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Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for device position adjustment

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277848
The present disclosure generally relates to methods and graphical user interfaces for providing feedback pertaining to device position adjustment.

Bearer reconfiguration for SCG activation/deactivation

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12279321
A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a base station of a wireless network, a deactivation indication indicating that a secondary cell group (SCG) of a dual connectivity (DC) wireless communications configuration has been deactivated, receive, from the base station, a remapping indication indicating that SCG data originally mapped to an SCG bearer should be remapped to an alternate bearer, remap the SCG data to the alternate bearer based on the remapping indication and…

Raw scaler with chromatic aberration correction

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12279056
Systems and methods for down-scaling are provided. In one example, a method for processing image data includes determining a plurality of output pixel locations using a position value stored by a position register, using the current position value to select a center input pixel from the image data and selecting an index value, selecting a set of input pixels adjacent to the center input pixel, selecting a set of filtering coefficients from a filter coefficient lookup table using the…

User interfaces for managing contacts on another electronic device

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278922
In some embodiments, a supervising electronic device manages communication restrictions of a supervised electronic device. In some embodiments, a supervised electronic device presents user interfaces that enforce one or more communication restrictions configured by a supervising electronic device when communicating with other users.

Utilizing context information with an electronic device

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278918
The present disclosure generally relates to the utilization of context information by an electronic device. In one example, the electronic device receives a first notification of a first type and determines a current status for one or more contextual categories. If the current status for the one or more contextual categories satisfies a set of one or more delivery criteria for notifications of the first type, then the electronic device provides the first notification of the first type.…

Time domain window determination for wireless communication

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278788
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including determination of actual time windows for maintaining power consistency and/or phase continuity associated with transmission between a user equipment (UE) and a base station. Techniques for determining the length, begging, and end of such windows are disclosed. A UE and/or base station may use various rules to determine the window(s).

Methods and arrangements for measurement gap configuration

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278781
Logic may receive an initial communication from a user device, the initial communication comprising capabilities. Logic may determine, based on an indication of a capability to support new radio frequency layers from the capabilities for the user device, a measurement gap configuration for the new radio frequency layers and a measurement gap configuration for a channel state information reference signal. Logic may send a frame with a preamble to a physical layer comprising the…

Leakage current reduction in electrical isolation gate structures

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278232
In an embodiment, an integrated circuit includes transistors in different active regions, electrically isolated using single diffusion break isolation. The single diffusion break isolation includes a first dummy transistor that has a different threshold voltage than the transistors in either active region for which the single diffusion break is creating isolation. The first dummy transistor may have lower leakage current than transistors in either active region, creating effective…

Voice trigger for a digital assistant

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277954
A method for operating a voice trigger is provided. In some implementations, the method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a sound input. The sound input may correspond to a spoken word or phrase, or a portion thereof. The method includes determining whether at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to a predetermined type of sound, such as…

Accessory device based authentication for digital assistant requests

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277935
An example process includes at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory: while the electronic device is in a locked state and in communication with an external accessory device: receiving a natural language input; determining whether the natural language input corresponds to a secure task request; in accordance with a determination that the natural language input corresponds to a secure task request: determining whether one or more states of the external accessory…

Head-mounted display

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: D1070853

Responding to representations of physical elements

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277621
In some implementations, a method includes obtaining, by a virtual intelligent agent (VIA), a perceptual property vector (PPV) for a graphical representation of a physical element. In some implementations, the PPV includes one or more perceptual characteristic values characterizing the graphical representation of the physical element. In some implementations, the method includes instantiating a graphical representation of the VIA in a graphical environment that includes the graphical…

Multi-dimensional tensor support extension in neural network processor

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277494
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a tensor access operation circuit in a neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit further includes a data processor circuit and at least one neural engine circuit. The tensor access operation circuit indirectly accesses at least a region of a source tensor in a system memory having a rank, and maps one or more source components of the source tensor into an input tensor having another rank. The data processor circuit stores an…

Intelligent inset window placement in content

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277381
Disclosed herein are techniques for providing live video feed content within primary content of a slide presentation application. An inset window may provide an indication of size, shape, location, etc. of the live video feed when presented with the primary content. The inset window/live video feed may be applied across all slides of the slide presentation via a request provided via graphical user interface of the slide presentation application.

Device, method, and graphical user interface for navigation of information in a map-based interface

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277311
A device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface: displays a geographic map in a first mode of an application, the geographic map including a plurality of landmarks, the geographic map being displayed at a first magnification level; detects a first input, the first input including a first finger contact at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a first landmark on the display; in response to detecting the first input: when the first input does not satisfy one…

Content-based tactile outputs

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277275
The present disclosure generally relates to content-based tactile outputs. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with content-based tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with end-of-content tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with moving a user interface in response to different types of input are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with adjustable item-based tactile…

Conductive cap for watch crown

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12276943
An electronic device, such as a watch, has a crown assembly having a shaft and a user-rotatable crown. The user-rotatable crown may include a conductive cap that is mechanically and electrically coupled to the shaft and functions as an electrode. The conductive cap may be coupled to the shaft using solder or another conductive attachment mechanism. The shaft may electrically couple the conductive cap to a processing unit of the electronic device. One or more additional electrodes may be…