Patents by Inventor Eric Tilton
Eric Tilton 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).
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Patent number: 10984577Abstract: Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: James Eric Tilton
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Patent number: 9600133Abstract: Techniques for displaying object animations on a slide are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects on a slide may be assigned actions when generating or editing the slide. The effects of the actions on the slide are depicted using one or more respective representations which represent the slide as it will appear after implementation of one or more corresponding actions.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Paul Bradford Vaughan, James Eric Tilton, Christopher Morgan Connors, Ralph Lynn Melton, Jay Christopher Capela, Ted Stephen Boda
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Publication number: 20160196681Abstract: Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventor: James Eric Tilton
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Patent number: 9098505Abstract: A system for generating a structured file that includes all of the various media items need to play the corresponding media presentation is described. (Media items include, for example, images, movies, and audio files.) In one implementation, all of the various media items needed to support the presentation's playback may be collected, where after at least one of them is texturized. Texturing means converting a media item from a larger format to a smaller format. For example, a JPEG file (described in terms of scalable vector-based data) may be texturized to a PNG file (described in terms of pixel data). The items may then be organized in accordance with an event, and stored in a structured file. Once organized by event (e.g., presentation pause-points, frame transitions, effect transitions, input “click” and the like), the media items may be stored into the structured file, ready to playback the media presentation.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael Richard Peirce, Eric Tilton, David Mack, Mark Flider
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Publication number: 20140304307Abstract: A system for generating a structured file that includes all of the various media items need to play the corresponding media presentation is described. (Media items include, for example, images, movies, and audio files.) In one implementation, all of the various media items needed to support the presentation's playback may be collected, where after at least one of them is texturized. Texturing means converting a media item from a larger format to a smaller format. For example, a JPEG file (described in terms of scalable vector-based data) may be texturized to a PNG file (described in terms of pixel data). The items may then be organized in accordance with an event, and stored in a structured file. Once organized by event (e.g., presentation pause-points, frame transitions, effect transitions, input “click” and the like), the media items may be stored into the structured file, ready to playback the media presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Michael Richard Peirce, Eric Tilton, David Mack, Mark Flider
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Patent number: 8775472Abstract: A system in accordance with the present invention may include one or more processors, memory from which the processor may fetch instructions according to a clock operating at a frequency, a display device, and one or more programs stored in the memory, with instructions to create a structured file for storing data related to the media presentation, access the data related to the media presentation from the presentation application, organize the data related to the media presentation according to an event, and export the organized data related to the media presentation to the structured file. These instructions may also be executed as steps of a method and may be fetched during the execution of one or more programs stored in a computer-readable storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael Peirce, Eric Tilton, David Mack, Mark Flider
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Patent number: 8694889Abstract: Approaches are described in which objects within slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. The persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition such that objects present on both a incoming and outgoing slide are handled differently than those objects present on only one of the slides.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Appl Inc.Inventor: James Eric Tilton
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Patent number: 8352865Abstract: Techniques for displaying object animations on a slide are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects on a slide may be assigned actions when generating or editing the slide. The effects of the actions on the slide are depicted using one or more respective representations which represent the slide as it will appear after implementation of one or more corresponding actions.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Paul Bradford Vaughan, James Eric Tilton, Christopher Morgan Connors, Ralph Lynn Melton, Jay Christopher Capela, Ted Stephen Boda
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Publication number: 20110107223Abstract: A user interface and methods for presenting presentation pages are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method of the invention displays a first presentation page in a display area of a data processing system. Next, a second presentation page angles into the display area as the first presentation page angles out and turns off from the display area, as though they are sides of a revolving 3-D object. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2011Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventors: Eric Tilton, Michael Peirce, Jay Capela, Roger Rosner, Jay Holtorf
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Publication number: 20110040804Abstract: A system in accordance with the present invention may include one or more processors, memory from which the processor may fetch instructions according to a clock operating at a frequency, a display device, and one or more programs stored in the memory, with instructions to create a structured file for storing data related to the media presentation, access the data related to the media presentation from the presentation application, organize the data related to the media presentation according to an event, and export the organized data related to the media presentation to the structured file. These instructions may also be executed as steps of a method and may be fetched during the execution of one or more programs stored in a computer-readable storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael Richard Peirce, Eric Tilton, David Mack, Mark Flider
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Publication number: 20100223554Abstract: Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventor: James Eric Tilton
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Patent number: 7721209Abstract: Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2009Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: James Eric Tilton
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Publication number: 20100118037Abstract: Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, each object on a slide is individually manipulable during slide transitions. In certain embodiments, the presence of an object on both the outgoing and incoming slides may be taken into account during slide transition. Likewise, in certain embodiments, derivative objects, such as shadows or reflections, may be handled as distinct objects in generating a transition between slides.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2010Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Haroon Saleem Sheikh, James Eric Tilton
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Publication number: 20100064223Abstract: Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventor: James Eric Tilton
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Publication number: 20100064222Abstract: Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventor: James Eric Tilton
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Publication number: 20090119597Abstract: Techniques for displaying object animations on a slide are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects on a slide may be assigned actions when generating or editing the slide. The effects of the actions on the slide are depicted using one or more respective representations which represent the slide as it will appear after implementation of one or more corresponding actions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Paul Bradford Vaughan, James Eric Tilton
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Publication number: 20090044123Abstract: A presentation application for animating objects placed on slides is provided. Using the presentation application, the user may add objects to slides of a presentation, and apply animations to the objects. The animations may include action builds (e.g., fundamental animations) and smart builds (e.g., complex combinations of action builds). The animations used in slides may be pre-processed, or may instead be rendered in real-time as the slides are being presented. The real-time rendering may be performed by graphics circuitry, such as the GPU of a video card.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2007Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric Tilton, Mark Flider, Brad Vaughan, Michael Peirce