RE-CENTERING A USER INTERFACE

• US 20150199081A1
• Filed: 11/08/2011
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Wheeler, Aaron Joseph
• Application Number:
  US13/291,564
• Publication Number:
  US 20150199081A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

Methods and devices for providing a user-interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving data corresponding to a first position of a wearable computing device and responsively causing the wearable computing device to provide a user-interface. The user-interface comprises a view region and a menu, where the view region substantially fills a field of view of the wearable computing device and the menu is not fully visible in the view region. The method further comprises receiving movement data corresponding to a triggerable movement of the wearable computing device and responsively causing the wearable computing device to move the menu such that the menu becomes more visible in the view region. When the wearable computing device moves to a second position, the wearable computing device moves the menu and the view region substantially together to follow the movement of the wearable computing device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving data corresponding to a first orientation of a head-mounted device and responsively causing the head-mounted device to provide a user-interface comprising;

a view region, wherein the view region substantially fills a viewable area of a display of the head-mounted device, and

a menu, wherein the menu is located in an area outside the view region at a virtual position that is defined relative to the first orientation of the head-mounted device, and wherein the menu is not visible in the view region;

while the menu is not visible in the view region, receiving data corresponding to a first predetermined triggerable movement of the head-mounted device; and

responsively causing the head-mounted device to move the menu from the virtual position to within the view region such that the menu becomes visible in the view region;

wherein when the head-mounted device moves to a second orientation, the head-mounted device moves the menu and the view region substantially together to follow the movement of the head-mounted device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the menu is located above the view region when the head-mounted device is in the first orientation.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first predetermined triggerable movement is an upward movement.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the menu is located at an angle of between about 5 degrees and about 10 degrees above a position of the view region when the head-mounted device is in the first orientation.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the menu is located at an angle of between about 5 degrees and about 35 degrees below a position of the view region when the head-mounted device is in the first orientation.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein when the head-mounted device is at the first orientation the view region is substantially empty.

24. The method of claim 1 wherein causing the head-mounted device to move the menu from the virtual position to within the view region such that the menu becomes visible in the view region comprises causing the head-mounted device to slide the menu from the virtual position to within the view region.

7-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A method comprising:

receiving data corresponding to a first orientation of a head-mounted device and responsively causing the head-mounted device to provide a user-interface comprising;

a view region, wherein the view region substantially fills a viewable area of a display of the head-mounted device, and

a menu, wherein the menu is located in an area outside the view region and the menu is not visible in the view region;

receiving data corresponding to a first predetermined triggerable movement of the head-mounted device while the menu is not visible in the view region, and responsively causing the menu to move such that the menu becomes visible in the view region;

receiving data corresponding to a second predetermined triggerable movement of the wearable computing device and responsively causing the menu to move such that the menu is not visible in the view region;

while the menu is not visible in the view region and prior to receiving a third predetermined triggerable movement, adjusting the menu to follow movement of the head-mounted device to a second orientation; and

receiving data corresponding to the third predetermined triggerable movement of the head-mounted device and responsively causing the menu to move such that the menu is visible in the view region.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the menu is located above the view region when the head-mounted device is in the first orientation.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the first, second, and third predetermined triggerable movements are upward movements.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the menu is located at an angle of between about 5 degrees and about 10 degrees above a position of the view region when the head-mounted device is in the first orientation.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the menu is located at an angle of between about 5 degrees and about 35 degrees below a position of the view region when the head-mounted device is in the first orientation.

14. (canceled)

15. A method comprising:

receiving data corresponding to movements and orientations of a head-mounted device and responsively causing the head-mounted device to provide a user-interface comprising;

a view region, wherein the view region substantially fills a viewable area of a display of the head-mounted device, and

a menu located at an angle of between about 5 degrees and about 10 degrees above a position of the view region, wherein the menu is not visible in the view region;

while the menu is not visible in the view region, receiving data corresponding to a first predetermined triggerable upward movement of the head-mounted device, wherein the first predetermined triggerable upward movement is measured from a current orientation of the head-mounted device; and

responsively causing the menu to appear to move downward into the view region, such that the menu is visible in the view region.

16-17. -17. (canceled)

18. A head-mounted device comprising:

at least one processor; and

data storage comprising user-interface logic executable by the at least one processor to;

receive data corresponding to a first orientation of the head-mounted device and responsively cause the head-mounted device to provide a user-interface comprising;

a view region, wherein the view region substantially fills a viewable area of a display of the head-mounted device, and

a menu, wherein the menu is located in an area outside the view region and the menu is not visible in the view region;

receive data corresponding to a first predetermined triggerable movement of the head-mounted device while the menu is not visible in the view region, and responsively cause the menu to move such that the menu becomes visible in the view region;

receive data corresponding to a second predetermined triggerable movement of the head-mounted device and responsively cause the menu to move such that the menu is not visible in the view region;

while the menu is not visible in the view region and prior to receiving a third predetermined triggerable movement, adjust the menu to follow movement of the head-mounted device to a second orientation; and

receive data corresponding to the third predetermined triggerable movement of the head-mounted device and responsively cause the menu to move such that the menu is visible in the view region.

19. The head-mounted device of claim 18 wherein the menu is located above the view region when the head-mounted device is in the first orientation.

20. The head-mounted device of claim 18 wherein the first,

second, and third predetermined triggerable movements are upward movements.

21. The head-mounted device of claim 18 wherein the menu is located at an angle of between about 5 degrees and about 10 degrees above a position of the view region when the head-mounted device is in the first orientation.

22. The head-mounted device of claim 18 wherein the menu is located at an angle of between about 5 degrees and about 35 degrees below a position of the view region when the head-mounted device is in the first orientation.

23. (canceled)