Mobile communication terminal, application program, image display control apparatus, electronic apparatus, and image display control method

• US 8,619,028 B2
• Filed: 07/04/2005
• Issued: 12/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
• Original Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
• Inventors: Kusuda, Hirohisa, Nishide, Yasuhiro, Tsujino, Daisuke, Yamazaki, Jun, Katayama, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kevin M
• Application Number:
  US11/632,749
• Publication Number:
  US 20080014987A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,102 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/157, 345/184, 345/158, 463 31- 33, 463/37, 463/38, 715/848, 715/850, 715/851, 715/856, 715/863, 455/566
• US Class Current: 345/158
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/105 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• 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: G06T 19/003 Navigation within 3D models or images
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/301 by computer-processed or -generated image
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal includes detection means that detects at least one of the position, orientation, attitude, and motion of a mobile communication terminal. Application program execution means can concurrently perform two direction changing processes different from each other according to two direction parameters by executing an application program, and determines at least one of the two direction parameters based on detection data detected by the detection means. The two direction changing processes are, for example, a visual point moving direction changing process for changing a moving direction of a visual point for viewing an image on a display means and a visual line direction changing process for changing a visual line direction. One of the direction parameters may be determined based on a key operation signal from key operation means.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

an application program execution unit that executes an application program by using direction parameters; and

a sensor that detects at least one of position, orientation, attitude, and motion of the mobile communication terminal, and generates detection data; and

a communication device that connects the mobile communication terminal to a display, wherein the application program execution unit performs two direction changing processes for the display different from each other according to two direction parameters, one of the two direction parameters corresponding to one of the two direction changing processes and the other of the two direction parameters corresponding to the other of the two direction changing processes, wherein the two direction changing processes are performed concurrently and independently from each other, wherein one of the two direction parameters is determined based on the detection data, and wherein the other of the two direction parameters is determined based on an input that is different from the detection data, wherein one of the two direction parameters is sent to the display as an image moving signal to cause movement of an image on the display, and wherein the other of the two direction parameters is sent to the display as a changing target direction signal different from the image moving signal in order to change a field of view displayed on the display.

2. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the field of view on the display is an imitative field of view viewing the inside of a virtual space from a visual point set in the virtual space toward a visual line direction.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a key operation unit including keys to be operated by a user, wherein the application program execution unit determines one of the two direction parameters based on the detection data detected by the sensor, and determines the other of the two direction parameters based on the input of a key operation signal from the key operation unit.

4. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminal operates as a pointing device for the display.

5. An application program, stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, for making a computer function, the computer being provided in a mobile communication terminal including a sensor that detects at least one of:

position, orientation, attitude, and motion of the mobile communication terminal and generates detection data, the application program comprising;

executable code that performs two direction changing processes, for a display, different from each other according to two direction parameters, one of the two direction parameters corresponding to one of the two direction changing processes and the other of the two direction parameters corresponding to the other of the two direction changing processes, wherein the two direction changing processes are performed concurrently and independently from each other;

executable code that determines one of the two direction parameters based on the detection data detected by the sensor, and determines the other of the two direction parameters based on an input that is different from the detection data; and

executable code that outputs signals based on the two direction parameters to the display connected to the mobile communication terminal, wherein one of the two direction parameters is sent to the display as an image moving signal to cause movement of an image on the display, and wherein the other of the two direction parameters is sent to the display as a changing target direction signal different from the image moving signal in order to change a field of view displayed on the display.

6. The application program according to claim 5, wherein the mobile communication terminal operates as a pointing device for the display.

7. The application program according to claim 5, wherein the executable code that determines the two direction parameters determines one of the two direction parameters based on the detection data detected by the sensor, and determines the other of the two direction parameters based on the input of a key operation signal.

8. The application program according to claim 5, wherein the field of view on the display is an imitative field of view viewing the inside of a virtual space from a visual point set in the virtual space toward a visual line direction.