Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Manipulating Framed Graphical Objects

• US 20190121520A1
• Filed: 12/21/2018
• Published: 04/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Cieplinski, Avi E., Bernstein, Jeffrey Traer, Missig, Julian, Khoe, May-Li, Victor, B. Michael
• Granted Patent: US 11,010,027 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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, a display, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface displays a plurality of words, which include a misspelled word. While a focus selector is at a location corresponding to the misspelled word, the device detects a gesture that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface. In response, the device, in accordance with a determination that the contact meets predefined intensity criteria, corrects the misspelled word; and in accordance with a determination that the contact did not meet the predefined intensity criteria, displays a user interface for interacting with the misspelled word within the plurality of words on the display.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display, wherein the device includes one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface;

displaying a plurality of words on the display, wherein the plurality of words includes a misspelled word; and

while a focus selector is at a location corresponding to the misspelled word, detecting a gesture that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the contact met predefined intensity criteria, correcting the misspelled word; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact did not meet the predefined intensity criteria, displaying a user interface for interacting with the misspelled word within the plurality of words on the display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the predefined intensity criteria are met when the contact had an intensity above a respective intensity threshold at a predefined time relative to liftoff of the contact.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the predefined intensity criteria are met when the contact had an intensity above a respective intensity threshold at any time during the gesture prior to detecting liftoff of the contact.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface for interacting with the misspelled word within the plurality of words includes one or more of:

an affordance for a replacement word that, when activated, replaces the misspelled word with the replacement word, a text cursor displayed proximate to the misspelled word, an affordance for copying and deleting the misspelled word, an affordance for copying the misspelled word, an affordance for replacing the misspelled word with previously copied text, an affordance for highlighting the misspelled word, an affordance for creating a note to be associated with the misspelled word, an affordance for searching the plurality of words using the misspelled word as a search term, an affordance for searching an information repository using the misspelled word as a search term, and an affordance for launching a spelling correction user interface for providing a plurality of options for correcting the misspelled word.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, correcting the misspelled word includes:

replacing the misspelled word with a highest ranked candidate replacement word, wherein the highest ranked candidate replacement word is determined by;

determining a plurality of candidate replacement words for the misspelled word;

ranking the plurality of candidate replacement words; and

selecting the highest ranked candidate replacement word from the plurality of candidate replacement words.

6. The method of claim 1, including, prior to detecting the gesture, displaying a visual indication that performing the gesture on the misspelled word will cause the misspelled word to be corrected.

7. The method of claim 1, including providing a haptic indication that performing the gesture on the misspelled word will cause the misspelled word to be corrected.

8. The method of claim 1, including, while detecting the gesture:

determining that the contact has exceeded a first intensity threshold; and

in response to determining that the contact has exceeded the first intensity threshold, displaying a preview of a first correction for the misspelled word.

9. The method of claim 8, including, while detecting the gesture:

determining that the contact has exceeded a second intensity threshold, wherein the second intensity threshold is higher than the first intensity threshold; and

in response to determining that the contact has exceeded the second intensity threshold, displaying a preview of a second correction for the misspelled word, wherein the second correction is different from the first correction.

10. The method of claim 8, including:

after determining that the contact has exceeded the first intensity threshold and prior to detecting an end of the gesture;

detecting a decrease in intensity of the contact below a correction-cancellation intensity threshold and maintenance of the intensity of the contact below the correction-cancellation intensity threshold for at least a predefined time; and

in response to detecting a decrease in intensity of the contact below the correction-cancellation intensity threshold and maintenance of the intensity of the contact below the correction-cancellation intensity threshold for at least the predefined time, ceasing to display the preview of the first correction; and

after ceasing to display the preview of the first correction, detecting an end of the gesture; and

in response to detecting the end of the gesture, displaying the user interface for interacting with the misspelled word within the plurality of words on the display.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein:

while the gesture is detected, a set of words including the misspelled word and one or more other misspelled words is selected; and

the method includes, in response to detecting the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the contact met predefined intensity criteria, correcting the misspelled word and the one or more other misspelled words; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact did not meet the predefined intensity criteria, displaying a user interface for interacting with the set of words within the plurality of words on the display.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein correcting the misspelled word in response to the gesture includes displaying a first correction for the misspelled word;

and

the method including, after detecting the gesture;

while a focus selector is at a location corresponding to the first correction for the misspelled word, detecting a second gesture that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the second gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the contact in the second gesture met the predefined intensity criteria, displaying a second correction for the misspelled word, wherein the second correction is different from the first correction; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact in the second gesture did not meet the predefined intensity criteria, placing a text cursor within the first correction for the misspelled word.

13. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a touch-sensitive surface;

one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the 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 a plurality of words on the display, wherein the plurality of words includes a misspelled word; and

while a focus selector is at a location corresponding to the misspelled word, detecting a gesture that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the contact met predefined intensity criteria, correcting the misspelled word; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact did not meet the predefined intensity criteria, displaying a user interface for interacting with the misspelled word within the plurality of words on the display.

14. A 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 and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

display a plurality of words on the display, wherein the plurality of words includes a misspelled word; and

while a focus selector is at a location corresponding to the misspelled word, detect a gesture that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the contact met predefined intensity criteria, correct the misspelled word; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact did not meet the predefined intensity criteria, display a user interface for interacting with the misspelled word within the plurality of words on the display.