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

• US 20160004432A1
• Filed: 09/17/2015
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Bernstein, Jeffrey Traer, Cieplinski, Avi E.
• Granted Patent: US 10,037,138 B2
• 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 method, comprising:

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

displaying, on the display, a user interface that includes content resulting from a sequence of previously performed content-modification operations;

detecting a first gesture that includes movement of a contact in a first direction in a predefined area of the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the first gesture, displaying the content as it appeared just prior to performance of a most-recent content-modification operation of the sequence of content-modification operations.

2. The method of claim 1, including:

detecting a second gesture that includes movement of a contact in a second direction different from the first direction in the predefined area of the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the second gesture, redoing the most-recent content-modification operation.

3. The method of claim 1, including:

detecting a second gesture that includes movement of a contact in the first direction in the predefined area of the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the second gesture, displaying the content as it appeared just prior to performance of a next-most-recent content-modification operation of the sequence of content-modification operations.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the touch-sensitive surface includes a first portion and a second portion;

the first portion of the touch-sensitive surface is collocated with the display;

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

the second portion of the touch-sensitive surface includes the predefined area of the touch-sensitive surface.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the display is separate from the touch-sensitive surface; and

the predefined area of the touch-sensitive surface is adjacent to the display.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the content as it appeared prior to performance of the most-recent content-modification operation includes displaying a preview of undoing the most-recent content-modification operation.

7. The method of claim 1, including:

at a point in time during the first gesture, displaying a preview of the content as it appeared prior to performance of the most-recent content-modification operation;

detecting an end of the first gesture; and

in response to detecting the end of the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the first gesture meets undo criteria, undoing the most-recent content-modification operation; and

in accordance with a determination that the first gesture does not meet the undo criteria, redisplaying the content without undoing the most-recent content-modification operation.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the predefined area of the touch-sensitive surface does not include a displayed undo affordance.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the content as it appeared just prior to performance of the most-recent content-modification operation includes displaying an animated transition between a first state of the content after the most-recent content-modification operation was performed and a second state of the content before the most-recent content-modification operation was performed.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the animated transition progresses in accordance with movement of the contact across the predefined portion of the touch-sensitive surface.

11. 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 user interface that includes content resulting from a sequence of previously performed content-modification operations;

detecting a first gesture that includes movement of a contact in a first direction in a predefined area of the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the first gesture, displaying the content as it appeared just prior to performance of a most-recent content-modification operation of the sequence of content-modification operations.

12. A 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, and a touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

display, on the display, a user interface that includes content resulting from a sequence of previously performed content-modification operations;

detect a first gesture that includes movement of a contact in a first direction in a predefined area of the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the first gesture, display the content as it appeared just prior to performance of a most-recent content-modification operation of the sequence of content-modification operations.