Apparatus and method for controlling motion-based user interface

• US 10,360,655 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2017
• Issued: 07/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Hong, Hyun-Su, Jung, Yung-Keun, Lee, Jae-Myeon, Kim, Il-Hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Osorio, Ricardo
• Application Number:
  US15/450,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20170178284A1
• Time in Patent Office: 869 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/02 Affine transformations for image registration G06T3/147; for image mosaicing G06T3/4038

Abstract

A method and apparatus for controlling a motion-based user interface are provided. The apparatus includes a touch screen for displaying an image and for receiving input of a user touch on at least one spot of the touch screen, a sensor unit for sensing a motion of the apparatus, a motion calculator for calculating a degree of the motion of the apparatus, when sensing the motion of the apparatus at the sensor unit, and a controller for, when the at least one spot is touched on the touch screen, determining the number of touched spots, for receiving information about the degree of the motion of the apparatus from the motion calculator, and for determining whether to change the size of the image or the position of the image according to the number of touched spots.

Claims

1. An electronic device for displaying an image, comprising:

a display configured to display a first image; and

a processor configured to;

while a number of touched spots on the display is a first value, detect a movement of the electronic device, wherein the movement of the electronic device is recognized as a command for moving the first image,

determine a movement distance of the electronic device and a movement direction of the electronic device based on the detected movement of the electronic device,

generate a second image by moving the first image based on the movement distance, in a direction opposite to the movement direction of the electronic device, and

control the display to display the second image.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

one or more sensors configured to generate one or more sensing values related to the movement of the electronic device,

wherein the processor is further configured to determine the movement distance or the movement direction based on the one or more sensing values.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

if the electronic device moves from the left to the right, generate the second image by shifting the first image from the right to the left.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

if the electronic device moves from the right to the left, generate the second image by shifting the first image from the left to the right.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

if the electronic device moves up, generate the second image by shifting the first image down.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

if the electronic device moves down, generate the second image by shifting the first image up.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

if the electronic device moves from the left to the right, control the display to display the next image from among the plurality of images in the arrangement order of the plurality of images.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

if the electronic device moves from the right to the left, control the display to display the previous image from among the plurality of images in the arrangement order of the plurality of images.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

if the number of the touched spots on the display is a second value, determine the movement of the electronic device as a command for zooming-in or zooming-out the first image, and

zoom-in or zoom-out the first image based on the movement of the electronic device.

10. A method for displaying an image by an electronic device, comprising:

displaying a first image;

while a number of touched spots on a display of an electronic device is a first value, detecting a movement of the electronic device, wherein the movement of the electronic device is recognized as a command for moving the first image;

determining a movement distance of the electronic device and a movement direction of the electronic device based on the detected movement of the electronic device;

generating a second image by moving the first image based on the movement distance, in a direction opposite to the movement direction of the electronic device; and

displaying the second image.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

generating one or more sensing values related to the movement of the electronic device; and

determining the movement distance or the movement direction based on the one or more sensing values.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein, if the electronic device moves from the left to the right, the second image is generated by shifting the first image from the right to the left.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein, if the electronic device moves from the right to the left, the second image is generated by shifting the first image from the left to the right.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein, if the electronic device moves up, the second image is generated by shifting the first image down.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein if the electronic device moves down, the second image is generated by shifting the first image up.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein, if the electronic device moves from the left to the right, the next image is displayed from among the plurality of images in the arrangement order of the plurality of images.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein, if the electronic device moves from the right to the left, the previous image is displayed from among the plurality of images in the arrangement order of the plurality of images.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

if the number of the touched spots on the display is a second value, determining the movement of the electronic device as a command for zooming-in or zooming-out the image; and

zooming-in or zooming-out the first image based on the movement of the electronic device.