Smart shopping and information collection by natural gesture using UWB

    公开(公告)号:US11922473B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-05

    申请号:US17337783

    申请日:2021-06-03

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06Q30/0601 G06N20/00 G06Q20/321

    Abstract: Smart gesturing may facilitate smart shopping and other contactless experiences by enabling a user to perform a natural gesture toward one or more desired items with or while wearing a wearable or non-wearable electronic device. The electronic device may identify the smart gesture, and determine the one or more desired items are indicated by the smart gesture. The electronic device may identify the desired items by receiving location data of multiple items, determining a vector based on a first position a second position of the smart gesture, extending the vector to a location, and using the location data to determine which item or items correspond to the location. If more than one item is indicated by the smart gesture, the electronic device may enable selection of the items and, if at least one item is selected, provide information on the selected items or enable additional interaction with the selected items.

    Electronic Devices with Delay-Based Distributed Computing

    公开(公告)号:US20240073912A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US17896879

    申请日:2022-08-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04W72/14 H04W12/06 H04W24/08 H04W28/26 H04W72/0406

    Abstract: A primary device may run a software application requiring a compute task. The primary device may receive statistics from a set of secondary devices over wireless communication links. The primary device may process the statistics to determine whether the compute task will be offloaded to the secondary devices or performed locally. The primary device may generate a distribution scheme for the secondary devices based on the statistics. This may involve modeling first delays associated with transmission of signals from the primary device to the secondary devices, second delays associated with transmission of compute results from the secondary devices to the primary device, and third delays associated with processing resources of the secondary devices. The optimized distribution scheme may minimize overall runtime of the compute task given the modeled delays, scheduling grants for the secondary devices, and a radio resource allocation for the secondary devices.

    Electronic devices with adaptive device-to-device communication switching

    公开(公告)号:US11723097B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-08

    申请号:US17481214

    申请日:2021-09-21

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04W76/15 H04W4/70 H04W28/0263 H04W36/22

    Abstract: A communications network may include a relay device that receives device-to-device (D2D) signals. In an ad hoc mode, the relay may consume relatively little power while receiving relatively few messages from relatively few transmitting devices in the D2D signals. In an organized mode, the device may consume relatively high power while receiving many messages from many transmitting devices in the D2D signals. A receiver on the device may transition from the ad hoc mode to the organized mode in response to a first criterion and may transition from the organized mode to the ad hoc mode in response to a second switching criterion. This may allow the device to balance communications load and power consumption while relaying messages such as emergency messages received over D2D signals given that the signals may arrive rarely or in clusters due to an unforeseen event.

    SMART SHOPPING AND INFORMATION COLLECTION BY NATURAL GESTURE USING UWB

    公开(公告)号:US20240202787A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18589144

    申请日:2024-02-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06Q30/0601 G06N20/00 G06Q20/321

    Abstract: Smart gesturing may facilitate smart shopping and other contactless experiences by enabling a user to perform a natural gesture toward one or more desired items with or while wearing a wearable or non-wearable electronic device. The electronic device may identify the smart gesture, and determine the one or more desired items are indicated by the smart gesture. The electronic device may identify the desired items by receiving location data of multiple items, determining a vector based on a first position a second position of the smart gesture, extending the vector to a location, and using the location data to determine which item or items correspond to the location. If more than one item is indicated by the smart gesture, the electronic device may enable selection of the items and, if at least one item is selected, provide information on the selected items or enable additional interaction with the selected items.

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