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公开(公告)号:US12207069B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US18094596
申请日:2023-01-09
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor: Brett W. Degner , Michael E. Leclerc , David H. Narajowski , Kristopher P. Laurent , William K. Smith , Christopher J. Stringer , Daniele De luliis , Markus Diebel , Sung-Ho Tan
Abstract: This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that reduce the size of headphones and allow for small form-factor storage configurations are discussed. User convenience features that include synchronizing earpiece stem positions and automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.
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公开(公告)号:US12207033B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US17405914
申请日:2021-08-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jacob A. Pfitsch , Onur I. Ilkorur , Esge B. Andersen , Miikka O. Tikander
Abstract: A headphone comprising: two headphone earcups each comprising: an earcup housing defining an active chamber that acoustically couples a sound output side of a speaker to an ear of a user, and an inactive chamber that surrounds the active chamber; and a passive valve assembly configured to open in response to a positive pressure and a negative pressure within the active chamber to fluidly couple the active chamber to the inactive chamber and equalize a pressure between the active chamber and the inactive chamber.
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公开(公告)号:US12206476B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US18448051
申请日:2023-08-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Yushu Zhang , Yuan Zhu , Gang Xiong , Ralf Bendlin , Jong-Kae Fwu
IPC: H04B7/06 , H04B7/0408 , H04B7/0456 , H04L5/00 , H04W72/0446 , H04W74/0833 , H04W84/04
Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods to implement receive beamforming in communication systems are described. In one example, apparatus of an evolved Node B (eNB) comprising processing circuitry to receive, from a user equipment (UE), a beamforming reference signal received power (BRS-RP) measurement and in response to the BRS-RP measurement, configure a downlink (DL) transmit (Tx) beamforming and a receiving (Rx) beamforming process on the UE. Other examples are also disclosed and claimed.
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公开(公告)号:US12205531B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US18306690
申请日:2023-04-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Chin-Wei Lin , Hung Sheng Lin , Vasudha Gupta , Shinya Ono , Tsung-Ting Tsai , Shyuan Yang
IPC: G09G3/32 , G09G3/3233 , G09G3/3291
Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display and a controller. The controller is configured to provide a first frequency refresh rate to the display. The controller is also configured to generate a control signal configured to control emission of a light emitting diode of a display pixel of the display at a second frequency based on whether the first frequency refresh rate of the display is less than a predetermined threshold value.
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公开(公告)号:US12205249B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US17805071
申请日:2022-06-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Libin Sun
Abstract: Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed to provide enhanced synthetic Shallow Depth of Field (SDOF) images, e.g., by using information from images captured by image camera devices and one or more Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) trained to determine how much blurring should be applied to pixels in a mask region (e.g., a region of pixels having an indeterminate foreground or background status and threshold level of gradient magnitude) within an image, given context from surrounding pixels in a reference image and/or an unenhanced synthetic SDOF image. To train the DNNs, various sets of ground truth DSLR images of static scenes, captured at varying aperture settings, may be analyzed. Preferably, such static scenes cover many examples of human subjects (or other objects of interest) with different amounts of scene foreground/background separation, lighting conditions, and various kinds of hair, fabric, or other fine-grained details occurring near their foreground/background transition.
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公开(公告)号:US12204932B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US17952165
申请日:2022-09-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Zeitlin
IPC: G06F9/48 , G06F3/16 , G06F9/451 , G06F9/50 , G06F16/9032 , G06N3/006 , G10L15/22 , G10L15/28 , G10L15/30 , H04M3/493
Abstract: An exemplary method for using a virtual assistant may include, at an electronic device configured to transmit and receive data, receiving a user request for a service from a virtual assistant; determining at least one task to perform in response to the user request; estimating at least one performance characteristic for completion of the at least one task with the electronic device, based on at least one heuristic; based on the estimating, determining whether to execute the at least one task at the electronic device; in accordance with a determination to execute the at least one task at the electronic device, causing the execution of the at least one task at the electronic device; in accordance with a determination to execute the at least one task outside the electronic device: generating executable code for carrying out the least one task; and transmitting the executable code from the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US12204747B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US18523621
申请日:2023-11-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Bas Ording , Scott M. Herz , Wayne C. Westerman , Scott Forstall , Gregory N. Christie
IPC: G06F3/048 , G06F3/041 , G06F3/04817 , G06F3/0482 , G06F3/04845 , G06F3/0485 , G06F3/04883 , H04M1/72403
Abstract: A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays an application on the touch-sensitive display; and when the application is in a predefined mode, performs a predefined operation in response to each gesture of a set of multiple distinct gestures on the touch-sensitive display. Another aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays a first application; when the first application is in a first mode, performs a first operation upon detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive display; and performs the first operation upon detecting a second gesture on the touch-sensitive display, wherein the second gesture is different from the first gesture.
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公开(公告)号:US12204734B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US17899510
申请日:2022-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Pablo F. Caro , Kaely Coon , Vitalii Kramar , Caelan G. Stack
IPC: G06F3/0481 , G06F1/3206 , G06F1/3234 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/0346 , G06F3/04842 , G06F3/04886 , G06F3/04892 , G06F3/14 , H04B7/185 , H04L51/21 , H04M1/724 , H04M1/72436 , H04M7/00 , H04W52/02
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for establishing communications.
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公开(公告)号:US12204155B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US17850828
申请日:2022-06-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jeremy D. Witmer , Alfredo Bismuto , Jeffrey T. Hill , Junkyo Suh , Yigit O. Yilmaz
IPC: G02B6/42
Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit including multiple elements formed by different processes onto separate chips can be manufactured by defining, via photolithography processes for example, complementary geometries onto each separate chip. Thereafter, the complementary geometries can be aligned and engaged, thereby optically and mechanically intercoupling the several chips to define a single photonic integrated circuit.
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公开(公告)号:US12204115B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US17804787
申请日:2022-05-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Scott W. Miller , Steven Webster , Shashank Sharma
IPC: G02B27/64 , G02B7/09 , H02K41/035
Abstract: In some embodiments, a camera includes a lens assembly in a lens carrier, an image sensor for capturing a digital representation of light transiting the lens, and a voice coil motor. In some embodiments, the voice coil motor includes a spring suspension assembly for moveably mounting the lens carrier to an actuator base, a plurality of permanent magnets mounted to the actuator base through a magnet holder assembly and a focusing coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier and mounted to the actuator base through the suspension assembly. In some embodiments, the permanent magnets each generate a magnetic field of a respective permanent magnet field strength, and the magnet holder assembly generates a holder magnetic field of a holder magnetic field strength.
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