Display Size of Representations of Content

• US 20100105441A1
• Filed: 05/20/2009
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Gardner, Grant, McLaughlin, Joseph P., Henderlight, Michael K., Voss, Chad Aron, Kruzeniski, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US12/469,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20100105441A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57

Abstract

Techniques involving a display size of representations in a user interface are described. In one or more implementations, a mobile communications device assigns a display size to representations of a plurality of content based on metadata associated with the content that indicates when the content was captured. The assigned display size of a first representation is larger than the assigned display size of a second representation. The first and second representations are displayed concurrently in a user interface on the mobile communications device as having respective assigned display sizes.

Claims

1. A method performed by a mobile communications device, the method comprising:

assigning a display size to representations of a plurality of content based on metadata associated with the content that indicates when the content was captured, in which the assigned display size of a first said representation is larger than the assigned display size of a second said representation; and

displaying the first and second said representations concurrently in a user interface on the mobile communications device as having respective said assigned display sizes.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the content that corresponds to the first said representation was captured more recently than the content that corresponds to the second said representation.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the displaying includes a concurrent display of a third said representation such that the display size of the first, second, and third representations is different, one to another.

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the content includes at least one image captured by the mobile communications device.

5. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the content that corresponds to the first said representation is an image that was most recently captured by the mobile communications device.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein:

the displaying is performed such that the first said representation is displayed in a first group and the second said representation is displayed in a second group; and

the first and second groups are defined for different ranges of time.

7. A method as described in claim 6, wherein the first and second groups are displayed in conjunction with an identifier that describes the respective group.

8. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the first said representation of content is displayed concurrently with a menu of actions that involve the content.

9. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising instructions that are executable by a computer to:

classify each of a plurality of content into a respective one of a plurality of groups based on metadata associated with the content;

assign a display size to representations of each of the plurality of content based on the group in which the display size assigned to a first said representation of content classified to a first said group is larger than the display size assigned to a second said representation of content classified to a second said group; and

output the representations of the plurality of content as having the assigned display size in a user interface.

10. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 9, wherein the display size assigned to the first said representation of content is larger than the display size assigned to a second said representation such that an amount of display area of a display device of the computer that is used to display the first said representation is greater than an amount of display area of the display device that is used to display the second said representation.

11. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 9, wherein the representations are icons that are selectable to cause output of respective said content.

12. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 9, wherein the output of the representations of the plurality of content is performed to include an identifier of a respective said group.

13. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 9, wherein the classification is performed based on a temporal indication included in the metadata.

14. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 9, wherein the metadata describes interaction with respective said content.

15. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 14, wherein the metadata describes a number of times respective said content was output.

16. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 9, wherein the computer is a mobile communications device.

17. A mobile communications device comprising:

a display device;

an image capture device; and

one or more modules to scale representations of images captured by the image capture device based on when the images were captured and output the scaled representations of the images on the display device such that at least three of the representations have different sizes, one to another.

18. A mobile communications device as described in claim 17, wherein the one or more modules are further configured to include telephone functionality to communicate one or more of the plurality of images to another mobile communications device.

19. A mobile communications device as described in claim 17, wherein:

the one or more modules are further configured to scale the representations based on which of a plurality of groups corresponding said content belongs; and

each said group defines a period of time.

20. A mobile communications device as described in claim 19, wherein each said group is output in the user interface as having an identifier that describes the period of time.