Patents by Inventor Julian Missig

Julian Missig 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: 11556171
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally identifies a person's face, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the identification. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines a gaze location in a user interface, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally designates a user as being present at a sound-playback device in accordance with a determination that sound-detection criteria and verification criteria have been satisfied. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines whether a person is further or closer than a threshold distance from a display device, and optionally provides a first or second user interface for display on the display device in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally modifies the playing of media content in accordance with a determination that one or more presence criteria are not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Avi E. Cieplinski, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Julian Missig, May-Li Khoe, Bianca Cheng Costanzo, Myra Mary Haggerty, Duncan Robert Kerr, Bas Ording, Elbert D. Chen
  • Patent number: 11520467
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a device displays functionality information in response to receiving an indication of a first input for which a contact meets functionality display criteria. In some embodiments, a device generates a user interface that includes a navigation bar including images from different positions in a respective content item, and a representation of an adjacent content item. In some embodiments, a device moves a selection-indicator in a user interface by a predefined amount in response to receiving an indication of a first input that meets unitary movement criteria. In some embodiments, a device interprets movement of a contact of an input based at least in part on a grip of a user. In some embodiments, a device displays a plurality of character selection options when a text entry field is not tolerant of character ambiguity and a first input corresponds to a plurality of candidate characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Joe Howard, Joshua McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress, Julian Missig, Imran Chaudhri, Alessandro Sabatelli, Nicholas Zambetti
  • Patent number: 11520416
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to interacting with an electronic device without touching a display screen or other physical input mechanisms. In some examples, the electronic device performs an operation in response to a positioning of a user's hand and/or an orientation of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Lukas Robert Tom Girling, Julian Missig, Golnaz Abdollahian
  • Publication number: 20220365595
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally identifies a person's face, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the identification. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines a gaze location in a user interface, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally designates a user as being present at a sound-playback device in accordance with a determination that sound-detection criteria and verification criteria have been satisfied. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines whether a person is further or closer than a threshold distance from a display device, and optionally provides a first or second user interface for display on the display device in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally modifies the playing of media content in accordance with a determination that one or more presence criteria are not satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Avi E. CIEPLINSKI, Jeffrey Traer BERNSTEIN, Julian MISSIG, May-Li KHOE, Bianca Cheng COSTANZO, Myra Mary HAGGERTY, Duncan Robert KERR, Bas ORDING, Elbert D. CHEN
  • Patent number: 11481073
    Abstract: A computing device having a touch-sensitive surface and a display, detects a stylus input on the touch-sensitive surface while displaying a user interface. A first operation is performed in the user interface in accordance with a determination that the stylus input includes movement of the stylus across the touch-sensitive surface while the stylus is detected on the touch-sensitive surface. A second operation different from the first operation is performed in the user interface in accordance with a determination that the stylus input includes rotation of the stylus around an axis of the stylus while the stylus is detected on the touch-sensitive surface. A third operation is performed in the user interface in accordance with a determination that the stylus input includes movement of the stylus across the touch-sensitive surface and rotation of the stylus around an axis of the stylus while the stylus is detected on the touch-sensitive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Julian Missig, May-Li Khoe, Bianca Cheng Costanzo, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein
  • Patent number: 11429274
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device receives handwritten inputs in text entry fields and converts the handwritten inputs into font-based text. In some embodiments, an electronic device selects and deletes text based on inputs from a stylus. In some embodiments, an electronic device inserts text into pre-existing text based on inputs from a stylus. In some embodiments, an electronic device manages the timing of converting handwritten inputs into font-based text. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a handwritten entry menu. In some embodiments, an electronic device controls the characteristic of handwritten inputs based on selections on the handwritten entry menu. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents autocomplete suggestions. In some embodiments, an electronic device converts handwritten input to font-based text. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays options in a content entry palette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julian Missig, Matan Stauber, Guillaume Ardaud, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Marisa Rei Lu, Jiabao Li, Praveen Sharma, Christopher D. Soli
  • Publication number: 20220247918
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to embodiments for video communication interfaces for automatically adjusting a displayed representation of a field-of-view of a camera in response to detecting a change in a scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Fiona Paula O'LEARY, Ali-Amir ALDAN, Guillaume Ardaud, Jae Woo CHANG, Behkish J. MANZARI, Julian Missig, Siva Kiran YELLAMRAJU
  • Publication number: 20220244838
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to using avatars and image data for enhanced user interactions. In some examples, user status dependent avatars are generated and displayed with a message associated with the user status. In some examples, a device captures image information to scan an object to create a 3D model of the object. The device determines an algorithm for the 3D model based on the capture image information and provides visual feedback on additional image data that is needed for the algorithm to build the 3D model. In some examples, an application's operation on a device is restricted based on whether an authorized user is identified as using the device based on captured image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Marek BEREZA, Adi BERENSON, Jeffrey Traer BERNSTEIN, Lukas Robert Tom GIRLING, Mark HAUENSTEIN, Amir HOFFNUNG, William D. LINDMEIER, Joseph A. MALIA, Julian MISSIG
  • Publication number: 20220222093
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for viewing, creating, editing, and sharing content on an electronic device. In accordance with some embodiments, a shortcut hint user interface is displayed in response to detection of a downstroke input of a modifier key. The shortcut hint user interface includes information identifying shortcuts associated with the modifier key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Julian MISSIG, Morgan WINER, Jeffrey Traer BERNSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20220197493
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device receives handwritten inputs in text entry fields and converts the handwritten inputs into font-based text. In some embodiments, an electronic device selects and deletes text based on inputs from a stylus. In some embodiments, an electronic device inserts text into pre-existing text based on inputs from a stylus. In some embodiments, an electronic device manages the timing of converting handwritten inputs into font-based text. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a handwritten entry menu. In some embodiments, an electronic device controls the characteristic of handwritten inputs based on selections on the handwritten entry menu. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents autocomplete suggestions. In some embodiments, an electronic device converts handwritten input to font-based text. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays options in a content entry palette.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Julian MISSIG, Matan STAUBER, Guillaume ARDAUD, Jeffrey Traer BERNSTEIN, Marisa Rei LU, Christopher D. SOLI
  • Patent number: 11366576
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a multifunction device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface creates a plurality of workspace views. A respective workspace view is configured to contain content assigned by a user to the respective workspace view. The content includes application windows. The device displays a first workspace view in the plurality of workspace views on the display without displaying other workspace views in the plurality of workspace views and detects a first multifinger gesture on the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the first multifinger gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the device replaces display of the first workspace view with concurrent display of the plurality of workspace views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julian Missig, Jonathan Koch, Avi E. Cieplinski, B. Michael Victor, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Duncan R. Kerr, Myra M. Haggerty
  • Patent number: 11354033
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a plurality of icons in a predefined area on the display, and detects a gesture that includes a contact on a touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector is over a respective icon, and subsequent movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to movement of the focus selector outside of the predefined area. In response to detecting the gesture, if the contact had a maximum intensity during the gesture that was below a respective intensity threshold, the device retains the respective icon in the predefined area after the gesture has ended. But if the contact reached an intensity during the gesture that was above the respective intensity threshold, the device moves the respective icon in accordance with the movement of the contact during the gesture and removes the respective icon from the predefined area after the gesture has ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Julian Missig
  • Publication number: 20220147173
    Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying a first user interface, detects an input for an input object, detects that first hover proximity criteria are met by the input object, and displays first visual feedback. While displaying the first visual feedback, the device detects a change in a current value of a hover proximity parameter of the input object and that second hover proximity criteria are met by the input object after the change. In response to detecting that the second hover proximity criteria are met, the device displays second visual feedback, distinct from the first visual feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Mark K. Hauenstein, Jeffrey T. Bernstein, Julian Missig, Marek A. Bereza
  • Publication number: 20220129076
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and one or more tactile output generators displays, on the display, a respective user interface element within a user interface region. The device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface for moving the respective user interface element by a respective amount. In response, in accordance with a determination that moving the respective user interface element by the respective amount would cause the respective user interface element to move beyond a predefined limit, the device generates a respective tactile output via the tactile output generators and moves the respective user interface element by the respective amount and beyond the predefined limit. In response to detecting liftoff of a contact used to perform the gesture, the device at least partially reverses the movement of the respective user interface element, such that the respective user interface element is moved to the predefined limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Julian Missig, Avi E. Cieplinski, May-Li Khoe, Bianca C. Costanzo
  • Publication number: 20220124191
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays user interfaces associated with games in response to detecting input devices having been connected to the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a reduced user interface in response to detecting that a cover has covered a portion of the display of the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface via a display generation component of an input device. In some embodiments, an electronic device projects a user interface via a projection device of an input device. In some embodiments, an electronic device directs inputs from an input device to different user interfaces depending on the mode in which the input device is operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Fiona P. O'LEARY, Jonathan A. TOPF, Mylène E. DREYER, Julian MISSIG
  • Patent number: 11307657
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally identifies a person's face, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the identification. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines a gaze location in a user interface, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally designates a user as being present at a sound-playback device in accordance with a determination that sound-detection criteria and verification criteria have been satisfied. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines whether a person is further or closer than a threshold distance from a display device, and optionally provides a first or second user interface for display on the display device in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally modifies the playing of media content in accordance with a determination that one or more presence criteria are not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Avi E. Cieplinski, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Julian Missig, May-Li Khoe, Bianca Cheng Costanzo, Myra Mary Haggerty, Duncan Robert Kerr, Bas Ording, Elbert D. Chen
  • Publication number: 20220075474
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a computing device is described. The device sends instructions to a display of the device for displaying at least a portion of a user interface having one or more selectable objects. The device sends instructions to the display for displaying an object selection indicator at a first size. In response to receiving an input corresponding to a first gesture, the device sends instructions to the display for moving the object selection indicator towards a target selectable object of the one or more selectable objects in accordance with the first gesture. After receiving an input that corresponds to detecting an end of the first gesture, the device sends instructions to the display for resizing the object selection indicator to a second size that is based on a size of the target selectable object and is distinct from the first size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Julian MISSIG
  • Patent number: 11243627
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, one or more first sensors to detect proximity of an input object above the touch-sensitive surface and one or more second sensors to detect intensity of contact displays a user interface object at a first location. While displaying the user interface object, the device detects a first portion of an input at the first location of the user interface object while the input object meets hover criteria. In response, the device dynamically changes an appearance of the user interface object in accordance with a current hover proximity parameter of the input object. Afterwards, the device detects a second portion of the input at an initial contact location that corresponds to the first location; and, in response, dynamically changes the appearance of the user interface object in accordance with a current intensity of a contact by the input object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Mark K. Hauenstein, Jeffrey T. Bernstein, Julian Missig, Marek A. Bereza
  • Publication number: 20220006946
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to capturing and displaying video with multiple focal planes. The video includes a subject with a predefined portion of the subject identified in a first focal region. When a set of one or more conditions is met, the video is displayed with a focal plane of the video selected to be outside of the first focal region. When the set of one or more conditions is met is no longer met; and the video is displayed with the focal plane of the video selected to be inside of the first focal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Julian MISSIG, Guillaume ARDAUD
  • Patent number: 11194467
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for receiving handwriting input, accessing predictive text candidates, and accessing keyboards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Botao Zhu, Jiabao Li, Karan Misra, Julian Missig, Chun Kin Minor Wong