GAME WORLD MANIPULATION

• US 20090289900A1
• Filed: 05/20/2008
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lavski, Ehud, Barzilay, Asaf, Dror, Yael
• Application Number:
  US12/123,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20090289900A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/42 by mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/533 for prompting the player, e.g. by displaying a game menu
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/308 Details of the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/69 Involving elements of the real world in the game world, e.g. measurement in live races, real video
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method of actuating a computer program that generates a dynamically changing graphic object on a touch screen using a human finger, comprises identifying the object or the portion of an object which is being touched by said finger and thereafter virtually “attaching” said object or portion thereof to said finger so that a movement of said finger causes a change of shape, size or location of said object or portion thereof.

Claims

1. A method of actuating a computer program that generates a dynamically changing graphic object on a touch screen, using a human finger, comprising identifying the object or the portion of an object which is being touched by said finger and thereafter virtually “

attaching”

said object or portion thereof to said finger so that a movement of said finger causes a change of shape, size or location of said object or portion thereof.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein identifying the object or the portion of thereof comprises identifying the center of gravity of all the pixels of the touch screen, which are touched by the finger, and using said center of gravity as the anchoring point for performing the virtual attachment of the object to the finger.