Device, method, and graphical user interface for navigating through an electronic document

• US 8,782,513 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2011
• Issued: 07/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Migos, Charles J., Capela, Jay Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): LUDWIG, MATTHEW J
• Application Number:
  US13/077,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20120192057A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,202 Days
• Field of Search: 715/203, 715/207, 715/208, 715/230, 715/231, 715/232, 715/838
• US Class Current: 715/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• 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 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface stores a document having primary content, supplementary content, and user-generated content. The device displays a representation of the document in a segmented user interface on the display. Primary content of the document is displayed in a first segment of the segmented user interface and supplementary content of the document is concurrently displayed in a second segment of the segmented user interface distinct from the first segment. The device receives a request to view user-generated content of the document. In response to the request, the device maintains display of the previously displayed primary content, ceases to display at least a portion of the previously displayed supplementary content, and displays user-generated content of the document in a third segment of the segmented user interface distinct from the first segment and the second segment.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a touch-sensitive surface;

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;

displaying a portion of a multi-page document, wherein a first set of pages of the multi-page document each have one or more respective annotations, and a second set of pages of the multi-page document do not have annotations;

detecting a predefined gesture on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the predefined gesture, displaying an array of thumbnail images that includes only representations of pages in the first set of pages, wherein a plurality of respective thumbnail images in the array of thumbnail images each include a visual indication of a respective annotation associated with the respective page for the respective thumbnail image and wherein a respective thumbnail image is displayed at a reduced size relative to a corresponding page.

2. The device of claim 1, including instructions for, in response to detecting the predefined gesture, ceasing to display the portion of the multi-page document.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the visual indication of a respective annotation provides information about the type of annotation that is associated with the visual indication.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein:

the visual indication for the particular page is a reduced scale copy of the annotation for the particular page.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein:

a respective annotation has a respective anchor position within a particular page of the multi-page document;

and

the visual indication for the particular page is displayed at a location in the thumbnail that corresponds to the respective anchor position in the particular page.

6. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device having a display and a touch-sensitive surface;

displaying a portion of a multi-page document, wherein a first set of pages of the multi-page document each have one or more respective annotations, and a second set of pages of the multi-page document do not have annotations;

detecting a predefined gesture on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the predefined gesture, displaying an array of thumbnail images that includes only representations of pages in the first set of pages, wherein a plurality of respective thumbnail images in the array of thumbnail images each include a visual indication of a respective annotation associated with the respective page for the respective thumbnail image and wherein a respective thumbnail image is displayed at a reduced size relative to a corresponding page.

7. The method of claim 6, including, in response to detecting the predefined gesture, ceasing to display the portion of the multi-page document.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the visual indication of a respective annotation provides information about the type of annotation that is associated with the visual indication.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the visual indication for the particular page is a reduced scale copy of the annotation for the particular page.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein:

a respective annotation has a respective anchor position within a particular page of the multi-page document; and

the visual indication for the particular page is displayed at a location in the thumbnail that corresponds to the respective anchor position in the particular page.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which, when executed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

display a portion of a multi-page document, wherein a first set of pages of the multi-page document each have one or more respective annotations, and a second set of pages of the multi-page document do not have annotations;

detect a predefined gesture on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the predefined gesture, display an array of thumbnail images that includes only representations of pages in the first set of pages, wherein a plurality of respective thumbnail images in the array of thumbnail images each include a visual indication of a respective annotation associated with the respective page for the respective thumbnail image and wherein a respective thumbnail image is displayed at a reduced size relative to a corresponding page.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, including instructions that cause the device to, in response to detecting the predefined gesture, cease to display the portion of the multi-page document.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the visual indication of a respective annotation provides information about the type of annotation that is associated with the visual indication.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the visual indication for the particular page is a reduced scale copy of the annotation for the particular page.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein:

a respective annotation has a respective anchor position within a particular page of the multi-page document; and

the visual indication for the particular segment is displayed at a location in the thumbnail that corresponds to the respective anchor position in the particular page.