PORTABLE DEVICE OPERATING METHOD

• US 20090235206A1
• Filed: 03/02/2009
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Electric Company Limited (Fuji Electric Systems Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Electric Company Limited (Fuji Electric Systems Company Limited)
• Inventors: Hsu, Shih-Chan
• Application Number:
  US12/395,714
• Publication Number:
  US 20090235206A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/836
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

The present invention provides a portable device operating method including: displaying a three-dimensional function menu on a display screen of a portable device, wherein a plurality of items of the three-dimensional function menu are positioned on different directions in a three-dimensional coordinate; detecting a shaking direction of the portable device; and selecting one of the plurality of the items of the three-dimensional function menu according to the shaking direction.

Claims

1. A portable device operating method, comprising steps of:

displaying a three-dimensional function menu on a display of a portable device, wherein a plurality of items of the three-dimensional function menu are positioned on different directions in a three-dimensional coordinate;

detecting a shaking direction of the portable device; and

selecting one of the plurality of the items of the three-dimensional function menu according to the shaking direction.

2. The operating method of claim 1, wherein in the step of selecting one of the plurality of the items of the three-dimensional function menu according to the shaking direction, the selected item is at the shaking direction of the three-dimensional function menu.

3. The operating method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of the items of the three-dimensional function menu are displayed in different screens of the display, and the plurality of the items connect to each other to form a net structure.

4. The operating method of claim 3, wherein connection relations among the plurality of the items are capable of being set by users.

5. The operating method of claim 1, further comprising step of:

activating a shaking function of the portable device.

6. The operating method of claim 1, after the step of selecting one of the plurality of the items of the three-dimensional function menu according to the shaking direction, the operating method further comprising step of:

detecting a specific shaking condition of the portable device to determine whether executing the selected item.

7. The operating method of claim 6, wherein when the portable device shaking at the shaking direction for specific times is detected, the selected item is executed.

8. The operating method of claim 1, wherein the portable device utilizes a shaking sensor to detecting the shaking direction.

9. A portable device operating method, comprising steps of:

receiving a shaking signal generated by a shaking sensor of a portable device;

identifying a shaking direction according to the shaking signal; and

selecting an item of a function menu according to the shaking direction, wherein the function menu is a three-dimensional function menu, and a plurality of items of the three-dimensional function menu are positioned on different directions in a three-dimensional coordinate.

10. The operating method of claim 9, further comprising step of:

displaying the function menu on a display of the portable device.

11. The operating method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of the items of the three-dimensional function menu are displayed in different screens of the portable device, and the plurality of the items connect to each other to form a net structure.

12. The operating method of claim 9, wherein in the step of selecting an item of a function menu according to the shaking direction, the item is at the shaking direction of the three-dimensional function menu.

13. The operating method of claim 9, further comprising step of:

activating the shaking sensor of the portable device.

14. The operating method of claim 9, after the step of selecting an item of a function menu according to the shaking direction, the operating method further comprising step of:

detecting a specific shaking condition of the portable device to determine whether executing the selected item.