GESTURE ORBIT DESIGN

• US 20120068950A1
• Filed: 09/16/2011
• Published: 03/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: a.i. solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: a.i. solutions, Inc.
• Inventors: CONDE, Robert William, Novak, Stefan, Scapeorth, Paige Thomas, Ruel, Jonathan C.
• Granted Patent: US 8,743,064 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 27/00 Planetaria; Globes
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 27/06 Celestial globes

Abstract

A computing apparatus and method of manipulating a displayed orbit of an object by detecting a gesture having a correspondence between body movements as the gesture and a resulting change to one or more orbital parameters within a displayed orbit system, changing an orbital parameter of the displayed orbit system according to detection of the gesture, and changing visualization on the computer display screen of the orbit system according to the change to the orbital parameter.

Claims

1. A device configured for manipulating a displayed orbit of an object, comprising:

a computer processor that executes;

detecting on a touch display screen a touch gesture having a correspondence between movements of the touch gesture and a resulting change to one or more orbital parameters within a displayed orbit system;

changing an orbital parameter of the displayed orbit system according to detection of the touch gesture;

changing visualization on the computer display screen of the orbit system according to the change to the orbital parameter.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein a group of two or more orbital parameters are correlated to the touch gesture.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the changing of the orbital parameter of the displayed object comprises mapping a fixed interval orbital parameter to a pinch/zoom type gesture while a cyclic orbital parameter is mapped to a rotational type gesture.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein a difference between a starting position of a touch gesture and an ending position of the touch gesture is factored into one or more of the orbital elements.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the orbit system includes a central object and an orbital object on an orbit path around the central object, and the orbital parameters represent one or more of a position, shape, or orientation of the orbital object and/or the orbital path in relation to the central body.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein the detection of the touch gesture directly causes a change in visualization of the orbital object in relation to the central object.

7. The device of claim 5, further comprising calculating a position by time and/or date of the orbital object on the orbit path in response to the detection of the touch gesture.

8. A method implemented by a computing apparatus to manipulate a displayed orbit of an object, comprising:

controlling a computer processor to execute;

detecting on a touch display screen a touch gesture having a correspondence between movements of the touch gesture and a resulting change to one or more orbital parameters within a displayed orbit system;

changing an orbital parameter of the displayed orbit system according to detection of the touch gesture;

changing visualization on the computer display screen of the orbit system according to the change to the orbital parameter.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute the method of claim 8.