Device Control of Display Content of a Display

• US 20120206350A1
• Filed: 02/13/2011
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PNI Sensor Corporation
• Original Assignee: PNI Sensor Corporation
• Inventors: Figaro, Davy J., Taylor, Andrew T., Hsu, George
• Application Number:
  US13/026,260
• Publication Number:
  US 20120206350A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/158
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses and systems of providing control of display content on a display with a device are disclosed. One method includes establishing a fixed reference on the display. A user input is received indicating that the device is at a user selected position corresponding to the fixed reference and capturing a position of the device in order to establish a corresponding reference position. The display content on the display is determined based on measured displacement of the device relative to the established reference position.

Claims

1. A method of providing control of display content on a display with a device, comprising:

establishing a fixed reference on the display;

receiving a user input indicating that the device is at a user selected position corresponding to the fixed reference and capturing a position of the device in order to establish a corresponding reference position;

determining display content on the display based on measured displacement of the device relative to the established reference position.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the display content comprises a position of a cursor on the display.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein capturing the position of the device in order to establish the corresponding reference position comprises capturing an angular orientation of the device in order to establish the corresponding reference position.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein capturing the position of the device in order to establish the corresponding reference position comprises capturing a spatial position of the device in order to establish the corresponding reference position.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein capturing the position of the device in order to establish the corresponding reference position comprises capturing an angular orientation and a spatial position of the device in order to establish the corresponding reference position.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising controlling a first type of display content based on measured angular displacement of the device relative to the established reference positions, and controlling a second type of display content based on measured spatial displacement of the device relative to the established reference position.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the fixed reference is proximate to a center of the display.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the fixed reference is generated and displayed on the display.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input is received by the user pressing a button on the pointing device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input comprises identification of a user gesture, wherein the user gesture comprises identifying a predetermined sequence of motions.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the predetermined sequence of motions comprise natural sequence of motions of the user when the user is performing a particular action.

12. The method of claim 3, wherein the angular displacement is measured about at least one of an axis of yaw or an axis of pitch.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the angular displacement measurements are independent of a roll angle of the device.

14. The method of claim 2, wherein the position of the cursor on the display is determined based on a mathematical transformation of the measured displacement of the device relative to the established reference position.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising adaptively selecting the mathematical transformation based upon a user selection.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising adaptively selecting the mathematical transformation based upon an application of the device by the user.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the mathematical transformation comprises scaling, wherein the scaling includes a scaling factor that is selectable by the user to account for the differences in display size and a distance that the user is positioned from the display.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the mathematical transformation comprises scaling, wherein the scaling includes a scaling factor that is selectable by the user to allow the user to select a responsiveness of the cursor.

19. The method of claim 14, further comprising adaptively selecting a sensitivity of the mathematical transformation based at least in part on a rate of change of the cursor position on the display.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the sensitivity is lower when the cursor is at rest than when the cursor is in motion.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising measuring spatial displacement of the device relative to a reference spatial position of the device, wherein the reference spatial position is acquired when the user input is received.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the display content on the display is determined based on a mathematical transformation of the measured displacement of the device relative to the established reference position, and further comprising selecting the mathematical transformation based at least in part on the measured spatial displacement.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising monitoring a distance the device is from the display, and adaptively selecting a scaling factor of the mathematical transformation based on the distance.

24. The method of claim 22, further comprising monitoring a distance the device is spatially oriented off-axis from the fixed reference of the display.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein if the distance is greater than a threshold then selecting the mathematical transformation to be non-linear, and if the distance is less than the threshold, then selecting the mathematical transformation to be linear.

26. The method of claim 1, wherein the display content comprises a cursor, and a cursor position on the display spans from a first edge of the display to a second edge of the display.

27. The method of claim 3, wherein the angular displacement is measured by at least one inertial angular rotation sensor.

28. The method of claim 3, wherein the angular displacement is measured by a combination of at least two linear inertial sensors configured to measure rotational displacement about an axis of rotation.

29. The method of claim 3, wherein the angular displacement is measured by at least one magnetic sensor configured to measure rotation about a magnetic reference field.

30. The method of claim 3, wherein the angular displacement is measured by at least one inertial angular rotation sensor, and at least one magnetic sensor configured to measure rotation about a magnetic reference field.

31. The method of claim 3, wherein the angular displacement is measured by a combination of at least two linear inertial sensors configured to measure rotational displacement about an axis of rotation, at least one magnetic sensor configured to measure rotation about a magnetic reference field.

32. The method of claim 3, wherein the angular displacement is measured by at least one inertial angular rotation sensor, and at least one magnetic sensor configured to measure rotation about a magnetic reference field, and a combination of at least two linear inertial sensors configured to measure rotational displacement about an axis of rotation.

33. A device, comprising:

means for receiving a user input indicating that the device is at a user selected position relative to an established fixed reference on a display;

means for receiving the user input and capturing a position of the device in order to establish a corresponding reference position, wherein

display content on the display is determined based on measured displacement of the device relative to the established reference position.

34. The device of claim 33, wherein the display content comprises a cursor, and further comprising means for determining a cursor position on the display based on measured displacement of the device relative to the established reference position.

35. The device of claim 34, the means for receiving the user input and capturing the position of the device in order to establish the corresponding reference position comprises capturing an angular orientation of the device in order to establish a corresponding reference position, and wherein the angular displacement is measured by at least one inertial angular rotation sensor, and at least one magnetic sensor configured to measure rotation about a magnetic reference field, and a combination of at least two linear inertial sensors configured to measure rotational displacement about an axis of rotation.

36. A display system, comprising:

a display;

a device;

the device operative to receive a user input indicating that the device at a user selected position relative to an established fixed reference on the display and capturing a position of the device in order to establish a corresponding reference position;

a controller operative to determine a display content on the display based on measured displacement of the device relative to the established reference position.

37. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of providing control of a cursor on a display with a device, comprising:

establishing a fixed reference on the display;

receiving a user input indicating that the device is at a user selected position corresponding to the fixed reference and capturing a position of the device in order to establish a corresponding reference position;

determining a display content on the display based on measured displacement of the pointing device relative to the established reference position.