MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20130293585A1
• Filed: 01/18/2012
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Sudou, Tomohiro
• Application Number:
  US13/980,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20130293585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/633
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00

Abstract

Display is switched between overlapping AR objects by a mobile terminal (10) including a touch sensor (103) that detects input, an imaging unit (106) that acquires an image, a display unit (102) that displays the image, and a control unit (110) that controls the display unit (102) to display virtual information included in the image by overlaying the virtual information on the image and that layers the virtual information and switches a display layer of the virtual information in accordance with the input.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touch sensor configured to detect input;

an imaging unit configured to acquire an image;

a display unit configured to display the image; and

a control unit configured to control the display unit to display virtual information included in the image by overlaying the virtual information on the image and configured to layer the virtual information and switch a display layer of the virtual information in accordance with the input.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information, wherein

the control unit displays the virtual information by overlaying the virtual information on the image based on the position information.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit displays the virtual information associated with an object included in the image by overlaying the virtual information on the image.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising a load detection unit configured to detect a pressure load of the input, wherein

the control unit switches the display layer of the virtual information in accordance with the pressure load.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit switches the display layer of the virtual information when the input is detected at a position where pieces of the virtual information are in overlap.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit only switches the display layer related to virtual information displayed at a position of the input.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit performs the layering in accordance with a type of the virtual information.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising a tactile sensation providing unit configured to provide a tactile sensation to a touch face of the touch sensor, wherein

when virtual information at a back is hidden by virtual information at a front, the control unit controls the tactile sensation providing unit to provide a tactile sensation for the input upon the input being detected for the virtual information at the front.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when a plurality of the virtual information are displayed, the control unit layers the plurality of the virtual information in accordance with overlapping of more than two virtual information among the plurality of the virtual information.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when a first and a second virtual information are displayed overlaid on the image, and when the first virtual information is hidden behind the second virtual information, the control unit layers the first and the second virtual information in different layers.

9. A control method for a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprising:

a touch sensor configured to detect input;

an imaging unit configured to acquire an image; and

a display unit configured to display the image,

the control method comprising the steps of;

controlling the display unit to display virtual information included in the image by overlaying the virtual information on the image;

layering the virtual information; and

switching a display layer of the virtual information in accordance with the input.