Apparatus and method for processing information using wireless communication terminal

• US 20060092866A1
• Filed: 05/12/2005
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Seong-woon, Cho, Joon-kee, Bang, Won-chul, Choi, Eun-seok, Kim, Dong-yoon, Kim, Chang-su
• Application Number:
  US11/127,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20060092866A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/310
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• 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 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 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

There are provided an information processing apparatus and method using a wireless communication terminal. The information processing apparatus includes: a wireless communication terminal generating displacement corresponding to its spatial movement by a user'"'"'s manipulation, as pointing information, and wirelessly transmitting the pointing information; and an information processor receiving the pointing information transmitted from the wireless communication terminal, analyzing the received pointing information to extract the displacement, and moving a cursor on a screen to a location corresponding to the extracted displacement. Therefore, by using a wireless communication terminal as a spatial pointing device for an information processor and performing wireless data communication between the wireless communication terminal and the information processor using the pointing function of the spatial pointing device, it is possible to easily and conveniently perform data communication between the information processor and the wireless communication terminal and easily control the information processor using the wireless communication terminal.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus using a wireless communication terminal, comprising:

a wireless communication terminal generating displacement corresponding to its spatial movement by a user'"'"'s manipulation, as pointing information, and wirelessly transmitting the pointing information; and

an information processor receiving the pointing information transmitted from the wireless communication terminal, analyzing the received pointing information to extract the displacement, and moving a cursor on a screen to a location corresponding to the extracted displacement.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication terminal comprises:

an inertia sensor sensing the spatial movement by the user and outputting the sensed result;

a first controller generating the pointing information using the sensed result output from the inertia sensor; and

a first wireless communication unit wirelessly transmitting the pointing information generated by the first controller to the information processor.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the information processor comprises:

a second wireless communication unit receiving the pointing information; and

a second controller analyzing the received pointing information to extract the displacement and moving the cursor to a location corresponding to the extracted displacement.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the wireless communication terminal is manipulated by the user, generates a click signal, and wirelessly transmits the click signal, and

the information processor receives the click signal transmitted from the wireless communication terminal and selects or executes information indicated by the cursor in response to the received click signal.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the wireless communication terminal further comprises a key manipulation unit which is manipulated by the user, generates the click signal, and outputs the generated click signal to the first wireless communication unit,

wherein the first wireless communication unit wirelessly transmits the click signal to the information processor, the second wireless communication unit receives the click signal, and the second controller selects or executes the information indicated by the cursor in response to the click signal.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the wireless communication terminal is manipulated by the user, generates a download request signal, wirelessly transmits the download request signal to the information processor, and stores information transmitted from the information processor, and

the information processor receives the download request signal transmitted from the wireless communication terminal and wirelessly transmits information indicated and selected by the cursor to the wireless communication terminal in response to the download request signal.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the information wirelessly transmitted to the wireless communication terminal has a format of a file.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the wireless communication terminal further comprises:

a key manipulation unit manipulated by the user to generate the download request signal, and outputting the generated download request signal to the first wireless communication unit; and

a first storage unit storing the information transmitted from the information processor,

wherein the first wireless communication unit transmits the download request signal to the information processor, receives the information transmitted from the information processor, and outputs the received information to the first controller, and the first controller outputs the information received from the first wireless communication unit to the first storage unit in response to the download request signal.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the key manipulation unit is manipulated by the user and generates an information erase signal, and

the first controller erases information corresponding to the information erase signal from the first storage unit.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the information processor further comprises a second storage unit storing a plurality of information,

the second wireless communication unit receives the download request signal transmitted from the wireless communication terminal and outputs the received download request signal to the second controller,

the second controller reads the information indicated and selected by the cursor from the second storage unit in response to the download request signal received from the second wireless communication unit, and outputs the read information to the second wireless communication unit, and

the second wireless communication unit wirelessly transmits the information read from the second storage unit to the wireless communication terminal.

11. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the wireless communication terminal reads information selected by the user among stored information and wirelessly transmits the read information to the information processor in response to an upload request signal generated by manipulating the mobile communication terminal by the user, and

the information processor receives the information transmitted from the wireless communication terminal, matches the received information with information selected or performed by the click signal, and stores the matched result.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the wireless communication terminal further comprises:

a first storage unit storing a plurality of information; and

a key manipulation unit manipulated by the user to generate a selection signal and the upload request signal and outputting the generated selection signal to the first controller,

wherein the first controller reads information, which the user wants to select, from the first storage unit, in response to the selection signal, and outputs the read information to the first wireless communication unit, and

the first wireless communication unit wirelessly transmits the information read from the first storage unit to the information processor in response to the upload request signal.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the information processor further comprises a second storage unit storing the information transmitted from the wireless communication terminal,

the second wireless communication unit receives the information transmitted from the wireless communication terminal, and

the second controller matches the information received to the second wireless communication unit with information selected or performed by the click signal and storing the matched result in the second storage unit.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information processor is a computer.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information processor is a digital television.

16. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the first and second wireless communication units wirelessly communicate with each other using Bluethooth.

17. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus including a wireless communication terminal and an information processor, comprising:

generating, as pointing information, displacement corresponding to spatial movement of the wireless communication terminal by a user'"'"'s manipulation;

wirelessly transmitting the generated pointing information to the information processor;

receiving, at the information processor, the pointing information wirelessly transmitted from the wireless communication terminal;

analyzing the received pointing information and extracting the displacement; and

moving a cursor on a screen to a location corresponding to the extracted displacement.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

generating a click signal by a user'"'"'s manipulation in the wireless communication terminal;

wirelessly transmitting the generated click signal from the wireless communication terminal to the information processor;

receiving the click signal transmitted from the wireless communication terminal; and

selecting or performing information indicated by the cursor in response to the received click signal.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

determining whether the user wants the information indicted by the cursor to be downloaded from the information processor to the wireless communication terminal;

if it is determined that the user wants the information indicted by the cursor to be downloaded from the information processor to the wireless communication terminal, wirelessly transmitting a message indicating that the user wants the information to be downloaded to the information processor;

receiving the message transmitted from the wireless communication terminal;

wirelessly transmitting information indicated and selected by the cursor to the wireless communication terminal in response to the received message; and

receiving information transmitted from the information processor; and

storing the received information.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

determining whether a user wants information to be uploaded from the wireless communication terminal to the information processor;

if it is determined that the user wants the information to be uploaded from the wireless communication terminal to the information processor, selecting the information, which the user wants to be uploaded, among stored information;

wirelessly transmitting the selected information to the information processor;

receiving the information transmitted from the wireless communication terminal; and

matching the received information with information selected or performed by the click signal and storing the matched result.