PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PHOTO MANAGEMENT

• US 20170019587A1
• Filed: 09/30/2016
• Published: 01/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: MATAS, Michael J., CHRISTIE, Greg N., MARCOS, Paul D., FORSTALL, Scott, VAN OS, Marcel, ORDING, Bas, CHAUDHRI, Imran
• Granted Patent: US 10,356,309 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 : of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/325 : Modified version of the image, e.g. part of the image, image reduced in size or resolution, thumbnail or screennail
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 : Display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/57 : Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 : Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 : Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters

Abstract

A portable electronic device with a touch screen display for photo management is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device displays an array of thumbnail images corresponding to a set of photographic images. The device replaces the displayed array of thumbnail images with a user-selected photographic image upon detecting a user contact with a corresponding thumbnail image in the array. The user-selected photographic image is displayed at a larger scale than the corresponding thumbnail image. The portable device displays a different photographic image in replacement of the user-selected photographic image in accordance with a scrolling gesture. The scrolling gesture comprises a substantially horizontal movement of user contact with the touch screen display.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a phone,

a camera,

a camera roll adapted to manage images and/or videos taken with the camera, one or more accelerometers adapted to detect an orientation of the portable electronic device, and

a touch screen display adapted to provide control of the phone, the camera, and the camera roll;

a processor;

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 processor, the one or more programs including instructions for;

displaying a user interface for the camera on the touch screen display, the user interface for the camera including a viewfinder and a camera roll icon;

while displaying the user interface for the camera, detecting a finger gesture on the camera roll icon;

in response to detecting the finger gesture on the camera roll icon, entering the camera roll and displaying an icon that when activated initiates transfer to the user interface for the camera;

while in the camera roll, displaying an array of thumbnail images that corresponds to a set of photographic images taken with the camera;

detecting a user finger contact with a thumbnail image in the array;

upon detecting the user finger contact with the thumbnail image in the array, replacing the displayed array of thumbnail images with a corresponding photographic image, wherein the corresponding photographic image is displayed at a larger scale than the user-selected thumbnail image;

while displaying the corresponding photographic image at the larger scale, detecting a scrolling gesture comprising a substantially horizontal movement of a user finger contact with the touch screen display;

in accordance with the scrolling gesture, displaying a different photographic image in replacement of the corresponding photographic image; and

,

while displaying the different photographic image, upon detection of a change in the orientation of the portable electronic device by the one or more accelerometers, rotating the different photographic image on the touch screen display to maintain a proper viewing orientation.