Apple Inc.

Roberto G Yepez

Scott M Herz

Scott James Forstall

Scott Peter Krueger

Paul William Chinn

Wayne Carl Westerman

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Peter D Anton

Brijesh Tripathi

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Myra Mary Haggerty

Anup K Sharma

Ronnie G Misra

James Hollabaugh

Kelsey Yukio Ho

Andrew B Cato

Christopher K Thomas

Jonathan E Drummond

Petr Kostka

Curtis Rothert

Benjamin Biron

Weijie Zhang

Patrick L Coffman

Michael F Culbert

Gianpaolo Fasoli

John Harper

Joshua H Shaffer

Christopher Brooke Sharp

Brad W Simeral

Abhinav Gupta

James Michael Magee

Russell Alexader Blaine

Kartik R Venkatraman

Gokhan Avkarogullari

Daniel Allen Chimene

Gierad Laput

Daniel Andreas Steffen

Jeremy C Andrus

Simon M Douglas

Terry L Tikalsky

Nicholas John Shearer

Anton K Diederich

Matthew C Byington

Daniel P Kumar

Joseph R Auricchio

Ardra Singh

Daniel J Drusch

Archana Venkatesh

Shashi K Dua

Ricky Wai Kit Yuen

Derek J Dicarlo

Jingran Zhou

Joseph F Alverson

Gianluca Barbieri

Arnold S Liu

Landon J Fuller

Yevgen Goryachok

John K Kim-Biggs

Gabrielle Andrea Badie Belzberg

Imran A Chaudhri

Steven Porter Hotelling

Jerrold Von Hauck

Kenneth L Kocienda

Mitchell David Adler

Lawrence G Bolton

Yannick L Sierra

Jahan C Minoo

Gregory Thomas Lydon

John Meron Ananny

Justin S Titi

Wade Benson

Kenneth Ryan Loo

Anand Dalal

Daniel Max Strongwater

Kristi E S Bauerly

Daniel Wilson

Sylvain R Y Louboutin

Charles Edward Gray

Samuel Gosselin

Kumar Saurav

Scott M Deandrea

Stephen P Hotelling

James M Hollabaugh

The present disclosure describes systems and methods associated with selective powering of an electronic display in response to operating conditions, additional data, and/or predicting that the electronic display is not going to be viewed or visible. By selectively enabling the electronic display between power states based on a prediction of when a viewer is expected to view the electronic display, a perceivably always-on electronic display may be provided without the electronic display being always-on, thereby balancing consumer interests with technical requirements of a relatively long battery life and correspondingly low power consumption.

Predictive display power control systems and methods

The present disclosure describes systems and methods associated with selective powering of an electronic display in response to sensed data indicating that the electronic display is not visible. By selectively enabling the electronic display between power states based on whether the electronic display is visible, a perceivably always-on electronic display may be provided without the electronic display being always-on, thereby balancing consumer interests with technical requirements of a relatively long battery life and correspondingly low power consumption.

Sensor-based display power control systems and methods

Embodiments described herein provide techniques to manage drivers in a user space in a data processing system. One embodiment provides a data processing system configured perform operations, comprising discovering a hardware device communicatively coupled to the communication bus, launching a user space driver daemon, establishing an inter-process communication (IPC) link between a first proxy interface for the user space driver daemon and a second proxy interface for a server process in a kernel space, receiving, at the first proxy interface, an access right to enable access to a memory buffer in the kernel space, and relaying an access request for the memory buffer from the user space driver daemon via a third-party proxy interface to enable the user space driver daemon to access the memory buffer, the access request based on the access right.

Execution space agnostic device drivers

In an embodiment, a device may include an attention detection service. The attention detection service may monitor various peripheral devices in the device for indications that a user is paying attention to the device. Various clients may register for notification of attention detection and attention lost (attention no longer detected) events, or may poll the service for the events. If a user is not paying attention to the device, it may be possible to take various actions to permit reduced energy consumption.

Attention detection service

A device may include a secure processor and a secure memory coupled to the secure processor. The secure memory may be inaccessible to other device systems. The secure processor may store some keys and/or entropy values in the secure memory and other keys and/or entropy values outside the secure memory. The keys and/or entropy values stored outside the secure memory may be encrypted using information stored inside the secure memory.

Cryptographic entropy tree

A content request communication, e.g., generated using a first processor of a device, can be transmitted to a web server. A response communication including content identifying a first value can be received from the web server. The first processor can facilitate presentation of the content on a first display of the device. A communication can be received at a second processor of the device from a remote server. The communication can include data representing a second value and can be generated at the remote server using information received from the web server. Further, the second processor can produce a secure verification output that can be presented on a separate, second display, representing at least the second value. The presentation on first display can at least partially overlap in time with the presentation on the second display.

Data verification via independent processors of a device

One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising a first processor to execute a function driver for a peripheral having a first bus interface and virtualized host controller interface logic to provide a protocol interface associated with the first bus interface to the function driver to enable the function driver to control a set of peripherals connected via at least a second bus interface, the second bus interface different from the first bus interface.

Virtual host controller for a data processing system

Apparatuses and methods to operate a display device of an electronic device. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a user setting of a display control parameter, and altering, based on the user setting, an effect of an ambient light sensor value (ALS) on control of the display control parameter. Also, according to embodiments of the inventions, a method of operating a display of an electronic device includes receiving a change to one of a display brightness output level and an ambient light sensor output level, and altering, according to the change, a display contrast output level. In some embodiments, a method of operating a proximity sensor of an electronic device includes receiving a light sensor output, and altering, according to the output, an on/off setting of a proximity sensor. Other apparatuses and methods and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.

Backlight and ambient light sensor system

The present disclosure generally relates to multifunction physical buttons. An electronic device detects activation of a physical button. The device determines whether a set of one or more criteria are met. If the set of one or more criteria are met, the device captures an image using an image sensor. If the set of one or more criteria are not met, the device turns off the display of the device. Thus, the same physical button can perform different functions based on whether the set of one or more criteria are met.

Multifunction physical button

In an embodiment, a host computing device includes an internal display and also includes a connector to connect to an external display. A cable is provided to connect to the connector and to connect to the external display. The cable includes video processing capabilities. For example, the cable may include a memory configured to store a frame buffer. The frame buffer may store a frame of video data for further processing by the video processing device in the cable. The video processing device may manipulate the frame in a variety of ways, e.g. scaling, rotating, gamma correction, dither correction, etc.

Cable with video processing capability

Apparatuses and methods to operate a display device of an electronic device. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a user setting or input of a display control parameter, and causing or altering, based on the user setting or input, an effect of an ambient light sensor value (ALS) on control of the display control parameter. The user input may be an unlock of a touch screen input capability of the display device, and a wake of the display device from inactivity dim. Also, according to embodiments of the inventions, a method of operating a display of an electronic device includes receiving a change to one of a display brightness output level and an ambient light sensor output level, and altering, according to the change, a display brightness or contrast output level. Other apparatuses and methods and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Roberto G Yepez