Organizing display data on a multiuser display

• US 9,223,340 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2013
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Locker, Howard, Case, Michaela Rose, Nicholson, John Weldon, Stewart, Aaron Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): HALEY, JOSEPH R
• Application Number:
  US13/967,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20150049010A1
• Time in Patent Office: 867 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1605 Multimedia displays, e.g. with integrated or attached speakers, cameras, microphones
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0433 in which the acoustic waves are either generated by a movable member and propagated within a surface layer or propagated within a surface layer and captured by a movable member
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

For organizing display data on a multiuser display, a position module determines a user position from an audible signal. An organization module organizes display data on a multiuser display in response to the user position.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a processor;

a horizontal multiuser display accessible to the processor; and

a memory storing machine readable code executable by the processor, the machine readable code comprising;

a position module determining a first user position from an audible signal and determining a second user position from a second audible signal; and

an organization module organizing display data on the horizontal multiuser display oriented at a first display angle to a first user vector for the first user position and at a second display angle to a second user vector for the second user position, wherein the first display angle is equivalent to the second display angle.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, the organization module further organizing a first instance of the display data oriented to the first user position and a second instance of display data oriented to the second user position.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first user position comprises a motion vector.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a microphone array receiving the audible signal.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the first user position is determined from the audible signal with sound source localization.

6. A method comprising:

determining, by use of a processor, a first user position from an audible signal;

determining a second user position from a second audible signal; and

organizing display data on a horizontal multiuser display oriented at a first display angle to a first user vector for the first user position and at a second display angle to a second user vector for a second user position, wherein the first display angle is equivalent to the second display angle.

7. The method of claim 6, the method further comprising organizing a first instance of the display data oriented to the first user position and a second instance of the display data oriented to the second user position.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising receiving the audible signal with a microphone array.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the first user position is determined from the audible signal with sound source localization.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the first user position comprises a motion vector.

11. The method of claim 6, further comprising identifying a first user from the audible signal.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the display data is provided with user information for the first user.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the display data is configured with user preferences for the first user.

14. The method of claim 6, wherein the audible signal is emitted from one or more of an ultrasonic pen, an acoustic pen, and a surface touch acoustic.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing machine readable code executable by a processor to perform:

determining a first user position from an audible signal and determining a second user position from a second audible signal; and

organizing display data on a horizontal multiuser display oriented at a first display angle to a first user vector for the first user position and at a second display angle to a second user vector for the second user position, wherein the first display angle is equivalent to the second display angle.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the audible signal is received by a microphone array and the first user position is determined from the audible signal with sound source localization.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, the code further performing organizing a first instance of the display data oriented to the first user position and a second instance of the display data oriented to the second user position.