Information handling system non-linear user interface

• US 9,921,644 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2015
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Daguet, Christophe, Pacheco, Roman J., Welker, Mark W., Sanaullah, Abu S., Boyd, Edward L., Knoppert, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus, Ligameri, Mark R., Acevedo, Daniel, Ancona, Rocco
• Primary Examiner(s): Amadiz, Rodney
• Application Number:
  US14/691,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20160313797A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,064 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0393 Accessories for touch pads or touch screens, e.g. mechanical guides added to touch screens for drawing straight lines, hard keys overlaying touch screens or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0425 using a single imaging device like a video camera for tracking the absolute position of a single or a plurality of objects with respect to an imaged reference surface, e.g. video camera imaging a display or a projection screen, a table or a wall surface, on which a computer generated image is displayed or projected tracking a projected light spot to determine a position on a display surface G06F3/0386
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0426 tracking fingers with respect to a virtual keyboard projected or printed on the surface virtual keyboards on touch screens G06F3/04886
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/042 for monitor identification
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/047 using display data channel standard [DDC] communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/31 Projection devices for colour picture display , e.g. using electronic spatial light modulators [ESLM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3194 including sensor feedback

Abstract

A non-linear user interface display presented at a desktop conforms to dimensions of a user detected by a depth camera, such as by presenting the user interface along an arc having a radius determined from a reach of the user detected by the depth camera. Windows presented in the arc vary in size based upon their position relative to a user focus, such as by detecting a user gaze direction or by comparing position to a central display mat. User gestures control presentation of visual images in the arc, such rotating visual image windows in a circular manner around the arc radius and to different orientations in the arc relative to the user.

Claims

1. A method for presenting a non-linear information handling system user interface at a desktop, the method comprising:

detecting a user position relative to a display device;

applying the user position to define an arc at the desktop, the arc substantially centered at the user position;

presenting information generated by the information handling system as visual images at the desktop along the arc;

detecting a position of a display mat disposed on the desktop;

positioning the arc to pass through the display mat;

presenting the visual images with the display mat and with a projector, the projector presenting visual images along the arc distal the display mat;

detecting a gesture proximate the desktop; and

in response to the gesture, rotating visual images along the arc, the rotating transferring at least one visual image from presentation by the projector to presentation by the display mat.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein:

detecting a user position further comprises analyzing the user to determine a reach radius relative to the user; and

applying the user position to define the arc further comprises defining the arc to have a radius about the user position of a length related to the reach radius.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein:

detecting a user position further comprises analyzing an image of the user with a depth camera; and

presenting information generated by the information handling system with a projector.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

presenting the visual images as plural windows along the arc;

determining a focus point of the user relative to the arc;

defining a focus size of one or more of the plural windows located proximate the focus point; and

tapering a non-focus size of other of the plural windows as the distance of the other of the plural windows increases from the focus point.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

determining movement of the focus point by tracking a gaze direction of the user; and

adjusting the presenting of the plural windows to maintain the focus size at the one or more of the plural windows proximate the gaze direction.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

rotating a totem on the desktop; and

in response to rotating the totem, rotating the visual images along the arc.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein presenting information generated by the information handling system as visual images at the desktop further comprises:

presenting plural windows along the arc;

orientating the plural windows to face a center point of the arc; and

selectively rotating one or more of the plural windows to another orientation.