Mobile device with shakeable snow rendering

• US 20070287477A1
• Filed: 06/12/2006
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MUSE Green Investments LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Available For Licensing
• Inventors: Tran, Bao Q.
• Application Number:
  US11/451,173
• Publication Number:
  US 20070287477A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42017 Customized ring-back tones

Abstract

Systems and methods render graphics on a mobile device by accepting a request for a first multimedia file (video or picture); rendering the first multimedia file; accepting a request for a second multimedia file; transitioning the first multimedia file into the second multimedia file; and rendering the second multimedia file. The transition may include snow-flake effects.

Claims

1. A method to render graphics on a mobile device, comprising:

requesting a first multimedia file using an accelerometer;

rendering the first multimedia file;

requesting a second multimedia file using the accelerometer;

transitioning the first multimedia file into the second multimedia file; and

rendering the second multimedia file.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising displaying portions of the multimedia file as snow flakes.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transitioning comprises converting one or more frames of the first multimedia file into screen fragments and reassembling the screen fragments over one or more frames of the second multimedia file.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising downloading one or more multimedia files from a server to the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein each multimedia file comprises a microchunk.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising capturing a multimedia file using a camera on the mobile device and editing the multimedia file.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the multimedia file is edited on the mobile device or on a personal computer.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia file comprises one of:

a sound clip, an image, a video clip.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the transitioning comprises cut, fade, crossfade, wipes, digital effect, morphing.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises one of:

a plain old mobile device service (POTS) mobile device, a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) mobile device, a cellular mobile device, a WiFi mobile device, a WiMAX mobile device.

11. The method of claim 1, comprising performing automated position determination with one of:

triangulation based location determination, WiFi location determination, GPS, assisted GPS, GLONASS, assisted GLONASS, GALILEO, assisted GALILEO.

12. The method of claim 1, comprising receiving a search query and searching one or more taxonomic databases based on the search query and returning a search result to the mobile device, wherein the taxonomic databases comprise one or more of:

music, food, restaurant, movie, map, mobile device directory, news, blogs, weather, stocks, calendar, sports, horoscopes, lottery, messages, traffic, direction.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the multimedia files comprises one of:

a video electronic mail (video email), a video mail, a video message, a video recording, a video conference.

14. The method of claim 1, comprising transmitting multimedia files using MMS.

15. A mobile device, comprising:

a gesture input device;

a display; and

a processor having code to receive a request for a first multimedia file;

code to render the first multimedia file;

code to receive a request for a second multimedia file;

code to transition the first multimedia file into the second multimedia file; and

code to render the second multimedia file.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the gesture input device comprises one of:

an accelerometer, a tilt sensor, a gyroscope, a skin resistance sensor, an electro-myogram (EMG) sensor, an Electro-encephalogram (EEG) sensor, and Electro-oculogram (EOG) sensor, an electrocardiogram (EKG) sensor.

17. The device of claim 15, wherein the processor converts one or more frames of the first multimedia file into screen fragments and reassembling the screen fragments over one or more frames of the second multimedia file.

18. The device of claim 15, comprising a server to download one or more multimedia files to the mobile device.

19. The device of claim 15, wherein each multimedia file comprises a microchunk.

20. The device of claim 15, comprising a camera to capture a multimedia file and code to edit the multimedia file.