Coordinate information updating device

• US 9,478,070 B2
• Filed: 04/18/2015
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Oki, Eiji, Yamanaka, Naoaki, Arakawa, Yutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, NICHOLAS J
• Application Number:
  US14/690,396
• Publication Number:
  US 20150221137A1
• Time in Patent Office: 556 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03543 Mice or pucks G06F3/03541 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• 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 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts

Abstract

An object can be displayed on a screen of a two-dimensional coordinate system based on xyz-coordinate values of the object in a three-dimensional coordinate system, operation information of a two-dimensional coordinate system with respect to the object can be received from an input device, and whether the operation information is in accordance with a predetermined rule or not is determined. If the operation information is not in accordance with the predetermined rule, xy-coordinate values of the object can be updated in accordance with the operation information. If the operation information is in accordance with the predetermined rule, a z-coordinate value of the object can be updated in accordance with the operation information.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a storage unit configured to store a coordinate value of an object in a three-dimensional coordinate system, the object configured to be displayed on a two-dimensional display;

an input interface configured to receive operation information of a two-dimensional coordinate system, the operation information usable to update xy-coordinate values of the three-dimensional coordinate system with respect to the object;

an operation information determination unit configured to determine whether the operation information is in accordance with a particular rule; and

an update unit configured, based on a result of the determination of the operation information determination unit, to;

update the xy-coordinate values of the three-dimensional coordinate system with respect to the object in accordance with the operation information, in response to the operation information not being in accordance with the particular rule, and

update a z-coordinate value of the three-dimensional coordinate system with respect to the object in accordance with the operation information to adjust a shape or position of the object in a z-coordinate direction and not update the xy-coordinate values of the three-dimensional coordinate system, in response to the operation information being in accordance with the particular rule.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the update unit is configured to update the z-coordinate value of the object based on at least one of a distance, a direction, or a speed of a trajectory of xy-coordinate values of the two-dimensional coordinate system corresponding to the operation information.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the particular rule is a rule that a trajectory of xy-coordinate values of the two-dimensional coordinate system corresponding to the operation information includes a particular trajectory.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the particular rule includes that the trajectory of the xy-coordinate values of the two-dimensional coordinate system corresponding to the operation information includes the particular trajectory within a particular period of time.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the particular rule includes that the trajectory of the xy-coordinate values of the two-dimensional coordinate system corresponding to the operation information continuously includes the particular trajectory a plurality of times.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the particular trajectory reaches an end point within a particular range via a point distant from a start point by a particular distance, a distance of the end point within the particular range from the start point being shorter than the particular distance.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the particular trajectory is an approximately-circular trajectory.

8. A method, comprising:

receiving operation information of a two-dimensional coordinate system, the operation information usable to update xy-coordinate values of an object in a three-dimensional coordinate system;

determining whether the operation information is in accordance with a particular rule; and

based on a result of the determination;

updating the xy-coordinate values of the object in the three-dimensional coordinate system in accordance with the operation information, in response to the operation information not being in accordance with the particular rule, and

updating a z-coordinate value of the object in the three-dimensional coordinate system in accordance with the operation information to adjust a shape or position of the object in a z-coordinate direction and not updating the xy-coordinate values of the object in the three-dimensional coordinate system, in response to the operation information being in accordance with the particular rule.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein updating the z-coordinate value of the object comprises updating the z-coordinate value of the object based on at least one of a distance, a direction, or a speed of a trajectory of xy-coordinate values of the two-dimensional coordinate system corresponding to the operation information.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the particular rule is a rule that a trajectory of xy-coordinate values of the two-dimensional coordinate system corresponding to the operation information includes a particular trajectory.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the particular rule includes that the trajectory of the xy-coordinate values of the two-dimensional coordinate system corresponding to the operation information includes the particular trajectory within a particular period of time.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the particular rule includes that the trajectory of the xy-coordinate values of the two-dimensional coordinate system corresponding to the operation information continuously includes the particular trajectory a plurality of times.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the particular trajectory reaches an end point within a particular range via a point distant from a start point by a particular distance, a distance of the end point within the particular range from the start point being shorter than the particular distance.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the particular trajectory is an approximately-circular trajectory.

15. A system, comprising:

a storage unit configured to store a coordinate value of an object in a three-dimensional coordinate system, the object configured to be displayed on a two-dimensional display;

an input interface configured to receive operation information of a two-dimensional coordinate system, the operation information including values of the two-dimensional coordinate system that are in a plane perpendicular to a z-coordinate direction of the three-dimensional coordinate system;

an operation information determination unit configured to determine whether the operation information is in accordance with a particular rule; and

an update unit configured, in response to the operation information being in accordance with the particular rule, to update a z-coordinate value of the three-dimensional coordinate system with respect to the object in accordance with the operation information to adjust a shape or position of the object in the z-coordinate direction and not update xy-coordinate values of the three-dimensional coordinate system.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the update unit is further configured, in response to the operation information not being in accordance with the particular rule, to update the xy-coordinate values of the three-dimensional coordinate system with respect to the object in accordance with the operation information and to not update the z-coordinate value of the three-dimensional coordinate system with respect to the object.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the update unit is configured to update the z-coordinate value of the three-dimensional coordinate system with respect to the object based on at least one of a distance, a direction, or a speed of a trajectory of the values of the operation information.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the particular rule is a rule that a trajectory of the values of the operation information includes a particular trajectory.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the particular rule includes that the trajectory of the values of the operation information includes the particular trajectory within a particular period of time.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the particular rule includes that the trajectory of the values of the operation information continuously includes the particular trajectory a plurality of times.