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

• US 20070120846A1
• Filed: 10/24/2006
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sang-hyun, Rhee, Young-ho, Ok, Joon-ho, Cho, Soo-ho, Jeon, Cheol-yong
• Application Number:
  US11/585,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20070120846A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations

Abstract

A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and an apparatus and method for providing the three-dimensional motion graphic user interface are provided. The apparatus for providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface includes a display unit displaying along a first view point a plurality of polyhedral objects having surfaces on which information is displayed; an input unit receiving input values for switching view points from a user; and a graphic user interface unit rearranging the polyhedral objects along a second view point on the basis of the input values and displaying the information on the surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects orthogonal to the second view point.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface, the apparatus comprising:

a display unit which displays along a first view point a plurality of polyhedral objects having surfaces on which information is displayed;

an input unit which receives input values for switching view points from a user; and

a graphic user interface unit which rearranges the polyhedral objects along a second view point based on the input values, and displays the information on surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects that are orthogonal to the second view point.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects having the information displayed thereon are determined by rotating the surfaces of the polyhedral objects at the first view point at an angle.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects orthogonal to the second view point is changed according to the second view point.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the information displayed on the surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects orthogonal to the second view point has a hierarchy structure with respect to the information displayed on the surfaces of the polyhedral objects at the first view point.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the information displayed on the surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects orthogonal to the second view point is at least one of a main menu and a sub-menu of the information displayed on the surfaces of the polyhedral objects at the first view point.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein sizes and angles of the polyhedral objects are changed according to the second view point.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information is at least one of a text segment, an image, a moving picture, an icon, a button, a two-dimensional widget, and a three-dimensional icon.

8. A method of providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface, the method comprising:

displaying along a first view point a plurality of polyhedral objects having surfaces on which information is displayed;

receiving input values for changing a view point from a user; and

rearranging the polyhedral objects along a second view point, based on the input values, and displaying the information on surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects that are orthogonal to the second view point.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects having the information displayed thereon are determined by rotating the surfaces of the polyhedral objects having the information displayed thereon at the first view point at a predetermined angle.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the rearranging of the polyhedral objects comprises changing, according to the second view point, the information displayed on the surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects orthogonal to the second view point.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the information displayed on the surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects orthogonal to the second view point has a hierarchy structure with respect to the information displayed on the surfaces of the polyhedral objects at the first view point.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the information displayed on the surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects orthogonal to the second view point is at least one of a main menu and a sub-menu of the information displayed on the surfaces of the polyhedral objects at the first view point.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the information is at least one of a text segment, an image, a moving picture, an icon, a button, a two-dimensional widget, and a three-dimensional icon.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein sizes and angles of the polyhedral objects are changed according to the second view point.

15. A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface, comprising:

a three-dimensional space comprising a plane and an axis orthogonal to the plane; and

a polyhedral object having a surface on which information is displayed;

wherein the polyhedral object is arranged in the three-dimensional space along a first view point, rearranged along a second view point on the basis of values input by a user, and displays information on a surface orthogonal to the second view point.

16. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 15, wherein the surface of the rearranged polyhedral object having the information displayed thereon is determined by rotating the surface of the polyhedral object having the information displayed thereon at the first view point at a predetermined angle.

17. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 15, wherein the information displayed on the surface of the rearranged polyhedral object orthogonal to the second view point is changed according to the second view point.

18. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 17, wherein the information displayed on the surface of the rearranged polyhedral object orthogonal to the second view point has a hierarchy structure with respect to the information displayed on the surface of the polyhedral object at the first view point.

19. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 18, wherein the information displayed on the surface of the rearranged polyhedral object orthogonal to the second view point is at least one of a main menu and a sub-menu of the information displayed on the surface of the polyhedral object at the first view point.

20. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 15, wherein the information is at least one of a text segment, an image, a moving picture, an icon, a button, a two-dimensional widget, and a three-dimensional icon.

21. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 15, wherein a size and an angle of the polyhedral object are changed according to the second view point.