Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Displaying User Interface Objects Corresponding to an Application

• US 20150135109A1
• Filed: 11/07/2014
• Published: 05/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Zambetti, Nicholas, Bernstein, Jeffrey Traer
• Granted Patent: US 11,068,153 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/767
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• 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

Abstract

An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display, that includes one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface, displays a plurality of application icons, where the plurality of application icons include a respective application icon corresponding to a respective application. While a focus selector is over the respective application icon, the device detects a gesture that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and in response to detecting the gesture: when the contact had a maximum intensity during the gesture that was below a respective intensity threshold, the device displays an application window of the respective application; and when the contact reached an intensity during the gesture that was above the respective intensity threshold, the device displays a plurality of user interface objects that correspond to the respective application.

Claims

1. A non-transitory 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, a touch-sensitive surface and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

display a plurality of application icons, wherein the plurality of application icons includes a respective application icon corresponding to a respective application;

while a focus selector is over the respective application icon, detect a gesture that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the contact had a maximum intensity during the gesture that was below a respective intensity threshold, display an application window of the respective application; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact reached an intensity during the gesture that was above the respective intensity threshold, display a plurality of user interface objects that correspond to the respective application.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the application window of the respective application is displayed when an end of the gesture is detected; and

the plurality of user interface objects corresponding to the respective application are displayed during the gesture in response to detecting that the intensity of the contact exceeds the respective intensity threshold.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the application window of the respective application is displayed when an end of the gesture is detected; and

the plurality of user interface objects corresponding to the respective application are displayed when the end of the gesture is detected.

4. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of user interface objects includes reduced-scale representations of currently open application windows for the application.

5. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of user interface objects includes reduced-scale representations of recently opened documents for the respective application.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the plurality of application icons are displayed in a predefined region of the display prior to detecting the gesture; and

the plurality of user interface objects are displayed in the predefined region of the display.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the plurality of user interface objects are displayed in front of and at least partially overlapping one or more of the plurality of application icons in the predefined region of the display.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein, displaying the plurality of user interface objects corresponding to the respective application includes:

displaying an animation of the plurality of application icons shifting backward into the display; and

displaying the plurality of user interface objects corresponding to the respective application in a location on the display previously occupied by the plurality of application icons.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein displaying the plurality of user interface objects corresponding to the respective application includes, for a respective user interface object associated with the respective application:

initially displaying the respective user interface object at a location proximate to the respective application icon; and

after initially displaying the respective user interface object, displaying an animation of the respective user interface object moving from the location proximate to the respective application icon to a location proximate to another user interface object in the plurality of user interface objects.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the application window is a new application window that was not displayed on the display prior to detecting the contact.

11. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a touch-sensitive surface;

one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the 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 plurality of application icons, wherein the plurality of application icons include a respective application icon corresponding to a respective application;

while a focus selector is over the respective application icon, detecting a gesture that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the contact had a maximum intensity during the gesture that was below a respective intensity threshold, displaying an application window of the respective application; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact reached an intensity during the gesture that was above the respective intensity threshold, displaying a plurality of user interface objects that correspond to the respective application.

12. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display, wherein the device includes one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface;

displaying a plurality of application icons, wherein the plurality of application icons include a respective application icon corresponding to a respective application;

while a focus selector is over the respective application icon, detecting a gesture that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the contact had a maximum intensity during the gesture that was below a respective intensity threshold, displaying an application window of the respective application; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact reached an intensity during the gesture that was above the respective intensity threshold, displaying a plurality of user interface objects that correspond to the respective application.