Patents by Inventor Stephen O Lemay

Stephen O Lemay 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).

  • Publication number: 20230316634
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer system selectively recenters virtual content to a viewpoint of a user, in the presence of physical or virtual obstacles, and/or automatically recenters one or more virtual objects in response to the display generation component changing state, selectively recenters content associated with a communication session between multiple users in response detected user input, changes the visual prominence of content included in virtual objects based on viewpoint and/or based on a detected user attention of a user, modifies visual prominence of one or more virtual objects to resolve apparent obscuring of the one or more virtual objects, modifies visual prominence based on user viewpoint relative to virtual objects, concurrently modifies visual prominence based various types of user interaction, and/or changes an amount of visual impact of an environmental effect in response to detected user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Shih-Sang CHIU, Benjamin H. BOESEL, Jonathan PERRON, Stephen O. LEMAY, Christopher D. MCKENZIE, Dorian D. DARGAN, Jonathan RAVASZ, Nathan GITTER
  • Patent number: 11775150
    Abstract: An electronic device may display a first lap time representation, and may move the first lap time representation in accordance with a first amount of elapsed time. While moving the first lap time representation, the electronic device may detect a lap input. In response to the lap input, the electronic device may cease movement of the first lap time representation, display a second lap time representation, and move the second lap time representation in accordance with a second amount of elapsed time. A relative positioning of the first lap time representation and the second lap time representation may correspond to a difference between a first lap time and a second lap time. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update the timescales of lap time representation(s) in accordance with a rotational input. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update a timer duration setting in accordance with a rotational input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Lance Wilson, Christopher Wilson, Jonathan R. Dascola, Gary Ian Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Natalia Maric, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 11775141
    Abstract: Context-specific user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, provide, inter alia, indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. A user interface screen including a current time indicator and a first platter is displayed. The first platter is at a first position, is associated with a first application, and displays a first set of information obtained from the first application. The first set of information relates to a first temporal context of the current day. In response to detecting a user input, the first platter is displayed at a second position and a second platter is displayed at the first position. The second platter is associated with a second application and displays a second set of information obtained from the second application. The second set of information relates to a second temporal context of the current day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Heena Ko, Giovanni M. Agnoli, Kevin Will Chen, Joshua R. Ford, Christopher Patrick Foss, Aurelio Guzman, Stephen O. Lemay, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Joshua Weinberg, Christopher Wilson
  • Publication number: 20230297206
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to retrieving and displaying contextually-relevant media content. In some embodiments, a device receives a request to display contextually-relevant media and, in response, displays a representation of a collection of media items relevant to a context of the device. In some embodiments, a device displays a visual media item of a sequence of items and, in response to receiving a swipe gesture, displays a detail user interface comprising related content for the media item. In some embodiments, a device, while displaying a first detail user interface, displays an affordance corresponding to a plurality of individuals identified as having attended a first event, that when selected, causes display of visual media corresponding to a plurality of events attended by the individuals. In some embodiments, a device, in response to user input, obtains an automatically-generated collection of visual media and displays a corresponding affordance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Britt S. MIURA, Simon BOVET, Eric CIRCLAEYS, Alan C. DYE, Daniel E. GOBERA RUBALCAVA, Cyrus Daniel IRANI, Brendan J. LANGOULANT, Stephen O. LEMAY, Justin S. TITI, Gary Ian BUTCHER, Paulo Michaelo LOPEZ, Henrique PENHA, Christopher WILSON
  • Patent number: 11765114
    Abstract: Audio inputs are detected at an electronic device and translated into electronic communications for playback at an external electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tiffany S. Jon, Freddy Allen Anzures, Stephen O. Lemay, Matthew J. Sundstrom
  • Patent number: 11762547
    Abstract: A portable electronic device for instant messaging is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a graphical user interface (GUI) on a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. The GUI has a set of messages exchanged between a user of the device and another person. The set of messages are displayed in a chronological order. In response to detecting a scrolling gesture comprising a substantially vertical movement of a user contact with the touch screen display, the display of messages are scrolled in accordance with a direction of the scrolling gesture. The detecting of the scrolling gesture is substantially independent of a horizontal position of the user contact with the touch screen display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel Van Os, Scott Herz, Greg Christie
  • Publication number: 20230291824
    Abstract: An electronic device having a user interface for accessing phone features. The user interface accounts for whether the electronic device is connected to a companion cellular phone. The user interface accounts for a headset is available for use to carry on a call. The user interface permits transition between using one or more of cellular phone, headset, and/or the electronic device to be used for carrying on incoming or outgoing calls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. YANG, Imran CHAUDHRI, Anton M. DAVYDOV, Alan C. DYE, Dylan Ross EDWARDS, Christopher Patrick FOSS, Jonathan P. IVE, Zachery KENNEDY, Stephen O. LEMAY
  • Publication number: 20230280872
    Abstract: At an electronic device with a touch screen display, display a user interface, where the user interface includes at least two windows of an application, a first icon displayed in association with a first window of the at least two windows, and a second icon at a location different from the at least two windows. While displaying the at least two windows, detect a gesture on the touch screen display. In response to detecting the gesture: in accordance with detecting the gesture on the first icon associated with the first window on the touch screen display, remove from the display the first window of the at least two displayed windows corresponding to the gesture; and in accordance with detecting the gesture on the second icon at the location different from the at least two windows of the application, display a new window of the application on the touch screen display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Scott FORSTALL, Chris BLUMENBERG, Andre M.J. BOULE, Imran CHAUDHRI, Gregory N. CHRISTIE, Stephen O. LEMAY, Marcel VAN OS, Richard J. WILLIAMSON
  • Publication number: 20230273690
    Abstract: Button functionalities for user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, are disclosed. Exemplary button functionalities are described for an electronic device with a display, a rotatable and depressible input mechanism, and/or a button. Different device features may be accessed, depending on whether the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button is activated, and further depending on whether the activation represents a single press, a double press, or an extended press on the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Patrick FOSS, Anton M. DAVYDOV, Dylan Ross EDWARDS, Imran CHAUDHRI, Alan C. DYE, Jonathan P. IVE, Stephen O. LEMAY, Kevin M. LYNCH, Lawrence Y. YANG, Dennis S. PARK
  • Publication number: 20230273707
    Abstract: While concurrently displaying a first application view and a second application view in a first concurrent-display configuration of multiple different concurrent-display configurations, a first input that includes movement is directed to the first application view and drags a representation of the first application view across the display. While the representation of the first application view is dragged over different portions of the display, different visual indications are displayed to indicate that an end of the first input will result in the first application view and the second application view being displayed in a respective one of the different concurrent-display configurations. In response to detecting the end of the first input, depending on over which portion of the display the first input ended, the first application view and the second application view are displayed in a corresponding concurrent-display configurations of the multiple concurrent-display configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Brandon M. Walkin, Patrick L. Coffman, Shubham Kedia, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard R. Dellinger
  • Patent number: 11743375
    Abstract: A portable electronic device with a touch screen display displays an incoming message from a party to a user of the device while the device is locked. The device responds to detecting a user request to view the incoming message by immediately displaying a set of messages between the user and the party in a chronological order. While the device is unlocked, if an incoming message is longer than a predefined length the device displays a portion of the incoming message, a view icon, and a long-message indicia. Alternately, if the incoming message is equal to or less than the predefined length, the device displays the entire incoming message and a reply icon. In response to user selection of either the view icon or the reply icon, the device immediately displays a set of messages between the user of the device and the party in a chronological order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory N. Christie, Marcel Van Os, Stephen O. Lemay, Evan Russell Doll
  • Patent number: 11743390
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing phone calls. In some embodiments, an electronic device with a touch screen displays a phone call user interface which includes informational items associated with phone calls, such as an add call affordance. In some embodiments, when the electronic device receives a request to initiate another phone and displays an additional user interface that includes a merge call affordance that replaces display of the add call affordance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Forstall, Imran Chaudhri, Michael Matas, Marcel Van Os, Stephen O. Lemay, Patrick Lee Coffman, Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill, Greg Christie
  • Patent number: 11733055
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for interacting with mapping applications. In one example, a virtual assistant server can efficiently communicate with a map server to provide a user with map data in response to spoken user requests received at a user device. In another example, communicatively coupled electronic devices can be synchronized such that a location marker generated on one device can be displayed on the other device. In another example, an electronic device can display simplified views of individual route directions that can be updated based on movement of the user or in response to user requests. In another example, an electronic device can selectively display an interface including a current location of a user or an interface including a route to a predicted destination based on contextual information associated with the user. The interfaces can include affordances for launching an associated mapping application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aroon Pahwa, Britt K. Nelson, Stephen O. Lemay, Imran Chaudhri
  • Publication number: 20230262196
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for initiating a video conference using a first mobile device. The method presents, during an audio call through a wireless communication network with a second device, a selectable user-interface (UI) item on the first mobile device for switching from the audio call to the video conference. The method receives a selection of the selectable UI item. The method initiates the video conference without terminating the audio call. The method terminates the audio call before allowing the first and second devices to present audio and video data exchanged through the video conference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Elizabeth C. CRANFILL, Stephen O. LEMAY, Joe S. ABUAN, Hsi-Jung WU, Xiaosong ZHOU, Roberto GARCIA, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230259265
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer system scrolls scrollable content in response to a variety of user inputs. In some embodiments, a computer system enters text into a text entry field in response to voice inputs. In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates interactions with a soft keyboard. In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates interactions with a cursor. In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates deletion of text. In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates interactions with hardware input devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Evgenii KRIVORUCHKO, Kristi E. BAUERLY, Stephen O. LEMAY, Israel PASTRANA VICENTE
  • Patent number: D996459
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Patrick Lee Coffman, Nathan de Vries, Christopher P. Foss, Robert Garcia, III, Heena Ko, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D997191
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chanaka Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D994684
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arian Behzadi, Imran Chaudhri, Patrick Lee Coffman, Jonathan Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Foss, David C. Graham, Jonathan P. Ive, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Patent number: D999237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo Caro, Jae Woo Chang, Robert Garcia, III, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D999783
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Foss, Nicholas V. King, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard D. Lyons, Charmian Naguit, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Christopher I. Wilson