Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Moving a Current Position in Content at a Variable Scrubbing Rate

• US 20100231534A1
• Filed: 09/25/2009
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Chaudhri, Imran, van Os, Marcel, Furches, Elizabeth Caroline, Matas, Michael, Newman, Lucas C.
• Granted Patent: US 8,984,431 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• 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: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A method is performed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface. The method includes: displaying a progress icon; while providing content with the electronic device: detecting a contact at a location that corresponds to the progress icon; detecting movement of the contact, wherein movement of the contact comprises a first component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display parallel to a first predefined direction and a second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display perpendicular to the first predefined direction; and, while continuing to detect the contact on the touch-sensitive surface, moving the current position within the content at a scrubbing rate, wherein the scrubbing rate decreases as the second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface increases.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface;

displaying a progress icon in a predefined area on the display, wherein the progress icon is configured to move in a first predefined direction on the display;

providing content with the electronic device;

indicating a current position within the content with the progress icon; and

,

while providing the content with the electronic device;

detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive surface at a location that corresponds to the progress icon;

detecting movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface to a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display outside the predefined area that includes the progress icon, wherein movement of the contact comprises a first component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display parallel to the first predefined direction and a second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display perpendicular to the first predefined direction; and

,

while continuing to detect the contact on the touch-sensitive surface, moving the current position within the content at a scrubbing rate, wherein the scrubbing rate decreases as the second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface increases.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the display is a touch screen display and the touch-sensitive surface is on the display.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch-sensitive surface is a touch pad.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein providing content comprises playing back audio content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein providing content comprises playing back video content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein providing content comprises displaying an electronic document.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first component of movement and the second component of movement are perpendicular to each other.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the progress icon is a thumb icon in a scroll bar.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the progress icon is an end of a bar.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first predefined direction is a horizontal direction on the display.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first predefined direction is a vertical direction on the display.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the contact is a finger contact.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the contact is a stylus contact.

14. The method of claim 1, including:

displaying a scroll bar in the predefined area on the display; and

after detecting the contact with the touch-sensitive surface at the location that corresponds to the progress icon on the display, displaying an expanded portion of the scroll bar.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the display of the expanded portion of the scroll bar replaces the display of the scroll bar.

16. The method of claim 14, including displaying a signal intensity within the expanded portion of the scroll bar.

17. The method of claim 14, including displaying representative images from the content within the expanded portion of the scroll bar.

18. The method of claim 14, including displaying representative text from the content within the expanded portion of the scroll bar.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the scrubbing rate decreases to a predetermined minimum rate as the second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface increases.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein:

providing content with the electronic device comprises playing back content with the electronic device at a playback speed prior to detecting movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface, and

indicating a current position within the content with the progress icon comprises indicating a current playback position within the content with the progress icon.

21. The method of claim 1, including, while detecting the contact on the touch-sensitive surface, displaying an indicator of the scrubbing rate.

22. The method of claim 1, including, while detecting movement of the contact on the touch-sensitive surface, displaying an indicator of the scrubbing rate.

23. A graphical user interface on an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface, comprising:

a progress icon configured to move in a first predefined direction in a predefined area on the display;

wherein;

content is provided with the electronic device;

a current position within the content is indicated with the progress icon; and

,

while providing the content with the electronic device;

a contact is detected with the touch-sensitive surface at a location that corresponds to the progress icon;

movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface to a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display outside the predefined area that includes the progress icon is detected, wherein movement of the contact comprises a first component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display parallel to the first predefined direction and a second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display perpendicular to the first predefined direction; and

,

while continuing to detect the contact on the touch-sensitive surface, the current position within the content is moved at a scrubbing rate, wherein the scrubbing rate decreases as the second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface increases.

24. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a touch-sensitive surface;

one or more processors;

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 progress icon in a predefined area on the display, wherein the progress icon is configured to move in a first predefined direction on the display;

providing content with the electronic device;

indicating a current position within the content with the progress icon; and

,

while providing the content with the electronic device;

detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive surface at a location that corresponds to the progress icon;

detecting movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface to a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display outside the predefined area that includes the progress icon, wherein movement of the contact comprises a first component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display parallel to the first predefined direction and a second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display perpendicular to the first predefined direction; and

,

while continuing to detect the contact on the touch-sensitive surface, moving the current position within the content at a scrubbing rate, wherein the scrubbing rate decreases as the second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface increases.

25. A computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

display a progress icon in a predefined area on the display, wherein the progress icon is configured to move in a first predefined direction on the display;

provide content with the electronic device;

indicate a current position within the content with the progress icon; and

,

while providing the content with the electronic device;

detect a contact with the touch-sensitive surface at a location that corresponds to the progress icon;

detect movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface to a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display outside the predefined area that includes the progress icon, wherein movement of the contact comprises a first component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display parallel to the first predefined direction and a second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display perpendicular to the first predefined direction; and

,

while continuing to detect the contact on the touch-sensitive surface, move the current position within the content at a scrubbing rate, wherein the scrubbing rate decreases as the second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface increases.