Gesture input with multiple views, displays and physics
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorGlen J. Anderson
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Abstract
Gesture input with multiple displays, views, and physics is described. In one example, a method includes generating a three dimensional space having a plurality of objects in different positions relative to a user and a virtual object to be manipulated by the user, presenting, on a display, a displayed area having at least a portion of the plurality of different objects, detecting an air gesture of the user against the virtual object, the virtual object being outside the displayed area, generating a trajectory of the virtual object in the three-dimensional space based on the air gesture, the trajectory including interactions with objects of the plurality of objects in the three-dimensional space, and presenting a portion of the generated trajectory on the displayed area.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- interface circuitry;
- machine-readable instructions;
- and
- at least one processor circuit to be programmed by the instructions to:
- identify an air gesture of a user;
- determine a trajectory of a first virtual object through a three-dimensional space based on the air gesture, a first part of the trajectory within a first portion of the three-dimensional space that is not shown on a screen, a second part of the trajectory within a second portion of the three-dimensional space that is shown on a screen;
- alter the second part of the trajectory based on interaction of the first virtual object with a second virtual object within the first portion of the three-dimensional space that is not shown on the screen;
- and
- cause presentation of the first virtual object on the screen as the first virtual object moves along the second part of the trajectory.
At least one of an optical disk, an optical card, a magnetic-optical disk, random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, or magnetic memory comprising instructions to cause at least one processor circuit to at least:
- identify an air gesture of a user;
- determine a trajectory of a first virtual object through a three-dimensional space based on the air gesture, a first part of the trajectory within a first portion of the three-dimensional space that is not to be shown on a screen, a second part of the trajectory within a second portion of the three-dimensional space that is to be shown on a screen;
- alter the second part of the trajectory based on interaction of the first virtual object with a second virtual object within the first portion of the three-dimensional space that is not to be shown on the screen;
- and
- cause presentation of the first virtual object on the screen as the first virtual object moves along the second part of the trajectory.
An apparatus comprising:
- means for identifying an air gesture of a user;
- means for determining a trajectory of a first virtual object through a three-dimensional space based on the air gesture, a first part of the trajectory within a first portion of the three-dimensional space that is not presentable to the user, a second part of the trajectory within a second portion of the three-dimensional space that is presentable to the user, the means for determining to alter the second part of the trajectory based on interaction of the first virtual object with a second virtual object within the first portion of the three-dimensional space that is not presentable to the user;
- and
- means for presenting the first virtual object as the first virtual object moves along the second part of the trajectory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.