Mobile Communication Terminal, Application Program, Image Display Control Apparatus, Electronic Apparatus, and Image Display Control Method

• US 20080014987A1
• Filed: 07/04/2005
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
• Original Assignee: Vodafone KK (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Katayama, Takashi, Nishide, Yasuhiro, Yamazaki, Jun, Kusuda, Hirohisa, Tsujino, Daisuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,619,028 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/105 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• 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 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• 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 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: G06T 19/003 Navigation within 3D models or images
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/301 by computer-processed or -generated image
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal includes detection means that detects at least one of the position, orientation, attitude, and motion of a mobile communication terminal. Application program execution means can concurrently perform two direction changing processes different from each other according to two direction parameters by executing an application program, and determines at least one of the two direction parameters based on detection data detected by the detection means. The two direction changing processes are, for example, a visual point moving direction changing process for changing a moving direction of a visual point for viewing an image on a display means and a visual line direction changing process for changing a visual line direction. One of the direction parameters may be determined based on a key operation signal from key operation means.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal comprising:

application program execution means for executing an application program by using direction parameters; and

detection means for detecting at least one of the position, orientation, attitude, and motion of the mobile communication terminal,

wherein the application program execution means is capable of concurrently performing two direction changing processes different from each other according to two direction parameters by executing the application program, and at least one of the two direction parameters is determined based on detection data detected by the detection means.

2. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

display means for displaying an image of an imitative field of view viewing the inside of a virtual space from a visual point set in the virtual space toward a visual line direction, wherein

the two direction changing processes are a visual point moving direction changing process for changing a moving direction of the visual point and visual line direction changing process for changing the visual line direction.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 2, wherein

the application program execution means determines both of the two direction parameters based on detection data detected by the detection means, and

the visual line direction changing process is for changing the visual line direction so that the visual line direction is changed so as to be maintained toward a virtual object present in the virtual space even if the visual point moves.

4. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

key operation means including keys to be operated by a user, wherein the application program execution means determines one of the two direction parameters based on detection data detected by the detection means, and determines the other based on a key operation signal from the key operation means.

5. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein

the application program execution means advances a game in which a virtual object moves in a virtual game space by executing the application program, and

either one of the two direction changing processes is a process for changing a moving direction of the virtual object in the virtual game space.

6. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein

the application program execution means advances a game in which a virtual object moves in a virtual game space by executing the application program,

the mobile communication terminal comprises display means for displaying an imitative field of view viewing the inside of the game space from a visual point set in the virtual game space toward a visual line direction, and

either one of the two direction changing processes is a process for changing a moving direction of the visual point or a process for changing the visual line direction.

7. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein

the application program execution means advances a game in which a virtual object moves in a virtual game space by executing the application program,

the mobile communication terminal comprises display means for displaying an imitative field of view viewing the inside of the game space from a visual point set in the virtual game space toward a visual line direction, and

one of the two direction changing processes is a process for changing a moving direction of the visual point, and the other is a process for changing the visual line direction.

8. An application program, stored in a computer-readable medium, for making a computer provided in a mobile communication terminal including detection means for detecting at least one of the position, orientation, attitude, and motion of the mobile communication terminal to function, wherein

the computer is made to function as application program execution means which can concurrently perform two direction changing processes different from each other according to two direction parameters, and determines at least one of the two direction parameters based on detection data detected by the detection means.

9. An image display control device for performing display control for making display means display an image of an imitative field of view viewing the inside of a virtual space from a visual point set in the virtual space toward a visual line direction, comprising:

image changing process means for changing the image of the imitative field of view by performing at least one of visual point changing process for changing the visual point and visual line direction changing process for changing the visual line direction based on detection data detected by detection means for detecting at least one of the position, orientation, attitude, and motion of an operating body.

10. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

display means;

image display control means for performing display control for making the display means to display an image of an imitative field of view viewing the inside of a virtual space from a visual point set in the virtual space toward a visual line direction; and

detection means for detecting at least one of the position, orientation, attitude, and motion of the electronic apparatus,

wherein the image display control means includes image changing process means for changing the image of the imitative field of view by performing at least one of visual point changing process for changing the visual point and visual line direction changing process for changing the visual line direction based on detection data detected by detection means for detecting at least one of the position orientation, attitude, and motion of an operating body.

11. An image display control method for performing display control for making display means to display an image of an imitative field of view viewing the inside of a virtual space from a visual point set in the virtual space toward a visual line direction,

wherein at least one of the position, orientation, attitude, and motion of an operating body is detected, and based on this detection data the image of the imitative field of view is changed by performing at least one of visual point changing process for changing the visual point and visual line direction changing process for changing the visual line direction.