GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE IN MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS AND GRAPHIC OBJECT BROWSING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF

• US 20120120114A1
• Filed: 09/21/2011
• Published: 05/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: YOU, Tun Hao, Yeh, Yi Jen, Chiang, Tsung Pin, Song, Chen Hwa
• Application Number:
  US13/238,423
• Publication Number:
  US 20120120114A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/676
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A graphic object browsing method includes the steps of: providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on a display, in which the GUI includes a main displaying area for displaying a plurality of graphic objects; receiving a tilt signal, in which the tilt signal includes a tilt direction and a tilt degree; displaying the plurality of graphic objects sliding on the main displaying area according to the tilt direction of the tilt signal; and controlling the sliding speed of the plurality of graphic objects according to the tilt degree of the tilt signal.

Claims

1. A graphic object browsing method used in a multimedia apparatus, comprising the steps of:

providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on a display, wherein the GUI comprises a main displaying area for displaying a plurality of graphic objects;

receiving a tilt signal, wherein the tilt signal comprises a tilt direction and a tilt degree;

displaying the plurality of graphic objects sliding on the main displaying area according to the tilt direction of the tilt signal; and

controlling the sliding speed of the plurality of graphic objects according to the tilt degree of the tilt signal.

2. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, wherein the GUI further comprises a tilt movement displaying area to display the current tilt signal.

3. The graphic object browsing method of claim 2, wherein the displaying of the plurality of graphic objects sliding is from upper right to lower left or from upper left to lower right.

4. The graphic object browsing method of claim 3, further comprising the steps of:

displaying a seesaw in the tilt movement displaying area;

rotating the seesaw to tilt to the left if the tilt direction of the tilt signal is from upper right to lower left;

rotating the seesaw to tilt to the right if the tilt direction of the tilt signal is from upper left to lower right; and

controlling a tilt angle of the seesaw according to the tilt degree of the tilt signal.

5. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the plurality of graphic objects sliding is from far to near or from near to far.

6. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the plurality of graphic objects sliding is from top to bottom or from bottom to top.

7. The graphic object browsing method of claim 2, wherein the tilt movement displaying area is configured to display a level or an indicator, and the level or the indicator is configured to display a current tilt direction and tilt degree.

8. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, wherein the main displaying area comprises an item selection area and an item displaying area such that the plurality of graphic objects can slide from the item selection area to the item displaying area, or slide from the item displaying area to the item selection area, and the appearances of the graphic objects displayed in the item selection area are different from the appearances of the graphic objects displayed in the item displaying area.

9. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

selecting a graphic object currently displayed in the item selection area if a selection signal is received.

10. The graphic object browsing method of claim 8, wherein the selection signal is converted from a rolling-over movement of a remote control apparatus detected by a sensor built in the remote control apparatus.

11. The graphic object browsing method of claim 8, wherein the selection signal is converted from an input signal received by pressing keys.

12. The graphic object browsing method of claim 8, wherein the selection signal is converted from a body movement of a user captured by a camera.

13. The graphic object browsing method of claim 8, wherein the selection signal is converted from a sound instruction of a user received by a microphone.

14. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

if the tilt direction of the received tilt signal is different from the tilt direction of a previous received tilt signal, displaying the plurality of graphic objects sliding in the sliding direction of the received tilt signal on the main displaying area at a sliding speed lower than the sliding speed corresponding to the tilt degree of the received tilt signal;

restoring the sliding speed of the plurality of graphic objects to correspond to the tilt degree of the received tilt signal.

15. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, wherein a larger tilt degree of the tilt signal corresponds to a higher sliding speed of the plurality of graphic objects.

16. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, wherein the step of controlling the sliding speed of the plurality of graphic objects according to the tilt degree of the tilt signal comprises the sub-step of:

accelerating the sliding speed of the plurality of graphic objects if the tilt degree of the received tilt signal is equal to the tilt degree of a previous received tilt signal.

17. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

detecting, by a sensor built in a remote control apparatus, a tilt angle and a tilt direction of the remote control apparatus, and converting the tilt angle and the tilt direction into the tilt signal.

18. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, wherein the tilt signal is converted from an input signal received by pressing keys.

19. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, wherein the tilt signal is converted from a touch signal received by a touch screen.

20. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, wherein the tilt signal is converted from a body movement of a user captured by a camera.

21. The graphic object browsing method of claim 1, wherein the tilt signal is converted from a sound instruction of a user received by a microphone.

22. A graphic object browsing system in a multimedia apparatus, comprising:

a display, configured to display graphic objects representing a plurality of multimedia files;

a remote control apparatus, configured to generate a tilt signal according to an input signal, wherein the tilt signal comprises a tilt direction and a tilt degree; and

a multimedia control unit, configured to control the graphic objects representing the multimedia files displayed by the display according to the tilt signal;

wherein the display is configured to display the graphic objects representing the plurality of multimedia files sliding in a direction corresponding to the tilt direction at a speed corresponding to the tilt degree.

23. The graphic object browsing system of claim 22, wherein the graphic objects representing the plurality of multimedia files are from a multimedia database, a multimedia file system, or are external multimedia files, TV broadcasting signals or streaming signals.

24. The graphic object browsing system of claim 22, wherein a sensor is built in the remote control apparatus and configured to detect a tilt angle and direction of the remote control apparatus and convert the tilt angle and direction into the tilt signal.

25. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) in a multimedia apparatus, comprising:

a main displaying area, configured to display a plurality of graphic objects; and

a tilt movement displaying area, configured to display a tilt signal, wherein the tilt signal comprises a tilt direction and a tilt degree;

wherein the plurality of graphic objects displayed in the main displaying area slides according to the tilt direction displayed in the tilt movement displaying area, and the sliding speed thereof corresponds to the tilt degree displayed in the tilt movement displaying area.

26. The GUI of claim 25, wherein the main displaying area comprises an item selection area and an item displaying area such that the plurality of graphic objects can slide from the item selection area to the item displaying area or slide from the item displaying area to the item selection area, and the appearances of the graphic objects displayed at the item selection area are different from the appearances of the graphic objects displayed at the item displaying area.

27. The GUI of claim 25, wherein the plurality of graphic objects comprise preset graphic objects such that when the preset graphic objects are displayed in the item selection area, the sliding speed of the plurality of graphic objects is decreased.

28. The GUI of claim 25, wherein a graphic object at the rearmost end is adjacent to a graphic object at the frontmost end such that all graphic objects are browsed when the plurality of graphic objects slides in the same direction from any graphic object.

29. The GUI of claim 25, wherein the tilt movement displaying area displays a seesaw to display the tilt direction and the tilt degree of the tilt signal.

30. The GUI of claim 25, wherein the tilt movement displaying area displays a level or an indicator to display the tilt direction and the tilt degree of the tilt signal.

31. The GUI of claim 25, wherein the sliding speed of the plurality of graphic objects displayed in the main displaying area is lower than the sliding speed corresponding to the tilt degree of the tilt signal when the direction of the tilt signal is changed.