Time-based presentation editing

• US 9,367,522 B2
• Filed: 04/13/2012
• Issued: 06/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Harris, Jeff, Cooper, Sarah, Ding, Yiyang Joy
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): JUNG, SEUNG WOON
• Application Number:
  US13/446,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20150193380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,523 Days
• Field of Search: 715/201, 715/202
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for time-based editing of an electronic presentation. An electronic presentation editing interface for editing an electronic presentation is provided. The interface includes a digital canvas including multiple canvas objects in multiple canvas layers and a digital timeline including multiple timeline objects. Each canvas object is linked to a timeline object, and a location of a timeline object on the digital timeline is indicative of a time and a canvas layer that each linked canvas object is displayed on the digital canvas.

Claims

1. A method for editing an electronic presentation, the method comprising:

providing an electronic presentation editing interface for editing an electronic presentation, wherein the interface comprises;

a digital canvas comprising a plurality of canvas objects in a plurality of canvas layers;

a digital timeline comprising a plurality of timeline objects, a time axis, and a graphical indicia on the time axis that represents a pause in the electronic presentation, wherein;

each canvas object in the plurality of canvas objects is linked to a respective timeline object;

a position of a timeline object on the digital timeline is indicative of a time and a canvas layer that a linked canvas object is displayed on the digital canvas;

the position of the timeline object includes a first time coordinate on the time axis indicative of when the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas, a second time coordinate on the time axis indicative of when the linked canvas object disappears from the digital canvas, and a layer coordinate indicative of a canvas layer in which the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas;

the graphical indicia extends over all layer coordinates that are displayed in the digital timeline; and

the digital timeline further comprises a marker on the digital timeline, wherein a position of the marker is indicative of a time corresponding to a current view of the digital canvas, and wherein when the position of the marker coincides with the graphical indicia on the time axis, each canvas object linked to a timeline object that coincides with the position of the marker is paused.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an input from the user over the interface, the input indicative of a request to modify the second time coordinate of the position of the timeline object, wherein the linked canvas object disappears in the digital canvas at a time corresponding to the modified second time coordinate.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the time on the time axis corresponds to an amount of time since a start of the electronic presentation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the digital timeline further comprises a layer axis; and

the positions of at least two timeline objects in the plurality of timeline objects have different first and second time coordinates along the time axis and a same layer coordinate along the layer axis, such that the two canvas objects linked to the two timeline objects appear in the digital canvas at different times and in the same canvas layer, and wherein the layer axis corresponds to a front to back ordering of the plurality of canvas layers in the digital canvas.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the layer axis is collapsible such that at least one canvas layer does not have a layer coordinate that appears in the digital timeline, and

the layer coordinates of the timeline objects that are linked to canvas objects present in a current view of the digital canvas appear in the digital timeline.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the interface is provided by displaying a portion of the digital timeline concurrently with displaying a portion of the digital canvas corresponding to a time indicated on the timeline.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the interface is configured to enable a user to modify the layer coordinate of the timeline object in the digital timeline to modify the canvas layer in which the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the interface is further configured to enable a user to modify the position of the marker to modify the time corresponding to the current view of the digital canvas.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein a canvas object in the plurality of canvas objects comprises a shape, a portion of text, a figure, a hyperlink, a background, an image, a graphic, a video file, or an audio file.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein a position of the graphical indicia on the time axis is indicative of a time at which the pause occurs in the electronic presentation, such that when the position of the marker reaches the position of the graphical indicia on the time axis, the current view of the digital canvas pauses until a user input is received, wherein the graphical indicia overlays the multiple layer coordinates at a single time coordinate.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein a length of a transition region on the time axis between a first timeline object in the plurality of timeline objects and a second timeline object in the plurality of timeline objects is indicative of a speed of a transition between a first canvas object linked to the first timeline object and a second canvas object linked to the second timeline object, wherein the interface is configured to enable the user to modify the length of the transition region to modify the speed of the transition between the first canvas object and the second canvas object.

12. A system for editing an electronic presentation, comprising:

a processor;

a memory storing computer executable instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to provide an electronic presentation editing interface for editing an electronic presentation, wherein the interface comprises;

a digital canvas comprising a plurality of canvas objects in a plurality of canvas layers;

a digital timeline comprising a plurality of timeline objects, a time axis, and a graphical indicia on the time axis that represents a pause in the electronic presentation, wherein;

each canvas object in the plurality of canvas objects is linked to a respective timeline object;

a position of a timeline object on the digital timeline is indicative of a time and a canvas layer that a linked canvas object is displayed on the digital canvas;

the position of the timeline object includes a first time coordinate on the time axis indicative of when the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas, a second time coordinate on the time axis indicative of when the linked canvas object disappears from the digital canvas, and a layer coordinate indicative of a canvas layer in which the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas;

the graphical indicia extends over all layer coordinates that are displayed in the digital timeline; and

the digital timeline further comprises a marker on the digital timeline, wherein a position of the marker is indicative of a time corresponding to a current view of the digital canvas, and wherein when the position of the marker coincides with the graphical indicia on the time axis, each canvas obiect linked to a timeline object that coincides with the position of the marker is paused.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the interface is configured to receive an input from the user, the input indicative of a request to modify the second time coordinate of the position of the timeline object, wherein the linked canvas object disappears in the digital canvas at a time corresponding to the modified second time coordinate.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the time on the time axis corresponds to an amount of time since a start of the electronic presentation.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein:

the digital timeline further comprises a layer axis; and

the positions of at least two timeline objects in the plurality of timeline objects have different first and second time coordinates along the time axis and a same layer coordinate along the layer axis, such that the two canvas objects linked to the two timeline objects appear in the digital canvas at different times and in the same canvas layer, and wherein the layer axis corresponds to a front to back ordering of the plurality of canvas layers in the digital canvas.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the layer axis is collapsible such that at least one canvas layer does not have a layer coordinate that appears in the digital timeline, and

the layer coordinates of the timeline objects that are linked to canvas objects present in a current view of the digital canvas appear in the digital timeline.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor provides the interface by displaying a portion of the digital timeline concurrently with displaying a portion of the digital canvas corresponding to a time indicated on the timeline.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the interface is configured to enable a user to modify the layer coordinate of the timeline object in the digital timeline to modify the canvas layer in which the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein the interface is further configured to enable a user to modify the position of the marker to modify the time corresponding to the current view of the digital canvas.

20. The system of claim 12, wherein a canvas object in the plurality of canvas objects comprises a shape, a portion of text, a figure, a hyperlink, a background, an image, a graphic, a video file, or an audio file.

21. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to carry out a method for editing an electronic presentation, comprising:

providing an electronic presentation editing interface for editing an electronic presentation, wherein the interface comprises;

a digital canvas comprising a plurality of canvas objects in a plurality of canvas layers;

a digital timeline comprising a plurality of timeline objects, a time axis, and a graphical indicia on the time axis that represents a pause in the electronic presentation, wherein;

each canvas object in the plurality of canvas objects is linked to a respective timeline object;

a position of a timeline object on the digital timeline is indicative of a time and a canvas layer that a linked canvas object is displayed on the digital canvas;

the position of the timeline object includes a first time coordinate on the time axis indicative of when the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas, a second time coordinate on the time axis indicative of when the linked canvas object disappears from the digital canvas, and a layer coordinate indicative of a canvas layer in which the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas;

the graphical indicia extends over all layer coordinates that are displayed in the digital timeline; and

the digital timeline further comprises a marker on the digital timeline, wherein a position of the marker is indicative of a time corresponding to a current view of the digital canvas, and wherein when the position of the marker coincides with the graphical indicia on the time axis, each canvas object linked to a timeline object that coincides with the position of the marker is paused.

22. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the interface is configured to receive an input from the user, the input indicative of a request to modify the second time coordinate of the position of the timeline object, wherein the linked canvas object disappears in the digital canvas at a time corresponding to the modified second coordinate.

23. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the time on the time axis corresponds to an amount of time since a start of the electronic presentation.

24. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein:

the digital timeline further comprises a layer axis; and

the positions of at least two timeline objects in the plurality of timeline objects have different first and second time coordinates along the time axis and a same layer coordinate along the layer axis, such that the two canvas objects linked to the two timeline objects appear in the digital canvas at different times and in the same canvas layer, and wherein the layer axis corresponds to a front to back ordering of the plurality of canvas layers in the digital canvas.

25. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 24, wherein the layer axis is collapsible such that at least one canvas layer does not have a layer coordinate that appears in the digital timeline, and

the layer coordinates of the timeline objects that are linked to canvas objects present in a current view of the digital canvas appear in the digital timeline.

26. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the interface is provided by displaying a portion of the digital timeline concurrently with displaying a portion of the digital canvas corresponding to a time indicated on the timeline.

27. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the interface is configured to enable a user to modify the layer coordinate of the timeline object in the digital timeline to modify the canvas layer in which the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas.

28. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the interface is further configured to enable a user to modify the position of the marker to modify the time corresponding to the current view of the digital canvas.

29. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein a canvas object in the plurality of canvas objects comprises a shape, a portion of text, a figure, a hyperlink, a background, an image, a graphic, a video file, or an audio file.