System and method to display content based on viewing orientation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9285883-B2
Application number	US-201113038166-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2011
Priority date	Mar 1, 2011
Publication date	Mar 15, 2016
Grant date	Mar 15, 2016

Abstract

An apparatus and method for displaying content is disclosed. A particular method includes determining a viewing orientation of a user relative to a display and providing a portion of content to the display based on the viewing orientation. The portion includes at least a first viewable element of the content and does not include at least one second viewable element of the content. The method also includes determining an updated viewing orientation of the user and updating the portion of the content based on the updated viewing orientation. The updated portion includes at least the second viewable element. A display difference between the portion and the updated portion is non-linearly related to an orientation difference between the viewing orientation and the updated viewing orientation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving displayable content at a device having a display, the displayable content including a plurality of viewable elements;
determining a first portion of the displayable content based on a viewing orientation of a user relative to the display, wherein the first portion includes at least a first viewable element of the plurality of viewable elements and does not include at least one second viewable element of the plurality of viewable elements;
displaying the first portion of the displayable content at the display;
detecting an updated viewing orientation of the user relative to the display;
determining a second portion of the displayable content based on the updated viewing orientation, wherein the second portion includes at least the second viewable element, wherein a display difference between the first portion and the second portion is non-linearly related to an orientation difference between the viewing orientation and the updated viewing orientation, wherein the second viewable element includes a plurality of independent display windows, and wherein a first independent display window of the plurality of independent display windows is a user interface display of a first application operating at the device, and a second independent display window of the plurality of independent display windows is a user interface display of a second application operating at the device; and
displaying the second portion of the displayable content at the display.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the second portion comprises selecting, with a non-linear relation to the orientation difference, a number of the plurality of independent display windows to be included in the second portion.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the orientation difference is determined based on a measured movement of the display.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the orientation difference is determined based on a measured change in a viewing angle of the user relative to the display.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the change in the viewing angle is measured using a camera associated with the display.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first portion comprises a first plurality of viewable elements and the second portion comprises a second plurality of viewable elements, and wherein the display difference corresponds to a number of viewable elements that are distinct between the first plurality of viewable elements and the second plurality of viewable elements.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the updated viewing orientation includes at least one of detecting a location of an eye of the user and detecting a location of at least a portion of a user's face.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the orientation difference corresponds to a change in a viewer-device relative geometry location.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the updated viewing orientation is detected based at least in part on a detected gesture of the user.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein orientation difference is determined based at least in part on a measured movement of the device.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first independent display window of the plurality of independent display windows is a user interface display of a first instance of the first application, and a third independent display window of the plurality of independent display windows is a user interface display of a second instance of the first application.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a cylindrical representation of the displayable content based on a display size of the display, wherein the cylindrical representation includes a single curved face, wherein the first portion and the second portion correspond to portions of the cylindrical representation, and the display difference corresponds to an amount of rotation of the cylindrical representation about an axis.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the orientation difference corresponds to an amount of rotation of the device, and wherein the amount of rotation of the device is non-linearly related to the amount of rotation of the cylindrical representation about the axis.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein a rate of the rotation of the cylindrical representation is determined based on the orientation difference.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the first portion of the displayable content comprises displaying the first portion of the displayable content at a first time, and wherein displaying the second portion of the displayable content comprises displaying the second portion of the displayable content at a second time that is subsequent to the first time, such that the first portion and the second portion are not displayed at the same time.

16. A device comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing displayable content that includes a plurality of viewable elements, the memory further storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to:
operate a first application;
operate a second application;
determine a viewing orientation of a user relative to a display;
provide a first portion of the content to the display based on the viewing orientation, wherein the first portion includes at least a first viewable element of the content and does not include at least one second viewable element of the content;
determine an updated viewing orientation of the user; and
provide an updated portion of the content to the display based on the updated viewing orientation, wherein the updated portion includes at least the second viewable element, wherein a display difference between the first portion and the updated portion is non-linearly related to an orientation difference between the viewing orientation and the updated viewing orientation, wherein the second viewable element includes a plurality of independent display windows, and wherein a first independent display window of the plurality of independent display windows is a user interface display of the first application, and a second independent display window of the plurality of independent display windows is a user interface display of the second application.

17. The device of claim 16 , wherein the display is integral to the apparatus.

18. The device of claim 17 , further comprising a camera coupled to the processor.

19. The device of claim 18 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the one or more processors to determine a viewing orientation of the user relative to the display based on one or more images captured by the camera.

20. The device of claim 16 , wherein the first independent display window of the plurality of independent display windows is a user interface display of a first instance of the first application, and a third independent display window of the plurality of independent display windows is a user interface display of a second instance of the first application.

21. The device of claim 16 , wherein the memory further includes instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to:
determine a cylindrical representation of the displayable content based on a display size of the display, wherein the cylindrical representation includes a single curved face, wherein the first portion and the updated portion correspond to portions of the cylindrical representation, and the display difference corresponds to an amount of rotation of the cylindrical rep

Assignees

• Bi Ning
• Aleksic Milivoje
• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Bi Ning
• Aleksic Milivoje

Classifications

• G06F3/012

  Head tracking input arrangements · CPC title

• G06F3/0485

  Scrolling or panning · CPC title

• G06F3/017 Primary

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title

• G06F3/04815

  Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional [3D], e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object · CPC title

• G06F3/0483

  Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor · CPC title