Apple Patent Applications

USER EQUIPMENT CAPABILITY INFORMATION FOR CARRIER GROUPING IN DUAL CONNECTIVITY

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240388895
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to configure a UE for dual connectivity. In an example, a network node requests the UE to indicate the capability it supports for the dual connectivity. This request can implicitly or explicitly indicate that the UE should report carrier grouping information. In response, this information is sent by the UE, and the network node can configure an MCG and an SCG for the UE based on the…

TECHNIQUES FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATIONS WITH THIRD-PARTY ACCESSORIES

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240388651
Techniques are disclosed for connecting third-party accessories to a cellular-capable device to participate in a telephone call. In one example, a user can voice a request to make a call to an accessory device. The accessory device can transmit the request to a controller device. Upon processing the request, the controller device can identify an appropriate cellular-capable device and instruct the cellular-capable device to place the requested call. The controller device can also…

SYSTEM INFORMATION SCHEDULING WITH MULTI-SLOTS PDCCH MONITORING OPERATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240388482
Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE may performs at least one of: monitoring physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) in a Type0-PDCCH common search space (CSS) set over one or two consecutive slots, starting from a slot index n_0, with a 480 kHz or 960 kHz subcarrier spacing (SCS); transmitting, to a base station (BS), a report of a UE capability related to search space configurations for multi-slot PDCCH monitoring; or performing a monitoring occasion (MO)…

TECHNOLOGIES FOR OPERATING TIMERS RELATED TO UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240388388
The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for selecting timer values and starting or stopping timers related to configured grant or discontinuous reception.

Conditional Instructions Prediction

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240385842
A processor may include a bias prediction circuit and an instruction prediction circuit to provide respective predictions for a conditional instruction. The bias prediction circuit may provide a bias prediction whether a condition of the conditional instruction is biased true or biased false. The instruction prediction circuit may provide an instruction prediction whether the condition of the conditional instruction is true of false. Responsive to a bias prediction that the condition of…

ADDRESSING BEYOND-CP RTD FOR MULTI-RX CHAIN DL RECEPTION

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240381126
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for implementing multiple receive (multi-Rx) chain downlink (DL) reception when the receive timing difference (RTD) at a user equipment (UE) from multiple transmission and reception points (TRPs) is greater than the cyclic prefix (CP). An embodiment operates by configuring a first base station (BS) to transmit a first data and a second BS to transmit a second data simultaneously to a user equipment (UE) during…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPLINK PANEL SELECTION WITH POWER SAVING

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240381264
Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for uplink panel selection with power saving. In some embodiments, user equipment (UE) may experience a positional change. In response, the UE may deactivate a first communication panel to save power and activate a second communication panel. The UE may then transmit a status message to a communication node indicating the activation and/or deactivation. The node may then register this activation and/or deactivation. In…

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING LOW-POWER WAKE-UP RECEIVER (LP-WUR)

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240381260
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing one or more low-power wake-up receivers (LP-WUR) at the UE and for implementing mechanisms for improving receiver sensitivity loss for the LP-WUR. According to some aspects, apparatuses and methods are provided to improve the receiver sensitivity loss for the LP-WUR using time domain coverage improvement, power domain coverage improvement, spatial domain coverage improvement, and/or frequency domain…

TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUFFER DELAY REPORTING

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240381168
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus. systems, and methods for buffer delay reporting with configured grants in wireless networks.

TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUFFER DELAY INFORMATION REPORTING

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240381167
The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems. and methods for buffer status reporting in wireless networks.

Camera With Sensor Shift Tilt Actuator Arrangement

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240377651
Various embodiments include a camera system having a tilt actuator arrangement for tilting an image sensor. For example, the tilt actuator may be used to tilt the image sensor, relative to a lens group of the camera system, to provide tilt compensation and/or optical image stabilization (OIS). The tilt actuator arrangement may include one or more voice coil motor (VCM) actuators. According to various embodiments, the VCM actuator(s) may include fixed drive magnets and movable drive…

Video editing and key-framing animations using accessory on a touch device

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240380945
In one or more embodiments, a computing device is configured to present playback of a media composition on a touchscreen display. Concurrently with presenting the playback, the computing device receives, via the touchscreen display during a first time period, a touch input that includes a series of motions that start when a particular frame of the media composition is being presented. Responsive to receiving the touch input: the computing device adds a media clip to the media…

METHOD FOR ENHANCED DIRECT SECONDARY CELL ACTIVATION

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240380562
Some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for enhanced direct secondary cell activation in a 5G wireless communications system. A user equipment (UE) can receive a Radio Resource Control (RRC) command from a 5G Node B (gNB) via a Primary Cell (PCell) or via a Primary Secondary Cell (PSCell) that includes configuration data for a Secondary Cell (SCell), where the SCell operates in Frequency Range 2 (FR2). The RRC command includes a first Transmission…

POSITIONING OF USER EQUIPMENT (UE) USING REFERENCE SIGNALS

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240380555
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for UE positioning. In an example, a UE transmits a sounding reference signal for positioning (SRSp) to a base station. The SRSp transmission can use frequency hopping and can rely on a window and/or a collision rule associated with the entire frequency hopping sequence or only a frequency hop of such a sequence. The window and/or collision rule can reduce the potential for signal…

Scene removal, cinematic video editing, and image grid operations in video editing application

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240379127
In some implementations, a system generates a video clip in which the user can select which entity is in-focus and which other entities are out-of-focus based on a source video clip that has already been recorded. Multiple video clips may be generated based on the source video clip with different selected entities in-focus and other entities out-of-focus. In other implementations, a system overlays an image grid on frames of a video clip and analyzes the frames based on annotation…

Auto-reframing and multi-cam functions of video editing application

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240378850
In one or more embodiments, a computing device is configured to modify an original video by applying a machine learning model. The computing device obtains multiple training data sets, with each particular training data set including an original video and a corresponding modified video. One or more frames from the original video are cropped to generate corresponding frames in the corresponding modified video. The computing device trains a machine learning model, using the training data…

Color management technologies in video editing application

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240378767
A computing device harmonizes output image properties displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) when a user switches between two or more images of different image formats to display on the GUI. When a user interacts with a user interface to change one or more display properties of an image, a system modifies displayed image properties based on the user's modifications. If the user selects another image with different dynamic range than the first image, the system performs a backend…

DETAILING SECURE SERVICE PROVIDER TRANSACTIONS

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240378610
A customer interfacing with a credential manager may be enabled to request and obtain securely from the credential manager additional details related to a service transaction previously effected between the customer and a service provider using a customer transaction credential managed by the credential manager. To obtain such a detailed customer receipt for presentation to a customer, the credential manager may provide an authenticatable customer receipt request to the service provider…

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING A SECURE CONTACTLESS TRANSACTION

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240378588
There is disclosed a method and system for authorizing payment for a transaction between a buyer and a seller. A payment request may be received from a device associated with the seller. An authentication request comprising transaction information may be transmitted to an authentication service. An indication that the buyer has been authenticated may be received from the authentication service. A transaction request may be transmitted after the buyer has been authenticated.

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING A CONSUMER DEVICE AS A PAYMENT DEVICE

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240378583
There is disclosed a method and system for performing a transaction between a buyer and a seller. A payment request may be received from a first device associated with the seller. An identifier of a second device associated with the buyer may be determined. Data corresponding to the payment request may be transmitted to the second device. The second device may request that the buyer present a payment card to the second device. Payment card data may be received, where the payment card…