Apple Inc.

Syng, Inc.

Bas Ording

Imran A Chaudhri

Gregory N Christie

Marcel Van Os

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Scott James Forstall

Freddy Allen Anzures

Kenneth L Kocienda

Steve P Jobs

Duncan Robert Kerr

Kevin Tiene

Yan J Arrouye

Dominic Benjamin Giampaolo

Pavel Cisler

Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill

Richard Williamson

John Owen Louch

Wayne Carl Westerman

Jonathan P Ive

Bartley K Andre

Christopher J Stringer

Michael James Matas

Scott M Herz

Raymond S Sepulveda

Bradford Allen Moore

Paul D Marcos

Shin Nishibori

Brian Quentin Huppi

Donald James Lindsay

Joshua A Strickon

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Patrick L Coffman

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Jody R Akana

Martha Evans Hankey

Eric Taylor Seymour

Myra Mary Haggerty

Thomas Michael Madden

Richard W Fabrick, Ii

Nick King

Jeffrey Traer Bernstein

Steve Porter Hotelling

Julian K Missig

Avi Elias Cieplinski

Gregory B Novick

May-Li Khoe

B Michael Victor

Elbert D Chen

Chris Blumenberg

Steven Porter Hotelling

Nicholas V King

Steve S Ko

Chris A Ligtenberg

Mike Matas

Joshua H Shaffer

Nitin Ganatra

Andre M J Boule

Charles John Pisula

Jeremy A Wyld

Jeffrey Alan Bush

Bianca Cheng Costanzo

Henri C Lamiraux

Stephen John Chick

Mark Zimmer

Afrooz Family

Timothy E Wasko

Peter N Graffagnino

Brendan John Langoulant

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Anthony Michael Fadell

Jeffrey L Robbin

David H Narajowski

Eric Steven Peyton

Justin Edward Santamaria

David Joshua Hart

Peter J Kennedy

Timothy Wayne Bumgarner

Christopher J Hynes

Daniel Shteremberg

Douglas B Satzger

Chanaka G Karunamuni

Calvin Q Seid

Lawrence Yuan Yang

Wan Si Wan

Jonathan R Dascola

Kevin M Lynch

Anton M Davydov

Imran Chaudhri, Iii

Nicholas Zambetti

Eliza Carey Block

Michael James Paquette

Andrew M Grignon

Andre M Boule

Angela J Guzman Suarez

Systems and methods for rendering spatial audio in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a spatial audio system, including a primary network connected speaker, including a plurality of sets of drivers, where each set of drivers is oriented in a different direction, a processor system, memory containing an audio player application, wherein the audio player application configures the processor system to obtain an audio source stream from an audio source via the network interface, spatially encode the audio source, decode the spatially encoded audio source to obtain driver inputs for the individual drivers in the plurality of sets of drivers, where the driver inputs cause the drivers to generate directional audio.

Systems and methods for spatial audio rendering

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.

User detection by a computing device

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

In accordance with some embodiments, a portable electronic device includes: a display; one or more processors; memory; and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or mor processors. The one or more programs include instructions for: detecting a user-defined gesture on the display while the portable electronic device is in a user-defined-gesture recording mode; creating a representation of the user-defined gesture; associating the representation of the user-defined gesture with an emoji character; and storing the representation of the user-defined gesture and the association of the representation of the user-defined gesture with the emoji character.

Device, method, and graphical user interface for using emoji characters with user-defined gestures

A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays an application on the touch-sensitive display; and when the application is in a predefined mode, performs a predefined operation in response to each gesture of a set of multiple distinct gestures on the touch-sensitive display. Another aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays a first application; when the first application is in a first mode, performs a first operation upon detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive display; and performs the first operation upon detecting a second gesture on the touch-sensitive display, wherein the second gesture is different from the first gesture.

Portable electronic device performing window operations with gestures on a touchscreen

In some embodiments, a user enters a search term (or a portion thereof) in a search field associated with one or more resource types that may be searched. The user may be presented with a pop-up menu containing a list of likely matches. The user selects the desired preference control from the pop-up menu, and the corresponding preference pane, or other container, containing the selected data item, control, or other resource is displayed. In one aspect, as the user enters the search term (or portion thereof), certain icons are highlighted. Specifically, those icons that represent containers containing matching data items (such as preference panes having controls that match the search term) are highlighted. Different types of highlighting can be used depending on the degree of certainty as to which container is likely to contain the correct match.

Highlighting icons for search results

Providing a bridge interface for managing virtual workspaces is disclosed. A plurality of workspace images is presented in a user interface, each workspace image corresponding to a different virtual workspace available to a user of a computer system. A user can generate new virtual workspaces using an appropriate user input, such as by selecting a user interface object for generating new virtual workspaces. In some implementations, a new thumbnail image representing the new virtual workspace can be automatically created after the user opts for creation of the new workspace.

Updating display of workspaces in a user interface for managing workspaces in response to user input

In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a device with a touch screen display is disclosed. In the method, a movement of an object on or near the touch screen display is detected. In response to detecting the movement, an electronic document displayed on the touch screen display is translated in a first direction. If an edge of the electronic document is reached while translating the electronic document in the first direction while the object is still detected on or near the touch screen display, an area beyond the edge of the document is displayed. After the object is no longer detected on or near the touch screen display, the document is translated in a second direction until the area beyond the edge of the document is no longer displayed.

List scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display

Display screen or portion thereof with a group of icons

Display screen with graphical user interface

A device with a touch-sensitive display may be unlocked via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. The device is unlocked if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture for unlocking the device. The device displays one or more unlock images with respect to which the predefined gesture is to be performed in order to unlock the device. The performance of the predefined gesture with respect to the unlock image may include moving the unlock image to a predefined location and/or moving the unlock image along a predefined path. The device may also display visual cues of the predefined gesture on the touch screen to remind a user of the gesture.

Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image

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Bas Ording