Carousel User Interface For Document Management

• US 20130047079A1
• Filed: 08/15/2011
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: KROEGER, Robert, Faragher, Ian Chadwyck, Samuel, Fady, Truta, Cosmin, Jain, Varun
• Granted Patent: US 8,700,999 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing

Abstract

Methods and systems for managing open documents are disclosed. Document representations are displayed in a carousel display. Each of the representations displays a document viewport portion of content from a corresponding open document. Upon determining a first gesture associated with a selected representation, a full view of the document viewport portion of the open document corresponding to the selected representation is displayed. The content of the open document displayed in the document viewport portion may be adjusted based upon a user action in the open document. Upon determining a second gesture, the full view of the document viewport portion is closed and the adjusted content is displayed as the document viewport portion in the carousel display. A greater portion of the open document than what is visible in the document viewport portion is displayed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

outputting, for display, a plurality of active document representations in a carousel display, wherein each of the plurality of representations displays a document viewport portion of content from a corresponding active document; and

upon receiving an indication of a user gesture, outputting, for display, each document viewport portion in the carousel display with a width-to-height aspect ratio that substantially matches an aspect ratio of a full view display of the active document and outputting, for display, a portion of the active document content outside the document viewport portion.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising changing display locations of the plurality of representations based on a rotation of the carousel display.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising adjusting content of an active document that is displayed in a respective document viewport portion based on the user having scrolled to another scroll position of the active document.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting, for display, a plurality of active document representations includes outputting, for display dynamic content of one or more of the plurality of representations.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting, for display, each document viewport portion in the carousel display includes deemphasizing the portion outside of the document viewport portion.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting, for display, a plurality of active document representations includes emphasizing a viewport representation.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user gesture is a zoom-out gesture with a zoom-out scale beyond a determined threshold.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein two or more of the plurality of representations represent active web browser tabs.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising adjusting a display size of each of the representations in the carousel display based on a number of representations in the carousel display.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a size of the document viewport portion for a corresponding active document is related to a passage of time since the document has been accessed.

10. (canceled)

11. A system, comprising:

a carousel manager, implemented by one or more processor-based devices, configured to output, for display, a plurality of active document representations in a carousel display, wherein each of the plurality of representations displays a document viewport portion of a corresponding active document; and

a document viewer, implemented by one or more processor-based devices, configured to, upon receiving an indication of a user gesture, output, for display, each document viewport portion in the carousel display with a width-to-height aspect ratio that substantially matches an aspect ratio of a full view display of the active document and to output, for display, a portion of the active document content outside the document viewport portion.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the carousel manager is further configured to change display locations of the plurality of representations based on a rotation of the carousel display.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the document viewer is further configured to adjust content of an active document that is displayed in a respective document viewport portion based on the user having scrolled to another scroll position of the active document.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the carousel manager is further configured to output, for display, dynamic content of one or more of the plurality of representations.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the carousel manager is further configured to deemphasize the portion outside of the document viewport portion.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the carousel manager is further configured to emphasize a viewport representation.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the user gesture is a zoom-out gesture with a zoom-out scale beyond a determined threshold.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein two or more of the plurality of representations represent open web browser tabs.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the carousel manager is further configured to adjust a display size of each of the representations in the carousel display based on a number of representations in the carousel display.

20. (canceled)

21. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having control logic stored therein, the control logic executed by a processor and, the control logic comprising:

a first computer readable program code to cause the processor to output, for display, a plurality of active document representations in a carousel display, wherein each of the plurality of representations displays a document viewport portion of a corresponding active document; and

a second computer readable program code to cause the processor to output, for display, upon receiving an indication of a user gesture, each document viewport portion in the carousel display with a width-to-height aspect ratio that substantially matches an aspect ratio of a full view display of the active document and to output, for display, a portion of the active document content outside the document viewport portion.