SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING INTERFACE ELEMENTS WITHIN A SCROLLING FRAME

• US 20150074590A1
• Filed: 09/09/2013
• Published: 03/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Rahn, Andrew Benjamin
• Granted Patent: US 9,639,257 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed. A user input device may be configured to receive an input from a user. A visual display may be configured to display interface elements in a frame configured to scroll along a first axis based on the input as received by the user input device being substantially along the first axis and to switch display of interface elements of a subset of the interface elements between an unselected configuration and a selected configuration in response to a first input as received by the user input device being substantially along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. The visual display may not switch display of the interface elements between the unselected configuration and the selected configuration based on the input along the first axis without first receiving the first input along the second axis.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a user input device configured to receive an input from a user;

a visual display configured to;

display interface elements in a frame configured to scroll along a first axis based on the input as received by the user input device being substantially along the first axis; and

switch display of interface elements of a subset of the interface elements between an unselected configuration and a selected configuration in response to a first input as received by the user input device being substantially along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis;

wherein the visual display does not switch display of the interface elements between the unselected configuration and the selected configuration based on the input along the first axis without first receiving the first input substantially along the second axis.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual display is further configured to switch display of interface elements of an expanded subset of the interface elements, the expanded subset based on the subset, between the unselected configuration and the selected configuration in response to a second input, substantially along the first axis, as received by the user input device following the first input.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the expanded subset comprises interface elements within a geometric shape defined, at least in part, by the first input and the second input.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the interface elements are organized into a plurality of rows;

and

wherein the expanded subset further comprises interface elements not within the geometric shape but within one of the plurality of rows corresponding to at least one of the interface elements within the expanded subset.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the second input further causes the frame to scroll along the first axis.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual display is configured to switch the display of the interface elements of the subset further based on a proximity of the first input to the interface elements.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the user input device is a touchscreen positioned with respect to the visual display;

and

wherein the visual display is configured to switch the display of the interface elements based on the first input indicating a touching of a location on the touchscreen that corresponds with the interface elements of the first subset.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first input is substantially along the second axis based on being within thirty (30) degrees of the second axis.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a processor operatively coupled to the user input device and the visual display and configured to receive the input from the user input device and provide the input to the visual display.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual display is configured to switch display between the unselected configuration and the selected configuration by changing an interface element in an initial unselected condition to the selected condition.

11. A method, comprising:

displaying, with a visual display, interface elements in a frame configured to scroll along a first axis based on an input as received by a user input device being substantially along the first axis;

switching display, with the visual display, of interface elements of a subset of the interface elements between an unselected configuration and a selected configuration in response to a first input as received by the user input device being substantially along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis;

wherein the visual display does not switch display of the interface elements between the unselected configuration and the selected configuration based on the input along the first axis without first receiving the first input along the second axis.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising switching display, with the visual display, of interface elements of an expanded subset of the interface elements, the expanded subset based on the subset, between the unselected configuration and the selected configuration in response to a second input, substantially along the first axis, as received by the user input device following the first input.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the expanded subset comprises interface elements within a geometric shape defined, at least in part, by the first input and the second input.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the interface elements are organized into a plurality of rows;

and

wherein the expanded subset further comprises interface elements not within the geometric shape but within one of the plurality of rows corresponding to at least one of the interface elements within the expanded subset.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising scrolling, with the visual display, the frame to scroll along the first axis based on the second input.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein switching display of the interface elements of the subset is further based on a proximity of the first input to the interface elements.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the user input device is a touchscreen positioned with respect to the visual display;

and

wherein switching display of the interface elements is based on the first input indicating a touching of a location on the touchscreen that corresponds with the interface elements of the first subset.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the first input is substantially along the second axis based on being within thirty (30) degrees of the second axis.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving, with a processor, the input from the user input device and providing, with the processor, the input to the visual display.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein switching between the unselected configuration and the selected configuration comprises changing an interface element in an initial unselected condition to the selected condition.