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Patent No.:

US 9817554 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2016

Displaying a selectable item over a blurred user interface

Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Imran A. Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);

Thomas Michael Madden, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Scott J. Forstall, Mountain View, CA (US);

Duncan Robert Kerr, San Francisco, CA (US);

Nicholas V. King, San Jose, CA (US);

Stephen O. Lemay, San Francisco, CA (US);

Richard W. Fabrick, II, Campbell, CA (US);

Bas Ording, San Francisco, CA (US);

Eric Taylor Seymour, San Jose, CA (US);

Marcel van Os, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:

Morrison and Foerster LLP

Primary Examiner:

Xiomar L Bautista

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G11B 27/34 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/02 (2006.01); H04N 21/47 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0227 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G11B 27/34 (2013.01); H04N 5/44543 (2013.01); H04N 7/163 (2013.01); H04N 21/4104 (2013.01); H04N 21/42204 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/4314 (2013.01); H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); H04N 21/478 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01); H04N 21/47 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques and systems for centralized access to multimedia content stored on or available to a computing device are disclosed. The centralized access can be provided by a media control interface that receives user inputs and interacts with media programs resident on the computing device to produce graphical user interfaces that can be presented on a display device.

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