Patents by Inventor Guillaume Vergnaud
Guillaume Vergnaud 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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Publication number: 20230020678Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may generate a day view, month views, and year view that show cards specific to each view. The cards include images, videos, and/or other assets from a media library that reflect a corresponding time frame of the card on which the assets are displayed. A selected view is presented in a graphical user interface (GUI) for interaction with a user of the media library. Upon selection of an asset displayed to the GUI, the view is switched to show more assets from a time frame similar to the selected asset while maintaining a focus on the selected asset.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric M. Circlaeys, Guillaume Vergnaud, Samantha E. Fierro, Kevin Aujoulet, Benedikt M. Hirmer, Alexandre N. Lopoukhine, Kevin Bessiere, Vignesh Jagadeesh, Rohan Chandra
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Patent number: 11520465Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may generate a day view, month views, and year view that show cards specific to each view. The cards include images, videos, and/or other assets from a media library that reflect a corresponding time frame of the card on which the assets are displayed. A selected view is presented in a graphical user interface (GUI) for interaction with a user of the media library. Upon selection of an asset displayed to the GUI, the view is switched to show more assets from a time frame similar to the selected asset while maintaining a focus on the selected asset.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, Guillaume Vergnaud, Samantha E. Fierro, Kevin Aujoulet, Benedikt M. Hirmer, Alexandre N. Lopoukhine, Kevin Bessiere, Vignesh Jagadeesh, Rohan Chandra
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Patent number: 11243996Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for presenting a user interface that allows a user to quickly and easily filter and search a digital asset collection. The disclosed techniques allow for rapid recall of desired digital assets, linking assets into logical collections, and an overall improved user experience. The zero keyword/contextual keyword feature presents multimedia content icons and searchable keywords to allow a user to search the digital asset collection simply by tapping on one of these keywords. The top auto completion feature auto-completes suggestions in the search field based on various heuristics to ensure the method produces diverse and relevant results. The next keyword suggestion feature predicts a next search term based on learned properties about the digital asset collection.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Killian Huyghe, Lee A. Morgan, Elliot C. Liskin, Guillaume Vergnaud, Eric Circlaeys, Michael S. Smochko, Joy Hsu, Sabrine Rekik, Kevin Aujoulet, Benedikt M. Hirmer, Kevin Bessiere
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Patent number: 11086935Abstract: A memory management system which can effectively determine whether, when, and to what extent, to modify a graph database based on changes in a paired relational database storing various data like media assets, such as photos and videos. The media assets are associated with data objects, such as moments, events, and people. The memory management system also includes one or more knowledge graph metadata networks (or more simply “knowledge graphs”). The knowledge graph(s) store information which is related to the data stored by the relational databases. The memory management system detects changes in the data and data objects stored by the relational database(s). The memory management system can translate detected changes into modification instructions for the knowledge graph. The memory management system can also determine that it is unnecessary to modify the knowledge graph due to a detected change.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Bessiere, Patrick H. Kelly, Guillaume Vergnaud, Eric Circlaeys
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Publication number: 20200356227Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may generate a day view, month views, and year view that show cards specific to each view. The cards include images, videos, and/or other assets from a media library that reflect a corresponding time frame of the card on which the assets are displayed. A selected view is presented in a graphical user interface (GUI) for interaction with a user of the media library. Upon selection of an asset displayed to the GUI, the view is switched to show more assets from a time frame similar to the selected asset while maintaining a focus on the selected asset.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, Guillaume Vergnaud, Samantha E. Fierro, Kevin Aujoulet, Benedikt M. Hirmer, Alexandre N. Lopoukhine, Kevin Bessiere, Vignesh Jagadeesh, Rohan Chandra
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Patent number: 10726064Abstract: A method for slide shows. The method includes receiving one or more video content element and one or more image content element that are each associated with a respective audio track, where a first video content element includes a corresponding first audio track and a second video content element includes a corresponding second audio track that is disabled or non-existent, receiving input selecting a background audio track for the slide show, and automatically integrating the video content element, the image content element, and the background audio track together into the slide show, where the background audio track is played during playback of the slide show when the computing device detects that there is no audio signal generated by another audio track in the slide show.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ralf Weber, Guillaume Vergnaud
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Patent number: 10579713Abstract: An example method may retrieve a markup language document from an electronic storage device. The markup language document may define a component of an interactive media application and a plurality of resolution dependent parameter sets for the component. The method may continue and determine, using at least one processor, a current resolution of a display device of a playback device and select, using the at least one processor, a parameter set of the plurality of resolution dependent parameter sets for the component based on the current resolution and device. The method may also apply, using the at least one processor, the parameter set to the component; and present, using the at least one processor, the component as part of the interactive media application on the playback device.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric M. Circlaeys, Guillaume Vergnaud, Ralf Weber, Dong Young Oh, Alexander David Wallace, Daniel Hooper, Benjamin David Ross
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Publication number: 20190370282Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer-readable medium for managing/presenting digital assets of a digital asset collection. The disclosed techniques enable a set of digital assets associated with a collection of related digital assets to be provided to a user. An initial set of digital assets associated with a collection of related digital assets may be identified. The set may be grouped into subsets based at least in part on capture times. Content metadata may be generated for each digital asset in a subset utilizing a neural network that is trained to identify features appearing within a digital asset. Content metadata of two digital assets may be compared to determine whether the assets are semantically similar. When two (or more) digital assets are semantically similar, at least one of the two digital assets may be excluded from a filtered set eventually presented at the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Guillaume Vergnaud, Eric Circlaeys
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Publication number: 20190340303Abstract: A memory management system which can effectively determine whether, when, and to what extent, to modify a graph database based on changes in a paired relational database storing various data like media assets, such as photos and videos. The media assets are associated with data objects, such as moments, events, and people. The memory management system also includes one or more knowledge graph metadata networks (or more simply “knowledge graphs”). The knowledge graph(s) store information which is related to the data stored by the relational databases. The memory management system detects changes in the data and data objects stored by the relational database(s). The memory management system can translate detected changes into modification instructions for the knowledge graph. The memory management system can also determine that it is unnecessary to modify the knowledge graph due to a detected change.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Kevin Bessiere, Patrick H. Kelly, Guillaume Vergnaud, Eric Circlaeys
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Publication number: 20190340252Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for presenting a user interface that allows a user to quickly and easily filter and search a digital asset collection. The disclosed techniques allow for rapid recall of desired digital assets, linking assets into logical collections, and an overall improved user experience. The zero keyword/contextual keyword feature presents multimedia content icons and searchable keywords to allow a user to search the digital asset collection simply by tapping on one of these keywords. The top auto completion feature auto-completes suggestions in the search field based on various heuristics to ensure the method produces diverse and relevant results. The next keyword suggestion feature predicts a next search term based on learned properties about the digital asset collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Killian Huyghe, Lee A. Morgan, Elliot C. Liskin, Guillaume Vergnaud, Eric Circlaeys, Michael S. Smochko, Joy Hsu, Sabrine Rekik, Kevin Aujoulet, Benedikt M. Hirmer, Kevin Bessiere
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Publication number: 20190340255Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for enabling a user to quickly and easily filter and search a digital asset collection. The disclosed techniques allow for rapid recall of desired digital assets, linking assets into logical collections, and an overall improved user experience. The zero keyword/contextual keyword feature presents multimedia content icons and searchable keywords to allow a user to search the digital asset collection simply by tapping on one of these keywords. The top auto completion feature auto-completes suggestions in the search field based on various heuristics to ensure the method produces diverse and relevant results. The next keyword suggestion feature predicts a next search term based on learned properties about the digital asset collection. The semantical synonym and syntax synonym features expand an indexed vocabulary to allow broader searching.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Killian Huyghe, Eric Circlaeys, Guillaume Vergnaud, Sabrine Rekik, Lee A. Morgan, Elliot C. Liskin, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Xingwen Xu, Kevin Bessiere, Patrick H. Kelly, Timothy J. Allen, Benedikt M. Hirmer
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Patent number: 10324973Abstract: Techniques of generating a knowledge graph metadata network (metadata network) for digital asset management (DAM) are described. A DAM logic/module can obtain one or more first metadata assets describing characteristics associated with digital assets (DAs) in the DA collection. The DAM logic/module can also determine second metadata asset(s) and third metadata asset(s) describing characteristics associated with DAs in the DA collection based on the first metadata asset(s). The DAM logic/module can generate at least some of the metadata assets as nodes in a metadata network associated with the DA collection. The DAM logic/module can also determine, for at least two of the metadata assets, a correlation between the at least two metadata assets. The DAM logic/module can generate an edge in the metadata network between the nodes that represent the at least two metadata assets to represent the determined correlation.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, Kevin Bessiere, Kevin Aujoulet, Killian Huyghe, Guillaume Vergnaud, Benedikt Hirmer
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Publication number: 20180293243Abstract: A method for slide shows. The method includes receiving one or more video content element and one or more image content element that are each associated with a respective audio track, where a first video content element includes a corresponding first audio track and a second video content element includes a corresponding second audio track that is disabled or non-existent, receiving input selecting a background audio track for the slide show, and automatically integrating the video content element, the image content element, and the background audio track together into the slide show, where the background audio track is played during playback of the slide show when the computing device detects that there is no audio signal generated by another audio track in the slide show.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ralf Weber, Guillaume Vergnaud
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Patent number: 10019445Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided providing users with the ability to create and produce multimedia devices. In one aspect of the present invention, users are provided with the capability to easily and seamlessly create slideshows using multiple forms of graphic elements instead of just still pictures. In another aspect of the present invention, users are provided with the capability to create and modify the DVD menu that is required for DVDs to function properly on conventional DVD players. In still another aspect of the present invention, users are provided with an intuitive graphic interface that simply and clearly explains the trade offs the user must make in deciding which mode to record the DVD.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ralf Weber, Guillaume Vergnaud
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Publication number: 20170357672Abstract: Techniques of relating at least two digital assets based on digital asset management (DAM) are described. A DAM logic/module can obtain a knowledge graph metadata network (metadata network) of metadata associated with a collection of digital assets (DA collection). The metadata network comprises correlated metadata assets. Each metadata asset is represented a node in the metadata network. A correlation between metadata assets is represented as an edge in the metadata network. The DAM logic/module can select a first metadata asset using the metadata network. The DAM logic/module can also determine that the first metadata asset is associated with a second metadata asset. The DAM logic/module can identify a third metadata asset based on at least one of the first metadata asset or the second metadata asset. The DAM logic/module can cause one or more DAs associated with the third metadata asset to be presented via an output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, Kevin Bessiere, Kevin Aujoulet, Killian Huyghe, Guillaume Vergnaud, Benedikt Hirmer
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Publication number: 20170357644Abstract: Techniques of digital asset management (DAM) are described. A DAM logic/module can obtain a knowledge graph metadata network (metadata network) of metadata associated with a collection of digital assets (DA collection). The metadata network can comprise correlated metadata assets describing characteristics associated with digital assets (DAs) in the DA collection. Each metadata asset can be represented as a node in the metadata network. Each correlation between two metadata assets can be represented in the metadata network as an edge between the nodes representing the two metadata assets. The DAM logic/module can identify a first metadata asset using the metadata network. The DAM logic/module can also identify a second metadata asset based at least on the first metadata asset. Furthermore, the DAM logic/module can cause one or more DAs associated with at least one of the first or second metadata assets to be presented via an output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, Kevin Bessiere, Kevin Aujoulet, Killian Huyghe, Guillaume Vergnaud, Benedikt Hirmer
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Publication number: 20170359236Abstract: Techniques of generating a knowledge graph metadata network (metadata network) for digital asset management (DAM) are described. A DAM logic/module can obtain one or more first metadata assets describing characteristics associated with digital assets (DAs) in the DA collection. The DAM logic/module can also determine second metadata asset(s) and third metadata asset (s) describing characteristics associated with DAs in the DA collection based on the first metadata asset(s). The DAM logic/module can generate at least some of the metadata assets as nodes in a metadata network associated with the DA collection. The DAM logic/module can also determine, for at least two of the metadata assets, a correlation between the at least two metadata assets. The DAM logic/module can generate an edge in the metadata network between the nodes that represent the at least two metadata assets to represent the determined correlation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, Kevin Bessiere, Kevin Aujoulet, Killian Huyghe, Guillaume Vergnaud, Benedikt Hirmer
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Publication number: 20160021331Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided providing users with the ability to create and produce multimedia devices. In one aspect of the present invention, users are provided with the capability to easily and seamlessly create slideshows using multiple forms of graphic elements instead of just still pictures. In another aspect of the present invention, users are provided with the capability to create and modify the DVD menu that is required for DVDs to function properly on conventional DVD players. In still another aspect of the present invention, users are provided with an intuitive graphic interface that simply and clearly explains the trade offs the user must make in deciding which mode to record the DVD.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Ralf Weber, Guillaume Vergnaud
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Publication number: 20150347361Abstract: An example method may retrieve a markup language document from an electronic storage device. The markup language document may define a component of an interactive media application and a plurality of resolution dependent parameter sets for the component. The method may continue and determine, using at least one processor, a current resolution of a display device of a playback device and select, using the at least one processor, a parameter set of the plurality of resolution dependent parameter sets for the component based on the current resolution and device. The method may also apply, using the at least one processor, the parameter set to the component; and present, using the at least one processor, the component as part of the interactive media application on the playback device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Eric M. Circlaeys, Guillaume Vergnaud, Ralf Weber, Dong Young Oh, Alexander David Wallace, Daniel Hooper, Benjamin David Ross
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Patent number: 9177356Abstract: Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for displaying a sequence of multiple images to provide an appearance of a three-dimensional (3D) effect. A data processing device or system can identify multiple images to be displayed. The data processing device or system can divide a two-dimensional (2D) display area into multiple display portions. The data processing device or system can display a sequence of the identified images on the display portions so as to provide an appearance of a three-dimensional (3D) effect.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Robert Michael Van Osten, Craig Dehner, Guillaume Vergnaud