Patents by Inventor Robert Cornelius Murphy

Robert Cornelius Murphy 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).

  • Single mode visual media capture
    Patent number: 8428453
    Abstract: An electronic device includes digital image sensors to capture visual media, a display to present the visual media from the digital image sensors and a touch controller to identify haptic contact engagement, haptic contact persistence and haptic contact release on the display. A visual media capture controller alternately records the visual media as a photograph or a video based upon an evaluation of the time period between the haptic contact engagement and the haptic contact release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Snapchat, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Thomas Spiegel, Robert Cornelius Murphy