Interactive Image Thumbnails

• US 20080225153A1
• Filed: 08/06/2007
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Fagans, Joshua
• Granted Patent: US 7,895,533 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/333.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction

Abstract

A computer-implemented method displaying, within a user interface, a view pane having a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, displaying, within the view pane, a first frame represented by a bounded region, wherein the first frame represents a container that comprises one or more objects, upon detecting a positioning of a cursor at a position in the poster frame, displaying an object of the one or more objects in the frame, the displayed object varying based on the position of the cursor, upon detecting a selection of the first frame, displaying a second frame, represented by a second bounded region, adjacent to the second frame, and displaying the displayed object in the second frame.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

displaying, within a user interface, a view pane having a vertical direction and a horizontal direction;

displaying, within the view pane, a first frame represented by a bounded region, wherein the first frame represents a container that comprises one or more objects;

upon detecting a positioning of a cursor at a position in the poster frame, displaying an object of the one or more objects in the frame, the displayed object varying based on the position of the cursor;

upon detecting a selection of the first frame, displaying a second frame, represented by a second bounded region; and

displaying the displayed object in the second frame.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the second frame is displayed adjacent to the first frame.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first frame comprises a poster frame.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein dimensions of the second frame are greater than dimensions of the first frame.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

upon detecting a positioning of the cursor at a new position on the first frame, displaying a new displayed object of the one or more objects in the first frame, the new object corresponding to the new position of the cursor; and

displaying the new displayed object in the second frame.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising detecting the selection of the second frame.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising displaying a tool within the second frame, the tool configured to enable a user to select the second frame.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein detecting the selection of the second frame comprises:

positioning the cursor over the tool; and

selecting the tool.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein selecting the second frame enables including the displayed object in a group.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising, upon displaying the second frame, dividing the first frame into a first portion and a second portion.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising, upon determining the positioning of the cursor over the first portion, displaying an object, corresponding to a position of the cursor over the first portion, in the first frame and the second frame.

12. The method of claim 10 further comprising, upon determining the positioning of the cursor over the second portion, displaying a grid in the first frame, the grid serving as a visual cue indicating the accessibility of the one or more objects in the container represented by the first frame.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising enabling the user to access the one or more objects in the container represented by the first frame when the user selects the first frame upon viewing the grid.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the grid is an array comprising a plurality of rectangular regions.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein an object in the container represented by the first frame is displayed in a rectangular region of the plurality of rectangular regions.

16. The method of claim 10 wherein dimensions of the first portion are larger than dimensions of the second portion.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the dimensions of the first portion are two-thirds the dimensions of the first frame.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting the first frame comprises clicking a pointing device configured to control the positioning of the cursor.

19. A medium bearing instructions to enable one or more machines to perform operations comprising:

displaying, within a user interface, a view pane having a vertical direction and a horizontal direction;

displaying, within the view pane, a first frame represented by a bounded region, wherein the first frame represents a container that comprises one or more objects;

upon detecting a positioning of a cursor at a position in the poster frame, displaying an object of the one or more objects in the frame, the displayed object varying based on the position of the cursor;

upon detecting a selection of the first frame, displaying a second frame, represented by a second bounded region; and

displaying the displayed object in the second frame.

20. The medium of claim 19 wherein the second frame is displayed adjacent to the first frame.

21. The medium of claim 19 wherein the first frame comprises a poster frame.

22. The medium of claim 19 wherein dimensions of the second frame are greater than dimensions of the first frame.

23. The medium of claim 19, the operations further comprising:

upon detecting a positioning of the cursor at a new position on the first frame, displaying a new displayed object of the one or more objects in the first frame, the new object corresponding to the new position of the cursor; and

displaying the new displayed object in the second frame.

24. The medium of claim 19, the operations further comprising detecting the selection of the second frame.

25. The medium of claim 24, the operations further comprising displaying a tool within the second frame, the tool configured to enable a user to select the second frame.

26. The medium of claim 25 wherein detecting the selection of the second frame comprises:

positioning the cursor over the tool; and

selecting the tool.

27. The medium of claim 24 wherein selecting the second frame enables including the displayed object in a group.

28. The method of claim 19, the operations further comprising, upon displaying the second frame, dividing the first frame into a first portion and a second portion.

29. The medium of claim 28, the operations further comprising, upon determining the positioning of the cursor over the first portion, displaying an object, corresponding to a position of the cursor over the first portion, in the first frame and the second frame.

30. The medium of claim 28, the operations further comprising, upon determining the positioning of the cursor over the second portion, displaying a grid in the first frame, the grid serving as a visual cue indicating the accessibility of the one or more objects in the container represented by the first frame.

31. The medium of claim 30, the operations further comprising enabling the user to access the one or more objects in the container represented by the first frame when the user selects the first frame upon viewing the grid.

32. The medium of claim 31 wherein the grid is an array comprising a plurality of rectangular regions.

33. The medium of claim 32 wherein an object in the container represented by the first frame is displayed in a rectangular region of the plurality of rectangular regions.

34. The medium of claim 28 wherein dimensions of the first portion are larger than dimensions of the second portion.

35. The medium of claim 34 wherein the dimensions of the first portion are two-thirds the dimensions of the first frame.

36. The medium of claim 19 wherein selecting the first frame comprises clicking a pointing device configured to control the positioning of the cursor.