DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20100035687A1
• Filed: 04/20/2009
• Published: 02/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: HSIEH, KUAN-HONG, LI, XIAO-GUANG, CHOU, CHENG-HAO
• Application Number:
  US12/426,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20100035687A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/37
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/211 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/428 involving motion or position input signals, e.g. signals representing the rotation of an input controller or a player's arm motions sensed by accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/105 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands

Abstract

A display device is provided. The display device comprises a storage unit, a motion sensing unit, a motion state determining unit, a parameter determining unit. The storage unit stores a program executed to provide at least one game object having at least one parameter. The motion sensing unit is capable of detecting a shaking motion imparted to the display device by a user. The motion state determining unit is capable of determining a shaking characteristic of the shaking motion according to signals from the motion sensing unit. The parameter value control unit changes a value of the at least one parameter according to the shaking characteristic of the shaking motion.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a storage unit storing a program executed to provide at least one game object having at least one parameter;

a motion sensing unit capable of detecting a shaking motion imparted to the display device by a user;

a motion state determining unit capable of determining a shaking characteristic of the shaking motion according to signals from the motion sensing unit; and

a parameter value control unit changing a value of the at least one parameter according to the shaking characteristic of the shaking motion.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the motion sensing unit is a vibration switch.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein the vibration switch comprises a coil spring, a first contact terminal, and a second contact terminal, the coil spring is electrically coupled to the first contact terminal and is capable of deflecting and contacting the second contact terminal during the shaking of the display device.

4. The display device according to claim 3, wherein the coil spring deflects when the housing is shaken in a predetermined direction.

5. The display device according to claim 2, wherein the vibration switch comprises a chamber, a movable member with two spring ends, and two contact terminals, the moveable member is received in the chamber, the two spring ends contact the first contact terminal and the second contact terminal respectively, at least one of the spring ends is capable of disengaging one of the two contact terminals during the shaking of the display device.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein the movable member comprises an inertial weight and two coil springs, the two coil springs are attached to two ends of the inertial weight respectively.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one game object is a virtual air bubble in water.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display device is a digital photo frame.