Interactive Image Thumbnails

• US 20110145752A1
• Filed: 02/18/2011
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Fagans, Joshua
• Application Number:
  US13/030,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20110145752A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• 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 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction

Abstract

A computer-implemented method displaying, within a user interface, a view pane having a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, displaying, within the view pane, a first frame represented by a bounded region, wherein the first frame represents a container that comprises one or more objects, upon detecting a positioning of a cursor at a position in the poster frame, displaying an object of the one or more objects in the frame, the displayed object varying based on the position of the cursor, upon detecting a selection of the first frame, displaying a second frame, represented by a second bounded region, adjacent to the second frame, and displaying the displayed object in the second frame.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

displaying, within a user interface, a first frame represented by a first bounded region, wherein the first frame represents a container that comprises a plurality of digital media items;

detecting a selection of a position in the first frame;

in response to detecting the selection, displaying a digital media item in the first frame such that the displayed digital media item occupies substantially all of the first bounded region;

detecting another selection of the first frame;

in response to detecting the other selection, displaying, within the user interface, a second frame represented by a second bounded region, wherein the second frame is larger than the first frame; and

concurrently displaying in the second frame the same digital media item being displayed in the first frame.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second frame is displayed adjacent to the first frame.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting a selection of a position in the first frame comprises detecting a positioning of a position indicator at the position in the frame.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the position indicator includes a cursor.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

detecting a selection of another position in the first frame;

in response to detecting the selection of the other position in the first frame, displaying another digital media item in the first frame, wherein the other digital media item corresponds to the other position in the first frame; and

concurrently displaying the other digital media item in the second frame.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital media items are displayed sequentially in the first frame as positions in the frame are sequentially selected.

7. A computer-readable medium storing computer software instructions executable by data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

displaying, within a user interface, a first frame collectively represented by a first bounded region and a second bounded region adjacent the first bounded region, wherein the first frame represents a container that comprises a plurality of digital media items;

in response to detecting a selection of a position in the first bounded region, displaying a visual indicator within the first bounded region and the second bounded region, the visual indicator indicating that a selection of the first frame accesses the plurality of digital media items; and

in response to detecting a selection of the first frame subsequent to displaying the visual indicator, displaying, within the user interface, a plurality of bounded regions, each corresponding to a digital media item of the plurality of digital media items.

8. The medium of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to detecting a selection of a position in the second bounded region instead of the position in the first bounded region, displaying a digital media item in the first frame such that the displayed digital media item occupies substantially all of the first bounded region and the second bounded region; and

in response to detecting another selection of the first frame;

displaying, within the user interface, a second frame represented by a corresponding bounded region, and

concurrently displaying in the second frame the same digital media item being displayed in the first frame.

9. The medium of claim 8, wherein the second frame is larger than the first frame.

10. The medium of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise displaying the first bounded region and the second bounded region as a rectangular region.

11. The medium of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise displaying the first bounded region above the second bounded region.

12. The medium of claim 7, wherein detecting the selection of the position in the first bounded region comprises detecting a positioning of a position indicator at the position.

13. The medium of claim 12, wherein the position indicator includes a cursor.

14. The medium of claim 7, wherein displaying the visual indicator comprises displaying a grid that occupies substantially all of the first bounded region and the second bounded region.

15. A system comprising:

data processing apparatus; and

a computer-readable medium storing computer software instructions executable by the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising;

displaying, within a user interface, a first frame represented by a first bounded region, wherein the first frame represents a container that comprises a plurality of digital media items,

detecting a selection of a position in the first frame,

in response to detecting the selection, displaying a digital media item in the first frame such that the displayed digital media item occupies substantially all of the first bounded region,

detecting another selection of the first frame,

in response to detecting the other selection, displaying, within the user interface, a second frame represented by a second bounded region, wherein the second frame is larger than the first frame, and

concurrently displaying in the second frame the same digital media item being displayed in the first frame.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the second frame is displayed adjacent to the first frame.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein detecting a selection of a position in the first frame comprises detecting a positioning of a position indicator at the position in the frame.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the position indicator includes a cursor.

19. The system of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

detecting a selection of another position in the first frame;

in response to detecting the selection of the other position in the first frame, displaying another digital media item in the first frame, wherein the other digital media item corresponds to the other position in the first frame; and

concurrently displaying the other digital media item in the second frame.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the digital media items are displayed sequentially in the first frame as positions in the frame are sequentially selected.