Pressure relief valve for headphones

    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.

    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.

    Intelligent portrait photography enhancement system

    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.

    Distributed personal assistant
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    发明授权

    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

    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.

    Camera actuator with magnet holder having magnetic field

    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.

    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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