Apple Inc. patent applications on October 10th, 2024
Patent Applications by Apple Inc. on October 10th, 2024
Apple Inc.: 42 patent applications
Apple Inc. has applied for patents in the areas of G06F3/01 (5), H04L5/00 (5), H04W72/044 (4), H04W72/40 (3), G06F1/16 (3) H04W72/40 (2), H04W24/10 (1), H04N19/52 (1), H04N23/531 (1), H04N23/633 (1)
With keywords such as: device, data, include, some, electronic, channel, user, reference, based, and location in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by Apple Inc.
20240337719. RSTD Measurement Report Mapping for NR Positioning_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Jie CUI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yang TANG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Zhibin WU of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Yuchul KIM of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G01S5/00, G01S5/02, H04L5/00, H04L27/26, H04W24/10
CPC Code(s): G01S5/0036
Abstract: a method, ue and integrated circuit for reporting rstd values to a network. a user equipment (ue) is configured to establish a connection to a network, the network comprising a first cell and a second cell. the ue receives a positioning reference signal from each of the first and second cells, determines a frequency band for each of the positioning reference signals, determines reference signal time difference (rstd) values from measured time offsets between the positioning reference signals from the first and second cells, determines rstd reporting values based on at least the rstd values and the determined frequency bands and transmits an indication of the rstd reporting values to the network.
Inventor(s): Jeremy C. Franklin of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Jia Tao of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Phil M. Hobson of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., Stephen E. Dey of Capitola CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G02B27/01, G02B7/02, G02B27/09, G06F1/16, G06F3/01, H04N13/383, H05K1/02, H05K1/18
CPC Code(s): G02B27/0176
Abstract: a head-mounted device may have a display with first and second pixel arrays that display content for a user. a head-mounted support structure in the device supports the pixel arrays on the head of the user. a left positioner may be used to position a left lens module that includes a left lens and the first pixel array. a right positioner may be used to position a right lens module that includes a right lens and the second pixel array. sensing circuitry such as proximity sensing circuitry may be used to detect relative positions between the left and right lens modules and facing surfaces of a user's nose while the user is wearing the head-mounted support structure. control circuitry may adjust the positions of the left and right lens modules using interpupillary distance information for the user and using information from the sensing circuitry.
20240337986. Bright Color Coatings for Electronic Devices_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Jozef M. Matlak of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Brian S. Tryon of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Lijie Bao of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Maruwada Sukanya Sharma of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Shiva K. Mandepudi of San Ramon CA (US) for apple inc., Sonja R. Postak of Newark CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G04G17/08, C23C14/00, C23C14/02, C23C14/06, C23C14/35, C23C28/00
CPC Code(s): G04G17/08
Abstract: an electronic device may include conductive structures such as conductive housing structures. a high-brightness, visible-light-reflecting coating may be formed on the conductive structures. the coating may have adhesion and transition layers and an uppermost coloring layer on the adhesion and transition layers. at least the uppermost coloring layer may be deposited using a high impulse magnetron sputtering (hipims) process. the uppermost coloring layer may include a ticrn film, a ticrcn film, a ticn film, or a metal nitride film that contains ti, zr, hf, or cr. the coating may exhibit a high-brightness gold color.
20240338104. Displaying a Contextualized Widget_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Thomas G. Salter of Foster City CA (US) for apple inc., Anshu K. Chimalamarri of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Bryce L. Schmidtchen of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Devin W. Chalmers of Oakland CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/04815, G06F1/16, G06F3/01, G06F3/0346, G06F3/16
CPC Code(s): G06F3/04815
Abstract: a drive unit for driving a load, like a centrifugal compressor, a pump, or the like, comprising a driving shaft, is connected to the load to be driven. the drive unit comprises a plurality of electric motors connected to the driving shaft and a plurality of variable frequency drives electrically connected to the power grid (g) used to feed each electric motor.
Inventor(s): Imran CHAUDHRI of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Bas ORDING of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Freddy Allen ANZURES of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Marcel VAN OS of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Scott FORSTALL of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc., Greg CHRISTIE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/0488, G06F3/01, G06F3/0484, G06F3/04842, G06F3/04883, G06F21/36, H04M1/57, H04M1/663, H04M1/67
CPC Code(s): G06F3/0488
Abstract: a device with a touch-sensitive display may be unlocked via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. the device is unlocked if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture for unlocking the device. the device displays one or more unlock images with respect to which the predefined gesture is to be performed in order to unlock the device. the performance of the predefined gesture with respect to the unlock image may include moving the unlock image to a predefined location and/or moving the unlock image along a predefined path. the device may also display visual cues of the predefined gesture on the touch screen to remind a user of the gesture.
20240338160. Audience Engagement_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Thomas G. Salter of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Anshu K. Chimalamarri of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Brian W. Temple of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Paul Ewers of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/14, G06F3/01, G06T19/00, G06V40/16, G10L17/00
CPC Code(s): G06F3/14
Abstract: various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for displaying presentation notes at varying positions within a presenter's field of view. in some implementations, a device includes a display, one or more processors, and a memory. a first portion of a media content item corresponding to a presentation is displayed at a first location in a three-dimensional environment. audience engagement data corresponding to an engagement level of a member of an audience is received. a second portion of the media content item is displayed at a second location in the three-dimensional environment. the second location is selected based on the audience engagement data.
Inventor(s): Karan M. DARYANANI of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Eddy Zexin LIANG of Seattle WA (US) for apple inc., Madhu CHINTHAKUNTA of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F3/16, G06F3/01, G06F11/34, H04M1/72454
CPC Code(s): G06F3/167
Abstract: systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. in some embodiments, after providing an initial output with information on a particular topic, an output including updated information on the topic is provided in response to an input interacting with a digital assistant. in some embodiments, based on contextual data including visual context data, an action is identified and proactively performed.
20240338284. MODULAR REDUNDANCY_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ryan J. ALLEN of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher Y. BROWN of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jeffrey D. KOFTINOFF of Menlo Park CA (US) for apple inc., George E. WILLIAMS of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06F11/18
CPC Code(s): G06F11/183
Abstract: this disclosure provides more effective and/or efficient techniques for implementing redundancy. for example, some techniques include a voting service that receives output from processes executing on three different hardware devices to determine which output to provide to a consumer of the output. such techniques are optimized through where the voting service is located, what is received by the voting service, how processes are executed on the three different hardware devices, and how output is provided to the consumer, as further discussed herein. such techniques optionally complement or replace other methods for implementing redundancy.
20240338556. DYNAMIC VARIABLE BIT WIDTH NEURAL PROCESSOR_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Paolo Di FEBBO of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Waleed ABDULLA of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Chaminda N. VIDANAGAMACHCHI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yohan RAJAN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06N3/063, G06N3/04, G06N3/08
CPC Code(s): G06N3/063
Abstract: embodiments relate to an electronic device that includes a neural processor having multiple neural engine circuits that operate in multiple modes of different bit width. a neural engine circuit may include a first multiply circuit and a second multiply circuit. the first and second multiply circuits may be combined to work as a part of a combined computation circuit. in a first mode, the first multiply circuit generates first output data of a first bit width by multiplying first input data with a first kernel coefficient. the second multiply circuit generates second output data of the first bit width by multiplying second input data with a second kernel coefficient. in a second mode, the combined computation circuit generates third output data of a second bit width by multiplying third input data with a third kernel coefficient.
Inventor(s): Moises Goldszmidt of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Anatoly D. Adamov of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Juan C. Garcia of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Julia R. Reisler of Kirkland WA (US) for apple inc., Timothy S. Paek of Mercer Island WA (US) for apple inc., Vishwas Kulkarni of Redmond WA (US) for apple inc., Yu-Chung Hsiao of Millbrae CA (US) for apple inc., Pavan Chitta of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06N20/20, G06F18/21, G06F18/214, G06F18/2415, G06N20/00
CPC Code(s): G06N20/20
Abstract: systems and methods are disclosed for triggering an update to a machine-learning model upon detecting that a distribution of particular (e.g., recently collected) input data set is sufficiently different from a distribution training input data set used to train the model. the distributions may be determined to be sufficiently different when a classifier can identify to which distribution individual data elements belong (e.g., to at least a predetermined degree). an update to the machine-learning model can include morphing weights used by the model and/or retraining the model.
20240338835. DUAL IMAGE PROCESSING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Mikael B. MANNBERG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Tyler M. MAU of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Roddy M. SHULER of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., George E. WILLIAMS of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T7/50
CPC Code(s): G06T7/50
Abstract: some techniques described herein include an image processing system that maintains certain regions of an image at a higher resolution than other regions. such techniques can include performing operations (e.g., generating or adding to a depth map) on regions of the same resolution.
20240338838. CONTEXTUAL IMAGE PROCESSING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Mikael B. MANNBERG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Tyler M. MAU of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Roddy M. SHULER of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., George E. WILLIAMS of Pleasanton CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T7/55, G06T3/40
CPC Code(s): G06T7/55
Abstract: some techniques described herein cover an image processing system that intelligently maintains certain regions of an image at a higher resolution than other regions. such techniques can include contextual selection of a part of a field of view of a camera to perform an operation (e.g., generating or adding to a depth map) and maintaining higher resolution in one or more regions of images of the field of view that correspond to the part.
20240338842. TECHNIQUES FOR TRACKING ONE OR MORE OBJECTS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Onur E. TACKIN of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Dhruv SAMANT of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc., Mahmut DEMIR of Dublin CA (US) for apple inc., Samuel D. POST of Great Falls MO (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T7/70, G06T5/20
CPC Code(s): G06T7/70
Abstract: some methods are described herein for tracking one or more objects. in some examples, the method is performed at a computer system. in some examples, the method includes receiving a first set of data corresponding to the object via a first modality and a second set of data corresponding to the object via a second modality; after receiving the first set of data corresponding to the object and the second set of data corresponding to the object, receiving a second set of image data representing the field of view of the camera, wherein the second set of image data does not include data representative of the object; and after receiving the second set of image data, predicting a position of the object using at least the first set of data corresponding to the object and the second set of data corresponding to the object.
20240338889. LIGHTSPILL DISPLAY FOR PASS-THROUGH VIDEO_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Stuart M Pomerantz of Boulder CO (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06T15/50, G06T19/00, G06T19/20
CPC Code(s): G06T15/503
Abstract: various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that uses blend circuitry to provide a view of live pass-through video with a virtual object including a light-spill effect. for example, a process includes capturing pass-through video of a physical environment. the process further includes capturing virtual content. the process further includes calculating a color from the virtual content. the process further includes controlling the blend circuitry to generate an augmented reality video by blending the pass-through video with the virtual content and by modifying at least one portion of the pass-through video with the calculated color from the virtual content.
20240338921. Triggering a Visual Search in an Electronic Device_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Peter Burgner of Venice CA (US) for apple inc., Paulo R Jansen dos Reis of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Michael R Alger of Mountain View CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G06V10/22, G06V20/50
CPC Code(s): G06V10/225
Abstract: a head-mounted device may be paired with an external electronic device such as a cellular telephone. the head-mounted device may be used to perform visual searches. in some cases, a user provides input directly to the head-mounted device to trigger a visual search and the visual search is performed without any input or communication from the external electronic device. alternatively, the external electronic device may be used to trigger a visual search performed by the head-mounted device, may serve as an optical marker to indicate a target region for the physical search, and/or may present content associated with the visual search performed by the head-mounted device. the external electronic device may use sensor data to detect a user's intent for a visual search and wirelessly transmit a visual search trigger to the head-mounted device.
20240339027. Discovery Of And Connection To Remote Devices_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Jeffrey S. Norris of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Bruno M. Sommer of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Alexandre Da Veiga of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G08C17/02, G06F18/22, G06V10/22, H04W8/00, H04W76/10
CPC Code(s): G08C17/02
Abstract: a method includes receiving a signal that indicates a location of a control device that is configured to change an operating state of a controlled device. the method also includes identifying a first visible device and a second visible device in one or more images, matching the first visible device with the control device based on a location of the first visible device matching the location of the control device, matching the second visible device with the controlled device, pairing the control device with a host device, and controlling the control device using the host device to change the operating state of the controlled device.
Inventor(s): Mahesh B. Chappalli of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Assaf Menachem of Hod Hasharon (IL) for apple inc., Daniel Yechiel Dar of Givatayim (IL) for apple inc., Ido Yaacov Soffair of Tel-Aviv (IL) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G09G3/34, G09G3/36
CPC Code(s): G09G3/3426
Abstract: an electronic display device has a panel that operates in conjunction with a light-emitting diode (led) backlight. the device “slopes” or gradually ramps a change in brightness of an led based on a target brightness value of the led, a current brightness value of the led, and temperature at the led. the device also may limit power to the backlight based on an estimated power consumption of a current row of leds of the backlight and power consumption of the other rows of leds. the device also may determine a reduced voltage to supply to an led based on a current to supply to the led to cause the led to operate. the device also may send an interrupt to the backlight to block updates to the backlight while image content is written to pixels of the panel. the device further compensates for aging of and temperature at an led.
Inventor(s): Karthick SANTHANAM of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher M. GARRIDO of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., David L. BIDERMAN of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Luciano M. VERGER of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Patrick MIAUTON of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Sachin ABHYANKAR of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G10L19/008, H04L65/75
CPC Code(s): G10L19/008
Abstract: aspects of the subject technology may provide low latency audio for group communication sessions. low latency audio may be provided, some examples, by an electronic device using a lowest audio block size that is lower than a lowest audio block size that is available to one or more other electronic devices in an group communication session.
Inventor(s): Abhishek BISHT of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Anil G. NAIK of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Anup VIJAY of Danville CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher M. GARRIDO of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Erik Vladimir ORTEGA GONZALEZ of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jay Mayur KHANDHAR of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Karthick SANTHANAM of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Luciano M. VERGER of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ming JIN of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Patrick MIAUTON of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Pramod SRINIVASAN of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): G10L19/24, G10L19/008
CPC Code(s): G10L19/24
Abstract: aspects of the subject technology may provide low latency audio for group communication sessions. low latency audio may be provided, some examples, by an electronic device using a lowest audio block size that is lower than a lowest audio block size that is available to one or more other electronic devices in an group communication session.
20240339692. BATTERY WITH THERMALLY COUPLED BUSSING_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Dylan C Erb of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., John M Schoech of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Nivay Anandarajah of San Leandro CA (US) for apple inc., Alexander Bartlett of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Abraham B Caulk of Livermore CA (US) for apple inc., Joseph D Rainey of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Berton Vite of Santa Ana CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H01M10/653, H01M10/46, H01M50/209, H01M50/271, H01M50/507, H02J7/00
CPC Code(s): H01M10/653
Abstract: a battery pack includes a first busbar, a second busbar, and a thermal interface material (tim) including a thermal conductivity constant (k) value between 1.0 and 7.0 watts per meter-kelvin (w/mk). the tim establishes a thermal interface between the first busbar and the second busbar. the battery pack also includes a control assembly configured to regulate a charging mode of the battery pack in which the first busbar is active and receives an electrical current and the second busbar is inactive.
Inventor(s): Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Jie Cui of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Ankit Bhamri of Bad Nauheim (DE) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00, H04J13/00, H04J13/12, H04W72/1273
CPC Code(s): H04L5/0048
Abstract: enhancements for a physical downlink shared channel (pdsch) antenna ports indications for demodulation reference signal (dmrs) type 2 with frequency domain orthogonal cover code length 4 are disclosed herein. various embodiments herein relate the use of additional and/or replacement dmrs ports (e.g., for pdsch) in an enhanced wireless communication system as compared to dmrs ports that may be used in legacy wireless communication systems. various applicable scenarios are discussed. various mechanisms for determining the additional and/or replacement dmrs ports with respect to the various discussed circumstances are also discussed.
Inventor(s): Hong He of San Jose 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 Saratoga 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.
IPC Code(s): H04L5/00, H04W72/044
CPC Code(s): H04L5/0091
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for beam configuration and indication for lower-layer triggered mobility in wireless networks.
20240340204. ENHANCED PHYSICAL STRUCTURE FOR LTE V2V COMMUNICATIONS_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Alexey Khoryaev of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc., Andrey Chervyakov of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc., Dmitry Belov of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc., Mikhail Shilov of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04L27/26, H04L5/00, H04W4/44, H04W4/46, H04W72/04
CPC Code(s): H04L27/26025
Abstract: a vehicle may wirelessly communicate with another vehicle via a physical channel (a vehicle-to-vehicle (v2v) channel) that is robust and reliable under high mobility propagation conditions. the physical channel may be created by modifying an existing long-term evolution (lte) physical channel, such as an lte sidelink (sl) channel. for instance, the v2v physical channel may be created by increasing, by a particular factor, the subcarrier spacing of legacy lte channels (e.g., from 15 kilohertz (khz) to 30 khz). additionally, a symbol duration and a fast fourier transform (fft) size for the v2v physical channel may each be reduced by the same factor. doing so may enable the v2v physical channel to be implemented without significant modifications to other aspects of the lte standard.
Inventor(s): Yeqing WU of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yunfei ZHENG of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Yixin DU of Milpitas CA (US) for apple inc., Alican NALCI of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Hilmi E. EGILMEZ of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Guoxin JIN of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Alexandros TOURAPIS of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Jun XIN of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Hsi-Jung WU of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N19/52, H04N19/105, H04N19/124, H04N19/127, H04N19/154, H04N19/172, H04N19/176
CPC Code(s): H04N19/52
Abstract: techniques are proposed to improve temporal motion projection in video coding. candidate reference frames available for use in temporal motion projection are sorted in processing order according to scores assigned based on estimates of the reference frames' suitability for prediction. such estimates may be based on temporal distance between each candidate reference frame and that reference frame's prediction references. estimates may be based, for each reference frame, based on an estimate of coding quality of a reference frame from which the respective candidate reference frame makes a prediction reference. once sorted, the candidate reference frames may be processing in the sorting order to supply prediction data to a current frame that is to be coded from the candidate reference frames. additionally, hardware friendly designs of motion field hole filling and motion vector smoothing operations are proposed. such designs can reduce hardware implementation complexity and benefit hardware parallel processing in several aspects: by removing the dependency among different processing block rows for hole filling and motion vector smoothing so that it is becomes easier and friendlier to achieve hardware parallel processing; by reducing the hardware bandwidth loading overhead; by improving hardware pipeline throughput; and/or by avoiding adding a line buffer to store the data from the above row since a line buffer will increase hardware cost.
20240340511. CAMERA INTEGRATION FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Keith J. Hendren of Santa Cruz CA (US) for apple inc., Adam T. Garelli of Morgan Hill CA (US) for apple inc., Alex J. Lehmann of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Dinesh C. Mathew of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N23/53, H04N23/45, H04N23/51, H04N23/951
CPC Code(s): H04N23/531
Abstract: a portable electronic device can have a housing including a wall, the wall at least partially defining an external surface, and the housing defining an aperture disposed opposite the wall. a display assembly can be positioned at the aperture and a retention component can be positioned at least partially in an internal volume defined by the housing. the portable electronic device can also have an optical component that includes an optical component housing defining a camera aperture and a camera module positioned at the camera aperture. the optical component can be configured to be removably retained against the wall by the retention component and to be removably retained against the display assembly by the retention component.
20240340525. Personalized Content Creation_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Ian M. Richter of Los Angeles CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N23/63, H04N23/61, H04N23/62
CPC Code(s): H04N23/633
Abstract: various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for capturing a new media content item. in various implementations, a device includes a display, one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. in some implementations, a method includes determining a plot template for generating a media content item based on other media content items that are distributed temporally. in some implementations, the plot template is defined by a set of one or more conditional triggers for capturing the other media content items. in some implementations, the method includes determining that a condition associated with a first conditional trigger of the set of one or more conditional triggers is satisfied. in some implementations, the method includes in response to the condition associated with the first conditional trigger being satisfied, displaying, on the display, a notification to capture a new media content item for populating the plot template.
20240340537. VIDEO IMAGE STABILIZATION_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Simon Fortin-Deschenes of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Anthony Ghannoum of Montreal (CA) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04N23/68
CPC Code(s): H04N23/687
Abstract: various implementations disclosed herein reduce or eliminate camera motion blur during video capture by moving camera components to compensate for the motion. this may involve, for example, moving a camera component during each frame exposure to compensate for the motion (i.e., during image stabilization periods) and moving the camera component back in the other direction between the frame exposures (i.e., during re-initialization periods). the blur reduction techniques disclosed herein may be used in a live feed video environment in which one or more electronic devices simultaneously capture video via camera components and display the video as a live feed on a display.
20240340585. AUDIO DATA TRANSFER_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Patrick J. Crowley of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Collin J. Richardson of Livermore CA (US) for apple inc., Christopher M. Werner of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Jason A. Granger of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Brad G. Boozer of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Sameer Pandya of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04R3/04, G06F1/16, G08B3/10
CPC Code(s): H04R3/04
Abstract: a wearable device includes a housing, a speaker, and a processor. the housing defines an internal volume and the speaker is located within the internal volume. the process is also located within the internal volume and generates a modulated acoustic signal comprising a first audio wave and a second audio wave. the speaker is configured to output the modulated acoustic signal.
Inventor(s): Isil UZUM VELLA of Milan (IT) for apple inc., Brian J. ANDRICH of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Hollie R. FIGUEROA of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Ryan W. APUY of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Linghao LI of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Amanda Y. MIYAHIRA of San Francisco CA (US) for apple inc., Martin E. JOHNSON of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W4/029, G06F3/04847, G06F3/0487, G06T3/40
CPC Code(s): H04W4/029
Abstract: in some embodiments, an electronic device displays a map user interface including a representation of a map at a respective zoom level and a location indicator that indicates a determined location of the electronic device on the representation of the map. in some embodiments, the location indicator includes a first location element and does not include a second location element. in some embodiments, the location indicator includes the second location element and does not include the first location element. in some embodiments, an electronic device displays a map user interface including a representation of a map and a location indicator that indicates a determined location of the electronic device on the representation of the map. in some embodiments, while displaying the map user interface, the electronic device displays a selectable option that is selectable to initiate a process for improving an accuracy of the determined location of the electronic device.
Inventor(s): Huaning Niu 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., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego 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): H04W16/28, H04B17/318, H04W72/02, H04W72/25
CPC Code(s): H04W16/28
Abstract: a user equipment (ue), a base station, a baseband processor or other network device can operate to perform an inter-ue coordination (iuc) operation for a sidelink (sl) communication by processing an iuc message that comprises at least one of: receiving ue sensing results associated with directional sensing or beam alignment sl control channel/sidelink data channel transmission information. the sl communication can then be transmitted based on resources selected in resource selection from the iuc.
Inventor(s): Jie CUI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Yang TANG of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Hong HE of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Xiang CHEN of Campbell CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Fangli XU of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Konstantinos SARRIGEORGIDIS of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Manasa RAGHAVAN of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Qiming LI of Beijing (CN) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W24/10, H04B7/06, H04B17/318, H04B17/336, H04W8/22
CPC Code(s): H04W24/10
Abstract: aspects are described for a user equipment (ue) comprising two or more transceivers configured to enable wireless communication with a first base station, and a processor communicatively coupled to the two or more transceivers. the processor is configured to measure a first reference signal and a second reference signal during a measuring period to determine a first measuring result of the first reference signal and a second measuring result of the second reference signal. the processor is further configured to generate one or more reports that include the first measuring result and the second measuring result, wherein the one or more reports indicate that the first measuring result is associated with the second measuring result in time. the processor is further configured to transmit the one or more reports to the first base station.
20240340711. METHOD FOR LOW LAYER INTER-CELL MOBILITY MANAGEMENT_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yushu ZHANG of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Dawei ZHANG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong SUN of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jie CUI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Wei ZENG of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W36/00, H04W72/21
CPC Code(s): H04W36/0011
Abstract: some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for using low layer protocols for inter-cell mobility management in a 5g wireless communications system. a serving 5g node b (gnb) can configure reports that a user equipment (ue) transmits to the serving gnb to make handover decisions. the serving gnb can configure a group of transmission configuration indication (tci) states (e.g., a group of beams) that correspond a physical cell, and the report includes layer 3 measurements corresponding to a neighboring or serving cell's tci state. the report can be conveyed using lower layer protocols. the report can include layer 1 measurements conveyed using a layer 1 protocol and the serving gnb can perform filtering to generate corresponding layer 3 measurement results. based on the reports, the serving gnb can perform a handover and synchronization using lower layer protocols, from one tci state to another.
Inventor(s): Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Haijing Hu of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Peng Cheng of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Ping-Heng Kuo of London (GB) for apple inc., Ralf Rossbach of Munich (DE) for apple inc., Yuqin Chen of Beijing (CN) for apple inc., Zhibin Wu of Los Altos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W36/04, H04W76/10, H04W76/20
CPC Code(s): H04W36/04
Abstract: the present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for l2 resets. for example, a ue can be connected to a base station du via a first cell and can be configured with information about a second cell. this information can indicate whether an ltm association exists between the first cell and the second cell (e.g., whether these two cells are provided by the same base station du or not). upon a command to establish a connection with the second cell (e.g., a mac ce handover command), the ue can determine whether an l2 reset is to be performed or not based on the configuration information (e.g., the l2 reset can be foregone when the two cells are provided by the same base station du; otherwise, the l2 reset can be performed).
20240340834. Establishing a Multiple Access Connection_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Yifan ZHU of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Cahya A. MASPUTRA of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Krisztian KISS of Rancho Santa Fe CA (US) for apple inc., Lakshmi N. KAVURI of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Srinivasan NIMMALA of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Srirang A. LOVLEKAR of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Utkarsh KUMAR of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Vijay VENKATARAMAN of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W60/00, H04L69/322, H04W8/08, H04W76/12
CPC Code(s): H04W60/005
Abstract: a user equipment (ue) may be configured to reattempt to establish a multiple access (ma) protocol data unit (pdu) session when the ue moves to a new registration area. the ue transmits a request for a ma pdu session to the network, receives a message from the network indicating the request has been rejected, wherein the message further includes a status indication for reattempt requests to establish the ma pdu session, determines, when the ue moves into a new registration area of a plmn, whether reattempt requests are allowed based on, at least, the status indication and transmits, when reattempt requests are allowed, a further request to establish the ma pdu session.
20240340872. WIFI ROAM WITH BAND SWITCH AVOIDANCE_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shehla S Rana of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Rajneesh Kumar of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Yang Yu of Redwood CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/0453
CPC Code(s): H04W72/0453
Abstract: a wireless device may use a 5 ghz frequency band to support both wi-fi and bluetooth. the 5 ghz frequency band may be divided into two portions (e.g., high sub-band and low sub-band). a wi-fi module of the wireless device may perform a roam scan on a first sub-band to determine attempt to find a candidate channel that meets a target criteria. when the candidate channel that meets the target criteria is found on the first sub-band, the wi-fi module may join the candidate channel. if no acceptable candidate channel is found, the wireless device may perform a band switch protocol to allow the wi-fi module to preform a roam scan on a second sub-band.
Inventor(s): Qi Wang of Sunnyvale CA (US) for apple inc., Yong Liu of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Jarkko L. Kneckt of Los Gatos CA (US) for apple inc., Yijun Qiao of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Oren Shani of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Debashis Dash of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Charles F. Dominguez of San Carlos CA (US) for apple inc., Jinjing Jiang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Su Khiong Yong of Palo Alto CA (US) for apple inc., Sidharth R. Thakur of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Tianyu Wu of Fremont CA (US) for apple inc., Zhou Lan of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Anuj Batra of Redwood City CA (US) for apple inc., Mohamed Abouelseoud of Burlingame CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/12, H04W76/10
CPC Code(s): H04W72/1215
Abstract: this disclosure relates to methods for providing unsolicited unavailability announcements to manage the co-existence of wi-fi and other technologies (such as bluetooth) and to manage infrastructure and peer-to-peer connections in a wireless communication system. a wireless device may establish multiple wireless connections on a set of radio resources. the wireless device may transmit an unsolicited unavailability announcement frame, which may include information indicating a time period of future unavailability for the wireless device on the set of radio resources. such an unsolicited unavailability announcement frame may also include information regarding the device's current availability, for example during which the device plans to initiate a transmit opportunity.
Inventor(s): Mikhail Shilov of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc., Alexey Khoryaev of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc., Sergey Panteleev of Nizhny Novgorod (RU) for apple inc., Andrey Chervyakov of Nizhegorodsky (RU) for apple inc., Dmitry Belov of Nizhny Novgorod, NIZ (RU) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/20, H04W4/40, H04W24/08
CPC Code(s): H04W72/20
Abstract: an apparatus of user equipment (ue) includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory, where to configure the ue for new radio (nr) vehicle-to-everything (v2x) sidelink communication. the processing circuitry is to determine a set of candidate resources of the ue from a sidelink resource pool, the sidelink resource divided into multiple time slots, frequency channels, and frequency sub-channels. sidelink control information (sci) is encoded for transmission to a second ue via a physical sidelink control channel (pscch). the sci indicates a plurality of transmission resources of the set of candidate resources. a transport block is mapped across the plurality of transmission resources. a physical sidelink shared channel (pssch) is encoded for transmission to the second ue using the plurality of transmission resources, the pssch encoded to include the mapped transport block.
20240340906. Uplink Control Information Collision Handling_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Hong He of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Irvine CA (US) for apple inc., Jia Tang of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Pengkai Zhao of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zhang of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc., Yuchul Kim of Santa Clara CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/21, H04W72/044, H04W72/56, H04W74/0808
CPC Code(s): H04W72/21
Abstract: embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (ue) to group transmissions into one or more groups, e.g., of various priority levels and/or types of transmissions. the ue may resolve collisions, e.g., according to one or more procedures described herein. the ue may transmit the transmissions according to the resolutions.
20240340911. Communication Scheduler_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Shahram Talakoub of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Sebastian B. Seeber of San Carlos CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/23, H04W4/90, H04W72/1273, H04W72/566, H04W84/06, H04W88/16
CPC Code(s): H04W72/23
Abstract: a communications system may include user equipment (ue) devices, communications satellites, gateways, and a terrestrial network. the ue devices may receive broadcast signals from the constellation. the ue devices may transmit registration requests to the gateways via the satellites in response to the broadcast signals. the registration requests may include information identifying the geographic locations of the ue devices and may include two-line element (tle) identifiers. a scheduler on the terrestrial network may receive forward link traffic requests for the ue devices, each with a corresponding priority. the scheduler may also receive satellite information that includes thermal constraints, position information, and power information associated with the satellites. the scheduler may generate forward link traffic grants for the ue devices based on the forward link traffic requests, the thermal constraints, the tle versions, the geographic locations, and the priorities.
Inventor(s): Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Hong He of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/25, H04B7/06, H04W72/044, H04W72/40
CPC Code(s): H04W72/25
Abstract: techniques described herein include solutions for beam management in sidelink (sl) communications. in some aspects, user equipments (ues) operating in sl are configured with a sl beam management resource pool by a base station. the sl beam management resource pool may be used to send a beam management message, such as a beam acquisition message, a beam failure recovery message, a beam maintenance message, etc. in some aspects, a resource in the sl beam management resource pool used to transmit the beam management message is selected based on an optimal beam determined by the ue. resource pool configurations are provided for beamed transmission and beamed receiving, beamed transmission and quasi-omni receiving, and rx beam training.
Inventor(s): Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US) for apple inc., Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/40, H04W72/02, H04W72/044
CPC Code(s): H04W72/40
Abstract: systems, methods, and processors are provided to support beamformed sidelink communication. in one example, a user equipment (ue) is configured for sidelink communication in a first unicast pair that includes the ue and a second ue. the ue includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. the one or more processors are configured to, when executing instructions stored in the memory, cause the ue to receive a message providing notification of sidelink communication between the ue and the second ue, and in response, perform sidelink communication of first sidelink data using a first transmit (tx) beam associated with the first unicast pair or a first receive (rx) beam associated with the first unicast pair.
20240340934. RESOURCE ALLOCATION ENHANCEMENT FOR SIDELINK_simplified_abstract_(apple inc.)
Inventor(s): Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US) for apple inc., Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US) for apple inc., 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.
IPC Code(s): H04W72/40, H04L5/00, H04W72/02, H04W72/25
CPC Code(s): H04W72/40
Abstract: disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations for resource allocation for contiguous resource block transmission. in one aspect, the operations can include actions of identifying a set of sub-channels that are not suitable for serving as leading sub-channels for physical sidelink control channel (pscch) and physical sidelink shared channel (pssch) transmission, and excluding the identified set of sub-channels from a candidate set of resources.
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