Apple Inc. patent applications on February 15th, 2024
Patent Applications by Apple Inc. on February 15th, 2024
Apple Inc.: 87 patent applications
Apple Inc. has applied for patents in the areas of H04W72/232 (20), H04L5/00 (15), H04L5/0051 (13), H04W72/12 (10), H04W72/1273 (8)
With keywords such as: user, device, time, based, signal, control, configured, reference, information, and channel in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by Apple Inc.
Inventor(s): Sung H. Kim of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Hyunsoo Ha of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Muhammad Ahmadi of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Justin S. Shi of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): A61B5/28, A61B5/277, A61B5/256, A61B5/00
Abstract: embodiments are directed to devices, systems and methods for determining a perspiration metric of a user. in some embodiments, a device may include a perspiration sensor having first and second electrodes positioned on a skin-facing exterior surface of the device. capacitance circuitry may measure a capacitance between the electrodes, which may be used to calculate the perspiration metric. in some embodiments, the device defines a cavity such that one or both of the electrodes extend at least partially into the cavity. other embodiments include a second perspiration sensor, and measurements from the second perspiration sensor may be used in calculating the perspiration metric.
20240050016.USER INTERFACES FOR HEALTH MONITORING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Christopher D. SOLI of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew W. CROWLEY of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Heather E. DANIEL of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Bradley W. GRIFFIN of Aptos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): A61B5/332, G06F1/16, A61B5/02, G06F9/451, G06F3/0485, G06F3/01, G06T13/80, A61B5/339
Abstract: the present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for health monitoring. exemplary user interfaces for initial setup of health monitoring using a first electronic device and a second electronic device is described. exemplary user interfaces for recording biometric information for use in health monitoring is described. exemplary user interfaces for using an input device while recording biometric information for health monitoring is described. exemplary user interfaces for viewing and managing aspects of health monitoring is described.
20240051391.CRUISE CONTROL USER INTERFACES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Benjamin J. CRICK of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Conrad H. Albrecht-Buehler of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Joseph Y. Chan of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Richard R. Dellinger of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yun Jae Kim of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Eileen Y. Lee of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): B60K35/00
Abstract: the present disclosure generally relates to managing cruise control settings. a cruise control indicator is displayed at a location that corresponds to a cruise control speed concurrently with a textual indication of the cruise control speed. in response to receiving input, the textual indication ceases to be displayed after a non-zero duration while the cruise control indicator continues to be displayed.
20240053153.Target Localization Using AC Magnetic Fields_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sheng Liu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jian Guo of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01C21/20, G01C21/08, H04W4/02, H04W4/024
Abstract: a device operates in pairing mode, indoor navigation mode or search mode. for each mode, a magnetic sensor in the device senses one or more alternating current (ac) magnetic fields emitted by one or more transmitters in a three-dimensional (3d) space, and uses the one or more ac magnetic fields to determine a position of the device relative to the one or more transmitters or another device. in pairing mode, relative position vectors computed from two or more ac magnetic fields allows the device to choose the closest transmitter for pairing. in indoor navigation mode, multiple detections of ac magnetic fields emitted by multiple transmitters assist a user in navigating an indoor space. in search mode, a companion device and a lost device each sense an ac magnetic field from a transmitter, and he ac magnetic fields are used to determine a relative position vector from the companion device to the lost device.
20240053194.Systems With Glass Layers_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Tyler A. Marshall of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Divakar Singamsetty of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jeremy C. Franklin of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jeffrey C. Olson of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Matthew S. Rogers of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01J1/04, G01J1/02
Abstract: a system may have a support structure and a glass layer that separate an exterior region surrounding the system from an interior region. components may be mounted in the interior region. the components may include an optical component. the glass layer may have a first area that overlaps the optical component and that serves as an optical component window for the optical component. the glass layer may also have a second area that surrounds the first area and does not overlap the optical component. the first area may be selectively weakened relative to the second area to prevent excessive glass fracturing during a damage event from obscuring the optical component. selective weakening may be provided with laser-induced-damage features, recesses from local thinning, and/or glass-weakening deposited thin films such as physical vapor deposition thin-film coatings of inorganic dielectric.
20240053410.ENERGY BASED TASK SHIFTING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Cyril de la Cropte de Chanterac of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Lawrence A. Cayton of Seattle WA (US) for apple inc., Brian C. Beer of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Shardul S. Mangade of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Farman A. Syed of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Andrea R. Romano of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01R31/396, G01R31/367
Abstract: an electronic device can include a processor programmed to detect connection of an external power source to the electronic device, determine an estimated disconnection time at which the external power source is expected to be disconnected from the electronic device, analyze power grid data corresponding to the external power source to identify one or more desired background processing intervals and one or more undesired background processing intervals prior to the estimated disconnection time, and perform background processing during the identified one or more desired battery charging intervals and inhibit background processing during the one or more undesired battery charging intervals. the processor can be programmed to determine an estimated disconnection time using a machine learning model. the processor can be programmed to inhibit background processing by reducing the amount of background processing during certain undesired background processing intervals or by preventing background processing during certain undesired background processing intervals.
20240053611.Latency Correction for a Camera Image_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Gregory Lutter of Boulder Creek CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01, G06T7/73, G06T19/00
Abstract: a camera in a head-mounted device may capture images of a physical environment surrounding the head-mounted device. the images captured by the camera may sometimes be displayed on a transparent display in the head-mounted device. in one example, a video feed from the camera may be displayed on the display at a position that causes the video feed to overlap corresponding portions of the head-mounted device. the video feed may be displayed as part of a camera application, as one example. there may be latency between the capturing of the video feed by the camera and the display of the video feed on the display. to mitigate discomfort caused by latency, each image in the video feed from the camera may be displayed based on a pose of the head-mounted device at the time that image is captured.
20240053656.Camera Focus and Stabilization System_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shashank Sharma of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G03B13/36, G03B3/04, H04N23/54, H04N23/55, H04N23/68
Abstract: various embodiments include a camera with a voice coil motor (vcm) actuator assembly to provide autofocus (af) and/or optical image stabilization (ois) movement. the vcm actuator assembly is configured to move an image sensor of the camera in three dimensions (e.g. x, y, and z) to provide the af and/or ois movements. the vcm actuator assembly is asymmetrical and includes an at least partially open side that allows an optical assembly of the camera to pass through the open side of the vcm actuator. in some embodiments, the optical assembly is part of a folded optics arrangement of the camera that includes one or more prisms/and or lenses.
20240053707.CONDUCTIVE CAP FOR WATCH CROWN_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Colin M. Ely of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Sameer Pandya of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Steven C. Roach of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G04B3/04, G04C3/00, G04G21/02, G04G17/06, G04G17/08, G04G17/04, G04G21/08
Abstract: an electronic device, such as a watch, has a crown assembly having a shaft and a user-rotatable crown. the user-rotatable crown may include a conductive cap that is mechanically and electrically coupled to the shaft and functions as an electrode. the conductive cap may be coupled to the shaft using solder or another conductive attachment mechanism. the shaft may electrically couple the conductive cap to a processing unit of the electronic device. one or more additional electrodes may be positioned on the exterior surface of the electronic device. the conductive cap is operable to be contacted by a finger of a user of the electronic device while another electrode is positioned against skin of the user. the processing unit of the electronic device is operable to determine a biological parameter, such as an electrocardiogram, of the user based on voltages at the electrodes.
Inventor(s): Daibashish GANGOPADHYAY of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Terry J. GROOM of Rio Vista TX (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G05F1/575, H02M3/158
Abstract: the present disclosure describes a system with a voltage regulator, a comparator circuit, and a control circuit. the voltage regulator includes an output node and is configured to generate a voltage at the output node. the comparator circuit is configured to compare the voltage at the output node to a reference voltage. the control circuit is configured to disable the voltage regulator after the voltage regulator has generated a charge cycle and for a period of time until the voltage at the output node is below the reference voltage.
20240053795.Electronic Devices With Light-Blocking Structures_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Nicholas R Trincia of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Michael Y Cheung of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Timon A Wright of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/16
Abstract: a head-mounted device may have a housing containing displays that display images a user when the head-mounted device is worn by the user. the head-mounted device may include a light-shielding structure or light seal coupled to the housing and configured to rest on a nasal region of the user. the light-shielding structure may include flexible members and/or fabric members. for example, the flexible members may be elastomeric members having perforations that allow the light-shielding structure to conform to the facial features of the user around the nasal region, while maintaining rigidity. additionally, the light-shielding structure may block environmental light from entering the eye boxes when the head-mounted device is worn by the user. rigid or semi-rigid members may be added on or within the light-shielding structure to provide additional rigidity and support as the device is worn by the user.
20240053799.FOLDABLE COVER AND DISPLAY FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Christopher D. Jones of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Dale N. Memering of Langhome PA (US) for apple inc., Christopher C. Bartlow of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/16, G02F1/1333, G09F9/30, H05K1/03, H05K1/02
Abstract: electronic devices including a display layer and a cover layer including a foldable region are disclosed herein. the display layer and the cover layer are configured to be moved between a folded configuration and an unfolded configuration by bending the cover layer along the foldable region. methods of making a cover layer for an electronic device are also disclosed.
20240053804.COMPUTER HOUSING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Eugene A. Whang of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher J. Stringer of Woodside CA (US) for apple inc., Brett W. Degner of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., David H. Narajowski of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Patrick Kessler of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Eric R. Prather of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Caitlin Elizabeth Kalinowski of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Adam T. Stagnaro of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Daniel L. McBroom of Leonard TX (US) for apple inc., Matthew P. Casebolt of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Michael D. McBroom of Leonard TX (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F1/18, G06F1/20, H05K7/20, H01L23/40, H05K5/03, H05K1/02, F21V8/00, G06F3/00, G08B5/36, G08B21/18, H04R1/02
Abstract: a desktop computing system having at least a central core surrounded by housing having a shape that defines a volume in which the central core resides is described. the housing includes a first opening and a second opening axially displaced from the first opening. the first opening having a size and shape in accordance with an amount of airflow used as a heat transfer medium for cooling internal components, the second opening defined by a lip that engages a portion of the airflow in such a way that at least some of the heat transferred to the air flow from the internal components is passed to the housing.
20240053823.Eye Tracking System_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Kathrin Berkner-Cieslicki of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Se Baek Oh of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Scott M. DeLapp of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher F. Griffo of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Bradley C. Steele of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ting Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Kenichi Saito of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Noah D. Bedard of Pacifica CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/01, G02B27/00, G02B27/01
Abstract: an eye tracking system for detecting position and movements of a user's eyes in a head-mounted display (hmd). the eye tracking system includes at least one eye tracking camera, an illumination source that emits infrared light towards the user's eyes, and diffraction gratings located at the eyepieces. the diffraction gratings redirect or reflect at least a portion of infrared light reflected off the user's eyes, while allowing visible light to pass. the cameras capture images of the user's eyes from the infrared light that is redirected or reflected by the diffraction gratings.
Inventor(s): William M. Tyler of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/041, G06F3/01, G06F3/04842
Abstract: a control user interface includes a first control for selecting a value for an output parameter of an electronic device, a second control for switching between different modes of a first function, and a third control for turning the device off. in response to an input directed to the control user interface: if the input is directed to the first control, the device adjusts a current value for the output parameter; if the input is directed to the second control and meets first criteria, the device changes a current mode of the first function; if the input is directed to the third control and meets second input criteria, the device initiates a process for turning off the device; and if the input is directed to the third control and meets the first criteria but not the second criteria, the device forgoes initiation of the process for turning off the device.
Inventor(s): Jeffrey M. Faulkner of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Wesley M. Holder of Union City CA (US) for apple inc., Giancarlo Yerkes of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Israel Pastrana Vicente of Spring TX (US) for apple inc., William A. Sorrentino, III of Mill Valley CA (US) for apple inc., Stephen O. Lemay of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04815, G06F3/04886, G06F3/0346
Abstract: a computer system displays, in a simulated three-dimensional space, an object with a user interface displayed at a pose corresponding to a pose of the object in the simulated space, the object's pose corresponding to a pose of an input device in a physical environment. in response to detecting a movement input via the input device: if the movement input corresponds to input device movement, relative to the physical environment, meeting pose criteria requiring that a parameter of change in the input device pose meet a set of one or more thresholds, the computer system displays the user interface away from the object; and, if the movement input corresponds to input device movement not meeting the pose criteria, the computer system updates the object's pose in the simulated space based on the input device movement, while maintaining display of the user interface at a pose corresponding to the object's pose.
20240053862.USER INTERFACES FOR LOGGING USER ACTIVITIES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Aneesha NARRA of Belmont CA (US) for apple inc., Justin P. DOBSON of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Andrew PLUMMER of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Shonn P. HENDEE of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Rajiv B. KUMAR of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Tal LORBERBAUM of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Ron D. LUE-SANG of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Divya NAG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Heather R. SCHNEK of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ryan D. SHELBY of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Jonathan C. STEMMLE of San Mateo CA (US) for apple inc., Connie V. TUNG of Berkeley CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04817, G06F11/34, G06F3/0482
Abstract: the present disclosure generally relates to logging user activities during a subset of a recurring time period. in some embodiments, based on received physiological data, a computer system enables logging of one or more user activities to be performed during a subset of a recurring time period. in some embodiments, based on performance of the one or more user activities during a subset of a recurring time period, a computer system enables logging of one or more user activities to be performed during a subset of a recurring time period for a predetermined period of time.
20240053871.USER INTERFACES FOR MANAGING APPLICATION WIDGETS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shubham KEDIA of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Christian X. DALONZO of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., William M. TYLER of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/0484, G06F3/04817, G06F9/451, G06T13/00, G06F3/0482, G06F3/0483
Abstract: the present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces that include application widgets. in some embodiments, a computer system displays a home screen, where displaying the home screen includes displaying a set of user interface elements based on whether an account that was used to set up the computer system is associated with a first type of content. in some embodiments, a computer system displays a user interface in response to detecting a request to change the orientation of the user interface. displaying the user interface includes displaying an arrangement of application widgets and application icons, where a set of application widgets has a same spatial organization as in a previous arrangement.
20240053878.CONTEXT-SPECIFIC USER INTERFACES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Christopher WILSON of Sonoma CA (US) for apple inc., Lee S. BROUGHTON of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Kevin Will CHEN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Eric Lance WILSON of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04847, G09G5/38, G06F3/04883, G06F3/01, G06F3/0481, G06F3/04845, G06F3/04817, G06F3/0487, G04G21/00, G06F3/0485, G06Q10/109, G06F3/04812, G06F3/0482, G04G9/02, G06F3/0362, G06F3/0488, G09G5/37
Abstract: context-specific user interfaces for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. the methods described herein for context-specific user interfaces provide indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein.
20240053953.USER INTERFACES FOR AUDIO ROUTING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Christopher J. SANDERS of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/16, H04R3/00, G06F3/04842
Abstract: the present disclosure generally relates to user interface for audio routing. in some examples, a computer system detects an audio device and displays a selectable option in accordance with a determination that a set of criteria is met. the selectable option, when selected, enables the computer system to connect to the audio device and transmit audio data to the audio device.
Inventor(s): Liang-Kai Wang of Austin TX (US) for apple inc., Ian R. Ollmann of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Anthony Y. Tai of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F7/487, G06F7/499
Abstract: techniques are disclosed relating to circuitry for floating-point division. in some embodiments, the circuitry is configured to generate a subnormal result for a division operation that divides a numerator by a denominator. the circuitry may include floating-point circuitry configured to perform a reciprocal operation to determine a normalized mantissa value for the reciprocal of a floating-point representation of the denominator. the circuitry may further include fixed-point circuitry configured to multiply a fixed-point representation of the normalized mantissa value for the reciprocal by a mantissa of the numerator to generate an initial value. control circuitry may determine error data for the initial value and generate a final subnormal mantissa result for the division operation based on the error data and the initial value. embodiments with multiple modes with different accuracy guarantees are disclosed.
Inventor(s): Michael L. Liu of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Yash H. Malviya of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F7/50, G06F7/02
Abstract: an integrated circuit can include absolute difference circuitry configured to compute an absolute difference value. the absolute difference circuitry may include a comparison logic, a single adder, and a multiplexer. the comparison logic may receive a first input value and a second input value and may generate a comparison value based on whether the first input value exceeds the second input value. the adder may compute a sum of the first input value, an inverted version of the second input value, and the comparison value. the multiplexer may receive the sum and an inverted version of the sum and may output either the sum or the inverted version of the sum based on the comparison value to produce the absolute difference value.
20240054014.Shared Control Bus for Graphics Processors_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Max J. Batley of London (GB) for apple inc., Jonathan M. Redshaw of St. Albans (GB) for apple inc., Ji Rao of London (GB) for apple inc., Ali Rabbani Rankouhi of Bushey (GB) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F9/48, G06F9/38, G06F9/50, G06F9/54, G06F13/42, G06F13/36, G06F13/37, G06F13/40
Abstract: techniques are disclosed relating to a shared control bus for communicating between primary control circuitry and multiple distributed graphics processor units. in some embodiments, a set of multiple graphics processor units including at least first and second graphics processors on different semiconductor substrates that are packaged in a multi-chip module, where the first and second graphics processors are coupled to access graphics data via respective memory interfaces. the shared workload distribution bus may include: one or more interfaces between respective graphics processors on the same semiconductor substrate and at least one cross-substrate interface between the different semiconductor substrates. workload distribution circuitry may transmit, via the shared workload distribution bus, control data that specifies graphics work distribution to the multiple graphics processor units. packet control circuitry may modify packets from at least one of the one or more interfaces for transmission via the cross-substrate interface.
Inventor(s): Dimitrios Bermperidis of Seattle WA (US) for apple inc., Sofia M. Nikolakaki of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Rabi S. Chakraborty of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Rajesh Kumar of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Chandrasekar Venkataraman of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Natalia G. Silveira of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Puja Das of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F16/2457, G06F8/61
Abstract: a distribution platform interface is presented with respect to a seed item landing page. the seed item landing page includes a recommendation section. the items listed in the recommendation section are selected from a framework that is configured to provide recommendations of candidate items based on a given seed app and relationship type, and which is configured to handle multiple relationship types.
20240054732.INTERMEDIARY EMERGENT CONTENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ian M. Richter of Los Angeles CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, G06F3/01
Abstract: in some implementations, a method includes obtaining an end state of a first content item spanning a first time duration. in some implementations, the end state of the first content item indicates a first state of a synthesized reality (sr) agent at the end of the first time duration. in some implementations, the method includes obtaining an initial state of a second content item spanning a second time duration subsequent the first time duration. in some implementations, the initial state of the second content item indicates a second state of the sr agent at the beginning of the second time duration. in some implementations, the method includes synthesizing an intermediary emergent content item spanning over an intermediary time duration that is between the end of the first time duration and the beginning of the second time duration.
Inventor(s): Ian M. Richter of Los Angeles CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, G06F3/16, G06T7/60, G06V20/10, H04N21/43
Abstract: in various implementations, methods of presenting an audio/sr experience are disclosed. in one embodiment, while playing an audio file in an environment, in response to determining that the respective temporal criterion and the respective environmental criterion of an sr content event is met, the sr content event is displayed in association with the environment. in one embodiment, sr content is obtained and displayed in association with an environment based on an audio file and a 3d point cloud of the environment. in one embodiment, sr content is obtained and displayed in association with an environment based on spoken words of a real sound of the environment.
20240054736.Adjustable Immersion Level for Content_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Aaron M. Burns of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Adam G. Poulos of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Alexis H. Palangie of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Benjamin R. Blachnitzky of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Charilaos Papadopoulos of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., David M. Schattel of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Ezgi Demirayak of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Jia Wang of Redmond WA (US) for apple inc., Reza Abbasian of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Ryan S. Carlin of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, H04N7/15, H04N21/431, H04N21/81, G06F3/01
Abstract: an electronic device such as a head-mounted device may present extended reality content such as a representation of a three-dimensional environment. the representation of the three-dimensional environment may be changed between different viewing modes having different immersion levels in response to user input. the three-dimensional environment may represent a multiuser communication session. a multiuser communication session may be saved and subsequently viewed as a replay. there may be an interactive virtual object within the replay of the multiuser communication session. the pose of the interactive virtual object may be manipulated by a user while the replay is paused. some multiuser communication sessions may be hierarchical multiuser communication sessions with a presenter and audience members. the presenter and audience members may receive generalized feedback based on the audience members during the presentation. a participant may have their role changed between audience member and presenter during the presentation.
20240054746.Interactive Element in a Replay_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Aaron M. Burns of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Adam G. Poulos of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Alexis H. Palangie of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Benjamin R. Blachnitzky of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Charilaos Papadopoulos of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., David M. Schattel of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Ezgi Demirayak of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Jia Wang of Redmond WA (US) for apple inc., Reza Abbasian of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Ryan S. Carlin of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T19/20, G06T13/40, H04N21/431
Abstract: an electronic device such as a head-mounted device may present extended reality content such as a representation of a three-dimensional environment. the representation of the three-dimensional environment may be changed between different viewing modes having different immersion levels in response to user input. the three-dimensional environment may represent a multiuser communication session. a multiuser communication session may be saved and subsequently viewed as a replay. there may be an interactive virtual object within the replay of the multiuser communication session. the pose of the interactive virtual object may be manipulated by a user while the replay is paused. some multiuser communication sessions may be hierarchical multiuser communication sessions with a presenter and audience members. the presenter and audience members may receive generalized feedback based on the audience members during the presentation. a participant may have their role changed between audience member and presenter during the presentation.
20240054838.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): G07C9/28, G07C9/22, G06F3/16, G06F3/01
Abstract: a method includes obtaining sensor information from a sensor system, wherein the sensor system senses exterior surroundings of an access-controlled interior space. the method also includes determining that a person is located outside an entry to the access-controlled interior space, using the sensor information, determining that the person is authorized to enter the access-controlled interior space, using the sensor information, and detecting an intention to enter the access-controlled interior space by the person. in response to determining that the person is located near the access-controlled interior space, the method includes determining that the person is authorized to enter the access-controlled interior space, and detecting the intention to enter the access-controlled interior space, providing access to the access-controlled interior space.
20240054936.EMISSION ROW SHUFFLING FOR PULSED ELECTRONIC DISPLAYS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yaser Azizi of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Haitao Li of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Hopil Bae of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Xiang Lu of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Seung B Rim of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/20, G09G3/32
Abstract: electronic devices, displays, and methods are provided for performing row shuffling to reduce an appearance of image artifacts during eye movements such as saccades. an electronic display may include a number of rows of display pixels and driving circuitry to drive the rows of pixels. the driving circuitry may spatially shuffle or temporally shuffle, or both spatially and temporally shuffle, a row order of driving the rows of display pixels.
Inventor(s): Chengrui Le of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Fang-Cheng Lin of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Hyunwoo Nho of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Lingyu Hong of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yi-Pai Huang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ze Yuan of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/32, G09G3/36, G09G3/3208
Abstract: electronic devices, displays, and methods are provided for performing pixel grouping to enable efficient display operation at higher frame rates and lower image resolutions without sacrificing significant image quality. an electronic display may include a number of rows of display pixels and driving circuitry. the driving circuitry may receive a frame of image data and drive a set of adjacent groups of rows of equal number using the frame of image data. adjacent groups of rows may respectively include two or more adjacent rows.
20240054945.Emission Staggering for Low Light or Low Gray Level_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Young Don Bae of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jeongsup Lee of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Hari P. Paudel of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Sunmin Jang of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Shengzhe Jiao of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Nikhil Acharya of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Yaser Azizi of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Ali RostamPisheh of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Stanley B. Wang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Haitao Li of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/32
Abstract: an electronic display may include a first anode configured to carry a red emission signal, a second anode configured to carry a blue emission signal, a third anode configured to carry a green emission signal, and a micro-driver configured to stagger a timing of the red emission signal, the blue emission signal, and the green emission signal based on an emission clock signal to display image content on the electronic display.
Inventor(s): Koorosh Aflatooni of Los Altos Hills CA (US) for apple inc., Minhyuk Choi of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Mohammad Ali Jangda of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Sang Y. Youn of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yafei Bi of Los Altos Hills CA (US) for apple inc., Jean-Pierre Guillou of La Jolla CA (US) for apple inc., Wei H. Yao of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G5/10, G06V40/13
Abstract: an electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. the device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. a capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. in response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. the display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.
Inventor(s): Marcos Regis VESCOVI of Capitola CA (US) for apple inc., Eric M. G. CIRCLAEYS of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Richard WARREN of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Jeffrey Traer BERNSTEIN of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Matthaeus KRENN of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G10L15/18, G10L15/30, G10L15/22, G10L15/19
Abstract: systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. in one example process, a speech input is received from a user. in response to determining that the speech input corresponds to a user intent of obtaining information associated with a user experience of the user, one or more parameters referencing a user experience of the user are identified. metadata associated with the referenced user experience is obtained from an experiential data structure. based on the metadata, one or more media items associated with the referenced are retrieved based on the metadata. the one or more media items associated with the referenced user experience are output together.
20240055017.MULTIPLE STATE DIGITAL ASSISTANT FOR CONTINUOUS DIALOG_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sreeneel MADDIKA of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Ahmed Serag El Din HUSSEN ABDELAZIZ of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Chaitanya MANNEMALA of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Srikanth VISHNUBHOTLA of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Garrett L. WEINBERG of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G10L25/78, G10L25/51, G10L21/0208, G06V40/16
Abstract: systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. for example, a first speech input is received from a user. in response to receiving the first speech input, a response is provided. a first output is provided corresponding to a digital assistant in a first state, and a second speech input is received from the user. a first plurality of values is obtained. based on the first plurality of values, a first confidence level corresponding to the second speech input is obtained. in accordance with a determination that the first confidence level exceeds a first threshold confidence level, a second output is provided corresponding to the digital assistant in a second state. the second speech input continues to be received.
20240055768.Antenna Feed Structure_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Alireza Pourghorban Saghati of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jerzy S Guterman of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Jue Wang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01Q13/10, H01Q9/04
Abstract: an electronic device may include one or more radios and one or more antennas. radio-frequency transmission lines may couple a radio to an antenna feed structure. the antenna feed structure may be wireless coupled to one or more antenna resonating elements. an intervening slot element may be disposed between the antenna feed structure and the one or more antenna resonating elements. the antenna feed structure may be disposed on a package substrate forming an integrated circuit package. the one or more antenna resonating elements may be disposed on an antenna support structure. the integrated circuit package and the antenna support structure may be mounted to the same side or opposing sides of a system substrate.
20240055788.CONNECTOR HAVING CONTACT ARRAY_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): George Tziviskos of San Jose (S) for apple inc., Mohammed Nasser Khamis Al Jashmi of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Mahmoud R. Amini of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Aaron N. Miletich of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Eric S. Jol of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01R12/79, H01R13/502
Abstract: connectors that provide a large number of connections between a flexible circuit board and a printed circuit board, can easily and securely connect the flexible circuit board to the printed circuit board, are readily manufactured, and can be used in an assembly of an electronic device without excessive warpage.
20240055885.ENERGY BASED TASK SHIFTING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Cyril de la Cropte de Chanterac of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Lawrence A. Cayton of Seattle WA (US) for apple inc., Brian C. Beer of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Shardul S. Mangade of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Farman A. Syed of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Andrea R. Romano of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H02J7/00, G06Q30/02
Abstract: an electronic device can include a power system including a battery and a processor programmed to detect connection of an external power source to the electronic device, determine an estimated disconnection time at which the external power source is expected to be disconnected from the electronic device, analyze power grid data corresponding to the external power source to identify one or more desired battery charging intervals and one or more undesired battery charging intervals prior to the estimated disconnection time, and operate the power system to charge the battery from the external power source during the identified one or more desired battery charging intervals and inhibit battery charging during the one or more undesired battery charging intervals. the processor can be programmed to inhibit battery charging by reducing the rate at which the battery charges or by preventing battery charging.
Inventor(s): Terry J. GROOM of Rio Vista TX (US) for apple inc., Daibashish GANGOPADHYAY of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H02M3/158
Abstract: the present disclosure describes a system with a voltage regulator, a current source circuit, and a control circuit. the voltage regulator has an output node and is configured to provide a supply voltage at the output node. the current source circuit is configured to draw current away from the voltage regulator's output node. and, the control circuit is configured to delay enabling the current source circuit in response to a voltage at the voltage regulator's output node being above a predetermined voltage level and the voltage regulator being disabled. with this arrangement, a voltage ripple at the voltage regulator's output node can be reduced in the presence of a bi-polar load current, which can be advantageous in voltage regulator designs (e.g., in dc-dc converters employing a pulse frequency modulation scheme).
Inventor(s): Helena Deirdre O'SHEA of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ali MOAZ of Nuernberg (DE) for apple inc., Tim SCHOENAUER of Feldkirchen (DE) for apple inc., Rahmi HEZAR of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H03K5/1252, G06F21/71
Abstract: embodiments relate to identifying frequencies to be protected at a victim integrated circuit (ic) and sending protection information including the identified frequencies to an aggressor ic. the aggressor ic configures its subsystems or circuits to operate using operating frequencies that prevents spurs that may interfere with the frequencies identified in the protection information. if not all of the frequencies in the protection information can be protected, the aggressor ic selects a subset of the frequencies to be protected. then, the aggressor ic configures the operating frequencies of its subsystems or circuits so that spurs that they generate do not interfere with the selected frequencies.
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., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga 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.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/0456
Abstract: apparatus and methods are provided for csi enhancement for multi-trp coherent joint transmission. a user equipment (ue) receives signals from a plurality of transmission and reception points (trps). the ue determines, based on the signals, multiple trp (multi-trp) coherent joint transmission (cjt) channel state information (csi) report information for a codebook based on a spatial basis selection matrix, a combination coefficient matrix, and a frequency basis selection matrix. the spatial basis selection matrix is layer common, polarization common, and trp independent. the ue reports, to one or more of the plurality of trps, the multi-trp cjt csi report information.
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/0456
Abstract: this disclosure relates to techniques for configuring 8 transmit antenna uplink operation in a wireless communication system. a wireless device and a cellular base station may establish a wireless link. the wireless device may receive an indication from the cellular base station of an 8 transmit antenna port uplink configuration to use, which may include a one or more transmit precoding matrix indicators. the wireless device may perform uplink communication with the cellular base station using the 8 transmit antenna port configuration.
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Anchit Malhotra of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., David Neumann of Muenchen (DE) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Ghaith N. Hattab of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Louay Jalloul of San Jose 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): H04B7/06, H04W72/12, H04W72/232, H04W72/21
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for user equipment related design concepts for channel state information enhancement to exploit channel time-domain properties.
Inventor(s): Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04B7/06, H04W76/18
Abstract: systems and methods for beam failure recovery (bfr) are disclosed herein. a user equipment (ue) receives downlink (dl) reference signal(s) on corresponding beam(s) from a base station. the ue performs beam failure detection (bfd) on such beams used for user data to determine whether a beam failure has occurred, and candidate beam detection (cbd) on such beams not used for user data to identify candidate beams for recovering from the beam failure. the bfd and the cbd are based on both uplink (ul) channel performance considerations and dl channel performance considerations, as determined using the dl reference signal(s), such that a beam failure may be determined in the ul, the dl, or both, and a candidate beam may be identified for ul, dl, or both. the ue sends a beam failure recovery request bfrq with this information to the base station, and the system changes beams accordingly.
Inventor(s): Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00, H04L1/08
Abstract: apparatuses, systems, and methods for positioning reference signals (prss) for reduced capacity devices, e.g., in 5g nr systems and beyond. a ue may be configured to receive, from a network (e.g., from a base station and/or an lmf), a first repetition of a frequency hopping (fh) prs in a first frequency bandwidth. the first frequency bandwidth may be a subset of a full bandwidth used for full bandwidth prss. the ue may be configured to switch to a second frequency bandwidth that may be overlapped with the first frequency bandwidth. the second frequency bandwidth may be a subset of the full bandwidth. additionally, the ue may be configured to receive a second repetition of the fh prs in the second frequency bandwidth.
Inventor(s): Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00
Abstract: apparatuses, systems, and methods for positioning reference signals (prss) for reduced capacity devices, e.g., in 5g nr systems and beyond. a ue may be configured to may receive, from a network (e.g., from a base station and/or an lmf) a reference signal configuration for the positioning procedure, e.g., based on one or more capabilities reported by the ue. the reference signal configuration may support coherent stitching (e.g., frequency hopping) with tone-overlap. additionally, the ue may be configured to receive downlink positioning reference signals and mute at least a portion of downlink positioning reference signal resources. a phase discontinuity may be generated by muting at least the portion of prs resources and transmission of the prs resources may continue without regard to the phase discontinuity or transmission of the prs resources may be shifted to account for the phase discontinuity such that a prs transmission immediately after the muted portion of prs resources may be shifted to remain in phase with a transmission that occurred immediately prior to the muted portion of the prs resources.
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., David Neumann of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Anchit Malhotra of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ghaith N. Hattab of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Louay Jalloul of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00, H04W52/02
Abstract: systems and methods are provided for to support user equipment (ue) channel state information (csi) report of time domain channel properties concurrently with interference measurement resources (imrs) measurements. embodiments herein consider uplink control information (uci) multiplexing, uci omission, interference measurement resource (imr) configuration, and phase continuity handling. a csi report configuration (csi-reportconfig) may comprise configuration details for both one or more channel measurement resources (cmrs) and one or more interference measurement resources (imrs). the cmrs may be used to measure time domain channel properties (tdcp) based on a csi reference signal (csi-rs) for tracking reference signal (trs).
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00, H04B7/06
Abstract: systems and methods for sounding reference signal (srs) enhancement for eight transmit (tx) uplink (ul) operation are discussed. embodiments herein relate to the design and use of srs resource sets (and srs resources therein) corresponding to eight tx ul operation. embodiments of eight transmit eight receive (rx) (8t8r) antenna switching operation are discussed. further, embodiments of eight tx ul operation codebook physical uplink shared channel (pusch) operation are discussed. still further, embodiments of eight tx ul non-codebook pusch operation are discussed. still further, embodiments for eight tx ul operation applicable in either/both codebook and non-codebook pusch cases are discussed.
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00, H04W72/1268, H04W72/02, H04W76/20
Abstract: this disclosure relates to techniques for configuring 8 transmit antenna uplink operation in a wireless communication system. a wireless device and a cellular base station may establish a wireless link. the wireless device may perform sounding reference signal transmissions on each of 8 sounding reference signal resources, where each resource is associated with a transmit antenna port. the wireless device may receive an indication from the cellular base station of an 8 transmit antenna port uplink configuration to use, which may include a sounding reference signal resource indicator. the wireless device may perform uplink communication with the cellular base station using the 8 transmit antenna port configuration.
20240056341.PHASE TRACKING REFERENCE SIGNAL CONFIGURATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratogo CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose 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.
IPC Code(s): H04L27/26, H04L5/00, H04W8/24
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to support eight transmission operation for user equipments.
20240056492.Presentations in Multi-user Communication Sessions_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Aaron M Burns of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Adam G Poulos of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Alexis H Palangie of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Benjamin R Blachnitzky of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Charilaos Papadopoulos of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., David M Schattel of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Ezgi Demirayak of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Jia Wang of Redmond WA (US) for apple inc., Reza Abbasian of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Ryan S Carlin of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L65/403, G06T19/00, G06T13/40
Abstract: an electronic device such as a head-mounted device may present extended reality content such as a representation of a three-dimensional environment. the representation of the three-dimensional environment may be changed between different viewing modes having different immersion levels in response to user input. the three-dimensional environment may represent a multiuser communication session. a multiuser communication session may be saved and subsequently viewed as a replay. there may be an interactive virtual object within the replay of the multiuser communication session. the pose of the interactive virtual object may be manipulated by a user while the replay is paused. some multiuser communication sessions may be hierarchical multiuser communication sessions with a presenter and audience members. the presenter and audience members may receive generalized feedback based on the audience members during the presentation. a participant may have their role changed between audience member and presenter during the presentation.
Inventor(s): Gregory N. CHRISTIE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Marcel VAN OS of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Stephen O. LEMAY of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Evan Russell DOLL of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04M1/72436, G06Q10/107
Abstract: a portable electronic device with a touch screen display displays an incoming message from a party to a user of the device while the device is locked. the device responds to detecting a user request to view the incoming message by immediately displaying a set of messages between the user and the party in a chronological order. while the device is unlocked, if an incoming message is longer than a predefined length the device displays a portion of the incoming message, a view icon, and a long-message indicia. alternately, if the incoming message is equal to or less than the predefined length, the device displays the entire incoming message and a reply icon. in response to user selection of either the view icon or the reply icon, the device immediately displays a set of messages between the user of the device and the party in a chronological order.
Inventor(s): Rahul Nair of Hayward CA (US) for apple inc., Giancarlo Yerkes of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N13/332, G06T5/00, G06T3/40
Abstract: to blur the physical environment viewable through a transparent display, a system may capture images of the physical environment using a camera, warp the images of the physical environment from the perspective of the camera to the perspective of a user's eye, and display a blurred version of the warped images. the transparent display overlays a blurred version of the physical environment over the physical environment such that the physical environment appears blurred. this type of blur effect may be applied across the entire physical environment that is viewable through the transparent display or across only a subset of the physical environment that is viewable through the transparent display.
Inventor(s): Bae Keun Lee of Seongnam-si (KR) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N19/119, H04N19/167, H04N19/174
Abstract: an image signal decoding method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: partitioning the current picture into a plurality of tiles; decoding partition information indicating a slice type, the partition information indicating whether a rectangular slice is to be applied; determining the number of slices in the current picture; and defining the slices using the tiles.
Inventor(s): Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W4/029, H04W16/14
Abstract: apparatuses, systems, and methods for positioning reference signals (prss) for reduced capacity devices, e.g., in 5g nr systems and beyond. a ue may report, to a network (e.g., to a base station or an lmf) one or more capabilities associated with a positioning procedure for location estimation, e.g., such as a radio frequency retuning time, a parameter indicating a number of bandwidth switches needed by the ue to cover an effective bandwidth and a duration of downlink positioning reference signal symbols, n, that the ue can process in an indicated time period, t, and/or a processing bandwidth, among other parameters. the ue may be configured to transmit a reference signal configuration for the positioning procedure. the reference signal configuration may support frequency hopping with tone-overlap. the reference signal configuration may include an indication of a repetition factor and/or an indication of a frequency hopping factor. in addition, the ue may be configured to perform reference signal measurements, e.g., based on the reference signal configuration.
20240056783.LOCALLY INTEGRATED SENSING AND COMMUNICATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Xiaoyu Qiao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Mona Agnel of Guildford (GB) for apple inc., Huarui Liang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Shu Guo of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haijing Hu of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Lanpeng Chen of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W4/38, H04W12/06
Abstract: techniques discussed herein can facilitate integrated sensing and communication (isc), where a wireless network is used for both sensing and for wireless communications. one example aspect is sensing function entity configured to receive a sensing service request from an access and mobility function (amf) entity, where the sensing service request is received by an access and mobility function/sensing function (amf/sf) interface. the sf entity is further configured to transmit, by the amf/sf interface, a sensing service response to the amf entity and subsequently receive sensing data associated with the sensing service response, where the sensing data is received by a base station/sensing function (bs/sf) interface. the sf entity is further configured to process the sensing data, and transmit the sensing response after processing the sensing data.
Inventor(s): Abhijeet KOLEKAR of Hillsboro OR (US) for apple inc., Farid ADRANGI of Lake Oswego OR (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W12/106, H04W12/069, H04W12/03, H04W12/041, H04W12/40, H04W8/02
Abstract: embodiments disclosed herein relate to allowing unauthenticated ues to gain restricted access to an operator network to access network access subscription service. once the unauthenticated ue successfully downloads a subscription profile for accessing the operator network, the unauthenticated ue can disconnect and can, thereafter, authenticate to the operator network using the subscription profile. embodiments disclosed herein can perform one-way authentication to the operator network for obtaining a limited connectivity to reduce dos attacks on the operator network. more specifically, these embodiments can support unauthenticated ues to allow unauthenticated ues to access the operator network for rlos while minimizing dos attack.
Inventor(s): Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Abhinav Gupta of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Amir Farajidana of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Leilei Song of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W16/14, H04L1/00, H04L5/00, H04W72/1273, H04B7/06
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for configuring or utilizing rate matching patterns and interference measurements.
20240056846.LOAD BALANCING IN NEW RADIO_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino 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., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Xiang Chen of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Yang Tang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W24/08, H04W8/22
Abstract: techniques are directed toward measuring a synchronization signal block (ssb) outside an active bandwidth part (bwp). an example method includes a user equipment (ue) transmitting an indication of a capability to measure a synchronization signal block (ssb) outside of an active bandwidth part (bwp) to a base station. the method can further include the ue receiving, based on the transmission, a first configuration parameter for identifying a first bwp and a second bwp, a second configuration parameter for identifying the first bwp as an active bwp, and a third configuration parameter for identifying a frequency that is carrying the ssb. the method can further include the ue detecting the ssb in the second bwp and outside of the active bwp. the method can further include the ue measuring the ssb.
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., David Neumann of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Anchit Malhotra of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ghaith N Hattab of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Louay Jalloul of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W24/10, H04L5/00, H04L5/14, H04B7/06
Abstract: systems and methods are provided for to support user equipment (ue) channel state information (csi) report of time domain channel properties. embodiments of a ue herein may receive, from a network node, a csi report configuration (csi-reportconfig). the csi-reportconfig may comprise details regarding measurement and reporting of time domain channel properties (tdcp) based on a csi reference signal (csi-rs) for tracking reference signal (trs). the ue may determine invalid csi-rs resources and valid csi-rs resources based on a timing of a duplex direction change. the ue may measure and report tdcp based on the valid csi-rs resources.
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., David Neumann of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Anchit Malhotra of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ghaith N Hattab of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Louay Jalloul of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W24/10
Abstract: systems and methods are provided for to support user equipment (ue) channel state information (csi) report of time domain channel properties. embodiments herein consider uplink control information (uci) multiplexing, uci omission, interference measurement resource (imr) configuration, and phase continuity handling. a channel state information report configuration (csi-reportconfig) may comprise details regarding measurement and reporting of time domain channel properties (tdcp) based on channel state information reference signal (csi-rs) for tracking reference signal (trs).
Inventor(s): Qiming Li of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Xiang Chen of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Yang Tang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Rolando E Bettancourt Ortega of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Manasa Raghavan of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Yuexia Song of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W24/10
Abstract: the techniques described herein provide enhanced measurement gap sharing solutions that enable measurement gap sharing for layer 1 (l1) measurements for serving and non-serving cells, and for layer 3 (l3) measurements for intra-frequency measurements and inter-frequency/inter-radio access technology (rat) measurements. also provided are solutions for measurement gap sharing among intra-frequency l1 and l3 measurements and inter-frequency l1 and l3 measurements. measurement gap patterns for l1 and l3 measurements are also provided, as well as solutions for further splitting l1 measurement gap sharing among different types of l1 operations.
20240056867.METHODS OF MEASUREMENT IN SDT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haijing Hu of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ralf Rossbach of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Sarma V. Vangala of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Sethuraman Gurumoorthy of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Srirang A. Lovlekar of Fremont 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): H04W24/10, H04W76/28, H04W74/08
Abstract: systems and methods for performing measurements of one or more cells during an small data transmission (sdt) procedure between a user equipment (ue) and a network when the ue is in a radio resource control (rrc) inactive state are described herein. beam and/or cell measurements taken during an sdt measurement period of the sdt procedure may be used to determine one or more respective cell qualities, among other possibilities. beginnings and endings of the sdt measurement period, and the manner (timing) for taking measurements within the sdt measurement period, are also described. the cell qualities so determined can then be used to monitor, during the sdt measurement period, for a measurement event, which causes the ue to send a measurement report to the network having data determined using those cell qualities, and/or to send messaging intended to induce the network to change the rrc state of the ue.
Inventor(s): Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zhibin Wu of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yuqin Chen of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Sarma V Vangala of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sethuraman Gurumoorthy of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Srirang A Lovlekar of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Haijing Hu of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W48/16, H04W76/20
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) configured as a relay ue between a remote ue and a base station is disclosed. the ue comprises one or more processors configured to receive a rrc signaling to request for establishing or resuming rrc connection from the remote ue, determine whether to perform an access control check prior to forwarding the rrc signaling of the remote ue to the base station, and forward the rrc signaling to the base station based on the determination.
Inventor(s): Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of San Diego 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., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/02, H04W56/00, H04W74/08
Abstract: a network-controlled repeater (ncr) may receive configuration information from a base station to configure one or more receive (rx) beams and corresponding time-domain resources for potential reception from one or more user equipments (ues). the ncr may monitor for reception of a physical uplink channel or signal from the one or more ues on the configured one or more rx beams on the corresponding time-domain resources and determine that the physical uplink channel or signal is not received for at least a threshold amount of time. additionally, the ncr may determine to refrain from at least one of additional monitoring for reception of the physical uplink channel or signal from the one or more ues or transmission of one or more synchronization signal block (ssbs) to the one or more ues for a duration of time.
20240056980.Enhancement of PUCCH Transmissions_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
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., 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., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/14
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) is configured to transmit physical uplink control channel (pucch) or physical uplink shared channel (pusch) transmissions. the ue receives a downlink control information (dci) transmission including a transmission power control (tpc) configuration, wherein the tpc configuration includes at least one tpc command, determines a subset of (i) multiple closed loop indexes or (ii) multiple beams for which the tpc command is configured, wherein the multiple closed loop indexes and multiple beams correspond to multiple transmission and reception points (trps) and applies the tpc command to one or more physical uplink control channel (pucch) or physical uplink shared channel (pusch) transmissions corresponding to the subset of multiple closed loop indexes or beams.
Inventor(s): Alexander Sayenko of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Daniel Popp of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Anatoliy S. Ioffe of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Fucheng Wang of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Camila Priale Olivares of Munich (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W52/36, H04W52/42
Abstract: user equipment to transmit signals (e.g., concurrently) using multiple sims. if the user equipment determines to perform transmission power back-off due to operating using the multiple sims (musim operation), the user equipment sends an indication to each network corresponding to each sim that it is performing the power back-off. if a network supports musim operation, then the user equipment sends an indication that it is performing the power back-off due to musim operation (e.g., an musim maximum power reduction (m-mpr) indication). for such a network, it is assumed that the m-mpr indication would be standardized under an applicable specification. if a network does not support musim operation (e.g., a legacy network), then the user equipment leverages a legacy power back-off indication (e.g., a power management maximum power reduction (p-mpr) indication) to indicate to the network that it is performing a power back-off.
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng 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., Weidong Yang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye 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.
IPC Code(s): H04W56/00, H04W72/12, H04W72/232
Abstract: apparatus and methods are provided to enhance communications for ntn. in some aspects, a base station (bs) comprises a processor configured to schedule an uplink transmission in response to an uplink transmission request from a user equipment (ue) using one or more subframes ranging from a first uplink subframe to a last uplink subframe. the processor is further configured to determine or receive a timing advance (ta) indicating amount of subframes transmitted during a time delay between the ue and the bs and schedule a downlink transmission aligned with the uplink transmission. the downlink transmission is blocked from subframes ranging from ta plus one or more subframes ahead of the first uplink subframe to ta minus one or more subframes ahead of the last uplink subframe. the processor is further configured to transmit and receive, via a non-terrestrial equipment, the uplink and the downlink.
20240057011.Positioning Techniques for User Equipment in a Network_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jie CUI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome OTERI of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Yang TANG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zhibin WU of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W64/00, G01S5/10, G01S5/02
Abstract: a location management function (lmf) of a network provides timing errors to user equipment and/or base stations for positioning purposes. the lmf receives an indication of an effective timing error for a downlink time difference of arrival (dl-tdoa) positioning technique, wherein the effective timing error is associated with a set of base stations configured to transmit positioning reference signals for the dl-tdoa and provides the effective timing error to a user equipment (ue) performing operations related to the dl-tdoa.
20240057012.Location Estimation for Reduced Capacity Devices_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W64/00, H04W8/24
Abstract: apparatuses, systems, and methods for positioning reference signals (prss) for reduced capacity devices, e.g., in 5g nr systems and beyond. a ue may report, to a network one or more capabilities associated with a positioning procedure for location estimation. the ue may receive, from the network and based on the one or more capabilities, a reference signal configuration for the positioning procedure. the reference signal configuration may support coherent stitching (e.g., frequency hopping) with tone-overlap. the reference signal configuration may, to support coherent stitching with tone-overlap, include additional repetitions that enable mapping over a bandwidth and/or a scaling factor that may be based, at least in part, on an actual bandwidth, a desired positioning measurement bandwidth, and an overlap indicated by the ue. the ue may perform reference signal measurements based on the reference signal configuration.
20240057056.NETWORK BANDWIDTH ADJUSTMENT AND INDICATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Sigen Ye of Whitehouse Station NJ (US) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Peng Cheng of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/0457, H04W28/20, H04W72/232
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for switching network bandwidth adjustment and indication.
20240057069.CONFIGURED GRANT SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-PANEL TRANSMISSION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (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., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/1263, H04W76/20, H04W72/232, H04L5/00
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for supporting configured grant simultaneous physical uplink shared channel transmissions.
20240057071.PANEL SELECTION FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong YANG of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome OTERI of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/1268, H04L5/00, H04W72/231, H04W72/566
Abstract: some aspects include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for identifying a panel on user equipment (ue) for sounding reference signal (srs) and/or physical uplink shared channel (pusch) communications. this panel selection may be applicable to codebook as well as non-codebook based pusch transmission schemes. in some aspects, a base station may provide the ue with an indication of one or more srs resources and/or sets of srs resources. the ue may then identify a panel corresponding to the indicated srs resources and use this panel for pusch communications. in some aspects, the ue may apply prioritization scheduling when the ue uses different panels for srs and pusch communications. this prioritization scheduling may address switching delays, which may occur when the ue switches between panels.
20240057083.SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PDSCH BASED CSI MEASUREMENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., 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): H04W72/1273, H04W72/54, H04L5/00, H04W72/232
Abstract: systems and methods provide channel state information (csi) measurement based on measuring a demodulation reference signal (dmrs) for a physical downlink shared channel (pdsch) transmission. a ue may determine the dmrs for the pdsch transmission with frequency hopping, and measure the dmrs for the pdsch transmission to determine a csi measurement. the ue may then report the csi measurement to a base station.
Inventor(s): Haitong SUN of Cupertino 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 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., Ankit BHAMRI of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Jie CUI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/20, H04W72/1273, H04L5/00, H04L1/1867
Abstract: described are processing time approaches to simultaneous multi-cell pusch/pdsch scheduling with a single dci (downlink control information) in a wireless communication system. in various approaches, simultaneously scheduling a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (pdschs) through a single dci transmitted via a physical downlink control channel (pdcch) occurs, wherein each of the plurality of pdschs is associated with a respective cell in a plurality of cells. the approaches further include transmitting data to or receiving data to a user equipment (ue) based on the scheduling information, wherein the plurality of pdschs occurs no earlier than a time offset following the pdcch. in other aspects, a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (harq-ack) is received via a physical uplink control channel (pucch), the harq-ack having been sent by a user equipment (ue) in response to one of the plurality of pdschs, wherein the harq-ack is sent no earlier than a time offset following a reference time in one of the plurality of pdschs. in other aspects, transmitting data to or receiving data to a user equipment (ue) is based on the scheduling information, wherein the plurality of pdschs occurs no earlier than a time offset following the pdcch, the time offset being configured to permit analog beam switching by a user equipment (ue).
20240057107.ENHANCED DYNAMIC SPECTRUM SHARING (DSS) IN CELL GROUPS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zhang of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/232, H04W72/12
Abstract: techniques described herein may include a special scheduling cell (sscell) provided for dynamic spectrum sharing (dss). the sscell may schedule a primary cell of a master cell group (mcg) or a primary cell of a secondary cell group (scg). the primary cell may be referred to as a special cell or spcell. the sscell may be activated and/or deactivated, enter in or exit from a state of dormancy, and radio link monitoring (rlm), beam failure recovery (bfr), and cell grouping parameters may be provided. techniques described herein include configuring a ue-specific search space (uss) with non-fallback downlink control information (dci), uss with fallback dci, and overall search space for dss enhancement.
Inventor(s): Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan YE of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning NIU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose 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.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/232, H04L5/00, H04W72/1268
Abstract: some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for supporting the transmission of phase tracking reference signals (ptrs) based on an association between one or more ptrs ports and one or more demodulation reference signals (dmrs) ports for a user equipment (ue) having multiple uplink (ul) antenna elements. the ue can receive a downlink control information (dci) including an association indication contained in an association field of the dci to indicate an association between one or more ptrs ports and one or more dmrs ports. the association field can have a bit width determined based on an antenna architecture of the ue including the number of ul antenna elements. the ue can further determine a dmrs port associated with a ptrs port based on the association indication contained in the association field and the antenna architecture.
Inventor(s): Haitong SUN of Cupertino 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 Santa Clara 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., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/232, H04W72/1273
Abstract: described are processing time approaches to simultaneous multi-cell pusch/pdsch scheduling with a single dci (downlink control information) in a wireless communication system. in various approaches, simultaneously scheduling a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (pdschs) through a single dci transmitted via a physical downlink control channel (pdcch) occurs, wherein each of the plurality of pdschs is associated with a respective cell in a plurality of cells. the approaches further include transmitting data to or receiving data to a user equipment (ue) based on the scheduling information, wherein the plurality of pdschs occurs no earlier than a time offset following the pdcch. in other aspects, a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (harq-ack) is received via a physical uplink control channel (pucch), the harq-ack having been sent by a user equipment (ue) in response to one of the plurality of pdschs, wherein the harq-ack is sent no earlier than a time offset following a reference time in one of the plurality of pdschs. in other aspects, transmitting data to or receiving data to a user equipment (ue) is based on the scheduling information, wherein the plurality of pdschs occurs no earlier than a time offset following the pdcch, the time offset being configured to permit analog beam switching by a user equipment (ue).
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of Whitehouse NJ (US) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/232, H04W72/12
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for multi-cell pusch/pdsch scheduling with a single dci in wireless communication systems.
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of Whitehouse Station NJ (US) for apple inc., Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/232, H04W72/12, H04L5/00
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for multi-cell pusch/pdsch scheduling with a single dci in wireless communication systems.
20240057134.MODE 2 RESOURCE SELECTION ENHANCEMENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Huaning Niu of San Jose 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., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/40, H04W74/08
Abstract: a user equipment (ue), a baseband processor or other network device can operate in a new radio (nr) unlicensed network to correlate resource selection with shared spectrum channel access. the device can perform a resource selection procedures within a resource selection window (rsw) to determine a set of candidate resources, and a clear channel assessment (cca). a resource selection of one or more resources can be performed from the set of candidate resources to enable a sidelink (sl) communication. the cca initiates after an aperiodic traffic arrival, after a previous transmission, or after the resource selection is completed.
Inventor(s): Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Oghenekome Oteri of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., 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): H04W72/40, H04W72/541
Abstract: systems and methods for sidelink (sl) resource pool resource use by a user equipment (ue) are disclosed herein. in some embodiments, when the ue performs contiguous partial sensing in addition to periodic partial sensing, the ue performs one of resource selection and resource re-evaluation based a size of a time gap between a slot where the ue has sl data and a first slot of periodic-based candidate slots within a resource selection window. in other embodiments, the ue performs contiguous partial sensing without additional periodic partial sensing in the case where a packet delay budget (pdb) for the sl data is greater than a threshold. in some embodiments, the ue performs periodic partial sensing for resource re-evaluation and/or resource pre-emption according to a set of periodicity values p(and optionally period definition data k). restrictions on the use of random resource selection by the ue are also described.
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., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Sigen Ye of Whitehouse Station NJ (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/51, H04L5/00, H04W72/1268
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to support eight transmission operation for user equipments.
Inventor(s): Chunhai Yao of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Qiming Li of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W74/08, H04B7/06
Abstract: techniques described herein involve the use of quasi-co-location (qcl) capabilities and spatial relation assumption to enable a ue to designate a single beam for connections with a base station during a physical random access channel (prach) procedure. once the prach procedure is complete, the beam may be reset after a pre-determined duration, which may account for decoding latency, or maintained until additional transmission configuration indication (tci) is received. also addressed are scenarios involving multiple transmission reception points (trps) and switching between beam management schemes based on one or more factors including device capabilities.
20240057186.Dual Connectivity For Reliability_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Geng Wu of Portland OR (US) for apple inc., Qian Li of Beaverton OR (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W76/15, H04W76/10, H04W88/06, H04W40/12, H04L45/24, H04L45/302, H04L45/00, H04W72/543, H04W4/40, H04W28/24
Abstract: embodiments of a system and method for dual connectivity for device to vehicle or vehicle to vehicle communication in a wireless network are generally described herein. in some embodiments, processing circuitry may determine a quality of service (qos) level for data to be transmitted over a first radio access technology (rat) connection and determine a qos indicator from the qos level, the qos indicator identifying a dual connectivity backup transmission, the dual connectivity backup transmission including a hot, warm, or cold backup. in some embodiments, transceiver circuitry may attempt to transmit the data using a first transmission mode, the first transmission mode using the first rat connection and the data including the qos indicator and retransmit, in response to the attempt failing, the data using a second transmission mode.
Inventor(s): Sethuraman GURUMOORTHY of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Fangli XU of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haijing HU of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Naveen Kumar R PALLE VENKATA of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Ralf ROSSBACH of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Sarma V VANGALA of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Srirang A LOVLEKAR of Fremont 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): H04W76/20, H04B7/06, H04W68/02
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) configured to operate in a radio resource control (rrc) connected state with a network cell, receive an rrc message to release or suspend the rrc connected state, the rrc message including an indication for a tracking reference signal (trs) or channel state information reference signal (csi-rs) configuration to use during an rrc inactive or idle state, enter the rrc inactive or idle state and apply the trs or csi-rs configuration for performing timing and frequency error estimation for decoding downlink control information.
Inventor(s): Stephen P. Zadesky of Portola Valley CA (US) for apple inc., Phillip M. Hobson of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., Tang Yew Tan of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H05K5/02, H04M1/02, H05K5/00
Abstract: a cold worked stainless steel bezel for a portable electronic device is provided. the bezel is secured flush to a housing to form part of the case of the portable electronic device. a brace that includes a slot for receiving a wall extending from the bezel is fixed to the housing. when the bezel engages the housing, the wall of the bezel is inserted in the slot of the brace and releasably held by a spring that engages both the brace and the wall. the bezel can be released by disengaging the spring, (e.g., using a special tool or a magnetic field). because the bezel is manufactured from cold worked stainless steel, it is hard and resistant to impacts. cold worked steel also facilitates manufacturing within design constraints and tolerances, and requires very little machining after manufacturing to comply with those constraints.
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