VIRTUAL REALITY DEVICE, METHOD FOR VIRTUAL REALITY

• US 20170185261A1
• Filed: 12/27/2016
• Published: 06/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Perez, Elbert Stephen, Quay, Richard Herbert, Harrington, Dennis Todd, Wilday, Daniel Jeffrey, Vierregger, Weston Page, Brinda, David, Hunt, Andrew Charles, Lamparty, Jason Leopold, Espinosa, William Brian, Faunce, Jonathan D.
• Application Number:
  US15/390,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20170185261A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour

Abstract

A method for virtual reality (VR) includes sensing a dragging movement of a VR controller during a period that a trigger of the VR controller is triggered, and displaying a plurality of icons of a tool menu in a VR environment corresponding to a dragging trace of the dragging movement of the VR controller.

Claims

1. A method for virtual reality (VR) comprising:

sensing a dragging movement of a VR controller during a period that a trigger of the VR controller is triggered; and

displaying a plurality of icons of a tool menu in a VR environment corresponding to a dragging trace of the dragging movement of the VR controller.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

displaying a shortcut creating button corresponding to one of the icons of the tool menu;

sensing an actuating movement of the VR controller on the shortcut creating button;

in response to the actuating movement on the shortcut creating button, displaying a 3D object or an application icon corresponding to the one of the icons of the tool menu in a VR space, wherein the 3D object or the application icon is moved corresponding to the VR controller;

sensing a pin movement of the VR controller corresponding to a place; and

in response to the pin movement, placing the 3D object or the application icon at the place in the VR space.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein under a condition that all of the icons of the tool menu are displayed during the period that the trigger of the VR controller is triggered, the icons of the tool menu are displayed substantially along with the dragging trace of the dragging movement of the VR controller.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein under a condition that the trigger of the VR controller stops being triggered before all of the icons of the tool menu are displayed, and an amount of the displayed icons are greater than a predetermined threshold, the rest icons are displayed according to a vector pointed from the second-to-last displayed icon to the last displayed icon.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein under a condition that the trigger of the VR controller stops being triggered before all of the icons of the tool menu are displayed, and an amount of the displayed icons are less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, one or multiple displayed icons are shrunk until invisible.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

determining springback positions of the icons of the tool menu; and

animating the icons of the tool menu toward the springback positions;

wherein distances between original positions of the icons of the tool menu before the icons of the tool menu are animated toward the springback positions are greater than distances between the springback positions of the icons of the tool menu.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

displaying a button of a shortcut action corresponding to one of the icons of the tool menu, wherein the button of the shortcut action allows a user to access a feature corresponding to the one of the icons of the tool menu without open a tool corresponding to the one of the icons of the tool menu.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

sensing a position of a VR displaying device; and

displaying an arc menu corresponding to the position of the VR displaying device.

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

sensing an adjusting movement of the VR controller; and

adjusting a position of the arc menu corresponding to the adjusting movement of the VR controller.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

sensing an actuation of an add icon of the icons of the tool menu;

displaying an item picker illustrating a plurality of items;

sensing an actuation of one of the items in the item picker; and

adding a shortcut of the one of the items into the tool menu to serve as a new icon.

11. A virtual reality (VR) device comprising:

one or more processing components;

memory electrically connected to the one or more processing components; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processing components, the one or more programs comprising instructions for;

sensing a dragging movement of a VR controller during a period that a trigger of the VR controller is triggered; and

controlling a VR display device to display a plurality of icons of a tool menu in a VR environment corresponding to a dragging trace of the dragging movement of the VR controller.

12. The VR device as claimed in claim 11 further comprising instructions for:

controlling the VR display device to display a shortcut creating button corresponding to one of the icons of the tool menu;

sensing an actuating movement of the VR controller on the shortcut creating button;

in response to the actuating movement on the shortcut creating button, displaying a 3D object or an application icon corresponding to the one of the icons of the tool menu in a VR space, wherein the 3D object or the application icon is moved corresponding to the VR controller;

sensing a pin movement of the VR controller corresponding to a place; and

in response to the pin movement, placing the 3D object or the application icon at the place in the VR space.

13. The VR device as claimed in claim 11, wherein under a condition that all of the icons of the tool menu are displayed during the period that the trigger of the VR controller is triggered, the icons of the tool menu are displayed substantially along with the dragging trace of the dragging movement of the VR controller.

14. The VR device as claimed in claim 11, wherein under a condition that the trigger of the VR controller stops being triggered before all of the icons of the tool menu are displayed, and an amount of the displayed icons are greater than a predetermined threshold, the rest icons are displayed according to a vector pointed from the second-to-last displayed icon to the last displayed icon.

15. The VR device as claimed in claim 11, wherein under a condition that the trigger of the VR controller stops being triggered before all of the icons of the tool menu are displayed, and an amount of the displayed icons are less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, one or multiple displayed icons are shrunk until invisible.

16. The VR device as claimed in claim 11 further comprising instructions for:

determining springback positions of the icons of the tool menu; and

animating the icons of the tool menu toward the springback positions;

wherein distances between original positions of the icons of the tool menu before the icons of the tool menu are animated toward the springback positions are greater than distances between the springback positions of the icons of the tool menu.

17. The VR device as claimed in claim 11 further comprising instructions for:

controlling the VR display device to display a button of a shortcut action corresponding to one of the icons of the tool menu, wherein the button of the shortcut action allows a user to access a feature corresponding to the one of the icons of the tool menu without open a tool corresponding to the one of the icons of the tool menu.

18. The VR device as claimed in claim 11 further comprising instructions for:

sensing a position of a VR displaying device; and

controlling the VR display device to display an arc menu corresponding to the position of the VR displaying device.

19. The VR device as claimed in claim 18 further comprising instructions for:

sensing an adjusting movement of the VR controller; and

adjusting a position of the arc menu corresponding to the adjusting movement of the VR controller.

20. The VR device as claimed in claim 18 further comprising instructions for:

sensing an actuation of an add icon of the icons of the tool menu;

controlling the VR display device to display an item picker illustrating a plurality of items;

sensing an actuation of one of the items in the item picker; and

adding a shortcut of the one of the items into the tool menu to serve as a new icon.