TRAINING FOR SUBSTITUTING TOUCH GESTURES FOR GUI OR HARDWARE KEYS TO CONTROL AUDIO VIDEO PLAY

• US 20120200574A1
• Filed: 03/31/2011
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hill, Seth, Baurmann, Travis
• Granted Patent: US 8,990,689 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/473
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

A user can toggle between GUI input and touch screen input with the GUI hidden using touch gestures correlated to respective hidden GUI elements and, thus, to respective commands for a TV and/or disk player sending AV data thereto. When in the GUI input mode, an animated hand can be presented on the display moving through the touch gesture corresponding to a selected GUI element to train the user on which touch gestures correspond to which GUI elements (and, thus, to respective commands for a TV and/or disk player sending AV data thereto.)

Claims

1. Method for training a user on which touches on a touch screen display of an audio video (AV) device accomplish which respective commands, comprising:

presenting on screen animations of a human hand on the display making various touch gestures;

overlaying the human hand onto video being presented on the display that depict respective gestures in relation to their respective function, whereby the animated hand moves on screen through a gesture responsive to a corresponding GUI button or RC function having been invoked by the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a user selecting a rewind button from an onscreen GUI on the display an animated hand appears on the display and moves through a touch gesture corresponding to rewind.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a user can select to turn animations of touch gestures on and off by toggling a GUI button.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the gesture is a circle.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the gesture is a spiral.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the gesture is a stationary press.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the gesture is at least one linear swipe across at least a portion of the screen.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the swipe is vertical on the screen.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the swipe is horizontal on the screen.

10. Consumer electronics (CE) device comprising:

processor;

touch screen display controlled by the processor; and

computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by the processor to;

present on screen animations of a human hand on the display making various touch gestures;

overlay the human hand onto video being presented on the display that depicts respective gestures in relation to their respective functions.

11. The CE device of claim 10, wherein the animated hand moves on screen through a gesture responsive to a corresponding GUI button or RC function having been invoked by the user.

12. The CE device of claim 10, wherein a user selecting a rewind button from an onscreen GUI on the display an animated hand appears on the display and moves through a touch gesture corresponding to rewind.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein a user can select to turn animations of touch gestures on and off by toggling a GUI button.

14. Method comprising:

enabling a user to select audio video command input using touch gestures; and

presenting on a video display an animation of a human hand moving through a touch gesture corresponding to an audio video command.

15. The method of claim 14, comprising enabling a user to toggle between non-touch gesture input mode using a graphical user interface (GUI) and touch gesture input mode with the GUI hidden, touch gestures in the touch gesture input mode corresponding to respective GUI elements in the non-touch gesture input mode.

16. The method of claim 15;

wherein a touch gesture and its corresponding GUI element both correspond to a common audio video command for a TV and/or source of video sending data to the TV.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the animation is presented when in the non-touch gesture input mode.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the animation is presented responsive to a respective GUI element being selected to train the user on which touch gestures correspond to which GUI elements and, thus, to which respective commands for a TV and/or source sending data thereto.