Scrollable in-line camera for capturing and sharing content

• US 9,804,760 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2014
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Cunningham, Christopher R., Hooper, Daniel C., Agnoli, Giovanni, Tullio, Peter M., Lee, Frank K. F., Rauh, Andrew J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Theriault, Steven B
• Application Number:
  US14/246,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058754A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,303 Days
• 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 3/0485 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: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces

Abstract

Some embodiments described herein provide an application that includes a scrollable in-line camera for capturing and sharing media content. In some embodiments, the in-line camera is provided in a scrollable view of the application. The scrollable view has three distinct user interface portions, including an in-line camera section, a preview section, and a shared content section. The application'"'"'s user can use the in-line camera section to capture a photo or a video clip. The preview section is a portion of the UI that allows a user to review a photo or video captured with the in-line camera. The user can also use the preview section to either delete or accept the content. If the user chooses to delete the content, the content is removed from the preview section. If the user chooses to accept the content, the content appears in the content sharing section.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing sets of instructions that when executed by at least one processing unit of a mobile computing device provides a user interface (UI) of a media sharing application, the UI comprising:

a single scrollable UI view on the mobile device, including;

a first UI display in a single UI having a viewing area for displaying a live view of a scene from a vantage point of a camera of the device and a media capture control for directing the camera to capture a media content associated with the scene;

a second UI display in the single UI for displaying scrollable media contents that were previously added to a content group; and

a third UI display in the single UI, automatically appearing in the UI if media is captured from the camera by the first UI display, for displaying a preview of media content captured by the camera along with a set of controls, the set of controls comprising a first control for adding the captured media content to the content group and a second control for removing the captured media content from the third UI display,

wherein the first, second, and third UI displays are accessible by scrolling to each of the first, second, and third UI displays of the single scrollable UI view.

2. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the media content is a photo or a video clip.

3. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein when the media capture control is used to capture a media content, the captured media content is stored on a local drive of the device and is associated with a media library, wherein selection of the second control removes the media content from the third UI display but retains the media content on the local drive as well as the media content'"'"'s association with the media library.

4. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the set of controls further comprises a third control for to editing the media content prior to adding the media content.

5. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the set of controls further comprises a third control for leaving a comment regarding the media content prior to adding the media content.

6. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the content group is a person'"'"'s personal media stream, and the media content is distributed to one or more other computing devices of the person associated with the personal media stream.

7. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the content group is a shared media stream, and the media content is distributed to one or more other computing devices of any person that is associated with the shared media stream.

8. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the content group represents a set of media contents that is posted to a web site.

9. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the single scrollable UI view is the first view that is shown when the media sharing application has been opened so that the application'"'"'s user does not have to navigate to any other view to capture, preview and add the media content.

10. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein a size of each portion of the UI is different from one or more other portions or is the same across each portion.

11. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing sets of instructions that when executed by at least one processing unit of a mobile computing device provides a user interface (UI) for viewing and creating a slide show presentation, the UI comprising:

a single scrollable UI view including;

a first UI display in a single UI having a viewing area for displaying a live view of a scene from a vantage point of a camera of the mobile computing device and a media capture control for directing the camera to capture a media content of the scene; and

a second UI display in the single UI having a first region to display a scrollable slide show presentation, and a second region, automatically appearing in the UI if media is captured from the camera by the first UI display, for displaying the captured media content along with a set of controls for adding the media content to the scrollable slide show presentation,

wherein the first and second UI displays in the single UI are accessible by scrolling between the first and second UI displays of the single scrollable UI view.

12. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 11, wherein the media content is a photo or a video clip.

13. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 11, wherein the second region includes at least one other control for editing the media content prior to adding the media content to the scrollable slideshow presentation.

14. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 11, wherein the second region includes at least one other control for leaving a comment regarding the media content prior to adding the media content to the scrollable slideshow presentation.

15. A method of defining a user interface (UI) of a media sharing application that executes on a mobile computing device, the method comprising:

defining a single scrollable UI view by;

defining a first UI display in a single UI having a viewing area for displaying a live view of a scene from a vantage point of a camera of the mobile computing device and a media capture control for directing the camera to capture a media content associated with the scene;

defining a second UI display in the single UI for displaying media contents that were previously added to a content group; and

defining a third UI display in the single UI, automatically appearing in the UI if media is captured from the camera by the first UI display, for displaying media content captured by the camera of the mobile computing along with a set of controls comprising a commenting control for adding a comment to the captured media content,

wherein the first, second, and third UI displays in the single UI are accessible by scrolling to each of the first, second, and third UI displays of the single scrollable UI view.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the media content is a photo or a video clip.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the set of controls comprises a control for deleting the media content.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein when the media capture control is used to capture a media content, the captured media content is stored on a local drive of the device and is associated with a media library, wherein selection of the control for deleting removes the media content from the third UI display but retains the media content on the local drive as well as the media content'"'"'s association with the media library.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the content group is a shared media stream, and the media content is distributed across to one or more other computing devices of any person that is associated with the shared media stream.