Devices and methods for capturing and interacting with enhanced digital images

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9602729-B2
Application number	US-201514864627-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2015
Priority date	Jun 7, 2015
Publication date	Mar 21, 2017
Grant date	Mar 21, 2017

Abstract

An electronic device displays a representative image. The representative image is one image in a sequence of images that includes images acquired after the representative image. While displaying the representative image, the device detects a contact with a first intensity. In response to detecting the contact, the device advances through the images acquired after the representative image at a rate based on the first intensity. When the device detects a decrease in intensity of the contact to a second intensity that is less than the first intensity, the device either continues to advance through the one or more images at a slower rate or reverses direction, depending at least in part on the second intensity relative to a threshold intensity.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
at an electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and one or more sensors to detect intensities contacts with the touch-sensitive surface:
displaying a representative image on the display, wherein:
the representative image is one image in a sequence of images taken by a camera; and
the sequence of images includes one or more images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image;

while displaying the representative image on the display, detecting a first input that includes detecting an increase in a characteristic intensity of a contact on the touch-sensitive surface to a first intensity that is greater than a first intensity threshold;
in response to detecting the increase in the characteristic intensity of the contact, advancing, in a first direction, through the one or more images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image at a rate that is determined based at least in part on the first intensity; and
after advancing through the one or more images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image at the rate that is determined based on the first intensity, detecting a decrease in intensity of the contact to a second intensity that is less than the first intensity; and,
in response to detecting the decrease in the characteristic intensity of the contact to the second intensity:
in accordance with a determination that the second intensity is above the first intensity threshold, continuing to advance, in the first direction, through the one or more images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image at a second rate, wherein:
the second rate is determined based at least in part on the second intensity and
the second rate is slower than the first rate; and,

in accordance with a determination that the second intensity is below the first intensity threshold, moving, in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, through the one or more images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image at a rate that is determined based at least in part on the second intensity.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first rate is determined based in part on a proximity of a currently displayed image to an end of the sequence of images.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein intensity values of the characteristic intensity of the contact proximate to the first intensity threshold are associated with rate values that are at least a predetermined amount away from a rate of zero images per second.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rate of movement through the sequence of images is constrained by a maximum reverse rate while the contact is detected on the touch-sensitive surface, and the method includes:
detecting liftoff of the contact from the touch-sensitive surface; and
in response to detecting liftoff of the contact, moving through the images in the second direction at a rate that is greater than the maximum reverse rate.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the images are displayed, in sequence, at a rate proportional to a difference between the characteristic intensity of the contact and the first intensity threshold.

6. The method of claim 1 , including:
decreasing a rate at which images in the sequence of images are displayed as a terminus of the sequence of images is approached.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sequence of images includes one or more images acquired by the camera before acquiring the representative image.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the representative image is displayed as a background image on a lock screen of a device, and one or more foreground elements are not changed while the device advances through the one or more images captured after the respective image.

9. The method of claim 1 , including:
detecting termination of the first input; and
in response to detecting termination of the first input, displaying the representative image.

10. The method of claim 1 , including:
detecting termination of the first input while displaying a first image in the sequence of images;
in response to detecting termination of the first input while displaying the first image in the sequence of images:
in accordance with a determination that the first image occurs before the representative image in the sequence of images, sequentially displaying, in chronological order, images from the first image to the representative image, and
in accordance with a determination that the first image occurs after the representative image in the sequence of images, sequentially displaying, in reverse-chronological order, images from the first image to the representative image.

11. An electronic device, comprising:
a display;
a touch-sensitive surface;
one or more sensors to detect intensity 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:
displaying a representative image on the display, wherein:
the representative image is one image in a sequence of images taken by a camera; and
the sequence of images includes one or more images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image;

while displaying the representative image on the display, detecting a first input that includes detecting an increase in a characteristic intensity of a contact on the touch-sensitive surface to a first intensity that is greater than a first intensity threshold;
in response to detecting the increase in the characteristic intensity of the contact, advancing, in a first direction, through the one or more images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image at a rate that is determined based at least in part on the first intensity; and
after advancing through the one or more images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image at the rate that is determined based on the first intensity, detecting a decrease in intensity of the contact to a second intensity that is less than the first intensity; and,
in response to detecting the decrease in the characteristic intensity of the contact to the second intensity:
in accordance with a determination that the second intensity is above the first intensity threshold, continuing to advance, in the first direction, through the one or more images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image at a second rate, wherein:
the second rate is determined based at least in part on the second intensity and
the second rate is slower than the first rate; and,

in accordance with a determination that the second intensity is below the first intensity threshold, moving, in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, through the one or more images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image at a rate that is determined based at least in part on the second intensity.

12. 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 one or more processors, 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:
display a representative image on the display, wherein:
the representative image is one image in a sequence of images taken by a camera; and
the sequence of images includes one or more images acquired by the camera after acquir

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• King Nicholas V
• Bauer Sebastian J
• Conolly Bethany B
• Chaudhri Imran A
• Dye Alan C
• Federighi Craig M
• Ive Jonathan
• Jurewitz Michael T
• Manzari Behkish J
• Maric Natalia C
• Penha Henrique D
• Pivonka Pavel
• Preston Daniel T

Classifications

• G06F3/0487 Primary

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  Control of parameters via user interfaces · CPC title

• H04N23/73

  by influencing the exposure time · CPC title

• H04N23/64

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• H04N23/632

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