USER INTERFACE

• US 20170007921A1
• Filed: 09/26/2016
• Published: 01/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Colopl, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Colopl, Inc.
• Inventors: BABA, Naruatsu, KASAI, Natsuo, FUKUDA, Daisuke, TAGUCHI, Naoki, MURAMATSU, Iwao
• Application Number:
  US15/276,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20170007921A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/25 Output arrangements for video game devices
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/426 involving on-screen location information, e.g. screen coordinates of an area at which the player is aiming with a light gun
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/52 involving aspects of the displayed game scene
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/533 for prompting the player, e.g. by displaying a game menu
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/57 Simulating properties, behaviour or motion of objects in the game world, e.g. computing tyre load in a car race game A63F13/56 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/822 Strategy games; Role-playing games A63F13/825, A63F13/828 take precedence
• 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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

Abstract

A method includes detecting a first input indicative of a first position in an image output by a display, detecting a second input indicative of a second position in the image different from the first position, and causing an object to be output by the display based on the first input or the second input. The object includes a boundary having a first end closer to the first position than to the second position, and a second end closer to the second position than to the first position.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

detecting a first input indicative of a first position in an image output by a display;

detecting a second input indicative of a second position in the image different from the first position; and

causing an object to be output by the display based on the first input or the second input, the object comprising a boundary having a first end closer to the first position than to the second position, and a second end closer to the second position than to the first position,

wherein

the first end of the boundary is displayed having a first distance between a first edge of the boundary and a second edge of the boundary along a first axis connecting the first edge of the boundary, the second edge of the boundary and a first point within the boundary,

the second end of the boundary is displayed having a second distance between the first edge of the boundary and the second edge of the boundary along a second axis parallel to the first axis connecting the first edge of the boundary, the second edge of the boundary and a second point within the boundary,

the first point is closer to the first end of the boundary than to the second end of the boundary,

the second point is closer to the second end of the boundary than to the first end of the boundary,

the first distance is different from the second distance, and

the object is free from sharing a sidewall with a shape defined by a border intersecting the boundary.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is caused to be displayed in a location that is (1) one or more of at the first position, proximate to the first position, or surrounding the first position, and (2) one or more of at the second position, proximate to the second position, or surrounding the second position.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the image or the object is caused to be displayed as being two-dimensional.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the image or the object is caused to be displayed as being three-dimensional.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the image is caused to be displayed having an appearance of being stationary.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the image is caused to be displayed having an appearance of being in motion.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the second input is indicative of a movement from the first position to the second position, and the object is caused to be displayed based on the movement.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is a final object, and the method further comprises:

causing an initial object to be displayed based on the first input, the initial object being defined by a boundary having an initial shape; and

stretching the initial object to generate the final object by deforming the boundary of the initial object and changing the initial shape of the initial object to a final shape different from the initial shape based on the second input.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the initial object is caused to be displayed surrounding the first position.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the initial shape is caused to be displayed having a circular shape.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the final object is a first final object, and the method further comprises:

causing one or more other objects to be displayed based on the first input or on the second input, the one or more other objects each having a corresponding boundary, the corresponding boundary of each of the one or more other objects having a corresponding initial shape; and

stretching at least one of the one or more other objects to generate at least one corresponding second final object by deforming the boundary of the at least one other object and changing the initial shape of the at least one other object to a different shape based on the second input or on a third input corresponding to a third position in the image.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is a final object, and the method further comprises:

causing an initial object to be displayed based on the first input, the initial object being defined by a boundary having an initial shape;

dividing the initial object into a first portion and a second portion;

displacing at least the second portion from an initial position associated with the initial object to a final position associated with the final object based on the second input; and

stretching one or more sidewalls of the first portion or the second portion to connect with one or more sidewalls of the other of the first portion or the second portion to generate the final object.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein dividing the initial object comprises dividing the initial object into at least two equal-sized portions.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

enlarging one of the first portion or the second portion to be enlarged based on a distance the second portion is displaced from the initial position.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is a final object having a final orientation with respect to the first axis, and the method further comprises:

causing an initial object to be displayed based on the first input, the initial object being defined by a boundary having an initial orientation with respect to the first axis different from the final orientation; and

rotating at least a portion of the initial object from the first orientation to the final orientation based on the second input to generate the final object.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input and the second input are detected based on a contact with the display.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first input is a point at which the contact is made with the display and the second input is based on a determination that the contact is ended or a movement of the contact from the first position to the second position is ended.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the boundary of the object is caused to be displayed having an entirely curved sidewall.

19. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory connected to the at least one processor and including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to;

detect a first input indicative of a first position in an image output by a display;

detect a second input indicative of a second position in the image different from the first position; and

cause an object to be output by the display based on the first input or the second input, the object comprising a boundary having a first end closer to the first position than to the second position, and a second end closer to the second position than to the first position,

wherein

the first end of the boundary is displayed having a first distance between a first edge of the boundary and a second edge of the boundary along a first axis connecting the first edge of the boundary, the second edge of the boundary and a first point within the boundary,

the second end of the boundary is displayed having a second distance between the first edge of the boundary and the second edge of the boundary along a second axis parallel to the first axis connecting the first edge of the boundary, the second edge of the boundary and a second point within the boundary,

the first point is closer to the first end of the boundary than to the second end of the boundary,

the second point is closer to the second end of the boundary than to the first end of the boundary,

the first distance is different from the second distance, and

the object is free from sharing a sidewall with a shape defined by a border intersecting the boundary.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to:

detect a first input indicative of a first position in an image output by a display;

detect a second input indicative of a second position in the image different from the first position; and

cause an object to be output by the display based on the first input or the second input, the object comprising a boundary having a first end closer to the first position than to the second position, and a second end closer to the second position than to the first position,

wherein

the first end of the boundary is displayed having a first distance between a first edge of the boundary and a second edge of the boundary along a first axis connecting the first edge of the boundary, the second edge of the boundary and a first point within the boundary,

the second end of the boundary is displayed having a second distance between the first edge of the boundary and the second edge of the boundary along a second axis parallel to the first axis connecting the first edge of the boundary, the second edge of the boundary and a second point within the boundary,

the first point is closer to the first end of the boundary than to the second end of the boundary,

the second point is closer to the second end of the boundary than to the first end of the boundary,

the first distance is different from the second distance, and

the object is free from sharing a sidewall with a shape defined by a border intersecting the boundary.