Method and system for presenting information via a user interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9953446-B2
Application number	US-201414582487-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 24, 2014
Priority date	Dec 24, 2014
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

Various aspects of a method and system to present information via a user interface are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes detection of an orientation of an electronic device. The electronic device overlays one or more layers of information on the user interface displayed at the electronic device. Transparency of the overlaid one or more layers of information is dynamically adjusted based on the detected orientation of the electronic device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for presenting information, comprising:
in an electronic device:
detecting an orientation of said electronic device;
overlaying at least three layers of information on a user interface (UI) displayed at said electronic device;
dynamically adjusting transparency of said overlaid at least three layers of information based on said detected orientation of said electronic device;
identifying at least one first real object in a first view captured by said electronic device;
determining said overlaid at least three layers of information based on at least one functional service,
wherein said at least one functional service corresponds to at least one of a map service, a social network, an address book service, or a user profile information, and
wherein said overlaid at least three layers of information comprise at least one of a map view layer, an information label layer, a light beam layer, a field-of-view layer, or a media content layer; and
wherein said light beam layer is a top layer, said field-of-view layer is a middle layer and said map view layer is a bottom layer of said overlaid at least three layers of information.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said overlaid at least three layers of information further correspond to at least one of a first information related to a second real object associated with said identified at least one first real object or a second information related to said identified at least one first real object in said first view, and wherein said second real object is out of said first view.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising dynamically updating said overlaid at least three layers of information based on a second view that is captured by said electronic device.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising dynamically generating a composite view comprising said overlaid at least three layers of information with said dynamically adjusted said transparency of each of said overlaid at least three layers of information.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4 , further comprising displaying said composite view on said UI such that said overlaid at least three layers of information in said displayed composite view are synchronized with respect to each other.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , further comprising dynamically switching said UI of said displayed composite view from a first mode to a second mode.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein said first mode and said second mode corresponds to one of
an augmented reality (AR) view mode, a character recognition mode, a barcode recognition mode, or detailed information display mode.

8. The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein said dynamic switching of said UI from said first mode to said second mode is based on one of
a detection of a different orientation of said electronic device or a user input received via said UI.

9. The method as claimed in claim 6 , further comprising determining metadata of said overlaid at least three layers of information based on said dynamic switching of said UI from said first mode to said second mode.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising modifying said displayed composite view based on said determined metadata of said at least three layers of information.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said light beam layer comprises at least one light beam selectively highlighting at least one location displayed at said map view layer.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising selective sharing of media content from said media content layer displayed at a display screen of said electronic device based on said display screen that is synchronized with a different display screen of a different electronic device.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising arranging said overlaid at least three layers of information at an angle with respect to a reference axis, wherein said arrangement is based on said detected orientation of said electronic device.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising dynamically adjusting transparency of the top layer, the middle layer and the bottom layer such that the top layer, the middle layer and the bottom layer are visible concurrently.

15. A system for presenting information, comprising:
one or more processors in an electronic device, wherein said one or more processors are operable to:
detect an orientation of said electronic device;
overlay at least three layers of information on a user interface (UI) displayed at said electronic device;
dynamically adjust transparency of said overlaid at least three layers of information based on said detected orientation of said electronic device;
identify at least one first real object in a first view captured by said electronic device; and
determine said overlaid at least three layers of information based on at least one functional service,
wherein said at least one functional service corresponds to at least one of a map service, a social network, an address book service, or a user profile information, and
wherein said overlaid at least three layers of information comprises at least one of a map view layer, an information label layer, a light beam layer, a field-of-view layer, or a media content layer; and
wherein said light beam layer is a top layer, said field-of-view layer is a middle layer and said map view layer is a bottom layer of said overlaid at least three layers of information.

16. The system as claimed in claim 15 , wherein said one or more processors are further operable to dynamically update said overlaid at least three layers of information based on a second view that is captured by said electronic device.

17. The system as claimed in claim 15 , wherein said one or more processors are further operable to dynamically generate a composite view comprising said overlaid at least three layers of information.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Lyons Gary
• Young David
• Fredriksson Jenny
• Gunatilake Priyan
• Hsiao Eric
• Sampathkumaran Sriram

Classifications

• G06T11/10

  Texturing; Colouring; Generation of textures or colours (retouching, inpainting or scratch removal G06T5/77) · CPC title

• G06F1/1626

  with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs] · CPC title

• G06T19/006

  Mixed reality (object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00) · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F1/1686

  the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera · CPC title