METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CHANGING COORDINATES OF ICONS ACCORDING TO SENSING SIGNAL

• US 20130120464A1
• Filed: 12/13/2011
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Original Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Inventors: Chou, Shih-Chun, Wei, Shih-Yao, Wang, Rong-Sheng
• Granted Patent: US 9,229,624 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/672
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

An embodiment of the invention provides a method for changing a coordinate of an icon according to a sensing signal. The method comprises: outputting the sensing signal via a sensor according to an interactive operation of a user; displaying a plurality of the icons of an operating system via a display device, wherein each icon corresponds to a data element; when receiving the sensing signal and a trigger signal by a processor, by the processor, acquiring the icons currently shown on the display device, generating an updated coordinate of each icon according to the sensing signal output by the sensor, changing the coordinates of the icons of the operating system, and displaying the icons on the display device according to the updated coordinates.

Claims

1. A method for changing a coordinate of an icon according to a sensing signal, the method comprising:

outputting the sensing signal via a sensor according to an interactive operation of a user;

displaying a plurality of the icons of an operating system via a display device, wherein each icon corresponds to a data element;

when receiving the sensing signal and a trigger signal by a processor, by the processor, acquiring the icons currently shown on the display device, generating an updated coordinate of each icon according to the sensing signal outputted by the sensor, changing the coordinates of the icons of the operating system, and displaying the icons on the display device according to the updated coordinates.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data element is used to execute an instruction, to activate an application program, to open a folder, to open a file or link to a URL.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein each icon has a weight value and the processor generates the updated coordinate of the icon according to the sensing signal and the weight value.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the trigger signal is generated according to at least one of a keystroke signal, a start signal of an application program and the sensing signal.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the sensor is a touch panel, a linear accelerator, a gyroscope or a microphone.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the processor changes the of the icons and the display device displays the icons according the sizes and the updated coordinates.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the trigger signal is generated by the following steps:

receiving and determining whether the sensing signal conforms with a predetermined condition; and

when the sensing signal matches to the predetermined condition, issuing the trigger signal.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensor is a first sensor and the sensing signal is a first sensing signal, and the method further comprises:

providing a second sensor to output a second sensing signal according to another interactive operation of the user;

providing a storage device to store a first icon arrangement corresponding to the first sensing signal, and a second icon arrangement corresponding to the second sensing signal; and

when the processor receives the trigger signal and one of the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal, by the processor, acquiring a corresponding icon arrangement corresponding to the selected sensing signal and generating the updated coordinate of each icon.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

enabling an icon rearrangement module when receiving the trigger signal;

receiving and determining whether the sensing signal conforms to a start mode; and

when the sensing signal conforms to the start mode, generating the updated coordinate of each icon, changing the coordinates of the icons of the operating system, and displaying the icons on the display device according to the updated coordinates.

10. The method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

receiving a personalized data corresponding to each icon; and

generating the weight value of each icon according to the personalized data.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the personalized data comprises an icon name, the coordinate of the icon, a total number of times that the icon has been clicked, a click rate of the icon, a created date of the icon, a most recent date at which an application program corresponding to the icon has been executed, a total execution time of the application program, a download time of the application program, a kind of the application program, a file corresponding to the icon or a ranking of the application program.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display device is a touch panel, and the method further comprises:

setting a predetermined area on the touch panel via the processor;

detecting whether a moving track of the user has passed through the predetermined area;

when detecting that the moving track has passed through the predetermined area, the trigger signal is transmitted to the processor.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display device is a touch panel, and the method further comprises:

setting a predetermined area on the touch panel via the processor;

detecting, via the touch panel, a touch duration that the user has touched the predetermined area; and

when the touch duration is larger than a predetermined duration, the trigger signal is transmitted to the processor.

14. An electronic device capable of changing a coordinate of an icon according to a sensing signal, the device comprising:

a sensor to output a sensing signal according to an interactive operation of a

a display device to display a plurality of the icons of an operating system, wherein each icon corresponds to a data element; and

a processor electrically connected to the sensor and the display device, wherein when the processor receives the sensing signal and a trigger signal, the processor acquires the icons currently shown on the display device, generates an updated coordinate of each icon according to the sensing signal outputted by the sensor, and changes the coordinates of the icons of the operating system, wherein the icons are then displayed on the display device according to the updated coordinates.

15. The device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the data element is used to execute an instruction, to activate an application program, to open a folder, to open a file or link to a URL.

16. The device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the sensor is a touch panel, a linear accelerator, a gyroscope or a microphone.

17. The device as claimed in claim 14, wherein each icon has a weight value and the processor generates the updated coordinate of the icon according to the sensing signal and the weight value.

18. The device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the sensor is a first sensor and the sensing signal is a first sensing signal, and the device further comprises:

a second sensor to output a second sensing signal according to another interactive operation of the user; and

a storage device to store a first icon arrangement corresponding to the first sensing signal, and a second icon arrangement corresponding to the second sensing signal, wherein

when the processor receives the trigger signal and one of the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal, the processor acquires a corresponding icon arrangement corresponding to the selected sensing signal and generating the updated coordinate of each icon.

19. The device as claimed in claim 14, further comprising:

a personalized module to receive a personalized data corresponding to each icon to generate a weight value of each icon, wherein the personalized data comprises an icon name, the coordinate of the icon, a total number of times that the icon has been clicked, a click rate of the icon, a created date of the icon, a most recent date at which an application program corresponding to the icon has been executed, a total execution time of the application program, a download time of the application program, a kind of the application program, a file corresponding to the icon or a ranking of the application program.

20. The device as claimed in claim 19, further comprising:

a feedback module to transmit at least one interactive operation of the user after the icons have been rearranged to the personalized module to calibrate the weight values of the icons.

21. An electronic device capable of changing a coordinate of an icon according to a sensing signal, the device comprising:

an icon coordinate transform module to receive an initial icon coordinate data;

a personalized module to acquire a plurality of parameters corresponding to a plurality of the icons of the initial icon coordinate data to generate a weight value of each icon according to the parameters;

a sensor to receive and transmit a sensing signal to the personalized module; and

a processor electrically connected to the sensor and the personalized module, wherein when the processor receives the sensing signal and a trigger signal, the icon coordinate transform module rearranges the icons according to the weight value of each icon.

22. The device as claimed in claim 21, wherein the parameters comprise an icon name, the coordinate of the icon, a total number of times that the icon has been clicked, a click rate of the icon, a created date of the icon, a most recent date at which an application program corresponding to the icon has been executed, a total execution time of the application program, a download time of the application program, a kind of the application program, a file corresponding to the icon or a ranking of the application program.