Apple Inc. (20240403997). DIGITAL ASSISTANT INDICATOR APPEARANCE

DIGITAL ASSISTANT INDICATOR APPEARANCE

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Jose Antonio Checa Oloriz of San Francisco CA (US)

Miquel Estany Rodriguez of San Francisco CA (US)

Arjun Kaul of Cupertino CA (US)

Pedro Mari of Santa Cruz CA (US)

Christopher C. Niederauer of Los Altos Hills CA (US)

James J. Owen of San Francisco CA (US)

William A. Sorrentino, Iii of Mill Valley CA (US)

DIGITAL ASSISTANT INDICATOR APPEARANCE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240403997 titled 'DIGITAL ASSISTANT INDICATOR APPEARANCE

Original Abstract Submitted

an example process includes: while displaying a portion of an extended reality (xr) environment representing a current field of view of a user: detecting, with the one or more sensors, a user input to invoke a digital assistant; in response to detecting a user input to invoke the digital assistant, displaying a user interface element associated with the digital assistant; distorting the display of a first portion of the current field of view behind the user interface element; detecting a change in the position of the user interface element relative to the current field of view; and distorting the display of a second portion of the current field of view behind the user interface element.