Wearable electronic device for displaying virtual object and method of controlling the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023152900-A1
Application number	US-202217988451-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 16, 2022
Priority date	Nov 16, 2021
Publication date	May 18, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

A wearable electronic device, including a display, a camera, at least one sensor, memory, and at least one processor configured to: based on receiving, through the camera, a first user input for executing the workspace corresponding to a first space, stored in the memory, in a second space different from the first space, obtain spatial information about the second space using the at least one sensor, wherein the workspace includes at least one virtual objects, and display the at least one virtual object on the display, based on the spatial information about the second space.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A wearable electronic device comprising:
a display; a camera; at least one sensor; a memory; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
based on receiving, through the camera, a first user input for executing a workspace corresponding to a first space, stored in the memory, in a second space different from the first space, obtain spatial information about the second space using the at least one sensor, wherein the workspace includes at least one virtual object, and
display the at least one virtual object on the display, based on the spatial information about the second space.

2 . The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the workspace is obtained based on a second user input for positioning the at least one virtual object in the first space, the at least one virtual object corresponding to at least one application, and
wherein the second user input includes at least one of a gesture input received through the camera or a user input received through an external electronic device connected to the wearable electronic device.

3 . The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the spatial information about the second space includes information about a space available to a user, and
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to obtain the information about the space available to the user based on at least one of distances to a plurality of objects included in the second space or sizes of at least some of the plurality of objects.

4 . The wearable electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, based on a size of the space available to the user being less than a specified value based on the information about the space available to the user, change at least one of a size, a shape, or a position of a virtual object included in the workspace, and display the changed virtual object on the display.

5 . The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, based on receiving a third user input for selecting an object from among a plurality of objects included in the second space as a reference object for executing the workspace, position the at least one virtual object based on the reference object.

6 . The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, based on identifying that the at least one virtual object includes a non-displayable virtual object which is not displayable in the second space, display a different virtual object related to the non-displayable virtual object at a position corresponding to the non-displayable virtual object.

7 . The wearable electronic device of claim 6 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to identify that the non-displayable virtual object is not displayable in the second space based on at least one application corresponding to the workspace being not executable in the second space, or based on a real object, to which the non-displayable virtual object is intended to be anchored, being not included in the second space.

8 . The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, based on a first function of an application executed in the workspace being mapped to the first space, and a second function of the application being mapped to the second space, display a virtual object related to the second function instead of a virtual object related to the first function.

9 . The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to change at least one of a size or a shape of the at least one virtual object based on the spatial information about the second space, and display the changed virtual object on the display.

10 . The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to change a position the at least one virtual object based on the spatial information about the second space, and display the at least one virtual object at the changed position on the display.

11 . A method of controlling a wearable electronic device, the method comprising:
based on receiving, through a camera, a first user input for executing a workspace corresponding to a first space in a second space different from the first space, the workspace being stored in a memory, obtaining spatial information about the second space using at least one sensor; and displaying at least one virtual object included in the workspace on a display, based on the spatial information about the second space.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the workspace is obtained based on a second user input for positioning the at least one virtual object in the first space, the at least one virtual object corresponding to at least one application, and
wherein the second user input includes at least one of a gesture input received through the camera or a user input received through an external electronic device connected to the wearable electronic device.

13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the spatial information about the second space includes information about a space available to a user, and
wherein the method further comprises obtaining the information about the space available to the user based on at least one of distances to a plurality of objects included in the second space or sizes of at least some of the plurality of objects.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the displaying the at least one virtual object on the display comprises, based on a size of the space available to the user being less than a specified value based on the information about the space available to the user, changing at least one of a size, a shape, or a position of a virtual object included in the workspace, and displaying the changed virtual object on the display.

15 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising, based on receiving a third user input for selecting an object from among a plurality of objects included in the second space as a reference object for executing the workspace, positioning the at least one virtual object based on the reference object.

16 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the displaying the at least one virtual object on the display comprises, based on identifying that the at least one virtual object includes a non-displayable virtual object which is not displayable in the second space , displaying a different virtual object related to the non-displayable virtual object at a position corresponding to the non-displayable virtual object.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the displaying the at least one virtual object on the display comprises identifying that the non-displayable virtual object is not displayable in the second space, based on at least one application corresponding to the workspace being not executable in the second space, or based on a real object, to which the non-displayable virtual object is intended to be anchored, not being included in the second space.

18 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the displaying the at least one virtual object on the display comprises, based on a first function of an application executed in the workspace being mapped to the first space, and a second function of the application being mapped to the second space, displaying a virtual object related to the second function instead of a virtual object related to the first function.

19 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the displaying th

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Kyunghwa
• Jung Shinjae
• Lee Wonjun

Classifications

• G02B2027/0187

  slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye · CPC title

• G02B2027/0138

  comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera · CPC title

• G02B2027/014

  comprising information/image processing systems · CPC title

• G02B27/0172 Primary

  characterised by optical features · CPC title

• G02B2027/0178

  Eyeglass type (eyeglass details G02C) · CPC title