Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps, directions, and location based information

• US 10,686,930 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2012
• Issued: 06/16/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Matas, Michael, Blumenberg, Christopher, Boule, Andre M. J., Lemay, Stephen O., Williamson, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Chuang, Jung-Mu T
• Application Number:
  US13/662,370
• Publication Number:
  US 20130055163A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,790 Days
• Field of Search: 715863, 715840, 715810, 715835, 345173, 707E17114
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

A device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps, directions, and location-based information on a touch screen display are disclosed.

Claims

1. A computing device, comprising:

a touch screen display;

one or more processors;

a memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

displaying a first representation of a map;

in response to detecting a first gesture, displaying a user-moveable location marker at a first location on the first representation;

in response to detecting a second gesture corresponding to a second location on the first representation, moving the user-moveable location marker from the first location to the second location;

while displaying the first representation and the user-moveable location marker, displaying a user-selectable region for obtaining information associated with the second location on the first representation; and

in response to detecting a third gesture on the user-selectable region ceasing to display the first representation of the map and displaying;

a second representation of the map different from the first representation, wherein the second representation includes an area of the map corresponding to the area surrounded by and directly adjacent to the second location on the first representation, wherein the second representation is a cropped version of the first representation;

a first icon, wherein in response to detection of a finger gesture on the first icon, a process for adding an entry to a set of bookmarked locations is initiated, the added entry corresponding to the second location on the map to which the user-moveable location marker was moved on the first representation of the map in response to detecting the second gesture;

a second icon, wherein in response to detection of a finger gesture on the second icon, the information about the second location is replaced with a display of a user interface for getting directions from a starting location to the second location on the map to which the user-moveable location marker was moved on the first representation of the map in response to detecting the second gesture; and

a third icon, wherein in response to detection of a finger gesture on the third icon, the first representation of the map that ceased to be displayed in response to detecting the third gesture is redisplayed.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein:

the second gesture includes a finger contact area that moves on the touch screen display, and

the device includes instructions for displaying the user-moveable location marker offset from the moving finger contact area during the second gesture.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the user-moveable location marker is offset from the moving finger contact area such that a user'"'"'s view of the user-moveable location marker is not obscured by the second gesture while moving the user-moveable location marker to the second location.

4. The device of claim 1, including instructions for:

in response to detecting the third gesture on the user-selectable region, displaying a fourth icon;

receiving user input corresponding to selection of the fourth icon; and

in response to receiving the user input, deleting the user-moveable location marker.

5. The device of claim 1, including instructions for displaying text identifying the second location of the user-moveable location marker on the first representation.

6. The device of claim 5, including instructions for transmitting a request for a reverse lookup of the second location of the user-moveable location marker on the first representation and instructions for receiving information identifying the second location of the user-moveable location marker on the first representation.

7. The device of claim 1, including instructions for displaying a sequence of graphical user interfaces responsive to user gestures for adding the entry to the set of bookmarked locations.

8. The device of claim 1, including instructions for adding an entry to a set of contacts, the added entry including location information corresponding to the second location of the user-movable location marker.

9. The device of claim 1, including instructions for updating an entry in a set of contacts to include location information corresponding to the second location of the user-moveable location marker on the first representation.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein:

the first representation is displayed at a first position on the touch screen display; and

the second representation is displayed at a second position on the touch screen display, the second position different from the first position.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the cropped version has removed at least a portion of the left, right, top, or bottom of the first representation.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a computing device with a touch screen display, cause the device to:

display a first representation of a map;

in response to detecting a first gesture, display a user-moveable location marker at a first location on the first representation;

in response to detecting a second gesture corresponding to a second location on the first representation, move the user-moveable location marker from the first location to the second location;

while displaying the first representation and the user-moveable location marker, display a user-selectable region for obtaining information associated with the second location on the first representation; and

in response to detecting a third gesture on the user-selectable region ceasing to display the first representation of the map and displaying;

a second representation of the map different from the first representation, wherein the second representation includes an area of the map corresponding to the area surrounded by and directly adjacent to the second location on the first representation, wherein the second representation is a cropped version of the first representation;

a first icon, wherein in response to detection of a finger gesture on the first icon, a process for adding an entry to a set of bookmarked locations is initiated, the added entry corresponding to the second location on the map to which the user-moveable location marker was moved on the first representation of the map in response to detecting the second gesture;

a second icon, wherein in response to detection of a finger gesture on the second icon, the information about the second location is replaced with a display of a user interface for getting directions from a starting location to the second location on the map to which the user-moveable location marker was moved on the first representation of the map in response to detecting the second gesture; and

a third icon, wherein in response to detection of a finger gesture on the third icon, the first representation of the map that ceased to be displayed in response to detecting the third gesture is redisplayed.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein:

the second gesture includes a finger contact area that moves on the touch screen display, and

the one or more programs comprise instructions, which when executed by the computing device, cause the device to display the user-moveable location marker offset from the moving finger contact area during the second gesture.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the user-moveable location marker is offset from the moving finger contact area such that a user'"'"'s view of the user moveable location marker is not obscured by the second gesture while moving the user moveable location marker to the second location.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the one or more programs comprise instructions, which when executed by the computing device, cause the device to:

in response to detecting the third gesture on the user-selectable region, display a fourth icon;

receive user input corresponding to selection of the fourth icon; and

in response to receiving the user input, delete.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by the computing device, cause the device to display text identifying the second location of the user-moveable location marker on the first representation.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by the computing device, cause the device to transmit a request for a reverse lookup of the second location of the user-moveable location marker on the first representation and receive information identifying the second location of the user-movable location marker on the first representation.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by the computing device, cause the device to display a sequence of graphical user interfaces responsive to user gestures for adding the entry to the set of bookmarked locations.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by the computing device, cause the device to add an entry to a set of contacts, the added entry including location information corresponding to the second location of the user-movable location marker.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by the computing device, cause the device to update an entry in a set of contacts to include location information corresponding to the second location of the user-moveable location marker on the first representation.

21. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein:

the first representation is displayed at a first position on the touch screen display; and

the second representation is displayed at a second position on the touch screen display, the second position different from the first position.

22. A method, comprising:

at a computing device with a touch screen display;

displaying a first representation of a map;

in response to detecting a first gesture, displaying a user-moveable location marker at a first location on the first representation;

in response to detecting a second gesture corresponding to a second location on the first representation, moving the user-moveable location marker from the first location to the second location;

while displaying the first representation and the user-moveable location marker, displaying a user-selectable region for obtaining information associated with the second location on the first representation; and

in response to detecting a third gesture on the user-selectable region ceasing to display the first representation of the map and displaying;

a second representation of the map different from the first representation, wherein the second representation includes an area of the map corresponding to the area surrounded by and directly adjacent to the second location on the first representation, wherein the second representation is a cropped version of the first representation;

a first icon, wherein in response to detection of a finger gesture on the first icon, a process for adding an entry to a set of bookmarked locations is initiated, the added entry corresponding to the second location on the map to which the user-moveable location marker was moved on the first representation the map in response to detecting the second gesture;

a second icon, wherein in response to detection of a finger gesture on the second icon, the information about the second location is replaced with a display of a user interface for getting directions from a starting location to the second location on the map to which the user-moveable location marker was moved on the first representation of the map in response to detecting the second gesture; and

a third icon, wherein in response to detection of a finger gesture on the third icon, the first representation of the map that ceased to be displayed in response to detecting the third gesture is redisplayed.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein:

the first representation is displayed at a first position on the touch screen display; and

the second representation is displayed at a second position on the touch screen display, the second position different from the first position.