Devices and methods for processing touch inputs based on their intensities

US10067653B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Apple Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kenneth L. Kocienda · San Jose, US
• Marcos Alonso Ruiz · San Francisco, US
• Gregory M. Apodaca · Colbert, US
• Jonathan R. Dascola · San Francisco, US
• Christopher P. Foss · San Francisco, US
• Olivier D. R. Gutknecht · San Francisco, US
• Peter L. Hajas · San Jose, US
• Michael T. Jurewitz · San Francisco, US
• Chanaka G. Karunamuni · San Jose, US
• Sophia Teutschler · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 2015
• Grant date: Sep 4, 2018
• Expiry date: Sep 29, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F3/048
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic device displays, on a display, a user interface. While displaying the user interface, the device detects an input on the touch-sensitive surface; and, in response to detecting the input while displaying the first user interface, and while detecting the input, in accordance with a determination that the input satisfies first timing criteria and first intensity input criteria, performs a first operation. The first timing criteria require that the input remain on the touch-sensitive surface while a first time period elapses. The first intensity input criteria require that the input satisfy a first intensity threshold at an end of or subsequent to the first time period.