USER INTERFACE APPARATUS USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL AXES AND USER INTERFACE APPARATUS USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL PLANES FORMED BY THREE-DIMENSIONAL AXES

• US 20110107210A1
• Filed: 08/31/2010
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pantech Co. Ltd. (Pantech Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Co. Ltd. (Pantech Incorporated)
• Inventors: WON, Kyung-sun, PARK, Chan-joo, KIM, Dae-heum, LEE, Eun-mi, CHOI, Kyeong-min, OH, Ik-sung
• Application Number:
  US12/872,399
• Publication Number:
  US 20110107210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor

Abstract

A user interface apparatus using three-dimensional axes and a user interface apparatus using two-dimensional planes, each of the two-dimensional planes being formed by two of three-dimensional axes, are provided. The user interface apparatus uses the three-dimensional axes or the two-dimensional planes to select a menu or to search for desired information in a device, such as a mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A user interface apparatus, comprising:

a display to display three-dimensional axes;

a first primary item provided along a first axis; and

a first secondary item provided along a second axis.

2. The user interface apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an operating portion to control movement of the first primary item or the first secondary item.

3. The user interface apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

a searching portion to search for information corresponding to the first primary item and the first secondary item which meet at an intersection point of the three-dimensional axes according to an operation of the operating portion.

4. The user interface apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

a searching portion to search for information corresponding to the first primary item and the first secondary item, each of which is located at specific coordinates, each spaced a specific distance from an intersection point of the three-dimensional axes.

5. The user interface apparatus of claim 3, further comprising:

a display portion to display a search result of the searching portion.

6. The user interface apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

a display portion to display a search result of the searching portion.

7. The user interface apparatus of claim 5, wherein the display portion displays the search result on a first two-dimensional plane formed by two of the three-dimensional axes.

8. The user interface apparatus of claim 5, wherein the display portion displays the search result as overlaying at least two two-dimensional planes, each two-dimensional plane formed by two of the three-dimensional axes.

9. The user interface apparatus of claim 6, wherein the display portion displays the search result on a first two-dimensional plane formed by two of the three-dimensional axes.

10. The user interface apparatus of claim 6, wherein the display portion displays the search result as overlaying at least two two-dimensional planes, each two-dimensional plane formed by two of the three-dimensional axes.

11. The user interface apparatus of claim 2, wherein the operating portion moves the first primary item or the first secondary item in response to a user'"'"'s touch.

12. The user interface apparatus of claim 11, wherein the operating portion moves the first primary item or the first secondary item in a forward direction or a reverse direction according to a direction of the user'"'"'s touch.

13. The user interface apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first primary item is a menu and the first secondary item is a submenu of the menu.

14. The user interface apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first primary item and the first secondary item are each a searchable category.

15. A user interface apparatus, comprising:

a display to display three-dimensional axes;

an operating portion to select a first primary item provided on a first axis among the three-dimensional axes; and

a first secondary item provided along a second axis among the three-dimensional axes, the first secondary item being related to the first primary item.

16. The user interface apparatus of claim 15, further comprising:

a first tertiary item provided on a two-dimensional plane defined by at least the second axis, the first tertiary item being related to the first secondary item.

17. The user interface apparatus of claim 16, wherein the first tertiary item is related to the first secondary item selected according to a user'"'"'s touch.

18. The user interface apparatus of claim 16, further comprising:

a display portion to display information of the first tertiary item.

19. A user interface apparatus, comprising:

a display to display three-dimensional axes, the three-dimensional axes defining a first two-dimensional plane, a second two-dimensional plane, and a third two-dimensional plane;

a first primary item provided on the first two-dimensional plane; and

a first secondary item provided on the second two-dimensional plane.

20. The user interface apparatus of claim 19, further comprising:

a searching portion to search for information corresponding to the first primary item and the second secondary item.

21. The user interface apparatus of claim 20, wherein the display portion displays a search result of the searching portion.

22. The user interface apparatus of claim 19, further comprising:

a second secondary item provided on the third two-dimensional plane.