Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kyle Thomas Beck

Michael John Novak

Chris J Guzak

Tyler Kien Beam

Relja Ivanovic

Scott David Hoogerwerf

Oded Yehuda Shekel

Amnon Itamar Govrin

Marc Wautier

Sangeeta Ranjit

Kiernon Reiniger

Reed L Townsend

Xiao Tu

Gaurav S Anand

Rebecca J Deutsch

Benjamin Salim Srour

Kevin Michael Woley

Sheng Yi

David B Perry

Sanjeev Kewal Verma

Tianyi Chen

Ramkumar Ramasubramanian

Adam Edward Barrus

Katherine Blair Huffman

Rick Duncan

Michael D McCormack

John Michael Calandrino

Daniel W DeKlotz

Megan L Fu

Cary A Polen

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for beautifying raw drawing data include a beautification engine having a raw data processor that receives the drawing data and identifies a set of segments in the data. A beautification director constructs a structural representation of the set of segments data that specifies a topological relationship between the segments. A single primitive beautifier identifies a segment in the structural representation to be beautified and a single primitive beautification action is applied to the segment to generate beautified raw drawing data. A multiple primitive beautifier identifies adjacent segments in the structural representation to be beautified and a multiple beautification action is applied to the adjacent segments to generate further beautified drawing data.

System and method for drawing beautification

Methods and devices for adjusting a power mode of a display are disclosed. An example method includes detecting a set of contact signals on a surface of the device and determining whether the set of contact signals correspond to a contact signature associated with an in-use state of the display. The example method further includes transitioning the power mode of the display to a power saving mode in response to determining that the set of contact signals do not correspond to the contact signature associated with the in-use state of the display, and retaining the power mode of the display in a current power mode in response to determining that the set of contact signals correspond to the contact signature associated with the in-use state of the display. An additional example method may further include detecting whether a proximity sensor at the device is occluded prior to the transition.

Apparatus and method of adjusting power mode of a display of a device

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to file system placeholders. In aspects, placeholders may be used by a client to represent remote file system objects. The placeholders may include metadata, searchable text, and may also include none, some, or all of the content of the represented remote file system objects. Search data from the placeholders is integrated into a local search database of the client such that the client is able to satisfy queries and identify relevant local and remote file system objects even when the client is offline with respect to remote storage.

Searching and placeholders

Pre-installed application activation techniques are described in which live content for applications is activated before user interaction with the applications. Input indicative of an initial log-in of a user to access an operating system is detected. In response, configuration of an account for the user with the operating system may be initiated to set-up a device for first use by the user. During the configuration, notifications are activated through a notification system of the operating system to obtain live content for one or more pre-installed applications on the computing device. The activation occurs before interaction of the user with the pre-installed applications. Live content may then be incorporated with representations of the applications within a user interface for the operating system, such as displaying application tiles having corresponding live content in a start screen presented to the user after completion of the initial set-up.

Pre-installed application activation

A method for processing an image such as a computer wallpaper identifies a characteristic color representative of the image. Image pixels with similar colors are separated into groups, and the average value of the R,G,B color components in each group is determined, after filtering out pixels with R,G,B values representing white, black, or grey. The group with the maximum difference between the highest average color component value and the lowest average color component value is identified as the characteristic color. Groups representing a number of pixels less than a certain percentage of all of the pixels are not considered. The characteristic color can be used in other displayed images at an intensity &#x3b1; determined by setting maximum and minimum values of &#x3b1;, with &#x3b1; being the lesser of &#x3b1;and &#x3b1;plus the average color span of all pixels in the image.

Automatic adjustment of computer interface colors using image processing

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Kyle Thomas Beck