Apple Granted 53 Patents Today Covering Turn-by-Turn Navigation & Apple Watch Activity UI
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 53 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we cover Apple's turn-by-turn navigation application and a few design patents relating to an Apple Watch stand for Apple Stores along with user interfaces for Siri and the Apple Watch Activity App. We wrap up this week's granted patent report with our traditional listing of the remaining granted patents that were issued to Apple today.
Granted Patent: Navigation Peek Ahead and Behind in a Navigation Application
Apple's newly granted patent covers their invention relating to Turn-by-Turn Navigation.
More specifically, Apple's granted patent covers a method of providing a sequence of turn-by-turn navigation instructions on a device traversing a route. Each turn-by-turn navigation instruction is associated with a location on the route. As the device traverses along the route, the method displays a turn-by-turn navigation instruction associated with a current location of the device. The method receives a touch input through a touch input interface of the device while displaying a first turn-by-turn navigation instruction and a first map region that displays the current location and a first location associated with the first turn-by-turn navigation instruction. In response to receiving the touch input, the method displays a second turn-by-turn navigation instruction and a second map region that displays a second location associated with the second turn-by-turn navigation instruction. Without receiving additional input, the method automatically returns to the display of the first turn-by-turn navigation instruction and the first map region.
Apple's patent FIG. 9 noted above illustrates an example of the navigation application that allows a user to peek ahead the next navigation instructions for a route that is being presented in the driving mode; FIG. 11 illustrates that the navigation application of some embodiments allows a user to peek behind the previous instructions for a route that is being presented in the driving mode.
Apple's granted patent 9,404,766 was filed in Q4 2013 and published today by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Noteworthy Granted Design Patents Issued Today
As noted above, Apple was granted design patent #D762,649 for an Apple Store display stand for Apple Watch. Below is a photo of such a display.
Below are design patents covering the Siri UI and the Activity App UI for the Apple Watch.
Apple was also granted a design patent for an Apple Watch attachment mechanism.
The Remaining Patents granted to Apple Today
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