Patents by Inventor Stephanie L. Horn

Stephanie L. Horn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10424100
    Abstract: An animation preset graphical user interface (GUI) enables users to select a 3D model of an object and to further select between multiple animation presets that each individually cause a 3D animation engine to apply combinations of animation features against the 3D model. An exemplary animation preset may cause the object to translate across a display area (e.g., move from left to right across screen) while simultaneously rotating against a rotational axis (e.g., spinning so that different surfaces of the object become more prominent). The animation preset GUI may enable the user to dynamically toggle through different intensity levels to cause a selected animation preset to be rendered in accordance with different acceleration parameters and/or magnitude parameters. The animation preset GUI may enable the user to dynamically toggle between predefined animation spaces for animating the object. Animation-parameters may be persisted to a file to enable future editing of the animations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Stephanie L. Horn, Alexandre Gueniot, Ramya Tridandapani, Onur Onder, Michael Jay Gilmore, Aimee Leong, Eric Minghai Gao
  • Publication number: 20190156545
    Abstract: An animation preset graphical user interface (GUI) enables users to select a 3D model of an object and to further select between multiple animation presets that each individually cause a 3D animation engine to apply combinations of animation features against the 3D model. An exemplary animation preset may cause the object to translate across a display area (e.g., move from left to right across screen) while simultaneously rotating against a rotational axis (e.g., spinning so that different surfaces of the object become more prominent). The animation preset GUI may enable the user to dynamically toggle through different intensity levels to cause a selected animation preset to be rendered in accordance with different acceleration parameters and/or magnitude parameters. The animation preset GUI may enable the user to dynamically toggle between predefined animation spaces for animating the object. Animation-parameters may be persisted to a file to enable future editing of the animations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Stephanie L. Horn, Alexandre Gueniot, Ramya Tridandapani, Onur Onder, Michael Jay Gilmore, Aimee Leong, Eric Minghai Gao
  • Patent number: 10074194
    Abstract: An image rendering system having an image rendition module to determine formats of an image and a rendering theme and in response to these formats meeting a predetermined condition, parse the image into a plurality of image components and display at least one of the plurality of image components with a fill color as a background color of the rendering theme and with an alternate color of the rendering theme as an outline color of the at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Stephanie L. Horn, Darrin D. House, Jie Li, Ancuta I. Zaharia, Haitao He, Constance W. Gervais
  • Publication number: 20180165837
    Abstract: An image rendering system having an image rendition module to determine formats of an image and a rendering theme and in response to these formats meeting a predetermined condition, parse the image into a plurality of image components and display at least one of the plurality of image components with a fill color as a background color of the rendering theme and with an alternate color of the rendering theme as an outline color of the at least one component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Stephanie L. Horn, Darrin D. House, Jie Li, Ancuta I. Zaharia, Haitao He, Constance W. Gervais
  • Publication number: 20170220206
    Abstract: A productivity application is disclosed herein that includes an insert-content feature in a user interface to the productivity application. When the insert-content feature is selected to insert online content into a canvas, the application initiates an online search using text in the canvas. Results that are returned from the search may be presented in a panel adjacent to the canvas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Stephanie L. Horn, Virag Shah, Gajendra Agrawal