Media interface tools and animations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9727547-B2
Application number	US-201313951299-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 25, 2013
Priority date	Jun 7, 2013
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for displaying display primary e-book content, note glyphs and margins in an e-book interface according to the size of the e-book interface; animating “peeking pages” and glyph size during and after re-sizing events; selecting text in an e-book, entering a note that will become linked to the selected text, and representing the presence of the note on top of the primary content of the e-book as an interactive glyph according to some embodiments of the present technology; and displaying note objects, editing note objects, and navigating between note objects in a note-view pane of an e-book interface according to some embodiments of the present technology.

First claim

We claim:

1. A computing-device-implemented method for navigating media displayed in a media interface of a computing device, comprising:
displaying, in the media interface of the computing device, a presentation pane configured to display primary content and a pair of vertical margin panes configured to display secondary content that is linked to the primary content, wherein the pair of vertical margin panes are adjacent to the presentation pane;
receiving, by the computing device, a media interface re-sizing event;
dynamically measuring a size of the vertical margin panes of the media interface after receiving the re-sizing event;
scaling a glyph displayed in one of the vertical margin panes in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the vertical margin panes; and
animating the glyph by transforming the glyph into a note when the glyph has been scaled to a determined size, wherein the note is displayed with at least some of the secondary content.

2. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising;
determining how many displays of primary content can be displayed within the presentation pane based on a determination of how many full views of primary content fit within the resized media interface, wherein each presentation pane displays only one full view of primary content; and
displaying a number of presentation panes determined to fit within the media interface, wherein the pair of vertical margins panes is displayed in any remaining space within the media interface.

3. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the glyph is scaled according to a scaling factor correlated to the size of the vertical margin panes.

4. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the determined size is based on a size of the secondary content.

5. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the glyph located in one of the vertical margin panes is a first glyph located in a left margin pane of the pair of vertical margin panes, wherein a second glyph is located in a right margin pane of the pair of vertical margin panes, and wherein the method further comprises:
scaling the second glyph displayed in the right margin pane in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the vertical margin panes; and
animating the second glyph by transforming the second glyph into a second note when the second glyph has been scaled to a determined size, wherein the second note is displayed with at least some of the secondary content.

6. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
upon continued re-sizing of the media interface, determining that a total width of the media interface is large enough to display two primary content displays in the presentation pane;
displaying an additional primary content display in the presentation pane in the media interface, wherein the vertical margin panes are reduced or removed to accommodate the additional primary content display;
fading out the display of the note; and
re-displaying the glyph in the presentation pane.

7. The computing-device-implemented method of claim 6 , further comprising:
upon continued re-sizing of the media interface, scaling the glyph in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the vertical margin panes, wherein the glyph is scaled according to a scaling factor correlated to the size of the vertical margin panes.

8. An electronic device for navigating media displayed in a media interface of the electronic device comprising:
a processor; and
an e-book application module configured to:
display, in the media interface of the electronic device, a presentation pane configured to display primary content and a pair of vertical margin panes configured to display secondary content that is linked to the primary content, wherein the pair of vertical margin panes are adjacent to the presentation pane;
receive a media interface re-sizing event;
dynamically measure a size of the vertical margin panes of the media interface after receiving the re-sizing event;
scale a glyph displayed in one of the vertical margin panes in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the vertical margin panes; and
animate the glyph by transforming the glyph into a note when the glyph has been scaled to a determined size, wherein the note is displayed with at least some of the secondary content.

9. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the e-book application module is further configured to:
determine how many displays of primary content can be displayed within the presentation pane based on a determination of how many full views of primary content fit within the resized media interface, wherein each presentation pane displays only one full view of primary content; and
display a number of presentation panes determined to fit within the media interface, wherein the pair of vertical margin panes is displayed in any remaining space within the media interface.

10. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the glyph is scaled according to a scaling factor correlated to the size of the vertical margin panes.

11. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the determined size is based on a size of the secondary content.

12. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the glyph located in one of the vertical margin panes is a first glyph located in a left margin pane of the pair of vertical margin panes, wherein a second glyph is located in a right margin pane of the pair of vertical margin panes, and wherein the e-book application module is further configured to:
scale the second glyph displayed in the right margin pane in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the vertical margin panes;
animate the second glyph by transforming the second glyph into a second note when the second glyph has been scaled to a determined size, wherein the second note is displayed with at least some of the secondary content.

13. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the e-book application module is further configured to:
upon continued re-sizing of the media interface, determine that a total width of the media interface is large enough to display two primary content displays in the presentation pane;
display an additional primary content display in the presentation pane in the media interface, wherein the vertical margin panes are reduced or removed to accommodate the additional primary content display;
fade out the display of the note; and
re-display the glyph in the presentation pane.

14. The electronic device of claim 13 , wherein the e-book application module is further configured to:
upon continued re-sizing of the media interface, scale the glyph in accordance with the dynamically measured size of the vertical margin panes, wherein the glyph is scaled according to a scaling factor correlated to the size of the vertical margin panes.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:
a medium configured to store computer-readable instructions for navigating media displayed in a media interface thereon; and
the computer-readable instructions which, when executed by a processing device cause the processing device to:
display, in a media interface, a presentation pane configured to display primary content and a pair of vertical margin panes configured to display secondary content that is linked to the primary content, wherein the pair of vertical margin panes are adjacent to the presentation pane;
receive, by the processing device, a media interface re-sizing event;
dynamically measure a size of the vertical margin panes of the media interface aft

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Migos Charles J
• Styer Allison
• Emanuel M Frank
• Refstrup Jacob
• Pethick Christopher
• Ortiz Guillermo

Classifications

• G06F40/169 Primary

  Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes · CPC title

• G06F15/0291 Primary

  for reading, e.g. e-books (constructional details of portable computers G06F1/1613) · CPC title

• G09B5/06

  with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied · CPC title

• G06F17/241 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic