Apple Inc.

Camille Moussette

Duncan Robert Kerr

Gary Ian Butcher

Colin M Ely

Sebastian J Bauer

Jonathan P Ive

Imran A Chaudhri

Marcos Alonso Ruiz

Alan C Dye

Kenneth L Kocienda

Christopher Patrick Foss

Jonathan R Dascola

Pedro Mari

Patrick Kessler

Lawrence Yuan Yang

Giancarlo Yerkes

Dylan Ross Edwards

Chanaka G Karunamuni

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Taylor Gerard Carrigan

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky

Christopher Matthew Werner

Marcel Van Os

Patrick L Coffman

Brett W Degner

Wan Si Wan

Nicholas V King

Arian Behzadi

Peter D Anton

Storrs Townsend Hoen

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Richard P Howarth

Christopher I Wilson

Freddy Allen Anzures

Kevin Will Chen

Craig Michael Federighi

Christopher G Wilson

Christopher Brian Fleizach

Jeffrey Traer Bernstein

William Martin Bachman

Kevin M Lynch

Jae Woo Chang

Lee S Broughton

Grant R Paul

Behkish J Manzari

Henrique Dias Penha

Charles J Migos

Nathan De Vries

Donald Walter Pitschel

Nicholas D Felton

Teofila Connor

Matthew J Sundstrom

William McMillan Tyler

John B Morrell

Jean-Pierre M Mouilleseaux

Hugo D Verweij

Madeleine S Cordier

Joshua B Kopin

Jules K Fennis

Brian T Gleeson

Peter C Tsoi

David H Bloom

Jonah Alexander Harley

Samuel Bruce Weiss

Daniel Trent Preston

Adam S Meyer

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Julien Yann Robert

Bradley William Griffin

Lynne Devine

Matthew Irvine Brown

Daamun Mohseni

James H Foster

Per Haakan Linus Persson

Thayne M Miller

Seung Wook Kim

Giovanni M Agnoli

Christopher John Sanders

Allison W Dryer

Afrooz Family

Joseph Y Chan

Glen W Steele

Marco Triverio

Molly Pray Wiebe

Joseph M Williams

Charles Hugo Ying

Nicole M Wells

Gemma Alexandria Roper

Lauren Kim Trottier

Joseph A Malia

Benjamin G Jackson

Tu K Nguyen

Charmian Bondoc Naguit

Pavel Pivonka

Gregory M Apodaca

Eamon Francis Gilravi

William D Lindmeier

Scott Lopatin

Aaron M Melim

Reza Abbasian

Systems and methods are disclosed defining haptic patterns that include both haptic events and audio events, and optionally include video or animation. The haptic patterns can be called from an application or included as an attachment to a message and played on an electronic device that receives the message. A haptics application programming interface has a haptic experience mapping functionality that generates a same, or similar, haptic experience on different manufacturers or models of electronic devices having different haptic hardware. Haptic patterns can include synchronized haptic and audio events. Haptic event attributes include start time, sharpness, and intensity. Sharpness and/or intensity can be controlled via a parameter envelope for a single event, or for multiple events in a haptic pattern. Sharpness indicates a quality of the tactile sensation of a haptic event, from smooth or rounded, to sharp or precise.

Haptics application programming interface

A method of providing a haptic output includes detecting a condition; determining if a head-mounted haptic accessory comprising an array of two or more haptic actuators is being worn by a user; determining an actuation pattern for the array of haptic actuators; and in response to detecting the condition and determining that the head-mounted haptic accessory is being worn by the user, initiating the actuation pattern to produce a directional haptic output that is configured to direct the user's attention along a direction.

Haptic output system

An electronic device displays a user interface including a slider control that represents a continuous range of values between a first value and a second value, the slider control includes a first end that corresponds to the first value and a second end that corresponds to the second value, and the slider control further includes a movable indicator configured to move along the slider control between the first and the second end. The device detects a contact on the slider control followed by a movement of the contact. In response to the movement detection, the device moves the moveable indicator along the slider control and generates a tactile output upon the moveable indicator reaching the first end of the slider control with a tactile output pattern configured based on a movement speed when the moveable indicator reaches the first end.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing haptic feedback

The present disclosure generally relates to personalized spatial audio profiles and providing personalized spatial audio.

Providing personalized audio

A computing device receives an input that corresponds to a first part of a multi-part operation performed by an application executing on the computing device. In response to receiving the input corresponding to the first part of the multi-part operation, the computing device initiates an ongoing haptic output sequence. After initiating the ongoing haptic output sequence, the computing device receives an input that corresponds to a second part of the multi-part operation. In response to receiving the input corresponding to the second part of the multi-part operation, the computing device terminates the ongoing haptic output sequence.

Semantic framework for variable haptic output

The present disclosure generally relates to content-based tactile outputs. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with content-based tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with end-of-content tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with moving a user interface in response to different types of input are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with adjustable item-based tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with input velocity-based tactile outputs are described.

Content-based tactile outputs

An electronic device displays a user interface that includes a first adjustable control and a second adjustable control and detects movement of a first contact across a touch-sensitive surface in a drag gesture. In accordance with a determination that the drag gesture is performed while a focus selector is at a location that corresponds to the first adjustable control: the device outputs a first plurality of tactile outputs that has a first distribution of tactile outputs. In accordance with a determination that the drag gesture is performed while the focus selector is at a location that corresponds to the second adjustable control, the device outputs a second plurality of tactile outputs. The second plurality of tactile outputs has a second distribution of tactile outputs that is different from the first distribution of tactile outputs.

An electronic watch may include a tactile switch and/or one or more sensors for detecting rotational and translational inputs. The watch may include a display configured to produce graphical outputs that may change in response to rotational inputs, translational inputs, and/or touch inputs received at the display. The watch include a crown positioned along an exterior of the watch enclosure and a shaft coupled to the crown and extending into the enclosure. The tactile switch and/or the one or more sensors may be used to detect rotational and/or translational inputs provided at the crown.

Tactile switch for an electronic device

The present disclosure generally relates to methods for tracking the performance of a physical activity event. In some embodiments, the method is performed at a computer system that is in communication with one or more perceptual output generation components and one or more sensors and includes detecting a start of a physical activity, providing ongoing feedback relating to a target duration, and if the activity continues for at least the duration, indicating that the activity continued for at least the target duration.

User interfaces for tracking of physical activity events

The present disclosure generally relates to techniques and interfaces for managing media playback devices. In some embodiments, the techniques include varying a feedback based on movement of a computer system toward or away from an external device. In some embodiments, the techniques include displaying an interface that includes controls for controlling media playback on an external device when the computer system and the external device are playing media. In some embodiments, the techniques include performing operations at a computer system in response to an input having a size that is less than or greater than a size threshold. In some embodiments, the techniques include performing different operations at a computer system when status lights have states that indicate different states of the computer system.

Methods and interfaces for media control with dynamic feedback

An electronic device with a first off-display input region detects a first portion of an input on the input region. In response to the first portion of the input: when the first portion of the input meets first criteria without a characteristic intensity of the first input increasing above a first intensity threshold, the electronic device provides a first output that indicates a current state of a first attribute of the electronic device without altering the first attribute. The electronic device detects a second portion of the input. In response to the second portion of the input: if the second portion of the first input meets second criteria that require the characteristic intensity of the input increases above the first intensity threshold, the electronic device performs a first operation that alters the first attribute of the electronic device; and otherwise, the electronic device forgoes performing the first operation.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interaction with an intensity-sensitive input region

At a device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and one or more tactile output generators, a button configuration user interface that includes a plurality of tactile output settings for a button is displayed on the display, wherein the button is available on the device in a plurality of different contexts to cause performance of a respective operation in response to an input of a first type detected on the button. While a respective tactile output setting for the button is selected in the button configuration user interface, in response to detecting a first input of a first type on the button, a respective tactile output that corresponds to the respective tactile output setting is generated without causing performance of the respective operation.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing feedback during interaction with an intensity-sensitive button

An electronic device may include touch input components and associated haptic output components. The control circuitry may provide haptic output in response to touch input on the touch input components and may send wireless signals to the external electronic device based on the touch input. The haptic output components may provide local and global haptic output. Local haptic output may be used to guide a user to the location of the electronic device or to provide a button click sensation to the user in response to touch input. Global haptic output may be used to notify the user that the electronic device is aligned towards the external electronic device and is ready to receive user input to control or communicate with the external electronic device. Control circuitry may switch a haptic output component into an inactive mode to inform the user that a touch input component is inactive.

Electronic devices with touch input components and haptic output components

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Camille Moussette