Method for providing GUI using motion and display apparatus applying the same

• US 9,841,869 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2013
• Issued: 12/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Shim, Jung-hyun, Park, Yong-gook
• Primary Examiner(s): Yi, Rinna
• Application Number:
  US14/145,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20140115537A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,442 Days
• 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 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• 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 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• 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 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

A method of displaying a three-dimensional (3D) graphical user interface (GUI) on a mobile phone, including controlling, by a processor of the mobile phone, a display of the mobile device to display a first face of a 3D GUI, the first face comprising a GUI menu of the GUI, and a second face of the 3D GUI, the second face comprising image information of the GUI; detecting, by a sensor of the mobile phone, a physical slanting of the mobile phone; and displaying the image information of second face of the 3D GUI as being slanted to correspond to the physical slanting.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a three-dimensional (3D) graphical user interface (GUI) on a mobile phone, the 3D GUI comprising a plurality of faces on which displayed information is displayed at different viewing angles according to physical slanting of the mobile phone, the method comprising:

displaying a first face among the plurality of faces of the 3D GUI on a display of the mobile phone, the first face comprising a first plurality of objects of a GUI menu of the GUI, according to a viewing angle corresponding to the physical slanting of the mobile phone that indicates the mobile phone is not slanted;

if a first object among the first plurality of objects of the GUI menu is selected, displaying a first execution screen corresponding to the first object on the first face, wherein the first execution screen comprises an application corresponding to the first object that is currently executed by the mobile phone while the mobile phone is not slanted;

controlling, by a processor of the mobile phone, the display of the mobile phone to display the first face of the 3D GUI according to a viewing angle corresponding to the physical slanting of the mobile phone, and a second face among the plurality of faces of the 3D GUI according to the viewing angle, the second face comprising a sub-menu GUI corresponding to the application, the sub-menu GUI comprising a second plurality of objects; and

if a second object among the second plurality of objects of the sub-menu GUI is selected on the second face among the plurality of faces of the 3D GUI, displaying a second execution screen of the application controlled according to selection of the second object of the sub-menu GUI while the mobile phone is slanted.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical slanting comprises a slanting angle and a direction of the physical slanting.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining the viewing angle to be applied to correspond to the physical slanting.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the 3D GUI is a 3D parallelpiped GUI.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first face is a bottom face of the 3D parallelpiped GUI.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a size of the first face is equal to a size of a display of the mobile phone when the physical slanting of the mobile phone indicates that the mobile phone is not slanted.