Operation equipment and operation system

• US 7,773,073 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2006
• Issued: 08/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hori, Yoshihiko, Minoda, Hidenori, Nagata, Takuya
• Primary Examiner(s): LEWIS, DAVID LEE
• Application Number:
  US11/480,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20070013659A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,497 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-184
• US Class Current: 345/169
• 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 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• 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

Abstract

The subject of the present invention is for offering an operation equipment and an operation system that can select directly either of a plurality of indication keys arranged on an operation screen according to posture of an equipment. An inclination of operation equipment 1 is detected, and the posture signal is made to output by inclination angle detection part 6; the rotation angle of the X-axis and the Y-axis which perpendicularly intersect in parallel, mutually, with the main surface part based on the posture signal by coordinates conversion part 8 is made to compute as an X-axis rotation angle and a Y-axis rotation angle, respectively; while memorizing a cell information, which is made of the plurality of cells, in cell information memory part 11, a conversion table which corresponds each cell of cell information with the indication key is memorized in conversion table memory part 12; while specifying one cell in cell information as a current cell based on the X-axis rotation angle and the Y-axis rotation angle by cursor control part 15, the indication key, which is corresponded to the current cell, is specified by using the conversion table, and a cursor is made to be moved.

Claims

1. An operation equipment that operates by selecting either of a plurality of indication keys by a cursor with using an operation screen arranged the plurality of indication keys assigned different operations, the operation equipment comprises:

an inclination angle detector that detects inclination of an equipment and outputs an posture signal;

a cursor controller that makes the cursor move by specifying either of the plurality of indication keys based on the posture signal from the inclination angle detector;

a rotation angle calculator that computes rotation angles of an X-axis and a Y-axis which are parallel to a main surface part and perpendicularly intersect mutually based on the posture signal from the inclination angle detector as an X-axis rotation angle and a Y-axis rotation angle, respectively;

a cell information memory that memorizes a cell information provided with a plurality of cells; and

a conversion table memory that memorizes a conversion table that associates each cell of the cell information memorized by the cell information memory with the indication key;

is provided, wherein

the cursor controller specifies either of the plurality of indication keys based on the X-axis rotation angle and the Y-axis rotation angle that are computed by the rotation angle calculator and makes the cursor move; and

the cursor controller specifies the indication key associated with the current cell by using the conversion table and moves the cursor while specifying one cell in the cell information as a current cell based on the X-axis rotation angle and the Y-axis rotation angle which are computed by the rotation angle calculator.

2. An operation equipment operates with selecting either of a plurality of indication keys by a cursor by using a key arrangement screen arranged the plurality of indication keys assigned to different operations, the operation equipment comprises:

an inclination angle detector that detects an inclination of the equipment and outputs a posture signal; and

a cursor controller that extracts an inclination of arrangement direction of the indication key based on the posture signal from the inclination angle detector and moves the cursor to one indication key in the direction toward the indication key which adjoins direction of an extracted inclination when the extracted inclination is changed from less than to greater than or equal to a first threshold previously set, wherein if arrangement directions of the indication key are two directions;

extracting inclinations of the two directions which are the arrangement direction of the indication key based on the posture signal by the inclination angle detector, respectively; and

moving the cursor to one indication key in the extracted two directions, respectively, if both of the extracted two directions are changed from less than to greater than or equal to a first threshold.

3. An operation equipment operates with selecting either of a plurality of indication keys by a cursor by using a key arrangement screen arranged the plurality of indication keys assigned to different operations, the operation equipment comprises:

an inclination angle detector that detects an inclination of the equipment and outputs a posture signal; and

a cursor controller that extracts an inclination of arrangement direction of the indication key based on the posture signal from the inclination angle detector and moves the cursor to one indication key in the direction toward the indication key which adjoins direction of an extracted inclination when the extracted inclination is changed from less than to greater than or equal to a first threshold previously set;

a rotation angle calculator that computes a direction and how much inclined by being composition of an X-axis rotation angle and a Y-axis rotation angle, which respective rotation angles of an X-axis and a Y-axis which are parallel to a main surface part and perpendicularly intersect mutually is computed based on the posture signal from the inclination angle detector as the X-axis rotation angle and the Y-axis rotation angle, respectively; and

the cursor controller extracts an inclination of an arrangement direction of the indication key from the posture vector computed by the rotation angle calculator, wherein if the arrangement directions of the indication key are two directions;

extracting inclinations of the two directions which are the arrangement direction of the indication key based on the posture signal by the inclination angle detector, respectively; and

moving the cursor to one indication key in an extracted two directions, respectively, if both of the extracted two directions are changed from less than to greater than or equal to the first threshold.