Direction based electronic device for displaying object and method thereof

• US 10,642,041 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2015
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Han, Woo Jung, Hong, Seung Hwan, Kim, So Ra, Yoon, Seo Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Edouard, Patrick N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shen, Peijie
• Application Number:
  US14/934,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20160132131A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,642 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• 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

Abstract

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a processor configured to implement an execution screen area which is larger than a size of a display of the electronic device and comprises at least one object, and a display module configured to display, on a display of the electronic device, a display area which is at least a part of the implemented execution screen area. The processor determines a location of the at least one object based on a direction to which the electronic device faces and an attribute of the at least one object.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display; and

a processor configured to;

implement an execution screen area which is larger than a size of the display,

display, on the display, a first display area which is a first part of the implemented execution screen area based on a direction to which the electronic device faces, the first display area including a first object, the first object including an anchor area and a remaining area such that the anchor area and the remaining area are displayed in the first display area,

display, on the display, a second display area, which is a second part of the implemented execution screen area, based on a change in the direction to which the electronic device faces, and

attach the anchor area of the first object to an edge of the second display area when at least a portion of the remaining area of the first object is located outside of the second display area due to the change in the direction to which the electronic device faces such that the first object including the anchor area and the remaining area moves together with the second display area and the anchor area is maintained on the second display area during movement of the second display area.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein an attribute of the first object comprises at least one of a type of the first object, a size of the first object, the number of the first object, and a method of arranging the first object.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein a type of the first object comprises at least one of image contents, video contents, an application execution screen, or a notification which informs a user of an event arising from the application.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

display, on the first display area, a second object, and

display, on the second display area, the second object based on the change in the direction to which the electronic device faces.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to, if the second object is included in the second display area, maintains a location of the second object within the execution screen area.

6. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to, if the second object is not included in the second display area, change a location of the second object within the execution screen area for a part of the second object to be displayed on the second display area.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to, display, on the first display area, a third object which is newly generated based on an operation of the electronic device.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to maintain a location on the display, on which the third object is displayed on the second display area, based on the change in the direction to which the electronic device faces.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to display a pointer on the display, and

perform an operation stored in a memory with respect to the first object when a location of the pointer corresponds to a location of the first object in response to the change in the direction to which the electronic device faces.

10. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein if the third object is in a plurality of objects, the plurality of the objects are arranged within the first display area.

11. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a wearable device which comprises at least one of a head mounted display (HMD), a head mounted theater (HMT), and a head up display (HUD), or a device which is coupled with the wearable device.

12. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

a user input receiving module configured to receive an input about the change in the direction to which the electronic device faces, using at least one sensor,

wherein the processor is further configured to determine the second display area within the execution screen area based on the input.

13. A method performed on an electronic device, the method comprising:

implementing, using a processer, an execution screen area which is larger than a size of a display of the electronic device,

displaying, using the processer, on the display, a first display area which is a first part of the implemented execution screen area based on a direction to which the electronic device faces, the first display area including a first object, the first object including an anchor area and a remaining area such that the anchor area and the remaining area are displayed in the first display area,

displaying, using a processer, on the display, a second display area, which is a second part of the implemented execution screen area, based on a change in the direction to which the electronic device faces, and

attaching the anchor area of the first object to an edge of the second display area when at least a portion of the remaining area of the first object is located outside of the second display area due to the change in direction to which the electronic device faces such that the first object including the anchor area and the remaining area moves together with the second display area and the anchor area is maintained on the second display area during movement of the second display area.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first display comprises a plurality of objects which are newly generated based on an operation of the electronic device, and further comprising:

arranging the plurality of objects within the first display area.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein displaying the second display area comprises:

receiving an input about the change in the direction to which the electronic device faces, using at least one sensor;

determining the second display area within the execution screen area based on the received input; and

displaying the second display area on the display.

16. An electronic device comprising:

a display;

at least one sensor configured to detect a direction the electronic device faces;

a processor configured to;

implement an execution screen area which is larger than a size of the display, the execution screen area including at least a virtual object with an anchor area and a remaining area;

detect a first direction the electronic device faces using the at least one sensor;

determine, based on the first direction, a first display area which is a part of the implemented execution screen area to be displayed on the display; and

determine a location of the virtual object such that the anchor area of the virtual object is attached to an edge of the first display area when at least a portion of the remaining area of the virtual object is outside the first display area due to movement of the first display area within the execution screen area such that the virtual object including the anchor area and the remaining area moves together with the first display area.