MEDIA INTERFACE TOOLS AND ANIMATIONS

• US 20140365859A1
• Filed: 07/25/2013
• Published: 12/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Migos, Charles J., Refstrup, Jacob, Ortiz, Guillermo, Styer, Allison, Emanuel, M. Frank, Pethick, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 9,727,547 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0291 for reading, e.g. e-books constructional details of portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for displaying display primary e-book content, note glyphs and margins in an e-book interface according to the size of the e-book interface; animating “peeking pages” and glyph size during and after re-sizing events; selecting text in an e-book, entering a note that will become linked to the selected text, and representing the presence of the note on top of the primary content of the e-book as an interactive glyph according to some embodiments of the present technology; and displaying note objects, editing note objects, and navigating between note objects in a note-view pane of an e-book interface according to some embodiments of the present technology.

Claims

1. A computing-device-implemented method comprising:

displaying a presentation pane configured to display primary content and displaying a pair of margin panes in a media interface of the computing device;

receiving, by the computing device, a media interface re-sizing event;

dynamically measuring the size of the margin panes of the media interface after receiving the re-sizing event; and

animating a note resizing, by the computing device, wherein the animation is correlated to the dynamically measured size of the margin panes.

2. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising;

determining how many displays of primary content can be displayed within the presentation pane based on a determination of how many full views of primary content fit within the resized media interface, wherein each presentation pane displays only one full view of primary content; and

displaying the number of presentation panes determined to fit within the media interface, wherein the pair of margins are displayed in any remaining space within the media interface.

3. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the note is represented by a glyph, and the animating the note further comprises:

smoothly scaling the glyph in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the margin panes, whereby the glyph is scaled according to a scaling factor correlated to the size of the margin panes.

4. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising:

transforming the glyph representing the note into a full note view when the glyph has been scaled to a determined size.

5. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the note is a first note and a second note, the method further comprising:

displaying the first note in a left margin of the pair of margins, and displaying the second note in a right margin of the pair of margins.

6. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 4, the method further comprising:

upon continued re-sizing of the media interface, determining that a total width of the media interface is large enough to display two primary content displays in the presentation pane;

displaying an additional primary content display in the presentation pane in the media interface, whereby the margins are reduced to accommodate the additional primary content display;

fading out the display of the note; and

re-displaying the glyph in the presentation pane.

7. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 6

upon continued re-sizing of the media interface beyond the media interface, displaying a presentation pane with two primary content displays with glyphs representing the notes, smoothly scaling the glyphs in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the margin panes, whereby the glyph is scaled according to a scaling factor correlated to the size of the margin panes.

8. A electronic device comprising:

a processor; and

an e-book application module configured to;

display a presentation pane configured to display primary content and displaying a pair of margin panes in a media interface of the electronic device;

receive a media interface re-sizing event;

dynamically measure the size of the margin panes of the media interface after receiving the re-sizing event; and

animate a note resizing, by the electronic device, wherein the animation is correlated to the dynamically measured size of the margin panes.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the e-book application module is further configured to:

determine how many displays of primary content can be displayed within the presentation pane based on a determination of how many full views of primary content fit within the resized media interface, wherein each presentation pane displays only one full view of primary content; and

display the number of presentation panes determined to fit within the media interface, wherein the pair of margins are displayed in any remaining space within the media interface.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the note is represented by a glyph, and wherein the e-book application module is further configured to animate the note by smoothly scaling the glyph in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the margin panes, whereby the glyph is scaled according to a scaling factor correlated to the size of the margin panes.

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the e-book application module is further configured to:

transforming the glyph representing the note into a full note view when the glyph has been scaled to a determined size.

12. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the note is a first note and a second note, and wherein the e-book application module is further configured to:

display the first note in a left margin of the pair of margins, and displaying the second note in a right margin of the pair of margins.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the e-book application module is further configured to:

upon continued re-sizing of the media interface, determine that a total width of the media interface is large enough to display two primary content displays in the presentation pane;

display an additional primary content display in the presentation pane in the media interface, whereby the margins are reduced to accommodate the additional primary content display;

fade out the display of the note; and

re-display the glyph in the presentation pane.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the e-book application module is further configured to:

upon continued re-sizing of the media interface beyond the media interface, display a presentation pane with two primary content displays with glyphs representing the notes, smoothly scaling the glyphs in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the margin panes, whereby the glyph is scaled according to a scaling factor correlated to the size of the margin panes.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:

a medium configured to store computer-readable instructions thereon; and

the computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processing device cause the processing device to perform a method, comprising;

displaying a presentation pane configured to display primary content and displaying a pair of margin panes in a media interface;

receiving, by the computing device, a media interface re-sizing event;

dynamically measuring the size of the margin panes of the media interface after receiving the re-sizing event; and

animating a note resizing, wherein the animation is correlated to the dynamically measured size of the margin panes.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, and the instructions further causing the processing device to perform the steps of:

determining how many displays of primary content can be displayed within the presentation pane based on a determination of how many full views of primary content fit within the resized media interface, wherein each presentation pane displays only one full view of primary content; and

displaying the number of presentation panes determined to fit within the media interface, wherein the pair of margins are displayed in any remaining space within the media interface.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the note is represented by a glyph, and wherein the instructions further causing the processing device to animate the note by performing the steps of:

smoothly scaling the glyph in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the margin panes, whereby the glyph is scaled according to a scaling factor correlated to the size of the margin panes.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, the instructions further causing the processing device to perform the steps of:

transforming the glyph representing the note into a full note view when the glyph has been scaled to a determined size.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the note is a first note and a second note, the instructions further causing the processing device to perform the steps of:

displaying the first note in a left margin of the pair of margins, and displaying the second note in a right margin of the pair of margins.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, the instructions further causing the processing device to perform the steps of:

upon continued re-sizing of the media interface, determining that a total width of the media interface is large enough to display two primary content displays in the presentation pane;

displaying an additional primary content display in the presentation pane in the media interface, whereby the margins are reduced to accommodate the additional primary content display;

fading out the display of the note; and

re-displaying the glyph in the presentation pane.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, the instructions further causing the processing device to perform the steps of:

upon continued re-sizing of the media interface beyond the media interface, displaying a presentation pane with two primary content displays with glyphs representing the notes, smoothly scaling the glyphs in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the margin panes, whereby the glyph is scaled according to a scaling factor correlated to the size of the margin panes.