US 11,681,408 B2
User interfaces for retrieving contextually relevant media content
Britt S. Miura, Menlo Park, CA (US); Simon Bovet, Zurich (CH); Eric Circlaeys, Los Gatos, CA (US); Alan C. Dye, San Francisco, CA (US); Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava, San Jose, CA (US); Cyrus Daniel Irani, Los Altos, CA (US); Brendan J. Langoulant, San Francisco, CA (US); Stephen O. Lemay, Palo Alto, CA (US); Justin S. Titi, Morgan Hill, CA (US); Gary Ian Butcher, Los Gatos, CA (US); Paulo Michaelo Lopez, Los Gatos, CA (US); Henrique Penha, San Francisco, CA (US); and Christopher Wilson, Sonoma, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/744,499.
Application 17/744,499 is a continuation of application No. 17/125,744, filed on Dec. 17, 2020, granted, now 11,334,209.
Application 17/125,744 is a continuation of application No. 16/109,487, filed on Aug. 22, 2018, granted, now 10,891,013, issued on Jan. 12, 2021.
Application 16/109,487 is a continuation of application No. 15/275,294, filed on Sep. 23, 2016, granted, now 10,073,584, issued on Sep. 11, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/349,109, filed on Jun. 12, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0276750 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 16/435 (2019.01); G06F 16/438 (2019.01); G06F 16/44 (2019.01); G06F 16/178 (2019.01); G06F 3/0354 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); G06F 3/04886 (2022.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0481 (2013.01) [G06F 3/03547 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); G06F 16/178 (2019.01); G06F 16/435 (2019.01); G06F 16/438 (2019.01); G06F 16/44 (2019.01); G06F 2203/04105 (2013.01); G06T 1/0007 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
at a device with a display:
displaying, on the display, a first user interface that includes a plurality of visual media items;
while displaying the plurality of visual media items, receiving a first user input;
in response to receiving the first user input:
concurrently displaying, on the display:
a second user interface that includes an affordance associated with a portion of the plurality of visual media items that share a set of common characteristics, wherein the affordance includes an image representative of the portion of the plurality of visual media items and selected from the portion of the plurality of visual media items that share a set of common characteristics; and
a textual identifier overlaid with the affordance, wherein the textual identifier is automatically determined based on context from the set of common characteristics;
receiving a second user input corresponding to selection of the affordance; and
in response to receiving the second user input, displaying, on the display, a detail user interface that includes the portion of the plurality of visual media items.