METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR BROWSING INFORMATION ON A DISPLAY

• US 20100153891A1
• Filed: 02/23/2010
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Motionip LLC
• Inventors: HANNULA, Manne, VAANANEN, Johannes
• Application Number:
  US12/710,944
• Publication Number:
  US 20100153891A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/864
• 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 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• 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 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• 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 3/1407 General aspects irrespective of display type, e.g. determination of decimal point position, display with fixed or driving decimal point, suppression of non-significant zeros
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0261 in the context of movement of objects on the screen or movement of the observer relative to the screen

Abstract

In one embodiment, a program is provided for browsing information on a hand-held device having a display. The program includes (1) displaying a portion of the page residing around the predefined point and having a shape similar to the shape of the display, (2) generating a mirror line by mirroring the reference line in relation to a line that is perpendicular to the display surface and travels via the reference point in response to tilting of the hand-held device in relation to the spatial initial state, (3) defining a hit point (xn,yn) where the mirror line hits the virtual surface and the page containing information; and (4) showing on the display at least a portion of the page around the hit point and having a shape similar to the shape of the display, the position of the hit point on the page to correspond to the position of the reference point on the display.

Claims

1. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium, wherein the computer program executes the program recorded in a computer-readable medium to perform a method for browsing information on a display of a hand-held device, the computer program:

displaying a portion of the page residing around the predefined point and having a shape similar to the shape of the display,

generating a mirror line by mirroring the reference line in relation to a line that is perpendicular to the display surface and travels via the reference point in response to tilting of the hand-held device in relation to the spatial initial state,

defining a hit point (xn,yn) where the mirror line hits the virtual surface and the page containing information; and

showing on the display at least a portion of the page around the hit point and having a shape similar to the shape of the display, the position of the hit point on the page to correspond to the position of the reference point on the display.

2. A computer program according to claim 1, wherein the computer program sets the initial state in a certain predefined angle in relation to the earth surface.