Method and system for rendering web pages on a wireless handset

• US 20090262142A1
• Filed: 04/17/2008
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ferlitsch, Andrew R., Gibbs, Benjamin K.
• Granted Patent: US 8,122,372 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/661
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0414 Vertical resolution change
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0421 Horizontal resolution change
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0471 Vertical positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0478 Horizontal positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

A wireless handset and a method and system for a wireless handset that better enable a user of the wireless handset to identify, select and view objects on a web page. Objects from a web page are rendered on a wireless handset display as selectable panels in perspective views. The rendering of objects from a web page as selectable panels in perspective views allows a web page designed for rendering on a display of a conventional Internet capable device to fit within a much smaller display of a wireless handset while maintaining the relative position, visibility, selectability and natural appearance of the objects.

Claims

1. A wireless handset, comprising:

a wireless network interface;

a user interface; and

a processor communicatively coupled with the wireless network interface and the user interface, wherein under control of the processor objects from a web page received on the wireless network interface are rendered on a display of the user interface as selectable panels in perspective views.

2. The handset of claim 1, wherein under control of the processor the web page is segmented into two-dimensional panels each comprising an object that are converted into three-dimensional panels and rotated to generate the selectable panels in perspective views.

3. The handset of claim 1, wherein the selectable panels are rotated to a first angle of rotation greater than zero and less than ninety degrees about a vertical axis.

4. The handset of claim 1, wherein a selection pointer movable by input on an input device of the user interface is rendered on the display, and in response to positioning the selection pointer on one of the selectable panels a first angle of rotation of the selectable panel about a vertical axis is reduced to a second angle of rotation greater than zero degrees, whereby screen size of the selectable panel is increased.

5. The handset of claim 1, wherein a selection pointer movable by input on an input device of the user interface is rendered on the display, and in response to positioning the selection pointer on a first one of the selectable panels a first angle of rotation of at least a second one of the selectable panels about a vertical axis is increased to a second angle of rotation less than ninety degrees, whereby screen size of the at least one second selectable panel is reduced.

6. The handset of claim 1, wherein a selection pointer movable by input on an input device of the user interface is rendered on the display, and in response to positioning the selection pointer on one of the selectable panels and selecting the selectable panel in a first instance the selectable panel is rendered in a two-dimensional view.

7. The handset of claim 6, wherein in response to selecting the selectable panel in a second instance the selectable panel is re-rendered in the perspective view.

8. The handset of claim 1, wherein in response to an input on an input device of the user interface the horizontal sequence of the selectable panels is reversed.

9. The handset of claim 1, wherein in response to an input on an input device of the user interface the orientation of the selectable panels about a vertical axis is reversed.

10. The handset of claim 1, wherein the selectable panels are rotated to different angles of rotation greater than zero and less than ninety degrees about a vertical axis based on the respective horizontal positions of the selectable panels.

11. A method for rendering web pages on a wireless handset, comprising the steps of:

receiving on the wireless handset a web page; and

rendering on a display of the wireless handset objects from the web page as selectable panels in perspective views.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

segmenting the web page into two-dimensional panels each having an object;

converting the two-dimensional panels into three-dimensional panels; and

rotating the three-dimensional panels to generate the selectable panels in perspective views.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the selectable panels are rotated to a first angle of rotation greater than zero and less than ninety degrees about a vertical axis.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

positioning a selection pointer on one of the selectable panels; and

in response to the positioning step,

reducing a first angle of rotation of the selectable panel about a vertical axis to a second angle of rotation greater than zero degrees, whereby screen size of the selectable panel is increased.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

positioning a selection pointer on a first one of the selectable panels; and

in response to the positioning step,

increasing a first angle of rotation of at least a second one of the selectable panels about a vertical axis to a second angle of rotation less than ninety degrees, whereby screen size of the at least one second selectable panel is reduced.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

positioning a selection pointer on one of the selectable panels;

selecting the selectable panel in a first instance; and

in response to the first selecting step,

rendering the selectable panel in a two-dimensional view.

17. The method claim 16, further comprising the steps of:

selecting the selectable panel in a second instance; and

in response to the second selecting step,

re-rendering the selectable panel in a perspective view.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of reversing the horizontal sequence of the selectable panels in response to a user input.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of reversing the orientation of the selectable panels about a vertical axis in response to a user input.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the selectable panels are rotated to different angles of rotation greater than zero and less than ninety degrees about a vertical axis based on the respective horizontal positions of the selectable panels.