Portable electronic device with multi-touch input

• US 9,569,089 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2010
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Ording, Bas, Forstall, Scott, Christie, Greg, Lemay, Stephen O., Chaudhri, Imran
• Primary Examiner(s): CHOWDHURY, AFROZA Y
• Application Number:
  US12/901,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20110043527A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,321 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/169, 345/173
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• 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

Abstract

A portable communication device with multi-touch input detects one or more multi-touch contacts and motions and performs one or more operations on an object based on the one or more multi-touch contacts and/or motions. The object has a resolution that is less than a pre-determined threshold when the operation is performed on the object, and the object has a resolution that is greater than the pre-determined threshold at other times.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a touch screen 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;

generating down sampled data for a graphical object;

displaying the graphical object on the touch screen display at a first magnification level using the down sampled data;

while displaying the graphical object on the touch screen display using the down sampled data, detecting a multi-touch input associated with the graphical object;

in response to detecting the multi-touch input associated with the graphical object, performing a zoom-in operation on the graphical object, wherein the zoom-in operation on the graphical object is a non-linear function of a gesture made by the multi-touch input;

while performing the zoom-in operation on the graphical object, displaying changes to the graphical object caused by the zoom-in operation in real time using the down sampled data, the changes including displaying the graphical object at a second magnification level and a first resolution using the down sampled data, wherein the second magnification level is higher than the first magnification level; and

while displaying the graphical object at the second magnification level and the first resolution using the down sampled data after the zoom-in operation, replacing the display of the graphical object at the second magnification level and the first resolution using the down sampled data with a display of the graphical object at the second magnification level and a second resolution using resampled data, wherein the second resolution is higher than the first resolution.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein replacing the display of the graphical object occurs after performing the zoom-in operation.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein replacing the display of the graphical object occurs when performing the zoom-in operation ends.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the graphical object is a web page.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the down sampled data is generated in accordance with a zoom-out operation on the graphical object that precedes the zoom-in operation on the graphical object.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the multi-touch input is a depinch gesture.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the down sampled data used to display the graphical object and display changes to the graphical object corresponds to a single representation of the graphical object having the first resolution.

8. A method, comprising:

at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display;

generating down sampled data for a graphical object;

displaying the graphical object on the touch screen display at a first magnification level using the down sampled data;

while displaying the graphical object on the touch screen display using the down sampled data, detecting a multi-touch input associated with the graphical object;

in response to detecting the multi-touch input associated with the graphical object, performing a zoom-in operation on the graphical object, wherein the zoom-in operation on the graphical object is a non-linear function of a gesture made by the multi-touch input;

while performing the zoom-in operation on the graphical object, displaying changes to the graphical object caused by the zoom-in operation in real time using the down sampled data, the changes including displaying the graphical object at a second magnification level and a first resolution using the down sampled data, wherein the second magnification level is higher than the first magnification level; and

while displaying the graphical object at the second magnification level and the first resolution using the down sampled data after the zoom-in operation, replacing the display of the graphical object at the second magnification level and the first resolution using the down sampled data with a display of the graphical object at the second magnification level and a second resolution using resampled data, wherein the second resolution is higher than the first resolution.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein replacing the display of the graphical object occurs after performing the zoom-in operation.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein replacing the display of the graphical object occurs when performing the zoom-in operation ends.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the graphical object is a web page.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the down sampled data is generated in accordance with a zoom-out operation on the graphical object that precedes the zoom-in operation on the graphical object.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the multi-touch input is a depinch gesture.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the down sampled data used to display the graphical object and display changes to the graphical object-corresponds to a single representation of the graphical object having the first resolution.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, cause the device to:

generate down sampled data for a graphical object;

display the graphical object on the touch screen display at a first magnification level using the down sampled data;

while displaying the graphical object on the touch screen display using the down sampled data, detect a multi-touch input associated with the graphical object;

in response to detecting the multi-touch input associated with the graphical object, perform a zoom-in operation on the graphical object, wherein the zoom-in operation on the graphical object is a non-linear function of a gesture made by the multi-touch input;

while performing the zoom-in operation on the graphical object, display changes to the graphical object caused by the zoom-in operation in real time using the down sampled data, the changes including displaying the graphical object at a second magnification level and a first resolution using the down sampled data, wherein the second magnification level is higher than the first magnification level; and

while displaying the graphical object at the second magnification level and the first resolution using the down sampled data after the zoom-in operation, replace the display of the graphical object at the second magnification level and the first resolution using the down sampled data with a display of the graphical object at the second magnification level and a second resolution using resampled data, wherein the second resolution is higher than the first resolution.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein replacing the display of the graphical object occurs after performing the zoom-in operation.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein replacing the display of the graphical object occurs when performing the zoom-in operation ends.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the graphical object is a web page.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the down sampled data is generated in accordance with a zoom-out operation on the graphical object that precedes the zoom-in operation on the graphical object.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the multi-touch input is a depinch gesture.

21. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the down sampled data used to display the graphical object and display changes to the graphical object corresponds to a single representation of the graphical object having the first resolution.