvine CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/56, H04L5/00, H04W72/044, H04W72/23
Abstract: uplink transmissions of a mobile device (ue) may be improved in a number of ways. uplink transmission time interval (tti) bundling, including both type-a and type b pusch repetitions, may be implemented with variable tti bundle sizing. the tti bundle size may be determined by a base station and communicated to the ue explicitly, or may be determined by the ue implicitly, based on an indicated repetition number and frequency hopping number. the ue may also report frequency hopping (fh) assist information to the base station for use by the base station to more efficiently configure fh for the uplink transmissions. finally, the ue may use (or maintain) the same transmission power, for each tti transmit occasion of the same tti bundle in order to improve (cross-slot) channel estimation accuracy. power allocation may be prioritized to ensure that at the same time a total power for the uplink transmissions of the ue does not exceed a specified threshold.
Inventor(s): Xiang Chen of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Manasa Raghavan of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Qiming Li of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Yang Tang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W74/08, H04W48/14
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for listen-before-talk indications in high-frequency networks.
Inventor(s): Chunhai YAO of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jie CUI of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome OTERI of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong YANG of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yang TANG of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yuchul KIM of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W74/08, H04L1/1829
Abstract: a method that determines a resource at a first user equipment (ue) for a sidelink communication from the second ue to a first ue is described. in an exemplary embodiment, the method receives a request from the second ue to send data to the first ue. in addition, the method determines a preconfigured resource selection window that is used by the second ue. furthermore, the method determines a first sensing result at the first ue. the determined first sensing result includes information to be reported to the second ue for a resource selection. the determined first sensing results has a plurality of first sensing types. further, the method transmits the first sensing result from the first ue to the second ue.
Inventor(s): Fangli XU of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Yuqin CHEN of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunhai YAO of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haijing HU of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga (CA) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W74/08
Abstract: some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing unified rach for multiple features. for example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a method including determining, by a user equipment (ue), a feature to be indicated at an initial access of the ue to a base station and determining whether the ue and the base station support feature specific random access (ra) procedure for the feature. the method further includes determining whether a condition for the feature is satisfied in response to determining that both the ue and the base station support the feature specific ra procedure for the feature. in response to determining that the condition is satisfied, the method includes selecting a feature specific random access channel (rach) resource and perform a 4-step ra procedure or a 2-step ra procedure based on the selected feature specific rach resource.
20240032115.SECURE RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Zhibin WU of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Fangli XU of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haijing HU of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Naveen Kumar R. PALLE VENKATA of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Pavan NUGGEHALLI of San Carlos CA (US) for apple inc., Ralf ROSSBACH of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Sarma V. VANGALA of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Shu GUO of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W74/08
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for secure random access in wireless communication systems.
20240032128.HARMONIZED LINK MONITORING AND LINK RECOVERY_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Qiming Li of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Manasa Raghavan of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Xiang Chen of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Yang Tang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W76/19, H04B7/06, H04L5/00, H04W72/542
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for harmonized link monitoring and link recovery.
20240032131.METHODS OF TYPE 1 UL GAP TRIGGERING IN FR2_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Laxminarayana Pillutla of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Manasa Raghavan of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Qiming Li of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Xiang Chen of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yang Tang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W76/20, H04W52/36, H04W8/24
Abstract: triggering an uplink (ul) gap at a base station may include decoding a user equipment (ue) ul gap capability report received from a ue. a radio resource control (rrc) ul gap configuration for transmission to the ue may be encoded. the rrc ul gap configuration may include configuration information associated with at least one of a periodicity, offset, or length. measurement information received from the ue may be decoded. the measurement information may include at least one of a power headroom value, a pvalue, or a p value. based on the power headroom value, the pvalue, or the p value, the ul gap configuration may be activated by encoding a medium access control (mac) control element (mac ce) for transmission to the ue.
20240032139.DISCONTINUOUS COVERAGE IN NR NTN AND IOT NTN SYSTEMS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Pavan Nuggehalli of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Alexander Sirotkin of Herzliya (IL) for apple inc., Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haijing Hu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ralf Rossbach of Neubiberg, Bavaria-Bayern (DE) for apple inc., Sarma V. Vangala of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Sethuraman Gurumoorthy of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yuqin Chen of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zhibin Wu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W76/28, H04W52/02
Abstract: the functions of user equipment (ue), radio access network (ran) devices, and core network (cn) devices in circumstances where a ue is expected to experience discontinuous coverage are described herein. a ue may send a cn a non-access stratum (nas) message including a release request indicating that a ue is leaving coverage and assistance information. the cn may interrupt paging of the ue and resume the paging according to the assistance information. a ue may enter a low power usage mode upon leaving coverage, and may use one or more timers to determine when to check for coverage and send a mobility update message corresponding to the low power usage mode. a base station may receive, from a ue, a radio resource control (rrc) message comprising a release request and assistance information, send an rrc release message to the ue in response, and forward the assistance information to the cn.
20240032141.SSB Enhancement for NR CDRX and DRX Operation_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai YAO of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Hongbo YAN of Vista CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome OTERI of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Shengshan CUI of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong YANG of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W76/28, H04L5/00
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) is configured to receive synchronization signal blocks (ssbs) from a wireless network to estimate frequency and timing errors. the ue receives a quasi co-location (qcl) configuration between a synchronization signal block (ssb) and at least one of a further ssb or a tracking reference signal (trs), receives the ssb and the at least one of the further ssb or the trs and estimates a frequency and timing error for the ssb by combining, based on the qcl configuration, measurements for the ssb and measurements for the at least one of the further ssb or the trs.
20240032203.Fabric-Mounted Components_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Bilal Mohamed Ibrahim Kani of Singapore (SG) for apple inc., Benjamin J. Grena of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Kyusang Kim of Singapore (SG) for apple inc., David M. Kindlon of Felton CA (US) for apple inc., Pierpaolo Lupo of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Kishore N. Renjan of Singapore (SG) for apple inc., Manoj Vadeentavida of Singapore (SG) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H05K1/18, H05K1/02
Abstract: 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.
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