USER INTERFACE FOR MANIPULATING USER INTERFACE OBJECTS

• US 20160170608A1
• Filed: 02/20/2016
• Published: 06/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: ZAMBETTI, Nicholas, CHAUDHRI, Imran, DASCOLA, Jonathan R., DYE, Alan C., FOSS, Christopher Patrick, GUZMAN, Aurelio, KARUNAMUNI, Chanaka G., KERR, Duncan Robert, LEMAY, Stephen O., MARIC, Natalia, WILSON, Christopher, WILSON, Eric Lance, YANG, Lawrence Y., BUTCHER, Gary Ian, DAVYDOV, Anton M., EDWARDS, Dylan Ross, IVE, Jonathan P., KENNEDY, Zachery, KING, Nicholas V., PRESTON, Daniel Trent
• Granted Patent: US 10,545,657 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/08 Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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

User interface navigation on a personal electronics device based on movements of a crown is disclosed. The device can select an appropriate level of information arranged along a z-axis for display based on crown movement. The navigation can be based on an angular velocity of the crown.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions for execution by one or more processors of a wearable electronic device, the instructions for:

displaying a first plurality of icons on a touch-sensitive display of the wearable electronic device;

receiving input based on a movement of a physical crown of the wearable electronic device; and

in response to the received input, replacing the first plurality of icons with a second plurality of icons on the touch-sensitive display,

wherein the second plurality of icons is a subset of the first plurality of icons.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the wearable electronic device is a watch.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the movement is a push, pull on the physical crown.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the movement is a rotation of the physical crown.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 4, wherein the rotation is in a first rotation direction.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 4, wherein the rotation exceeds a predetermined angular velocity threshold.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the physical crown comprises a capacitive touch sensor configured to sense a touch input, and wherein the received input is further based on the touch input on the physical crown.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a first icon of the first plurality of icons is associated with an application, and a second icon of the second plurality of icons is associated with the same application, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium further comprising computer-executable instructions for:

displaying the second icon with information regarding the application, when the second plurality of icons is displayed, and

displaying the first icon with different information regarding the application, when the first plurality of icons is display.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a first density of information is associated with the first plurality of icons and a second density of information is associated with the second plurality of icons.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the received input is a first received input, the computer-executable instructions further comprising instructions for:

receiving a second input based on a second movement of the physical crown; and

in response to the second received input, replacing the second plurality of icons with the first plurality of icons on the touch-sensitive display.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the second movement is a rotation of the physical crown in a second direction opposite the first direction.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the second movement is a push or pull of the physical crown.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the received input is a first received input, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium further comprising computer-executable instructions for:

receiving a second input based on a second movement of the physical crown, wherein the second movement is a rotation in the first rotation direction; and

in response to the second received input, replacing the display of the second plurality of icons with a third plurality of icons,

wherein the third plurality of icons is a subset of the second plurality of icons.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the received input is a first received input, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium further comprising computer-executable instructions for:

receiving a second input based on a second movement of the physical crown, wherein the second movement is a rotation in the first direction; and

in response to the second received input, launching an application associated with an icon of the second plurality of icons.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising computer-executable instructions for:

receiving information representing an activity in an application, wherein the application corresponds to a displayed icon;

in response to the received information, altering the appearance of the displayed icon.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the altering is one or more of blinking, changing color, and animating.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the top-right icon of the first plurality of icons is not displayed in the second display.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the top-right icon of the first plurality of icons is the left-most icon in the second top-most row in the second display.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the replacing of the display of the first plurality of icons to the second plurality of icons comprises:

translating an icon of the first plurality of icons, from a first position of the touch-sensitive display, to a second position of the touch-sensitive display,

wherein the icon is displayed, in whole, on the touch-sensitive display during the translating.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the replacing of the display of the first plurality of icons to the second plurality of icons comprises:

displaying, at a first position of the touch-sensitive display, only a portion of an icon of the first plurality of icons; and

displaying the remaining portion of the icon in a second position of the touch-sensitive display,

wherein the first position and the second position are separate.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the physical crown is a mechanical crown.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising computer-executable instructions for:

detecting a force applied to the touch-sensitive display; and

replacing the first display based on the detected force.

23. A wearable electronic device comprising:

one or more processors;

a physical crown operatively coupled to the one or more processors; and

a touch-sensitive display operatively coupled to the one or more processors, the one or more processors configured to;

display a first plurality of icons on a touch-sensitive display of the wearable electronic device;

receive input based on a movement of a physical crown of the wearable electronic device; and

in response to the received input, replace the first plurality of icons with a second plurality of icons on the touch-sensitive display,

wherein the second plurality of icons is a subset of the first plurality of icons.

24. A method, comprising:

at a wearable electronic device;

displaying a first plurality of icons on a touch-sensitive display of the wearable electronic device;

receiving input based on a movement of a physical crown of the wearable electronic device; and

in response to the received input, replacing the first plurality of icons with a second plurality of icons on the touch-sensitive display,

wherein the second plurality of icons is a subset of the first plurality of icons.