Apple Inc.

Daniel I Lipton

Harita Patel

Giovanni M Agnoli

Colleen M Pendergast

Vladimir Lhotak

Alejandro A Rodriguez

Samuel L Weiss

Among other things, a method includes receiving, from a user of a user interface of a media authoring application, first settings specifying a destination for media content authored in the media authoring application, the destination selected from a set of destinations supported by the media authoring application, and second settings specifying a set of media characteristics of media content authored in the media authoring application, and generating data representing a user interface element usable to provide media content authored in the media authoring application to the destination specified in the first settings at the set of media characteristics specified in the second settings.

Sharing media content

Systems and methods are disclosed for processing a digital image. In some embodiments, a digital image may be output to a display. A scope overlay may be provided that includes a cursor window, a viewing window having a fixed size relative to the display, and a target source size. The viewing window may be calibrated according to the target source size to generate an image scale factor. In some embodiments, the calibrating may include correlating a section of the viewing window to the target source size, and calculating a ratio of the target source size to a display size of the section of the viewing window to generate the image scale factor. A portion of the digital image may then be displayed within the viewing window of the scope overlay, and the portion of the digital image may be scaled according to the image scale factor.

Fixed size scope overlay for digital images

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for identifying and processing a common geometric primitive associated with multiple geometric primitives. In some embodiments, a first geometric primitive including a first set of end points and a second geometric primitive including a second set of end points are obtained. A common point that is shared by the first geometric primitive and the second geometric primitive is determined based on at least some of the first and second sets of end points. The common geometric primitive is generated based on at least the common point. The common geometric primitive is associated with the first geometric primitive and the second geometric primitive so that a change to the common geometric primitive is applied to the first geometric primitive and the second geometric primitive.

Common geometric primitive associated with multiple geometric primitives

An approach for providing a user with resumption data before pausing or terminating a partially-processed job that is processing in a distributed system. Certain applications, when paused, are not able to resume processing data at precisely the point where it was paused. As a result, users surrender some, or all, of the processed portion of the data when processing is paused. In one embodiment of the invention, a user is provided with resumption data before the user confirms a request to pause the processing. Resumption data from each of the service nodes that is processing a segment of source data are collected and aggregated. Resumption data reflects a measure of processed data that would require re-processing if the processing were paused and resumed. Alternatively, resumption data includes a duration of spent processing time that would be lost if the processing were paused and resumed.

Providing resumption data in a distributed processing system

Some embodiments provide a method for distributing an operation for processing by a set of background services. The method automatically determines a number of background services for performing an operation. The method partitions the operation into several sub-operations. The method distributes the several sub-operations across the determined number of background services.

Performing an operation using multiple services

Upon enabling an automatic cropping feature, a computer-implemented method for cropping a plurality of images retrieves a number of images to process among the plurality of images, and selects an image from the plurality of images to determine a set of crop values for the image until the set of crop values for each image have been determined. Determining a set of crop values for an image includes scanning the image from a first side to an opposing side to determine for each scan line of the image an amount representing a degree of color variation among the pixels for that scan line. The amount determined for each scan line is then compared to a threshold value until a crop value for a first area of the image can be determined.

Automatic image cropping

A method and apparatus for processing a computing job in a distributed processing system. A control process sends a message to an instance of an application instructing the application instance to divide the job into assignments for processing by various application instances. The application instance divides the job in a way that is suitable for the particular application and sends, to the control process, assignment information that describes how the job is to be divided. The control process stores the assignment information and assigns each of the application instances a portion of the computing job based on the assignment information. After, the application instances have completed the assignments, the control process instructs one of the application instances to perform post-processing on the assignment results, based on the assignment information.

Post-processing phase in a distributed processing system using assignment information

Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system that includes a media server, a media client, and a media-server interface. The media server application produces media data, where the media data has a plurality of segments. For example, in some embodiments, the media data is a movie with video and audio components. In this example, the segments of the movie can be specified in two groups, where one group includes the frames of video in the movie and the other group includes the seconds of audio in the movie. The media client application is typically an application that needs to process the media data of the media server application without the need to have any familiarity with the implementation of the media server application. The media-server interface directs the server application to successively generate individual segments of the media data and to store each generated segment in a location that is accessible by the media client. The server application generates each segment in a format that is comprehensible to the media client application. The media client application retrieves each segment from its stored location and processes the segment.

Method and apparatus for allowing a media client to obtain media data from a media server

When a document imaging operation commences, a document is examined to detect each font, and each glyph of a font, appearing in the document. If all of the detected fonts are currently stored in an imaging device, the document is sent to the device. If one or more detected fonts is not stored in the device, the detected glyphs of that font are mapped to a sparse font set. The device is queried to determine whether it can store the sparse font set. If it can, the sparse font set is downloaded to the device. If the device cannot store the sparse font set, the document is converted into a bit-mapped image, which is then imaged.

Dynamic font management for large character sets

A method and system for managing color profiles is disclosed in which unique identifications are created that have at least two parameters identifying a corresponding color profile. The unique identifications are then used to specify a particular color profile in a computer document by placing the unique identification in the document at each location where the color profile is used, eliminating the need in some cases to embed the entire color profile in the document multiple times.

Method and system for managing color profiles in a document for making

A method and system for highlighting typography along a geometric path by a graphics system that includes a dashing feature is disclosed. The dashing feature is first used to determine the shape of the geometric path along a segment on which the typography is positioned. The dashing feature is then used to dash the segment with a non-repeating pattern. After dashing, the segment is outset from the geometric path to create an upper path, and inset from the geometric path to create a lower path. The method and system further includes connecting the upper and lower paths to create a new shape, and then filling-in the new shape to provide a field of continuous highlighting.

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Belmont, CA, United States of America

Daniel I Lipton