Patent 10185468 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on January, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A user device comprising a user interface generator configured to generate a user interface for designing an animated meme comprising a sequence of images and at least one text layer overlaid on at least some of the sequence of images, the user interface comprising an edit frame comprising: an image sequence overlay configured to display an arrangement of selected images from the sequence of images and at least one slider associated with a text layer configured to define when the text layer is to be displayed over the sequence of images.