Touch inputs interacting with user interface items

• US 8,769,443 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2010
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: King, Nicholas V., Benjamin, Todd, Bilbrey, Brett
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, THANH T
• Application Number:
  US12/704,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20110197153A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,601 Days
• Field of Search: 715/863, 715/864, 715/770, 715/773
• US Class Current: 715/863
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Techniques for managing user interactions with items on a user interface are disclosed. In one aspect, a representation of an opening is presented in response to touch input. A display object is moved over the opening, and the display object is processed in response to the moving. In another aspect, touch input pinching two opposite corners of a display object followed by touch input flicking the display object is received and the display object is deleted in response to the inputs. In another aspect, touch input centered over a display object is received and the display object is deleted in response to the input. In another aspect, touch input corresponding to swiping gestures are received and a display object is securely deleted in response to the gestures.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

presenting a display object on a user interface of a device with a touch-sensitive display;

receiving a first touch input pinching two opposite corners of the display object on the touch-sensitive display followed by receiving a second touch input flicking the display object on the touch-sensitive display; and

deleting the display object in response to receiving the first and second touch inputs.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising placing the device in a deletion state in response to user input.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second touch input follows the first touch input with no intervening inputs and within a threshold amount of time.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting an animation of the display object moving off the screen in response to receiving the first and second touch inputs.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting an animation of the display object shrinking in response to the first touch input.

6. A multifunction device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

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;

presenting a display object on a user interface of the device with a touch-sensitive display;

receiving a first touch input pinching two opposite corners of the display object on the touch-sensitive display followed by receiving a second touch input flicking the display object; and

deleting the display object in response to receiving the first and second touch inputs.

7. The device of claim 6, further comprising instructions for placing the device in a deletion state in response to user input.

8. The device of claim 6, wherein the second touch input follows the first touch input with no intervening inputs and within a threshold amount of time.

9. The device of claim 6, further comprising instructions for presenting an animation of the display object moving off the screen in response to receiving the first and second touch inputs.

10. The device of claim 6, further comprising instructions for presenting an animation of the display object shrinking in response to the first touch input.

11. A non-transitory computer storage medium storing one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a multifunction device with a touch-sensitive display, cause the device to perform operations comprising:

presenting a display object on a user interface of the device with a touch-sensitive display;

receiving a first touch input pinching two opposite corners of the display object on the touch-sensitive display followed by receiving a second touch input flicking the display object on the touch-sensitive display; and

deleting the display object in response to receiving the first and second touch inputs.

12. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 11, further including instructions that cause the device to perform operations including placing the device in a deletion state in response to user input.

13. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 11, wherein the second touch input follows the first touch input with no intervening inputs and within a threshold amount of time.

14. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 11, further including instructions that cause the device to perform operations including presenting an animation of the display object moving off the screen in response to receiving the first and second touch inputs.

15. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 11, further including instructions that cause the device to perform operations including presenting an animation of the display object shrinking in response to the first touch input.