Intel Corporation

Apple Inc.

Sudeep Divakaran

Prashant Dewan

Ranjit Sivaram Narjala

Alexander Sasha Sirotkin

Sajal Kumar Das

Brent Elliott

Suresh Sugumar

Kwan Ho Lee

Gil Meyuhas

Vishwanath Somayaji

Vns Murthy Sristi

Anand Muralidharan

Devices and methods for automatically determining and suggesting an optimal device orientation with respect to a partner communication device. The methods and devices may include features to determine a position of a user with respect to the device; estimate a direction of a partner communication device; perform a comparison of the direction of the partner communication device with the position of the user; and based on the comparison, determine whether to generate an instruction to suggest a change in orientation of the device.

Methods and devices for device orientation to improve signal quality and SAR compliance

A wireless device includes one or more antennas coupled to a transmit (TX) chain. The TX chain is configured to generate output RF signals using baseband signals. The TX chain includes a TX power controller configured to classify a packet of the output RF signals into a priority category of a plurality of priority categories based on priority information within the packet. The TX power controller is further to determine a time average specific absorption rate (TAS) energy budget of the wireless device. The TAS energy budget is based on a pre-configured regulatory power limit (e.g., SAR transmit power limit) of the wireless device over a time interval. Transmission power for transmitting the packet is determined based on the priority category and the TAS energy budget. The packet is encoded for transmission via the one or more antennas using the determined transmission power.

Regulatory limit compliant packet priority-based adaptive transmit power controller

Methods and apparatus for implementing a low-pin count architecture with priority message arbitration and delivery. The architecture includes a hardware-based message arbitration unit (MAU) including a plurality of priority queues, each having a respective priority level, implemented on a first component, such as a processor and/or System on a Chip (SoC). The first component is communicatively coupled to a second component via a low-pin count link such as an I2C bus. The MAU receives prioritized messages from clients and enqueues the messages in priority queues based on their priority levels. An arbiter selects messages to transmit over the low-pin count link from the priority queues. The MAU further may abort transmission of a message in favor of transmission of a higher-priority message to guarantee a transmit latency. Under one implementation, the components are a processor and a PMIC configured to communicate with a USB Type-C power source and meet timing requirements defined by a USB Power Delivery Specification.

Low pin-count architecture with prioritized message arbitration and delivery

Technologies provide hardware-assisted privacy protection of sensor data. One embodiment includes unlocking a user interface coupled to a trusted execution environment of a processor in a device, where the user interface includes a plurality of selectable settings associated with a plurality of access levels for sensor data captured by a sensor. The embodiment also includes receiving a selection signal from the user interface indicating that a user selected a first setting associated with a first access level for the sensor data captured by the sensor, and restricting access to the sensor data based on a first set of one or more entities associated with the first access level. In more specific embodiments, the user interface includes a knob that is rotatably attached to a housing of the device or a privacy panel including a slider bar that is to be displayed on a touch screen display of the device.

Hardware-assisted privacy protection using a secure user interface with multi-level access control of sensor data

Disclosed herein are techniques and a display panel that can sequentially display images while the host processor is inactive (e.g., asleep, power gated, or the like). The display panel includes circuitry to receive a set of encoded images, sequentially decode the encoded images provide a bitstream of the decoded images to the display electronics. The host is arranged to encode the images, send the encoded images to a frame buffer at the panel and configure the panel for a low power multi-image presentation mode.

Low power advertising mode for sequential image presentation

Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) setting of a User Equipment (UE). For example, a UE may include a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) transceiver to communicate with a WLAN; a cellular transceiver to communicate with a cellular network; a user interface to provide a user with a plurality of WLAN setting options and to receive an indication of a selected WLAN setting from the plurality of WLAN setting options; and a connection manager to cause the WLAN transceiver to operate according to the selected WLAN setting.

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Bengaluru, India

Sudeep Divakaran