THREE DIMENSIONAL NAVIGATION USING DETERMINISTIC MOVEMENT OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20100188397A1
• Filed: 01/28/2009
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Harris, Brandon, Just, Andrew, Tsai, Richard
• Application Number:
  US12/361,328
• Publication Number:
  US 20100188397A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object

Abstract

Systems and methods are providing for navigating a three-dimensional model using deterministic movement of an electronic device. An electronic device can load and provide an initial display of a three-dimensional model (e.g., of an environment or of an object). As the user moves the electronic device, motion-sensing components, positioning circuitry, and other components can detect the device movement and adjust the displayed portion of the three-dimensional model to reflect the movement of the device. By walking with the device in the user'"'"'s real environment, a user can virtually navigate a representation of a three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, a user can record an object or environment using an electronic device, and tag the recorded images or video with movement information describing the movement of the device during the recording. The recorded information can then be processed with the movement information to generate a three-dimensional model of the recorded environment or object.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device operative to navigate a three-dimensional model, comprising:

a display operative to display a three-dimensional model;

a motion-sensing component operative to provide an output indicative of movement of the electronic device; and

control circuitry operative to;

receive the output from the motion-sensing component indicative of the electronic device movement; and

direct the display to change the displayed portion of the three-dimensional model based on the received output to reflect the electronic device movement.

2. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the control circuitry is further operative to:

process the motion-sensing component output to quantify the movement of the electronic device; and

direct the display to change the displayed portion by an amount calculated from the quantified movement of the electronic device.

3. The portable electronic device of claim 2, wherein the control circuitry is further operative to:

define at least one vector quantifying the change in at least one of position and orientation of the electronic device defining the electronic device movement; and

direct the display to change the displayed portion such that the perspective from which the three-dimensional model is displayed changes in a manner mathematically related to the defined at least one vector.

4. The portable electronic device of claim 3, wherein the changed perspective is computed by adding the defined at least one vector multiplied by a correlation multiple to coordinates associated with a previous perspective.

5. The portable electronic device of claim 4, wherein the processor is further operative to receive the correlation multiple from a user input.

6. The portable electronic device of claim 3, wherein the processor is further operative to define the at least one vector based on dimensions associated with the three-dimensional model.

7. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the control circuitry is further operative to:

identify, from the motion-sensing component output, a change in the orientation of the electronic device; and

direct the display to change the displayed portion of the three-dimensional model to reflect a perspective related to the identified change in orientation.

8. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the control circuitry is further operative to:

identify, from the motion-sensing component output, a change in the location of the electronic device; and

direct the display to change the displayed portion of the three-dimensional model to reflect a perspective related to the identified change in location.

9. A method for navigating a three-dimensional model based on deterministic movement of an electronic device, comprising:

displaying a three-dimensional model from an initial perspective on an electronic device display;

detecting movement of the electronic device; and

changing the perspective from which the three-dimensional model is displayed in response to detecting.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein detecting further comprises:

receiving the output of at least one of a motions sensing component, positioning circuitry, and a magnometer of the electronic device; and

determining that the received output reflects a change in at least one of the orientation and position of the electronic device.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

defining at least one mathematical quantity to quantify the change in at least one of the orientation and position of the electronic device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein changing further comprises:

applying the defined at least one mathematical quantity to the initial perspective to define the changed perspective.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein:

the defined mathematical quantity comprises at least one vector; and

applying further comprises adding a multiple of the at least one vector to coordinates of the initial perspective to define the changed perspective.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein changing further comprises changing the orientation of the initial perspective from a single location relative to the three-dimensional model.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein changing further comprises changing the location of the initial perspective within the three-dimensional model.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein displaying further comprises displaying at least a portion of the three-dimensional model.

17. An electronic device for navigating a three-dimensional model of an environment, comprising:

a display operative to display the three-dimensional model from an initial perspective;

a movement detection component operative to detect movements of the electronic device; and

a processor operative to;

receive, from the movement detection component, an indication of an electronic device movement;

process the received indication to quantify electronic device movement changing the orientation of the electronic device and movement changing the location of the electronic device;

determine the correlation between quantified device movement and the change in display perspective for the three-dimensional model;

identify a new perspective from which to display the three-dimensional model in response to determining; and

direct the display to display the three-dimensional model from the identified new perspective.

18. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the processor is further operative to:

define at least one vector to quantify the electronic device movement.

19. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the length of the at least one vector is selected based on at least one of the size of the electronic device screen and dimensions associated with the three-dimensional model.

20. Computer readable media for navigating a three-dimensional model based on deterministic movement of an electronic device, comprising computer readable code recorded thereon for:

displaying a three-dimensional model from an initial perspective on an electronic device display;

detecting movement of the electronic device; and

changing the perspective from which the three-dimensional model is displayed in response to detecting.