Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
What is a Patent for Stacked media elements, with selected parallax effects
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The visual media components, like videos and images are used to promote and promote media compositions, including films, films, and television shows. They aren’t interactive and don’t allow for variance or user interaction once they have been composed. They do not offer a highly entertaining viewing experience that encourages such media compositions.
Certain implementations involve the creation of a media composition for display on an electronic device. The media composition includes multiple layers, with each layer comprising at least one visible element. Themethod also includes choosing at least one of the layers of the media composition to be able to apply a parallax effect thereto and determining an amount of parallax effect total to apply to selected layers. The method additionally involves applying the proper amount of offset to each layer on an individual basis. Then, it is shifting the layers to the desired direction by applying the appropriate amount of offset. Furthermore, the method incorporates showing the mediacomposition and the parallax effect on the electronic display device.
Specific implementations have at minimum the following benefits. A typical media composition could include visual elements that are selected for the parallax effect. The visual elements can include images, text, videos, or any other visual element. Furthermore, videos could be transparent which allows lower layers to be seen through portions of the videos that are not desired to be opaque, allowing for a more immersiveexperience for the viewers of the composition after the parallax effect is applied to the layers of.
The specifics of one or more implementations are set forth in the accompanying drawings, as well as the following description. Additional features, aspects and benefits could be obvious in the illustrations and claims.
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