REDUCED SIZE USER INTERFACE

• US 20160062573A1
• Filed: 08/28/2015
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: DASCOLA, Jonathan R., FOSS, Christopher Patrick, YANG, Lawrence Y., DYE, Alan C., GRAHAM, David Chance, IVE, Jonathan P., LYNCH, Kevin, WILSON, Eric Lance, WILSON, Christopher, HOWARD, James, AGNOLI, Giovanni M., MEININGER, Jeffrey
• Granted Patent: US 10,073,590 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A method includes, at an electronic device: receiving data representing a sequence of images stored on an external device; displaying, on a touch-sensitive display, a representation of the sequence of images; determining whether a contact detected on the touch-sensitive display at the representation of the sequence of images has a characteristic intensity above a threshold intensity; in response to a determination that the characteristic intensity is above the threshold intensity, displaying a user interface menu including a user interface object representing an option to display a background of a user interface based on the sequence of images; detecting a selection of the user interface object; detecting a motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture; and in response to detecting the motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture, displaying the background of the user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images.

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 one or more processors of an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, a rotatable input mechanism, and a motion sensor configured to sense motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture, cause the electronic device to:

receive, via wireless communication, data representing a sequence of images stored on an external device;

display, on the touch-sensitive display, a representation of the sequence of images;

detect a contact on the touch-sensitive display at a location of the representation of the sequence of images;

determine whether the contact has a characteristic intensity above a threshold intensity;

in response to a determination that the characteristic intensity is above the threshold intensity, display a user interface menu including a user interface object,

wherein the user interface object represents an option to display a background of a user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images;

detect a selection of the user interface object;

detect, with the motion sensor, a motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture; and

in response to detecting the motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture, display the background of the user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images.

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

wherein the sequence of images includes a first image, a last image, and a representative image, and

wherein displaying the background based on the sequence of images includes:

displaying, in sequence, a first set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned before the representative image and the representative image.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

after displaying the first set of images, detect a user input; and

in response to detecting the user input, display, in sequence, a second set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned after the representative image including the last image.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

after displaying the first set of images, detect a user input including a first portion and a second portion after the first portion;

in response to the first portion of the user input, display, in sequence, a second set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned after the representative image; and

in response to the second portion of the user input, display, in sequence, a third set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned after the representative image and the last image,

wherein the one or more images of the second set of images are positioned before the one or more images of the third set of images.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

after displaying the first set of images, detect a rotation of the rotatable input mechanism;

in response to the rotation of the rotatable input mechanism, replace the display of the representative image with a second image from the sequence of images;

detect a second user input representing a selection of the second image as the representative image;

after detecting the second user input representing a selection of the second image as the representative image, detect, with the motion sensor, a second motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture; and

in response to detecting the second motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture, display the background of the user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images with the second image as the representative image.

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

wherein the sequence of images includes a first image, a last image, and a representative image, and

wherein displaying the background based on the sequence of images includes:

displaying, in sequence, the representative image and a first set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned after the representative image including the last image.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

after displaying the first set of images, detect a user input; and

in response to detecting the user input, display, in sequence, a second set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned before the representative image and the representative image.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

after displaying the first set of images, detect a user input including a first portion and a second portion after the first portion;

in response to the first portion of the user input, display, in sequence, a second set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned before the representative image; and

in response to the first portion of the user input, display, in sequence, a third set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned before or include the representative image,

wherein the one or more images of the second set are positioned before the one or more images of third set, the second set includes the first image, and the third set includes the representative image.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

after displaying the first set of images, detect a rotation of the rotatable input mechanism;

in response to the rotation of the rotatable input mechanism, replace the display of the last image with a second image from the sequence of images;

detect a second user input representing a selection of the second image as the representative image;

after detecting the second user input representing a selection of the second image as the representative image, detect, with the motion sensor, a second motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture; and

in response to detecting the second motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture, display the background of the user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images with the second image as the representative image.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1,

wherein the sequence of images includes a first image, a last image, and a representative image, and

wherein displaying the background based on the sequence of images includes:

displaying, in sequence, a first set of images from the sequence of images including the representative image, one or more images positioned after the representative image, one or more images positioned before the representative image, and the representative image.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

after displaying the first set of images, detect a user input; and

in response to detecting the user input, display, in sequence, a second set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned after the representative image including the last image.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

after displaying the first set of images, detect a user input including a first portion and a second portion after the first portion;

in response to the first portion of the user input, display, in sequence, a second set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned after the representative image; and

in response to the second portion of the user input, display, in sequence, a third set of one or more images from the sequence of images that are positioned after the representative image and the last image,

wherein the one or more images of the second set of images is before the one or more images of the third set of images.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

after displaying the first set of images, detect a rotation of the rotatable input mechanism;

in response to the rotation of the rotatable input mechanism, replace the display of the representative image with a second image from the sequence of images;

detect a second user input representing a selection of the second image as the representative image;

after detecting the second user input representing a selection of the second image as the representative image, detect, with the motion sensor, a second motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture; and

in response to detecting the second motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture, display the background of the user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images with the second image as the representative image.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises:

the background;

a first user interface object indicating a time of day; and

a second user interface object indicating a date.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the appearance of the second user interface object is blended with the background.

16. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, a rotatable input mechanism, and a motion sensor configured to sense motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture, wherein the touch-sensitive display comprises one or more sensors to detect the intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive display;

receiving, via wireless communication, data representing a sequence of images stored on an external device;

displaying, on the touch-sensitive display, a representation of the sequence of images;

detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive display at a location of the representation of the sequence of images;

determining whether the contact has a characteristic intensity above a threshold intensity;

in response to a determination that the characteristic intensity is above the threshold intensity, displaying a user interface menu including a user interface object,

wherein the user interface object represents an option to display a background of a user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images;

detecting a selection of the user interface object;

detecting, with the motion sensor, a motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture; and

in response to detecting the motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture, displaying the background of the user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images.

17. An electronic device comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

a rotatable input mechanism;

a motion sensor configured to sense motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture;

one or more processors;

a 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;

receiving, via wireless communication, data representing a sequence of images stored on an external device;

displaying, on the touch-sensitive display, a representation of the sequence of images;

detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive display at a location of the representation of the sequence of images;

determining whether the contact has a characteristic intensity above a threshold intensity;

in response to a determination that the characteristic intensity is above the threshold intensity, displaying a user interface menu including a user interface object,

wherein the user interface object represents an option to display a background of a user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images;

detecting a selection of the user interface object;

detecting, with the motion sensor, a motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture; and

in response to detecting the motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture, displaying the background of the user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images.