Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Joseph Bernard Tobens, Iii

Jose Alberto Rodriguez

Peter Gregory Davis

Daniel J Hwang

Sharath Viswanathan

Juan (Lynn) Dai

Michael J Kruzeniski

Andrew Stuart Glass

William Scott Stauber

Juan Dai

Daniel Escapa

Jon Bell

Corey Joseph Loman

Rohit Bhatia

Gyancarlo García Avilla

Ram Pattabhi Papatla

Techniques are described herein that are capable of causing a control interface to be presented on a touch-enabled device based on a motion or absence thereof. A motion, such as a hover gesture, can be detected and the control interface presented in response to the detection. Alternatively, absence of a motion can be detected and the control interface presented in response to the detection. A hover gesture can occur without a user physically touching a touch screen of a touch-enabled device. Instead, the user's finger or fingers can be positioned at a spaced distance above the touch screen. The touch screen can detect that the user's fingers are proximate to the touch screen, such as through capacitive sensing. Additionally, finger movement can be detected while the fingers are hovering to expand the existing options for gesture input.

Presentation of a control interface on a touch-enabled device based on a motion or absence thereof

A computer-implemented technique is described herein for facilitating a user's interaction with graphical elements, such as emoji characters. The technique entails: presenting a collection of graphical elements on a display surface of a user interface mechanism; presenting a selector mechanism on the display surface that provides a plurality of attribute value options (such as skin tone options); receiving a selection by the user of one of the attribute value options, to provide a selected attribute value; globally modifying at least a subset of the graphical elements in the collection based on the selected attribute value, and displaying those modified graphical elements. In one approach, the technique presents the collection of graphical elements in an array that is capable of being panned along at least a first axis of movement. The technique reveals the selector mechanism when the user pans the array along a second axis of movement.

Facilitating selection of attribute values for graphical elements

Display screen with graphical user interface

A note-capture application is disclosed that allows notes to be displayed on the lock screen. In one embodiment, a note-capture application can be invoked when a mobile device is in an above-lock state. Note data can be captured using the note-capture application, and the captured data can be persistently displayed on the lock screen. A user can perform a unique gesture from the lock screen to invoke the note-capture application. In another embodiment, multiple input modes can be available for note data capture. For example, voice data, text data, camera data, etc. can all be used to capture notes for display on the lock screen.

Above-lock notes

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Joseph Bernard Tobens, Iii