ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTENTS GENERATION METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130069937A1
• Filed: 07/06/2012
• Published: 03/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jintae
• Granted Patent: US 9,459,785 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/117 the virtual viewpoint locations being selected by the viewers or determined by viewer tracking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/128 Adjusting depth or disparity
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/361 Reproducing mixed stereoscopic images; Reproducing mixed monoscopic and stereoscopic images, e.g. a stereoscopic image overlay window on a monoscopic image background

Abstract

An electronic device and a contents generation method thereof are provided. A first mode and a second mode are provided. In the first mode, a position of at least one object is determined in response to depth information of the at least one object and the at least one object is displayed at the determined position. In the second mode, contents including the at least one object are displayed as a stereoscopic image. Conversion between the first mode and the second mode is controlled on the basis of a motion of the electronic device.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display module equipped with a panel for generating stereoscopic vision; and

a controller configured to;

enter a first mode for editing a contents;

display an object included in the contents at a position determined in response to depth information of the object; and

change the depth information of the object in response to movement of the object.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to enter a second mode for displaying the contents including the object, wherein the contents is displayed as a stereoscopic image on the basis of the depth information of the object.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, further comprising a sensing unit configured to sense a motion of the electronic device, and

wherein the controller is further configured to control conversion between the first mode and the second mode on the basis of the motion of the electronic device.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein when depth information of the object is changed in the first mode, the controller changes a display size of the object on the basis of the changed depth information of the object.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a user input unit configured to received a user input,

wherein the controller is further configured to add an object to the contents or delete an object included in the contents in response to the user input received in the first mode.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein when a stereoscopic object is added into the contents in the first mode, the controller is further configured to display the stereoscopic object at a position determined in response to depth information of the stereoscopic object.

7. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein when a 2D object is added into the contents in the first mode, the controller is further configured to display the 2D object at a position determined according to predetermined depth information.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller determines a distance between the position at which the object is displayed and a predetermined reference line in response to the depth information of the object.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display a preview image of the contents including the object on a predetermined area of a screen in the first mode.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein when the object is moved in response to a user input received in the first mode, the controller is further configured to change display characteristic of the object according to the movement of the object, and to display the preview image of the contents to reflect the changed display characteristic of the object.

11. An electronic device comprising:

a sensing unit configured to sense a motion of the electronic device; and

a display module equipped with a panel for generating stereoscopic vision; and

a controller configured to;

providing a first mode for displaying an object included in a contents at a position determined in response to depth information of the object and a second mode for displaying the contents as a stereoscopic image; and

control switching between the first mode and the second mode on the basis of the motion of the electronic device.

12. An electronic device comprising:

a display module equipped with a panel for generating stereoscopic vision; and

a controller configured to;

provide a first area in which at least one stereoscopic object is displayed and a second area in which a preview image of contents is displayed through the display module; and

when a stereoscopic object selected from the first area is copied from the first area into the second area, display the selected stereoscopic object as 2D object in the second area.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the controller changes the selected stereoscopic object into the 2D object by changing depth of the selected stereoscopic object.

14. A method for generating contents in an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying an object at a position determined according to a distance between the object and a predetermined reference line, wherein the distance between the object and the predetermined reference line is determined in response to depth information of the object; and

displaying contents including the object as a stereoscopic image when a specific user input is received by a motion of the electronic device.