DEVICE FOR AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING USER INFORMATION IN A DISPLAY

• US 20090034843A1
• Filed: 08/01/2006
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Persoon, Wendy, Wittkamper, Dolf
• Application Number:
  US12/063,856
• Publication Number:
  US 20090034843A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/181
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/002 Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 other optical apparatus G02B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0425 using a single imaging device like a video camera for tracking the absolute position of a single or a plurality of objects with respect to an imaged reference surface, e.g. video camera imaging a display or a projection screen, a table or a wall surface, on which a computer generated image is displayed or projected tracking a projected light spot to determine a position on a display surface G06F3/0386
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

The invention relates to a device (DEV), comprising a display (DIS) for displaying user information (inf). The device (DEV) is adapted to identify regions (REG) on the display (DIS) being hidden by an object (OBJ) in front of the display (DIS). According to the invention, the user information (inf) is arranged in the display (DIS) outside of the region (REG) hidden by the object (OBJ) so that a user can read the whole user information (inf). Furthermore, the invention relates to a method of displaying user information (inf) in a display (DIS). Finally, the invention relates to a transponder (OBJ), in particular to an RFID tag, which comprises means for storing object information (oif) related to the size and/or shape and/or graphical representation of the transponder (OBJ).

Claims

1. Device (DEV), comprising:

a display (DIS) for displaying user information (inf),

region detecting means (RDM) for detecting one or more regions (RAG) of the display (DIS) being hidden by at least one object (OBJ) in front of said display (DIS), and

user information arranging means (IAM) for arranging said user information (inf) in the display (DIS) outside of the at least one region (REG) being detected with the aid of said region detecting means (RDM).

2. A device (DEV) as claimed in claim 1, wherein said region detecting means (RDM) comprise:

tactile information recognizing means (TIE) for recognizing tactile information on the display (DIS) and/or

optical information recognizing means (OIE) and/or

radio data receiving means (RDR) for receiving radio data comprising object information (oif) concerning the size and/or shape of an object (OBJ) in front of the display (DIS).

3. A device (DEV) as claimed in claim 2, wherein the radio data receiving means (RDR) comprise at least one antenna (ANT) for locating an object (OBJ) in front of the display (DIS).

4. A device (DEV) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the region detecting means (RDM) comprise object information evaluating means (EVA) for evaluating tactile and/or optical information on an object (OBJ) in front of said display and/or for evaluating radio data comprising object information (oif) on the object (OBJ).

5. A device (DEV) as claimed in one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising:

graphical representation determining means (GRD) for determining a graphical representation of an object (OBJ) in front of the display (DIS) and

graphical representation means (GRM) for representing said graphical representation of the object (OBJ) in the display (DIS).

6. A device (DEV) as claimed in claim 5, wherein said graphical representation determining means (GRD) are realized by the optical information recognizing means (OIF).

7. A device (DEV) as claimed in claim 5, wherein said graphical representation determining means (GRD) are realized by the radio data receiving means (RDR).

8. A method of arranging user information (inf) in a display (DIS), wherein

one or more regions (REG) of the display (DIS) being hidden by at least one object (OBJ) in front of said display (DIS) is/are detected, and, subsequently,

said user information (in) is arranged in the display (DIS) outside of the at least one region (REG) being detected.

9. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein a graphical representation of said object (OBJ) is determined and subsequently displayed in the display (DIS).

10. Transponder (OBJ) comprising

memory means (OME) for storing object information (oif), which object information (oif) is related to

a) the size and/or the shape of said transponder (OBJ), and/or

b) a graphical representation of the transponder (OBJ), and transmitting means (TME) for transmitting said object information (oif) to a remote device (DEV).