US 12,353,672 B2
Methods for adjusting and/or controlling immersion associated with user interfaces
Ieyuki Kawashima, Pleasanton, CA (US); Stephen O. Lemay, Palo Alto, CA (US); William A. Sorrentino, III, Kentfield, CA (US); Jeffrey M. Faulkner, Sisters, OR (US); Israel Pastrana Vicente, Spring, TX (US); Gary Ian Butcher, Los Gatos, CA (US); Kristi E. Bauerly, Los Altos, CA (US); Shih-Sang Chiu, San Francisco, CA (US); Benjamin Hunter Boesel, Jackson, WY (US); David H. Huang, San Mateo, CA (US); Dorian D. Dargan, San Ramon, CA (US); and Alan C. Dye, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 22, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/671,936.
Application 18/671,936 is a continuation of application No. 17/932,655, filed on Sep. 15, 2022, granted, now 11,995,285.
Application 17/932,655 is a continuation of application No. 17/448,876, filed on Sep. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,520,456, issued on Dec. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/083,792, filed on Sep. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0310971 A1, Sep. 19, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/0487 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/0481 (2013.01) [G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0487 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
at an electronic device in communication with a display generation component and one or more input devices:
displaying, via the display generation component, a user interface that includes a user interface element, wherein the user interface element at least partially obscures display, via the display generation component, of a respective person in a physical environment of the electronic device; and
while displaying the user interface:
in accordance with a determination that the respective person is further than a threshold distance from the electronic device in the physical environment and that an attention of the respective person is directed to a user of the electronic device, updating display of the user interface element to indicate a presence of the respective person in the physical environment at a location that corresponds to the user interface element; and
in accordance with a determination the respective person is further than the threshold distance from the electronic device in the physical environment and that the attention of the respective person is not directed to the user of the electronic device, forgoing updating the display of the user interface element.