Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Providing Tactile Feedback for Operations Performed in a User Interface

• US 20150067497A1
• Filed: 11/09/2014
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Cieplinski, Avi E., Khoe, May-Li, Costanzo, Bianca C.
• Granted Patent: US 10,481,690 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display displays a user interface object on the display, detects a contact on the touch-sensitive surface, and detects a first movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface, the first movement corresponding to performing an operation on the user interface object, and, in response to detecting the first movement, the device performs the operation and generates a first tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface. The device also detects a second movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface, the second movement corresponding to reversing the operation on the user interface object, and in response to detecting the second movement, the device reverses the operation and generates a second tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface, where the second tactile output is different from the first tactile output.

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, cause the device to:

display, on the display, a control for controlling a parameter associated with respective content;

detect a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface for adjusting the parameter; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

determine an adjustment of the parameter that corresponds to an extent of the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the adjustment of the parameter would cause one or more predefined adjustment limits to be exceeded, generate a respective tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in accordance with a determination that the adjustment of the parameter would not cause the one or more predefined adjustment limits to be exceeded, perform the adjustment of the parameter without generating the respective tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, including instructions which cause the device to, in accordance with a determination that the adjustment of the parameter would cause the one or more predefined adjustment limits to be exceeded, forgo adjusting the parameter.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, including instructions which cause the device to, in accordance with a determination that the adjustment of the parameter would cause the one or more predefined adjustment limits to be exceeded, adjust the parameter so that the predefined adjustment limit is reached.

4. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, including instructions which cause the device to, in accordance with a determination that the adjustment of the parameter would cause the one or more predefined adjustment limits to be exceeded, perform the adjustment of the parameter.

5. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the content is a media clip that includes audio;

the parameter is a volume level;

the predefined adjustment limits include a clipping limit; and

the clipping limit is exceeded when a maximum volume that occurs in the content is above the clipping limit.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the content is a media clip;

the parameter is a cropping mask;

the predefined adjustment limits include a time-based content boundary; and

the time-based content boundary is exceeded when the cropping mask extends beyond the time-based content boundary.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the content is an image;

the parameter is a cropping mask;

the predefined adjustment limits include a content boundary; and

the content boundary is exceeded when the cropping mask extends beyond the content boundary.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the content is a shape;

the parameter is a shape adjustment parameter; and

the predefined adjustment limits include a maximum allowable adjustment to a respective portion of a respective shape.

9. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a 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;

displaying, on the display, a control for controlling a parameter associated with respective content;

detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface for adjusting the parameter; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

determining an adjustment of the parameter that corresponds to an extent of the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the adjustment of the parameter would cause one or more predefined adjustment limits to be exceeded, generating a respective tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in accordance with a determination that the adjustment of the parameter would not cause the one or more predefined adjustment limits to be exceeded, performing the adjustment of the parameter without generating the respective tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface.

10. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display;

displaying, on the display, a control for controlling a parameter associated with respective content;

detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface for adjusting the parameter; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

determining an adjustment of the parameter that corresponds to an extent of the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the adjustment of the parameter would cause one or more predefined adjustment limits to be exceeded, generating a respective tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in accordance with a determination that the adjustment of the parameter would not cause the one or more predefined adjustment limits to be exceeded, performing the adjustment of the parameter without generating the respective tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface.