Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Manipulating User Interface Objects with Visual and/or Haptic Feedback

• US 20160259499A1
• Filed: 09/30/2015
• Published: 09/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Kocienda, Kenneth L., Anzures, Freddy A., Bauer, Sebastian J., Dascola, Jonathan R., Karunamuni, Chanaka G., King, Nicholas V., Leonard, Adam J., Moussette, Camille, Trottier, Lauren K., Wan, Wan Si, Yang, Lawrence Y., Yerkes, Giancarlo
• Application Number:
  US14/871,462
• Publication Number:
  US 20160259499A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

An electronic device with a display and one or more input devices: displays a first user interface that includes a plurality of user interface objects, wherein a respective user interface object is associated with a corresponding set of menu options; detects a first input that corresponds to a request to display menu options for a first user interface object; in response, and displays menu items in a menu that corresponds to the first user interface object. Displaying the menu includes: if the first user interface object is at a first location in the first user interface, displaying the menu items in a first order; and if the first user interface object is at a second location in the first user interface, displaying the menu items in a second order that is different from the first order.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a display and one or more input devices;

displaying, on the display, a first user interface that includes a plurality of user interface objects, wherein a respective user interface object is associated with a corresponding set of menu options;

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a first input that corresponds to a request to display menu options for a first user interface object of the plurality of user interface objects; and

,

in response to detecting the first input, displaying menu items in a menu that corresponds to the first user interface object, wherein displaying the menu includes;

in accordance with a determination that the first user interface object is at a first location in the first user interface, displaying the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object in a first order; and

in accordance with a determination that the first user interface object is at a second location in the first user interface that is different from the first location, displaying the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object in a second order that is different from the first order.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second order is opposite to the first order.

3. The method of claim 1, including:

in accordance with the determination that the first user interface object is at the first location in the first user interface, extending the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object away from the first user interface object in a first direction; and

in accordance with the determination that the first user interface object is at the second location, extending the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object away from the first user interface object in a second direction that is different from the first direction.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object have associated priorities relative to one another, and

the highest priority menu item in the menu is displayed closest to the first user interface object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

a plurality of menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object each includes a respective graphic and respective text, and

a displayed arrangement of the respective graphics and the respective text of said plurality of menu items in the menu is determined based on the location of the first user interface object in the first user interface.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein:

in accordance with the determination that the first user interface object is at the first location, the respective text of each menu item is arranged to the right of the respective graphic of the menu item in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein:

in accordance with the determination that the first user interface object is at the second location, the respective text of each menu item is arranged to the left of the respective graphic of the menu item in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein:

in accordance with the determination that the first user interface object is at a third location, the respective text of each menu item is arranged to the left of the respective graphic of the menu item in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object and the menu items in the menu are in the first order.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein:

in accordance with the determination that the first user interface object is at a fourth location, the respective text of each menu item is arranged to the right of the respective graphic of the menu item in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object and the menu items in the menu are in the second order.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the first user interface object includes a respective icon graphic, and

the respective icon graphic of the first user interface object is aligned with the respective graphics of the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the plurality of user interface objects are arranged in a grid in the first user interface;

the first user interface object is located at a first position in the grid; and

the menu is extended in a respective direction vertically and a respective direction horizontally relative to the first user interface object such that the menu covers a portion of the first user interface without covering the first user interface object at the first position.

12. The method of claim 1, including:

while displaying the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object, visually emphasizing the first user interface object relative to other user interface objects in the plurality of user interface objects in the first user interface.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first user interface object is an application launch icon, and

the menu for the first user interface object includes a menu item that when activated initiates a process for sending to a second electronic device acquisition information for an application that corresponds to the application launch icon.

14. The method of claim 1, including:

receiving, by an operating system of the electronic device, menu generation data from an application associated with the first user interface object, wherein the menu generation data includes the menu items to be included in the menu for the first user interface object and priority information associated with the menu items to be included in the menu for the first user interface object; and

generating, by the operating system, the menu for the first user interface object for display on the first user interface, based on the menu generation data received from the application associated with the first user interface object.

15. The method of claim 1, including:

moving the first user interface object on the first user interface from the first location to a new location in the first user interface, different from the first location; and

after moving the first user interface object to the new location in the first user interface;

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a second input that corresponds to a second request to display the menu options for the first user interface object; and

,

in response to detecting the second input, displaying the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object in a new order that is different from the first order in accordance with the new location of the first user interface object.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user interface object is an application icon that corresponds to a first application program.

17. The method of claim 16, including:

while displaying the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object;

detecting a second input that corresponds to a request to select the first user interface object; and

in response to detecting the second input that corresponds to the request to select the first user interface object;

launching the first application program; and

ceasing to display the first user interface and the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein, while displaying the first user interface without displaying the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object, a respective input that corresponds to a request to select the first user interface launches the first application program.

19. The method of claim 1, including:

while displaying the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object;

detecting a first portion of a third input that corresponds to a request to enter a user interface reconfiguration mode; and

in response to detecting the first portion of the third input that corresponds to the request to enter the user interface reconfiguration mode;

entering the user interface reconfiguration mode; and

ceasing to display the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object.

20. The method of claim 19, including:

while in the user interface reconfiguration mode;

detecting a second portion of the third input that corresponds to a request to move the first user interface object from a first location in the first user interface to a second location in the first user interface; and

in response to detecting the second portion of the third input that corresponds to the request to move the first user interface object from the first location in the first user interface to the second location in the first user interface, reconfiguring the first user interface.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein, while displaying the first user interface without displaying the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object, a respective input that corresponds to a request to enter the user interface reconfiguration mode causes the electronic device to enter the reconfiguration mode.

22. The method of claim 1, including:

applying a visual effect to obscure one or more user interface objects of the plurality user interface objects other than the first user interface object while displaying the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object.

23. 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, on the display, a first user interface that includes a plurality of user interface objects, wherein a respective user interface object is associated with a corresponding set of menu options;

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a first input that corresponds to a request to display menu options for a first user interface object of the plurality of user interface objects; and

,

in response to detecting the first input, displaying menu items in a menu that corresponds to the first user interface object, wherein displaying the menu includes;

in accordance with a determination that the first user interface object is at a first location in the first user interface, displaying the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object in a first order; and

in accordance with a determination that the first user interface object is at a second location in the first user interface that is different from the first location, displaying the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object in a second order that is different from the first order.

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

display, on the display, a first user interface that includes a plurality of user interface objects, wherein a respective user interface object is associated with a corresponding set of menu options;

detect, via the one or more input devices, a first input that corresponds to a request to display menu options for a first user interface object of the plurality of user interface objects; and

,

in response to detecting the first input, display menu items in a menu that corresponds to the first user interface object, wherein displaying the menu includes;

in accordance with a determination that the first user interface object is at a first location in the first user interface, displaying the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object in a first order; and

in accordance with a determination that the first user interface object is at a second location in the first user interface that is different from the first location, displaying the menu items in the menu that corresponds to the first user interface object in a second order that is different from the first order.