US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 21 for "Methods for displaying user interface elements relative to media content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,946, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for displaying user interface elements relative to media content" was invented by Wesley M. Holder (Union City, Calif.), Earl M. Olson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Matan Stauber (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Maneli Noorkami (Menlo Park, Calif.), Negar Nejati (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Afshin Taghavi Nasrabadi (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system displays a caption for a media item at different depths depending on the depth of the portion of the media item over which the caption is displa...