Video Manager for Portable Multifunction Device

• US 20110235990A1
• Filed: 06/07/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Charles J. Pisula, Freddy Allen Anzures, Greg Christie, Scott Forstall
• Original Assignee: Charles J. Pisula, Freddy Allen Anzures, Greg Christie, Scott Forstall
• Inventors: Christie, Greg, Forstall, Scott, Anzures, Freddy Allen, Pisula, Charles J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,547,355 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• 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 3/0488 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 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

A video player for a portable multifunction device is disclosed. In some embodiments, a list of video items is displayed in a portrait orientation of a touch screen display of a portable electronic device. Upon user selection of a respective video item in the list, the user selected video item is automatically displayed in a landscape orientation of the touch screen display.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at a handheld electronic device with a touch screen display;

displaying a user selected video program on the touch screen display; and

in response to detecting user contact with the touch screen display during display of the user selected video program, displaying an interactive progress bar.

2. The method of claim 1, including

detecting movement of a finger contact from a first position on the progress bar corresponding to a current playback position to a second position on the progress bar;

and

in response to detecting a break or pause of the finger contact, restarting playback of the video program starting at a position within the video program corresponding to the second position on the progress bar.

3. The method of claim 1, including

in response to detecting finger contact with the displayed progress bar, displaying index information corresponding to a current position of the finger contact on the displayed progress bar.

4. The method of claim 3, including

in response to detecting cessation of the finger contact with the touch screen display for at least a predefined amount of time, ceasing display of the progress bar.

5. The method of claim 1, including

displaying, simultaneously with the display of the progress bar, an elapsed video play time and a remaining video play time.

6. The method of claim 1, including

in response to detecting the user contact with the touch screen display, maintaining the display of the video program and displaying the user interactive progress bar in a region of the touch screen display not occupied by the video program.

7. The method of claim 1, including

in response to detecting cessation of the user contact with the touch screen display for at least a predefined amount of time, ceasing display of the progress bar while maintaining the display of the video program.

8. A handheld electronic device, comprising:

a touch screen display;

memory;

one or more processors; and

one or more programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

displaying a user selected video program on the touch screen display; and

in response to detecting user contact with the touch screen display during display of the user selected video program, displaying an interactive progress bar.

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

display a user selected video program on the touch screen display; and

in response to detecting user contact with the touch screen display during display of the user selected video program, displaying a progress bar.

10. A graphical user interface on a handheld electronic device with a touch screen display, comprising:

a user selected video program displayed on the touch screen display; and

an interactive progress bar, wherein the interactive progress bar is displayed in response to detecting user contact with the touch screen display during display of the user selected video program.