Apparatus, method, and medium for implementing pointing user interface using signals of light emitters

• US 20060284841A1
• Filed: 06/15/2006
• Published: 12/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Hong, Sun-gi, Lee, Yong-beom
• Application Number:
  US11/452,992
• Publication Number:
  US 20060284841A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0325 using a plurality of light emitters or reflectors or a plurality of detectors forming a reference frame from which to derive the orientation of the object, e.g. by triangulation or on the basis of reference deformation in the picked up image
• 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

Abstract

An apparatus, method, and medium for implementing a pointing user interface using light emitters are disclosed. The pointing device includes a light-noise removing unit which receives signals emitted from a plurality of light emitters included in a display device in predetermined manners, a light emitter position detecting unit which calculates position information of the received signals, a pointed-to position calculating unit which calculates pointed-to position information using the calculated position information, and a data transmitting unit which transmits the pointed-to position information to the display device.

Claims

1. A pointing device comprising:

a light emitter noise removing unit which receives signals emitted from a plurality of light emitters included in a display device in predetermined manners;

a light emitter position detecting unit which calculates position information of the received signals;

a pointed-to position calculating unit which calculates pointed-to position information using the calculated position information; and

a data transmitting unit which transmits the pointed-to position information to the display device.

2. The pointing device of claim 1, further comprising a light emitter control signal generating unit which transmits information about the signal emission manners to the display device.

3. The pointing device of claim 1, wherein the signal emission manners include a manner in which signals having previously agreed frequencies are emitted.

4. The pointing device of claim 1, wherein the position information is information about the center of the light emitter noise removing unit.

5. The pointing device of claim 1, wherein the light emitter noise removing unit receives signals that are sequentially emitted from the plurality of light emitters.

6. The pointing device of claim 1, wherein the pointed-to position calculating unit calculates positions of the light emitters using the received signals, calculates a matrix for transforming the calculated positions of the light emitters into actual positions of the light emitters, and calculates pointed-to position information using the matrix.

7. The pointing device of claim 1, wherein the light emitter noise removing unit includes one of a 2-dimensional position sensitive detector (2D PSD) sensor, a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensor, and a charged coupled device (CCD) sensor.

8. The pointing device of claim 1, wherein when the light emitter noise removing unit is a 2D PSD, the light emitters are point light emitters.

9. The pointing device of claim 1, wherein the pointing device is one of a remote control, a gun-shooting controller, and a pointer indicating a pointed-to position on an output device.

10. A device comprising:

a light emitter emitting unit Which emits signals in predetermined manners to a pointing device using a plurality of light emitters;

a data receiving unit which receives position information of the signals received by the pointing device and information about a position pointed to by the pointing device from the pointing device;

a pointed-to position calculating unit which calculates the information about the pointed-to position using the received position information; and

a display control unit which changes output data according to the information about the pointed-to position.

11. The device of claim 10, further comprising a light emitter control unit which receives information about the signal emission manners from the pointing device and controls the light emitter emitting unit to emit the signals in the signal emission manners.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein the signal emission manners include a manner in which signals having predetermined frequencies are emitted.

13. The device of claim 10, wherein a light emitting unit emits signals sequentially from a plurality of light emitters.

14. The device of claim 10, wherein the pointed-to position calculating unit calculates a matrix for transforming the position information received by the data receiving unit into the actual positions of the light emitters and calculates the information about the position pointed to by the pointing device using the matrix.

15. The device of claim 10, wherein the display control unit changes the output data such that the pointing of the pointing device is indicated at the pointed-to position calculated by the pointed-to position calculating unit.

16. A method of implementing a pointing user interface using light emitters, comprising:

receiving signals emitted from a plurality of light emitters included in a display device in predetermined manners;

calculating pointed-to position information using position information of the received signals; and

transmitting the pointed-to position information to the display device.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting information about signal emission manners to the display device.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the signal emission manners include a manner in which signals having predetermined frequencies are emitted.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the position information is information about the center of the light-noise removing unit.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the receiving of the signals comprises receiving signals that are sequentially emitted from the plurality of light emitters.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein the calculating of the pointed-to position information comprises:

calculating positions of the light emitters using the received signals;

calculating a matrix for transforming the calculated positions of the light emitters into actual positions of the light emitters; and

calculating pointed-to position information by using the matrix.

29. At least one computer readable medium storing executable instructions that control at least one processor to perform the method of claim 16.

22. A method of implementing a pointing user interface using light emitters, comprising:

emitting signals using a plurality of light emitters in predetermined manners to a pointing device;

receiving position information of the signals received by the pointing device and information about a position pointed to by the pointing device from the pointing device;

calculating the information about the pointed-to position using the received position information; and

changing output data according to the information about the pointed-to position.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising receiving information about the signal emission manners from the pointing device.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the signal emission manners include a manner in which signals having predetermined frequencies are emitted.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein the emitting of the signals includes emitting signals sequentially from the plurality of light emitters.

26. The method of claim 22, wherein the calculating of the pointed-to position information comprises:

calculating positions of the light emitters using the received signals;

calculating a matrix for transforming the calculated positions of the light emitters into actual positions of the light emitters; and

calculating pointed-to position information using the matrix.

27. The method of claim 22, wherein the changing of the pointed-to position information includes:

changing output data such that pointing of the pointing device is indicated in the pointed-to position calculated according to the information about the pointed-to position.

28. The method of claim 22, wherein the pointing device is one of a remote control, a gun-shooting controller, and a pointer indicating a pointed-to position on an output device.

30. At least one computer readable medium storing executable instructions that control at least one processor to perform the method of claim 22.

31. A pointing device comprising:

a light emitter noise removing unit which receives signals emitted from a plurality of light emitters included in a display device, wherein the signals have one or more predetermined frequencies and wherein the reception of the signals is predetermined to be simultaneous or sequential;

a light emitter position detecting unit which calculates position information of the received signals;

a pointed-to position calculating unit which calculates pointed-to position information using the calculated position information; and

a data transmitting unit which transmits the pointed-to position information to the display device.

32. A device comprising:

a light emitter emitting unit which emits signals to a pointing device using a plurality of light emitters, wherein the signals have one or more predetermined frequencies and wherein the transmission of the signals is predetermined to be simultaneous or sequential;

a data receiving unit which receives position information of the signals received by the pointing device and information about a position pointed to by the pointing device from the pointing device;

a pointed-to position calculating unit which calculates the information about the pointed-to position using the received position information; and

a display control unit which changes output data according to the information about the pointed-to position.

33. A method of implementing a pointing user interface using light emitters, comprising:

receiving signals emitted from a plurality of light emitters included in a display device, wherein the signals have one or more predetermined frequencies and wherein the reception of the signals is predetermined to be simultaneous or sequential;

calculating pointed-to position information using position information of the received signals; and

transmitting the pointed-to position information to the display device.

35. At least one computer readable medium storing executable instructions that control at least one processor to perform the method of claim 33.

34. A method of implementing a pointing user interface using light emitters, comprising:

emitting signals using a plurality of light emitters to a pointing device, wherein the signals have one or more predetermined frequencies and wherein the emission of the signals is predetermined to be simultaneous or sequential;

receiving position information of the signals received by the pointing device and information about a position pointed to by the pointing device from the pointing device;

calculating the information about the pointed-to position using the received position information; and

changing output data according to the information about the pointed-to position.

36. At least one computer readable medium storing executable instructions that control at least one processor to perform the method of claim 34.