Gesture-based metadata display

• US 8,291,349 B1
• Filed: 01/19/2011
• Issued: 10/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Park, Tim, Yaksick, Jeff
• Primary Examiner(s): Augustine, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US13/009,439
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 715705-715, 715/762, 715/763, 715/781, 715817-825, 715/863
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

In general, embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to techniques for quickly displaying metadata of media objects (e.g., music files) using gestures. In one example a method includes, generating for display a browsing view including browsing content, wherein the browsing content includes one or more media objects; receiving user input including one or more gestures to select at least one media object; determining an input operation that selects a quantity of metadata associated with the selected media object, wherein the metadata includes information that describes the selected media object, and wherein the quantity of the metadata is proportional to a magnitude of the one or more gestures to select the media object; and generating for display in an expanded view, the metadata associated with the at least one selected media object, wherein the expanded view is generated for display without changing the browsing content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

generating for display, in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computing device, a browsing view comprising browsing content, wherein the browsing content includes one or more media objects that are displayable in the browsing view;

receiving, using a presence-sensitive screen of the computing device, user input comprising one or more gestures to select at least one media object of the one or more media objects;

responsive to receiving the user input, determining an input operation that corresponds to the user input, wherein the input operation selects a quantity of metadata associated with the at least one selected media object, wherein the metadata comprises information that describes the at least one selected media object, and wherein the quantity of the metadata is proportional to a magnitude of the one or more gestures to select the at least one media object; and

generating for display, in an expanded view of the GUI that includes the browsing view, the metadata associated with the at least one selected media object, wherein the expanded view is generated for display without changing the browsing content in the browsing view of the GUI.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating for display, in the expanded view of the GUI that includes the browsing view, the metadata associated with the at least one selected media object further comprises continuously changing the metadata generated for display as the one or more gestures are received.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating for display, in the expanded view of the GUI that includes the browsing view, the metadata associated with the at least one selected media object comprises changing the quantity of the metadata generated for display only after at least one of the one or more gestures is received.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more media objects include one or more music files, image files, video files, or text files.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to receiving the user input, determining a second input operation that corresponds to the user input, wherein the second input operation selects a second quantity of second metadata associated with a second selected media object, wherein the second metadata comprises information that describes the second selected media object, and wherein the second quantity of the second metadata is proportional to the magnitude of the one or more gestures; and

generating for display, in the expanded view of the GUI, the metadata associated with the second selected media object.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the presence-sensitive screen comprises a touch-sensitive screen.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more gestures comprise one or more touch gestures.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein generating for display, in the expanded view of the GUI, the metadata associated with the at least one selected media object further comprises:

removing the expanded view from display in the GUI when at least one of the one or more gestures is completed.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein generating for display, in the expanded view of the GUI, the metadata associated with the at least one selected media object further comprises:

displaying the expanded view of the GUI after the one or more gestures have completed; and

receiving, using the presence-sensitive screen of the computing device, a terminating gesture, wherein upon completing the terminating gesture, the expanded view of the GUI is removed from display on the presence-sensitive screen.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the GUI is part of a browsing application executing on the computing device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the GUI is part of an operating system executing on the computing device.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein generating for display, in the expanded view of the GUI further comprises, generating for display the expanded view of the GUI to overlay the browsing content of the browsing view.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more gestures to select the at least one media object of the one or more media objects comprise a motion of at least one input unit at or near the presence-sensitive screen.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one input unit comprises, a finger, input stylus, or pen.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the magnitude of the one or more gestures comprises an amount of pressure applied to the presence-sensitive screen by the at least one input unit when the one or more gestures are performed.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the magnitude of the one or more gestures comprises a rate at which the at least one input unit moves across or near the presence-sensitive screen.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the magnitude of the one or more gestures comprises an amount of time during which the at least one input unit performs the one or more touch gestures.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the magnitude of the one or more gestures comprises a distance travelled of the at least one input unit across or near the presence-sensitive screen.

19. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that cause one or more processors of a computing device to:

generate for display, in a graphical user interface (GUI) of the computing device, a browsing view comprising browsing content, wherein the browsing content includes one or more media objects that are displayable in the browsing view;

receive, using a presence-sensitive screen of the computing device, user input comprising one or more gestures to select at least one media object of the one or more media objects;

responsive to receiving the user input, determine an input operation that corresponds to the user input, wherein the input operation selects a quantity of metadata associated with the at least one selected media object, wherein the metadata comprises information that describes the at least one selected media object, and wherein the quantity of the metadata is proportional to a magnitude of the one or more gestures to select the at least one media object; and

generating for display, in an expanded view of the GUI that includes the browsing view, the metadata associated with the at least one selected media object, wherein the expanded view is generated for display without changing the browsing content in the browsing view of the GUI.

20. A computing device, comprising:

one or more processors;

an output device to generate, for display, a browsing view in a graphical user interface (GUI) of the computing device, wherein the browsing view comprises browsing content that includes one or more media objects that are displayable in the browsing view;

a presence-sensitive screen to receive user input comprising one or more gestures to select at least one media object of the one or more media objects; and

means, responsive to receiving the user input, for determining an input operation that corresponds to the user input, wherein the input operation selects a quantity of metadata associated with the at least one selected media object, wherein the metadata describes the at least one selected media object, and wherein the quantity of the metadata is proportional to a magnitude of the one or more gestures to select the at least one media object,

wherein, the output device generates for display, in an expanded view of the GUI that includes the browsing view, the metadata associated with the at least one selected media object, wherein the expanded view is generated for display without changing the browsing content in the browsing view of the GUI.