Causing specific location of an object provided to a device

• US 10,139,925 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Pahud, Michel, Greborio, Pierre P. N., Hinckley, Kenneth P., Buxton, William A. S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Amadiz, Rodney
• Application Number:
  US13/830,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20140247207A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,084 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 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• 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 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors

Abstract

Techniques for causing a specific location of an object provided to a shared device. These techniques may include connecting the computing device with an individual device. The individual device may transmit the object to the shared device and displayed at an initial object position on a display of the shared device. The initial object position may be updated in response to movement of the individual device, and the object may be displayed at the updated object position on the display. The object position may be locked in response to a signal, and the object may be displayed at the locked object position.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for sharing an object, the method comprising:

receiving, by a shared device from a computing device, an object user-selected at the computing device for copying to the shared device;

displaying, on a display of the shared device, the object at an initial object position, the initial object position determined using a predetermined rule for a task the shared device is operating;

detecting, by the shared device and responsive to the receiving the object, a control position of the computing device from which the object was received using one or more cameras of the shared device to track the computing device;

detecting, by the shared device, a change in the control position of the computing device from which the object was received, the change in the control position corresponding to a user input to cause the object to move from the initial object position to an updated object position on the display;

updating, based at least in part on the detecting the user input, the object position of the object presented on the display of the shared device; and

locking the object at the updated object position on the display in response to a triggering event.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

establishing, by the shared device and before the receiving of the object, a connection with the computing device based at least in part on a distance between the display and the computing device or an orientation of a user operating the computing device in relation to the display.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising changing an orientation, contrast, or annotation of the object at the updated object position.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the one or more cameras operate as a motion sensor to track the computing device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising increasing a size of the object on the display responsive to determining the change in the control position of the computing device from which the object was received indicates the computing device has moved closer to the display.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the initial object position is determined independent of a location of the computing device.

7. A computing device comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory that contains instructions storing computer-executable instructions that, responsive to execution on one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

receiving, at the computing device, user selection of an object for copying to a shared device, the user selection comprising an input received via a user interface of the computing device;

transmitting the object from the computing device to the shared device;

transmitting object location information from the computing device to the shared device, the object location information indicating a display location for the object on a display of the shared device in relation to an image displayed on the display of the shared device; and

transmitting a command to the shared device, wherein the command causes the shared device to lock the object at a particular object position on the display responsive to an expiration of a predetermined amount of time.

8. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the acts further comprise:

receiving a selection a locked object to perform one or more operations on the locked object.

9. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the object location information is determined, based at least in part, on data from a camera of the computing device.

10. The computing device of claim 9, further comprising displaying at the computing device imagery captured by the camera overlaid with an image of the object to be positioned on the shared device;

wherein the transmitting the object location information comprises transmitting the imagery overlaid with the image of the object to the shared device.

11. The computing device of claim 7, wherein transmitting the object location information further comprises transmitting updated object location information.

12. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the predetermined amount of time comprises an amount of time that the computing device has not moved.

13. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the acts further comprise:

establishing a connection with the shared device; and

enabling presentation of the object at the particular object position on a user interface implemented by the shared device.

14. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the acts further comprise updating the particular object position after a different predetermined time period.

15. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the transmitting the object to the shared device comprises transmitting, in response to the user selection of the object for copying to the shared device, the object to the shared device.

16. A computing device for sharing an object, the computing device comprising:

one or more processors;

a motion sensor communicatively coupled to one or more processors, and configured to track a mobile device; and

memory to maintain a plurality of components executable by the one or more processors, the plurality of components comprising;

a communication module configured to establish a connection with the mobile device, and receive an object from the mobile device, the object having been user-selected at the mobile device for copying to the computing device,

a display module configured to display the object at an initial position, the initial position determined based on a task the computing device is operating,

a sensor module configured to detect a user input to interact with the object received by the mobile device on a display via a change in a control position of the mobile device from which the object was received using the motion sensor, and

a location module configured to update an object position of the object presented on the display in response to the user input, and to lock the object at the object position presented on the display in response to a triggering event.

17. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the display module is further configured to cause presentation of the object at the locked object position on the display after the object is locked.

18. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the plurality of components further comprise an editing module configured to edit the object based at least in part on movement of the mobile device from which the object was received or gestures of the user appendage associated with the mobile device.

19. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the motion sensor is further configured to track multiple mobile devices associated with multiple different users.

20. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the communication module is further configured to receive the triggering event from the mobile device.