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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Wan Si Wan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chanaka G. Karunamuni, San Jose, CA (US);
Marcos Alonso Ruiz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bartosz Ciechanowski, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Benjamin E. Nielsen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A value of a display property of an affordance changes based a value of the same display property of the portion of content over which the affordance is displayed. The value of the display property of the affordance is constrained to vary within a second value range smaller than a first value range over which the value of the display property of the content is permitted to vary. A decrease of the value of the display property of the content causes an increase of the value of the display property of the affordance based on the magnitude of the value change for the content and the second value range. An increase of the value of the display property of the content causes a decreases of the value of the display property of the affordance based on a magnitude of the value change for the content and the second value range.