Rachit GuptaFollow

Abstract

This publication describes systems and techniques for representing multiple (i.e., two or more) states on a single graphical user interface (GUI) control in the GUI of an application that executes at a computing device such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, and the like. That is, a single GUI control may be usable to adjust the values of two or more different settings, parameters, and the like by toggling the GUI control between two or more states. For example, a camera application that executes at a computing device operably coupled to a camera may provide a camera viewfinder feature that provides a graphical view of a scene to be captured by the camera of the computing device. The GUI of the camera viewfinder feature can include a slider control in the GUI that can be toggled between two states: a scene brightness state and a face brightness state. When the slider control is toggled to the scene brightness state, a user may interact with the slider control to adjust (i.e., increase or decrease) the brightness of the entire scene to be captured by the camera of the computing device. When the slider control is toggled to the face brightness state, a user may interact with the slider control to adjust the brightness of the faces in the scene to be captured by the camera of the computing device. Using GUI controls that can represent multiple states to adjust the values of two or more different settings, parameters, and the like may enable software applications to decrease the amount of GUI controls included in a GUI by enabling a single GUI control to be used to adjust the values of two or more different settings, thereby enabling the software application to increase the user friendliness of its user interfaces, such as by reducing the amount of GUI controls included in a GUI to present GUIs with less clutter.

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