Apple Inc.

Alex Kan

Richard Williamson

Christopher Blumenberg

Mike Matas

Sean Matthew Gies

Kimon Tsinteris

Ryan Staake

Michael J E Swift

Sean Boland Kelly

Charles John Pisula

Gokhan Avkarogullari

Jason P Jane

Christopher C Niederauer

Loren Brichter

A multi-step animation sequence for smoothly transitioning from a map view to a panorama view of a specified location is disclosed. An orientation overlay can be displayed on the panorama, showing a direction and angular extent of the field of view of the panorama. An initial specified location and a current location of the panorama can also be displayed on the orientation overlay. A navigable placeholder panorama to be displayed in place of a panorama at the specified location when panorama data is not available is disclosed. A perspective view of a street name annotation can be laid on the surface of a street in the panorama.

Techniques for manipulating panoramas

Power management techniques include a graphics processing unit (GPU) in which the GPU determines whether it is operating outside an operational limit and, when the GPU is operating outside the operational limit, the GPU alters performance of an operation to be performed texture processor within the GPU to reduce complexity of the operation. Otherwise, the GPU may perform the texture processing operation at its default complexity. These techniques provide a degree of power control not available in other techniques.

Graphics processing unit providing thermal control via render quality degradation

Methods and apparatuses for adaptive presentation of graphical representations.

Adaptive artwork for bandwidth- and/or memory-limited devices

Techniques for anti-aliasing of graphical objects. A graphical object to be displayed on a display image may be modified to include a border region at least partially surrounding the object. The color of the border region may be selected based on the color of the background over which the graphical object is to be displayed. The graphical object is linearly filtered. The linearly filtered graphical object is displayed on a display device.

Edge anti-aliasing

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Alex Kan