GUI transitions on wearable electronic device

• US 10,551,928 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2013
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Mistry, Pranav, Sadi, Sajid, Yao, Lining, Snavely, John, Offenberg, Eva-Maria, Huang, Link Chun, Kim, Cathy
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tan H
• Application Number:
  US14/015,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20140143678A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,349 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

In one embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more processors and a memory coupled to the processors that includes instructions executable by the processors. When executing the instructions, the processors present on a display of the apparatus a first screen of a graphical user interface. The first screen includes one or more first elements. The processors receive user input indicating a transition in the graphical user interface and, in response to the user input, transition from the first screen to a second screen of the graphical user interface and apply one or more visual transition effects to the transition. The second screen includes one or more second elements.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to;

present on a circular display of the apparatus a first screen of a graphical user interface, the first screen comprising a first element centered about the center of the circular display;

receive user input comprising a rotation of a rotatable element encircling the circular display;

determine a number of rotational increments of the user input comprising the rotation of the rotatable element;

determine an acceleration of the rotation of the rotatable element;

classify the acceleration of the rotation of the rotatable element as a low-acceleration rotation or a high-acceleration rotation;

transition the display based on the acceleration classification such that;

in response to a determination that the rotation of the rotatable element has a low acceleration, the first one of the number of rotational increments transitions the display from the first element to a second element by folding over the first element to reveal the second element without scaling the first element or the second element; and

in response to a determination that the rotation of the rotatable element has a high acceleration;

the first one of the number of rotational increments scales down the first element and transitions the display through a plurality of scaled-down graphical elements without folding over the first element; and

in response to a determination that the rotation of the rotatable element has stopped, scale up in size one or more of the plurality of scaled-down graphical elements displayed on the display.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a device body comprising;

one or more of the processors;

the memory;

the display;

the rotatable element about the display; and

a detector configured to detect rotation of the rotatable element;

a band coupled to the device body; and

an optical sensor in or on the band.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user input further comprises touch on a touch-sensitive element.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein when the rotation of the rotatable element has an acceleration that is classified as a high-acceleration rotation, several of the plurality of scaled-down graphical elements are simultaneously displayed on the display.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein when the rotation of the rotatable element has an acceleration is classified as a high-acceleration rotation, each of the following increases as the acceleration of the rotatable element increases:

the number of graphical elements displayed on the display; and

the number of graphical elements scrolled through on the display per rotational increment of the rotatable element.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first element comprises text.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first element comprises one or more images.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the first screen further comprises a second element comprising a display of a first application; and

the first element comprises a display of a second application.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein when the rotation of the rotatable element has an acceleration that classified as a low-acceleration rotation, the first and second elements are not scaled.

10. A method comprising:

presenting on a circular display of the apparatus a first screen of a graphical user interface, the first screen comprising a first element centered about the center of the circular display;

receiving user input comprising a rotation of a rotatable element encircling the circular display;

determining a number of rotational increments of the user input comprising the rotation of the rotatable element;

determining an acceleration of the rotation of the rotatable element;

classifying the acceleration of the rotation of the rotatable element as a low-acceleration rotation or a high-acceleration rotation;

transitioning the display based on the acceleration classification such that

in response to a determination that the rotation of the rotatable element has a low acceleration, the first one of the number of rotational increments transitions the display from the first element to a second element by folding over the first element to reveal the second element without scaling the first element or the second element; and

in response to a determination that the rotation of the rotatable element has a high acceleration;

the first one of the number of rotational increments scales down the first element and transitions the display through a plurality of scaled-down graphical elements without folding over the first element; and

in response to a determination that the rotation of the rotatable element has stopped, scale up in size one or more of the plurality of scaled-down graphical elements displayed on the display.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the computing device comprises:

a device body comprising;

one or more of the processors;

the memory;

the display;

the rotatable element about the display; and

a detector configured to detect rotation of the rotatable element;

a band coupled to the device body; and

an optical sensor in or on the band.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the user input further comprises touch on a touch-sensitive element.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein when the rotation of the rotatable element has an acceleration that is classified as a high-acceleration rotation, several of the plurality of scaled-down graphical elements are simultaneously displayed on the display.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein when the rotation of the rotatable element has an acceleration that is classified as a high-acceleration rotation, each of the following increases as the acceleration of the rotatable element increases:

the number of graphical elements displayed on the display; and

the number of graphical elements scrolled through on the display per rotational increment of the rotatable element.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the first element comprises one or more images.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the first screen further comprises a second element comprising a display of a first application; and

the first element comprises a display of a second application.

17. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

present on a circular display of the apparatus a first screen of a graphical user interface, the first screen comprising a first element centered about the center of the circular display;

receive user input comprising a rotation of a rotatable element encircling the circular display

determine a number of rotational increments of the user input comprising the rotation of the rotatable element;

determine an acceleration of the rotation of the rotatable element;

classify the acceleration of the rotation of the rotatable element as a low-acceleration rotation or a high-acceleration rotation;

transition the display based on the acceleration classification such that;

in response to a determination that the rotation of the rotatable element has a low acceleration, the first one of the number of rotational increments transitions the display from the first element to a second element by folding over the first element to reveal the second element without scaling the first element or the second element; and

in response to a determination that the rotation of the rotatable element has a high acceleration;

the first one of the number of rotational increments scales down the first element and transitions the display through a plurality of scaled-down graphical elements without folding over the first element; and

in response to a determination that the rotation of the rotatable element has stopped, scale up in size one or more of the plurality of scaled-down graphical elements displayed on the display.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage claim 17, wherein the computing device comprises:

a device body comprising;

one or more of the processors;

the memory;

the display;

the rotatable element about the display; and

a detector configured to detect rotation of the rotatable element;

a band coupled to the device body; and

an optical sensor in or on the band.

19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage claim 17, wherein the user input further comprises touch on a touch-sensitive element.

20. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 17, wherein when the rotation of the rotatable element has an acceleration that is classified as a high-acceleration rotation, several of the plurality of scaled-down graphical elements are simultaneously displayed on the display.

21. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 20, wherein when the rotation of the rotatable element has an acceleration is classified as a high-acceleration rotation, each of the following increases as the acceleration of the rotatable element increases:

the number of graphical elements displayed on the display; and

the number of graphical elements scrolled through on the display per rotational increment of the rotatable element.