GENERATING CAROUSEL USER INTERFACE WITH GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT

• US 20160291846A1
• Filed: 03/31/2015
• Published: 10/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AirWatch LLC (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AirWatch LLC (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: McKeithan, Kevin Marshall II, DeWeese, William
• Application Number:
  US14/674,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20160291846A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• 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: G06T 1/20 Processor architectures; Processor configuration, e.g. pipelining

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for generating a carousel user interface in which screenshots are shown. The files can include, for example, recently accessed files that are accessed on a client device. Screenshots for recently accessed files can be captured. The screenshots can be incorporated into a scene in which they are attached to an anchor point. The screenshots are rotatable around the anchor point and be rendered by a graphics processing unit (GPU).

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

capturing, by a client device, at least one representation of content on the client device;

obtaining, by the client device, a request to activate a carousel mode associated with the content;

generating, by the client device, an anchor point using an application programming interface (API);

attaching, using the API, the at least one representation to the anchor point, wherein the at least one representation is rotatable around the anchor point in response to a user input; and

rendering, using the API, the at least one representation on a display, wherein a movement of the at least one representation around the anchor point is rendered by a graphics processing unit (GPU).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the movement of the at least one representation around the anchor point is rendered by the GPU and not by a central processing unit.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one representation is stored in a random access memory (RAM) associated with the client device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the API facilitates creating of a scene and rendering frames of the scene in the GPU.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one representation is configured to be rotatable about a single plane around the anchor point.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising positioning a viewpoint using the API at a fixed location facing the anchor point, wherein the at least one representation is rendered on the display rotating about the anchor point in response to a user gesture.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the user gesture comprises a swipe gesture captured by a touchscreen input device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the content includes at least one document, the method further comprising:

adding, by the client device, a document to a dock in response to dragging the document to the dock;

rendering, by the client device, the document in another portion of a user interface in response to the document being added to the dock.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

adding, by the client device, a second document to the dock in response to dragging the second document to the dock;

rendering, by the client device, the document and the second document in the other portion of a user interface in response to the second document being added to the dock.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a client device, the program, when executed by the client device, being configured to cause the client device to at least:

identify content accessed by the client device;

capture a screenshot associated with the content;

obtain a request to activate a carousel mode associated with an application facilitating viewing of the content;

generate an anchor point in a three dimensional scene facilitated by an application programming interface (API);

attach, using the API, the screenshot to the anchor point, wherein the screenshot is rotatable around the anchor point in response to a user input and a plurality of previous screenshots are attached to the anchor point and rotatable around the anchor point; and

render, using the API, the screenshot and at least a portion of the plurality of previous screenshots on a display associated with the client device using a graphics processing unit (GPU) associated with the client device.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the screenshot and the plurality of previous screenshots rotate around the anchor point in a first plane.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the content comprises at least one of:

a plurality of recently accessed files, a plurality of recently accessed webpages, a plurality of recent locations, or a set of search results.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the user input comprises a swipe gesture obtained using a touchscreen input device.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the plurality of previous screenshots comprise a predetermined number of most recently accessed files.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the content comprises a document and the screenshot comprises a first page of a document.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the screenshot comprises a thumbnail image associated with the content.

17. A computing device, comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU);

a graphics processing unit (GPU);

a display; and

an application executable by the CPU, wherein the application is configured to cause the CPU to at least;

capture a plurality of screenshots associated with content accessible on a client device;

generate an anchor point in a three dimensional scene using a graphics application programming interface (API), the three dimensional scene rendered on the display by the GPU;

associate, using the API, the plurality of screenshots with the anchor point, wherein the plurality of screenshots are rotatable around the anchor point in response to a user input; and

update, by the GPU, the three dimensional scene on the display in response to a user input, wherein movement of the plurality of screenshots around the anchor point is rendered by the GPU.

18. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the plurality of screenshots are stored in a memory of the GPU, wherein the memory of the GPU is separate from a memory of the computing device.

19. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the plurality of screenshots are attached to the anchor point in the three dimensional scene in a radial pattern.

20. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the plurality of screenshots are associated with an angular momentum in a physics model associated with the three dimensional scene.