Scrollable Preview of Content

• US 20100095239A1
• Filed: 10/15/2008
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Garcia, Fernando, McCommons, Jordan, Niles, Gregory
• Granted Patent: US 8,788,963 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a method for displaying content. The method provides a first display area for displaying content and receiving modifications to the content. The method provides a second display area for displaying a preview of the content. In some embodiments, a modification to the content automatically causes a corresponding modification to the preview. In some embodiments, the size of the content is larger than the size of the first display area and the first display area only displays a portion of the content. In some such embodiments, the second display area displays the entirety of the preview of the entire content at once. Some embodiments also provide a window in the second display area that indicates in the preview the portion of the content concurrently displayed in the first display area.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

a) providing a first display area for displaying content and receiving modifications to the content; and

b) providing a second display area for displaying a preview of the content, wherein a modification to the content automatically causes a corresponding modification to the preview.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the modification to the content automatically causes the corresponding modification without any action by a user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein when the size of the content is larger than the size of the first display area, the first display area only displays a portion of the content.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the second display area displays the entirety of the preview of the entire content at once.

5. The method of claim 3 further comprising providing a window in the second display area for indicating in the preview the portion of the content concurrently displayed in the first display area.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first display area has an aspect ratio, wherein the window maintains the same aspect ratio as the first display area.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a particular application provides the first display area and the second display area, wherein the particular application receives the modifications to the content and automatically modifies the preview.

8. A method comprising:

a) providing a first display area for displaying content that scrolls through the first display area over a specified amount of time such that at a particular time only a particular portion of the content is displayed;

b) providing a second display area for displaying a preview of the content; and

c) providing a window within the second display area, the window for displaying over a portion of the preview corresponding to the particular portion of the content displayed in the first display area, wherein the location of the window in the second display area corresponds to the particular time that the particular portion of content scrolls through the first display area.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first display area, second display area, and window are provided within a video-editing application.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the content is a credit roll for a video project.

11. A method comprising:

a) providing a first display area for (i) displaying content and (ii) receiving additions of new content to the content; and

b) providing a second display area for displaying a preview of the content.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the preview changes in size with the addition of the new content.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the preview grows in size in a first direction up to a particular threshold with the addition of new content.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the preview shrinks in size in a second direction with the addition of new content after the preview has reached the particular threshold in the first direction.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the particular threshold is the size of the second display area in the first direction.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the content does not fit entirely in the first display area such that the first display area only displays a portion of the content.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the preview is a preview of the entirety of the content that fits entirely within the second display area.

18. A method comprising:

a) providing a first display area for displaying text-based content;

b) providing a second display area for displaying a preview of the entire text-based content as a single continuous image that fits entirely within the second display area; and

c) providing a window within the second display area, the window for indicating, in the preview, a portion of the text-based content that is concurrently displayed in the first display area.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the text-based content has a continuous flow with no pre-specified page formatting.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the text-based content is not confined to any particular length.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the preview is generated by scaling each text character in the text-based content individually.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein each text character is scaled to a rectangle in the preview.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein each text character is scaled to a character that approximates the text character.

24. The method of claim 18, wherein the preview is generated by scaling each line of text in the text-based content individually.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein each line is scaled to a rectangle.