SURFACE ATTRIBUTE TRANSFER

Patent №

US 11,615,579

Granted

2023-03-28

Filed 2021

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

2

evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17154024

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that changes a surface attribute of a first object to include a surface attribute of a second object at an intersection of the two objects. For example, changing a surface attribute may include identifying an intersection between a displayed first object and a displayed second object in a graphical environment, determining whether the graphical environment is operating in a first mode or a different second mode in accordance with a determination that the graphical environment is operating in the first mode, responsive to the intersection between the displayed first object and the displayed second object identifying a portion of the first object where in the identified portion is intersecting the second object and changing a surface attribute of the portion of the first object to include a surface attribute of the second object at the intersection including the surface attribute.

AI classification

AI hardware0.95
Evolutionary computation0.80
Planning0.04
Knowledge representation0.01
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 549800767

Assignors

THIVIERGE, ERIC G.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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