Intuitive mobile device interface to virtual spaces
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- detecting the absolute motion of a mobile device in multi-dimensional space;
measuring the time of the motion; and
modifying a display of the mobile device based on the detected motion of the mobile device.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a simple to use intuitive interface for mobile devices and, in particular, to a method and apparatus to permit the motion of a mobile device to serve as an input to the mobile device. In various embodiments, the relative and/or absolute motion, distance and/or acceleration for instance, of the mobile device may be mapped to correspond to particular commands. In one embodiment, this permits the display screen of the mobile device to serve as a virtual window to view a large data set by modifying the view of the displayed data according to the motion of the mobile device. In another embodiment, the present invention allows the user to navigate a virtual space, displayed on the screen of the mobile device, by the motion of the mobile device in real space. Additionally, the user may also control the different displayed views of virtual objects by the relative and/or absolute motion of the mobile device.
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33 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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detecting the absolute motion of a mobile device in multi-dimensional space;
measuring the time of the motion; and
modifying a display of the mobile device based on the detected motion of the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
correlating the motion of the mobile device to one or more commands.
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5. The method of claim 4 wherein the one or more commands include display altering instructions.
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6. The method of claim 1 wherein tilting the mobile device along its long axis causes a displayed document to scroll until the tilt is stopped.
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7. The method of claim 1 wherein moving the mobile device along an axis perpendicular to the display screen causes the displayed data to zoom in if the motion is in a first direction and zoom out if the motion is in a second direction.
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8. The method of claim 1 wherein moving the mobile device from a first position in space to a second position in space causes the view of a displayed object to change from a first position to a second position.
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9. The method of claim 1 wherein the absolute gesture-based motion of the mobile device is detected.
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10. The method of claim 1 wherein detecting the absolute motion further comprises placing multiple reference markers on the mobile device and optically detecting the multiple reference markers with an apparatus separate from the mobile device when the mobile device is at first position and at a second position thereby determining the mobile device'"'"'s motion.
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11. A device comprising:
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a processing unit to receive input signals and generate output signals;
a display screen, coupled to the processing unit, to display information according to signals received from the processing unit; and
a motion detection system communicatively coupled to the processing unit, to detect the absolute motion of the device in multi-dimensional space, to measure the time of the motion, and to provide corresponding signals to the processing unit. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A system comprising:
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means for detecting the absolute motion of a mobile device in multi-dimensional space;
means for measuring the time of the motion; and
means for modifying what is displayed on a display screen of the mobile device based on the detected motion of the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A machine-readable medium comprising at least one instruction to correlate motion in real space to motion in virtual space, which when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
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detecting the absolute motion of a mobile device in multi-dimensional space;
measuring the time of the motion; and
correlating the motion of the mobile device to a one or more display altering commands. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33)
modifying the display of the mobile device based on the one or more display altering commands.
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31. The machine-readable medium as recited by claim 29 wherein detecting the motion of a mobile device includes detecting gesture-based motions of the mobile device.
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32. The machine-readable medium as recited by claim 29 wherein tilting the mobile device along its long axis causes a displayed document to scroll until the tilt is stopped.
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33. The machine-readable medium as recited by claim 29 wherein moving the mobile device along an axis perpendicular to a display screen causes the displayed data to zoom in if the motion is in a first direction and zoom out if the motion is in a second direction.
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