Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for moving a current focus using a touch-sensitive remote control

• US 9,535,594 B1
• Filed: 09/27/2015
• Issued: 01/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Voss, Justin T., Ricketson, Matthew D., Folse, Jennifer L., Alonso Ruiz, Marcos, Wells, Nicole M., Seely, Blake R., Penha, Henrique D., Hwang, Grace H., Clarke, Graham R., Robbin, Jeffrey L., Bachman, William M., Keighran, Benjamin W., Lochhead, Jonathan, Howard, Joe R., McGlinn, Joshua K., Westerman, Wayne C.
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): Li, Liang
• Application Number:
  US14/866,986
• Time in Patent Office: 464 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N7/14 ; broadcast or conference over packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control

Abstract

An electronic device provides, to a display, data to present a user interface with a plurality of user interface objects, and a current focus is on a first user interface object. The device receives an input corresponding to movement of a contact across a touch-sensitive surface. The movement includes first and second components each corresponding to first and second axes on the display. The device moves the current focus, along the first and second axes by amounts based on magnitudes of the first and second components. The amount of movement of the current focus along a non-dominant axis is reduced relative to the amount of movement of the current focus along a dominant axis by a scaling factor that is based on a rate of movement of the contact.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory, wherein the electronic device is in communication with a display and a user input device that includes a touch-sensitive surface;

providing, to the display, data to present a user interface with a plurality of user interface objects, wherein;

the plurality of user interface objects includes a first user interface object; and

a current focus is on the first user interface object;

while the display is presenting the user interface, receiving a first input that corresponds to movement of a contact across the touch-sensitive surface of the user input device, wherein the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface includes;

a first component of movement of the contact that corresponds to movement along a first axis on the display, and

a second component of movement of the contact that corresponds to movement along a second axis on the display that is perpendicular to the first axis; and

,

in response to receiving the first input that corresponds to the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface of the user input device;

in accordance with a determination that the first axis is a dominant axis;

moving the current focus in the user interface along the first axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the first component of movement; and

moving the current focus in the user interface along the second axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the second component of movement, wherein the amount of movement of the current focus along the second axis is reduced relative to the amount of movement of the current focus along the first axis by a scaling factor that is based on a rate of movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface; and

,

in accordance with a determination that the second axis is a dominant axis;

moving the current focus in the user interface along the first axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the first component of movement; and

moving the current focus in the user interface along the second axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the second component of movement, wherein the amount of movement of the current focus along the first axis is reduced relative to the amount of movement of the current focus along the second first by the scaling factor that is based on the rate of movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface;

wherein;

in accordance with a determination that a speed of the contact moving across the touch-sensitive surface satisfies one or more movement-component reduction criteria, a first scaling factor is used as the scaling factor, wherein the first scaling factor scales the magnitude of a component of movement along the axis being scaled to a first non-zero magnitude; and

,

in accordance with a determination that the speed of the contact moving across the touch-sensitive surface does not satisfy the one or more movement-component reduction criteria, a second scaling factor, that is lower than the first scaling factor, is used as the scaling factor, wherein the second scaling factor scales the magnitude of a component of movement along the axis being scaled to a second non-zero magnitude that is different from the first non-zero magnitude.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the speed of the contact moving across the touch-sensitive surface is determined at each detection time of a sequence of detection times based on the movement of the contact between the detection time and an immediately preceding detection time.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the second scaling factor is determined in accordance with the speed of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the scaling factor increases as the speed of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface increases.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first axis is a dominant axis of the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first axis is determined as the dominant axis based in part on a number of prior swipe gestures along the first axis.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first axis is a horizontal axis and the second axis is a vertical axis.

8. An electronic device in communication with a display and a user input device that includes a touch-sensitive surface, comprising:

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;

providing, to the display, data to present a user interface with a plurality of user interface objects, wherein;

the plurality of user interface objects includes a first user interface object; and

a current focus is on the first user interface object;

while the display is presenting the user interface, receiving a first input that corresponds to movement of a contact across the touch-sensitive surface of the user input device, wherein the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface includes;

a first component of movement of the contact that corresponds to movement along a first axis on the display, and

a second component of movement of the contact that corresponds to movement along a second axis on the display that is perpendicular to the first axis; and

,

in response to receiving the first input that corresponds to the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface of the user input device;

in accordance with a determination that the first axis is a dominant axis;

moving the current focus in the user interface along the first axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the first component of movement; and

moving the current focus in the user interface along the second axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the second component of movement, wherein the amount of movement of the current focus along the second axis is reduced relative to the amount of movement of the current focus along the first axis by a scaling factor that is based on a rate of movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface; and

,

in accordance with a determination that the second axis is a dominant axis;

moving the current focus in the user interface along the first axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the first component of movement; and

moving the current focus in the user interface along the second axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the second component of movement, wherein the amount of movement of the current focus along the first axis is reduced relative to the amount of movement of the current focus along the second first by the scaling factor that is based on the rate of movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface;

wherein;

in accordance with a determination that a speed of the contact moving across the touch-sensitive surface satisfies one or more movement-component reduction criteria, a first scaling factor is used as the scaling factor, wherein the first scaling factor scales the magnitude of a component of movement along the axis being scaled to a first non-zero magnitude; and

,

in accordance with a determination that the speed of the contact moving across the touch-sensitive surface does not satisfy the one or more movement-component reduction criteria, a second scaling factor, that is lower than the first scaling factor, is used as the scaling factor, wherein the second scaling factor scales the magnitude of a component of movement along the axis being scaled to a second non-zero magnitude that is different from the first non-zero magnitude.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the speed of the contact moving across the touch-sensitive surface is determined at each detection time of a sequence of detection times based on the movement of the contact between the detection time and an immediately preceding detection time.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein:

the second scaling factor is determined in accordance with the speed of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface.

11. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the scaling factor increases as the speed of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface increases.

12. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the first axis is a dominant axis of the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the first axis is determined as the dominant axis based in part on a number of prior swipe gestures along the first axis.

14. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the first axis is a horizontal axis and the second axis is a vertical axis.

15. 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 in communication with a display and a user input device that includes a touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

provide, to the display, data to present a user interface with a plurality of user interface objects, wherein;

the plurality of user interface objects includes a first user interface object; and

a current focus is on the first user interface object;

while the display is presenting the user interface, receive a first input that corresponds to movement of a contact across the touch-sensitive surface of the user input device, wherein the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface includes;

a first component of movement of the contact that corresponds to movement along a first axis on the display, and

a second component of movement of the contact that corresponds to movement along a second axis on the display that is perpendicular to the first axis; and

,

in response to receiving the first input that corresponds to the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface of the user input device;

in accordance with a determination that the first axis is a dominant axis;

move the current focus in the user interface along the first axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the first component of movement; and

move the current focus in the user interface along the second axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the second component of movement, wherein the amount of movement of the current focus along the second axis is reduced relative to the amount of movement of the current focus along the first axis by a scaling factor that is based on a rate of movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface; and

,

in accordance with a determination that the second axis is a dominant axis;

move the current focus in the user interface along the first axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the first component of movement; and

move the current focus in the user interface along the second axis by an amount that is based on the magnitude of the second component of movement, wherein the amount of movement of the current focus along the first axis is reduced relative to the amount of movement of the current focus along the second first by the scaling factor that is based on the rate of movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface;

wherein;

in accordance with a determination that a speed of the contact moving across the touch-sensitive surface satisfies one or more movement-component reduction criteria, a first scaling factor is used as the scaling factor, wherein the first scaling factor scales the magnitude of a component of movement along the axis being scaled to a first non-zero magnitude; and

,

in accordance with a determination that the speed of the contact moving across the touch-sensitive surface does not satisfy the one or more movement-component reduction criteria, a second scaling factor, that is lower than the first scaling factor, is used as the scaling factor, wherein the second scaling factor scales the magnitude of a component of movement along the axis being scaled to a second non-zero magnitude that is different from the first non-zero magnitude.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the speed of the contact moving across the touch-sensitive surface is determined at each detection time of a sequence of detection times based on the movement of the contact between the detection time and an immediately preceding detection time.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein:

the second scaling factor is determined in accordance with the speed of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the scaling factor increases as the speed of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface increases.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the first axis is a dominant axis of the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the first axis is determined as the dominant axis based in part on a number of prior swipe gestures along the first axis.

21. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the first axis is a horizontal axis and the second axis is a vertical axis.