USER INTERFACE DESIGN FOR CHART NAVIGATION AND SELECTION

• US 20170124739A1
• Filed: 03/17/2016
• Published: 05/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Perez, Rolando, Robbins, Christopher A.
• Application Number:
  US15/072,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20170124739A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]

Abstract

A computer-implemented method of generating a graphical user interface (GUI) element for chart navigation and selection is provided. The computer-implemented method includes determining that a chart including chart elements that are expandable is to be displayed on a first portion of a touchscreen, generating the GUI element including GUI element sections respectively corresponding to each of the chart elements, displaying the chart and the GUI element in the first and a second portion of the touchscreen, respectively, and linking the GUI element with the chart such that first and second user actions relative to the GUI element and one of the GUI element sections, respectively, cause a corresponding navigation modification of the chart and a corresponding expansion of the corresponding one of the chart elements, respectively.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of generating a graphical user interface (GUI) element for chart navigation and selection, the computer-implemented method comprising:

determining that a chart comprising chart elements that are expandable is to be displayed on a first portion of a touchscreen;

generating the GUI element comprising GUI element sections respectively corresponding to each of the chart elements;

displaying the chart and the GUI element in the first and a second portion of the touchscreen, respectively; and

linking the GUI element with the chart such that first and second user actions relative to the GUI element and one of the GUI element sections, respectively, cause a corresponding navigation modification of the chart and a corresponding expansion of the corresponding one of the chart elements, respectively.

2. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, wherein the chart is defined by an application and the chart elements are one of defined from application data and identified from graphics rendering code.

3. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, wherein the chart comprises a bar graph and the GUI element comprises a linear selector and pointer.

4. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, wherein the chart comprises a pie chart and the GUI element comprises a curvilinear selector and pointer.

5. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, wherein the chart and the GUI element have dissimilar shapes.

6. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, wherein the chart and the GUI element have dissimilar granularities or scales.

7. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, wherein the first user action comprises a user navigational action and the second user action comprises a user selection action.