Apple Inc. patent applications on April 4th, 2024
Patent Applications by Apple Inc. on April 4th, 2024
Apple Inc.: 42 patent applications
Apple Inc. has applied for patents in the areas of G06F3/0482 (8), G06F3/0484 (4), G06F3/04842 (4), G06T19/00 (4), G06F3/16 (4)
With keywords such as: device, display, data, electronic, include, content, information, frequency, light, and based in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by Apple Inc.
20240109499.Systems With Movable Displays_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Kurt R Stiehl of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Dominic E Dolci of Scotts Valley CA (US) for apple inc., Stephen B Lynch of Portola Valley CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): B60R11/02
Abstract: a vehicle may have a vehicle body and one or more displays. a display may be coupled to a roof portion of the vehicle body with a hinge or other attachment structure, may be mounted within a vehicle armrest, may be attached to a door, or may otherwise be mounted in an interior region of the vehicle body. the display may be a one-sided display, a two-sided display, a display with a touch sensitive edge portion formed from a strip-shaped pixel array extending along a peripheral display sidewall, a lenticular display or other display that is configured to display separate images to different respective vehicle occupant locations, or other suitable display. a positioner may rotate the display, slide the display, or otherwise move the display between a stowed position and one or more deployed position.
20240110684.Multi-Mode Lights_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Xiaofeng Tang of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher P. Child of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Clarisse Mazuir of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Kurt R. Stiehl of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Bryce E. Wallis of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): F21S41/36, B60Q1/076, B60Q1/16, F21S41/20, F21S41/47, F21S41/663, F21S41/683
Abstract: a system may have lights. a light may include a first light source and a first reflector configured to provide lighting for a high-beam mode and for a low-beam mode. the light may include a second light source and a second reflector configured to provide lighting for a cornering light mode. the lighting provided by the first light source and the lighting provided by the second light source may pass through the same headlight lens aperture. a light blocking structure may provide a cutoff pattern that define the illumination pattern of the low-beam lighting and the cornering lighting. one or more additional light sources may be provided to boost the intensity of a hot spot for high-beam lighting.
20240110959.Frequency Monitoring Circuitry with Voltage Conversion_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Arunvenkatesh Alagappan of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Soheil Golara of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Seyedeh Sedigheh Hashemi of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01R23/02, H03K21/02
Abstract: an integrated circuit can include frequency monitoring circuitry. the frequency monitoring circuitry may include a voltage based frequency monitoring circuit for monitoring an input clock signal having an input clock frequency within a first set of frequencies and a coarse frequency monitoring circuit for monitoring an input clock signal having an input clock frequency within a second set of frequencies different than the first set of frequencies. the voltage based frequency monitoring circuit can be configured to generate an output voltage having a first value when the input clock frequency is greater than a reference frequency and having a second value when the input clock frequency is less than the reference frequency. the coarse frequency monitoring circuit can include a reference counter and an input clock counter that generates a count value used to compute the input clock frequency.
Inventor(s): Anselm Grundhoefer of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Michael J. Rockwell of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01, G06F3/14
Abstract: a method includes sensing a plurality of light superposition characteristic values associated with ambient light from a physical environment. the ambient light emanates from the physical environment towards one side of a translucent display. the plurality of light superposition characteristic values quantifies interactions with the ambient light. the method includes determining a plurality of display correction values associated with the electronic device based on a function of the plurality of light superposition characteristic values and predetermined display characteristics of a computer-generated reality (cgr) object. the method includes changing one or more display operating parameters associated with the electronic device in accordance with the plurality of display correction values in order to satisfy the predetermined display characteristics of the cgr object within a performance threshold.
20240111169.Electronic Device with a Lens Module_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ran He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Francois R. Jacob of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Zachary A. Granger of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Brent J. Bollman of Alameda CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/28, G02B5/30
Abstract: a head-mounted display 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 quarter wave plate that is coated to the first lens element without an intervening adhesive layer. the optical system may further include a reflective polarizer and a linear polarizer. the linear polarizer may be formed as a coating directly on the reflective polarizer (without an intervening adhesive). a single circular reflective polarizer may be used instead of a quarter wave plate and a reflective polarizer. the circular reflective polarizer may be coated to the first lens element without an intervening adhesive layer. the circular reflective polarizer may optionally provide optical power to the lens module. the circular reflective polarizer may include a cholesteric liquid crystal layer.
Inventor(s): Que Anh S. Nguyen of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Andi M. Limarga of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Weidi Zhu of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G04G17/08, B82Y30/00, G04G19/00, G04G21/04
Abstract: a composite enclosure component for an electronic device is disclosed. the composite enclosure component is formed at least in part from a composite material that includes a porous ceramic structure at least partially embedded in a glass-based matrix. the glass-based matrix includes one or more sets of nanoparticles that impart a color to the composite enclosure component.
20240111333.CONTINUITY OF APPLICATIONS ACROSS DEVICES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Lawrence Y. YANG of Bellevue WA (US) for apple inc., Patrick L. COFFMAN of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Craig M. FEDERIGHI of Los Altos Hills CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/16, G06F3/041, G06F3/04817, G06F3/0482, G06F3/0484, G06F3/04842, G06F3/0488, G06F3/04883, G06F3/04892, G06F3/14, G06F3/16, G06F9/48, G06F21/31, H04L67/025
Abstract: at an electronic device, detecting a compatible external device, where the external device is executing or has executed a first application. the detection may be made wirelessly. the electronic device also receives usage information regarding the first application from the external device. display an affordance for user selection based on the received information. when the affordance is selected, launch a second application on the electronic device, the second application corresponding to the first application. in some examples, the second application is a different version of the first application. launching the second application may additionally include bringing the second application to the same state as the first application. for example, if e-mail is being drafted on the external device, the electronic device may launch an e-mail editor showing the draft. in this way, a user can seamlessly transition from the use of one electronic device to another electronic device.
20240111402.PROVIDING RELEVANT DATA ITEMS BASED ON CONTEXT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): John L. BLATZ of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Akshay AGGARWAL of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Radhika BHARGAVA of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Daiwei LIU of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Pallavika RAMASWAMY of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Kelvin Ting Pui SO of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04842, G06F3/0482
Abstract: systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. in one example, a plurality of data items selected by a user are received, wherein a plurality of confidence values corresponding to the plurality of data items are identified. the plurality of data items is ordered. the first data item is displayed, and updated context information associated with the electronic device is received. an update to the plurality of confidence values is detected, wherein the updated plurality of confidence values includes a third confidence value associated with a third data item of the plurality of ordered data items. in accordance with a determination that the third confidence value is higher than a first confidence value of the first data item, an order of the plurality of ordered data items is modified, and the third data item of the plurality of ordered data items is displayed.
20240111479.AUDIO-BASED MESSAGING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Grant R. PAUL of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/16, G06F3/0482, G06F3/0484
Abstract: in some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates efficient inputting of audio-based messages. in some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates efficient transcription of audio into text-based messages.
Inventor(s): Filip J. PIZLO of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F12/02, G06F12/0817
Abstract: one embodiment provides for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising receiving an instruction to dynamically allocate memory for an object of a data type and dynamically allocating memory for the object from a heap instance that is specific to the data type for the object, the heap instance including a memory allocator for the data type, the memory allocator generated at compile time for the instruction based on a specification of the data type for the heap instance.
20240111685.System Control Using Sparse Data_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Michael R. Seningen of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Ben D. Jarrett of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Edward M. McCombs of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Greg M. Hess of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F12/10, G06F12/06, G06F17/16, G11C5/14, G11C7/10, G11C8/06, G11C11/419
Abstract: a method and apparatus for storing and accessing sparse data is disclosed. a sparse array circuit may receive information indicative of a request to perform a read operation on a memory circuit that includes multiple banks. the sparse array circuit may compare an address included in the received information to multiple entries that correspond to address locations in the memory circuit that store sparse data. in response to a determination that that the address matches a particular entry, the sparse array may generate one or more control signals that may disable the read operation, and cause a data control circuit to transmits the sparse data pattern.
Inventor(s): Bart Colin Trzynadlowski of Reno NV (US) for apple inc., Thomas G. Salter of Foster City CA (US) for apple inc., Devin William Chalmers of Oakland CA (US) for apple inc., Anshu Kameswar Chimalamarri of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Gregory Patrick Lane Lutter of Boulder Creek CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F21/84, G06F21/10, G06F21/57
Abstract: in one implementation, a method for spatially designating private content. the method includes: presenting, via a display device, an indication of a private viewing region relative to a location of the computing system; determining a first location for presentation of graphical content; and presenting, via the display device, the graphical content at the first location. the method further includes: transmitting a characterization vector associated with the graphical content to at least one other device for display thereon according to a determination that the first location of the graphical content is outside of the private viewing area; and forgoing transmission of the characterization vector associated with the graphical content to the at least one other device according to a determination that the first location of the graphical content is inside of the private viewing area.
Inventor(s): Vincent Chapdelaine-Couture of Carignan (CA) for apple inc., Emmanuel Piuze-Phaneuf of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Julien Monat Rodier of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Hermannus J. Damveld of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Xiaojin Shi of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Sebastian Gaweda of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T5/00, G06T5/50, G06T7/246
Abstract: in some implementations, a method includes: obtaining image data associated with a physical environment; obtaining first contextual information including at least one of first user information associated with a current state of a user of the computing system, first application information associated with a first application being executed by the computing system, and first environment information associated with a current state of the physical environment; selecting a first set of perspective correction operations based at least in part on the first contextual information; generating first corrected image data by performing the first set of perspective correction operations on the image data; and causing presentation of the first corrected image data.
Inventor(s): Mikael B. MANNBERG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Kai ZHENG of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T7/00, G06T7/90
Abstract: this disclosure provides more effective and/or efficient techniques for detecting faults with physical components using an example of selectively causing output of light into a cover and capturing an image of the cover to determine whether the light is visible in the image. some techniques are described herein for detecting misalignment of one or more physical components (e.g., a cover or a camera). other techniques are described herein for detecting contaminants (e.g., substances at or near a surface of a physical component and/or a physical change to the physical component, such as a deformation or a crack of the cover) affecting data captured by a sensor.
Inventor(s): Ranjit Desai of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Michael J. Rockwell of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T15/00, G06F3/147, H04L67/59
Abstract: techniques are disclosed relating to display devices. in some embodiments, a display device includes a display system configured to display three-dimensional content to a user. the display device is configured to discover, via a network interface, one or more compute nodes operable to facilitate rendering the three-dimensional content and receive information identifying abilities of the one or more compute nodes to facilitate the rendering. based on the received information, the display device evaluates a set of tasks to identify one or more of the tasks to offload to the one or more compute nodes for facilitating the rendering and distributes, via the network interface, the identified one or more tasks to the one or more compute nodes for processing by the one or more compute nodes.
20240112411.METHODS FOR GENERATING VIRTUAL OBJECTS AND SOUND_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Guillaume COUCHE of London (GB) for apple inc., Jonny YEO of London (GB) for apple inc., Vitaliy TYZHNEVYY of London (GB) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, G06F3/16
Abstract: electronic devices can be used to generate virtual objects. in some examples, to reduce undesirable artifacts (e.g., flaws due to handshaking and/or hesitations) from occurring in the virtual object, a virtual pointer element is offset from a portion of an input device and is used to generate the virtual object in a three-dimensional environment. in some examples, to improve the visual characteristics of the generated virtual object, an elasticity model can be applied which includes various modes of physics. in some examples, sound is generated in response to movements of the virtual pointer element.
Inventor(s): Benjamin H. Boesel of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., David H. Huang of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan Perron of Felton CA (US) for apple inc., Shih-Sang Chiu of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, G06F3/01, G06F3/0482, G06F3/16, G06T13/00
Abstract: in one implementation, a method for dynamically determining presentation and transitional regions for content delivery. the method includes obtaining a first set of characteristics associated with a physical environment; and detecting a request to cause presentation of virtual content. in response to detecting the request, the method also includes obtaining a second set of characteristics associated with the virtual content; generating a presentation region for the virtual content based at least in part on the first and second sets of characteristics; and generating a transitional region provided to at least partially surround the presentation region based at least in part on the first and second sets of characteristics. the method further includes concurrently presenting the virtual content within the presentation region and the transitional region at least partially surrounding the presentation region.
20240112494.Elongated Fingerprint Sensor_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Daniel B. Sargent of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Dale Setlak of Merritt Island FL (US) for apple inc., Giovanni Gozzini of Berkeley CA (US) for apple inc., John Raff of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., Michael B. Wittenberg of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Richard H. Koch of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ron A. Hopkinson of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06V40/13, G06F3/044, G06F21/32, G06V40/12
Abstract: an elongated biometric device provides a slim solution for capturing biometric data, and may be placed on a portion of an electronic device having limited space, such as a side of the electronic device. the elongated biometric device may include a force sensor, which may be positioned within a housing of the electronic device and actuated through posts extending from the elongated biometric device through the housing to transfer an applied force to the force sensor.
20240112628.Displays with Selective Pixel Brightness Tuning_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yunhui Hou of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yi-Pai Huang of Zhubei (TW) for apple inc., Fu-Chung Huang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Sheng Zhang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Chaohao Wang of Shanghai (CN) for apple inc., Ping-Yen Chou of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Yi Huang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Juan He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Alfred B. Huergo Wagner of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Seung Wook Kim of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/3208
Abstract: an electronic device may include a lenticular display. the lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. a plurality of lenticular lenses may extend across the length of the display. the lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. the display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. the viewer may be particularly susceptible to artifacts caused by crosstalk at the edge viewing zones within the primary field of view of the display. certain types of content may also be more vulnerable to crosstalk than other types of content. therefore, to mitigate crosstalk artifacts, the pixel value for each pixel may be adjusted based on the viewing zone of the respective pixel and content information (such as texture information or brightness information) associated with the respective pixel.
20240112649.CONTROLLING DISPLAYS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Aaron Mackay BURNS of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Alexis H. PALANGIE of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Pol PLA I CONESA of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., David M. SCHATTEL of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G5/373, G06F1/16, G06F3/01, G06T19/00
Abstract: exemplary processes are described, including processes to move and/or resize user interface elements in a computer-generated reality environment.
20240113333.RECHARGEABLE BATTERY WITH ANION CONDUCTING POLYMER_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Steven Kaye of Oakland CA (US) for apple inc., Maria N. Luckyanova of Oakland CA (US) for apple inc., Ghym E. Loveness of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01M10/0565, H01M4/38, H01M4/50, H01M4/505, H01M4/525, H01M4/62, H01M10/26, H01M10/28, H01M50/46, H01M50/497
Abstract: energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a first current collector and a second current collector. the batteries may include an anode material coupled with the first current collector. the batteries may include a cathode material coupled with the second current collector. the batteries may also include a polymeric material coupled between the cathode material and the anode material. the polymeric material may be characterized by a cationic backbone. the polymeric material may be configured to selectively provide anionic transport across the polymeric material while limiting cationic transport across the polymeric material.
20240113425.Radio-Frequency Transmission Line Structures_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Panagiotis Theofanopoulos of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., David Garrido Lopez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Nicholas A Renda of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Le Li of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Xiangyu Wang of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Emily Sheng of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jason Bakhshi of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Harish Rajagopalan of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Forhad Hasnat of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Subramanian Ramalingam of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Erik A Uttermann of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Rodney A Gomez Angulo of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Ozgur Isik of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01Q1/50, H01Q1/24, H01Q1/48, H01Q13/10
Abstract: an electronic device may include an antenna and a coaxial cable coupled to the antenna. the coaxial cable may have a signal conductor coupled to an antenna resonating element of the antenna and a ground conductor coupled to an antenna ground of the antenna. the ground conductor may include an ungrounded segment that is separated from the antenna ground by a gap. a capacitive coupling between the ground conductor in the ungrounded segment and the antenna ground via the gap may form an impedance matching component for the coaxial cable. a dielectric retention layer may overlap the coaxial cable and hold the coaxial cable in place relative to the antenna ground to maintain the gap.
20240113436.Electronic Devices with Dielectric Resonator Antennas_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): David Garrido Lopez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Panagiotis Theofanopoulos of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Harish Rajagopalan of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Subramanian Ramalingam of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Forhad Hasnat of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Rodney A. Gomez Angulo of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Robert Scritzky of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01Q9/04, H01Q1/24
Abstract: an electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array that radiates at a frequency greater than 10 ghz. the array may include a first set of dielectric resonator antennas arranged in a first row and a second set of dielectric resonator antennas in a second row offset from the first row. each dielectric resonator antenna may have dielectric resonating element with a base portion and a stepped portion. the stepped portions of the antennas in the first set may be arranged to be distant from the stepped portions of the antennas in the second set. the antennas in the first set may be arranged to be more distant from an electronic device sidewall than the antennas in the second set. configured in this manner, the array may exhibit reduced inter-coupling between dielectric resonator antennas in the first set and dielectric resonator antennas in the second set.
Inventor(s): Alfredo Bismuto of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Mark Alan Arbore of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Ross M. Audet of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01S5/40, H01S5/042, H01S5/16, H01S5/20, H01S5/22, H01S5/34
Abstract: a laser chip including a plurality of stripes is disclosed, where a laser stripe can be grown with an initial optical gain profile, and its optical gain profile can be shifted by using an intermixing process. in this manner, multiple laser stripes can be formed on the same laser chip from the same epitaxial wafer, where at least one laser stripe can have an optical gain profile shifted relative to another laser stripe. for example, each laser stripe can have a shifted optical gain profile relative to its neighboring laser stripe, thereby each laser stripe can emit light with a different range of wavelengths. the laser chip can emit light across a wide range of wavelengths. examples of the disclosure further includes different regions of a given laser stripe having different intermixing amounts.
20240113599.HAPTIC POWER CONTROL TECHNIQUES FOR HAPTIC SYSTEMS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Juil LEE of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H02K11/26, H02K11/25
Abstract: haptic power control techniques provide improved power control for the haptic generator to reduce deficiencies of operation and/or increase performance of the haptic generator across various thermal conditions. in some examples, a first resistance measurement can be obtained and used for estimating an actuation voltage limit for the haptic generator. in some examples, estimating the actuation voltage limit for the haptic generator using the first resistance measurement includes estimating a first actuation voltage limit for the haptic generator when the first resistance measurement is a first resistance value and estimating a second actuation voltage limit for the haptic generator when the first resistance measurement is a second resistance value.
20240113742.Next-Generation Ultra-Wideband Frame Formats_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Joachim S. Hammerschmidt of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Ersen Ekrem of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B1/7163, H04B1/719
Abstract: methods, systems, and apparatuses are presented to transmit fragmented communication frames, such as fragmented ultra-wideband (uwb) frames. in some implementations, a communication frame may be divided into a plurality of fragments, and the fragments may be transmitted across a plurality of regulatory test intervals. e.g., each fragment may be transmitted within a mutually-exclusive regulatory test interval. in some implementations, each fragment may be constrained in time and/or transmission power, such that the total energy emitted during transmission of the fragment remains within a maximum energy limit defined for the regulatory test interval, e.g., by a regulatory entity. in some implementations, the sum of the energy emitted during transmission of two or more fragments may exceed the maximum energy limit defined for the regulatory test interval.
Inventor(s): Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Xiang CHEN of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/0456, H04W72/04
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) configured to receive a physical uplink shared channel (pusch) configuration from a network, wherein the pusch configuration includes a codebook based transmit precoding matrix indicator (tpmi) with an indication of a transmit precoding matrix (tpm) for 8 antenna ports and transmit pusch according to the pusch configuration.
Inventor(s): Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Gang Xiong of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Alexei Davydov of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Yingyang Li of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Guotong Wang of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/06, H04L5/00, H04W52/28, H04W52/32
Abstract: apparatuses, systems, and methods for multiplexing of pucch for beam failure recovery and other signals. a ue may determine a transmission dropping rule and a transmission power scaling rule for a pucch which is dedicatedly configured for secondary bfr transmission, such as a pucch-bfr, when it is multiplexed with at least one other signal. the pucch-bfr and the at least one other signal may be multiplexed in a cc or in multiple ccs. the ue may determine a transmission dropping rule, e.g., so that ue can transmit an uplink signals with higher priority and drop the other uplink signal with lower priority to avoid beam collisions. the ue may determine a transmission power scaling rule, e.g., so the ue may scale transmission power within a cc and/or across ccs. the ue may multiplex the pucch-bfr with the at least one other signal according to the rules.
Inventor(s): Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00, H04B7/06, H04W24/02
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) includes a transceiver and a processor configured to receive, from a network via the transceiver, a configuration of channel state information (csi) report characteristics. the csi report characteristics include one or more of: a maximum size of a csi report payload, a maximum number of bits per layer or rank, a neural network (nn) identification (id), or an expected csi report content type. the processor is configured to generate a csi report, in accordance with the received csi report characteristics, to transmit to the network via the transceiver.
Inventor(s): Fucheng Wang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Anatoliy S. Ioffe of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00
Abstract: user equipment indicates its maximum aggregated bandwidth capability to a base station. the user equipment may also indicate a maximum bandwidth capability for each component carrier. additionally or alternatively, the base station may assume that the maximum aggregated bandwidth capability is also supported by the user equipment for lower order carrier aggregation bandwidth classes having aggregated bandwidth upper limits greater than or equal to the maximum aggregated bandwidth capability. further, the user equipment may indicate a maximum number of components carriers capable of supporting a maximum components carrier bandwidth. the user equipment may indicate the maximum aggregated bandwidth capability via a new signaling capability added to a standard (e.g., the third generation partnership project (3gpp) standard), or via existing signaling provided by the 3gpp standard, such as by using a frequency separation class signal.
20240113905.AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION FOR ELECTRONIC CONFERENCING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Christopher MAURY of Pittsburgh PA (US) for apple inc., James A. FORREST of Pittsburgh PA (US) for apple inc., Christopher M. GARRIDO of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Patrick MIAUTON of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L12/18, G06F16/683
Abstract: aspects of the subject technology provide for transcription of audio content during a conferencing session, such as an audio conferencing session or a video conferencing session. the transcription can be generated by the device at which the audio input is received, and transmitted to a remote device at which the transcription is displayed. video content can also be provided from the device that generates the transcription to the remote device that displays in the transcription. the transcription can be provided with time information corresponding to time information in the video content, for synchronized display of the transcription and the corresponding video content.
20240113991.OPERATIONAL SAFETY MODE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Emily Clark SCHUBERT of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Todd BLOCKSOM of Brier WA (US) for apple inc., Andre MJ BOULE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Richard R. DELLINGER of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Craig M. FEDERIGHI of Los Altos Hills CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew Elliot SHEPHERD of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Garrett L. WEINBERG of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L51/02, H04L51/212, H04L51/224, H04W4/12
Abstract: the present disclosure generally relates to implementing an operational safety mode that manages the output of notifications at an electronic device when a user of the device is operating a vehicle.
20240114128.REFERENCE PICTURE MANAGEMENT AND LIST CONSTRUCTION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Alexandros TOURAPIS of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Jungsun KIM of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Krishnakanth RAPAKA of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., David William SINGER of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N19/105, H04N19/172, H04N19/174, H04N19/184, H04N19/513, H04N19/70
Abstract: techniques for encoding video with motion compensation include a compressed bitstream syntax that includes a list of all motion prediction reference frames without distinguishing between short-term reference frame and long-term reference frames. the list of reference frames may be provided in a slice header and may apply to encoded data video data within the corresponding slice. the list may be prefaced with a single number indicating the total number of reference frames. in an aspect delta poc reference numbers may be encoded with a flag indicating the sign of the delta poc when the absolute value of the poc is not equal to zero. in another aspect, a flag may be encoded for every reference frame indicating if poc information should be used when scaling prediction references, and a weighting parameter may be included when poc information should be used.
20240114277.VENTED LIQUID-RESISTANT MICROPHONE ASSEMBLY_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Anthony D. MINERVINI of Englewood FL (US) for apple inc., Peter C. HRUDEY of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Gokhan HATIPOGLU of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04R1/08, H04R1/04
Abstract: aspects of the subject technology relate to liquid-resistant microphone modules for electronic devices. a microphone module may include a non-porous membrane that seals the front volume of the microphone module from the external environment of the electronic device. the microphone module may also include a substrate having an opening that allows airflow between the front volume and an interior cavity within the housing of the electronic device. in various implementations, an inductive vent and/or a resistive vent may be provided over the opening in the substrate.
Inventor(s): Frank Baumgarte of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Dipanjan Sen of Dublin CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04S7/00
Abstract: a method that includes receiving a bitstream that comprises: an encoded version of an audio signal that is associated with a sound source that is within a first 3d scene, a scene tree structure that includes an origin of the first scene relative to an origin of a second scene, and a position of the sound source within the first scene relative to the origin of the first scene, wherein the position references the origin of the first scene using an identifier, wherein the scene tree structure defines an initial configuration of the sound source with respect to the first and second scenes; determining a position of a listener; producing a set of spatially rendered audio signals by spatially rendering the audio signal according to the position of the sound source with respect to the position of the listener; and using the spatially rendered audio signals to drive speakers.
Inventor(s): Frank Baumgarte of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Dipanjan Sen of Dublin CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04S7/00, G06T19/00
Abstract: a method that includes receiving a first bitstream that includes an encoded version of an audio signal for a three-dimensional (3d) scene and a first set of metadata that has 1) a position of a 3d sub-scene within the scene and 2) a position of a sound source associated with the audio signal within the sub-scene; determining a position of a listener; spatially rendering the scene to produce the sound source with the audio signal at the position of the sound source with respect to the position of the listener; receiving a second bitstream that includes a second set of metadata that has a different position of the sub-scene; and adjusting the spatial rendering of the scene such that the position of the sound source changes to correspond to movement of the sub-scene from the position of the sub-scene to the different position of the sub-scene.
Inventor(s): Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Alexander Sayenko of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Anatoliy S. Ioffe of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haijing Hu of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Leilei Song of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Ralf Rossbach of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Ruoheng Liu of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sarma V. Vangala of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Yuqin Chen of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zhibin Wu of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W16/14, H04W8/22, H04W36/14
Abstract: embodiments described herein include methods, systems, and apparatuses for allowing a user equipment (ue) that supports dynamic spectrum sharing (dss) with uplink (ul)-shift to access a cell and barring ues that do not support dss with ul-shift. embodiments may use a cell barring field in a master information block and additional filters to indicate a barring state for a network node.
20240114369.DYNAMIC SCAN DURATION CONTROL_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Dongwoon Hahn of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Chen Ganir of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Duy N. Phan of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W24/08
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to dynamically adjust a scanning duration for packets. in some embodiments, a device can extend a scanning duration for advertising packets based at least in part on a detected scanning interruption.
20240114418.NR CELL PRIORITIZATION BASED ON CARRIER BANDWIDTH_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Vijayant KUMAR of Muenchen (DE) for apple inc., Prasad P. ASHTEKAR of Haar (DE) for apple inc., Munish JINDAL of Muenchen (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W36/30, H04W36/00
Abstract: disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for nr cell prioritization based on carrier bandwidths. an embodiment operates by storing a plurality of neighboring cell frequencies and respective carrier bandwidths of the plurality of neighboring cell frequencies. the embodiment determines whether a carrier bandwidth corresponding to a neighboring cell frequency of the plurality of neighboring cell frequencies is less than a serving cell carrier bandwidth. in response to a determination that the carrier bandwidth corresponding to the neighboring cell frequency is less than the serving cell carrier bandwidth, the embodiment determines a biased signal strength measurement by adding an offset to a signal strength measurement corresponding to the neighboring cell frequency, where the offset is determined based at least in part on a data throughput requirement of the ue. the embodiment evaluates a signal strength criteria of the neighboring cell frequency using the biased signal strength measurement corresponding to the neighboring cell frequency.
Inventor(s): Parvathanathan Subrahmanya of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Leilei Song of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Mariam Motamed of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Navid Ehsan of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sharad Sambhwani of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W40/04
Abstract: disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including obtaining first data regarding one or more applications running on a ue device, where the first data represents, for each of the one or more applications, an individual network usage characteristic of that application; determining, based on the first data, second data regarding the one or more applications, where the second data represents a composite network usage characteristic of the one or more applications; selecting, based on the second data, a first modem configuration from among a plurality of candidate modem configurations; and causing a modem of the ue device to operate according to the first modem configuration.
Inventor(s): Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of San Diego 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., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W64/00, H04W48/20, H04W72/25
Abstract: apparatuses, systems, and methods for synchronization and resource allocation for sidelink positioning, e.g., in 5g nr systems and beyond. a device, e.g., a ue or an lmf, may be configured to transmit, to a plurality of wireless devices, an anchor selection request for a sidelink positioning procedure for a target ue. the device may be configured to receive, from one or more wireless devices of the plurality of wireless devices, an anchor selection response. the device may be configured to select based, at least in part, on the anchor selection responses, one or more anchor devices from the one or more wireless devices.
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., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Zhibin Wu of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/02, H04W72/044, H04W72/51, H04W72/542, H04W72/56
Abstract: systems and methods for sidelink (sl) power control within wireless communication systems are disclosed herein. a user equipment (ue) selects a parameter set to use to calculate a transmit power of one or more channels to be transmitted according to an sl session with a peer ue from a plurality of parameter sets each configured for use according to a distance between the ue and the peer ue. a ue determines whether an sl pathloss based calculation is to be used to calculate a transmit power of a channel according to an sl session with a peer ue, wherein that calculation is configured to be used depending on a distance between the ue and the peer ue. ue selection of a number of physical sl feedback channel (psfch) transmissions to match a ue capability and determinations regarding whether to perform psfch reception or psfch transmission are also discussed.
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