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Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for displaying an affordance on a background

A technology of enabling representations, displays, applied in the field of electronic devices, which can solve problems such as eye fatigue, lack of efficacy, and distraction

Active Publication Date: 2019-05-17
APPLE INC
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Some existing solutions to this problem (such as introducing screensavers or blinking icons) are not satisfactory solutions because they have side effects (e.g. cause eye strain, distraction, etc.) and in many cases lack Power efficiency (e.g. only available when the device is idle)

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[0041] The affordances displayed according to conventional methods are often visually distracting and may clutter the user interface. Additionally, the appearance of affordances is often fixed and does not adapt to changes occurring in the underlying content or operating mode changes of the underlying user interface. The following embodiments disclose a way to display and change the appearance of an affordance based on a change in the underlying content, where the inversion of the display property of the underlying content provides the basis for determining the value of the same display property of the affordance. In addition, the value range of the display property of the affordance is constrained to be a sub-range of the value range of the display property of the underlying content. For example, different value ranges for the brightness of affordances are assigned to different affordance appearance types (e.g., suggestive affordance appearance types versus light affordances)...

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An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays, on the display, content and an affordance, wherein: the affordance is displayed over a portion of the content; a value of adisplay property of the affordance is determined based a value of the same display property of the portion of the content over which the affordance is displayed; and the value of the display propertyof the content is permitted to vary within a first range of values, and the value of the display property of the affordance is constrained to vary within a second range of values that is smaller thanthe first range of values; while displaying the content and the affordance, the device detects a change in appearance of the content over which the affordance is displayed; and in response to detecting the change in appearance of the content over which the affordance is displayed, the device changes the appearance of the affordance, including: in accordance with a determination that the value of the display property of the content has decreased, increasing the value of the display property of the affordance in accordance with a magnitude of a change in the value of the display property of thecontent and the second range of values; and in accordance with a determination that the value of the display property of the content has increased, decreasing the value of the display property of theaffordance in accordance with a magnitude of the change in the value of the display property of the content and the second range of values.

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technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to electronic devices having displays and touch-sensitive surfaces, including but not limited to electronic devices that display virtual affordances (eg, controls, indicators, visual guides, etc.) on their touch-sensitive display screens. Background technique [0002] The use of touch-sensitive surfaces as input devices for computers and other electronic computing devices has grown significantly in recent years. Exemplary touch-sensitive surfaces include touchpads and touchscreen displays. Such surfaces are widely used for manipulating user interfaces on displays and objects therein. Exemplary user interface objects include digital images, video, text, icons, and control elements (such as buttons), among other graphics. [0003] Electronic computing devices often display virtual controls or visual guidance on their displays. For example, keyboards, menus, dialog boxes, alerts, and other controls can be activat...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/0481
CPCG06F3/0488G06F3/04847G06F9/451G06F3/0481
Inventor W·S·万C·G·卡鲁纳姆尼M·阿朗索鲁伊斯B·西查诺斯基B·E·尼尔森
Owner APPLE INC