Method and electronic device for changing coordinates of icons according to sensing signal

• US 9,229,624 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2011
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Original Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Inventors: Chou, Shih-Chun, Wei, Shih-Yao, Wang, Rong-Sheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Koziol, Stephen R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pringle-Parker, Jason
• Application Number:
  US13/324,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20130120464A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,484 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

An embodiment of the invention provides a method for changing a coordinate of an icon according to a sensing signal. The method comprises: outputting the sensing signal via a sensor according to an interactive operation of a user; displaying a plurality of the icons of an operating system via a display device, wherein each icon corresponds to a data element; when receiving the sensing signal and a trigger signal by a processor, by the processor, acquiring the icons currently shown on the display device, generating an updated coordinate of each icon according to the sensing signal output by the sensor, changing the coordinates of the icons of the operating system, and displaying the icons on the display device according to the updated coordinates.

Claims

1. A method for changing coordinates of icons shown on a display device of a portable device according to a sensing signal, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of the icons of an operating system via the display device, wherein each icon corresponds to a data element;

detecting a first moving track on the display;

enabling a trigger signal generator when receiving the first moving track;

determining whether the first moving track conforms to a predetermined condition;

activating an icon arrangement module when the first moving track conforms to a predetermined condition;

detecting a second moving track on the display;

generating a trigger signal by the trigger signal generator when the first moving track and the second moving track matches one of the trigger signal generation conditions; and

when the icon arrangement module receives the trigger signal, the icons are rearranged according to the first moving track and the second moving track, and an icon rearranged result is displayed on the display,

wherein the first moving track is defined by a user gesture and defines a virtual axis, the second moving track is defined by a user gesture and defines a direction, and the icons are repositioned about the first moving track in a direction determined by the direction of the second moving track, wherein the icons are repositioned about the first moving track by a mirror-image reversal of icons about the first moving track.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data element is used to execute an instruction, to activate an application program, to open a folder, to open a file or link to a URL.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the processor changes the coordinates of the icons of the operating system, the processor further changes sizes of the icons and the display device displays the icons according the sizes and the updated coordinates.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the icon shown in the window can be zoomed in to or zoomed out off according to a tilt angle of the portable device.

4. An electronic device capable of changing coordinates of icons according to a sensing signal and a trigger signal, the device comprising:

a trigger signal generator to be enabled when a first moving track conforms to a predetermined condition or rule and to output a trigger signal when the first moving track and a second moving track match one of the trigger signal generation conditions, wherein the second moving track is generated after the first moving track;

a display device to display a plurality of the icons of an operating system, wherein each icon corresponds to a data element; and

an icon arrangement module activated when the first moving track conforms to a predetermined condition to rearrange the icons according to the first moving track and the second moving track when receiving the trigger signal, and an icon rearranged result is displayed on the display device,

wherein the first moving track is defined by a user gesture and defines a virtual axis, the second moving track is defined by a user gesture and defines a direction, and the icons are repositioned about the first moving track in a direction determined by the direction of the second moving track, wherein the icons are repositioned about the first moving track by a mirror-image reversal of icons about the first moving track.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the data element is used to execute an instruction, to activate an application program, to open a folder, to open a file or link to a URL.