Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

Gerrit H Hofmeester

Orry Wijanarko Soegiono

Christian Klein

Adrian James Garside

Jon Gabriel Clapper

Robert Disano

Manuel Christian Clement

Maverick J Velasco

Jason Glenn Silvis

Holger Kuehnle

Nicholas Randall Waggoner

Leroy B Keely

James Lee

David Andrew Matthews

Jeffrey Jon Weir

Sarah Graham Williams

Reed L Townsend

Amish Patel

Ross Nathaniel Luengen

Paul J Kwiatkowski

Rebecca J Deutsch

Takanobu Murayama

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Matthew Jay Kotler

Jonathan Eric Gleasman

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

Harold S Gomez

Eric Norman Badger

Xiao Tu

Matthew Isaac Worley

Paul Armistead Hoover

Lisa Joy Stifelman

Bret P Anderson

Nils Anders Sundelin

Daryl Tanghe

Jeremy S Knudsen

Todd A Torset

Vincent L Ball

Gregg Robert Wygonik

Benjamin Salim Srour

Stuart J Stuple

Chantal M Leonard

Ethan Nelson Ray

Michael J Patten

Bruce Alan Morgan

Moneta K Ho Kushner

Andrew Stuart Glass

Tracy Dianne Schultz

Lee Dicks Clark

Shane Jeremy Landry

David Earl Washington

Theresa B Pittappilly

Jennifer Marie Wolfe

Jerome Stephen Healy

Krishna Kotipali

Susan E Dziadosz

William D Carr

Nicole Lee

Andrew Russell Brauninger

Scott Robert Honji

Josh A Clow

Adam Edward Barrus

Ryan Demopoulos

Masahiko Kaneko

Brian S LeVee

Megan Ann Bates

Jen Anderson

Paul Millsap

Pamela De La Torre Baltierra

Tiffany Jamie Chen

Connor Colin Marwan Al-joundi

Tyler Duckworth

Jennifer L Anderson

Stephanie Ling Diao

Emily Lynn Bender

Sophia Sixue Chen

John C Whytock

Maxim Mazeev

Mitica Manu

Brian E Manthos

David Burg

Thomas R Wick

Prashant Singh

Bonny Lau

Helen Elizabeth Drislane

Katsumi Take

Michael D McCormack

Eric W Hebenstreit

Moneta Ho Kushner

Nathaniel E B Auer

Thomas H Alphin

Leslie Christine MacNeil

Petru Iulian Cociorva

Brian Dean Haslam

Mark Rodger Rideout

Michael David Mccormack

Jarrod Lombardo

Raymond Jui-Mong Chen

Bradley A Music

The techniques disclosed herein implement a centralized lighting module configured to control a diverse set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices. The set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices is diverse with respect to a type and a manufacturer. The lighting module is referred to as a centralized lighting module because the lighting module is part of an operating system of a computing device. Consequently, a user of the computing device no longer has to download and learn to use multiple different lighting applications if the user wants to create a diverse lighting ecosystem in which lighting-enabled peripheral devices from different manufacturers are connected to the computing device. Similarly, a developer of a computing application no longer has to engage and interact with multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) if the developer wants users of their computing application to be able to create a diverse lighting ecosystem.

Centralized control of lighting-enabled peripheral devices

Technologies are disclosed for temporarily hiding user interface ('UI') elements, such as application windows or tabs. A request can be received to hide a UI element for a specified period of time. When such a request is received, the UI element is hidden and an identifier corresponding to the UI element is moved from a first area of a taskbar to a second area of the taskbar. The application presenting the UI element can be configured for reduced consumption of computing resources while the UI element is hidden. Additionally, notifications associated with the UI element can be disabled while the UI element is hidden. When the specified period of time to hide the UI element has elapsed, the UI element is once again displayed. Additionally, the identifier corresponding to the UI element is moved from the second area of the taskbar back to the first area of the taskbar.

Temporarily hiding user interface elements

Semantic zoom techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are described that may be utilized by a user to navigate to content of interest. These techniques may also include a variety of different features, such as to support semantic swaps and zooming 'in' and “out.” These techniques may also include a variety of different input features, such as to support gestures, cursor-control device, and keyboard inputs. A variety of other features are also supported as further described in the detailed description and figures.

Semantic zoom animations

Semantic zoom techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are described that may be utilized by a user to navigate to content of interest. These techniques may also include a variety of different features, such as to support semantic swaps and zooming 'in' and 'out.' These techniques may also include a variety of different input features, such as to support gestures, cursor-control device, and keyboard inputs. A variety of other features are also supported as further described in the detailed description and figures.

A method for detecting digital ink described herein can include detecting an environmental characteristic of a system. The method can also include modifying a user interface mode based on the environmental characteristic, the user interface mode to modify an input panel of a first display screen of a user interface for detecting the digital ink. Furthermore, the method can also include storing the digital ink provided via the user interface and displaying the stored digital ink in a second display screen of the user interface.

User interface for digital ink modification

A computer-implemented technique is described herein that receives captured stroke information when a user enters a handwritten note using an input capture device. The technique then analyzes the captured stroke information to produce output analysis information. Based on the output analysis information, the technique modifies the captured stroke information into an actionable form that contains one or more actionable content items, while otherwise preserving the original form of the captured stroke information. The technique then presents the modified stroke information on a canvas display device. The user may subsequently activate one or more actionable content items in the modified stroke information to perform various supplemental tasks that pertain to the handwritten note. In one case, for example, the technique can recognize the presence of entity items and/or list items in the note and then reproduce them in an actionable form.

Modifying captured stroke information into an actionable form

Techniques for input adjustment are described. In one or more implementations, a user perspective of a display surface is estimated, and is used to correlate output that is displayed on the display surface. According to one or more implementations, detected motion of a display surface is used to compensate for an effect of the motion on input to the display surface.

Input adjustment

A digital inking device can automatically adapt its interaction modality to provide contextually relevant status information and contextually relevant user interface control elements based on a user's activity. An interaction model of a digital inking device can automatically adapt the display of particular control user interface control elements and particular status indicators based on one or more factors. For example, a digital inking device can select an interaction model from a number of interaction models based on a way a digital inking device is held by a user, a fingerprint of a user, an angle and/or distance of a digital inking device with respect to a paired computer, a particular grip a user has on a digital inking device, an amount of pressure that is used to hold a digital inking device, a contact pressure between a digital inking device and a paired computer, and/or one more gestures performed by a user.

Dynamic interaction adaptation of a digital inking device

A computing device is described herein for capturing handwritten marks. It includes a main computing unit and a detachable writing input device joined by a connecting mechanism. The main computing unit includes a main display device, while the writing input device hosts a keyboard and a writing surface. The writing surface, in turn, includes a digitizer for capturing ink data in response to a user drawing on the writing surface, and writing display device for displaying ink strokes associated with the ink data that has been captured. A transfer control component transfers the ink data captured by the writing input device to the main computing unit upon a triggering event, such as the reconnection of the writing input device to the main computing unit. The computing device also includes a clustering component for classifying note pages received from the writing input device into one or more categories of notes.

Computing device with detachable writing input device

This document describes techniques for, and systems that enable, a multi-stroke smart ink gesture language. The described techniques enable a digital ink user interface that allows a display, that is capable of receiving a digital ink stroke from a passive stylus or an active pen, to receive the digital ink stroke as either a content input or an action input. The digital ink stroke may be determined to be an action input based on proximity to, intersection with, or chronological immediacy to a prior-received digital ink stroke. When multiple digital ink strokes are determined to represent a multi-stroke gesture associated with an action input, the action input is provided to the application, which can then perform the action associated with the action input. The multi-stroke gesture allows users to input both content and actions using the passive stylus or active pen and natural digital inking strokes.

Multi-stroke smart ink gesture language

The claimed subject matter is directed to providing feedback in a touch screen device in response to an actuation of a virtual unit in a virtual input device. Specifically, the claimed subject matter provides a method and system for providing visual feedback in response to an actuation of a virtual key in a virtual keyboard. One embodiment of the claimed subject matter is implemented as a method for providing luminescent feedback in response to an actuation of a virtual key in a virtual keyboard. User input in a virtual keyboard corresponding to a virtual key is received. The corresponding virtual key is actuated and registered in response to the user input, and a luminescent feedback is displayed to the user as confirmation of the actuation of the virtual key.

Glow touch feedback for virtual input devices

A system for detecting input described herein can include a processor to augment a user interface to display a magnified input panel proximate a keyboard. The processor can also load a plurality of gesture functions associated with the magnified input panel and detect an input character corresponding to a source text field based on at least one keyboard selection from the keyboard. Additionally, the processor can display the input character in the magnified input panel and the source text field and generate a modified input character to be displayed in the magnified input panel and the source text field based on the input character and at least one gesture corresponding to the plurality of gesture functions.

Magnified input panels

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