PORTABLE MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE WITH ANIMATED USER INTERFACE TRANSITIONS

• US 20170223176A1
• Filed: 04/21/2017
• Published: 08/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: MATAS, Michael J., HERZ, Scott M., CHAUDHRI, Imran, VAN OS, Marcel, ANZURES, Freddy Allen, LEMAY, Stephen O.
• Granted Patent: US 10,761,691 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/00 Animation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2747 Scrolling on a display
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface

Abstract

In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display. The computer-implemented method includes: displaying a home menu comprising a plurality of application launch icons; detecting activation of any respective application launch icon; and, in response to detecting the activation, displaying a first animation of a transition from display of the home menu to display of an application that corresponds to the activated application launch icon. The first animation comprises expanding an image of the application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

at a computing device with a touch screen display;

displaying a first set of a first plurality of application launch icons in a first area on the touch screen display, wherein the first plurality of application launch icons includes a plurality of sets of application launch icons that are separately displayed in the first area of the touch screen display;

displaying a second plurality of application launch icons in a second area on the touch screen display, wherein the second area is different from the first area;

in response to detecting a first finger gesture on the touch screen display in the first area, replacing display of the first set of the first plurality of application launch icons with display of a second set of the first plurality of application launch icons in the first area on the touch screen display while maintaining the display of the second plurality of application launch icons in the second area on the touch screen display; and

in response to detecting activation of any respective application launch icon in the plurality of application launch icons, displaying a first animation of a transition from display of application launch icons to display of an application that corresponds to the activated application launch icon;

wherein the first animation comprises expanding an image of the application.