US 11,816,759 B1
Split applications in a multi-user communication session
Connor A. Smith, San Mateo, CA (US); and Nicholas W. Henderson, San Carlos, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/482,013.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/082,740, filed on Sep. 24, 2020.
Int. Cl. G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 11/00 (2013.01) [G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
presenting, at a first device, a first environmental representation of a multi-user communication session, wherein the first device and a second device are active in the multi-user communication session, and wherein the first environmental representation and a second environmental representation of the multi-user communication session for the second device comprise one or more shared virtual objects presented in a common spatial configuration;
duplicating a particular shared virtual object that is located at an initial location in the common spatial configuration to obtain a duplicated virtual object;
determining a second location for the duplicated virtual object in the first environmental representation; and
presenting, at the first device, a modified first environmental representation comprising the duplicated virtual object at the second location,
wherein the particular shared virtual object ceases to be presented in a common spatial configuration by the first device and the second device in response to the duplicated virtual object being presented at the second location by the first device.