Full screen editing of visual media

• US 20080229232A1
• Filed: 03/16/2007
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Schulz, Egan, Fagans, Joshua D.
• Application Number:
  US11/725,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20080229232A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• 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

Abstract

Visual media can be edited by displaying a maximum amount of content on screen. To do so, a user can select a full-screen mode, which expands the visual media to fill the entire screen space. In full-screen mode, more of the screen is used to display the visual media as it is edited. In addition, the user can define bump areas in the visual media editing application, where the user can hide user interface controls while in full screen mode. From a user perspective these controls are sitting off screen and then brought into view as needed. The user accesses the user interface controls by bumping his mouse against the bump area, which causes the controls assigned to that region to come into view. In addition to defining bump areas, a user can decide which user interface controls to place at each different bump area.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

within an application, receiving first user input that selects one or more control sets from a plurality of available control sets;

wherein said application is assigned a particular screen space;

in response to said first user input, assigning each control set of said one or more control sets to a corresponding bump region within said particular screen space;

while in a first display mode, displaying, in said application, a data object to be edited in a first display region;

wherein said first display region includes less than all of said particular screen space;

receiving second user input;

in response to the second user input, transitioning the application from the first display mode to a second display mode;

while in the second display mode, the application displaying the data object to be edited in a second display region;

wherein the second display region includes all of said particular screen space;

while in the second display mode, receiving third user input within a bump region that corresponds to a particular control set of said one or more control sets; and

in response to said third user input, displaying said particular control set over a portion of said data object to be edited.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein assigning each control set of said one or more control sets to a corresponding bump region within said particular screen space further comprises receiving a fourth user input that defines a location in the particular screen space as a second bump region.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said location is an edge of the screen space.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said step of displaying said particular control set comprises displaying said particular control set at one or more intermediate locations before displaying said particular control set at a final location.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set to cease being associated with the bump region that currently corresponds to said particular control set.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set be moved to a new location on the particular screen space.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set be moved to a new location on the particular screen space, wherein the application creates a new bump region at said new location.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set be moved to a new location on the particular screen space, wherein the new location is an existing bump region.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular control set is user-defined.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said particular screen space corresponds to all available screen space of said particular screen space.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving fourth user input that requests that said particular control set be hidden;

in response to the fourth user input, ceasing to display said particular control set on said particular screen space.

12. An apparatus for editing visual media, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a machine-readable medium carrying instructions, wherein execution of the instructions by the one or more processors causes performance of a method, the method comprising;

within an application, receiving first user input that selects one or more control sets from a plurality of available control sets;

wherein said application is assigned a particular screen space;

in response to said first user input, assigning each control set of said one or more control sets to a corresponding bump region within said particular screen space;

while in a first display mode, displaying, in said application, a data object to be edited in a first display region;

wherein said first display region includes less than all of said particular screen space;

receiving second user input;

in response to the second user input, transitioning the application from the first display mode to a second display mode;

while in the second display mode, the application displaying the data object in a second display region;

wherein the second display region includes all of said particular screen space;

while in the second display mode, receiving third user input within a bump region that corresponds to a particular control set of said one or more control sets; and

in response to said third user input, displaying said particular control set over a portion of said data object.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein said instructions for assigning each control set of said one or more control sets to a corresponding bump region within said particular screen space further comprises instructions for receiving a fourth user input that defines a location in the particular screen space as a second bump region.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein said location is an edge of the screen space.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein displaying said particular control set comprises displaying said particular control set at one or more intermediate locations before displaying said particular control set at a final location.

16. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising instructions for receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set to cease being associated with the bump region that currently corresponds to said particular control set.

17. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising instructions for receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set to be moved to a new location on the particular screen space.

18. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

instructions for receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set to be moved to a new location on the particular screen space; and

instructions for creating a new bump region at said new location.

19. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

instructions for receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set to be moved to a new location on the particular screen space, wherein the new location is an existing bump region.

20. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the particular control set is user-defined.

21. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein said particular screen space corresponds to all available screen space of said particular screen space.

22. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

instructions for receiving fourth user input that requests that said particular control set be hidden;

instructions for ceasing to display said particular control set on said particular screen space in response to the fourth user input.

23. A machine-readable storage medium storing instructions for editing visual media, wherein execution of the instructions by one or more processors performs a method, said method comprising:

within an application, receiving first user input that selects one or more control sets from a plurality of available control sets;

wherein said application is assigned a particular screen space;

in response to said first user input, assigning each control set of said one or more control sets to a corresponding bump region within said particular screen space;

while in a first display mode, displaying, in said application, a data object to be edited in a first display region;

wherein said first display region includes less than all of said particular screen space;

receiving second user input;

in response to the second user input, transitioning the application from the first display mode to a second display mode;

while in the second display mode, the application displaying the data object in a second display region;

wherein the second display region includes all of said particular screen space;

while in the second display mode, receiving third user input within a bump region that corresponds to a particular control set of said one or more control sets; and

in response to said third user input, displaying said particular control set over a portion of said data object.

24. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein said instructions for assigning each control set of said one or more control sets to a corresponding bump region within said particular screen space further comprises instructions for receiving a fourth user input that defines a location in the particular screen space as a second bump region.

25. The machine-readable medium storage of claim 24, wherein said location is an edge of the screen space.

26. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 25, wherein displaying said particular control set comprises displaying said particular control set at one or more intermediate locations before displaying said particular control set at a final location.

27. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 23, further comprising instructions for receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set to cease being associated with the bump region that currently corresponds to said particular control set.

28. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 23, further comprising instructions for receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set be moved to a new location on the particular screen space.

29. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 23, further comprising:

instructions for receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set be moved to a new location on the particular screen space; and

instructions for creating a new bump region at said new location.

30. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 23, further comprising instructions for receiving fourth user input that requests said particular control set be moved to a new location on the particular screen space, wherein the new location is an existing bump region.

31. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein the particular control set is user-defined.

32. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein said particular screen space corresponds to all available screen space of said particular screen space.

33. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 23, further comprising:

instructions for receiving fourth user input that requests that said particular control set be hidden; and

instructions for ceasing to display said particular control set on said particular screen space in response to the fourth user input.

34. A method of editing an image, the method comprising:

assigning a visual media editing application a particular screen space;

in response to user input, assigning a particular portion of the periphery of the particular screen space to be a bump region;

while in a first display mode, displaying, in the visual media editing application, the image in a first display region;

wherein said first display region includes less than all of said particular screen space;

receiving first user input;

in response to the first user input, transitioning the visual media editing application from the first display mode to a second display mode;

while in the second display mode, the visual media editing application displaying the image in a second display region;

wherein the second display region includes all of said particular screen space;

while in the second display mode, automatically displaying one or more control sets in response to user input at a bump region.

35. The method of claim 34, further comprising:

while in the second display mode, receiving second user input at a bump region;

wherein said bump region corresponds to a particular location in said particular screen space;

in response to said second user input, displaying a control set assigned to said bump region over a portion of said image.

36. The method of claim 34, further comprising:

within the visual media editing application, receiving second user input that selects a control set from a plurality of available control sets; and

in response to said second user input, assigning said control set to a corresponding bump region within said particular screen space.