Apple Patent Grants

System and method for robust pulse oximetry

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12268499
Robust estimation of a characteristic of a user's physiological signals can be achieved by filtering or classifying samples. Rather than estimating the characteristic of the user's physiological signals based on each sample at a first wavelength and a second wavelength, a robust system and method can, in some examples, estimate the characteristic using samples at the first wavelength and the second wavelength that meet one or more criteria and filter out samples that fail to meet the one…

Dual embedded storage nodes and vertical transfer gates for pixels of global shutter image sensors

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12274099
Disclosed herein are global shutter image sensors and methods of operating such image sensors. An image sensor includes a semiconductor wafer having a light receiving surface opposite an electrical connection surface; an oxide extending from the light receiving surface toward the electrical connection surface and at least partially surrounding a pixel region; a photodiode disposed within the pixel region; and a set of storage nodes disposed under the photodiode, between the photodiode…

Controlling a user selection queue

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12271521
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for compositing an affordance in association with a CGR object representing a physical article. In various implementations, a device includes a display, a non-transitory memory, and one or more processors coupled with the display and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a computer-generated reality (CGR) object in a CGR environment. In some implementations, the CGR…

User detection by a computing device

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12271520
In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally identifies a person's face, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the identification. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines a gaze location in a user interface, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally designates a user as being present at a sound-playback device in accordance with a determination that…

Device, method, and graphical user interface for managing authentication credentials for user accounts

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12271465
In accordance with some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, via the one or more input devices, a request to access a resource protected by a verification code; after receiving the request to access the resource, receiving, at the electronic device, an electronic message; and after receiving the electronic message and while displaying, via the display device, a user interface for inputting the verification code: in accordance with a determination that the electronic message…

Electronic display pipeline power management systems and methods

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12271250
An electronic device may include a display panel. When content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively higher amounts of power, a controller of the electronic device may operate a switch to change a power supply of the display panel to be a power management integrated circuit of the electronic device. However, when content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively less amounts of power, the controller may operate the switch to change the power supply of the display…

System for calibrating adjustable lenses

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12271062
A system for gathering fixation distance calibration data may include eyeglasses with adjustable lenses and an electronic device with a depth sensor. During fixation distance calibration operations, a user wearing the eyeglasses may view the electronic device while the electronic device provides instructions for the user to hold the electronic device at different distances from the user. At each distance, a depth sensor in the electronic device may determine the distance to the…

Fast-axis collimator with hanging connector

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12271042
A photonics package may include a substrate, a hanging connector, and a fast-axis collimator (“FAC”). The hanging connector is typically affixed to a side of the substrate other than the side through which a light output is emitted. The hanging connector may be L-shaped in cross-section, having a base section and an extended section projecting from the base section. The base section affixes to the substrate while the extended section affixes to the FAC, so that the FAC extends…

Head-mounted display and display modules thereof

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12271002
A head-mounted display a housing, two display modules, and a head support. The two display modules ae coupled to the housing. Each of the two display modules includes a display for outputting light that forms graphical content, a lens for refracting the light output by the display, and an eye illuminator. The eye illuminator includes a light-emitting diode, a flexible circuit to which the light-emitting diode is coupled, and a stiffener laminated to the flexible circuit with one or fewer…

Current-mode thermal sensor

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12270714
A temperature sensor circuit is disclosed that uses multiple bipolar devices to generate a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current and a complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) current. A difference in the PTAT and CTAT current is evaluated using a feedback loop of an amplifier circuit which alternatively charges and discharges a capacitor to create a time-varying analog signal. A comparator circuit compares the analog signal to threshold values to generate an output…

Display structure

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: D1069453

Type font

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: D1069895

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: D1069825

Electronic device with animated graphical user interface

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: D1069811

Electronic device with icon

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: D1069808

Head-mounted display

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: D1069791

Head-mounted display

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: D1069790

Earphones

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: D1069754