Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for adjusting an insertion point marker

• US 8,570,278 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2007
• Issued: 10/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Kocienda, Kenneth, Lemay, Stephen O., Chaudhri, Imran, Ording, Bas
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Quan-Zhen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Davis, Tony
• Application Number:
  US11/923,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20080165142A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,197 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00381 Input by recognition or interpretation of visible user gestures manual input means, e.g. digitisers, writing tablets H04N1/00392; gesture input to computers G06F3/017; recognition algorithms G06V40/20

Abstract

In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. The method includes: displaying graphics and an insertion marker at a first location in the graphics on the touch screen display; detecting a finger contact with the touch screen display; and in response to the detected finger contact, expanding the insertion marker from a first size to a second size on the touch screen display and expanding a portion of the graphics on the touch screen display from an original size to an expanded size. The method further includes detecting movement of the finger contact on the touch screen display and moving the expanded insertion marker in accordance with the detected movement of the finger contact from the first location to a second location in the graphics.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display;

displaying graphics and an insertion marker at a first location in the graphics on the touch screen display;

detecting a single finger contact with the touch screen display;

in response to the detected single finger contact,

expanding the insertion marker from a first size to a second size on the touch screen display, and

expanding a portion of the graphics on the touch screen display;

detecting movement of the single finger contact on the touch screen display;

moving the expanded insertion marker in accordance with the detected movement of the single finger contact from the first location to a second location in the graphics, wherein;

the portion of the graphics that is expanded changes as the insertion marker moves from the first location to the second location;

the portion of the graphics that is expanded is displayed in a predefined shape; and

the expanded insertion marker is within the predefined shape; and

contracting the expanded insertion marker from the second size to the first size if the single finger contact with the touch screen display is broken, wherein the contracting includes an animation of the expanded insertion marker and the expanded portion of the graphics shrinking into the insertion marker at the second location.

2. A method, comprising:

at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display;

displaying graphics and an insertion marker at a first location in the graphics on the touch screen display;

detecting a single finger contact with the touch screen display;

in response to the detected single finger contact,

expanding the insertion marker from a first size to a second size on the touch screen display, and

expanding a portion of the graphics on the touch screen display from an original size to an expanded size;

detecting movement of the single finger contact on the touch screen display; and

moving the expanded insertion marker in accordance with the detected movement of the single finger contact from the first location to a second location in the graphics.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the insertion marker is a cursor, insertion bar, insertion point, or pointer.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the graphics comprise text.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the portion of the graphics that is expanded includes the insertion marker and adjacent graphics.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein after the insertion point and the portion of the graphics are expanded, graphics are displayed that include the insertion marker and adjacent graphics at the original size and at the expanded size.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the portion of the graphics that is expanded changes as the insertion marker moves from the first location to the second location.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the portion of the graphics that is expanded is displayed in a circle.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the portion of the graphics that is expanded is displayed in a predefined shape.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the expanded insertion marker is within the circle.

11. The method of claim 2, wherein the location of the single finger contact is proximate to the location of the insertion marker.

12. The method of claim 2, wherein the location of the single finger contact is anywhere within a text entry area.

13. The method of claim 2, wherein the detected movement of the single finger contact has a horizontal component on the touch screen display and a vertical component on the touch screen display;

and moving the expanded insertion marker in accordance with the detected movement of the single finger contact includes moving the expanded insertion marker and the expanded portion of the graphics in accordance with only the horizontal component of motion of the single finger contact when the single finger contact moves outside a text entry area without breaking contact.

14. The method of claim 2, wherein moving the expanded insertion marker in accordance with the detected movement of the single finger contact includes moving the expanded insertion marker in a first area of the touch screen that includes characters entered using a soft keyboard, wherein the soft keyboard is located in a second area of the touch screen that is separate from the first area.

15. The method of claim 2, including contracting the expanded insertion marker from the second size to the first size if the single finger contact with the touch screen display is broken.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the contracting includes an animation of the expanded insertion marker shrinking into the insertion marker at the second location.

17. The method of claim 2, including contracting the expanded portion of the graphics if the single finger contact with the touch screen display is no longer detected for a predetermined time.

18. A graphical user interface on a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, comprising:

an insertion marker; and

graphics,

wherein;

in response to detecting a single finger contact with the touch screen display,

the insertion marker is expanded from a first size to a second size, and

a portion of the graphics is expanded; and

in response to detecting movement of the single finger contact on the touch screen display,

the expanded insertion marker is moved in accordance with the detected movement of the single finger contact from a first location in the graphics to a second location in the graphics.

19. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a touch screen display;

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 programs including;

instructions for displaying graphics and an insertion marker at a first location in the graphics on the touch screen display;

instructions for detecting a single finger contact with the touch screen display;

instructions for expanding the insertion marker from a first size to a second size on the touch screen display in response to the detected single finger contact;

instructions for expanding a portion of the graphics on the touch screen display from an original size to an expanded size in response to the detected single finger contact;

instructions for detecting movement of the single finger contact on the touch screen display; and

instructions for moving the expanded insertion marker in accordance with the detected movement of the single finger contact from the first location to a second location in the graphics.

20. A computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, cause the device to:

display graphics and an insertion marker at a first location in the graphics on the touch screen display;

detect a single finger contact with the touch screen display;

expand the insertion marker from a first size to a second size on the touch screen display in response to the detected single finger contact;

expand a portion of the graphics on the touch screen display from an original size to an expanded size in response to the detected single finger contact;

detect movement of the single finger contact on the touch screen display; and

move the expanded insertion marker in accordance with the detected movement of the single finger contact from the first location to a second location in the graphics.