Device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying additional information in response to a user contact

• US 9,823,839 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2014
• Issued: 11/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Brown, Matthew I., Bernstein, Jeffrey Traer, Missig, Julian, Cieplinski, Avi E., Khoe, May-Li, Zambetti, Nicholas, Costanzo, Bianca C., Haggerty, Myra, Hart, David J., Victor, B. Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): REPSHER III, JOHN T
• Application Number:
  US14/536,426
• Publication Number:
  US 20150067596A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,110 Days
• Field of Search: 715808
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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

An electronic device, with a touch-sensitive surface and a display, includes one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface. The device detects a contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector corresponding to the contact is at a respective location on the display associated with additional information not initially displayed on the display. While the focus selector is at the respective location, upon determining that the contact has an intensity above a respective intensity threshold before a predefined delay time has elapsed with the focus selector at the respective location, the device displays the additional information associated with the respective location without waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed; and upon determining that the contact has an intensity below the respective intensity threshold, the device waits until the predefined delay time has elapsed to display the additional information associated with the respective location.

Claims

1. 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, a touch-sensitive surface and one or more sensors to detect intensities of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

concurrently display, on the display, first document content and a back button to navigate to prior content;

while concurrently displaying the first document content and the back button, detect a contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector corresponding to the contact is at a location of the back button on the display, wherein the back button is associated with prior document content that is not initially displayed on the display; and

while the focus selector is at the location of the back button;

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity above a second intensity threshold before a predefined delay time has elapsed with the focus selector at the location of the back button, display, concurrently with the first document content, multiple representations of the prior document content without waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity below the second intensity threshold, wait until the predefined delay time has elapsed while the focus selector is at the location of the back button with an intensity between a first intensity threshold and the second intensity threshold to display, concurrently with the first document content, the multiple representations of the prior document content.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, including instructions which cause the device to:

detect a tap gesture on the touch-sensitive surface while the focus selector is at the location of the back button; and

,

in response to detecting the tap gesture, perform an operation associated with the back button.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the multiple representations of the prior document content include a representation of the first document.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the first intensity threshold is greater than a contact detection intensity threshold.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, including instructions which, in accordance with a determination that the intensity of the contact has increased above the second intensity threshold, cause the device to output, by one or more tactile output generators, a tactile output.

3. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a touch-sensitive surface;

one or more sensors to detect intensities of contacts with the 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;

concurrently displaying, on the display, first document content and a back button to navigate to prior content;

while concurrently displaying the first document content and the back button, detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector corresponding to the contact is at a location of the back button on the display, wherein the back button is associated with prior document content that is not initially displayed on the display; and

while the focus selector is at the location of the back button;

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity above a second intensity threshold before a predefined delay time has elapsed with the focus selector at the location of the back button, displaying, concurrently with the first document content, multiple representations of the prior document content without waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity below the second intensity threshold, waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed while the focus selector is at the location of the back button with an intensity between a first intensity threshold and the second intensity threshold to display, concurrently with the first document content, the multiple representations of the prior document content.

5. The device of claim 3, including instructions for:

detecting a tap gesture on the touch-sensitive surface while the focus selector is at the location of the back button; and

,

in response to detecting the tap gesture, perform an operation associated with the back button.

10. The device of claim 3, wherein the multiple representations of the prior document content include a representation of the first document.

11. The device of claim 3, wherein the first intensity threshold is greater than a contact detection intensity threshold.

12. The device of claim 3, including instructions for, in accordance with a determination that the intensity of the contact has increased above the second intensity threshold, outputting, by one or more tactile output generators of the electronic device, a tactile output.

4. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display, wherein the device includes one or more sensors to detect intensities of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface;

concurrently displaying, on the display, first document content and a back button to navigate to prior content;

while concurrently displaying the first document content and the back button, detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector corresponding to the contact is at a location of the back button on the display, wherein the back button is associated with prior document content that is not initially displayed on the display; and

while the focus selector is at the location of the back button;

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity above a second intensity threshold before a predefined delay time has elapsed with the focus selector at the location of the back button, displaying, concurrently with the first document content, multiple representations of the prior document content without waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity below the second intensity threshold, waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed while the focus selector is at the location of the back button with an intensity between a first intensity threshold and the second intensity threshold to display, concurrently with the first document content, the multiple representations of the prior document content.

6. The method of claim 4, including:

detecting a tap gesture on the touch-sensitive surface while the focus selector is at the location of the back button; and

,

in response to detecting the tap gesture, perform an operation associated with the back button.

13. The method of claim 4, wherein the multiple representations of the prior document content include a representation of the first document.

14. The method of claim 4, wherein the first intensity threshold is greater than a contact detection intensity threshold.

15. The method of claim 4, including, in accordance with a determination that the contact has increased above the second intensity threshold, outputting, by one or more tactile output generators of the electronic device, a tactile output.