Three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and method and apparatus for providing the same

• US 20060020898A1
• Filed: 07/25/2005
• Published: 01/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Woo, Joo-kyung, Lee, Jung-bong, Kang, Hyun-joo, Kim, Sung-woo, Ok, Joon-ho
• Granted Patent: US 7,761,813 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• 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

Abstract

A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI) and a method and apparatus for providing the same. The MGUI includes a three-dimensional interface space which has an active space and an inactive space, and a polyhedron component which is three-dimensionally presented in the active space, wherein at least one of a plurality of faces that are subject to the polyhedron component has predetermined attributes, and information displayed on the faces is displayed differently according to the attributes and a presentation relationship between the active space and the polyhedron component.

Claims

1. A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI) comprising:

a three-dimensional interface space which has an active space and an inactive space; and

a polyhedron component which is three-dimensionally presented in the active space,

wherein at least one of a plurality of faces that are subject to the polyhedron component has predetermined attributes, and information displayed on the at least one of the plurality of faces is displayed differently according to the attributes and a presentation relationship between the active space and the polyhedron component.

2. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein at least one of the faces with the predetermined attributes is separated from the polyhedron component and the information is displayed on the separated face.

3. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein the attributes include at least one of size of the polyhedron component, colors of the faces of the polyhedron component, transparency of the faces of the polyhedron component, information on whether a corresponding face is an information face, and colors of edges of the polyhedron component.

4. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein the information is displayed in a three-dimensional shape.

5. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein the information is displayed differently according to a viewpoint with respect to the polyhedron component in the active space.

6. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein the position of the polyhedron component is changed according to a user'"'"'s action.

7. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein the size of the polyhedron component is changed according to a user'"'"'s action.

8. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein the polyhedron component rotates with respect to a plurality of axes according to a user'"'"'s action.

9. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein the polyhedron component rotates with respect to a plurality of axes according to a user'"'"'s action and then returns to its original state.

10. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein when a plurality of polyhedron components are grouped, the polyhedron components are displayed and operate in units of groups.

11. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein all of the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component are unfolded into a plane.

12. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component can be closed or opened, and the polyhedron component can contain at least one information object related to the information displayed on the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component in an internal space of the polyhedron component.

13. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 12, wherein the attributes include at least one of size of the polyhedron component, colors of the faces of the polyhedron component, transparency of the faces of the polyhedron component, information on whether a corresponding face is an information face, information on whether a corresponding face can be closed or opened, size of the face which can be opened or closed, information about the information objects contained in the internal space, information about presentation and operation of the information objects contained in the internal space, and colors of edges of the polyhedron component.

14. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 12, wherein the information objects that can be contained in the internal space change according to information displayed on a face on which a focus is placed among the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component.

15. An apparatus for providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI), the apparatus comprising:

a control module which creates a three-dimensional interface space having an active space and an inactive space and creates a polyhedron component that is three-dimensionally presented in the active space;

a storage module which stores the three-dimensional interface space and the polyhedron component created by the control module;

an input module to which data about a user'"'"'s action with respect to the three-dimensional interface space or the polyhedron component is input;

a user interface module which assigns predetermined attributes to at least one of a plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component, maps information displayed to the faces of the at least one of a plurality of faces which are information faces according to the predetermined attributes, processes motion of the polyhedron component according to data about the user'"'"'s action input through the input module, and changes the information which is mapped to at least one information face or the way of displaying the information which is mapped to at least one information face according to motion of the polyhedron component; and

an output module which displays a processing result of the user interface module.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein at least one of the faces with the predetermined attributes is separated from the polyhedron component and the information is displayed on the separated face.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the attributes include at least one of size of the polyhedron component, colors of the faces of the polyhedron component, transparency of the faces of the polyhedron component, information on whether a corresponding face is an information face, and colors of edges of the polyhedron component.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the information is displayed three-dimensionally.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the information is displayed differently according to a viewpoint with respect to the polyhedron component in the active space.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the position of the motion is changed according to a user'"'"'s action.

21. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the size of the motion is changed according to a user'"'"'s action.

22. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the motion rotates with respect to a plurality of axes according to a user'"'"'s action.

23. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the motion rotates with respect to a plurality of axes according to a user'"'"'s action and then returns to its original state.

24. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein there are a plurality of polyhedron components which are formed in a group and the group is managed by the user interface module such that the polyhedron components are displayed and operate as units of the group.

25. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein all of the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component are unfolded into a plane.

26. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein at least one of the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component can be closed or opened, and the polyhedron component can contain at least one of information objects related to the information displayed on the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component.

27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the attributes include at least one of size of the polyhedron component, colors of the faces of the polyhedron component, transparency of the faces of the polyhedron component, information on whether a corresponding face is an information face, information on whether a corresponding face can be closed or opened, the size of the face which is opened or closed, information about the information objects contained in the internal space, information about presentation and operation of the information objects contained in the internal space, and colors of edges of the polyhedron component.

28. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the information objects that can be contained in the internal space change according to information displayed on a face on which a focus is placed among the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component.

43. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein there are a plurality of polyhedron components which form a group and the user interface module manages the group.

29. A method for providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI), the method comprising:

a user accessing a polyhedron component that is three-dimensionally presented in an active space in a three-dimensional interface space having the active space and an inactive space;

the user inputting an action that generates motion of the polyhedron component; and

motion of the polyhedron component being generated according to the action.

30. The method of claim 29, further comprising information displayed on the polyhedron component being changed according to the motion.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the information displayed on the polygonal component includes an information object contained in an internal space of the polyhedron component.

32. The method of claim 29, wherein the motion is a position change of the polyhedron component.

33. The method of claim 29, wherein the motion is a size change of the polyhedron component.

34. The method of claim 29, wherein the motion is a rotation of the polyhedron component with respect to a plurality of axes.

35. The method of claim 29, wherein the motion is a rotation of the polyhedron component with respect to a plurality of axes and then returning to its original state.

36. A method for providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI), the method comprising:

selecting a specific polyhedron component from a group of polyhedron components that are three-dimensionally presented in an active space in a three-dimensional interface space having the active space and an inactive space;

emphasizing the selected polyhedron component;

displaying detail information of information displayed on an information face of the selected polyhedron component; and

changing a way of displaying the other polyhedron components of the group of polyhedron components which are not selected.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein if one polyhedron component of the group of polyhedron components is moved, the other polyhedron components of the group of polyhedron components are also moved.

38. The method of claim 36, wherein the selected polyhedron component is emphasized by moving the selected polyhedron component close to a user, enlarging the selected polyhedron component, changing the color of the selected polyhedron component, marking the edges of the selected polyhedron component with bold lines, or marking the selected polyhedron component with a focus mark.

39. The method of claim 36, wherein the way of displaying the other polyhedron components which are not selected is changed by moving the other polyhedron components which are not selected away from a user, reducing the sizes of the other polyhedron components which are not selected, thinning the colors of the other polyhedron components which are not selected, or marking edges of the other polyhedron components which are not selected with thin lines.

40. The method of claim 36, wherein the polyhedron components from the group are presented in the form of a tree structure, and related information is displayed enlarged in the form of a tree structure as the selected polyhedron component is enlarged.

41. A recording medium having a computer readable program recorded therein, the program for executing a method for providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI), the method comprising:

a user accessing a polyhedron component that is three-dimensionally presented in an active space in a three-dimensional interface space having the active space and an inactive space;

the user inputting an action that generates motion of the polyhedron component; and

motion of the polyhedron component being generated according to the action.

42. A recording medium having a computer readable program recorded therein, the program for executing a method for providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI), the method comprising:

selecting a specific polyhedron component from a group of polyhedron components that are three-dimensionally presented in an active space in a three-dimensional interface space having the active space and an inactive space;

emphasizing the selected polyhedron component;

displaying detail information of information displayed on an information face of the selected polyhedron component; and

changing a way of displaying the other polyhedron components of the group of polyhedron components which are not selected.