Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Switching Between User Interfaces

• US 20150153929A1
• Filed: 01/29/2015
• Published: 06/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Bernstein, Jeffrey Traer, Cieplinski, Avi E., Kerr, Duncan R., King, Nicholas V.
• Application Number:
  US14/609,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20150153929A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• 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 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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 includes a touch-sensitive surface and a display. The device displays, on the display, a first user interface. The device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface. The gesture includes movement of a contact in a respective direction on the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the gesture: in accordance with a determination that the movement of the contact is entirely on a first portion of the touch-sensitive surface, the device performs an operation in the first user interface that corresponds to the gesture; and in accordance with a determination that the movement of the contact is entirely on a second portion of the touch-sensitive surface, the device replaces display of the first user interface with display of a second user interface different from the first user interface.

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, cause the device to:

display, on the display, a first user interface;

detect a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, wherein the gesture includes movement of a contact in a respective direction on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the movement of the contact is entirely on a first portion of the touch-sensitive surface, perform an operation in the first user interface that corresponds to the gesture; and

in accordance with a determination that the movement of the contact is entirely on a second portion of the touch-sensitive surface, replace display of the first user interface with display of a second user interface different from the first user interface.

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

the first portion of the touch-sensitive surface is collocated with at least a sub-region of the display; and

the second portion of the touch-sensitive surface is separate from the display.

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

the first portion of the touch-sensitive surface is a touchscreen display; and

the second portion of the touch-sensitive surface is a touch-sensitive surface adjacent to the touchscreen display.

4. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the first user interface is part of a first application and the second user interface is not part of the first application.

5. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the first user interface is a first screen of a multi-screen application launch user interface;

the operation in the first user interface includes displaying a second screen in the multi-screen user interface; and

the second user interface is a user interface of an application launched from the multi-screen application launch user interface.

6. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the second user interface is an application launch user interface.

7. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the second user interface is part of a second application and the first user interface is not part of the second application.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein replacing display of the first user interface with display of a second user interface different from the first user interface includes switching from a first application to a second application.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein replacing display of the first user interface with display of a second user interface different from the first user interface includes launching a second application associated with the gesture that was not active prior to detecting the gesture.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein, for movement of the contact that is entirely on the second portion of the touch-sensitive surface:

in accordance with a determination that the respective direction is a first direction, the second interface corresponds to a second application; and

in accordance with a determination that the respective direction is a second direction different from the first direction, the second interface corresponds to a third application different from the second application.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operation in the first user interface includes translating a portion of the first user interface in accordance with the gesture.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operation in the first user interface includes switching between pages of a multi-page user interface in accordance with the gesture.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operation in the first user interface includes moving a user interface object on a canvas in the first user interface in accordance with the gesture.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operation in the first user interface includes selecting content displayed in the first user interface in accordance with the gesture.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the operation in the first user interface includes initiating a content modification operation; and

the computer readable storage medium includes instructions which cause the device to, after initiating the content modification operation, display a confirmation user interface for confirming or canceling the content modification operation.

16. 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, on the display, a first user interface;

detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, wherein the gesture includes movement of a contact in a respective direction on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the movement of the contact is entirely on a first portion of the touch-sensitive surface, performing an operation in the first user interface that corresponds to the gesture; and

in accordance with a determination that the movement of the contact is entirely on a second portion of the touch-sensitive surface, replacing display of the first user interface with display of a second user interface different from the first user interface.

17. A method, comprising:

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

displaying, on the display, a first user interface;

detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, wherein the gesture includes movement of a contact in a respective direction on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the movement of the contact is entirely on a first portion of the touch-sensitive surface, performing an operation in the first user interface that corresponds to the gesture; and

in accordance with a determination that the movement of the contact is entirely on a second portion of the touch-sensitive surface, replacing display of the first user interface with display of a second user interface different from the first user interface.