US 12,147,597 B2
Methods for cursor-based interactions with an electronic device
Shih-Sang Chiu, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher D. McKenzie, Burlingame, CA (US); Pol Pla I Conesa, San Francisco, CA (US); Jonathan Ravasz, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Zoey C. Taylor, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/935,095.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/261,666, filed on Sep. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/266,539, filed on Jan. 7, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/374,868, filed on Sep. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0100689 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/04815 (2022.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/013 (2013.01) [G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/04815 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
at an electronic device in communication with a display generation component and one or more input devices:
while displaying, via the display generation component, a user interface that includes a first region and a second region, wherein the first region includes a cursor, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a first input that includes a first cursor movement input;
in response to detecting the first input, moving the cursor within the first region to a first location in the first region in accordance with the first input;
while the cursor is located at the first location in the first region in accordance with the first input, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a second input that includes:
a gaze of a user of the electronic device directed toward the second region in the user interface, and
a first interaction input directed to a first user interface element included in the second region in the user interface;
in response to detecting the second input, performing interaction with the first user interface element in accordance with the first interaction input;
after performing the interaction with the first user interface element in accordance with the first interaction input, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a third input that includes:
the gaze of the user of the electronic device directed to a second location, different from the first location, in the first region in the user interface, and
a second cursor movement input that is detected while the gaze of the user of the electronic device is directed to a portion of the first region in the user interface that is different from the first location; and
in response to detecting the third input, moving the cursor within the first region starting from the first location in the first region and moving away from the first location in the first region in accordance with the second cursor movement input.