Gesture detection, list navigation, and item selection using a crown and sensors
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorColin M. Ely
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Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to methods and apparatuses for detecting gestures on a reduced-size electronic device at locations off of the display, such as gestures on the housing of the device or on a rotatable input mechanism (e.g., a digital crown) of the device, and responding to the gestures by, for example, navigating lists of items and selecting items from the list; translating the display of an electronic document; or sending audio control data to an external audio device.
Claims36
A device with a housing, comprising:
- one or more sensors;
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
- while the device is in an audio control mode and while a display is displaying respective content, detecting, via the one or more sensors, a movement of contact along a housing of the device, wherein a user interface associated with the audio control mode does not require inputs on the display;
- and
- in response to the movement of the contact along the housing of the device, performing an audio function associated with the device without displaying, on the display, content corresponding to the movement of the contact and without causing the display to display different content that is different from the respective content, wherein the audio function is based on a parameter of the movement of the contact along the housing of the device.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured to be executed by one or more processors of a device with a housing and one or more sensors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
- while the device is in an audio control mode and while a display is displaying respective content, detecting, via the one or more sensors, a movement of contact along a housing of the device, wherein a user interface associated with the audio control mode does not require inputs on the display;
- and
- in response to the movement of the contact along the housing of the device without displaying, on the display, content corresponding to the movement of the contact and without causing the display to display different content that is different from the respective content, performing an audio function associated with the device, wherein the audio function is based on a parameter of the movement of the contact along the housing of the device.
A method, comprising:
- at a device with a housing and one or more sensors:
- while the device is in an audio control mode and while a display is displaying respective content, detecting, via the one or more sensors, a movement of contact along a housing of the device, wherein a user interface associated with the audio control mode does not require inputs on the display;
- and
- in response to the movement of the contact along the housing of the device, performing an audio function associated with the device without displaying, on the display, content corresponding to the movement of the contact and without causing the display to display different content that is different from the respective content, wherein the audio function is based on a parameter of the movement of the contact along the housing of the device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.