System and method for presenting an object

• US 10,402,209 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2016
• Issued: 09/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bionic Arts LLC
• Original Assignee: Bubble, LLC
• Inventors: Rieger, Derek
• Primary Examiner(s): Trapanese, William C
• Application Number:
  US15/242,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20170052677A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,110 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/216 using geographical information, e.g. location of the game device or player using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/245 specially adapted to a particular type of game, e.g. steering wheels
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/837 Shooting of targets
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

Method, system for presenting an object on a computing device. A metaphor application on a computing device organizes a user interface based upon a metaphor. The metaphor organizes a document, file, application, or combination thereof based on geospheric direction, geolocation, or both. The metaphor may also organize a document, file, application, data, or a combination thereof based on a solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space. A document, file, application, or any combination thereof may be associated with geophysical direction, a geolocation, or both. The document, file, application, data, or any combination thereof may further be associated with a solid geometrical figure. A presentation object containing data on the document, file, application, data, or combination thereof, and the geospheric direction, geolocation, or both is formatted into data blocks for rendering on a display. The display may be the display screen of the computing device. The metaphor application causes the presentation object to be rendered on the display when the computing device is pointing in the geospheric direction, in the geolocation or both associated with the presentation object.

Claims

1. A method of presenting an object on a display comprising the steps of:

providing a metaphor application for installation on a computing device, the metaphor application configured to organize at least one user interface based upon a metaphor, the metaphor organizing a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof based upon geospheric direction;

receiving a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof from a data source;

associating the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof with a geospheric direction setting of the display;

generating a presentation object for the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof, the presentation object containing the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof, and the geospheric direction setting;

formatting the presentation object into data blocks for rendering on the display;

wherein the computing device comprising a controller and a memory, the controller configured to render the formatted presentation object on the display;

wherein the metaphor application causes the presentation object to be rendered on the display when the display is associated with the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object;

the metaphor application being further configured to organize a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof according to geolocation;

associating a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof with a geolocation;

rendering the presentation object of the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof when the computing device is both at the geolocation associated with and the display is associated with the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object;

wherein the metaphor organizing a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof on a surface of a solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space by associating the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof with a point on the surface of the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space associated with the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object;

wherein the association of the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof with the geolocation and the geospheric direction is further associated with the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space associated with the geolocation of the computing device;

wherein the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space is a first sphere defining a first bubble, the geolocation of the first bubble providing a first geolocation;

the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof associated with the first bubble providing a first document, a first file, a first application, or any combination thereof; and

wherein the metaphor organizing a second document, a second file, a second application, or any combination thereof on a surface of a second sphere defining a second bubble by associating the second document, the second file, the second application, or any combination thereof with a point on the surface of the second bubble associated with a geospheric direction associated with the second document, the second file, the second application, or any combination thereof, the geolocation of the second bubble providing a second geolocation;

wherein the first document, the first file, the first application, data, or any combination thereof being configured to be rendered on the display of the computing device by the metaphor application when the computing device is in the geolocation of the first bubble and the second document, the second file, the second application, or any combination thereof being configured to be rendered on the display of the computing device by the metaphor application when the computing device is in the geolocation of the second bubble.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the display is a display screen of a display device.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the display is a display screen of the computing device.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the steps of at least one of receiving, associating, generating and formatting is performed by a transmission server, the transmission server comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the processor is configured to perform the at least one of receiving, associating, generating, and formatting steps.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising transmitting data from the at least one of the receiving, associating, generating and formatting over a communication channel to the computing device.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the communication channel is selected from the group consisting of a wireless communication channel, a wired communication channel, or combination thereof.

7. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

storing at least one user preference setting for under what conditions the presentation object is to be rendered on the display screen of the computing device;

rendering the presentation object on the display screen of the computing device when the at least one user preference setting is configured to render the presentation object on the display screen of the computing device; and

rendering another presentation object on the display screen of the computing device when the at least one user preference setting is configured to render the another presentation object on the display screen of the computing device.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the providing of the metaphor application on the computing device is a download taken from the group consisting of a user download, a factory download, or combination thereof.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the rendering of the presentation object is taken from the group consisting of a rendering by the metaphor application and a rendering by another application on the computing device.

10. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

activating a locking configuration wherein the locking configuration locks the presentation object rendered on the display screen of the computing device to the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object at the time of lock such that the presentation object continues to be rendered on the display screen even when the computing device is pointing in a different geospheric direction.

11. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

activating a zooming configuration wherein the zooming configuration enables the presentation object rendered on the display of the computing device to be zoomed in or out.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the association of the display with the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object occurs by manual input of the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the center of at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere is defined by the geolocation of the computing device.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

performing in at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere the steps for receiving, associating, generating, and formatting in connection with a first presentation object of a first document, a first file, a first application, or any combination thereof associated with a first geospheric direction setting;

performing in the same one of at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere the steps for receiving, associating, generating, and formatting in connection with a second presentation object of a second document, a second file, a second application, or any combination thereof associated with a second geospheric direction setting;

associating in the same one of at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere the first geospheric direction associated with the first presentation object with a first point along the surface of the same one of at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere;

associating in the same one of at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere the second geospheric direction associated with the second presentation object with a second point along the surface of the same one of at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere;

rendering in the same one of at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere the first presentation object on the display of the computing device when the computing device is pointed in the first geospheric direction of the same one of at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere; and

rendering in the same one of at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere the second presentation object on the display of the computing device when the computing device is pointed in the second geospheric direction of the same one of at least one of the first sphere or the second sphere.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the geospheric direction is determined by a sensor taken from the group consisting of GPS sensor, compass sensor, accelerometer sensor, gyro sensor, and combination thereof.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the geolocation is a latitude and a longitude of a GPS location.

18. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

responding by the computing device to user input by opening the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof selected by a user.

15. The method of 1 wherein the association of the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof with the geolocation, the geospheric direction, and the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space associated with the geolocation and geospheric direction associated with the presentation object is further associated with an active button or icon rendered on the display of the computing device by the metaphor application.

19. A system for presenting an object, comprising:

a computing device comprising a controller and a memory, the memory comprising computer-readable instructions for execution by the controller to cause the controller to perform operations comprising;

executing instructions of a metaphor application, the metaphor application configured to organize at least one user interface based upon a metaphor, the metaphor organizing a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof based on a geospheric direction, a geolocation or both;

receiving a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof from a data source;

associating the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof with a geospheric direction of the computing device, a geolocation setting of the computing device, or both;

generating a presentation object for document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof, the presentation object containing the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof, and the predetermined geospheric direction, the geolocation, or both;

formatting the presentation object into data blocks for rendering on a display of the computing device;

wherein the controller being configured to render the formatted presentation object on the display of the computing device; and

wherein the metaphor application causes the presentation object to be rendered on the display of the computing device when the computing device is associated with the geospheric direction, located in the geolocation, or both associated with the presentation object;

the metaphor application being further configured to organize a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof according to geolocation;

associating a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof with a geolocation;

rendering the presentation object of the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof when the computing device is both at the geolocation associated with and the display is associated with the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object;

wherein the metaphor organizing a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof on a surface of a solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space by associating the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof with a point on the surface of the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space associated with the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object;

wherein the association of the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof with the geolocation and the geospheric direction is further associated with the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space associated with the geolocation of the computing device;

wherein the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space is a sphere defining a first bubble, the geolocation of the first bubble providing a first geolocation;

the document and the file, the application, or any combination thereof associated with the first bubble providing a first document, a first file, a first application, or any combination thereof; and

wherein the metaphor organizing a second document, a second file, a second application, or any combination thereof on a surface of a second sphere defining a second bubble by associating the second document, the second file, the second application, or any combination thereof with a point on the surface of the second bubble associated with a geospheric direction associated with the second document, the second file, the second application, or any combination thereof, the geolocation of the second bubble providing a second geolocation;

wherein the first document, the first file, the first application, data, or any combination thereof being configured to be rendered on the display of the computing device by the metaphor application when the computing device is in the geolocation of the first bubble and the second document, the second file, the second application, or any combination thereof being configured to be rendered on the display of the computing device by the metaphor application when the computing device is in the geolocation of the second bubble.

20. The system of claim 19 further comprising a transmission server comprising a processor and a memory that stores the received the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof and wherein the processor of the transmission server is configured to perform the at least one of receiving, associating, generating and formatting steps.

21. The system of claim 19 wherein each of the computing device and the transmission server further comprise communication circuitry, the communication circuitry of the computing device and the transmission server configured to establish a communication channel between each other, the transmission server transmitting the at least one of receiving, associating, generating and formatting steps over the communication channel to the computing device.

22. The system of claim 19 wherein the memory of the computing device is configured to store at least one user preference setting for under what conditions the presentation object is to be rendered on the display of the computing device;

wherein the computing device renders the presentation object on the display of the computing device when the at least one user preference setting is configured to render the presentation object on the display of the device; and

wherein the computing device renders another presentation object on the display of the computing device when the at least one user preference setting is configured to render the other presentation object on the display of the device.

23. The system of claim 19 wherein the metaphor application is downloaded onto the computing device.

24. The system of claim 19 further comprising an application on the computing device and wherein the presentation object of the application is rendered by either the metaphor application or by the application.

25. The system of claim 19 further comprising a roaming mode of operation configuration;

wherein when the computing device is operating in the roaming mode of operation configuration, the roaming mode of operation enables the metaphor application to cause the computing device to roam through one or more documents, files, applications, or any combination thereof based upon the geospheric direction in which the computing device is pointing, the geolocation of the computing device, or both.

26. The system of claim 25 wherein the computing device is configured to enable a lock mode of operation to disable the roaming mode of operation;

and wherein the lock mode of operation locks the presentation object rendered on the display of the computing device to the geospheric direction, the geolocation, or both associated with the presentation object at the time of lock such that the presentation object continues to be rendered on the display even when the computing device is associated with different geospheric direction, in a different geolocation, or both.

27. The system of claim 19:

wherein the computing device is configured to enable a zoom mode of operation; and

wherein the zooming configuration enables the presentation object rendered on the display of the computing device to be zoomed in or out.

28. The system of claim 19 wherein the geospheric direction is determined by a sensor taken from the group consisting of GPS sensor, compass sensor, accelerometer sensor, gyro sensor, or combination thereof.

29. The system of claim 19 wherein the association of the display with the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object occurs by pointing the display in the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object.

30. The system of claim 19 wherein the association of the display with the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object occurs by manual input of the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object.

31. The system of claim 20 wherein the metaphor application executed by the computing device stores the at least one of a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof based on a geospheric direction, a geolocation or both in the memory of the transmission server, the computing device being a first computing device;

and

further comprising a second computing device, the second computing device comprising a controller and a memory, the second computing device executing instructions of a metaphor application, the metaphor application;

receiving from the memory of the transmission server the at least one of a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof based on a geospheric direction, a geolocation or both in the memory of the transmission server stored by the first computing device;

generating a presentation object for the at least one of a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof based on a geospheric direction, a geolocation or both, the presentation object containing the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof, and the predetermined geospheric direction, the geolocation, or both;

formatting the presentation object into data blocks for rendering on a display of the second computing device;

wherein the controller configured to render the formatted presentation object on the display of the second computing device; and

wherein the metaphor application causes the presentation object to be rendered on the display of the second computing device when the second computing device is associated with the geospheric direction, located in the geolocation, or both associated with the presentation object.

32. The system of claim 31 wherein the metaphor application executed by the second computing device stores at least one of a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof based on a geospheric direction, a geolocation or both in the memory of the transmission server;

and

the metaphor application of the first computing device;

receiving from the memory of the transmission server the at least one of a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof based on a geospheric direction, a geolocation or both in the memory of the transmission server stored by the second computing device;

generating a presentation object for the at least one of a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof based on a geospheric direction, a geolocation or both, the presentation object containing the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof, and the predetermined geospheric direction, the geolocation, or both;

formatting the presentation object into data blocks for rendering on a display of the first computing device;

wherein the controller configured to render the formatted presentation object on the display of the first computing device; and

wherein the metaphor application causes the presentation object to be rendered on the display of the first computing device when the first computing device is associated with the geospheric direction, located in the geolocation, or both associated with the presentation object.

33. The system of claim 19 further comprising a game application involving the firing of a gun in a target area, the display of the computing device providing a scope of the gun;

wherein the presentation object to be rendered on the display of the scope of the gun when the computing device is associated with a geospheric direction, located in a geolocation, or both associated with the presentation object is a view of the target area that is associated with the geospheric direction, a geolocation, or both by the metaphor application; and

wherein the metaphor application causes the presentation object to be rendered on the scope of the gun when the computing device is associated with the geospheric direction, located in the geolocation, or both.

34. The system of claim 33 further comprising a gun handle, the gun handle being attached to the computing device to form the gun;

the gun handle including a trigger mechanism electrically coupled to the computing device for application to the gaming application, an activation of the trigger mechanism applying an electrical signal to the gaming application;

wherein the gaming application recognizes the applied signal to indicate the firing of the gun.

35. The system of claim 19 wherein the metaphor application organizes documents, files, applications, or combination thereof in at least one sphere according to a category;

the category selected from the group consisting of date, event, matter, document type, file type, application type, data type, photos, or combinations thereof.

36. The system of claim 35 wherein the metaphor application organizes documents, files, applications, or combination thereof in at least one sphere according to a period of time.

37. The system of claim 35 wherein the metaphor application organizes documents, files, applications, or combination thereof in at least one sphere according to months or days of a year.

38. The system of claim 35 wherein the metaphor application organizes documents, files, applications, or combination thereof in at least one sphere according to a panorama.

39. The system of claim 38 wherein the panorama is a depiction selected from the group consisting of an art exhibit, a natural history exhibit, a science exhibit, a museum exhibit, or combination thereof.

40. The system of claim 38 wherein the geolocation of the first bubble is one room of a building and the geolocation of the second bubble is a second room of the building.

41. A computer program product for use with a computer system, the computer program product comprising non-transitory computer usable medium having program code embodied in the medium, the program code comprising program code that retrieves program code for an object that provides a metaphor application, the metaphor:

organizing a document, a file, an application or a combination thereof on a surface of a solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space;

receives a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof from a data source;

associates the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof with a point on the surface of the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space based upon a predetermined geospheric direction setting, a predetermined geolocation setting, or both;

generates a presentation object for the document, file, application, or any combination thereof that contains the document, the file, the application, or the any combination thereof, and the predetermined geospheric direction setting, the geolocation setting, or both;

formats the geospheric presentation object into data blocks for rendering on a display of the computing device;

renders the presentation object on a display of the computing device; and

causes the presentation object to be rendered on the display of the computing device when the computing device is associated with the geospheric direction, located in the geolocation, or both;

the metaphor application being further configured to organize a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof according to geolocation;

associating a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof with a geolocation;

rendering the presentation object of the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof when the computing device is both at the geolocation associated with and the display is associated with the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object;

wherein the metaphor organizing a document, a file, an application, or any combination thereof on a surface of a solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space by associating the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof with a point on the surface of the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space associated with the geospheric direction associated with the presentation object;

wherein the association of the document, the file, the application, or any combination thereof with the geolocation and the geospheric direction is further associated with the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space associated with the geolocation of the computing device;

wherein the solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space is a sphere defining a first bubble, the geolocation of the first bubble providing a first geolocation;

the document and the file, the application, or any combination thereof associated with the first bubble providing a first document, a first file, a first application, or any combination thereof; and

wherein the metaphor organizing a second document, a second file, a second application, or any combination thereof on a surface of a second sphere defining a second bubble by associating the second document, the second file, the second application, or any combination thereof with a point on the surface of the second bubble associated with a geospheric direction associated with the second document, the second file, the second application, or any combination thereof, the geolocation of the second bubble providing a second geolocation;

wherein the first document, the first file, the first application, data, or any combination thereof being configured to be rendered on the display of the computing device by the metaphor application when the computing device is in the geolocation of the first bubble and the second document, the second file, the second application, or any combination thereof being configured to be rendered on the display of the computing device by the metaphor application when the computing device is in the geolocation of the second bubble.