IP Library Granted Patent US 10,373,364
Granted Patent B2
US 10,373,364 · App. 15/976,965 · Granted Aug 6, 2019

Termination of animation

Inventors: Tian Liu (Mountain View, CA); George Mount (Palo Alto, CA)
Assignee: Google LLC
G06T13/80G06F3/0481G06F9/451G06T13/00G06F3/04883G06T7/20G06T7/70G06T2200/24
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Patent No.
US 10,373,364
App. No.
15/976,965
Granted
Aug 6, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining a minimum visible change value for a particular animation comprising multiple frames, the minimum visible change value corresponding to a condition at which change to the particular animation is not visible; determining, based on the minimum visible change value, a termination threshold distance from an animation endpoint and a termination threshold velocity for the particular animation; for each frame of the particular animation, determining whether a current distance from the animation endpoint satisfies the termination threshold distance from the animation endpoint and a current velocity satisfies the termination threshold velocity; and in response to determining that the current distance from the animation endpoint satisfies the termination threshold distance from the animation endpoint and the current velocity satisfies the termination threshold velocity, initiating termination of the animation.

Claims (46)

1. A computer implemented method, comprising:

obtaining, for a particular animation comprising multiple frames, a minimum visible change value that indicates a condition at which change to the particular animation is not visible;

determining, based on the minimum visible change value, a termination threshold distance that indicates a distance from an animation endpoint at which to terminate the particular animation;

determining, based on the minimum visible change value, a termination threshold velocity that indicates a velocity at which to terminate the particular animation;

for each of the multiple frames of the particular animation:

determining whether: (i) a current distance from the animation endpoint satisfies the termination threshold distance from the animation endpoint and (ii) a current velocity satisfies the termination threshold velocity; and

in response to determining that (i) the current distance from the animation endpoint satisfies the termination threshold distance from the animation endpoint and (ii) the current velocity satisfies the termination threshold velocity, initiating termination of the animation.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , comprising:

obtaining data associated with a display screen density of a user device on which the particular animation is displayed; and

modifying, based on the data associated with the display screen density of the user device, at least one of the termination threshold distance and the termination threshold velocity for the particular animation.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein initiating termination of the animation comprises setting animation property values to animation endpoint values for the particular animation.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 3 , wherein setting animation property values to animation endpoint values for the particular animation comprises setting a position value to the animation endpoint for the particular animation.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein, for each of the multiple frames of the particular animation, a redraw operation is performed, and wherein initiating termination of the animation comprises preventing an additional redraw operation from being performed for the particular animation.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the minimum visible change value for the particular animation is obtained based on animation property values associated with the particular animation.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the minimum visible change value is obtained from an application developer.

8. A system comprising:

one or more computers; and

one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

obtaining, for a particular animation comprising multiple frames, a minimum visible change value that indicates a condition at which change to the particular animation is not visible;

determining, based on the minimum visible change value, a termination threshold distance that indicates a distance from an animation endpoint at which to terminate the particular animation;

determining, based on the minimum visible change value, a termination threshold velocity that indicates a velocity at which to terminate the particular animation;

for each of the multiple frames of the particular animation:

determining whether: (i) a current distance from the animation endpoint satisfies the termination threshold distance from the animation endpoint and (ii) a current velocity satisfies the termination threshold velocity; and

in response to determining that (i) the current distance from the animation endpoint satisfies the termination threshold distance from the animation endpoint and (ii) the current velocity satisfies the termination threshold velocity, initiating termination of the animation.

9. The system of claim 8 , comprising:

obtaining data associated with a display screen density of a user device on which the particular animation is displayed; and

modifying, based on the data associated with the display screen density of the user device, at least one of the termination threshold distance and the termination threshold velocity for the particular animation.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein termination of the animation comprises setting animation property values to animation endpoint values for the particular animation.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein setting animation property values to animation endpoint values for the particular animation comprises setting a position value to the animation endpoint for the particular animation.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein, for each of the multiple frames of the particular animation, a redraw operation is performed, and wherein termination of the animation comprises preventing an additional redraw operation to be performed for the particular animation.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the minimum visible change value for the particular animation is obtained based on animation property values associated with the particular animation.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the minimum visible change value is obtained from an application developer.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device storing instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

obtaining, for a particular animation comprising multiple frames, a minimum visible change value that indicates a condition at which change to the particular animation is not visible;

determining, based on the minimum visible change value, a termination threshold distance that indicates a distance from an animation endpoint at which to terminate the particular animation;

determining, based on the minimum visible change value, a termination threshold velocity that indicates a velocity at which to terminate the particular animation;

for each of the multiple frames of the particular animation:

determining whether: (i) a current distance from the animation endpoint satisfies the termination threshold distance from the animation endpoint and (ii) a current velocity satisfies the termination threshold velocity; and

in response to determining that (i) the current distance from the animation endpoint satisfies the termination threshold distance from the animation endpoint and (ii) the current velocity satisfies the termination threshold velocity, initiating termination of the animation.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , comprising:

obtaining data associated with a display screen density of a user device on which the particular animation is displayed; and

modifying, based on the data associated with the display screen density of the user device, at least one of the termination threshold distance and the termination threshold velocity for the particular animation.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein termination of the animation comprises setting animation property values to animation endpoint values for the particular animation.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 17 , wherein setting animation property values to animation endpoint values for the particular animation comprises setting a position value to the animation endpoint for the particular animation.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein, for each of the multiple frames of the particular animation, a redraw operation is performed, and wherein termination of the animation comprises preventing an additional redraw operation to be performed for the particular animation.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein the minimum visible change value for the particular animation is obtained based on animation property values associated with the particular animation.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 11, 2018
From: LIU, TIAN; MOUNT, GEORGE
To: GOOGLE INC.
Reel/Frame 045782/0335 →
ENTITY CONVERSION Recorded May 11, 2018
From: GOOGLE INC.
To: GOOGLE LLC
Reel/Frame 046132/0010 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62507719 · May 17, 2017
Related Publication 20180336717A1 · Nov 22, 2018