METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANIMATION PROFILING

• US 20100023880A1
• Filed: 07/22/2008
• Published: 01/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: BLAUKOPF, Jacob Benjamin
• Granted Patent: US 8,099,677 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for displaying moving items in a user interface and, in particular, to such a method for use within a device for use with a wireless communications network. The invention provides a method and apparatus for displaying a moving object in which the object is part of a user interface defined by a mark-up language and in which the movement of the object is defined by an arbitrary profile.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a moving object in which the object is part of a user interface defined by a mark-up language and in which the movement of the object is defined by an arbitrary profile.

2. The method of claim 1, in which the profile is an attribute within a mark-up tag defining animations.

3. The method of claim 1, in which the profile comprises a sequence of at least one value defining a proportion of a distance between a start point and an end point the object will move at least one point in time.

4. The method of claim 3, in which the proportion may be defined to be less than 0% or greater than 100% to indicate movement outside a range defined by the start point and the end point.

5. The method of claim 3, in which there is a plurality of points in time which are linearly spaced for a duration between a start time and an end time such that the duration between said points in time will be equal to the duration divided by the number of values in the sequence less one.

6. A method of achieving complex animation effects in a user interface defined by a mark-up language by defining a movement of one or more objects.

7. A device comprising a display and a user interface defined by a mark-up language, in which moving objects are displayed in operation according to an arbitrary profile.

8. The device of claim 7, in which the profile is an attribute within a mark-up tag defining animations.

9. The device of claim 7, in which the profile comprises a sequence of at least one value defining a proportion of a distance between a start point and an end point the object will move at least one point in time.

10. The device of claim 9, in which the proportion may be defined to be less than 0% or greater than 100% to indicate movement outside a range defined by the start point and the end point.

11. The device of claim 9, in which there is a plurality of points in time which are linearly spaced for a duration between a start time and an end time such that the duration between said points in time will be equal to the duration divided by the number of values in the sequence less one.

12. A device comprising means for displaying a user interface;

and means for storing an arbitrary profile;

in which the user interface is defined by a mark-up language, in which moving objects are displayed in operation according to the arbitrary profile.

13. The device of claim 12, in which the profile is an attribute within a mark-up tag defining animations.

14. The device of claim 12, in which the profile comprises a sequence of at least one value defining a proportion of a distance between a start point and an end point the object will move at least one point in time.

15. The device of claim 14, in which the proportion may be defined to be less than 0% or greater than 100% to indicate movement outside a range defined by the start point and the end point.

16. The device of claim 14, in which there is a plurality of points in time which are linearly spaced for a duration between a start time and an end time such that the duration between said points in time will be equal to the duration divided by the number of values in the sequence less one.

17. A computer program product comprising:

computer-readable medium comprising;

at least one instruction for displaying a moving object in which the object is part of a user interface defined by a mark-up language;

at least one stored arbitrary profile defining the movement of the object.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, in which the profile is an attribute within a mark-up tag defining animations.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, in which the profile comprises a sequence of at least one value defining a proportion of a distance between a start point and an end point the object will move at least one point in time.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, in which the proportion may be defined to be less than 0% or greater than 100% to indicate movement outside a range defined by the start point and the end point.

21. The computer program product of claim 19, in which there is a plurality of points in time which are linearly spaced for a duration between a start time and an end time such that the duration between said points in time will be equal to the duration divided by the number of values in the sequence less one.

22. A server comprising a publishing component and a content server component, in which the content server component is arranged to receive user interface data from content feeds and in which the publishing component is arranged to package the user interface data for sending to one or more wireless devices, wherein the user interface data comprises a user interface defined by a mark-up language and in which movement of the object is defined by an arbitrary profile.

23. The server of claim 22, in which the profile is an attribute within a mark-up tag defining animations.

24. The server of claim 22, in which the profile comprises a sequence of values defining a proportion of a distance between a start point and an end point the object will move at least one point in time.

25. The server of claim 23, in which the proportion may be defined to be less than 0% or greater than 100% which will indicate movement outside a range defined by the start point and the end point.

26. The server of claim 23, in which there is a plurality of points in time which are linearly spaced for a duration between a start time and an end time such that the duration between said points in time will be equal to the duration divided by the number of values in the sequence less one.