US 11,954,242 B2
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with three-dimensional environments
Jonathan R. Dascola, San Francisco, CA (US); Israel Pastrana Vicente, San Jose, CA (US); Peter D. Anton, San Francisco, CA (US); Stephen O. Lemay, Palo Alto, CA (US); William A. Sorrentino, III, Mill Valley, CA (US); Kristi E. S. Bauerly, Los Gatos, CA (US); Philipp Rockel, San Francisco, CA (US); and Dorian D. Dargan, Oakland, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/563,864.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/133,742, filed on Jan. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0214743 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/011 (2013.01) [G06F 3/167 (2013.01)] 45 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
at a computer system that is in communication with a first display generation component, a first audio output component, and one or more input devices:
presenting first computer-generated content in a computer-generated three-dimensional environment, wherein the computer-generated three-dimensional environment reduces a respective user's perception of a respective physical environment surrounding the respective user while the respective user is in a position to perceive the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment;
while presenting the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment, detecting first movement of a first user that is in a position to perceive the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment, wherein the first movement of the first user is in a first physical environment of the first user; and
in response to detecting the first movement of the first user in the first physical environment of the first user:
in accordance with a determination that the first movement of the first user in the first physical environment of the first user changes a spatial relationship between the first user and a second user in the first physical environment of the first user from a first spatial relationship to a second spatial relationship and a determination that the change in spatial relationship from the first spatial relationship to the second spatial relationship meets first criteria, changing one or more output properties of the first computer-generated content while presenting the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment, wherein changing the one or more output properties of the first computer-generated content while presenting the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment includes one or more of:
reducing visual prominence of at least a first portion of first computer-generated visual content, that is part of the first computer-generated content, to reveal a respective representation of the second user in a first region of a field of view provided via the first display generation component that was previously occupied by the at least the first portion of the first computer-generated visual content; and
reducing audio prominence of first computer-generated audio content, that is part of the first computer-generated content, relative to sound from the first physical environment of the first user; and
in accordance with the determination that the first movement of the first user in the first physical environment of the first user changes the spatial relationship between the first user and the second user in the first physical environment of the first user from the first spatial relationship to the second spatial relationship and a determination that the change in spatial relationship from the first spatial relationship to the second spatial relationship does not meet the first criteria, presenting the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment without changing the one or more output properties of the first computer-generated content.