Approaches for three-dimensional object display

• US 10,067,634 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2013
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ames, Charley, Pilarinos, Dennis, Hill, Peter Frank, Perez, Sasha Mikhael, Gray, Timothy Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Sang H
• Application Number:
  US14/029,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20150082181A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,813 Days
• Field of Search: 345169, 715738, 715782
• 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 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser

Abstract

Approaches enable three-dimensional (3D) display and interaction with interfaces (such as a webpage, an application, etc.) when the device is operating in a 3D view mode. For example, interface elements can be highlighted, emphasized, animated, or otherwise altered in appearance, and/or arrangement in the renderings of those interfaces based at least in part on an orientation of the device or a position of a user using the device. Further, the 3D view mode can provide for an animated 3D departure and appearance of elements as the device navigates from a current page to a new page. Further still, approaches provide for the ability to specify 3D attributes (such as the appearance, action, etc.) of the interface elements. In this way, a developer of such interfaces can use information (e.g., tags, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) to specify a 3D appearance change to be applied to at least one interface element when the 3D view mode is activated.

Claims

1. A computing device, comprising:

a display screen;

at least one computing device processor;

a memory device including instructions that, when executed by the at least one computing device processor, enables the computing device to;

display a two-dimensional representation of a webpage on the display screen of the computing device, the webpage including a plurality of interface elements;

analyze a document model of the webpage to determine information associated with the plurality of interface elements;

associate a weight with individual interface elements of the plurality of interface elements based at least in part on user profile information associated with a user and the information associated with the plurality of interface elements and a page profile associated with a relevancy of the individual interface elements to control an appearance of respective interface elements;

determine a relative position of a user with respect to the computing device;

detect a change in orientation of the computing device with respect to the relative position of the user;

activate a three-dimensional view mode for the webpage to cause the two-dimensional representation of the webpage to appear in three-dimensions in response to the change in orientation of the computing device; and

display a three-dimensional representation of at least a subset of the plurality of interface elements while the webpage is displayed in the three-dimensional view mode, wherein a three-dimensional representation of at least one of the plurality of interface elements is displayed with at least one visual aspect being modified, based at least in part on the weight associated with each one of the plurality of interface elements, and the at least one visual aspect adjusting an appearance of the at least one interface element to at least partially obscure at least one other interface element having a lower weight, wherein the three-dimensional representation of at least the subset of the plurality of interface elements include selectable interface elements.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the computing device to:

detect a second change in orientation of the computing device; and

adjust an appearance of at least one interface element,

wherein adjusting an appearance of the at least one interface element includes adjusting at least one of a size, shape, color, shading, or blur of the at least one interface element.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the change in orientation of the computing device is determined based at least in part on one of images captured by a camera of the computing device or at least one sensor.

4. A computer implemented method, comprising:

displaying a two-dimensional representation of content on a display element of a computing device, the content including a plurality of objects;

analyzing a document model of an interface to determine information associated with each of the plurality of objects;

associating a weight with individual interface elements of the plurality of objects based at least in part on user profile information and the information associated with the plurality of objects and a page profile associated with a relevancy of the individual interface elements to control an appearance of respective interface elements;

determining a relative position of a user with respect to the computing device;

detecting a change in orientation of the computing device with respect to the relative position of the user; and

displaying a three-dimensional representation of at least a subset of the plurality of objects in response to detecting the change in orientation of the computing device, the three-dimensional representation of the subset of the plurality of objects being displayed with at least one visual aspect being modified, based at least in part on the weight associated with each one of the plurality of interface elements, and the at least one visual aspect adjusting an appearance of the at least one interface element to at least partially obscure at least one other interface element having a lower weight, wherein the three-dimensional representation of at least the subset of the plurality of objects include selectable interface elements.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein displaying the three-dimensional representation further includes:

wherein the plurality of objects includes at least one of an image, an advertisement, text, at least one link, or a header.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the user profile includes the user profile information indicative of at least one of a user'"'"'s web history or user preferences and the page profile includes information indicative of a default three-dimensional representation.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein displaying the three dimensional representation of the subset of the plurality of objects further comprises:

rendering the subset of the plurality of objects to appear stacked on one or more layers, wherein at least a first object of the subset of the plurality of objects appears to be positioned a distance above at least a second object of the subset of the plurality of objects.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein displaying the three-dimensional representation further includes:

rendering at least one object of the subset of the plurality of objects on at least one side of a three-dimensional shape, the at least one object being rendered to appear within the three-dimensional shape.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 8, further comprising:

detecting a change in at least one of an orientation or a position of the computing device using at least one sensor of the computing device; and

adjusting the rendering of the at least one object such that the at least one object appears to move from a first side of the three-dimensional shape to a second side of the three-dimensional shape.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 4, further comprising;

detecting a change in at least one of an orientation or position of the computing device using at least one sensor of the computing device; and

displaying a first set of content related to at least one object of the subset of the plurality of objects on a first side of the at least one object.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining a subsequent change in the orientation or position of the computing device;

animating a rotation of the at least one object to display a second side of the at least one object; and

displaying a second set of content related to the at least one object on the second side of the at least one object.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining a position of a user with respect to the computing device; and

rendering a three-dimensional representation of information displayed on a content page, wherein the information includes at least one of a time indicating a last time the content page was updated, a display element indicating a security level of the content page, or a time indicating a last time a user visited the content page,

wherein determining the position of the user includes capturing an image using at least one camera of the computing device and analyzing the image to determine the position of the user with respect to the computing device.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining a gaze direction of a user of the computing device;

determining a position on a display element based at least in part on a user'"'"'s gaze direction; and

adjusting an appearance of an object at the position to appear to be magnified relative to one other object displayed on the display element.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the content is displayed on a first webpage of a plurality of associated webpages, the method further comprising:

detecting a change in at least one of an orientation or position of the computing device using at least one sensor of the computing device; and

rendering a three-dimensional representation of a webpage map, the webpage map including a three-dimensional representation of the first webpage and a three-dimensional representation of a second webpage, the three-dimensional representation of the first webpage being connected to the three-dimensional representation of the second webpage using at least one three-dimensional line.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 14, wherein the three-dimensional representation of the first webpage is rendered to appear to be a distance above the three-dimensional representation of the second webpage, wherein a weight of the at least one three-dimensional line is based at least in part on an amount of network traffic between the first webpage and the second webpage.

16. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions executable by one or more processors to perform a set of operations comprising:

displaying a two-dimensional representation of content on a display element of a computing device, the content including a plurality of objects;

analyzing a document model of an interface to determine information associated with each of the plurality of objects;

associating a weight with individual interface elements of the plurality of objects based at least in part on user profile information and the information associated with the plurality of objects and a page profile associated with a relevancy of the individual interface elements to control an appearance of respective interface elements;

determining a relative position of a user with respect to the computing device;

detecting a change in orientation of the computing device with respect to the relative position of the user; and

displaying a three-dimensional representation of at least a subset of the plurality of objects in response to detecting the change in orientation of the computing device, the three-dimensional representation of the subset of the plurality of objects being displayed with at least one visual aspect being modified, based at least in part on the weight associated with each one of the plurality of interface elements, and the at least one visual aspect adjusting an appearance of the at least one interface element to at least partially obscure at least one other interface element having a lower weight, wherein the three-dimensional representation of at least the subset of the plurality of objects include selectable interface elements.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein displaying the three-dimensional representation of the at least the subset of the plurality of objects further includes causing the one or more processors to perform the operations of:

wherein the user profile includes information indicative of at least one of a user'"'"'s web history or user preferences and the page profile includes information indicative of a default three-dimensional representation.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, further comprising instructions executed by the one or more processors to perform the operations of:

detecting a change in at least one of an orientation or position of the computing device using at least one sensor of the computing device; and

adjusting the rendering of the subset of the plurality of objects to appear to stack, wherein at least a first object of the subset of the plurality of objects appears to be positioned a distance above at least a second object of the subset of the plurality of objects.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, further comprising instructions executed by the one or more processors to perform the operations of:

rendering at least one object of the subset of the plurality of objects on at least one side of a three-dimensional shape, the at least one object being rendered to appear within the three-dimensional shape;

detecting a change in at least one of an orientation or position of the computing device using at least one sensor of the computing device; and

adjusting the rendering of the at least one object such that the at least one object appears to move from a first side of the three-dimensional shape to a second side of the three-dimensional shape.