INTERNET BROWSER AND ASSOCIATED CONTENT DEFINITION SUPPORTING MIXED TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAYS

• US 20110161843A1
• Filed: 12/30/2010
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP PTE Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Broadcom Corporation (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bennett, James D., Karaoguz, Jeyhan
• Application Number:
  US12/982,140
• Publication Number:
  US 20110161843A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/00 Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/24 using apertured or refractive resolving means on screens or between screen and eye
• 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 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/023 Display panel composed of stacked panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/028 by changing the viewing angle properties, e.g. widening the viewing angle, adapting the viewing angle to the view direction
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/04 Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/00 Stereoscopic video systems; Multi-view video systems; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/139 Format conversion, e.g. of frame-rate or size
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/161 Encoding, multiplexing or demultiplexing different image signal components for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/189 Recording image signals; Reproducing recorded image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/194 Transmission of image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/305 using lenticular lenses, e.g. arrangements of cylindrical lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/31 using parallax barriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/312 the parallax barriers being placed behind the display panel, e.g. between backlight and spatial light modulator [SLM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/315 the parallax barriers being time-variant
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/332 : Displays for viewing with the aid of special glasses or head-mounted displays [HMD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/351 : for displaying simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/359 : Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/361 : Reproducing mixed stereoscopic images; Reproducing mixed monoscopic and stereoscopic images, e.g. a stereoscopic image overlay window on a monoscopic image background
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/366 : using viewer tracking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/383 : for tracking with gaze detection, i.e. detecting the lines of sight of the viewer's eyes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 : Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/403 : the images being monoscopic
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/405 : the images being stereoscopic or three dimensional
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 : Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 : additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 : Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 7/303 : Tracking of listener position or orientation

Abstract

A browser architecture and associated content definition are provided that support display on a display screen of two-dimensional content and three-dimensional content. Web page content is received and parsed. Two-dimensional content to be displayed in a first region of the screen is identified. A first configuration request is communicated to cause a first configuration of the first region of the screen to support the two-dimensional content. Three-dimensional content to be displayed in a second region of the screen is identified. A second configuration request is communicated to cause a second configuration of the second region of the screen to support the three-dimensional content.

Claims

1. A method used by a browser architecture to support display on a screen of two-dimensional content and three-dimensional content, the browser architecture receiving web page content, the method comprising:

parsing the web page content;

identifying two-dimensional content to be displayed in a first region of the screen;

communicating a first configuration request to at least attempt to cause a first configuration of the first region of the screen to support the two-dimensional content;

identifying three-dimensional content to be displayed in a second region of the screen; and

communicating a second configuration request to at least attempt to cause a second configuration of the second region of the screen to support the three-dimensional content, the first configuration being different from the second configuration.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying at least part of the second configuration via interaction with a file containing the three-dimensional content.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying at least part of the second configuration via interaction with a server.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying at least part of the second configuration from the web page content.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the web page content has a language format, and the identification of the at least part of the second configuration involves extracting configuration information via the language format.

6. A browser architecture that processes textually formatted content and supports display on a screen of two-dimensional content and three-dimensional content, the browser architecture comprising:

a first browser portion that identifies a two-dimensional element and a three-dimensional element by parsing the textually formatted content;

a second browser portion that identifies a screen configuration to be applied to a first region of the screen, the second browser portion delivering a configuration request based on the identification of the screen configuration to at least attempt to cause a reconfiguration of the screen within the first region; and

a third browser portion that manages retrieval and display of the three-dimensional element within the second region of the screen.

7. The browser architecture of claim 6, wherein the first browser portion comprising an engine, and the third portion comprising a three dimensional presentation component.

8. The browser architecture of claim 7, wherein the three dimensional presentation component comprises a media player.

9. The browser architecture of claim 8, wherein the media player is an application that assists the engine.

10. The browser architecture of claim 6, wherein the first browser portion and the second browser portion both comprise an engine.

11. A method used by a browser architecture, the method comprising:

identifying first tag information associated with two-dimensional content, the two-dimensional content intended for both a left eye and a right eye of a viewer;

identifying second tag information associated with three-dimensional content, the three-dimensional content having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion intended for the left eye of the viewer and the second portion intended for the right eye of the viewer, the first portion being a first camera view and the second portion being a second camera view;

causing the presentation of the two-dimensional content in a first region of a screen; and

causing the presentation of the three-dimensional content in a second region of the screen.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the causing the presentation of the three-dimensional content of the screen comprises delivering a configuration request to attempt to cause a reconfiguration of a region of the screen to support the three-dimensional content.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the second tag information comprises an external link to three-dimensional content.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the first tag information comprises textual information.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising causing display of three-dimensional browser control elements.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein said causing the presentation of the three-dimensional content in a second region of the screen comprises:

responding to the second tag information by causing a control signal to be generated and received by a display driver, the control signal enabling the three-dimensional content to be displayed in the second region of the screen.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein said causing the presentation of the three-dimensional content in a second region of the screen comprises:

loading an information resource that includes the three-dimensional content, the information resource including at least one of a three-dimensional web page, a three-dimensional image, or a three-dimensional video.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein said causing the presentation of the three-dimensional content in a second region of the screen comprises:

executing a compiled script to generate the three-dimensional content to be displayed in the second region.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the first region is a first tab of a browser window displayed in the screen, and the second region is a second tab of the browser window, the method further comprising:

displaying the two-dimensional content in the first tab of the browser window; and

displaying the three-dimensional content in the second tab of the browser window.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the first region is a first frame of a browser window displayed in the screen, and the second region is a second frame of the browser window, the method further comprising:

displaying the two-dimensional content in the first frame of the browser window; and

displaying the three-dimensional content in the second frame of the browser window.