Billboard for Context Information Sharing

    公开(公告)号:US20210241716A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-05

    申请号:US16885982

    申请日:2020-05-28

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a billboard circuit that stores context information received from various component circuits in an electronic device. The context information indicates an operating status of the corresponding component circuit, system or shared resources. The stored context information may be retrieved by one or more component circuits when events (e.g., turning on of a component circuit) are detected. By using the billboard circuit, a component circuit may detect changes in the operating status of other components circuits and configure or update its operations even when the changes occurred while the component circuit was asleep or disabled. The billboard circuit may monitor updating of the context information by the component circuit and initiate notification to other components circuits when certain entries of the context information is updated.

    Energy-efficient signal processing
    52.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10856220B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-01

    申请号:US15268841

    申请日:2016-09-19

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes first and second signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing operations and second signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing operations, wherein the second signal processing circuitry includes a smaller amount of processing resources than the first signal processing circuitry. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes one or more storage elements configured to store context information for the second signal processing circuitry and the one or more storage elements are accessible to the first signal processing circuitry. The apparatus may be configured to select one of the first and second signal processing circuitry based on the complexity of input problems, the amount of transmission resources assigned to the apparatus, etc. In some embodiments, intermediate results of from the second signal processing circuitry are used as inputs to an operation performed by the first signal processing circuitry.

    Carrier aggregation with improved efficiency

    公开(公告)号:US10432366B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-01

    申请号:US15584251

    申请日:2017-05-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In some embodiments, a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station using an advanced form of carrier aggregation. The UE may provide signaling to the network specifying a number P of downlink component carriers to be configured for use by the UE for downlink carrier aggregation and a number Q of uplink component carriers to be configured for use by the UE for uplink carrier aggregation. The UE can only utilize a lesser number M of downlink component carriers at any given time in downlink carrier aggregation and can only utilize a lesser number N of uplink component carriers at any given time in uplink carrier aggregation. Thus the UE may request the network to configure a greater number P and Q of downlink and uplink component carriers, respectively, than the UE can actually use at any instant of time.

    Apparatus, systems and methods for power management in mobile devices

    公开(公告)号:US10271283B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-23

    申请号:US15151990

    申请日:2016-05-11

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for determining whether a battery alarm of a UE is asserted, reducing a transmission duty cycle of the UE to zero for a first predetermined time period when the battery alarm is asserted, determining whether the battery alarm has been de-asserted after the first predetermined time period and when the battery alarm has not been de-asserted, increasing the transmission duty cycle to a first threshold level for a second predetermined time period, wherein the first threshold level is less than a full transmission duty cycle of the UE. When the battery alarm has been de-asserted, increasing the transmission duty cycle to a second threshold level for a third predetermined time period, wherein the second threshold level is less than the full transmission duty cycle of the UE, and wherein the second threshold level is greater than the first threshold level.

    Method for fast access to a shared memory
    59.
    发明授权
    Method for fast access to a shared memory 有权
    快速访问共享内存的方法

    公开(公告)号:US09489317B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-08

    申请号:US14497795

    申请日:2014-09-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor: Matthias Sauer

    Abstract: A system, a method, and an apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment, a system includes a host processor with a communications unit, a memory coupled to the communications unit, and a coprocessor coupled to the communications unit. The memory may include at least a first area and a second area. The coprocessor may be configured to request access to the first area of the memory via the communications unit. The communications unit may be configured to verify an identity of the coprocessor, and grant access to the first area of the memory responsive to a positive identification of the coprocessor.

    Abstract translation: 公开了一种系统,方法和装置。 在一个实施例中,系统包括具有通信单元的主处理器,耦合到通信单元的存储器和耦合到通信单元的协处理器。 存储器可以包括至少第一区域和第二区域。 协处理器可以被配置为经由通信单元请求对存储器的第一区域的访问。 通信单元可以被配置为验证协处理器的身份,并且响应于协处理器的肯定识别来授予对存储器的第一区域的访问。

    Channel-aware semantic coding
    60.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12126813B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-22

    申请号:US17949614

    申请日:2022-09-21

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04N19/154 G06V20/41 G06V20/46

    Abstract: A method for channel aware semantic coding (CASC) by a user equipment (UE), comprising: determining a quality level for a channel for a time period in which a video frame is being transmitted over the channel; determine, based on the quality level, one or more semantic elements to include in a semantic transcript stream (STS); encode the video frame with the one or more elements of the STS; and transmit the STS to a remote device.

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