IP Library Granted Patent US 9,823,839
Granted Patent B2
US 9,823,839 · App. 14/536,426 · Granted Nov 21, 2017

Device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying additional information in response to a user contact

Inventors: Matthew I. Brown (San Francisco, CA); Jeffrey Traer Bernstein (San Francisco, CA); Julian Missig (Redwood City, CA); Avi E. Cieplinski (San Francisco, CA); May-Li Khoe (San Francisco, CA); Nicholas Zambetti (Largo, FL); Bianca C. Costanzo (Barcelona, ES); Myra Haggerty (San Mateo, CA); David J. Hart (San Francisco, CA); B. Michael Victor (Castro Valley, CA)
Assignee: APPLE INC.
G06F3/04883G06F3/0412G06F3/0416G06F3/0481G06F3/0488G06F3/04812G06F3/04847
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,823,839
App. No.
14/536,426
Granted
Nov 21, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device, with a touch-sensitive surface and a display, includes one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface. The device detects a contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector corresponding to the contact is at a respective location on the display associated with additional information not initially displayed on the display. While the focus selector is at the respective location, upon determining that the contact has an intensity above a respective intensity threshold before a predefined delay time has elapsed with the focus selector at the respective location, the device displays the additional information associated with the respective location without waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed; and upon determining that the contact has an intensity below the respective intensity threshold, the device waits until the predefined delay time has elapsed to display the additional information associated with the respective location.

Claims (43)

1. A non-transitory 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 intensities of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

concurrently display, on the display, first document content and a back button to navigate to prior content;

while concurrently displaying the first document content and the back button, detect a contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector corresponding to the contact is at a location of the back button on the display, wherein the back button is associated with prior document content that is not initially displayed on the display; and

while the focus selector is at the location of the back button:

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity above a second intensity threshold before a predefined delay time has elapsed with the focus selector at the location of the back button, display, concurrently with the first document content, multiple representations of the prior document content without waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity below the second intensity threshold, wait until the predefined delay time has elapsed while the focus selector is at the location of the back button with an intensity between a first intensity threshold and the second intensity threshold to display, concurrently with the first document content, the multiple representations of the prior document content.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 , including instructions which cause the device to:

detect a tap gesture on the touch-sensitive surface while the focus selector is at the location of the back button; and,

in response to detecting the tap gesture, perform an operation associated with the back button.

3. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a touch-sensitive surface;

one or more sensors to detect intensities 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:

concurrently displaying, on the display, first document content and a back button to navigate to prior content;

while concurrently displaying the first document content and the back button, detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector corresponding to the contact is at a location of the back button on the display, wherein the back button is associated with prior document content that is not initially displayed on the display; and

while the focus selector is at the location of the back button:

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity above a second intensity threshold before a predefined delay time has elapsed with the focus selector at the location of the back button, displaying, concurrently with the first document content, multiple representations of the prior document content without waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity below the second intensity threshold, waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed while the focus selector is at the location of the back button with an intensity between a first intensity threshold and the second intensity threshold to display, concurrently with the first document content, the multiple representations of the prior document content.

4. 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 intensities of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface:

concurrently displaying, on the display, first document content and a back button to navigate to prior content;

while concurrently displaying the first document content and the back button, detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector corresponding to the contact is at a location of the back button on the display, wherein the back button is associated with prior document content that is not initially displayed on the display; and

while the focus selector is at the location of the back button:

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity above a second intensity threshold before a predefined delay time has elapsed with the focus selector at the location of the back button, displaying, concurrently with the first document content, multiple representations of the prior document content without waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed; and

in accordance with a determination that the contact has an intensity below the second intensity threshold, waiting until the predefined delay time has elapsed while the focus selector is at the location of the back button with an intensity between a first intensity threshold and the second intensity threshold to display, concurrently with the first document content, the multiple representations of the prior document content.

5. The device of claim 3 , including instructions for:

detecting a tap gesture on the touch-sensitive surface while the focus selector is at the location of the back button; and,

in response to detecting the tap gesture, perform an operation associated with the back button.

6. The method of claim 4 , including:

detecting a tap gesture on the touch-sensitive surface while the focus selector is at the location of the back button; and,

in response to detecting the tap gesture, perform an operation associated with the back button.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the multiple representations of the prior document content include a representation of the first document.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the first intensity threshold is greater than a contact detection intensity threshold.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 , including instructions which, in accordance with a determination that the intensity of the contact has increased above the second intensity threshold, cause the device to output, by one or more tactile output generators, a tactile output.

10. The device of claim 3 , wherein the multiple representations of the prior document content include a representation of the first document.

11. The device of claim 3 , wherein the first intensity threshold is greater than a contact detection intensity threshold.

12. The device of claim 3 , including instructions for, in accordance with a determination that the intensity of the contact has increased above the second intensity threshold, outputting, by one or more tactile output generators of the electronic device, a tactile output.

13. The method of claim 4 , wherein the multiple representations of the prior document content include a representation of the first document.

14. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first intensity threshold is greater than a contact detection intensity threshold.

15. The method of claim 4 , including, in accordance with a determination that the contact has increased above the second intensity threshold, outputting, by one or more tactile output generators of the electronic device, a tactile output.

Continuity (5)
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