MOBILE APPARATUS DISPLAYING A 3D IMAGE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF LAYERS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120194507A1
• Filed: 05/24/2011
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Yeon-hee, Shim, Jung-hyun, Lee, Yong-yeon, Koo, Ja-ok
• Granted Patent: US 9,330,489 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• 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 2200/1637 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 3/04815 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 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/20 Perspective computation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects

Abstract

A mobile apparatus is provided including a display unit which displays layers in different depth degrees from each other and displays a plurality of layers which are arranged in a depth direction of a screen in 3D images, including a sensing unit to sense movement of the mobile apparatus, and a control unit which controls a plurality of layers according to movement direction and movement distance, when movement of the mobile apparatus moving toward a depth direction of a screen is sensed.

Claims

1. A mobile apparatus, comprising:

a display unit which displays a 3D image comprising a plurality of layers having different degrees of depth from each other and arranged in a depth direction to a screen;

a sensing unit which senses a movement of the mobile apparatus in the depth direction to the screen; and

a control unit which controls the display unit to convert and display the plurality of layers according to a direction and distance of the sensed movement of the mobile apparatus.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to convert a first layer, among the plurality of layers, into a high layer of the first layer and activate the high layer if the mobile apparatus moves in a forward direction of the screen, and convert the first layer, among the plurality of layers, into a low layer of the first layer and activate the low layer if the mobile apparatus moves in a backward direction of the screen.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein, the control unit controls the display unit to display a predetermined number of low layers in a deactivated and overlapped state on a lower portion of the first layer, if the first layer is in an activated state.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display the first layer as protruding toward the forward direction and disappearing and the low layer as protruding toward the forward direction and activated, if the mobile apparatus moves toward the backward direction, when the first layer, which is one of the plurality of layers, is activated.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display unit is a touch screen and the control unit controls the display unit to convert the display of the currently activated layer into another layer in the plurality of layers and activate the display of the another layer according to the direction and distance of the movement if the movement is sensed when at least one content icon on the currently activated layers is touched, and the control unit controls the display unit to display the touched content icon by moving the touched content icon to the converted layer, if the touched content icon is released.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the navigation of information on a text message receiver according to a sensed movement if movement of the mobile apparatus moving along an X axis which is parallel to the screen is sensed, while a text message application is executing, scrolls text messages according to a sensed movement if movement of the mobile apparatus which moves toward a Y axis which is parallel to the screen and perpendicular to the X axis, and

controls the navigation of receiving/transmitting records of a text message according to sensed movement if movement along a Z axis which is perpendicular to a surface which is made of the X axis and the Y axis.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display unit displays an indicator which indicates an order of a currently activated layer among the plurality of layers.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the indicator comprises a plurality of cells whose numbers equally correspond to numbers of the plurality of the layers, wherein the plurality of cells have different sizes from each other and are arranged by being overlapped with each other on a same center, wherein if a highest layer is activated among the plurality of layers, colors of all cells are displayed, and a color gets eliminated from a most outer cell if activation gets carried out toward a low layer.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the indicator comprises a plurality of images whose numbers equally correspond to the numbers of the plurality of layers, wherein the plurality of images have different sizes and colors from each other and are overlapped in an same order to the plurality of images, and if a layer is activated, an image which corresponds to the activated layer is displayed on a highest portion.

10. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the indicator comprises a plurality of images, whose numbers equally correspond to the numbers of the plurality of layers, wherein the plurality of images are arranged on the screen in a same order to an order of layers, wherein among the plurality of images, display state of at least one image corresponding to a currently activated layer is changed to be differentiated from the remaining images.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein if an image is selected among the plurality of the images on the indicator, the control unit controls the display unit to convert the selected image into a layer which corresponds to the selected image.

12. A method of displaying a 3D image in a mobile apparatus, comprising:

displaying a 3D image comprising a plurality of layers which have different degrees of depth from each other and are arranged in a depth direction to a screen;

sensing movement of the mobile apparatus in the depth direction to the screen; and

converting at least one layer from the plurality of layers according to direction and distance of the sensed movement.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein if a first layer which is one of the plurality of layers is activated, if the mobile apparatus moves in a forward direction of the screen, the first layer is converted into the high layer of the first layer and the high layer is activated and if the mobile apparatus moves in a backward direction of the screen, the first layer is converted into the low layer of the first layer and the low layer is activated.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein converting the layer displays a predetermined number of low layers in a deactivated and overlapped state on a lower portion of the first layer, if the first layer is in an activated state.

15. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein if the mobile apparatus moves toward the backward direction when a first layer which is one of the plurality of layers is activated, converting displays the first layer as protruding toward the forward direction and disappearing, and displays the low layer as protruding toward the forward direction and activated.

16. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein if the movement is sensed when at least one content icon on a currently activated layer is touched, the currently activated layer is converted into another layer of the plurality of layers and the another layer is activated, according to direction and distance of the sensed movement and if the touched content icon is released, the touched content icon is moved and displayed on the converted layer.

17. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising:

displaying a text message screen when a text message application is executing;

navigating information on a text message receiver which is made on the text message screen according to sensed movement if movement of the mobile apparatus which moves along an X axis which is parallel to the screen is sensed;

scrolling the text message which is made on the text message screen according to sensed movement, if movement of the mobile apparatus which moves along a Y axis which is parallel to the screen and perpendicular to the X axis is sensed; and

navigating text message receiving/transmitting records according to sensed movement, if movement of the mobile apparatus which moves along a Z axis which is perpendicular to a surface which is made of the X axis and the Y axis, is sensed.

18. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising:

displaying an indicator which indicates an order of a currently activated layer among the plurality of the layers.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the indicator includes a plurality of cells, numbers of which equally correspond to the numbers of the plurality of the layers, wherein the plurality of cells have different sizes from each other and are arranged as overlapping on a same center, wherein if a highest layer among the plurality of layers is activated, colors of all cells are displayed in each of the plurality of cells, and if activation gets carried out toward a low layer, colors are eliminated from a most outer cell.

20. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the indicator includes a plurality of images, numbers of which equally correspond to the numbers of the plurality of layers, wherein the plurality of images have different sizes and different colors from each other and are displayed overlapping in an same order to an order of layers, and if one layer is activated, an image which corresponds to the activated layer may be displayed on a highest position.

21. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the indicator includes a plurality of images, numbers of which equally correspond to the numbers of the plurality of layers, and the plurality of images are arranged in an same order to an order of layers on the screen, wherein among the plurality of images, display state of at least one image corresponding to a currently activated layer is converted in order to be differentiated from remaining images.

22. The method as claimed in claim 21, further comprising:

converting into a layer which corresponds to a selected image if one image among the plurality of images is selected.