Patents by Inventor Elizabeth C.F. Cranfill

Elizabeth C.F. Cranfill 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).

  • Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Displaying a Virtual Keyboard
    Publication number: 20140006994
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive display and one or more sensors displays an application interface on the display, detects an input that corresponds to a command to display a virtual keyboard in the application interface, detects one or more sensor inputs from the one or more sensors, and in response to detecting the input that corresponds to the command to display the virtual keyboard: in accordance with a determination that the sensor inputs satisfy one or more first criteria, displays the virtual keyboard as a split keyboard on the display; and in accordance with a determination that the sensor inputs satisfy one or more second criteria, distinct from the first criteria, displays the virtual keyboard as an unsplit keyboard on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Koch, Morgan H. Winer, Elizabeth C.F. Cranfill, Stephen W. Swales