VISUALLY REPRESENTING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT

• US 20120109513A1
• Filed: 11/01/2010
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Belimpasakis, Petros
• Granted Patent: US 9,026,359 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/418
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3638 including 3D objects and buildings three dimensional [3D] modelling, e.g. data description of 3D objects G06T17/00; geographic models G06T17/05
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/20 Perspective computation

Abstract

A method comprising:

• • presenting a three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to a user by using a selected one of a plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to a current position on a current route;
  • detecting a gesture user input comprising a characteristic that changes in time, and changing the current position on the current route to a new position on a route in response to the gesture user input wherein a first characteristic of the gesture user input determines a direction along the current route of the new position relative to the current position and a second characteristic of the gesture user input determines the new position; and
  • presenting the three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to the user by using a newly selected one of the plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to the new position.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting a three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to a user by using a selected one of a plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to a current position on a current route;

detecting a gesture user input comprising a characteristic that changes in time, and changing the current position on the current route to a new position on a route in response to the gesture user input wherein a first characteristic of the gesture user input determines a direction along the current route of the new position relative to the current position and a second characteristic of the gesture user input determines the new position; and

presenting the three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to the user by using a newly selected one of the plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to the new position.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the new position is at one of a plurality of predetermined waypoints.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the new position is at a selected one of a plurality of predetermined waypoints, the section being dependent upon the gesture user input.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the new position corresponds to a waypoint positioned adjacent the current route on a side of the current route determined by the gesture user input.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the new position is an intersection of routes.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the new position corresponds to an intersection between the current route and an intersecting route that extends from the current route in a second direction determined by the gesture user input.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the new position corresponds to an intersection between the current route and an intersecting route, wherein the intersecting route is a next intersecting route in the direction along the current route of the new position relative to the current position.

8. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the new position corresponds to an intersection between the current route and an intersecting route, wherein the intersecting route is a next intersecting route in the direction along the current route of the new position relative to the current position that is navigable in a second direction determined by the gesture user input.

9. A method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising using a current mode to determine whether a route is navigable in the second direction.

10. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the new position corresponds to an intersection between the current route and an intersecting route, wherein the intersecting route is a next intersecting route in the direction along the current route of the new position relative to the current position that satisfies a constraint imposed by at least one constraining characteristic of the gesture user input.

13. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the change in characteristic of the gesture input is a result of a change in direction of a user input.

14. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gesture user input comprises a first characteristic that changes in time to a second characteristic, wherein the first characteristic has a first direction that determines the direction along the current route of the new position relative to the current position and the second characteristic has a second direction that determines the new position.

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18. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform

presenting a three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to a user by using a selected one of a plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to a current position on a current route;

detecting a gesture user input comprising a characteristic that changes in time, and changing the current position on the current route to a new position in response to the gesture user input wherein a first characteristic of the gesture user input determines a direction along the current route of the new position relative to the current position and a second characteristic of the gesture user input determines the new position; and

re-presenting the three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to the user by using a newly selected one of the plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to the new position.

19. An apparatus as claimed in claim 18, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to select, in dependence upon the gesture user input, one of a plurality of predetermined waypoints as the new position.

20. An apparatus as claimed in claim 18, wherein the gesture user input comprises a first characteristic that changes in time to a second characteristic, wherein the first characteristic has a first direction that determines the direction along the current route of the new position relative to the current position and the second characteristic has a second direction that determines the new position.

21. An apparatus as claimed in claim 20 wherein the new position corresponds to a waypoint positioned adjacent the current route on a side of the current route determined by the second direction

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24. A method comprising:

presenting a three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to a user by using a selected one of a plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to a current position on a current route;

detecting a gesture user input comprising a characteristic that changes in time, and navigating from the current position on the current route to a new position in response to the gesture user input wherein the new position is at a predetermined waypoint selected in dependence upon the gesture input; and

re-presenting the three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to the user by using a newly selected one of the plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to the new position.

25. A method as claimed in claim 24, wherein the new position is one of a plurality of predetermined waypoints.

26. A method as claimed in claim 24, comprising:

selecting the waypoint in dependence upon the gesture.

27. A computer program which when loaded into a processor enables:

presenting a three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to a user by using a selected one of a plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to a current position on a current route;

changing of the current position on the current route to a new position in response to a gesture user input wherein a first characteristic of the gesture user input determines a direction along the current route of the new position relative to the current position and a second characteristic of the gesture user input determines the new position; and

re-presenting the three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to the user by using a newly selected one of the plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to the new position.