Apple Inc. patent applications on March 21st, 2024
Patent Applications by Apple Inc. on March 21st, 2024
Apple Inc.: 172 patent applications
Apple Inc. has applied for patents in the areas of G06F3/01 (13), G06F3/04842 (8), G06F3/04845 (8), G06F3/04815 (8), G02B27/01 (8)
With keywords such as: device, include, based, user, data, display, power, image, electronic, and circuitry in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by Apple Inc.
20240090777.FACIAL INTERFACE HAVING INTEGRATED HEALTH SENSORS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Nadav Osiroff of Tel Aviv (IL) for apple inc., Oriel Y. Bergig of Shoham CA (US) for apple inc., Javier Mendez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Raviv Erlich of Rehovot (IL) for apple inc., Boris Gendelsman of Tel Mond (IL) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): A61B5/0205, A61B5/00
Abstract: a head-mountable device can include a display, a facial interface attached to the display to contact a face of a user, and a sensor unit attached to the facial interface. the sensor unit can include a deformable pad that contacts a nasal region of the user, a channel defining an internal volume, and a pressure sensor in fluid communication with the deformable pad through the internal volume.
Inventor(s): Bharath Narasimha Rao of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Jennifer Strasser of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Umamahesh Srinivas of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Kevin Sheridan of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., James Ochs of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Vinay R. Majjigi of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Olivier Humblet of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Jay Kriz Blahnik of Venice CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): A61B5/024, A61B5/00, A61B5/083, A61B5/11, A61B5/1455, A61B5/1495, A63B22/02, G01C22/00
Abstract: in an embodiment, a method comprises: establishing, by a wireless wearable computer worn by a user, a wireless communication connection with a fitness machine; obtaining machine data from the fitness machine while the user is engaged in a workout session on the fitness machine; obtaining, from a heart rate sensor of the wireless device, heart rate data of the user; determining a calibrated maximal oxygen consumption of the user based on the heart rate data and the machine data; determining a heart rate caloric expenditure based on the heart rate data and the calibrated maximal oxygen consumption of the user; and providing information corresponding to the heart rate caloric expenditure for presentation.
20240090785.Systems and Methods for Detecting Heart Pathologies_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Narimene Lezzoum of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Michael O’Reilly of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Avery L. Wang of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Andrew P. Bright of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Ashrith Deshpande of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): A61B5/024, A61B5/00, A61B7/04, H04R1/08, H04R1/22
Abstract: a device that includes a microphone may be worn in or on an ear of a user. a microphone signal generated by the microphone may be processed to determine a heart activity of a user. an indication of a heart pathology may be detected by applying a predictive algorithm to at least the heart activity. other aspects are described.
20240090818.HEALTH SENSING RETENTION BAND_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Javier Mendez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Samuel G. Smith of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Grant H. Mulliken of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Trevor J. Ness of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): A61B5/384, A61B5/00, A61B5/372
Abstract: a head-mountable device including a housing, a display positioned in the housing, a processor positioned in the housing, and a retention band connected to the housing, the retention band comprising a sensor configured to monitor a brain activity of a user.
Inventor(s): Avery L. Wang of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Tom-Davy W. Saux of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): A61B8/02, G01S7/521, G01S7/534, G01S15/88, H04R1/10
Abstract: an ultrasonic wave is output from a speaker of a head-worn device. a microphone signal is obtained from a microphone of the head-worn device that senses the ultrasonic wave as it reflects off an ear of a user. heart activity such as a heart rate of the user is determined based at least on the microphone signal. other aspects are also described and claimed.
20240092056.Panel With Different Visual Attributes_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): David E. Kingman of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Peter F. Masschelein of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Paul M. Connolly of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Albert J. Golko of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): B32B5/14, B32B3/10, B32B7/023, B32B33/00, B60R13/02
Abstract: a panel of a structure includes an outer layer and an inner layer that is positioned closer to an interior surface of the structure than the outer layer. an intermediate layer is positioned between the outer layer and the inner layer, and a mask layer is positioned between the outer layer and the intermediate layer. the mask layer includes an outer portion and an inner portion, where the outer portion is positioned between the outer layer and the intermediate layer, and the inner portion is positioned between the outer portion and the intermediate layer. the outer portion and the inner portion include different visual attributes.
20240092065.Seals for Optical Components_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Wei Lin of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Boyi Fu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Nathan K Gupta of Hillsborough CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): B32B17/10
Abstract: an electronic device may have optical components that each have first and second transparent layers such as first and second glass layers. the glass layers may have outer surfaces that face away from each other and inner surfaces that face towards each other. a polymer layer is formed between the inner surfaces of the glass layers. along the periphery of each optical component, a hermetic seal is formed to protect the polymer material of the polymer layer. the seal may include one or more metal layers that are coupled to the first and second glass layers. for example, glass prism rings may be coupled to the first and second glass layers and metal may be coupled to the prism rings. the one or more metal layers may then be bonded to the metal on the prism rings, such as through soldering.
20240092164.SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEATURE ACTIVATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Nicholas G. SAMPLE of Broomfield CO (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): B60K15/05, B60S1/08
Abstract: in some embodiments, an electronic device selectively activates and deactivates actuation features in accordance with the context in which an electronic device is operating. in some embodiments, an electronic device controls one or more actuators in accordance with sensor data and/or inputs received using one or more input devices.
20240092387.Method and Apparatus for Indication of Motion_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Max Fahrenkopf of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Tom Hsu of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Ying Yi Lim of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): B60W60/00, G01C21/34
Abstract: a method includes determining a first motion plan and a second motion plan based on inputs and determining a preference for the first motion plan relative to the second motion plan. the method also includes identifying one of the inputs as a sensitive input that causes the preference for the first motion plan over the second motion plan, and presenting, using a display, information that describes the first motion plan. the information includes an explanation indicating the sensitive input as a reason why the first motion plan is preferred over the second motion plan. the method also includes communicating and initiating the preferred motion plan.
20240092688.Coatings for Curved Surfaces_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Vijayen S. Veerasamy of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): C03C17/09
Abstract: a transparent structure may have multiple layers, such as an inner layer and an outer layer, which may be formed from glass. the transparent structure may have a large, curved surface with compound curvature and high geometric strain and may include one or more layers. to apply a physical vapor deposition coating with uniform thickness on a curved surface, cathode power may be modulated during the deposition, a mask having an opening with a curvature matching the curved surface may be used, a cathode shape may be varied, the cathodes may sputter the coating outwardly toward the curved surface, a magnetic field may modulate the flux produced by the cathodes, and/or the pressure and/or flow of gas may be adjusted. by modifying the physical vapor deposition coater in one or more of these ways, the coating may have a uniform thickness, and therefore a uniform color, across the curved surface.
20240093758.CABLE TENSIONING SYSTEM AND DIAL_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Aiden D. Mossop of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Yiwei Tao of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Tingqing Liao of Singapore (SG) for apple inc., Rachel L. Rieger of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): F16G11/12, H05K5/02
Abstract: a cable tensioning system including a roller-and-wedge clutch is disclosed. the cable tensioning system can be used in an adjustable headband for a head-mountable display. in an example, a tensioning system includes a cable; a cam wheel including a roller opening, the cam wheel including a ramped surface adjacent the roller opening; a dial housing encircling the cam wheel; and a roller in the roller opening, the roller being configured to roll along the ramped surface, the roller being configured to lock the cam wheel and the dial housing when the cable moves in a first direction, the roller being configured to unlock the cam wheel and the dial housing when the cable moves in a second direction opposite the first direction.
20240093845.Adjustable Lighting_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Clarisse Mazuir of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Paul J Costa of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Stephen B Lynch of Portola Valley CA (US) for apple inc., Kurt R Stiehl of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher P Child of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Xiaofeng Tang of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher L Porritt of Stratford-upon-Avon (GB) for apple inc., Michael C Wharton of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Peter F Masschelein of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Mark A Zurcher of Encinitas CA (US) for apple inc., Xin Li of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Ryan J Garrone of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): F21S41/141, B60Q1/32, F21S41/64
Abstract: a system may have a support structure that separates an exterior region from an interior region. the system may include a lighting system with interior and/or exterior lights with adjustable diffusers. an interior light may be used as a task light, a cabin light, a sensor indicator light, or a trim light. adjustments to the adjustable diffusers can be used to adjust the angular spread of emitted light for operation in different lighting modes.
Inventor(s): Ryan K. Burns of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Xiaoyuan Tu of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01C21/12, G01C21/20
Abstract: in some embodiments, a method comprises: receiving acceleration data from a motion sensor of a mobile device carried by a user, the acceleration data represented by a space curve in a three-dimensional (3d) acceleration space, the space curve indicative of a cyclical vertical displacement of the user's center of mass accompanied by a lateral left and right sway of the center of mass when the user is stepping; computing a tangent-normal-binormal (tnb) reference frame from the acceleration data, the tnb reference frame describing instantaneous geometric and kinematic properties of the space curve over time; and computing a direction of travel of the user based on an orientation of a unit binormal (b) vector of the tnb reference frame in the 3d acceleration space, and computing a speed of the user based on a linear regression model applied to the kinematic properties of the tnb reference frame.
20240094017.USER INTERFACES FOR CUSTOMIZED NAVIGATION ROUTES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Moritz BAUM of Basel (CH) for apple inc., Dennis SCHIEFERDECKER of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Daniel R. DELLING of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Payas RAJAN of Riverside CA (US) for apple inc., Tobias ZUENDORF of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Christian J. WEST of River Heights UT (US) for apple inc., Michael T. WEGNER of Zurich (CH) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01C21/34, B60L58/12
Abstract: in some embodiments, an electronic device displays suggested routes based on the characteristics of respective vehicles. in some embodiments, an electronic device receives data for respective vehicles from a source external to the electronic device. in some embodiments, an electronic device anonymizes a vehicle identifier and determines customized suggested routes using the anonymized vehicle identifier. in some embodiments, starting charge maps and/or buffer maps are generated and/or utilized for route generation or suggestion.
Inventor(s): Bradford A. Moore of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Emanuele A. Vulcano of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jorge Fino of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Marcel Van Os of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01C21/36
Abstract: some embodiments provide a method for an application executing on a mobile device. the method renders an animated navigation presentation for output to an external display screen not part of the mobile device. the navigation presentation includes an animated map showing at least a portion of a route to a destination. the method simultaneously displays information regarding a maneuver along the route on a display screen of the mobile device without displaying a same animated map on the mobile device. in some embodiments, the displayed information regarding the maneuver comprises a graphical instruction and a text instruction for a next maneuver along the route.
20240094153.Enclosure Detection for Reliable Optical Failsafe_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Michael K. McCord of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Stacy H. Mo of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01N27/04, G01R31/26, G02B5/02
Abstract: optical component integrity monitoring circuitry monitors an optical component integrity sensing path in an optical component. if a rise in resistance of the sensing path is detected, the circuitry prevents the optical component from emitting light. the optical component may have a light-emitting device that emits light through an optical element. the sensing path may have a first path that is used to detect damage to the optical element and a second path that is coupled to a package covering the optical element and light-emitting device. the first path may have a segment formed from a metal trace on the optical element and a segment formed from a wire bond, providing mechanical compliance to tolerate strains expected in the use case. the second path ensures that the package is present to constrain movement of the optical element and its wires within a safe envelope defined by the package interior.
20240094346.Wavelength Mixing for Optical Systems_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Xi Chen of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Xiaoyang Zhang of Singapore (SG) for apple inc., Prashanth S. Holenarsipur of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Yuta Kuboyama of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01S7/481, G01S17/08
Abstract: an optical system includes a housing defining a cylindrical lens array. a first light source is located in the housing and positioned to emit a first wavelength of light into a first field of illumination impinging on the cylindrical lens array. a second light source is located in the housing and positioned to emit a second wavelength of light into a second field of illumination impinging on the cylindrical lens array. the cylindrical lens array alters the first field of illumination and the second field of illumination and increases an overlap between the first field of illumination and the second field of illumination. a detector is located in the housing and positioned to receive a first redirected portion of the first wavelength of light and a second redirected portion of the second wavelength of light.
20240094374.Electronic Devices with Doppler-Based Object Detection_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Michael Ney of Be'er Sheva (IL) for apple inc., Michael Kerner of Tel Mond (IL) for apple inc., Lev Grobman of Tel Aviv-Yafo (IL) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01S13/56, G01S7/40
Abstract: an electronic device may include sensing circuitry that transmits radar signals and receives reflected signals over a set of antennas. communications circuitry may use the antennas to transmit communications data subject to a maximum transmit power level. the sensing circuitry may generate doppler information based on the reflected signals and may detect whether an external object is on a surface of the device based on the doppler information. when the external object is detected on the surface, the external object is not within a hot-spot cone of the antennas and the communications circuitry may transmit the communications data without reducing the maximum transmit power level. when the external object is detected off the surface, the external object may be within the hot-spot cone and the communications circuitry may transmit the communications data with a reduced maximum transmit power level to satisfy regulatory limits on radio-frequency exposure or absorption.
Inventor(s): Anjan Ramakrishnan of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Aditya N Srivastava of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Harsha Shirahatti of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Mojtaba Bahrami of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01S19/30
Abstract: a receiver device includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a first receiver, a second receiver, and processing circuitry. the first receiver is coupled to the first antenna and configured to receive a first signal from a global navigation satellite system (gnss) satellite via the first antenna. the second receiver is coupled to the second antenna and configured to receive a second signal indicative of a secondary code boundary corresponding to a secondary code in the first signal from a second receiver device via the second antenna. the processing circuitry is configured to receive a primary code by removing the secondary code from the first signal based on the secondary code boundary, perform coherent integration on the primary code, and output a geographic position of the receiver device based on the coherent integration.
20240094437.MOE-based illumination projector_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Roei Remez of Tel Aviv (IL) for apple inc., Moshe Kriman of Tel Aviv (IL) for apple inc., Yuval Tsur of Kfar Bin-Nun (IL) for apple inc., Maoz Ovadia of Kiryat Ono (IL) for apple inc., Yaron Gross of Netanya (IL) for apple inc., Omer Eden of Herzliya (IL) for apple inc., Alex Pekin of Ramat Gan (IL) for apple inc., Assaf Avraham of Givatayim (IL) for apple inc., Roey Zuitlin of Kiryat Ono (IL) for apple inc., Gidi Lasovski of Ramat Hasharon (IL) for apple inc., Refael Della Pergola of Jerusalem (IL) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B1/00, G01B11/25, G02B1/02, G02B27/30
Abstract: an optoelectronic apparatus includes an array of emitters configured to emit beams of optical radiation. an optical substrate is mounted over the array. an optical metasurface is disposed on the optical substrate and configured to collimate and split each of the emitted beams into a respective group of collimated sub-beams, and to direct the collimated sub-beams toward a target to form a pattern of spots on the target.
20240094455.Wave Plate Arrangements for an Optical System_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Jin Yan of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Young Cheol Yang of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Zhibing Ge of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B5/30, G02B27/00, G02B27/01, G02B27/09, G02B27/28
Abstract: an electronic device may include a display system and an optical system that are supported by a housing. the optical system may be a catadioptric optical system having one or more lens elements. the optical system may include a wave plate stack with one or more wave plates. the display system may include a polarizer stack with a linear polarizer and one or more wave plates. the optical system and display system may each include a negative dispersion quarter wave plate. a positive c-plate may be positioned adjacent to each quarter wave plate. the optical system may include a quarter wave plate having positive birefringence whereas the display system may include a quarter wave plate having negative birefringence. the optical system and display system may each include a quarter wave plate and a half wave plate.
Inventor(s): Mark A. Arbore of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yongming Tu of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Jeremy D. Witmer of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huiyang Deng of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Alfredo Bismuto of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Petr Markov of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B6/124
Abstract: configurations for an optical system used for guiding light and reducing back-reflection back in an output waveguide is disclosed. the optical system may include an output waveguide defined in a slab waveguide. the output waveguide may terminate before an output side of the slab waveguide, which may reduce the back-reflection of light from the output side back into the output waveguide. the output side may define an optical element that may steer the output light. the optical element may collimate the output light, cause the output light to converge, or cause the output light to diverge.
Inventor(s): Jason S. Pelc of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Yu Miao of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Mark A. Arbore of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Meng Huang of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Zhechao Wang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B6/125
Abstract: various embodiments disclosed herein describe photonic passive delay lines that have a waveguide wound into a plurality of straight segments and bends. the photonic passive delay lines are configured to reduce losses from parasitic modes of light generated at the bends. embodiments of the photonic passive delay lines vary the dimensions of the straight segments to provide different amounts of dephasing between a mode of input light received by the photonic passive delay line and one or more parasitic modes.
20240094534.Display Systems Having Imaging Capabilities_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Vikrant Bhakta of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Hyungryul Choi of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01, G02B5/04, G02B5/20, G02B27/00, G02B27/10, G02B27/18
Abstract: a display may include a reflective display panel, an infrared image sensor and a waveguide. the panel may be operated in a first operating mode in which the panel reflects image light towards the waveguide and a second operating mode in which the panel reflects infrared light from the waveguide towards the infrared image sensor. the panel may also reflect infrared light from an infrared emitter towards the waveguide. if desired, the infrared image sensor may be mounted adjacent a reflective surface of a reflective input coupling prism on the waveguide. the infrared image sensor may receive the infrared light through the reflective surface. if desired, a world-facing camera may receive world light through the waveguide. the display module and the world-facing camera may be operated using a time multiplexing scheme to prevent the image light from interfering with images captured by the world-facing camera.
20240094547.Active Cooling For Head-Mounted Display_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): David J. Dunsmoor of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jason C. Sauers of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Sivesh Selvakumar of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Trevor J. Ness of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01, H05K7/20
Abstract: a head-mounted display configured to be worn on a face includes a housing, a facial interface coupled to a rear portion of the housing and configured to engage with the face, a component chamber defined in the housing, and a fan located in the component chamber and configured to create air flow from the face through the facial interface and the component chamber.
20240094548.Electronic Devices With Movable Optical Assemblies_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shannon Pomeroy of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Kristina A. Babiarz of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jia Tao of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Aidan N. Zimmerman of Poway CA (US) for apple inc., Matin Seadat Beheshti of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Blake N. Trekell of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., William W. Sprague of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Anna V. Mirabella of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01, G02B7/12
Abstract: a head-mounted device may include optical assemblies for presenting images to a user. motors may be used to adjust the spacing between the optical assemblies to accommodate different interpupillary distances. gaze trackers may be used to make interpupillary distance measurements and eye relief measurements. adjustments to the positions of the optical assemblies may be made by the motors based on the interpupillary distance measurements and eye relief measurements.
20240094549.Electronic Devices With Drop Protection_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Matin Seadat Beheshti of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Aidan N. Zimmerman of Poway CA (US) for apple inc., John S. Camp of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01
Abstract: a head-mounted device may include optical assemblies for presenting images to a user. actuators may be used to adjust the spacing between the optical assemblies to accommodate different interpupillary distances. upon detection of a power-down event or drop event, the device may be placed into an impact-safe mode. during the safe mode, the optical assemblies may be moved to predetermined impact-safe positions, brakes such as optical guide rail brakes may be adjusted, cushioning springs may be deployed, clutches may be adjusted, and/or other safety mechanisms may be activated to help protect the optical assemblies or other sensitive components from damage.
20240094550.CUSHIONED HEAD-MOUNTABLE DEVICE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Paul X. Wang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01
Abstract: an apparatus can include a head-mountable display, a facial interface, a connector between the head-mountable display and the facial interface, a cushion positioned proximate to the connector, and a wearable strap connected to at least one of the head-mountable display or the facial interface. in one example, the cushion includes an aluminum block with an air pocket. in another example, the cushion includes a foam cushion. in certain implementations, the foam cushion defines a channel, the connector being positioned within the channel. in other implementations, the foam cushion includes a foam torus, the connector being positioned inside a center hole of the foam torus.
20240094553.Emitter Array with Integrated Beam-Splitting Prisms_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Roei Remez of Tel Aviv (IL) for apple inc., Omer Korech of Pardes Hanna Karkur (IL) for apple inc., Niv Gilboa of Tel Aviv (IL) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/12, G02B27/10, H01S5/183
Abstract: various embodiments disclosed herein light source arrays with integrated beam-splitting prisms. the beam-splitting prisms are formed in a surface of a substrate, such as a semiconductor substrate, and split input beams generated by an array of emitters. the beam-splitting prisms each include a plurality of prism surfaces that generate a different output beam.
20240094566.Compact Optical Phase Shifter_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Jason S. Pelc of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Liu of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02F1/025, G02F1/015
Abstract: embodiments are directed to photonic integrated circuits that include a carrier-based phase shifter. the carrier-based phase shifter is configured as a pin phase shifter with a pair of traces that delivers current through a pin diode. the pin phase shifter is configured such that current flows through the pair of traces in a common direction.
Inventor(s): Yi-Kuei Wu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jason Pelc of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Mark Alan Arbore of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Thomas C. Greening of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew A. Terrel of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Yongming Tu of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Mohamed Mahmoud of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02F1/21
Abstract: disclosed herein is an integrated photonics device including an on-chip wavelength stability monitor. the wavelength stability monitor may include one or more interferometric components, such as mach-zehnder interferometers and can be configured to select among the output signals from the interferometric components for monitoring the wavelength emitted by a corresponding photonic component, such as a light source. the selection may be based on a slope of the output signal and in some examples may correspond to a working zone at or around a wavelength or wavelength range. in some examples, the interferometric components can be configured with different phase differences such that the corresponding working zones have different wavelengths. in some examples, the slopes of the output signals may be weighted based on the steepness of the slope and all of the output signals may include information for wavelength locking the measured wavelength to the target wavelength.
Inventor(s): Milan Maksimovic of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Arnaud Pouydebasque of Varces-Allières-et-Risset (FR) for apple inc., Marjorie Trzmiel of Grenoble (FR) for apple inc., Miodrag Scepanovic of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Nachiappan Chidambaram of Fontanil Cornillon (FR) for apple inc., Sebastien Bolis of Crolles (FR) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G03B13/36, G03B5/02, H04N23/68
Abstract: in some embodiments, the camera system comprises: an optical assembly to create an optical image from the optical wavefront; a deformable phase plate (dpp) to receive the optical image from the optical assembly and to adjust the optical image in accordance with a control signal, the dpp including a deformable surface suspended over a cavity filled with optical fluid, and electrical actuation elements configured to change a shape of the deformable surface based on the control signal, the electrical actuation elements arranged in a pattern in the cavity and, when activated, provide an electrostatic force on the deformable surface; an image sensor to convert the adjusted optical image into electrical signals; an image signal processor to generate a digital image from the electrical signals; and an estimator to estimate an aberration or tilt correction of the digital image and to generate the control signal based on the estimated aberration or tilt correction.
Inventor(s): Gaurav Sharma of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Nathan F. Hanagami of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Mahir Uka of Nabern (DE) for apple inc., Benedikt Wolf of Nabern (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G05F1/575, G05F1/46
Abstract: a low-dropout (ldo) regulator circuit with dynamic transitioning between first and second operation modes. the ldo regulator circuit includes an operational amplifier with a first input connected to a reference voltage, a feedback circuit connected between a second input of the operational amplifier and an output of the ldo regulator circuit, and a pass transistor selectively coupled to the feedback circuit and an output of the operational amplifier via a set switches controlled by a switch mode enable signal. the ldo regulator circuit transitions between the first and second operation modes responsive to one or more changes of the switch mode enable signal. in the first operation mode, a load voltage at the output of the ldo regulator circuit has a first voltage value that depends on the reference voltage. in the second operation mode, the load voltage has a second voltage value independent from the reference voltage.
20240094765.ELECTRONIC DEVICE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Michael E. Leclerc of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Simon J. Trivett of Waterloo (CA) for apple inc., Lauren M. Farrell of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Nicholas A. Rundle of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/16
Abstract: a laptop computer may include a base portion including a keyboard, and a display portion flexibly coupled to the base portion. the display portion may include a housing component formed of metal and defining a set of side surfaces, a front cover assembly coupled to the housing component and including a first glass member defining at least a portion of a front exterior surface of the display portion, and a display coupled to the first glass member, and a rear cover assembly coupled to the housing component and including a second glass member defining at least a portion of a rear exterior surface of the display portion.
20240094771.Cases for Electronic Devices_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Bryan A Cloyd of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Mary S Poletti of Woodside CA (US) for apple inc., Nicholas R Trincia of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Benjamin A Stevenson of Oakland CA (US) for apple inc., Tsung-Wen Su of Tainan (TW) for apple inc., Jack Pickup of Shenzhen (CN) for apple inc., Jessica Wang of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/16, G02B27/01
Abstract: a case for an electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a main housing portion that separates an interior region from a surrounding exterior region. the main housing portion may have an opening through which the head-mounted device is received into the interior region. flexible protruding portions of the main housing portion may form a flexible tab and a flexible flap. to make size adjustments to the interior region, the flexible tab may slide within an opening in a cover. the cover may be configured to move between an open position in which the opening is uncovered and a closed position in which the head-mounted device is enclosed within the interior region by the main housing portion and the cover. deformable protrusions in the case may be used to seal openings in the head-mounted device when the device is in the interior region.
Inventor(s): Que Anh S. Nguyen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Weidi Zhu of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Andi M. Limarga of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Nisha S. Sheth of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/16, H01Q1/24, H04M1/02
Abstract: a composite enclosure component for an electronic device is disclosed. the composite enclosure component may include metallic nanoparticles, non-metallic nanoparticles, or a combination of these. the nanoparticles of the composite enclosure component may provide a hue, enhanced mechanical properties, or both.
Inventor(s): Krishna Prasad VUMMIDI MURALI of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/16, G01R31/28
Abstract: a semiconductor component package includes circuitry that can be used both for mitigating radio-frequency interference of signals in the package and for performing self-test procedures of components in the package. the circuitry includes chokes between the i/o pads of the package and a sensor module in the package to attenuate high-frequency rf interference in the package and protect sensors in the package. each i/o pad may have a corresponding choke. during a self-test procedure, such as a test of a sensor's temperature coefficient of offset, the chokes can be decoupled from the i/o pads and the sensor module and coupled between a current source and a ground. a current can be supplied to the choke to raise the temperature of the package. the chokes may use high-resistance windings to increase heat generation during the self-test procedure.
Inventor(s): Ramana V. Rachakonda of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Rohit K. Gupta of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Brad W. Simeral of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Peter F. Holland of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/3287, G06F1/3228
Abstract: in an embodiment, a system may include one or more processors forming central processing units (cpus) in the system, a display controller configured to display frames on a display device, a memory controller configured to control a memory, and a power management circuit. the power management circuit may be configured to establish one of a plurality of power states in the system. in a first power state, the display controller and the memory controller are powered on while the cpus are powered off. the display controller may be configured to read a plurality of prerendered frames from the memory and display the plurality of prerendered frames at times specified for each of the plurality of prerendered frames.
20240094804.WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES FOR COOPERATIVE USE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Paul X. WANG of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jeremy C. FRANKLIN of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/01, G02B27/01
Abstract: systems of the present disclosure can provide head-mountable devices with different input and output capabilities. such differences can lead the head-mountable devices to provide the corresponding users with somewhat different experiences despite operating in a shared environment. however, the outputs provided by one head-mountable device can be indicated on another head-mountable device so that the users are aware of the characteristics of each other's experience. where different head-mountable devices provide different sensing capabilities, the sensors of one head-mountable device can contribute to the detections of the other to provide more accurate and detailed outputs, such as object recognition, avatar generation, hand and body tracking, and the like.
Inventor(s): Michael J. Gutensohn of Rodeo CA (US) for apple inc., Payal Jotwani of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Mark E. Drummond of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Daniel L. Kovacs of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/01
Abstract: in one implementation, a method for recording an xr environment. the method includes: presenting, via the display device, a graphical environment with one or more virtual agents, wherein the graphical environment corresponds to a composition of extended reality (xr) content, including the one or more virtual agents, and an image stream of a physical environment captured from a first point-of-view (pov) of the physical environment; detecting, via the one or more input devices, a user input selecting a first virtual agent from among the one or more virtual agents; and in response to detecting the user input, recording a plurality of data streams associated with the graphical environment including a first image stream of the graphical environment from the first pov and one or more data streams of the graphical environment from a current pov of the first virtual agent.
Inventor(s): Yiqiang NIE of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Giovanni M. AGNOLI of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Allison W. DRYER of Tiburon CA (US) for apple inc., Jules K. FENNIS of Seattle WA (US) for apple inc., Charles MAALOUF of Seattle WA (US) for apple inc., Camille MOUSSETTE of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Giancarlo YERKES of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/01, G06F3/04842
Abstract: in some embodiments, the present disclosure includes techniques and user interfaces for performing operations using air gestures. in some embodiments, the present disclosure includes techniques and user interfaces for audio playback adjustment using gestures. in some embodiments, the present disclosure includes techniques and user interfaces for conditionally responding to inputs.
20240094825.GESTURE RECOGNITION WITH HAND-OBJECT INTERACTION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Lailin CHEN of Kirkland WA (US) for apple inc., Ashwin Kumar ASOKA KUMAR SHENOI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Daniel J. BREWER of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Eslam A. MOSTAFA of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Itay BAR YOSEF of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Julian K. SHUTZBERG of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Leah M. GUM of Sunol CA (US) for apple inc., Martin MELOUN of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Minhaeng LEE of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Victor BELYAEV of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/01, G06V10/26, G06V40/10, G06V40/20
Abstract: aspects of the subject technology provide improved techniques for gesture recognition. improved techniques may include detecting and/or classifying an interaction between the body part and another object in a scan of the body part, and then controlling recognition of a gesture based on the interaction. in an aspect, recognition parameters may be selected based on the interaction classification that disable recognition of one or more gestures while not disabling recognition of other gestures.
20240094831.Tracking Devices for Handheld Controllers_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Paul X Wang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/0354, G06F3/01
Abstract: a system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld input device for controlling the electronic device. a tracking device may be removably coupled to the handheld input device to increase the precision with which the head-mounted device tracks the handheld input device. the tracking device may have larger dimensions than the handheld input device and/or may have an expandable housing that expands and retracts. visual markers on the tracking device may include infrared light-emitting diodes, geometric surface features, or other optical tracking features. the tracking device may serve as a secondary input device for the head-mounted device when the tracking device is decoupled from the input device. the tracking device may have a recess for receiving a shaft of the input device and may have magnets or other attachment structures for attaching the tracking device to the input device.
20240094832.VARIABLE FRICTION AND MULTI-TEXTURE MOUSE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Bart K. Andre of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Brian T. Gleeson of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Kristi E. Bauerly of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., William D. Lindmeier of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew J. Sundstrom of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Geng Luo of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Seung Wook Kim of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Evangelos Christodoulou of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Megan M. Sapp of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Kainoa Kwon-Perez of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., John B. Morrell of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., John S. Camp of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/0354, G06F3/01, G06F3/044
Abstract: an input device can include a housing defining an internal volume and a lower portion, the lower portion defining an aperture, an input sensor disposed in the internal volume, and a haptic assembly disposed in the internal volume. the haptic assembly can include an actuator and a foot coupled to the actuator and aligned with the aperture. the actuator can be configured to selectively extend the foot through the aperture to vary a sliding resistance of the input device on a support surface.
20240094840.TOUCH SENSITIVE INPUT SURFACE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Darshan R. Kasar of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Javier Mendez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Nicholas C. Soldner of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Grant H. Mulliken of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/041, G06F3/01, G06F3/0346
Abstract: in at least one example of the present disclosure, a head-mountable device includes a display, a frame at least partially surrounding the display, a facial interface attached to the frame, a cover disposed around the facial interface, and a touch sensitive surface incorporated into the cover to receive input from a user for the head-mountable device.
Inventor(s): Karan S. JAIN of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Santosh POKHREL of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/044
Abstract: touch electrode architectures for reducing the occurrence of negative pixels in mutual capacitance touch sensor panels that are caused by poorly grounded objects are disclosed. a touch electrode architecture can utilize mutual capacitance unit cells, each of which include a drive electrode, a sense electrode, and one or more ground bars. the one or more ground bars can provide an increased capacitive path to ground for a poorly grounded finger, which can result in a larger reduction in mutual capacitance between the drive and sense electrodes, improving touch detection. in addition, the increased capacitive coupling between the object and ground reduces the amount of charge that couples back onto nearby sense electrodes, which can reduce the negative pixel that can occur at those electrodes and reduce the number of touch detection errors. the one or more ground bars can be formed in the same layer as the drive electrode.
Inventor(s): James M. Dessero of Morgan Hill CA (US) for apple inc., Miquel Rodriguez Estany of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Benjamin Hylak of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04815, G06F3/01, G06F3/04845, G06T15/60
Abstract: a computer system displays, in a three-dimensional environment, a computer-generated object; detects that a user's attention is directed to the object; and in response, displays a virtual shadow for the object with a first appearance, including displaying the shadow with a first value for a first visual property, while maintaining a pose of the object relative to the three-dimensional environment. while continuing to display the object in the three-dimensional environment, the computer system detects that the user's attention has ceased to be directed to the object; and in response, displays the shadow for the object with a second appearance that is different from the first appearance, while maintaining the pose of the object relative to the three-dimensional environment. displaying the shadow for the object with the second appearance includes displaying the shadow with a second value for the first visual property. the second value is different from the first value.
Inventor(s): Connor A. SMITH of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher D. MCKENZIE of Burlingame CA (US) for apple inc., Nathan GITTER of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04815, G06F3/01, G06F3/04845
Abstract: some examples of the disclosure are directed to methods for application-based spatial refinement in a multi-user communication session including a first electronic device and a second electronic device. while the first electronic device is presenting a three-dimensional environment, the first electronic device receives an input corresponding to a request to move a shared object in the three-dimensional environment. in accordance with a determination that the shared object is an object of a first type, the first electronic device moves the shared object and an avatar of a user in the three-dimensional environment in accordance with the input. in accordance with a determination that the shared object is an object of a second type, different from the first type, and the input is a first type of input, the first electronic device moves the shared object in the three-dimensional environment in accordance with the input, without moving the avatar.
Inventor(s): Stephen O. Lemay of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Gregg S. Suzuki of Daly City CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew J. Sundstrom of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan Ive of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jeffrey M. Faulkner of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan R. Dascola of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., William A. Sorrentino, III of Mill Valley CA (US) for apple inc., Kristi E.S. Bauerly of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Giancarlo Yerkes of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Peter D. Anton of Portola Valley CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04815, G06F3/01, G06F3/04845, G06F3/0485, G06F3/04883
Abstract: a computer system displays a first view of a user interface of a first application with a first size at a first position corresponding to a location of at least a portion of a palm that is currently facing a viewpoint corresponding to a view of a three-dimensional environment provided via a display generation component. while displaying the first view, the computer system detects a first input that corresponds to a request to transfer display of the first application from the palm to a first surface that is within a first proximity of the viewpoint. in response to detecting the first input, the computer system displays a second view of the user interface of the first application with a second size and an orientation that corresponds to the first surface at a second position defined by the first surface.
Inventor(s): Charles J. Migos of Millbrae CA (US) for apple inc., Michel Elings of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Ian J. Elseth of Vancouver WA (US) for apple inc., Genevieve Garand of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Kyle Howarth of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Steve E. Marmon of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Martin J. Murrett of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Jip van der Velde of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/0482, G06F3/04817, G06F3/04842, G06F3/0488, G06F40/103, G06F40/106, G06T13/00, G06T13/80
Abstract: some embodiments provide a method for a document viewing application. while displaying a sequence of selectable items that each correspond to a different document in a sequence of documents, the method receives selection of an item corresponding to a particular document in the sequence. the method retrieves a first set of content for displaying at least a portion of the particular document. after the first set of content is retrieved and displayed, the method retrieves content for displaying documents surrounding the particular document in the sequence of documents such that the content is available if input is received to display one of the documents surrounding the particular document in the sequence.
20240094881.Electronic Devices with Strain Gauges and Light Sources_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Zhengyu Li of Shanghai (CN) for apple inc., Ming Gao of Shanghai (CN) for apple inc., Wenhao Wang of Shanghai (CN) for apple inc., Yuanzhen Fan of Shanghai (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04842, G01L1/26, G06F3/04817, G06F3/147, G06F3/16
Abstract: an electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker may have an array of strain gauges and light-emitting diodes. the light-emitting diodes may be configured to display dynamically adjustable button icons overlapping the strain gauges. force measurements from the strain gauges may be used to adjust speaker output and other device operations.
Inventor(s): Daniel J. BREWER of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Julian K. SHUTZBERG of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., David J. MEYER of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., Chase B. LORTIE of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04842, G06F3/01, G06F3/04815, G06F3/0485, G06F3/0487
Abstract: in some embodiments, a computer system facilitates user input for displaying a selection refinement user interface object in an object within a three-dimensional environment, wherein the selection refinement user interface object indicates a location in the object at which the computer system performs a selection operation in response to further user input. in some embodiments, a computer system facilitates user input for activating a selection refinement mode in the three-dimensional environment during which an interaction point for a selection operation is movable based on movement of a hand of the user of the computer system.
Inventor(s): Bas ORDING of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Scott M. HERZ of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Wayne C. WESTERMAN of Burlingame CA (US) for apple inc., Scott FORSTALL of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Gregory N. CHRISTIE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04883, G06F3/041, G06F3/04817, G06F3/0482, G06F3/04845, G06F3/0485, H04M1/72403
Abstract: a portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. one aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays an application on the touch-sensitive display; and when the application is in a predefined mode, performs a predefined operation in response to each gesture of a set of multiple distinct gestures on the touch-sensitive display. another aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays a first application; when the first application is in a first mode, performs a first operation upon detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive display; and performs the first operation upon detecting a second gesture on the touch-sensitive display, wherein the second gesture is different from the first gesture.
Inventor(s): Shane J. Keil of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Gregory S. Mathews of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Rakesh L. Notani of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/06, G06F12/02
Abstract: a memory control circuit coupled to multiple memory ranks may receive read and write requests for a different ranks of the multiple memory ranks. the memory control may allocate write requests to different slots based on the write requests target memory rank, and may adjust the number of slots available for a given memory rank during a write turn to improve write efficiency. the memory control circuit may also determine a number of ranks switches within a read turn based on whether a particular quality-of-service requirement associated with the read requests is being satisfied.
Inventor(s): Tyler S. Bushnell of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Erik G. de Jong of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/14, G01S5/02, G01S5/14, H04S3/00, H04S7/00
Abstract: device localization (e.g., ultra-wideband device localization) may be used to provide coordinated outputs and/or receive coordinated inputs using multiple devices. providing coordinated outputs may include providing partial outputs using multiple devices, modifying an output of a device based on its position and/or orientation relative to another device, and the like. in some cases, each device of a set of multiple devices may provide a partial output, which combines with partial outputs of the remaining devices to produce a coordinated output.
20240094989.Execution Circuitry for Floating-Point Power Operation_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ali Sazegari of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Segev Elmalem of Tel-Aviv (IL) for apple inc., O-Cheng Chang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jingwei Zhang of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Ido Soffair of Tel-Aviv (IL) for apple inc., Aaftab A. Munshi of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F7/487
Abstract: techniques are disclosed relating to dedicated power function circuitry for a floating-point power instruction. in some embodiments, execution circuitry is configured to execute a floating-point power instruction to evaluate the power function xas 2. in some embodiments, base-2 logarithm circuitry is configured to evaluate a base-2 logarithm for a first input (e.g., logx) by determining coefficients for a polynomial function and evaluating the polynomial function using the determined coefficients and the first input. in some embodiments, multiplication circuitry multiplies the base-2 logarithm result by a second input to generate a multiplication result. in some embodiments, base-2 power function circuitry is configured to evaluate a base-2 power function for the multiplication result. disclosed techniques may advantageously increase performance and reduce power consumption of floating-point power function operations with reasonable area and accuracy, relative to traditional techniques.
Inventor(s): Justin Friesenhahn of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Benjiman L. Goodman of Austin TX (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F9/30
Abstract: techniques are disclosed relating to instruction scheduling in the context of instruction cache misses. in some embodiments, first-stage scheduler circuitry is configured to assign threads to channels and second-stage scheduler circuitry is configured to assign an operation from a given channel to a given execution pipeline based on decode of an operation for that channel. in some embodiments, thread replacement circuitry is configured to, in response to an instruction cache miss for an operation of a first thread assigned to a first channel, deactivate the first thread from the first channel.
Inventor(s): Benjiman L. Goodman of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Dzung Q. Vu of Cedar Park TX (US) for apple inc., Robert Kenney of Austin TX (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F9/38
Abstract: techniques are disclosed relating to channel stalls or deactivations based on the latency of prior operations. in some embodiments, a processor includes a plurality of channel pipelines for a plurality of channels and a plurality of execution pipelines shared by the channel pipelines and configured to perform different types of operations provided by the channel pipelines. first scheduler circuitry may assign threads to channels and second scheduler circuitry may assign an operation from a given channel to a given execution pipeline based on decode of an operation for that channel. dependency circuitry may, for a first operation that depends on a prior operation that uses one of the execution pipelines, determine, based on status information for the prior operation from the one of the execution pipelines, whether to stall the first operation or to deactivate a thread that includes the first operation from its assigned channel.
20240095037.Coprocessor Prefetcher_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Brandon H. Dwiel of Boston MA (US) for apple inc., Andrew J. Beaumont-Smith of Cambridge MA (US) for apple inc., Eric J. Furbish of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., John D. Pape of Cedar Park TX (US) for apple inc., Stephen G. Meier of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Tyler J. Huberty of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F9/38
Abstract: a prefetcher for a coprocessor is disclosed. an apparatus includes a processor and a coprocessor that are configured to execute processor and coprocessor instructions, respectively. the processor and coprocessor instructions appear together in code sequences fetched by the processor, with the coprocessor instructions being provided to the coprocessor by the processor. the apparatus further includes a coprocessor prefetcher configured to monitor a code sequence fetched by the processor and, in response to identifying a presence of coprocessor instructions in the code sequence, capture the memory addresses, generated by the processor, of operand data for coprocessor instructions. the coprocessor is further configured to issue, for a cache memory accessible to the coprocessor, prefetches for data associated with the memory addresses prior to execution of the coprocessor instructions by the coprocessor.
20240095039.ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH INTELLIGENT BOOT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Wei He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Eugene Kim of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Guangyu Liu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Suhak Lee of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F9/4401, H02J7/00
Abstract: a system includes a processor, a charger circuit and a battery management unit (bmu). the charger circuit charges a battery. the bmu includes an intelligent boot module that can send a boot signal to the processor based on information including a battery condition and system information. the processor starts a boot sequence based on the boot signal.
20240095065.Multi-stage Thread Scheduling_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Benjiman L. Goodman of Cedar Park TX (US) for apple inc., Anjana Rajendran of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Sheenam Jayaswal of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Terence M. Potter of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Yoong Chert Foo of London (GB) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F9/48
Abstract: techniques are disclosed relating to multi-stage thread scheduling. in some embodiments, processor circuitry includes multiple channel pipelines for multiple channels and multiple execution pipelines shared by the channel pipelines and configured to perform different types of operations provided by the channel pipelines. first scheduler circuitry may arbitrate among threads to assign threads to channels. second scheduler circuitry may arbitrate among channels to assign an operation from a given channel to a given execution pipeline. the execution pipelines may provide backpressure information to the first scheduler circuitry based on execution status and the first scheduler circuitry may adjust priority of a thread for assignment to a channel based on the backpressure information. disclosed techniques may reduce channel conflicts and starvation for execution resources.
20240095176.Preemption Techniques for Memory-Backed Registers_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Benjiman L. Goodman of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Yoong Chert Foo of London (GB) for apple inc., Karl D. Mann of Orlando FL (US) for apple inc., Terence M. Potter of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Frank W. Liljeros of Sanford FL (US) for apple inc., Jeffrey T. Brady of Orlando FL (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F12/0891, G06F12/0811
Abstract: techniques are disclosed relating to thread preemption in the context of memory-backed registers. in some embodiments, a memory hierarchy includes one or more cache levels and one or more memory circuits. execution circuitry may operate on operands in architectural registers to execute instructions of threads, where data for the architectural registers is stored and backed by the memory hierarchy. control circuitry may, in response to a context switch indication for a given thread: flush and invalidate a set of architectural register data from a first cache level and store memory page information (e.g., a page catalog base address) associated with the set of architectural register data.
20240095194.Read Arbiter Circuit with Dual Memory Rank Support_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shane J. Keil of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Gregory S. Mathews of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Lakshmi Narasimha Murthy Nukala of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F13/16
Abstract: a memory control circuit coupled to multiple memory ranks may receive read and write requests for a different ranks of the multiple memory ranks. the memory control may allocate write requests to different slots based on the write requests target memory rank, and may adjust the number of slots available for a given memory rank during a write turn to improve write efficiency. the memory control circuit may also determine a number of ranks switches within a read turn based on whether a particular quality-of-service requirement associated with the read requests is being satisfied.
20240095317.Method and System For Device Access Control_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Kevin M. Lynch of Woodside CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F21/31
Abstract: a method includes obtaining sensor information from one or more sensors of the mobile device, analyzing the sensor information to determine a first identifier for a person, determining whether the person is authorized to use the mobile device based on a comparison of the first identifier to previously stored authentication information, and in response to determining that the person is authorized to use the mobile device, outputting a recognition indicator.
Inventor(s): Mischa MCLACHLAN of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jennifer BAILEY of Los Altos Hills CA (US) for apple inc., Steven EASTCOTT of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Corey FUGMAN of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haya Iris VILLANUEVA GAVIOLA of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Richard HEARD of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Brian JETT of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Katie MCINDOE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Thomas John MILLER of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ashish Chandrakant NAGRE of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Rachel REDDY of Morris Plains NJ (US) for apple inc., Akila SURESH of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Marcel VAN OS of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Vinay VENKATESH of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Nicole Marie WEAVER of Chesterfield VA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F21/44, G06F9/451, G06Q20/22
Abstract: the present disclosure generally relates to displaying a user interface for sharing an account associated with a first user identity with a second user identity. the user interface includes a first sharing option and a second sharing option. one or more inputs corresponding to a request to share the account are detected. if the one or more inputs include a selection of the first sharing option, a request to invite the second user identity to become a joint owner of the account is transmitted. if the one or more inputs include a selection of the second sharing option, a request to invite the second user identity to become a participant of the account without becoming a joint owner of the account is transmitted.
Inventor(s): Sayyed Karen Khatamifard of Bellevue WA (US) for apple inc., Thomas G. Anderl of Seattle WA (US) for apple inc., Alexander J. Kirchhoff of Seattle CA (US) for apple inc., Keith Wyss of Seattle WA (US) for apple inc., Dylan H. Rush of Mountlake Terrace WA (US) for apple inc., Chenfan Sun of SHORELINE WA (US) for apple inc., Jeffrey D Marker of Pleasant View UT (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06N3/10, G06N3/063
Abstract: embodiments relate to compiling neural network operations into tasks that may be performed in a streaming manner by a neural processor. in a streaming operation, a tensor is spatially partitioned, and tasks associated two or more layers of the neural network are performed simultaneously in an overlapping manner. to enable efficient memory usage during streaming operation, a subset of the tasks having completion times close in time are assigned to a same portion of memory in the neural processor during a compilation process. after the tasks assigned to the same portion of the memory is finished, the portion of the memory may be flushed to make space for subsequent tasks. multiple tasks may also be coalesced into a single task to reduce the number of tasks and more efficiently perform the operations at the neural processor.
Inventor(s): Ido Y Soffair of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Uri Nix of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yung-Chin Chen of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Jim C Chou of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jian Zhou of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc., Assaf Menachem of Hod Hasharon (IL) for apple inc., Sorin C Cismas of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T1/60, G06T1/20
Abstract: a device may include a display for displaying an image frame based on warped image data and image processing circuitry to generate the warped image data by warping input image data to account for one or more distortions associated with displaying the image. the image processing circuitry may include a two-stage cache architecture having an first cache and an second cache and warp the input image data by generating mapping data indicative of a warp between the input image space and the output image space and fetching the input image data to populate the first cache. warping may also include populating the second cache with a grouping of pixel values from the first cache that are selected according to a sliding window that traverses the first cache based on the mapping data and interpolating between pixel values of the grouping to generate pixel values of the warped image data.
20240095879.Image Generation with Resolution Constraints_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Andreas Gapel of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Nitin Nandakumar of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Sabine Webel of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Tobias Eble of Laupheim (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T3/40, G06F3/01, G06T11/00
Abstract: in one implementation, a method of generating an image is performed by a device including one or more processors and non-transitory memory. the method includes generating a first resolution function based on a formula with a set of variables having a first set of values. the method includes generating a first image based on first content and the first resolution function. the method includes detecting a resolution constraint. the method includes generating a second resolution function based on the formula with the set of variables having a second set of values, wherein the second resolution function has a summation value that satisfies the resolution constraint. the method includes generating a second image based on second content and the second resolution function.
Inventor(s): Shereef Shehata of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Stephan Lachowsky of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jim C Chou of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T5/00, G06T3/40
Abstract: systems and methods are provided for adding digital film grain to images and videos displayed by a display of an electronic device. an image processing circuitry of the electronic device may include hardware, such as display pipeline hardware, memory-to-memory scaler and rotator (msr) hardware, and/or other possible hardware, that enables generation of film grain templates based on characteristics of a target film grain, pseudo-randomly samples the programmable template to fetch film grain values, scales the film grain values, and combines the scaled film grain values with values of pixels in an image frame.
20240095958.Methods for Infield Camera Calibrations_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shuntaro Yamazaki of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ravi Teja Sukhavasi of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Oleg Naroditsky of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Stergios Roumeliotis of Los Altos Hills CA (US) for apple inc., Daniel C Byrnes of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T7/80, G06T7/00, G06T7/20, G06V10/74, H04N23/695
Abstract: methods for performing a calibration process for outward-facing cameras on devices such as head-mounted display devices are disclosed. extrinsic parameters of the camera are first estimated using inputs to the calibration process such as information from an inertial measurement unit and points of interest within images captured by the camera that are tracked with time. then, extrinsic and intrinsic parameters are concurrently determined in an optimization problem such that updated values of said parameters may be stored and used by applications that run on the device and make use of the camera. the calibration process may be extended to concurrently calibrate multiple cameras based, at least in part, on information from the inertial measurement unit that is local to the camera.
Inventor(s): Miao REN of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Shih-Sang CHIU of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., Connor A. SMITH of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Joseph P. CERRA of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Willem MATTELAER of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T11/60, G06T15/20
Abstract: some examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods for presenting content in a three-dimensional environment by one or more electronic devices in a multi-user communication session. in some examples, a first electronic device and a second electronic device are communicatively linked in a multi-user communication session, wherein the first electronic device and the second electronic device are configured to display a three-dimensional environment, respectively. in some examples, the first electronic device and the second electronic device are grouped in a first spatial group within the multi-user communication session. in some examples, if the second electronic device determines that the first electronic device changes states (and/or vice versa), the user of the first electronic device and the user of the second electronic device are no longer grouped into the same spatial group within the multi-user communication session.
20240096002.UNCONSTRAINED MULTIPLANE IMAGES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Michael STECKLEIN of Round Rock TX (US) for apple inc., Afshin TAGHAVI NASRABADI of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Maneli NOORKAMI of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T15/20, G06T15/04
Abstract: a set of planes is determined based on the vertices of a three-dimensional scene. the set of planes is determined independent of any particular orientation with respect to a reference viewpoint of the three-dimensional scene. the vertices are associated with the set of planes and respective textures are associated with the set of planes based on the associated vertices.
20240096010.IMAGE BLENDING MODES SYSTEMS AND METHODS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yun Gong of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jim C. Chou of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Guy Cote of Aptos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T15/50
Abstract: a device may include an electronic display to display an image frame based on blended image data and image processing circuitry to generate the blended image data by combining first image data and second image data via a blend operation. the blend operation may include receiving graphics alpha data indicative of a transparency factor to be applied to the first image data to generate a first layer of the blend operation. the blend operation may also include overlaying the first layer onto a second layer that is based on the second image data. overlaying the first layer onto the second layer may include adding first pixels values of the first image data that include negative pixel values and are augmented by the transparency factor to second pixel values of the second image data to generate blended pixel values of the blended image data.
20240096013.SINGLE-PASS OBJECT SCANNING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Rafael Felipe Veiga Saracchini of Berlin (DE) for apple inc., Tobias Rick of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Zachary Z. Becker of Issaquah WA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T17/00, G06T7/20, G06T7/579, G06T19/00, H04N23/60, H04N23/63
Abstract: various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that generates a three-dimensional (3d) model based on a selected subset of the images and depth data corresponding to each of the images of the subset. for example, an example process may include acquiring sensor data during movement of the device in a physical environment including an object, the sensor data including images of a physical environment captured via a camera on the device, selecting a subset of the images based on assessing the images with respect to motion-based defects based on device motion and depth data, and generating a 3d model of the object based on the selected subset of the images and depth data corresponding to each of the images of the selected subset.
20240096098.SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEATURE ACTIVATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Nicholas G. SAMPLE of Broomfield CO (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06V20/50, G06T7/20, G06T7/50, G06T7/70
Abstract: in some embodiments, an electronic device presents indications to a user in accordance with sensor data. the sensor data is optionally obtained by one or more sensors of the electronic device. in some embodiments, the electronic device detects a context in which the electronic device is operating. in some embodiments, the electronic device selectively activates and deactivates indication features in accordance with the context in which the electronic device is operating. for example, in certain contexts, the electronic device forgoes presenting indications that would be presented in other contexts.
Inventor(s): Bharath Narasimha Rao of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Kevin Will Chen of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Reed E. Olsen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Umamahesh Srinivas of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Kevin M. Lynch of Woodside CA (US) for apple inc., John-Peter E. Cafaro of La Jolla CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G08B25/00, G04G13/02, G04G21/02, G08B21/18
Abstract: techniques are disclosed for facilitating disabling an alarm in response to particular types of activity-indicative data. more specifically, activity-indicative data (e.g., measurements obtained by an electronic device) can be detected prior to a preset alarm time. upon determining, based on the activity-indicative data, that a wakefulness condition is satisfied, the alarm can be disabled such that the alarm stimuli is not to be presented at the preset alarm time.
Inventor(s): Jim C Chou of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Shereef Shehata of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Yung-Chin Chen of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/20
Abstract: a device may include a display that display an image frame that is divided into adjustable regions having respective resolutions based on compensated image data. the device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the compensated image data by applying gains that compensate for burn-in related aging of pixels of the display. the gains are based on an aggregation of history updates indicative of estimated amounts of aging associated with pixel utilization. the circuitry may generate a history update by obtaining boundary data indicative of the boundaries between the adjustable regions, determining an estimated amount of aging, and dynamically resampling the estimated amount of aging by resampling a portion of the estimated amount of aging corresponding to an adjustable region by a factor and resampling of a different portion of the estimated amount of aging corresponding to another adjustable region by a different factor based on the boundary data.
Inventor(s): Denis M. Darmon of Boulder CO (US) for apple inc., Christopher P. Tann of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Hopil Bae of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Yanghyo Kim of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ramana V. Rachakonda of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Xiaofeng Wang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Robert D. Zucker of Half Moon Bay CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/20, G02B26/08
Abstract: a device may include image processing circuitry that generates image data corresponding to an image to be displayed during a first image frame and a second image frame. however, the image data is not regenerated for the second image frame. the device may also include an electronic display having a frame buffer that receives and stores the image data from the image processing circuitry. the electronic display may also include a display panel that displays the image during the first image frame based on a first read of the image data from the frame buffer in response to a first emission sync signal and displays the image during the second image frame based on a second read of the image data from the frame buffer in response to a second emission sync signal.
20240096275.VARIABLE ELVDD WITH ADJACENT CODE CALIBRATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shubham A. Gandhi of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan H. Beck of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Koorosh Aflatooni of Los Altos Hills CA (US) for apple inc., Mohammad Ali Jangda of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Graeme M. Williams of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Kingsuk Brahma of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Snehal T. Jariwala of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Salman Kabir of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Josiah Smith of CUPERTINO CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/3225, G09G3/32, G09G3/36
Abstract: a electronic display device designed to calibrate brightness levels in a flat-panel display by using adjacent code calibration for a variable electroluminescence voltage supply in the flat-panel display.
Inventor(s): Alper Ozgurluk of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Andrew Lin of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Cheuk Chi Lo of Belmont CA (US) for apple inc., Chun-Ming Tang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Shinya Ono of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Chun-Yao Huang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/3258, G09G3/3266, G09G3/3291
Abstract: a display may include an array of pixels. a pixel can include an organic light-emitting diode, up to three thin-film transistors, and up to two capacitors. the pixel can include a drive transistor, an emission transistor, and a select transistor. the select transistor can be used to apply a reference voltage to the gate of the drive transistor during a global reset phase and during a global threshold voltage sampling phase and can also be used to apply a data voltage to the gate of the drive transistor during a data programming phase. the drive transistor can receive a power supply voltage that toggles between a low voltage during the global reset phase and a high voltage during other phases of operation. configured and operated in this way, the pixel need not include separate dedicated anode reset and initialization transistors.
Inventor(s): Ming Sun of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Nicola Rasera of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Robert D Zucker of Half Moon Bay CA (US) for apple inc., Johan L Piper of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Denis M Darmon of Boulder CO (US) for apple inc., Fabio Ongaro of Unterhaching (DE) for apple inc., Xiaofeng Wang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/34
Abstract: systems and methods for electronic displays to use reference voltages to control driving current of illuminators are provided. the reference voltages are used to reduce or eliminate cross talk in driving voltages among different illuminators and driving voltage variations from frame to frame. the transient performance of the driving current of the illuminator (e.g., the current rise/decline time, current overshoot issue, current settling time) may be improved by implementing the reference voltages.
Inventor(s): Denis M Darmon of Boulder CO (US) for apple inc., Kanghoon Jeon of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jose A Dominguez-Caballero of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Bilin Wang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/34, G02B26/08
Abstract: a device may include an electronic display to display image frames. the display may include illuminators that generate light and mirrors that selectively direct the light to pixel locations based bitplanes that set the arrangement of the mirrors. additionally, the device may include duty cycle balancing circuitry that generates and provides duty cycle balancing signals to the electronic display. in response to the duty cycle balancing signals, the electronic display is implements balancing on bitplanes during at least a first portion of off periods during the image frames and implements balancing off bitplanes during at least a second portion of the off periods such that, in the aggregate, a ratio of respective on times of the mirrors to respective off times of the mirrors is balanced across the image frames during the off periods.
20240096319.GAZE-BASED COMMAND DISAMBIGUATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Kenneth M. KARAKOTSIOS of Scotts Valley CA (US) for apple inc., James BYUN of Los Angeles CA (US) for apple inc., Pulah J. SHAH of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G10L15/22, G06F3/01, G06F16/332, G06V20/62
Abstract: aspects of the subject technology provide improved techniques for human-computer interactions including disambiguation of a human user's linguistic command. the improved techniques may include integrating linguistic input from a user with additional input from sensors relating to the user and the user's environment. in an aspect, imagery of a user's environment may be first analyzed to identify objects in the environment. input regarding the user, such as a user's gaze location, may trigger a second analysis of a subset of the identified objects in the environment. the results of these analyses may then be used to resolve an ambiguity in linguistic user input from the user.
20240096321.VOICE CONTROL WITH CONTEXTUAL KEYWORDS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Devang K. NAIK of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Madhu CHINTHAKUNTA of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Paul R. DIXON of Zurich (CH) for apple inc., Kumari NISHU of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Harry J. SADDLER of Berkeley CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G10L15/22, G10L15/02, G10L15/18
Abstract: systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. in some embodiments, contextual data is obtained and used to select a set of keywords (e.g., words or phrases) for voice control of an electronic device. when a speech input is received by the electronic device, a determination is made whether the speech input includes any of the selected keywords. if the speech input does include a selected keyword, an action is performed in response.
20240096335.Object Audio Coding_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sina Zamani of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Moo Young Kim of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dipanjan Sen of Dublin CA (US) for apple inc., Sang Uk Ryu of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Juha O. Merimaa of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Symeon Delikaris Manias of Los Angeles CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G10L19/008, G10L25/03
Abstract: in one aspect, a computer-implemented method, includes obtaining object audio and metadata that spatially describes the object audio, converting the object audio to time-frequency domain ambisonics audio based on the metadata, and encoding the time-frequency domain ambisonics audio and a subset of the metadata as one or more bitstreams to be stored in computer-readable memory or transmitted to a remote device.
Inventor(s): Sanjay Dabral of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Chi Nung Ni of Foster City CA (US) for apple inc., Long Huang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., SivaChandra Jangam of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01L21/56, H01L23/00, H01L25/065
Abstract: chip sealing designs to accommodate die-to-die communication are described. in an embodiment, a chip structure includes a split metallic seal structure including a lower metallic seal and an upper metallic seal with overlapping metallization layers, and a through seal interconnect navigating through the split metallic seal structure.
Inventor(s): Justin S. Brockman of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Fang Ou of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Lina He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Dmitry S. Sizov of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Lei Zhang of Albuquerque NM (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01L33/62, H01L25/075, H01L25/16, H01L33/00, H01L33/10
Abstract: optoelectronic structures and methods of formation are described. in an embodiment, an optoelectronic structure includes a backplane with a driving circuitry and an array of contact pads, and a device layer bonded to the backplane. the device layer may include an array of micro-sized diodes and landing pads, and a reconstituted wiring layer including an array of via contacts connected to the array of landing pads. the reconstituted wiring layer can be directly bonded with the array of contacts with metal-metal bonds. a placement distribution of the array of landing can be decoupled from a position distribution of the array of via contacts.
20240097210.BATTERY PACK WITH ELECTRONICS COMPARTMENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Nivay Anandarajah of San Leandro CA (US) for apple inc., Evan D. Maley of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew I Woods of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Dylan C. Erb of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Abraham B. Caulk of Livermore CA (US) for apple inc., Joseph D. Rainey of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., John M. Schoech of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01M10/42, H01M50/204, H01M50/233
Abstract: a battery pack includes a housing defining a housing interior, a first stack of electrochemical cells disposed in the housing interior, a second stack of electrochemical cells disposed in the housing interior, and an electronics compartment disposed in the housing interior. the electronics compartment is positioned between the first stack of electrochemical cells and the second stack of electrochemical cells. further, the electronics compartment extends along a majority of a length of the battery pack.
Inventor(s): Zuqin Liu of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Shabab Amiruddin of Pacifica CA (US) for apple inc., Aswin Karthik Manohar of Newark CA (US) for apple inc., Hongxia Zhou of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01M50/105, H01M10/04, H01M50/198, H01M50/242, H01M50/533
Abstract: a battery may include an enclosure and an electrode cell disposed within the enclosure. a first pair of notches may be formed in the enclosure. each notch of the first pair of notches may include a protrusion that extends into the enclosure. a second pair of notches may be formed in the electrode cell. the first pair of notches may be aligned with the second pair of notches. the protrusions may be configured to engage with the second pair of notches when the cell moves within the enclosure.
20240097248.SHAPED ELECTRODE FOR ARRESTING ELECTRODE MOVEMENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Zuqin Liu of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Shabab Amiruddin of Pacifica CA (US) for apple inc., Aswin Karthik Manohar of Newark CA (US) for apple inc., Hongxia Zhou of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01M50/14, H01M10/04, H01M50/131, H01M50/531
Abstract: a battery may include an enclosure that defines an interior volume, an electrode cell disposed within the interior volume, and a pair of retaining elements. the electrode cell may include a pair of notches formed therein. the pair of retaining elements may be disposed within volumes defined by the pair of notches. the pair of retaining elements may be connected to the enclosure and may be configured to engage with a respective notch of the pair of notches to arrest movement of the electrode cell with respect to the enclosure.
Inventor(s): Miroslav Samardzija of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Yiren Wang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yuehui Ouyang of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Joseph Hakim of Jacksonville OR (US) for apple inc., Qingxiang Li of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Robert W. Schlub of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Ruben Caballero of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Siwen Yong of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Erik G. de Jong of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01Q1/22, G04G21/04, G04R60/10, G06F1/16, H01Q1/27, H01Q1/52, H01Q7/00, H01Q9/04, H01Q9/42, H01Q21/28, H04B5/00, H04B5/02, H05K1/02, H05K5/00, H05K5/03, H10K59/40
Abstract: an electronic device may have a display. a display cover layer and a transparent inner display member may overlap a display pixel layer. the display pixel layer may have an array of display pixels for displaying images for a user. a touch sensor layer may be interposed between the display pixel layer and the transparent display member. a ferromagnetic shielding layer may be mounted below the display pixel layer. a flexible printed circuit containing coils of metal signal lines that form a near-field communications loop antenna may be interposed between the ferromagnetic shielding layer and the display pixel layer. a non-near-field antenna such as an inverted-f antenna may have a resonating element mounted on an inner surface of the display cover layer. the resonating element may be interposed between the transparent display member and the display cover layer.
20240097319.SLIP RING FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Xiaofang Mu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jorge L Rivera Espinoza of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Bernd W Adler of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Evan N Dvorak of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Samuel E Vinci of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Shaohua Lin of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01Q1/50, H01P3/00
Abstract: an electronic device may include a first set of antennas, a second set of antennas, and a slip ring disposed between the first set of antennas and the second set of antennas. the slip ring may include a waveguide that provides a pathway for signals transmitted between the first set of and the second set of antennas. a diameter and a length of the waveguide may enable efficient transmission of the signals between the sets of antennas by reducing signal attenuation. additionally, gaps between the sets of antennas and the slip ring may be sized to reduce radiation emitted from the electronic device. the gaps between the sets of antennas and the slip ring may enable wireless data transfer between the sets of antennas.
Inventor(s): Jiangfeng Wu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Lijun Zhang of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Mattia Pascolini of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Siwen Yong of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Yi Jiang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01Q1/52, H01Q3/34, H01Q9/04, H01Q19/00
Abstract: an electronic device may have a phased antenna array. an antenna in the array may include a rectangular patch element with diagonal axes. the antenna may have first and second antenna feeds coupled to the patch element along the diagonal axes. the antenna may be rotated at a forty-five degree angle relative to other antennas in the array. the antenna may have one or two layers of parasitic elements overlapping the patch element. for example, the antenna may have a layer of coplanar parasitic patches separated by a gap. the antenna may also have an additional parasitic patch that is located farther from the patch element than the layer of coplanar parasitic patches. the additional parasitic patch may overlap the patch element and the gap in the coplanar parasitic patches. the antenna may exhibit a relatively small footprint and minimal mutual coupling with other antennas in the array.
20240097324.Electronic Devices with Dynamic Antenna Switching_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yuancheng Xu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Thomas E Biedka of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jingni Zhong of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Hongfei Hu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Simran Singh of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Allen S Kwon of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Carlo Di Nallo of Belmont CA (US) for apple inc., Jayesh Nath of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Mattia Pascolini of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01Q3/24, H01Q1/24, H01Q5/35, H01Q5/378
Abstract: an electronic device may be provided with a first antenna fed by a first path and a second antenna fed by a second path. a first coupler may be disposed on the first path, a second coupler may be disposed on the second path, and a feedback path may couple the couplers to a receiver. a low-pass filter may be disposed on the second path. the first antenna may transmit signals in a low band. some of the signals may couple onto the second antenna. the second coupler may pass the coupled signals to the receiver. control circuitry may generate a scattering parameter value characterizing the coupling of the signals from the first antenna onto the second antenna. the scattering parameter value may be used to determine when to switch the first antenna out of use and the second antenna into use for covering the low band.
Inventor(s): Thuy Nguyen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Behzad Biglarbegian of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01Q9/04, H01Q1/24, H01Q1/42
Abstract: an electronic device may include baseband circuitry coupled to antennas over a communication path that includes signal paths on a first substrate, a second substrate, and a third substrate. the antennas may be disposed on the third substrate. a wireless connector may couple the paths on the third substrate to the paths on the second substrate. the wireless connector may include a first transceiver and first antenna on the third substrate and a second transceiver and second antenna on the second substrate. the wireless connector may include one or more dielectric layers disposed between the first antenna and the second antenna. the layers may form a smooth impedance transition between the first antenna and the second antenna. the layers may include one or two angled layers that redirect wireless signals between the first and second antennas to allow the first and second substrates to be offset within the device.
20240097423.ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM FOR WEARABLE DEVICES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Liam R. Martinez of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Javier Mendez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Samuel G. Smith of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Scott W. Slabaugh of Gilroy CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H02G11/00, A42B7/00, G06F1/16
Abstract: a wearable electronic device includes a first portion, a securement strap, and an electrical cable. the securement strap includes a track having a first terminus and a second terminus, a pulley translatably secured to the track, and an elastic member having a first end secured to the securement strap and a second end secured to the pulley. the electrical cable has a first end connected to the first portion and a second end connected to the securement strap, the electrical cable routed at least partially around the pulley.
Inventor(s): Gina B. Lu of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Kartik R. Venkatraman of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Aaron Cotter of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Alexander D. Palmer of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H02J7/00, G06F1/26
Abstract: an electronic device can include a power system including a battery and a processor programmed to: receive synchronized context data from one or more other devices associated with a user of the device, determine, at least in part based on the synchronized context data, one or more battery charging intervals, and operate the power system to charge the battery from the external power source during the identified one or more battery charging intervals. the processor can be programmed to determine the one or more battery charging intervals using a machine learning model. the synchronized context data can provide indication of the user's location. if the synchronized context data indicates that the user is at a different location than the device, the one or more battery charging intervals determined based at least in part on an expected time for the user to return to the location of the device.
20240097471.Coexistence with Wireless Power System_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): David A Karol of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Ali Navrozally of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Lior Ben-Yehoshua of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Zachary P Jasensky of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H02J7/00, H02J50/10, H02J50/40, H04N23/65
Abstract: a wireless power system may include an electronic device. the electronic device can include a camera and wireless power circuitry configured to perform a wireless power transfer operation with an external device. to promote coexistence of the camera with the wireless power circuitry, the electronic device can alter the wireless power transfer operation.
20240097490.WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER STRUCTURE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Agha Jahanzeb of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Arash Akhavan Fomani of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew J. Chabalko of Salinas CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H02J50/00, H01F27/24, H01F27/30, H02J50/10
Abstract: an electronic device can include a metallic housing defining an interior that contains one or more systems of the electronic device. the metallic housing can further define a pocket within the metallic housing separated from the interior. the pocket can have a window to an exterior of the metallic housing to facilitate wireless power transfer. an electronic device can include a non-metallic housing defining an interior that contains one or more systems of the electronic device and a wireless power transfer module that further includes a metallic structure defining a receptacle separated from the interior housing. the receptacle can have at least one open side to facilitate wireless power transfer. in either case, the wireless power transfer coil can be disposed at least partially or completely within the pocket or receptacle.
Inventor(s): Nan Liu of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Aijun Qin of Auckland (NZ) for apple inc., Ge Wang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jinqian Yu of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Kunal Bhargava of Auckland (NZ) for apple inc., Patrin K. Illenberger of Auckland (NZ) for apple inc., Rex P. Huang of Auckland (NZ) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H02J50/60, H02J50/10, H02J50/80
Abstract: a wireless power transmitter can include a wireless power transfer coil designed to magnetically couple with a corresponding coil in a wireless power receiver to facilitate wireless power transfer from the wireless power transmitter to the wireless power receiver, a power converter configured to drive the wireless power transfer coil, and control and communications circuitry coupled to the wireless power transfer coil and the power converter. the control and communications circuitry can be configured to operate the power converter to drive the wireless power transfer coil so as to transfer power to the wireless power receiver in accordance with a negotiated power transfer. simultaneously during power transfer, the control and communications circuitry can send a polling signal to detect a foreign object including a wireless transponder and reduce or stop wireless power transfer upon receiving a response to the polling signal from a foreign object including a wireless transponder.
20240097628.Power Amplifier with Current Reuse_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Nitesh Singhal of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Mark G Forbes of San Carlos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H03F3/24, H03F1/02, H03F3/195, H04B1/04
Abstract: an electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a front-end module coupled between the transceiver and the antenna. the front-end module may include one or more power amplifiers for amplifying a signal for transmission through the antenna. a power amplifier may include multiple amplifier stages. current sharing or reuse may occur between two amplifier stages in the power amplifier via a current flow path between the two amplifier stages. a power supply voltage line may be connected to the current flow path and may provide the downstream amplifier stage with a supplemental supply current based on which the downstream amplifier stage can amplify a radio-frequency signal received from the upstream amplifier stage.
Inventor(s): Andrea Camuffo of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Andreas Langer of Unterschleissheim (DE) for apple inc., Guenther Hackl of Altoetting (DE) for apple inc., Stephan Henzler of Munich (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H03G3/30, H04W52/52
Abstract: this disclosure is directed to compensating for gain drift due to switching the output power of a transmitter of an electronic device. in some cellular network applications, the transmit power level of a transmitter may be frequently adjusted from a low power level to a high power level. if the power level is not switched to the desired power level within a given interval, the transmission signal may be distorted. to enable the transmitter to reach a desired output power within the interval, the voltage supply of a power amplifier may be raised during a low power symbol, which may produce an undesirable gain increase. to mitigate or eliminate the low power symbol gain increase, a gain compensation signal may be introduced into the transmitter. the compensation signal may be adjusted and refined by implementing a power control loop, the power control loop may include a power controller.
20240097639.DIFFERENTIAL DOUBLE BALANCED DUPLEXER_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Christof Pfannenmüller of Erlangen (DE) for apple inc., Joonhoi Hur of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Dominic Koehler of Viereth-Trunstadt (DE) for apple inc., Harald Pretl of Schwertberg (AT) for apple inc., Rastislav Vazny of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H03H7/42, H03H7/46
Abstract: a differential double balanced duplexer (ddbd) includes a transmitter and a first balun are coupled to a first impedance tuner that produces a first impedance that blocks received signals at a first frequency range from travelling across the first balun and into the transmitter, and a second impedance that passes transmitted signals at a second frequency range to travel across the first balun to the antenna. the ddbd also includes a receiver and a second balun coupled to a second impedance tuner that produces a first impedance that allows the received signals at the first frequency range to travel across the second balun and into the receiver, and a second impedance that blocks the transmitted signals at the second frequency range from travelling across the second balun and into the receiver. as such, the ddbd allows for increased isolation and decreased insertion loss.
20240097657.SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPEDANCE TUNING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Josef W Koller of Burglengenfeld (DE) for apple inc., Bjoern Lenhart of Nürnberg (DE) for apple inc., Dominic Koehler of Viereth-Trunstadt (DE) for apple inc., Rastislav Vazny of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Joonhoi Hur of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Harald Pretl of Schwertberg (AT) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H03J3/20, H04B1/18
Abstract: in electronic devices used in radio-frequency communications, impedance matching may result in desirable operating conditions. however, impedance of the antenna may change over time (e.g., due to frequency of signals being transmitted or received, due to ambient conditions, due to age of antenna or related components). accordingly, it may be desirable to employ antenna tracking circuitry that may operate as an impedance matching network to dynamically match the antenna impedance. to dynamically match the antenna impedance, the matching network may include tunable components. to provide fast, dynamic, and effective impedance matching, antenna tracking circuitry having an architecture with analytically determinable impedance (e.g., determinable via one or more equations) may be implemented. the antenna tracking circuitry may include a variable resistor and three variable impedances. the three variable impedances may include components capable of tuning capacitor ranges of the three variable impedances, among other characteristics of the antenna tracking circuitry.
Inventor(s): Charles L. WANG of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Yi-Hsiu E. CHEN of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Pranavi SUNKARA of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H03K9/02
Abstract: the present disclosure describes embodiments of driver circuit. the driver circuit includes a first impedance element electrically coupled to a first inverter circuit and a second impedance element electrically coupled to the first impedance element and a second inverter circuit. for a first encoding using the driver circuit, the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit are controlled such that a first current flows through the first and second impedance elements, the first current having a first value and a first direction. for a second encoding using the driver circuit, the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit are controlled such that a second current flows through the first and second impedance elements, the second current having a second value and a second direction. the first value is substantially the same as the second value and the first direction is opposite to the second direction.
20240097672.Power Switching Circuitry with Feedback Control_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yueming He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Dennis M. Fischette, JR. of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H03K17/16, H03K19/003
Abstract: an integrated circuit may be provided with power switching circuitry. the power switching circuitry may include a primary power switch and multiple auxiliary power switches. a power gating control circuit may output control signals for selectively activating the primary power switch and at least one of the auxiliary power switches to charge a gated voltage. one or more voltage detectors may be configured to monitor the gated voltage and to activate the remaining auxiliary power switches in response to detecting that the gated voltage exceeds one or more thresholds. configured and operated in this way, inrush current surge protection can be achieved while charging up the gated voltage sufficiently fast.
20240097710.RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY (RAT) SPECTRUM TRANSLATOR_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wanlu Sun of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B1/00, H04L69/08
Abstract: systems and methods described herein may introduce an intermediary device between radio access networks using a first spectrum and user equipment using a second spectrum. the intermediary device may process communication signals from either the first spectrum or the second spectrum into a format usable by the other of the first spectrum or the second spectrum. the intermediary device may be referred to as a multi-radio access technology (multi-rat) translator.
20240097711.RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY (RAT) SPECTRUM TRANSLATOR_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wanlu Sun of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B1/00, H04L69/08
Abstract: systems and methods described herein may introduce an intermediary device between radio access networks using a first spectrum and user equipment using a second spectrum. the intermediary device may process communication signals from either the first spectrum or the second spectrum into a format usable by the other of the first spectrum or the second spectrum. the intermediary device may be referred to as a multi-radio access technology (multi-rat) translator.
Inventor(s): Haowei Jiang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ming-Da Tsai of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B1/00, H03H7/38
Abstract: this case is directed to supporting lb/lb, lb/mb, lb/hb and mb/hb carrier aggregation while reducing the area consumed on a transceiver and reducing power consumed on the transceiver. in some cases, four supporting such carrier aggregation may include implementing four separate radio frequency mixer chains. however, implementing four separate mixer chains may consume excessive area on the transceiver and may result in excessive transceiver power consumption. by leveraging the fact that hb lo frequency ranges overlap with lb lo frequency ranges, a dual-band gain stage may be implemented such that an lb/hb mixer may share a single lo signal (e.g., so as to provide a dual-band matching network that may provide impedance matching at lb and hb frequencies) without extending an original lb lo signal bandwidth. the dual-band gain stage may reduce space and power consumed on the transceiver while maintaining support for lb/lb, lb/mb, lb/hb and mb/hb carrier aggregation.
Inventor(s): Haowei Jiang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ming-Da Tsai of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B1/00, H03H7/38
Abstract: this case is directed to supporting lb/lb, lb/mb, lb/hb and mb/hb carrier aggregation while reducing the area consumed on a transceiver and reducing power consumed on the transceiver. in some cases, four supporting such carrier aggregation may include implementing four separate radio frequency mixer chains. however, implementing four separate mixer chains may consume excessive area on the transceiver and may result in excessive transceiver power consumption. by leveraging the fact that hb lo frequency ranges overlap with lb lo frequency ranges, a dual-band gain stage may be implemented such that an lb/hb mixer may share a single lo signal (e.g., so as to provide a dual-band matching network that may provide impedance matching at lb and hb frequencies) without extending an original lb lo signal bandwidth. the dual-band gain stage may reduce space and power consumed on the transceiver while maintaining support for lb/lb, lb/mb, lb/hb and mb/hb carrier aggregation.
20240097723.APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR NOISE MITIGATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): David A. Karol of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Austin J. Luan of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Ayewin Oung of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Daniel J. Morizio of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jeremy L. Bregman of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Sean M. Gordoni of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Ren of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B1/04, H04B1/00
Abstract: embodiments disclosed herein determine when a sensor of an electronic device is being used, determine if a transmitter of the electronic device is transmitting a signal, determine whether the signal has a frequency in the certain frequency bands (e.g., that cause noise at the sensor), and reduce power (e.g., perform a power back-off operation) at the transmitter if so.
Inventor(s): Thomas Hauser of Holzkirchen (DE) for apple inc., Joachim Wehinger of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Michael Weber of Freising (DE) for apple inc., Andreas Augustin of Munich (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B1/16, H03D1/22, H04L27/38
Abstract: an electronic device may be provided with an antenna, a receiver, and baseband circuitry coupled to the receiver over a digital interface. the receiver may receive radio-frequency signals using the antenna and may generate digital in-phase and quadrature-phase (i/q) samples from the radio-frequency signals. the i/q samples may have a bit width and may be transmitted to the baseband circuitry over the digital interface. the baseband circuitry may evaluate a radio condition of the receiver based on the i/q samples. the baseband circuitry may adjust the bit width of the i/q samples based on the radio condition. for example, the baseband circuitry may decrease the bit width when wireless performance metric data falls below a threshold and/or may increase the bit width when the wireless performance metric data exceeds a threshold. this may minimize power consumed by the digital interface without sacrificing wireless performance.
20240097728.Active Power Splitter and Combiner Circuitry_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Muhammad Adnan of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Abdulrahman A Alhamed of Riyadh (SA) for apple inc., Xiang Guan of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Frederic Bossu of Carlsbad CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B1/18, H03F1/56, H03F3/19, H04B1/04
Abstract: an electronic device may include wireless circuitry having active circuitry such as active power splitter circuitry and active power combiner circuitry. the active power splitter and combiner circuitry can include single-ended or differential amplifiers coupled to one another using single-ended coupled lines or differential coupled lines. each set of differential coupled lines may include first and second pairs of coupled lines. the single-ended coupled lines and the differential coupled lines can provide routing and impedance matching functions. in active power splitter circuitry, multiple transmitting amplifiers may be used to drive a plurality of antennas in a phased antenna array. in active power combiner circuitry, multiple receiving amplifiers may be used to receive radio-frequency signals from the plurality of antennas in the phased antenna array.
20240097729.Active Power Splitter and Combiner Circuitry_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Muhammad Adnan of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Abdulrahman A Alhamed of Riyadh (SA) for apple inc., Xiang Guan of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Frederic Bossu of Carlsbad CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B1/18, H03F1/56, H03F3/19, H04B1/04
Abstract: an electronic device may include wireless circuitry having active circuitry such as active power splitter circuitry and active power combiner circuitry. the active power splitter and combiner circuitry can include single-ended or differential amplifiers coupled to one another using single-ended coupled lines or differential coupled lines. each set of differential coupled lines may include first and second pairs of coupled lines. the single-ended coupled lines and the differential coupled lines can provide routing and impedance matching functions. in active power splitter circuitry, multiple transmitting amplifiers may be used to drive a plurality of antennas in a phased antenna array. in active power combiner circuitry, multiple receiving amplifiers may be used to receive radio-frequency signals from the plurality of antennas in the phased antenna array.
Inventor(s): Sudhir K. Baghel of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc., Seshu Tummala of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Amol P. Bhatkar of San Jose 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., Nishant Pattanaik of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sudeep Bhattarai of Hayward CA (US) for apple inc., Lohit Sarna of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Jay P. Shah of Newark CA (US) for apple inc., Sebastian B. Seeber of San Carlos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/01, H04W56/00, H04W64/00
Abstract: frequency spectrum of wireless transmission signals are allocated based on availability and regulatory requirements. to ensure transmission signals are within designated channel boundary, user equipment utilizes processing circuitry coupled to a transceiver to pre-compensate for estimated frequency shift at the time of transmissions. certain guard bands are provided such that the actual transmission signals with the frequency pre-compensation are within the designated channel boundary. additionally, or alternatively, the user equipment utilizes the processing circuitry to pre-compensate for estimated time shift based on a crystal drift using temperature measurement.
Inventor(s): Ankit Bhamri of Bavaria (DE) for apple inc., Danila Zaev of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Bertram R Gunzelmann of Koenigsbrunn (DE) for apple inc., Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/04, H04L5/00, H04W64/00
Abstract: a system may include an access point (ap), user equipment (ue), and a reconfigurable intelligent surface (ris). the ris may include an array of elements coupled to adjustable devices controlled to cause the array to reflect signals in different directions. the ris may be controlled in a first mode in which the ap controls the adjustable devices, a second mode in which the ue controls the adjustable devices, and a third mode in which the ris controls the adjustable devices. the ris, ap, or ue may determine which mode to place the ris in based on a downlink signal transmitted by the ap, an uplink signal transmitted by the ue, measurements of the signals performed on the ris, a first distance or round trip time between the ap and the ris, and/or a second distance or round trip time between the ue and the ris.
Inventor(s): Ankit Bhamri of Bavaria (DE) for apple inc., Danila Zaev of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Bertram R Gunzelmann of Koenigsbrunn (DE) for apple inc., Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/04, H04B7/06
Abstract: a system may include an access point (ap), user equipment (ue), and a reconfigurable intelligent surface (ris). the ris may include an array of elements coupled to adjustable devices controlled to cause the array to reflect signals in different directions. the ris may be controlled in a first mode in which the ap controls the adjustable devices, a second mode in which the ue controls the adjustable devices, and a third mode in which the ris controls the adjustable devices. the ris, ap, or ue may determine which mode to place the ris in based on a downlink signal transmitted by the ap, an uplink signal transmitted by the ue, measurements of the signals performed on the ris, a first distance or round trip time between the ap and the ris, and/or a second distance or round trip time between the ue and the ris.
Inventor(s): Stefan Meyer of Hoechstadt (DE) for apple inc., Jan K. Ellenbeck of Gruenwald (DE) for apple inc., Bertram R. Gunzelmann of Koenigsbrunn (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/04, H01Q3/46
Abstract: a system may include an access point (ap), a user equipment (ue) device, and a reconfigurable intelligent surface (ris). the ris may have antenna elements and phase shifters programmed using phase settings to form signal beams. the ap may calculate a first portion of the phase settings and may transmit the first portion to the ris. the ris may include a first processor that generates a second portion of the phase settings. the ris may include a second processor coupled to the first processor over a bus. the second processor may generate the phase settings based on the second portion. the second processor may distribute the phase settings to the phase shifters. by distributing calculation of the phase settings between the ap and the ris, power consumption of the system may be minimized while also minimizing the time required to re-configure the beams of the ris.
20240097746.MIMO Enhancement Capability Design_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Yuchul Kim of San Jose 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., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ghaith N. Hattab of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yang Tang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Haijing Hu of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zhibin Wu of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Yuqin Chen of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Yeong-Sun Hwang of Germering (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/0413, H04L1/1829, H04L5/00, H04W72/23
Abstract: apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-trp by a ue, including out of order delivery of pdsch, pusch, and/or dl ack/nack. the ue may receive, from a base station, a configuration that may include multiple control resource set (coreset) pools and each coreset pool may be associated with an index value. the ue may determine that at least two dcis of the multiple dcis end at a common symbol and determine, based on one or more predetermined rules, when the ue may be scheduled to receive pdschs, transmit puschs, and/or transmit ack/nacks from coresets associated with the at least two dcis.
20240097747.MIMO Enhancement Capability Design_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Yuchul Kim of San Jose 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., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ghaith N Hattab of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yang Tang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Haijing Hu of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zhibin Wu of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Yuqin Chen of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Yeong-Sun Hwang of Germering (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/0413, H04L1/1829, H04L5/00, H04W72/23
Abstract: apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-trp by a ue, including out of order delivery of pdsch, pusch, and/or dl ack/nack. the ue may receive, from a base station, a configuration that may include multiple control resource set (coreset) pools and each coreset pool may be associated with an index value. the ue may determine that at least two dcis of the multiple dcis end at a common symbol and determine, based on one or more predetermined rules, when the ue may be scheduled to receive pdschs, transmit puschs, and/or transmit ack/nacks from coresets associated with the at least two dcis.
Inventor(s): Ahmed M Soliman of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Danila Zaev of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Ayman F Naguib of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/06
Abstract: a communication system may include an access point (ap), user equipment (ue) device, and reconfigurable intelligent surface (ris). the ue may control the ris by transmitting control signals that configure antenna elements on the ris. the ris may reflect wireless signals between the ue and the ap. the ris may be known to the network. the ue may transmit a report to the ap that includes information about the ris. the ue may receive assistance information from the ap. the ue may control the ris based at least in part on the assistance information. the ue may transmit measurement reports to the ap. the ap may update its signal beams based on the information about the ris and the measurement reports. providing the network with awareness of the ris may serve to optimize the wireless performance of the ue device and/or the network.
20240097760.NEIGHBORING BEAM ASSISTED BEAMFORMING AND BEAMTRACKING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sung-En Chiu of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/06
Abstract: a base station may transmit beams to user equipment. the user equipment may receive the beams and transmit a signal to a base station. the base station may determine signal characteristics associated with the beams based on the signal and compare the signal characteristics with predefined signal characteristics that correspond to potential locations of the user equipment. based on this comparison, the base station may determine a position of the user equipment and transmit a targeted beam based on the position of the user equipment. the base station may also track the position of the user equipment and provide an updated targeted beam based on an updated position of the user equipment. accordingly, the base station may efficiently form and update the targeted beam based on the predefined signal characteristics, thereby reducing an amount of time required to establish and maintain communication with the user equipment.
Inventor(s): Alexei DAVYDOV of Nizhny Novogorod (RU) for apple inc., Sameer PAWAR of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Wook Bong LEE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Victor SERGEEV of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc., Joonyoung CHO of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Dmitry DIKAREV of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/06
Abstract: herein described are apparatuses, systems, and methods for measurement and reporting of channel state information within wireless network systems. in embodiments, an apparatus for a user equipment (ue) may include memory to store a rank indicator (ri), a precoding matrix index (pmi), and a channel quality indicator (cqi) of channel state information (csi) for the ue. the apparatus may further include circuitry to concatenate the ri, the pmi, and the cqi to produce a concatenated csi element, generate a csi report that includes the concatenated csi element, and cause the csi report to be transmitted to a base station within a single slot. other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
20240097773.BEAM MANAGEMENT FOR DISTRIBUTED MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEMS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Wanlu Sun of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/08, H04B7/024, H04B17/318
Abstract: a distributed multi-antenna system includes a first access point configured to emit first beams to a user equipment device. the first access point is also configured to receive, from the user equipment device, an indication of a first beam selected from the first beams via a beam sweeping procedure. the distributed multi-antenna system also includes a second access point configured to receive, from the user equipment device or the first access point, the indication. the second access point is also configured to emit a second beam of second beams corresponding to the second access point to transmit data to the user equipment device based on the indication and a location of the second access point.
Inventor(s): Dongzhou YANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Lijie ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Kai ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zhiwei WANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Qiang MIAO of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Lele CUI of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B17/309
Abstract: some aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for calculating an uplink pathloss in a wireless communication system. a user equipment (ue) can be configured to perform operations for calculating the uplink pathloss. the operations can include determining a transmission power of a physical uplink shared channel (pusch) transmission for a ue, txp, where the pusch transmission is from the ue to a base station. the operations can further include determining a receiving power of a sounding reference signal (srs) by the base station, rxp; and further calculating the uplink pathloss based on the transmission power of the pusch transmission txpand the receiving power of the srs rxp.
20240097815.MAC Architectures for Adaptive NOMA Modulation_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ayman F. Naguib of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Danila Zaev of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Kenza Hamidouche of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L1/00
Abstract: a device includes a wireless transceiver and a processor. the processor is configured to determine a direction of transmission for a non-orthogonal multiple access (noma) transmission; determine a set of resources to be used for the noma transmission; determine a forward error correction (fec) coding scheme to be used for the noma transmission; determine, using a codebook, a joint modulation scheme to be used for the noma transmission; and transmit or receive the noma transmission on the set of resources, in accord with the direction of transmission, the fec coding scheme, and the joint modulation scheme.
20240097861.SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK COEXISTENCE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Anatoliy S. Ioffe of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Amit Freiman of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Alexander Sayenko of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Sumit Verma of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00
Abstract: user equipment may transmit and receive wireless signals to and from various communication networks. furthermore, user equipment may indicate usage capabilities to the various wireless communication networks to enable the user equipment to transmit and/or receive wireless signals to and from at least two different communication networks. in particular, the user equipment may indicate usage capabilities of supporting both frequency range 2 (fr2) wireless signals of a fifth generation (5g) network and 7-24 gigahertz (ghz) wireless signals of a sixth generation (6g) network in an intermediate frequency range of the user equipment. the communication network(s) may then configure and/or schedule the user equipment based on the usage capabilities to enable the user equipment to simultaneously or non-simultaneously communicate using both the fr2 wireless signals and the 7-24 ghz wireless signals while preventing interference in the intermediate frequency range of the user equipment.
20240097862.SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK COEXISTENCE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Anatoliy S Ioffe of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Amit Freiman of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Alexander Sayenko of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Sumit Verma of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00
Abstract: user equipment may transmit and receive wireless signals to and from various communication networks. furthermore, user equipment may indicate usage capabilities to the various wireless communication networks to enable the user equipment to transmit and/or receive wireless signals to and from at least two different communication networks. in particular, the user equipment may indicate usage capabilities of supporting both frequency range 2 (fr2) wireless signals of a fifth generation (5g) network and 7-24 gigahertz (ghz) wireless signals of a sixth generation (6g) network in an intermediate frequency range of the user equipment. the communication network(s) may then configure and/or schedule the user equipment based on the usage capabilities to enable the user equipment to simultaneously or non-simultaneously communicate using both the fr2 wireless signals and the 7-24 ghz wireless signals while preventing interference in the intermediate frequency range of the user equipment.
Inventor(s): Ryan D. Bartling of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Jafar Savoj of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L7/00, H04B1/04, H04L7/033
Abstract: a serial data receiver circuit included in a computer system may include a front-end circuit, a sample circuit that includes multiple analog-to-digital converter circuits, and a recovery circuit. the sample circuit may sample a serial data stream at different times that correspond to even-numbered and odd-numbered symbols in the serial data stream. the recovery circuit may use different coefficients to process the respective samples of the even-numbered and odd-numbered symbols in order to recover the data symbols encoded in the serial data stream.
20240097875.Serial Receiver Circuit With Follower Skew Adaptation_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ryan D. Bartling of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Jafar Savoj of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L7/00, H04L7/02
Abstract: a serial data receiver circuit included in a computer system may include both an analog and an adc-based receiver circuit. a front-end circuit generates different equalized signals based on received signals that encode a serial data stream that includes multiple data symbols. during startup of a communication channel, phase information generated by the analog receiver circuit may be used to generate clock signals for the adc-based receiver circuit. after a period of time, the adc-based receiver circuit can generate its own phase information to be used in the generation of the clock signals.
20240097877.Encoding and Decoding for PAM Transmitter and Receiver_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Jose A. Tierno of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Sanjeev S. Gokhale of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Sunil Bhosekar of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., William D. Schwarz of Austin TX (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L7/04, H04L25/49
Abstract: an encoding/decoding scheme for pulse amplitude modulation (pam) communications systems is disclosed. in one embodiment, a transmitter unit includes an encoder circuit and a transmit circuit. the encoder circuit is configured to encode an input data word having a first number of bits into a output data word having a second number of bits. the encoder performs a comparison operation to determine if at least one pair of subsets of the second plurality of bits includes bit values that are complements of each other. the encoder is further configured to modify the second plurality of bits if none of the pairs of subsets includes a bit values that are complements of each other such that the modified second plurality of bits does include at least one pair of subsets that includes values complementary to one another.
Inventor(s): Helena Deirdre O'SHEA of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Matthias SAUER of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jorge L. RIVERA ESPINOZA of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L12/413, H04L12/40
Abstract: embodiments relate to including information in a data packet transmitted by a transmitting integrated circuit (e.g., soc) to account for a time delay associated with an unsuccessful arbitration attempt to send the data packet over a multi-drop bus. the unsuccessful arbitration attempt by the integrated circuit may delay the transmission of the data packet until the multi-drop bus becomes available for the integrated circuit to send the data packet. the data packet includes a data field to include time delay information caused by the unsuccessful arbitration attempt. a receiving integrated circuit may determine the time that the data packet would have been sent out from the transmitting integrated circuit absent the unsuccessful arbitration attempt based on the delay information. embodiments also relate to a synchronization generator circuit in an integrated circuit that generates timing signals indicating times at which periodic events occur at another integrated circuit.
20240097972.TRAFFIC SINK INTERFACE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sushant U. Chavan of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Thomas F. Pauly of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L41/0654, H04L41/0893, H04W4/80
Abstract: an electronic device includes a traffic redirect module that creates a traffic sink interface that enables data to be sent to it, without generating an error if an underlying physical link does not exist. to send data over a physical link, a processor of the electronic device creates a network interface to connect to another electronic device using a transport connection over the physical link. if the physical link disconnects, then the processor removes the network interface, and the traffic redirect module redirects data to be sent to the other electronic device to use the traffic sink interface, without indicating that the physical link has disconnected. when the physical link reconnects, or a new physical link to the other electronic device is established, the processor creates a new network interface to connect to the other electronic device using the transport connection over the reconnected or new physical link.
20240098129.IMMERSIVE TELECONFERENCING AND TELEPRESENCE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ozgur Oyman of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L65/65, H04L65/1016, H04L65/1104, H04L65/403
Abstract: embodiments may relate to a user equipment (ue) that is configured to determine a real-time transport protocol (rtp) media flow that includes visual data related to a plurality of images concurrently taken of a location and a supplemental information enhancement (sei) message that is to be used to display at least a portion of the visual data. the ue is further configured to visually display, based on the visual data and the sei message, the portion of the visual data to a user of the user device. other embodiments may be described or claimed.
Inventor(s): Julien Sarry of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Henry M. Daghighian of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H05K9/00, H04M1/02
Abstract: embodiments are disclosed for shielding of an optical element of an imaging device in a mobile device. in an embodiment, an imaging device includes: an optical element; a metallic shielding enclosure, wherein the optical element is partially located within the metallic shielding enclosure; an electrically conductive coating layer applied on a surface of the optical element that is outside the metallic shielding enclosure, wherein the electrically conductive coating layer is electrically connected to the metallic shielding enclosure.
20240098167.Electronic Devices With Displays and Camera Windows_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Lee E Hooton of Massapequa NY (US) for apple inc., Jia Liu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Paul Choiniere of Livermore CA (US) for apple inc., Daniel W Jarvis of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04M1/02
Abstract: electronic devices may be provided with components such as displays and cameras. a display may be mounted in a housing. the housing may have a sidewall. a bent portion of the display may be embedded in epoxy that is separated from the sidewall by an air gap. adhesive may attach the epoxy to the housing. a metal support that is chemically bonded to the epoxy may be welded to metal structures such as camera brackets and other metal supports. the housing may have a glass layer that forms a rear wall. the glass layer may have a protruding portion that forms a glass plateau with openings through which cameras operates. a camera may have a protruding portion that is received within one of the glass plateau openings. the protruding portion may extend into a metal camera trim in one of the openings that is attached to the glass plateau.
Inventor(s): Que Anh S. Nguyen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Weidi Zhu of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Nisha S. Sheth of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Andi M. Limarga of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04M1/02, C03C14/00
Abstract: a composite enclosure component for an electronic device is disclosed. the composite enclosure component may include metallic nanoparticles, non-metallic nanoparticles, or a combination of these. the nanoparticles of the composite enclosure component may provide a hue, enhanced mechanical properties, or both.
Inventor(s): Emmanuel Piuze-Phaneuf of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Hermannus J. Damveld of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Jean-Nicola F. Blanchet of Montreal (CA) for apple inc., Mohamed Selim Ben Himane of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Vincent Chapdelaine-Couture of Carignan (CA) for apple inc., Xiaojin Shi of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N13/117, H04N13/383
Abstract: in one implementation, a method of performing perspective correction is performed by a device having a three-dimensional device coordinate system and including a first image sensor, a first display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. the method includes capturing, using the first image sensor, a first image of a physical environment. the method includes transforming the first image from a first perspective of the first image sensor to a second perspective based on a difference between the first perspective and the second perspective, wherein the second perspective is a first distance away from a location corresponding to a first eye of a user less than a second distance between the first perspective and the location corresponding to the first eye of the user. the method includes displaying, on the first display, the transformed first image of the physical environment.
Inventor(s): Michael C Friedman of Nederland CO (US) for apple inc., Russell L Jones of Westminster CO (US) for apple inc., Kaushik Raghunath of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc., Venu M Duggineni of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ranjit Desai of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Manjunath M Venkatesh of San Fransisco CA (US) for apple inc., Michael J Rockwell of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Arun Kannan of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Saul H Weiss of Parker CO (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N13/133, H04N13/344, H04N13/383
Abstract: a head-mounted device is provided that includes one or more cameras configured to acquire a raw video feed and one or more displays configured to present a passthrough video feed to a user. generation of the passthrough video feed can involve processing the raw video feed using an image signal processor and auxiliary compute blocks. one or more of the auxiliary compute blocks can be bypassed in response to detecting one or more failures associated with the auxiliary compute blocks. configured and operated in this way, the head-mounted device can fall back to a more reliable passthrough video feed without having to power cycle the head-mounted device when a failure occurs.
20240098243.Predictive Perspective Correction_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Hermannus J. Damveld of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Julien Monat Rodier of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Marc-Andre Chenier of St-Hyacinthe (CA) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N13/344, G06T3/00, G06T7/70
Abstract: in one implementation, a method of warping an image is performed by a device including an image sensor, a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. the method includes predicting a capture pose of the device in a physical environment at a capture time and a display pose of the device in the physical environment at a display time. the method includes capturing, using the image sensor, an image of the physical environment during a capture time period including the capture time. the method includes generating a warp definition based on the predicted capture pose and the predicted display pose. the method includes warping, using the one or more processors, the image of the physical environment based on the warp definition. the method includes displaying, on the display, the warped image of the physical environment during a display time period including the display time.
20240098368.Sensor Cropped Video Image Stabilization (VIS)_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Patrick A. Carroll of Scotts Valley CA (US) for apple inc., Ajay Ramesh of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ashwini Dwarakanath of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., David A. Silverstein of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., David R. Pope of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Michael W. Tao of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Terence N. Tam of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Vitanshu Sharma of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N5/232, G06T7/38
Abstract: devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed herein to perform predictive image sensor cropping operations to improve the performance of video image stabilization operations, especially for high resolution image sensors. according to some embodiments, the techniques include, for each of one or more respective images of a first plurality of images: obtaining image information corresponding to one or more images in the first plurality of images captured prior to the respective image; predicting, for the respective image, an image sensor cropping region to be read out from the first image sensor; and then reading out, into a memory, a first cropped version of the respective image comprising only the predicted image sensor cropping region for the respective image. then, a first video may be produced based, at least in part, on the first cropped versions of the one or more respective images of the first plurality of images.
Inventor(s): Vladimir Koifman of Rishon LeZion (IL) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N25/616, H04N25/779, H04N25/78, H04N25/79
Abstract: an image sensor includes a logic die, including column readout circuits and bitlines connected to the column readout circuits. a sensor die is overlaid on the logic die. the image sensor includes an array of detector elements, each including a sensing circuit on the sensor die, which includes a photodiode, a floating diffusion node a charge sharing transistor coupled between the photodiode and the floating diffusion node, a reset transistor coupled to the floating diffusion node, and a source follower transistor. in each detector element, a pixel circuit on the logic die includes a select transistor, which has an input coupled to the output of the source follower and an output coupled to one of the bitlines. two current memory circuits are coupled to the input of the select transistor and are configured to sense and output respective signals indicative of levels of noise in the detector element.
Inventor(s): Vladimir Koifman of Rishon LeZion (IL) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N25/77, H04N25/78
Abstract: an image sensor includes a logic die, including column readout circuits and bitlines connected to the column readout circuits. a sensor die is overlaid on the logic die. the image sensor includes an array of detector elements, each including a sensing circuit on the sensor die, which includes a photodiode, a floating diffusion node connected to one of the terminals of the photodiode, a reset transistor coupled to the floating diffusion node, and a source follower transistor. in each detector element, a pixel circuit on the logic die includes a select transistor, which has an input coupled to the output of the source follower and an output coupled to one of the bitlines. a current memory circuit is coupled to the input of the select transistor and is configured to sense and output a signal indicative of a level of noise in the detector element.
20240098442.Spatial Blending of Audio_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shai Messingher Lang of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Joshua D. Atkins of Lexington MA (US) for apple inc., Scott A. Wardle of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Symeon Delikaris Manias of Playa Vista CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04S7/00
Abstract: an audio processing system may obtain a size of a visual object to present to a display. the audio processing system may determine a virtual placement for each of a plurality of virtual speakers at least based on the size of the visual object. each of the plurality of virtual speakers may be spatially rendered at each virtual placement through binaural audio, for playback through head-worn speakers. other aspects are also described and claimed.
20240098444.Object Audio Coding_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sina Zamani of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Moo Young Kim of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dipanjan Sen of Dublin CA (US) for apple inc., Sang Uk Ryu of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Juha O. Merimaa of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Symeon Delikaris Manias of Los Angeles CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04S7/00
Abstract: in one aspect, a computer-implemented method, includes obtaining object audio and metadata that spatially describes the object audio, converting the object audio to ambisonics audio based on the metadata, encoding, in a first bit stream, the ambisonics audio, and encoding, in a second bit stream, at least a subset of the metadata.
20240098447.SHARED POINT OF VIEW_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shai MESSINGHER LANG of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan D. SHEAFFER of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04S7/00, H04R1/10
Abstract: sound sources can be spatially rendered in a setting and shown through a display. in response to satisfaction of a threshold criterion that is satisfied based on relative distance between the sound sources and a position of a listener, the rendering of the sound sources can be adjusted to maintain spatial integrity of the sound sources. the adjustment can be performed to prevent one of the sound sources from arriving at the listener earlier than another of the sound sources.
Inventor(s): Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN 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 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., Jie CUI 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., 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): H04W16/28, H04W72/232
Abstract: a first next generation node b (gnb) is configured to establish a first backhaul communication link with a second gnb as a parent gnb, schedule at least one of a third gnb or a ue for a ul transmission to the first gnb using ul beam management parameters and ul transmission parameters, indicate to the second gnb first beam management parameters for the second gnb to use for transmitting a dl transmission to the first gnb on the first backhaul link and first dl transmission parameters for the dl transmission so that the dl transmission will be received simultaneously with the ul transmission and when the first beam management parameters and the first dl transmission parameters are determined to be used by the second gnb, receiving the dl transmission from the second gnb simultaneously with the ul transmission from the at least one of the third gnb or the ue.
Inventor(s): Alosious Pradeep PRABHAKAR of Singapore (SG) for apple inc., Vijay VENKATARAMAN of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W28/02, H04W8/22, H04W48/18, H04W76/16
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) is configured to store information related to network slices. the ue receives network slice related information associated with a first public land mobile network (plmn), stores the network slice related information in a database locally at the ue, identifies a predetermined condition and removes at least a portion of the network slice information associated with the first plmn based on camping on a second plmn and the predetermined condition.
Inventor(s): Murali Narasimha of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Lakshmi Iyer of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Mariam Motamed of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Neha Goel of Herndon VA (US) for apple inc., Sreevalsan Vallath of Dublin CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W28/02, H04L5/14
Abstract: systems and methods are for configuring a periodic uplink (ul) resource on a first carrier of a user equipment (ue); transmitting a buffer status report (bsr) on the first carrier using the configured ul resource, the buffer status report indicating a request for transmission resources on a second carrier; receiving an ul grant for data transmission on the second carrier, the ul grant indicating transmission resources on the second carrier; and transmitting a user data packet on the second carrier using the transmission resources indicated in the ul grant.
Inventor(s): Murali Narasimha of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Lakshmi Iyer of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Mariam Motamed of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Neha Goel of Herndon VA (US) for apple inc., Sreevalsan Vallath of Dublin CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W28/02, H04L5/14, H04W72/0453, H04W72/232
Abstract: systems and methods are for configuring a periodic uplink (ul) resource on a first carrier of a user equipment (ue); transmitting a buffer status report (bsr) on the first carrier using the configured ul resource, the buffer status report indicating a request for transmission resources on a second carrier; receiving an ul grant for data transmission on the second carrier, the ul grant indicating transmission resources on the second carrier; and transmitting a user data packet on the second carrier using the transmission resources indicated in the ul grant.
Inventor(s): Kai ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Lele CUI of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Deepankar BHATTACHARJEE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W28/08, H04L47/263, H04L47/32
Abstract: systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can mitigate transmitting latency to improve the quality of a voice or the video call. these systems, methods, and apparatuses reset a transmitting latency timer upon retrieving a packet from a transmitting buffer. thereafter, these systems, methods, and apparatuses start the count of the transmitting latency timer as the packet is being processed. and these systems, methods, and apparatuses compare the transmitting latency timer e with a transmitting latency threshold as these systems, methods, and apparatuses are processing a packet for transmission. these systems, methods, and apparatuses can drop the packet and/or can select another packet for processing in response to the transmitting latency timer exceeding the transmitting latency threshold to mitigate the transmitting latency.
Inventor(s): Qiming Li of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui 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., Xiang Chen of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Manasa Raghavan of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W36/32, H04W36/00, H04W56/00
Abstract: the present disclosure relates to apparatus, methods, computer-readable storage medium and computer program product for high speed train measurements and signaling. a wireless device, comprising: at least one antenna; at least one radio coupled to the at least one antenna; and a processor coupled to the at least one radio; wherein the processor is configured to: receive, via the at least one radio, at least one radio resource control (rrc) signaling from a cellular base station, the at least one rrc signaling at least comprises one or more information element (ie) of a group of ies, wherein, the group of ies at least includes a first ie indicating to enable or disable enhancement on a secondary cell (scell) in frequency range 2 (fr2), and a second ie indicating to enable or disable enhancement on a primary secondary cell (pscell); and perform enhancement on one or more corresponding cells in response to the received at least one rrc signaling, wherein, the enhancement comprises determining a reduced time period for primary synchronization signal (pss)/secondary synchronization signal (sss) detection and/or determining a reduced time period for intra-frequency measurements.
Inventor(s): Lijie Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Lele Cui of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Xiaolong Tu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dongzhou Yang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Tao Tao of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Lei Zhou of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zihuan Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/02, H04L1/00, H04W76/28
Abstract: systems and methods related to “on/off” determinations regarding the performance of physical downlink control channel (pdcch) monitoring during connected mode discontinuous reception (cdrx) on duration windows are disclosed herein. in some cases, a radio access network (ran) predicts whether a downlink (dl) packet for a ue will arrive at a buffer of the ran prior to an end of a cdrx on duration window of the ue, and sends a downlink control information (dci) with a cyclic redundancy check (crc) scrambled by a power-saving radio network temporary identifier (ps-rnti) (dcp) for the cdrx on duration window indicating whether or not the ue should perform pdcch monitoring during the cdrx on duration window based on the prediction. in some cases, a ue determines a current state of dl traffic and adaptively uses dcp monitoring based on the current state of the traffic. aggregation level adaptation by the ran is also discussed.
Inventor(s): Sigen Ye of Whitehouse Station NJ (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/02, H04W76/20
Abstract: techniques are provided for wake up signal monitoring in a radio resource control connected (rrc) mode. an example method can include a user equipment (ue) determining capability information associated with wake-up signal (wus) monitoring, the capability information to include an indication that the ue supports wus monitoring in a radio resource control (rrc) connected mode. the ue can transmit, to a base station, an indication of the capability. the ue can perform, while in a sleep state in which transmitting and receiving by a main radio is suspended, wus monitoring to detect a trigger. the ue can transition from the sleep state to the awake state based on the trigger. the ue can monitor for a downlink (dl) transmission in the awake state.
20240098645.LOW-POWER WAKE-UP SIGNAL MONITORING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sigen Ye of Whitehouse Station NJ (US) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Haar (DE) 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., 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 Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/02, H04W76/20
Abstract: techniques are provided for wake up signal monitoring in a radio resource control connected (rrc) mode. an example method can include a base station receiving an indication from a user equipment (ue) of a capability for wake-up signal (wus) monitoring in a radio resource control (rrc) connected mode while in a sleep state. the base station can configure the ue with a first frequency domain resource for wus monitoring in the rrc connected mode while in the sleep state. the base station can transmit a wus using the first frequency domain resource and a first time domain resource, wherein a main radio of the ue is configured to transmit and receive based on the wus. the base station can transmit a first downlink (dl) transmission.
Inventor(s): Lorenzo BERTIZZOLO of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Prashant H. VASHI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ioannis PEFKIANAKIS of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/36, H04W52/14, H04W52/26
Abstract: this application describes methods and apparatus to allocate uplink (ul) power dynamically across multiple parallel radio frequency links for wireless devices. the wireless device sets an initial maximum transmit power level (mtpl) for each ul radio link of multiple radio links used for ul traffic based on a duty cycle prediction for the respective ul radio link. the wireless device adjusts the initial mtpl for each ul radio link based on a predicted data throughput for the ul radio link relative to a total predicted data throughput for all ul radio links. the adjusted mtpl for each ul radio link can be also reduced when the ul radio link uses ul multiple input multiple output (mimo) transmission via multiple antenna ports, e.g., by apportioning the adjusted mtpl among the multiple antenna ports of the ul radio link equally.
Inventor(s): Sathish Shanbhag Kota of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Vijaykrishnan Ramakrishnan of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/36, H04W52/02
Abstract: techniques described herein are directed toward smart external interference detection and avoidance. an example method includes determining a first received signal strength indicator (rssi) value of a received first signal across a radio band, wherein the first rssi value is based at least in part on a second signal transmitted by an interfering device. the first received rssi value is compared with a threshold value. a first gain adjustment value is determined for a receiver chain of the first computing device and a second gain adjustment value of a transmitter chain based at least in part on the comparison. a first gain of a first amplifier of the receiver chain is adjusted based at least in part on the first gain adjustment value. a second gain of a second amplifier of the transmitter chain is adjusted based at least in part on the second gain adjustment value.
20240098662.RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY (RAT) SPECTRUM TRANSLATOR_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wanlu Sun of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W56/00, H04W72/12
Abstract: systems and methods described herein may introduce an intermediary device between radio access networks using a first spectrum and user equipment using a second spectrum. the intermediary device may process communication signals from either the first spectrum or the second spectrum into a format usable by the other of the first spectrum or the second spectrum. the intermediary device may be referred to as a multi-radio access technology (multi-rat) translator.
Inventor(s): Panagiotis Botsinis of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Sameh M. Eldessoki of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Christian Hofmann of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto of Miami FL (US) for apple inc., Tarik Tabet of Carlsbad CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W56/00, H04L1/00, H04L5/00
Abstract: methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums are configured to perform operations including detecting a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (ssbs) that are transmitted for a physical broadcast channel (pbch), each of the ssbs having a ssb index comprising a set of bit values; detecting, from the plurality of ssbs, a first ssb received at a first time and a second ssb received at a second time that is different from the first time; decoding, for a first ssb of the plurality, first bit values of a first ssb index representing the first ssb and of a second ssb index representing the second ssb; determining, based on the first time and the second time, a receive time gap between the first ssb and the second ssb; and determining, based on the receive time gap and the first bit values of the first ssb index and the second ssb index, at least a second bit value of the first second ssb index representing the first ssb and the second ssb representing the second ssb.
20240098690.PAGING TIMING COLLISION CONTROL_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Vivek G. Gupta of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Sethuraman Gurumoorthy of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Sridhar Prakasam of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W68/00, H04W8/26, H04W60/04
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for paging timing collision control, with respect to exchange of offset values (e.g., imsi offset values) between a user equipment and a network.
20240098704.MAC Architectures for Adaptive NOMA Modulation_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ayman F. Naguib of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Danila Zaev of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Kenza Hamidouche of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/04, H04L1/00
Abstract: a device includes a wireless transceiver and a processor. the processor is configured to determine a set of resources to be used for a set of multiplexed non-orthogonal multiple access (noma) transmissions to or from a set of wireless devices; select, per individual wireless device of the set of wireless devices, a forward error correction (fec) coding scheme to be used for a respective noma transmission, of the set of multiplexed noma transmissions, to or from an individual wireless device; select, from a codebook, a joint modulation scheme to be used for the set of multiplexed noma transmissions; and transmit, via the wireless transceiver and to a wireless device of the set of wireless devices, a first indication of the fec coding scheme for a respective noma transmission to or from the wireless device, and a second indication of the joint modulation scheme.
Inventor(s): Han Pu of Shanghai (CN) for apple inc., Lijie Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar of Singapore (SG) for apple inc., Lele Cui of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Kai Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/0453, H04W36/24, H04W72/232
Abstract: a terminal may include configured to receive, from a network, multiple downlink signals. the terminal may include a processor configured to identify, from the downlink signals, at least one configuration parameter including a bandwidth part switching indicator. the processor may then identify at least one resource from a target bandwidth part indicated by the bandwidth part switching indicator. the processor may then determine a bandwidth part mismatch based on whether a signal is received using the at least one resource from the target bandwidth part.
20240098746.REDUCED SENSING SCHEMES FOR SIDELINK ENHANCEMENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): 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., Jia Tang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Zhibin Wu of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/20
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reduced sensing schemes to facilitate sidelink transmissions.
20240098747.Transmitting Periodic Cadence Reports to a Network_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Christian HOFMANN of Muenchen (DE) for apple inc., Panagiotis BOTSINIS of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Sameh M. ELDESSOKI of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Tarik TABET of Carlsbad CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/12, H04W72/14
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) is configured to transmit a medium access control (mac) control element (ce) comprising a periodic cadence report (pcr) to a network, wherein the pcr indicates one or more characteristics of upcoming uplink traffic and receive an uplink grant for a data transmission from the network, wherein the uplink grant indicates uplink resources assigned to the ue based on the pcr.
20240098772.Uplink Latency Enhancements_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Christian HOFMANN of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Panagiotis BOTSINIS of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Sameh M. ELDESSOKI of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Tarik TABET of Carlsbad CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/12, H04W72/14
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) configured to receive multiple scheduling request (sr) configurations, wherein each sr configuration is specific to an application, service, quality of service (qos) flow or set of traffic characteristics, transmit a first type of sr, wherein a plurality of different types of srs comprising at least the first type of sr and a second type of sr each correspond to a different one of the multiple sr configurations and receive an initial uplink grant for a data transmission in response to the first type of sr, wherein the initial uplink grant indicates one or more uplink resources assigned to the ue by a network based on an application, service, quality of service (qos) flow or set of traffic characteristics specific to the first type of sr.
Inventor(s): Jaemin HAN of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Feng YANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Alexander SIROTKIN of Hod Hasharon (IL) for apple inc., Sudeep PALAT of Cheltanham (GB) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W76/15, H04W12/033
Abstract: a master node (mn) that determines a manner of a protocol data unit (pdu) session to be served, wherein the manner of the pdu session includes a split pdu session between the mn and a secondary node (sn) or a whole pdu session served by the mn, generates a request message to be transmitted to the sn to setup pdu session resources on the sn based on the manner of the pdu session is to be served and indicates, to the sn, the manner of the pdu session to be served. a sn that receives, from a mn, a request message to setup pdu session resources, determines a manner of the pdu session to be served, and sets up the pdu session resources on the sn, based on at least the manner of the pdu session to be served.
Inventor(s): Yann LY-GAGNON of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Chen GANIR of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Shlomo BEN-SHOSHAN of Kadima-Tzoran (IL) for apple inc., Yair SHAPIRA of Sdei Hemed (IL) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W76/19, H04W52/02
Abstract: a first user equipment (ue) configured to receive data from a second ue over a short-range connection, wherein the data is received when an application processor of the first ue is in a lower power state, buffer the data in a buffer while the application processor of the first ue is in the lower power state and transfer buffered data from the buffer to the application processor after the application processor exits the lower power state and enters an active state.
Inventor(s): Lijie Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Lele Cui of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Xiaolong Tu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dongzhou Yang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Tao Tao of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Lei Zhou of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zihuan Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W76/28
Abstract: systems and methods related to “on/off” determinations regarding the performance of physical downlink control channel (pdcch) monitoring during connected mode discontinuous reception (cdrx) on duration windows are disclosed herein. in some cases, a radio access network (ran) predicts whether a downlink (dl) packet for a ue will arrive at a buffer of the ran prior to an end of a cdrx on duration window of the ue, and sends a downlink control information (dci) with a cyclic redundancy check (crc) scrambled by a power-saving radio network temporary identifier (ps-rnti) (dcp) for the cdrx on duration window indicating whether or not the ue should perform pdcch monitoring during the cdrx on duration window based on the prediction. in some cases, a ue determines a current state of dl traffic and adaptively uses dcp monitoring based on the current state of the traffic. aggregation level adaptation by the ran is also discussed.
20240098913.Electronic Devices Having Sliding Expandable Displays_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Michael B. Wittenberg of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Owen D. Hale of Alameda CA (US) for apple inc., Tatsuya Sano of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H05K5/02, H05K5/00, H10K50/84, H10K59/12, H10K77/10
Abstract: an electronic device may have a housing with portions that slide relative to each other. a display may be supported on a surface of the housing such as on a front face of the housing. the housing portions may slide between an unexpanded state in which the display has an unexpanded viewable area on the front face and an expanded state in which the display has an expanded viewable area on the front face that is greater than the unexpanded viewable area. the housing portions may have interior regions that contain electrical components. the display may be formed from a flexible display substrate. a portion of a flexible display may be stored in an interior region of the housing when the housing is in the unexpanded state. in the unexpanded state, the flexible display may have one or more bends and may double back on itself one or more times.
Inventor(s): Que Anh S. Nguyen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Weidi Zhu of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Nisha S. Sheth of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Andi M. Limarga of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H05K5/03, H04M1/02
Abstract: a structurally colored enclosure component for an electronic device is disclosed. the structurally colored enclosure component may be a cover member for the electronic device and in some cases may display iridescence. a surface region of the enclosure component may include a modified glass-based material and the structural color of the enclosure component may be due at least in part to the surface region. enclosures and electronic devices including the structurally colored enclosure components are also described herein,
20240098922.Systems With Transparent Layers_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): James R Wilson of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew S Rogers of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Tyler A Marshall of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Divakar Singamsetty of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H05K5/03, G06F1/16, H04N23/51, H05K5/00
Abstract: systems such as electronic device systems may be provided with components such as displays and cameras mounted in an interior region of a housing. a transparent layer may be mounted to the housing and may overlap the components. the transparent layer may have glass layers and polymer layers attached to the glass layers.
20240099086.Light-Emitting Diode Displays_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Cheng-Ho Yu of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Chin-Wei Lin of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Shyuan Yang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ting-Kuo Chang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Tsung-Ting Tsai of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Warren S. Rieutort-Louis of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Shih-Chang Chang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yu Cheng Chen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., John Z. Zhong of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H10K59/131, G09G3/3233, G09G3/3266, H10K59/40, H10K59/88
Abstract: a display may have an array of pixels. display driver circuitry may supply data and control signals to the pixels. each pixel may have seven transistors, a capacitor, and a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. the seven transistors may receive control signals using horizontal control lines. each pixel may have first and second emission enable transistors that are coupled in series with a drive transistor and the light-emitting diode of that pixel. the first and second emission enable transistors may be coupled to a common control line or may be separately controlled so that on-bias stress can be effectively applied to the drive transistor. the display driver circuitry may have gate driver circuits that provide different gate line signals to different rows of pixels within the display. different rows may also have different gate driver strengths and different supplemental gate line loading structures.
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