US 12,449,907 B2
Navigating user interfaces using a cursor
Tu K. Nguyen, Fountain Valley, CA (US); James N. Cartwright, Campbell, CA (US); Elizabeth C. Cranfill, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher B. Fleizach, Gilroy, CA (US); Joshua R. Ford, San Francisco, CA (US); Jeremiah R. Johnson, Costa Mesa, CA (US); Charles Maalouf, Seattle, WA (US); Heriberto Nieto, Seattle, WA (US); Jennifer D. Patton, Cupertino, CA (US); Hojjat Seyed Mousavi, San Jose, CA (US); Shawn R. Scully, Seattle, WA (US); Ibrahim G. Yusuf, Fremont, CA (US); Joanna Arreaza-Taylor, Seattle, WA (US); Hannah G. Coleman, Albuquerque, NM (US); and Yoonju Han, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/747,613.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/221,331, filed on Jul. 13, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/190,783, filed on May 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0374085 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/04812 (2022.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 3/0485 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/017 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04812 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01)] 57 Claims
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1. A computer system that is configured to communicate with a display generation component, the computer system comprising:
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:
displaying, via the display generation component, a setting user interface element;
displaying, via the display generation component, a user interface that includes a selectable user interface object and a cursor that is displayed at a first location on the user interface;
while displaying the selectable user interface object and the cursor at the first location on the user interface, detecting a request to move the cursor from the first location to a second location on the user interface; and
in response to detecting the request to move the cursor from the first location to the second location:
displaying the cursor at the second location;
in accordance with a determination that the second location corresponds to a location of the selectable user interface object, displaying an animation that provides a visual indication of how long the cursor needs to be located at the second location to perform a first operation, wherein the visual indication is updated over a period of time; and
in accordance with a determination that the second location corresponds to the location of the selectable user interface object and the cursor is displayed at the second location for more than a first threshold period of time, performing the first operation, wherein performing the first operation includes:
in accordance with a determination that a user-configurable setting of the computer system is in a first state, activating the selectable user interface object; and
in accordance with a determination that the user-configurable setting of the computer system is in a second state different from the first state, displaying, without activating the selectable user interface object and via the display generation component, a menu, wherein the menu includes a first selectable option for performing a selection operation, and wherein selection of the first selectable option causes the computer system to perform the selection operation at the second location, wherein the user configurable setting of the computer system changes from the first state to the second state in response to a selection of the setting user interface element.