Apple Inc.

Robert William Mayor

Ronald Keryuan Huang

Lukas Michael Marti

Glenn Donald MacGougan

Brent Michael Ledvina

Shannon M Ma

Yefim Grosman

David Benjamin Millman

Stephen J Rhee

Patrick Steven Piemonte

Morgan J Grainger

Pejman Lotfali Kazemi

Parin Patel

Brian Stephen Smith

Jahshan A Bhatti

Kumar Gaurav Chhokra

Jason Dere

Darin Tay

Vitali Lovich

David R Stites

Joseph Ding-Jiu Huang

Kevin Duffy

Isaac Thomas Miller

Johan Olav Bergerengen

Hyojoon Bae

Abhinav R Patel

Mohit Narang

Indranil S Sen

Joakim Linde

Kevin P McLaughlin

Augustin Prats

Robert W Brumley

Brian J Tucker

Alejandro J Marquez

Shang-Te Yang

William J Bencze

Xu Chen

Jessica Noel Tsoong

Arun Godfrey Mathias

Yannick L Sierra

Raghunandan K Pai

Scott Lopatin

Langford M Wasada

Tommy Rochette

Siva Ganesh Movva

Navin Bindiganavile Suparna

Jay N Bruins

Benjamin A Detwiler

Emmanuel Lalande

Saurabh Godha

Munish K Poonia

Wei Kong

Christopher J Edmonds

Tadaaki Shimada

Sam Schaevitz

Lawrence T Lu

Dawei Zhang

Tarik Tabet

Syed Aon Mujtaba

Farouk Belghoul

Sriram Hariharan

Vinay R Majjigi

Daniel Ulbricht

Joseph Hakim

Adam S Howell

Todd Wheeler

Oleg Naroditsky

Patrick James Coleman

Sean P Cier

Puneet Mishra

Changlin Ma

Christian Lipski

Bradley Joel Jensen

Kenneth U Victa

Oliver Ruepp

Li Su

Longda Xing

Jianxiong Shi

Zhu Ji

Grant R Paul

Lei Wang

Gregory B Novick

Bob Bradley

Thanigaivelu Elangovan

Brendan John Langoulant

Isabel Mahe

Joshua G Nickel

Nicole M Wells

Kyle C Brogle

Matthew Scott Klahn

William Jean Noellert

Stephen P Jackson

Ashish Agarwal

Jason Shi

Mithilesh Kumar

Ilya K Veygman

Jinghua Ling

Benjamin Biron

Vera Carr

Vojislav Samsalovic

Techniques and systems for unlocking a first device based on signals transmitted between the first device and a second device are disclosed. A disclosed technique includes receiving, by a first device, at least one wireless signal from a second device; transmitting, by the first device, at least one wireless signal to the second device; determining, by the first device, transit times of the at least one received wireless signal and the at least one transmitted wireless signal; determining, by the first device, one or more range measurements between the first device and the second device based at least in part on the transit times; determining, by the first device, an unlock decision based at least in part on the one or more range measurements; and causing, by at least the first device, the first device to unlock if the unlock decision is positive.

Unlocking a device

Methods and devices are provided for allowing a mobile device (e.g., a key fob or a consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, watch, or other wearable device) to interact with a vehicle such that a location of the mobile device can be determined by the vehicle, thereby enabling certain functionality of the vehicle. A device may include both RF antenna(s) and magnetic antenna(s) for determining a location of a mobile device relative to the vehicle. Such a hybrid approach can provide various advantages. Existing magnetic coils on a mobile device (e.g., for charging or communication) may be re-used for distance measurements that are supplemented by the RF measurements. Any device antenna may provide measurements to a machine learning model that determines a region in which the mobile device resides, based on training measurements in the regions.

Enhanced automotive passive entry

The presence of a wireless device and/or accessory that cannot maintain an independent network connection can be detected by network connected wireless devices and the location of the detected device and/or accessory can be reported to a device location service. As the wireless devices and/or accessories do not have independent network connections, periodic maintenance is performed on those devices by nearby owner devices to which the wireless devices and/or accessories are paired or associated. Described herein are systems, methods, and associated devices to maintain a locatable wireless device by a set of multiple owner devices for that wireless device.

Maintenance of wireless devices by electronic devices

The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for authentication, including providing and controlling authentication at a computer system using an external device in accordance with some embodiments.

Implementation of biometric authentication

Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.

System and method for locating wireless accessories

A device implementing a system for estimating device orientation includes at least one processor configured to obtain a first estimate for a heading of a device, the first estimate being based on output from a magnetometer of the device. The at least one processor is further configured to capture image data using an image sensor of the device, and determine at least one second estimate of the heading based on correlating the image data with mapping data. The at least one processor is further configured to determine a bias associated with output of the magnetometer based on the first estimate and the at least one second estimate, and adjusting output of the magnetometer based on the determined bias.

Adjusting heading sensor output based on image data

Techniques for suggesting accessory devices controlled by an application executing on a mobile device are disclosed. A method includes measuring one or more sensor values using one or more sensors of a mobile device and the one or more sensor values are determined from one or more signals emitted by a first one or more accessory devices. An area of a physical space for the first one or more accessory devices can be determined based on the one or more sensor values. A second one or more accessory devices associated with the same area as the first one or more accessory devices can be suggested to a user.

Using in-home location awareness

Location mapping and navigation user interfaces may be generated and presented via mobile computing devices. A mobile device may detect its location and orientation using internal systems, and may capture image data using a device camera. The mobile device also may retrieve map information from a map server corresponding to the current location of the device. Using the image data captured at the device, the current location data, and the corresponding local map information, the mobile device may determine or update a current orientation reading for the device. Location errors and updated location data also may be determined for the device, and a map user interface may be generated and displayed on the mobile device using the updated device orientation and/or location data.

Mobile device navigation system

Maintenance of wireless devices

Described herein are techniques to enable a mobile device to determine a Z-axis coordinate based on altitudes associated with Wi-Fi access points detected in a Wi-Fi scan by the mobile device. One embodiment provides for an electronic device configured to compute a weighted average of Z-axis coordinates associated with detected Wi-Fi access points and determine a Z-axis coordinate for the electronic device based on the weighted average.

Wi-Fi Z-axis positioning

A device implementing a system for estimating device location includes at least one processor configured to receive a first estimated position of the device at a first time. The at least one processor is further configured to capture, using an image sensor of the device, images during a time period defined by the first time and a second time, and determine, based on the images, a second estimated position of the device, the second estimated position being relative to the first estimated position. The at least one processor is further configured to receive a third estimated position of the device at the second time, and estimate a location of the device based on the second estimated position and the third estimated position.

Image-based techniques for stabilizing positioning estimates

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Robert William Mayor