GESTURE MANIPULATION METHOD AND MULTIMEDIA PLAYER APPARATUS

• US 20120221950A1
• Filed: 06/03/2011
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AVerMedia Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: AVerMedia Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: CHAO, Chia-Chen, CHEN, Wen-Kang
• Application Number:
  US13/152,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20120221950A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A gesture manipulation method and a multimedia player apparatus is disclosed in this disclosure. The gesture manipulation method is suitable for a multimedia player apparatus with touch input function. The gesture manipulation method includes steps of: detecting a gesture input while the multimedia player apparatus is playing a video file or a video stream; and, when the gesture input includes a specific amount of finger contacts and the finger contacts relatively move in a specific pattern, executing a corresponding function on the multimedia player apparatus. Accordingly, the user interface of the multimedia player apparatus adopting some intuitive gestures can be easy to understand.

Claims

1. A gesture manipulation method, suitable for a multimedia player apparatus with touch input function, the gesture manipulation method comprising steps of:

detecting a gesture input while the multimedia player apparatus is playing a video file or a video stream;

when the gesture input including X amount of finger contacts and the X amount of finger contacts relatively moving outwardly, executing a first display procedure on the multimedia player apparatus, wherein X is a positive integer greater than or equal to two; and

when the gesture input including Y amount of finger contacts and the Y amount of finger contacts relatively moving inwardly, executing a second display procedure on the multimedia player apparatus, wherein Y is a positive integer greater than or equal to two, the first display procedure is a detail display procedure and the second procedure is a summary display procedure, or the first display procedure is the summary display procedure and the second procedure is the detail display procedure.

2. The gesture manipulation method of claim 1, wherein the detail display procedure comprises displaying detail information of the video file or the video stream, the summary display procedure comprises displaying a playing content list, and the playing content list comprises a plurality of playable video files or video streams on the multimedia player apparatus.

3. The gesture manipulation method of claim 1, further comprising a step of:

when the gesture input including Z amount of finger contacts and the Z amount of finger contacts relatively moving inwardly, capturing a currently displaying screen of the video file or the video stream on the multimedia player apparatus, wherein Z is a positive integer greater than or equal to two, and Z is not equal to Y.

4. A gesture manipulation method, suitable for a multimedia player in apparatus with touch input function, the gesture manipulation method comprising steps of:

detecting a gesture input while the multimedia player apparatus is playing a video file or a video stream; and

when the gesture input including K amount of finger contacts and the K amount of finger contacts relatively rotating over time, executing a corresponding adjustment procedure on the multimedia player apparatus, the corresponding adjustment procedure comprising at least one adjustment selected from a playing speed adjustment, a fast forward adjustment, a fast backward adjustment, a volume adjustment and a display configuration adjustment, wherein K is a positive integer greater than or equal to two.

5. The gesture manipulation method of claim 4, wherein the display configuration adjustment comprises adjusting at least one of a displaying brightness, a displaying contrast or a displaying color temperature.

6. The gesture manipulation method of claim 4, wherein the multimedia player apparatus executes the corresponding adjustment procedure according to at least one of a rotating direction, a rotating radian or a rotating speed among the K amount of finger contacts over time.

7. A multimedia player apparatus, comprising:

a displaying module for displaying a video file or a video stream;

a touch input interface for detecting a gesture input; and

a processing unit electrically connected with the displaying module and the touch input interface, when the gesture input including X amount of finger contacts and the X amount of finger contacts relatively moving outwardly, executing a first display procedure on the multimedia player apparatus, wherein X is a positive integer greater than or equal to two, besides, when the gesture input including Y amount of finger contacts and the Y amount of finger contacts relatively moving inwardly, executing a second display procedure on the multimedia player apparatus, wherein Y is a positive integer greater than or equal to two, besides, when the gesture input including Z amount of finger contacts and the Z amount of finger contacts relatively moving inwardly, capturing a currently displaying screen of the video file or the video stream on the multimedia player apparatus, wherein Z is a positive integer greater than or equal to two, and Z is not equal to Y, wherein the first display procedure is a detail display procedure and the second procedure is a summary display procedure, or the first display procedure is the summary display procedure and the second procedure is the detail display procedure, the detail display procedure comprises displaying detail information of the video file or the video stream, the summary display procedure comprises displaying a playing content list, and the playing content list comprises a plurality of playable video files or video streams on the multimedia player apparatus.

8. A multimedia player apparatus, comprising:

a displaying module for displaying a video file or a video stream;

a touch input interface for detecting a gesture input; and

a processing unit electrically connected with the displaying module and to the touch input interface, when the gesture input including K amount of finger contacts and the K amount of finger contacts relatively rotating over time, executing a corresponding adjustment procedure on the multimedia player apparatus, the corresponding adjustment procedure comprising at least one adjustment selected from a playing speed adjustment, a fast forward adjustment, a fast backward adjustment, a volume adjustment and a display configuration adjustment, wherein the display configuration adjustment comprises adjusting at least one of a displaying brightness, a displaying contrast or a displaying color temperature, and the multimedia player apparatus executes the corresponding adjustment procedure according to at least one of a rotating direction, a rotating radian or a rotating speed among the K amount of finger contacts over time, and K is a positive integer greater than or equal to two.