Electronic device and contents generation method thereof

• US 9,459,785 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2012
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jintae
• Primary Examiner(s): Chauhan, Ulka
• Assistant Examiner(s): Valdez, Patrick F
• Application Number:
  US13/543,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20130069937A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,551 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable 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: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/117 the virtual viewpoint locations being selected by the viewers or determined by viewer tracking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/128 Adjusting depth or disparity
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/361 Reproducing mixed stereoscopic images; Reproducing mixed monoscopic and stereoscopic images, e.g. a stereoscopic image overlay window on a monoscopic image background

Abstract

An electronic device and a contents generation method thereof are provided. A first mode and a second mode are provided. In the first mode, a position of at least one object is determined in response to depth information of the at least one object and the at least one object is displayed at the determined position. In the second mode, contents including the at least one object are displayed as a stereoscopic image. Conversion between the first mode and the second mode is controlled on the basis of a motion of the electronic device.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display module including a panel for generating stereoscopic vision; and

a controller configured to;

cause the display module to display a plurality of objects in a first area of the display module;

receive a first drag input to move at least one object of the plurality of objects from the first area to a second area of the display module;

cause the display module to display the moved at least one object in the second area;

receive a user input to enter a first mode for editing a 3D content in a virtual stereoscopic space comprising the moved at least one object, wherein the 3D content is a front view of the virtual stereoscopic space visualized in a front direction;

cause the display module to display a top view of the virtual stereoscopic space visualized in a top direction, wherein the top view comprises the moved at least one object visualized in the top direction, wherein the moved at least one object is disposed in the top view based on depth information of the moved at least one object, wherein a side of the top view represents a plurality of increasing depth levels;

cause the display module to display a reference line in the top view, wherein the reference line is a line connecting points of predetermined reference depth;

cause the display module to display a preview image of the front view on a predetermined area of the top view in the first mode;

receive a second drag input to move a first object of the moved at least one object from a first position to a second position in the top view;

change depth information for displaying the first object in the 3D content according to the depth level that is associated with the second position of the first object within the top view; and

cause the display module to change the preview image according to the changed depth information.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to enter a second mode for displaying the 3D content including the moved at least one object on the basis of the depth information of the moved at least one object.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, further comprising a sensing unit configured to sense a motion of the electronic device, and

wherein the controller is further configured to control conversion between the first mode and the second mode on the basis of the motion of the electronic device.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein when the depth information is changed in the first mode, the controller changes a display size of the first object on the basis of the changed depth information.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a user input unit configured to receive a user input, wherein the controller is further configured to add an object to the 3D content or delete an object included in the 3D content in response to the user input received in the first mode.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein when a stereoscopic object is added into the 3D content in the first mode, the controller is further configured to display the stereoscopic object at a position determined in response to depth information of the stereoscopic object.

7. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein when a 2D object is added into the 3D content in the first mode, the controller is further configured to display the 2D object at a position determined according to predetermined depth information.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller determines a distance between the displayed location of the first object and the reference line in response to the depth information.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein when the first object is moved in response to a user input received in the first mode, the controller is further configured to change a display characteristic of the first object according to movement of the first object, and to display the preview image of the 3D content to reflect the changed display characteristic of the first object.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

cause the display module to display the plurality of objects in the virtual stereoscopic space that is included within a first region of the display module;

cause the display module to change the displayed location of the first object within the first region of the display module in response to the input; and

cause the display module to display a second plurality of objects as stereoscopic images in the stereoscopic space that is included within a second region of the display module simultaneously with the displaying of the plurality of objects in the virtual stereoscopic space, wherein each object of the plurality of objects in the virtual stereoscopic space corresponds to an object of the second plurality of objects, and wherein changes in the displayed location and depth level of the first object within the first region corresponds to changes in displayed location and depth level of a corresponding first object, of the second plurality of objects, in the stereoscopic space within the second region.