User Interface and Electronic Device

• US 20110307834A1
• Filed: 09/01/2010
• Published: 12/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wistron NeWeb Corporation (Wistron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Wistron NeWeb Corporation (Wistron Corporation)
• Inventors: Wu, Chain -Long
• Application Number:
  US12/873,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20110307834A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/836
• 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 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• 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: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A user interface for an electronic device having a monitor includes a geometric polyhedron and a plurality of selecting objects. The geometric polyhedron is shown on the monitor, and composed of a plurality of blocks. Blocks of the plurality of blocks in a surface of the geometric polyhedron are capable of rotating along a center axle, and in an initial state, blocks corresponding to all surfaces of the geometric polyhedron have different colors. The plurality of selecting objects are shown on the plurality of blocks and corresponding to a plurality of functions of the electronic device.

Claims

1. A user interface for an electronic device having a monitor, comprising:

a geometric polyhedron, shown on the monitor, composed of a plurality of blocks, blocks of the plurality of blocks in a surface of the geometric polyhedron capable of rotating along a center axle of the surface; and

a plurality of selecting objects, shown on the plurality of blocks, corresponding to a plurality of functions of the electronic device.

2. The user interface of claim 1, wherein blocks corresponding to all surfaces of the geometric polyhedron have different background colors in an initial state.

3. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the geometric polyhedron can rotate along a center point.

4. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the geometric polyhedron is a cube, and each surface of the cube is composed of at least two blocks.

5. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selecting objects are a plurality of non-filled icons shown on the plurality of blocks.

6. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the electronic device performs a function corresponding to one of the plurality of selecting objects when the selecting object is clicked.

7. The user interface of claim 1, wherein locations of a first selecting object and a second selecting object among the plurality of selecting objects are exchanged when the first selecting object is dragged on the second selecting object.

8. The user interface of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of selecting objects is deleted from a block of the plurality of blocks when the selecting object has been clicked and stayed beyond a predefined period.

9. The user interface of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of selecting objects is moved from a first block to a second block among the plurality of blocks when the selecting object is clicked and stayed beyond a predefined period.

10. The user interface of claim 1 further comprising a restore key shown on the monitor, for restoring the geometric polyhedron to the initial state when being clicked.

11. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the monitor is a touch control monitor.

12. An electronic device, comprising:

an operating circuit;

a monitor; and

a user interface, comprising;

a geometric polyhedron, shown on the monitor, composed of a plurality of blocks, blocks of the plurality of blocks in a surface of the geometric polyhedron capable of rotating along a center axle of the surface; and

a plurality of selecting objects, shown on the plurality of blocks, corresponding to a plurality of functions of the operating circuit.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein blocks corresponding to all surfaces of the geometric polyhedron have different background colors in an initial state.

14. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the geometric polyhedron can rotate along a center point.

15. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the geometric polyhedron is a cube, and each surface of the cube is composed of at least two blocks.

16. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the plurality of selecting objects are a plurality of non-filled icons shown on the plurality of blocks.

17. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the electronic device performs functions corresponding to one of the plurality of selecting objects when the selecting object is clicked.

18. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein locations of a first selecting object and a second selecting object among the plurality of selecting objects are exchanged when the first selecting object is dragged on the second selecting object.

19. The electronic device of claim 12 further comprising a restore key shown on the monitor, for restoring the geometric polyhedron to the initial state when being clicked.

20. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the monitor is a touch control monitor.