US 11,860,923 B2
Providing a thumbnail image that follows a main image
Su Chuin Leong, Oakland, CA (US); Daniel Caleb Gordon, Marietta, GA (US); Jonathan Siegel, San Francisco, CA (US); Andrew Vytas Kisielius, San Francisco, CA (US); and Aaron Michael Donsbach, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/489,081.
Application 17/489,081 is a continuation of application No. 15/900,924, filed on Feb. 21, 2018, granted, now 11,163,813.
Application 15/900,924 is a continuation of application No. 14/258,709, filed on Apr. 22, 2014, granted, now 9,934,222, issued on Apr. 3, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0019611 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 16/40 (2019.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 16/58 (2019.01); G06F 16/587 (2019.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 16/40 (2019.01) [G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 16/587 (2019.01); G06F 16/5866 (2019.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of providing a thumbnail image that corresponds to a main image, the method comprising:
displaying, by the one or more computing devices, the main image captured at a first geographical location on a first date and an indication that one or more thumbnail images of the first geographical location captured at different dates than the first date are available;
displaying, by the one or more computing devices, a window containing a selected thumbnail image of the one or more thumbnail images;
displaying, by the one or more computing devices, a timeline and a scroll marker at a first location on the timeline, the first location on the timeline corresponding to the time the selected thumbnail image was captured, wherein the timeline includes a point for each of the one or more thumbnail images, wherein the point for each of the one or more thumbnail images corresponds to a date the one or more thumbnail image was captured;
receiving, by the one or more computing devices, an input representing a change of the scroll marker to a second location on the timeline corresponding to a second date; and
replacing, by the one or more computing devices, in response to the input, the selected thumbnail image within the window with the second thumbnail image captured on the second date.