Patents by Inventor Mark A. Ambachtsheer
Mark A. Ambachtsheer 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: 10699063Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for authoring content for digital books. In some implementations, a single graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows an author to design a layout for the digital book, including editing text and inserting various types of interactive elements in the text. The GUI functions as both a digital book layout design tool and a word processor to facilitate the building of a digital book. The relative page location of inserted widgets can be determined by a user-selectable anchor point placed within the text. An outline view of the digital book can be created and presented in the GUI based on a hierarchical structure determined by paragraph styles applied to the text. The GUI can provide a hybrid glossary and index page for allowing the author to create and manage a glossary and index for the digital book.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Diego Bauducco, Markus Hagele, Jay C. Capela, Gary W. Gehiere, Alexander C. MacLean, Jacob G. Refstrup, Christopher E. Rudolph, Peter W. Rapp, David M. Hall, Peter G. Berger, Simon A. Ward, Steven J. Israelson, Mark Ambachtsheer, Paul Elseth, Roger Rock Rosner, Yaniv Gur
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Patent number: 10296177Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows a user to view and interact with content embedded in a digital book, such as text, image galleries, multimedia presentations, video, HTML, animated and static diagrams, charts, tables, visual dictionaries, review questions, three-dimensional (3D) animation and any other known media content, and various touch gestures can be used by the user to move through images and multimedia presentations, play video, answer review questions, manipulate three-dimensional objects, and interact with HTML.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Diego Bauducco, Markus Hagele, Jay Christopher Capela, Gary W. Gehiere, Jacob G. Refstrup, Christopher Erich Rudolph, Peter W. Rapp, David M. Hall, Peter G. Berger, Simon Antony Ward, Mark Ambachtsheer, Paul Elseth, Steven J. Israelson, Roger Rock Rosner, Yaniv Gur, Alexander C. MacLean, M. Frank Emanuel, Mac Murrett
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Patent number: 10275123Abstract: Methods and devices are provided. A method includes at an electronic device with one or more processors, a display, and memory, displaying, by the display, a playback position indicator for a media file; receiving, by the electronic device, a user input for adjusting a position of the playback position indicator from a first position of the media file to a second position of the media file; and in response to receiving the user input, displaying, by the display, a snippet from a document corresponding to content of the media file at the second position of the media file.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Eugene R. Siew, Allison M. Styer, Mark Ambachtsheer, Xiang Cao, Alastair K. Fettes, Yaniv Gur, Martin J. Murrett, Jacob Refstrup
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Publication number: 20180018069Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows a user to view and interact with content embedded in a digital book, such as text, image galleries, multimedia presentations, video, HTML, animated and static diagrams, charts, tables, visual dictionaries, review questions, three-dimensional (3D) animation and any other known media content, and various touch gestures can be used by the user to move through images and multimedia presentations, play video, answer review questions, manipulate three-dimensional objects, and interact with HTML.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Diego Bauducco, Markus Hagele, Jay Christopher Capela, Gary W. Gehiere, Jacob G. Refstrup, Christopher Erich Rudolph, Peter W. Rapp, David M. Hall, Peter G. Berger, Simon Antony Ward, Mark Ambachtsheer, Paul Elseth, Steven J. Israelson, Roger Rock Rosner, Yaniv Gur, Alexander C. MacLean, M. Frank Emanuel, Mac Murrett
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Patent number: 9766782Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows a user to view and interact with content embedded in a digital book, such as text, image galleries, multimedia presentations, video, HTML, animated and static diagrams, charts, tables, visual dictionaries, review questions, three-dimensional (3D) animation and any other known media content, and various touch gestures can be used by the user to move through images and multimedia presentations, play video, answer review questions, manipulate three-dimensional objects, and interact with HTML.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2012Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Diego Bauducco, Markus Hagele, Jay Christopher Capela, Gary W. Gehiere, Jacob G. Refstrup, Christopher Erich Rudolph, Peter W. Rapp, David M. Hall, Peter G. Berger, Simon Antony Ward, Mark Ambachtsheer, Paul Elseth, Steven J. Israelson, Roger Rock Rosner, Yaniv Gur, Alexander C. MacLean, M. Frank Emanuel, Mac Murrett
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Publication number: 20160299648Abstract: Methods and devices are provided. A method includes at an electronic device with one or more processors, a display, and memory, displaying, by the display, a playback position indicator for a media file; receiving, by the electronic device, a user input for adjusting a position of the playback position indicator from a first position of the media file to a second position of the media file; and in response to receiving the user input, displaying, by the display, a snippet from a document corresponding to content of the media file at the second position of the media file.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Eugene R. Siew, Allison M. Styer, Mark Ambachtsheer, Xiang Cao, Alastair K. Fettes, Yaniv Gur, Martin J. Murrett, Jacob Refstrup
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Publication number: 20140115436Abstract: Some embodiments provide a content processing application with a novel annotation migration operation that allows the application to automatically migrate annotations from a first version of content such as a document to a second version of the content. Examples of such annotations include user-specified notes, highlights, bookmarks, and/or other annotations. The content processing application examines different sets of content segments in the second version to identify a particular set of content segments that matches a first set of content segments in the first version associated with a particular annotation. Upon identifying a matching particular set of content segments, the content processing application associates the particular annotation with the particular set of content segments in the second version. The content processing application can then provide a presentation of the second version with the particular annotation for the matching particular set of content segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Donald R. Beaver, Martin J. Murrett, Allison M. Styer, Christopher E. Rudolph, Ian J. Elseth, Charles J. Migos, Mark A. Ambachtsheer, Evan S. Torchin
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Publication number: 20130073998Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for authoring content for digital books. In some implementations, a single graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows an author to design a layout for the digital book, including editing text and inserting various types of interactive elements in the text. The GUI functions as both a digital book layout design tool and a word processor to facilitate the building of a digital book. The relative page location of inserted widgets can be determined by a user-selectable anchor point placed within the text. An outline view of the digital book can be created and presented in the GUI based on a hierarchical structure determined by paragraph styles applied to the text. The GUI can provide a hybrid glossary and index page for allowing the author to create and manage a glossary and index for the digital book.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Diego Bauducco, Markus Hagele, Jay C. Capela, Gary W. Gehiere, Alexander C. MacLean, Jacob G. Refstrup, Christopher E. Rudolph, Peter W. Rapp, David M. Hall, Peter G. Berger, Simon A. Ward, Steven J. Israelson, Mark Ambachtsheer, Paul Elseth, Roger Rock Rosner, Yaniv Gur
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Publication number: 20130073932Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for presenting interactive content for digital books. In some implementations, a graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows a user to view and interact with content embedded in a digital book. The interactive content can include, but is not limited to, text, image galleries, multimedia presentations, video, HTML, animated and static diagrams, charts, tables, visual dictionaries, review questions, three-dimensional (3D) animation and any other known media content. For example, various touch gestures can be used by the user to move through images and multimedia presentations, play video, answer review questions, manipulate three-dimensional objects, and interact with HTML.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Diego Bauducco, Markus Hagele, Jay Christopher Capela, Gary W. Gehiere, Jacob G. Refstrup, Christopher Erich Rudolph, Peter W. Rapp, David M. Hall, Peter G. Berger, Simon Antony Ward, Mark Ambachtsheer, Paul Elseth, Steven J. Israelson, Roger Rock Rosner, Yaniv Gur, Alexander C. MacLean, M. Frank Emanuel, Mac Murrett
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Patent number: 8381101Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that typesets and renders a document in a platform-independent manner. During operation, the system first obtains the document, wherein the document includes text content and associated style information including one or more fonts. The system also obtains platform-independent font metrics for the one or more fonts, wherein the platform-independent font metrics include information that can be used to determine the positions of individual characters in a rendering of the document. Next, the system uses the platform-independent font metrics to determine how the document is divided into line fragments and pages. Finally, the system uses the determined division while rendering the document, so that the division of the document into line fragments and pages is the same across different computing platforms.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher E. Rudolph, Boris Prokofiev, Mark A. Ambachtsheer
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Publication number: 20110119573Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that typesets and renders a document in a platform-independent manner. During operation, the system first obtains the document, wherein the document includes text content and associated style information including one or more fonts. The system also obtains platform-independent font metrics for the one or more fonts, wherein the platform-independent font metrics include information that can be used to determine the positions of individual characters in a rendering of the document. Next, the system uses the platform-independent font metrics to determine how the document is divided into line fragments and pages. Finally, the system uses the determined division while rendering the document, so that the division of the document into line fragments and pages is the same across different computing platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christopher E. Rudolph, Boris Prokofiev, Mark A. Ambachtsheer