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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Marcos Alonso Ruiz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicole M. Wells, San Francisco, CA (US);
Justin T. Voss, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Blake R. Seely, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew D. Ricketson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Henrique D. Penha, San Francisco, CA (US);
Grace H. Hwang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Graham R. Clarke, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Jeffrey L. Robbin, Los Altos, CA (US);
William M. Bachman, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin W. Keighran, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Jennifer L. C. Folse, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Lochhead, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Joe R. Howard, San Jose, CA (US);
Joshua K. McGlinn, Mooresville, NC (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device provides, to a display, data to present a user interface that includes a first group of user interface objects and a second group of user interface objects. A current focus is on a first user interface object of the first group of user interface objects. The device receives an input that corresponds to a request to move the current focus to a user interface object in the second group of user interface objects; determines a projection of the first user interface object based on a direction of the input; identifies one or more user interface objects that overlap with the projection of the first user interface object in the direction on the display that corresponds to the direction of the input; and moves the current focus to a second user interface object of the one or more identified user input objects.