Apple Inc.

Colin D Munro

Marcos Alonso Ruiz

Randal J Marsden

Morgan H Winer

Seyedkoosha Mirhosseini

Mark A Ebbole

Anuj Bhatnagar

Daniel M Golden

John M Nefulda

Joaquim Goncalo Lobo Ferreira Da Silva

Tusi Chowdhury

Andrew A Haas

James Magahern

Ying Zheng

A head-mounted device is provided that includes displays configured to display an image and to simultaneously display a magnifying window that presents a magnified portion of the image. The magnifying window lies in a magnification plane that is fixed relative to a user's head. One or more processors in the head-mounted device can be used to perform a first ray cast operation to identify an input point where a detected user input intersects the magnifying window, to obtain a remapped point from the input point, to compute a directional vector based on the remapped point and a reference point associated with the user's head, to obtain a shifted point by shifting the remapped point from the magnification plane to another plane parallel to the magnification plane, and to perform a second ray cast operation using the shifted point and the directional vector.

Head-mounted electronic device with magnification tool

Disclosed herein are single-finger gestures for activating a trackpad mode on a touch-sensitive device with no force sensors. An example method includes: displaying a virtual keyboard on a touch-sensitive display with a spacebar key and other keys. Detecting a first extended contact over the virtual keyboard and, in accordance with a determination that the first extended contact is over any of the respective displayed representations of the other keys, interpreting the first extended contact as a keyboard input and activating a corresponding extended keyboard function. The method also includes: detecting a second extended contact over the virtual keyboard. The method further includes: in accordance with a determination that the second extended contact is over a respective displayed representation of the spacebar key, interpreting the second extended contact as a mode-switching input that causes the electronic device to operate at least a portion of the touch-sensitive display as a trackpad.

Systems and methods for activating and using a trackpad at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display and no force sensors

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Colin D Munro