Dynamically adjusting text in donut charts

• US 10,474,737 B1
• Filed: 06/01/2018
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Girsova, Elizaveta, Lin, Chao-Kuo, Harding, Andrew L., Olshavsky, Ryan M., Hoch, Carlyle C., Broom, Kevin D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie A
• Application Number:
  US15/996,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20190370313A1
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to dynamically adjusting a title in a donut chart based on an adjustment to the donut chart. The donut chart may include an outer ring portion, an inner hole region, and the title. In particular, the title may be set based on the inner hole region to prevent the title from overlapping the outer ring portion which may prevent the title from obscuring labels located in the outer ring portion. As a property of the donut chart is adjusted, the title may be automatically adjusted for better visual effect. For example, the title may be dynamically resized and/or dynamically rewrapped. In this manner, the title may be dynamically adjusted based on an adjustment to the donut chart, avoiding the tedious process of manually adjusting the title for better visual effect.

Claims

1. A computer program product for displaying a donut chart comprising an outer ring portion, an inner hole region, and a title, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer-executable instructions for:

displaying the donut chart on an electronic computing device;

detecting user input at the electronic computing device corresponding to a property adjustment for the donut chart;

applying the property adjustment to the donut chart, resulting in one or more adjusted properties of the donut chart; and

dynamically adjusting a title property based on the one or more adjusted properties of the donut chart in response to applying the property adjustment to the donut chart, such that the title property appears to be visually adjusted as the property adjustment is applied.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the property adjustment comprises adding text to the title, wherein the one or more adjusted properties of the donut chart comprise a longer title, wherein dynamically adjusting the title property comprises dynamically wrapping the longer title in response to adding the text to the title.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the computer-executable instructions include:

determining whether the longer title fits within a bounding area of the inner hole region; and

if the longer title does not fit, dynamically decreasing a text size of the longer title to generate a smaller title that fits within the bounding area of inner hole region.

4. The computer program product of claim 3, wherein the computer-executable instructions include:

detecting user input at the electronic computing device corresponding to deleting smaller title text from the smaller title;

deleting the smaller title text from the smaller title; and

dynamically increasing a text size of the smaller title to generate a larger title in response to deleting the smaller title text from the smaller title.

5. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein a text size of the larger title is bounded to be less than or equal to an initial text size of the title.

6. The computer program product of claim 3, wherein the computer-executable instructions include:

determining whether the text size of the longer title exceeds a minimum threshold text size for readability;

in response to determining that a reduction of the text size of the longer title would extend beyond the minimum threshold text size for readability;

dynamically setting the text size of the longer title to the minimum threshold text size for readability; and

dynamically truncating the title and inserting a unique text character into the title.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the unique text character is an ellipsis.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the property adjustment comprises decreasing a size of the inner hole region, wherein the one or more adjusted properties of the donut chart comprise a smaller inner hole region, wherein dynamically adjusting the title property comprises dynamically wrapping the title in response to decreasing the size of the inner hole region.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer-executable instructions include:

determining whether the title fits in the smaller inner hole region; and

dynamically decreasing a text size of the title to generate a smaller title that fits in the smaller inner hole region in response to determining that the title does not fit in the smaller inner hole region.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the computer-executable instructions include:

applying a subsequent property adjustment to the donut chart to increase a size of the smaller inner hole region, resulting in a larger inner hole region; and

dynamically increasing a text size of the smaller title to generate a larger title that fits within the larger inner hole region in response to applying the subsequent property adjustment to the donut chart to increase the size of the smaller inner hole region.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the computer-executable instructions include:

bounding the text size of the larger title to be less than or equal to an initial text size of the title.

12. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein decreasing the size of the inner hole region occurs based on decreasing a size of the donut chart to generate a reduced donut chart, wherein increasing the size of the smaller inner hole region occurs based on increasing a size of the reduced donut chart.

13. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the property adjustment comprises increasing a size of the inner hole region, wherein dynamically adjusting the title property comprises dynamically wrapping the title to take up more horizontal space within the inner hole region in response to increasing the size of the inner hole region.

14. A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium that stores instructions for displaying a donut chart comprising an outer ring portion, an inner hole region, and a title, executable by at least one processor that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

display the donut chart on an electronic computing device;

detect user input at the electronic computing device corresponding to a property adjustment for the donut chart;

apply the property adjustment to the donut chart, resulting in one or more adjusted properties of the donut chart; and

dynamically adjust a title property based on the one or more of the adjusted properties of the donut chart in response to applying the property adjustment to the donut chart, such that the title property appears to be visually adjusted as the property adjustment is applied.

15. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the property adjustment comprises changing a font property of the title, wherein the one or more adjusted properties comprise a changed font title, wherein dynamically adjusting the title property comprises dynamically wrapping the changed font title based on the change to the font property of the title so that the changed font title fits in the inner hole region in response to changing the font property of the title, dynamically resizing the changed font title based on the change to the font property of the title so that the changed font title fits in the inner hole region in response to changing the font property of the title, or both.

16. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the font property comprises a font type, a font size, a font emphasis, a font spacing, or any combination thereof.

17. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the property adjustment comprises changing a location of the title by disposing the title in the inner hole region or outside of the outer ring portion, wherein the instructions cause the at least one processor to dynamically adjust the title property by dynamically wrapping the title when the instructions cause the at least one processor to adjust the property of the donut chart by disposing the title in the inner hole region.

18. A method for displaying a donut chart comprising an outer ring portion, an inner hole region, and a title, wherein the outer ring portion comprises at least one donut chart segment, wherein the method comprises:

displaying the donut chart on an electronic computing device;

detecting user input at the electronic computing device corresponding to a property adjustment for the donut chart;

applying the property adjustment to the donut chart, resulting in one or more adjusted properties of the donut chart; and

dynamically adjusting a title property based on the one or more of the adjusted properties of the donut chart in response to applying the property adjustment to the donut chart, such that the title property appears to be visually adjusted as the property adjustment is applied.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the property adjustment comprises changing a layout of the donut chart, wherein dynamically adjusting the title property comprises dynamically preventing a label of the at least one donut chart segment from overlapping the title property.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the outer ring portion comprises a plurality of donut chart segments, wherein the property adjustment comprises exploding a donut chart segment of the plurality of donut chart segments, wherein dynamically adjusting the title property comprises dynamically maintaining the title property based on exploding the donut chart segment.