Three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and method and apparatus for providing the same

• US 7,761,813 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2005
• Issued: 07/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Woo, Joo-kyung, Lee, Jung-bong, Kang, Hyun-joo, Kim, Sung-woo, Ok, Joon-ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Cao “Kevin”
• Application Number:
  US11/187,920
• Publication Number:
  US 20060020898A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,821 Days
• Field of Search: 715/782, 715/848, 715/853, 715/855, 715763-765, 715/836, 715/851, 715/839, 715/976, 345/419, 345/415, 345/440, 345/349
• US Class Current: 715/836
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• 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

Abstract

A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI) and a method and apparatus for providing the same. The MGUI includes a three-dimensional interface space which has an active space and an inactive space, and a polyhedron component which is three-dimensionally presented in the active space, wherein at least one of a plurality of faces that are subject to the polyhedron component has predetermined attributes, and information displayed on the faces is displayed differently according to the attributes and a presentation relationship between the active space and the polyhedron component.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI), wherein the apparatus comprises a storage medium storing modules, the modules comprising:

a control module which creates a three-dimensional interface space having an active space and an inactive space and creates a polyhedron component that is three-dimensionally presented in the active space;

a storage module which stores the three-dimensional interface space and the polyhedron component created by the control module;

an input module to which data about a user'"'"'s action with respect to the three-dimensional interface space or the polyhedron component is input;

a user interface module which assigns predetermined attributes to at least one of a plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component, maps information displayed to the faces of the at least one of a plurality of faces which are information faces according to the predetermined attributes, processes motion of the polyhedron component according to data about the user'"'"'s action input through the input module, and changes the information which is mapped to at least one information face or the way of displaying the information which is mapped to at least one information face according to motion of the polyhedron component; and

an output module which displays a processing result of the user interface module,

wherein at least one of the faces with the predetermined attributes is separated from the polyhedron component and the information is displayed on the separated face.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the attributes include at least one of size of the polyhedron component, colors of the faces of the polyhedron component, transparency of the faces of the polyhedron component, information on whether a corresponding face is an information face, and colors of edges of the polyhedron component.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information is displayed three-dimensionally.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information is displayed differently according to a viewpoint with respect to the polyhedron component in the active space.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the position of the motion is changed according to a user'"'"'s action.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the size of the motion is changed according to a user'"'"'s action.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the motion rotates with respect to a plurality of axes according to a user'"'"'s action.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the motion rotates with respect to a plurality of axes according to a user'"'"'s action and then returns to its original state.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein there are a plurality of polyhedron components which are formed in a group and the group is managed by the user interface module to display the polyhedron components and operate on the polyhedron components as units of the group.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein all of the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component are unfolded into a plane.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component is closed or opened, and the polyhedron component contains at least one of information objects related to the information displayed on the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the attributes include at least one of size of the polyhedron component, colors of the faces of the polyhedron component, transparency of the faces of the polyhedron component, information on whether a corresponding face is an information face, information on whether a corresponding face is closed or opened, the size of the face which is opened or closed, information about the information objects contained in the internal space, information about presentation and operation of the information objects contained in the internal space, and colors of edges of the polyhedron component.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the information objects that are contained in the internal space change according to information displayed on a face on which a focus is placed among the plurality of faces subject to the polyhedron component.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein there are a plurality of polyhedron components which form a group and the user interface module manages the group.

15. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein the active space corresponds to a space within a first axis and a second axis and above a reference face along a third axis;

and

the inactive space corresponds to a space outside a region corresponding to the active space.

16. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein the active space comprises a plurality of active spaces.

17. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, wherein the polyhedron component is one of a three dimensional figure having at least four faces and a sphere.

18. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 1, further comprising:

an information face which is visualized as a single component, wherein the information displayed on the information face operates based on the polyhedron component.

19. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 18, wherein when the information displayed on the face of the polyhedron component changes, the information displayed on the information face changes.

20. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface of claim 18, wherein the information face is displayed on a two dimensional plane having no depth.