Gallery Application for Content Viewing

• US 20160026658A1
• Filed: 10/06/2015
• Published: 01/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Krishnaraj, Venkat, Shoemaker, Austin W., Rathnam, Aditya, Bhumkar, Soujanya
• Granted Patent: US 10,324,976 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/743 a collection of video files or sequences
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/18 Image warping, e.g. rearranging pixels individually

Abstract

A gallery software application enables a user to browse, view, and interact with various content items, such as still images and videos. The gallery includes a graphical user interface with two modes: stack and grid. In stack mode, images (which represent content items) are divided into groups, and a group is represented by a displayed stack of images. In grid mode, images are displayed in a grid of rows and columns. The displayed stacks and images can be scrolled. When the scrolling reaches the end of a set of stacks or images, the last stack or image is displayed with perspective distortion. In grid mode, a value is displayed for meta-data of a content item that is not currently displayed. If a user indicates the displayed value, the grid is scrolled until the content item whose meta-data matches that value is displayed.

Claims

1-22. -22. (canceled)

23. A method comprising:

displaying, by a processor, a plurality of images in a stack mode, wherein the images are divided into groups, and wherein a group is represented by a stack of images, where an image for a first content item is at a top of the stack and oriented parallel to an edge of a display, and subsequent images in the stack are centered a random amount away from a center of the image for the first content item and subsequent images in the stack are rotated a random amount relative to the image for the first content item;

receiving, by the processor, a first user input that indicates a first stack that represents a first group of images; and

in response to receiving the first user input, displaying, by the processor, the first group of images in a grid mode, wherein the images in the first group are displayed in a grid of one or more rows and one or more columns, the displaying of the first group of images in the grid mode further comprising displaying a scroll bar and displaying metadata for the currently-displayed images and metadata for the off-screen images that are adjacent to the currently-displayed images.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein, upon receipt of a second user input selecting the metadata for a first off-screen image, scrolling the grid to a location associated with the first off-screen image.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein the metadata for the currently-displayed images and the metadata for the off-screen images each comprises a timestamp.

26. The method of claim 23, further comprising overlaying the metadata for the currently-displayed images and the metadata for the off-screen images on the grid.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the images are ordered chronologically.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the images are ordered chronologically based on the corresponding timestamp.

29. The method of claim 23, further comprising displaying the metadata for the currently-displayed images and the metadata for the off-screen images below the grid.

30. The method of claim 23, further comprising displaying, by the processor, the plurality of images in an album mode.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein, in the album mode, the plurality of images are displayed as album stacks.

32. The method of claim 23, further comprising displaying, by the processor, the plurality of images in a cluster mode.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the plurality of images are displayed as cluster stacks.

34. The method of claim 23, wherein, in the grid mode, the first group of images are displayed as thumbnail images.

35. A computing device comprising:

a processor;

a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising;

stack mode display logic executed by the processor for displaying a plurality of images in a stack mode, wherein the images are divided into groups, and wherein a group is represented by a stack of images, where an image for a first content item is at a top of the stack and oriented parallel to an edge of a display, and subsequent images in the stack are centered a random amount away from a center of the image for the first content item and subsequent images in the stack are rotated a random amount relative to the image for the first content item;

user input receiving logic executed by the processor for receiving a first user input that indicates a first stack that represents a first group of images; and

grid mode display logic executed by the processor for displaying, in response to receiving the first user input, the first group of images in a grid mode, wherein the images in the first group are displayed in a grid of one or more rows and one or more columns, the displaying of the first group of images in the grid mode further comprising displaying a scroll bar and displaying metadata for the currently-displayed images and metadata for the off-screen images that are adjacent to the currently-displayed images.

36. The computing device of claim 35, further comprising scrolling logic executed by the processor for, upon receipt of a second user input selecting the metadata for a first off-screen image, scrolling the grid to a location associated with the first off-screen image.

37. The computing device of claim 35, wherein the metadata for the currently-displayed images and the metadata for the off-screen images each comprises a timestamp.

38. The computing device of claim 35, further comprising overlaying logic executed by the processor for overlaying the metadata for the currently-displayed images and the metadata for the off-screen images on the grid.

39. The computing device of claim 37, wherein the images are ordered chronologically.

40. The computing device of claim 35, further comprising album mode display logic executed by the processor for displaying the plurality of images in an album mode.

41. The computing device of claim 40, wherein, in the album mode, the plurality of images are displayed as album stacks.

42. The computing device of claim 35, further comprising cluster mode display logic executed by the processor for displaying the plurality of images in a cluster mode.

43. The computing device of claim 42, wherein the plurality of images are displayed as cluster stacks.

44. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium tangibly storing computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor, the computer program instructions defining the steps of:

displaying, by the computer processor, a plurality of images in a stack mode, wherein the images are divided into groups, and wherein a group is represented by a stack of images, where an image for a first content item is at a top of the stack and oriented parallel to an edge of a display, and subsequent images in the stack are centered a random amount away from a center of the image for the first content item and subsequent images in the stack are rotated a random amount relative to the image for the first content item;

receiving, by the computer processor, a first user input that indicates a first stack that represents a first group of images; and

in response to receiving the first user input, displaying, by the computer processor, the first group of images in a grid mode, wherein the images in the first group are displayed in a grid of one or more rows and one or more columns, the displaying of the first group of images in the grid mode further comprising displaying a scroll bar and displaying metadata for the currently-displayed images and metadata for the off-screen images that are adjacent to the currently-displayed images.