Animations

• US 10,586,373 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2018
• Issued: 03/10/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Platzer, Andrew, Harper, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phu K
• Application Number:
  US15/970,786
• Publication Number:
  US 20180330530A1
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 345418
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/00 Animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]

Abstract

At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a method for animating a display region, windows, or views displayed on a display of a device. The method includes starting at least two animations. The method further includes the progress of each animation. The method further includes completing each animation based on a single timer.

Claims

1. A machine implemented method for animations displayed on a display of a data processing device, comprising:

providing a single animation timer for use with a user interface animator; and

transferring a call to animate a plurality of animations with the single animation timer, wherein the single animation timer controls a synchronization of the plurality of animations to be displayed together, wherein synchronizing of the plurality of animations includes modifying display setting attributes or properties of a plurality of views corresponding to the plurality of animations, and wherein the single animation timer is used to determine whether to modify the display setting attributes or properties of the plurality of views based on progress information.

2. The machine implemented method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether an animation is associated with a delegate, and wherein transferring a call includes transferring a delegate call to notify the animation associated with the delegate.

3. The machine implemented method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of animations occur simultaneously.

4. The machine implemented method of claim 1, wherein transferring a call comprises transferring a gesture call to animated a gesture call animation.

5. The machine implemented method of claim 1, wherein the gesture call animation includes a bounce call, rubber band call, or a scroll call animation.

6. The machine implemented method of claim 1, wherein the display is a multi-touch display.

7. A machine readable non-transitory medium storing executable program instructions which when executed cause a data processing system to perform a method comprising:

providing a single animation timer for use with a user interface animator; and

transferring a call to animate a plurality of animations with the single animation timer, wherein the single animation timer controls a synchronization of the plurality of animations to be displayed together, wherein synchronizing of the plurality of animations includes modifying display setting attributes or properties of a plurality of views corresponding to the plurality of animations, and wherein the single animation timer is used to determine whether to modify the display setting attributes or properties of the plurality of views based on progress information.

8. The medium of claim 7, further comprising determining whether an animation is associated with a delegate, and wherein transferring a call includes transferring a delegate call to notify the animation associated with the delegate.

9. The medium of claim 7, wherein the plurality of animations occur simultaneously.

10. The medium of claim 7, wherein transferring a call comprises transferring a gesture call to animated a gesture call animation.

11. The medium of claim 7, wherein the gesture call animation includes a bounce call, rubber band call, or a scroll call animation.

12. A data processing system, comprising:

a multi-point touch screen which is integrated with a display;

a radio frequency transceiver configured to transmit and receive voice and digital data;

a processing system coupled to the multi-point touch screen and to the display and to the RF transceiver;

a memory coupled to the processing system, the memory storing executable program instructions which configure the processing system to;

provide a single animation timer for use with a user interface animator; and

transfer a call to animate a plurality of animations with the single animation timer, wherein the single animation timer controls a synchronization of the plurality of animations to be displayed together, wherein synchronizing of the plurality of animations includes modifying display setting attributes or properties of a plurality of views corresponding to the plurality of animations, and wherein the single animation timer is used to determine whether to modify the display setting attributes or properties of the plurality of views based on progress information.

13. The data processing system of claim 12, further comprising determine whether an animation is associated with a delegate, and wherein transfer a call includes transfer a delegate call to notify the animation associated with the delegate.

14. The data processing system of claim 12, wherein the plurality of animations occur simultaneously.

15. The data processing system of claim 12, wherein transfer a call comprising transfer a gesture call to animated a gesture call animation.

16. A machine readable non-transitory medium storing executable program instructions which when executed cause a data processing system to perform a method comprising:

providing a single animation timer based on a timing signal associated with a redraw interval of a graphics unit of the data processing system; and

transferring a call to animate a plurality of animations with the single animation timer, wherein the single animation timer controls a synchronization of the plurality of animations to be displayed together, wherein synchronizing of the plurality of animations includes modifying display setting attributes or properties of a plurality of views corresponding to the plurality of animations, and wherein the single animation timer is used to determine whether to modify the display setting attributes or properties of the plurality of views based on progress information.

17. The medium of claim 16, wherein transferring a call includes transferring a delegate call to notify the animation associated with the delegate.

18. The medium of claim 16, wherein the plurality of animations occur simultaneously.

19. The medium of claim 16, wherein at least two of the animations are associated with different views of the display.

20. A device comprising:

an input panel which is configured to receive user input;

a display device integrated with the input panel;

a processing system coupled to the input panel, the processing system being configured to create and animate objects, based on at least the user input,

a memory coupled to the processing system, the memory to store the objects and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are configured to be executed by the processing system to;

detect a movement of a user input on or near the input panel;

animate one or more views displayed on the display device in response to detecting the user input; and

update the animating of the one or more views displayed on the display device based on a single timer, wherein the single timer controls a synchronization of the animations to be displayed together, wherein synchronizing of the animations includes modifying display setting attributes or properties for the one or more view displayed on the display devices, and wherein the single animation timer is used to determine whether to modify the display setting attributes or properties of the plurality of views based on progress information.

21. The device of claim 20, wherein at least two of the animations are associated with different views of the display device.

22. The device of claim 20, wherein the single timer comprises a timer based on a redraw interval of the display device.