Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Organizing and Presenting a Collection of Media Items

• US 20140282011A1
• Filed: 02/18/2014
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Titi, Justin S., Dellinger, Richard R., Christie, Gregory
• Granted Patent: US 9,471,200 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/731
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An electronic device with a display and, optionally, a touch-sensitive surface obtains a collection of media items. In some embodiments, the device determines one or more patterns in the collection based on a comparison between properties of sequentially adjacent items and divides the collection into multiple events that includes a plurality of multi-item events. In some embodiments, the device receives a first request to display a first portion of the collection organized in accordance with a first detailed-granularity level and, in response to the first request, displaying a first plurality of representations of the items. The device receives a second request to display a second portion of the collection organized in accordance with a respective overview-granularity level that corresponds to multiple detailed-granularity levels and, in response to the second request, displays a second plurality of representations of the items.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

one or more processors;

a 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;

obtaining a collection of media items, wherein the media items are ordered in a chronological order in accordance with a time indicator associated with each of the media items;

determining one or more patterns in the collection of media items based at least in part on a comparison between properties of sequentially adjacent media items in the collection of media items; and

dividing the collection of media items into multiple events that includes a plurality of multi-item events wherein;

each multi-item event includes a plurality of the media items with time indicators within a corresponding event time range; and

the event time range for a multi-item event is selected in accordance with the one or more patterns determined in the collection of media items.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the event time ranges for the plurality of multi-item events are non-overlapping.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein dividing the collection of media items into multiple events includes:

determining a pattern in the collection of media items that indicates that a respective event occurred over a period of time that includes a respective date-transition boundary; and

dividing the collection of media items so as to include one or more items with a time indicator before the respective date-transition boundary and one or more items with a time indicator after the respective date-transition boundary.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein:

dividing the collection of media items into multiple events includes identifying a plurality of transition points in the collection of media items; and

one or more of the transition points each correspond to a respective change in a respective pattern of data that corresponds to the collection of media items that occurs at the transition point.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the respective change in the respective pattern of data that corresponds to a respective media item is based on one or more of:

an amount of time between a capture time of the respective media item and a capture time of a sequentially adjacent media item in the chronological order;

a change in detected physical location between a capture time of the respective media item and a capture time of a sequentially adjacent media item in the chronological order;

a change in detected altitude between a capture time of the respective media item and a capture time of a sequentially adjacent media item in the chronological order;

a change in detected speed between a capture time of the respective media item and a capture time of a sequentially adjacent media item in the chronological order;

a change in detected network connections between a capture time of the respective media item and a capture time of a sequentially adjacent media item in the chronological order;

a change in weather between a capture time of the respective media item and a capture time of a sequentially adjacent media item in the chronological order;

a change in physiological indicators of a user between a capture time of the respective media item and a capture time of a sequentially adjacent media item in the chronological order;

a difference between individuals associated with in a first plurality of media items prior to the respective media item in the chronological order and associated with a second plurality of media items after the respective media item in the chronological order; and

a difference in rate of change of location over time between captures time of a first plurality of media items prior to the respective media item in the chronological order and a rate of change of location over time between a capture times of a second plurality of media items after the respective media item in the chronological order.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more programs include instructions for, after dividing the collection of media items into multiple events:

grouping a set of consecutive events that include two or more of the multi-item events into a respective pattern-based event group based at least in part on the one or more patterns in the collection of media items, wherein;

the pattern-based event group is divided from other event pattern-based groups in accordance with a change in a first pattern in the collection of media items the corresponds to the pattern-based event group; and

a respective multi-item event within the pattern-based event group is divided from other events in the pattern-based event group in accordance with a change in a second pattern in the collection of media items, wherein the change in the second pattern does not correspond to a change in the first pattern that corresponds to the pattern-based event group.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein:

the one or more programs include instructions for, after dividing the collection of media items into multiple events grouping a set of consecutive events that include two or more of the multi-item events into a plurality of date-based event groups that includes;

a first date-based event group that includes a first set of events that include items with time indicators within a first date range; and

a second date-based event group that includes a second set of events that include items with time indicators within a second date range; and

a respective event includes one or more items with time indicators in the first date range and one or more items with time indicators in the second date range; and

the respective event is included in both the first date-based event group and the second date-based event group.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more programs include instructions for:

receiving a request to display a respective portion of the collection of media items; and

in response to the request to display the respective portion of the collection of media items, displaying representations of a plurality of events that correspond to the respective portion of the collection of media items on the display.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein a respective representation of a respective event of the plurality of events includes:

an identifier of the respective event;

a list of locations of items in the respective event; and

one or more images that correspond to items in the respective event.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the list of locations includes a subset of locations of items in the respective event selected in accordance with location patterns in the respective event.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the one or more images that correspond to items in the respective event are selected so as to represent images associated with the locations in the list of locations.

12. The device of claim 9, wherein:

the representations of the plurality of events includes a first representation of a first event that includes a first plurality of representative images;

the representations of the plurality of events includes a second representation of a second event that includes a second plurality of representative images; and

the one or more programs include instructions for;

receiving a request to move a respective representative image from the first plurality of representative images to the second plurality of representative images; and

in response to receiving the request to move the respective representative image, moving an item that corresponds to the respective representative image from the first event to the second event.

13. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a display, one or more processors and memory;

obtaining a collection of media items, wherein the media items are ordered in a chronological order in accordance with a time indicator associated with each of the media items;

determining one or more patterns in the collection of media items based at least in part on a comparison between properties of sequentially adjacent media items in the collection of media items; and

dividing the collection of media items into multiple events that includes a plurality of multi-item events, wherein;

each multi-item event includes a plurality of the media items with time indicators within a corresponding event time range; and

the event time range for a multi-item event is selected in accordance with the one or more patterns determined in the collection of media items.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the event time ranges for the plurality of multi-item events are non-overlapping.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein dividing the collection of media items into multiple events includes:

determining a pattern in the collection of media items that indicates that a respective event occurred over a period of time that includes a respective date-transition boundary; and

dividing the collection of media items so as to include one or more items with a time indicator before the respective date-transition boundary and one or more items with a time indicator after the respective date-transition boundary.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein:

dividing the collection of media items into multiple events includes identifying a plurality of transition points in the collection of media items; and

one or more of the transition points each correspond to a respective change in a respective pattern of data that corresponds to the collection of media items that occurs at the transition point.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device with a display, cause the device to:

obtain a collection of media items, wherein the media items are ordered in a chronological order in accordance with a time indicator associated with each of the media items;

determine one or more patterns in the collection of media items based at least in part on a comparison between properties of sequentially adjacent media items in the collection of media items; and

divide the collection of media items into multiple events that includes a plurality of multi-item events wherein;

each multi-item event includes a plurality of the media items with time indicators within a corresponding event time range; and

the event time range for a multi-item event is selected in accordance with the one or more patterns determined in the collection of media items.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the event time ranges for the plurality of multi-item events are non-overlapping.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein dividing the collection of media items into multiple events includes:

determining a pattern in the collection of media items that indicates that a respective event occurred over a period of time that includes a respective date-transition boundary; and

dividing the collection of media items so as to include one or more items with a time indicator before the respective date-transition boundary and one or more items with a time indicator after the respective date-transition boundary.

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

dividing the collection of media items into multiple events includes identifying a plurality of transition points in the collection of media items; and

one or more of the transition points each correspond to a respective change in a respective pattern of data that corresponds to the collection of media items that occurs at the transition point.