Apparatus and method for obtaining geographical information using a touch-sensitive globe device
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsTed T. Honma, Steven L. Pollock
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Abstract
An apparatus is provided that includes a touch-sensitive three-dimensional globe and an information handling system coupled to the touch-sensitive three-dimensional globe and adapted to receive the signals corresponding to the touched area of the globe. The information handling system may include a display device to display information regarding the area. A data accessing system may be coupled to the information handling system and be adapted to receive signals from the information handling system and transmit information from a data storage unit to the information handling system.
Claims22
An apparatus comprising a three-dimensional globe and a touch-sensitive device coupled to said three-dimensional globe such that said touch-sensitive device is to transmit a first signal in response to a user touching a location on said three-dimensional globe at a first time, said first signal representing a first geographical area/region, said first geographical area/region being based on the location of said globe touched by said user, the touch-sensitive device further to transmit second signals in response to the user touching substantially the same location on the three-dimensional globe for second and subsequent times, the second signals representing a second geographical area/region, said second geographical area/region being based on the location of the globe touched by the user, the second geographical area/region being smaller than the first geographical area/region.
An apparatus comprising:
- a globe device having a touch-sensitive three-dimensional globe, the globe device to generate signals representing a geographical area/region, said geographical area/region being based on a location of said globe touched by a user;
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- an information handling system coupled to said globe device and to receive said signals representing said geographical area/region, said information handling system including a communications device to receive information from the Internet regarding the geographical area/region selected by the user, the information handling system further including a display device to display information received from said Internet regarding said geographical area/region.
A method for obtaining information comprising:
- receiving first signals from a globe device having a touch-sensitive three-dimensional globe, said first signals representing a first geographical area/region, said first geographical area/region being based on a location of said globe touched by a user;
- in response to said first signals representing the first geographical area/region selected by the user, obtaining information from the Internet regarding said first geographical area/region;
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- displaying a representation of said information on a display device.
A tangible storage medium tangibly embodying a set of instructions to perform a method of obtaining information, said method comprising:
- receiving first signals from a globe device having a touch-sensitive three-dimensional globe, said first signals representing a first geographical area/region, said first geographical area/region being based on a location of said globe touched by a user;
- in response to said first signals representing the first geographical area/region selected by the user on the globe, obtaining information from the Internet corresponding to said first geographical area/region;
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- displaying a representation of said information on a display device.
A method comprising:
- receiving first signals from a globe device having a touch-sensitive three-dimensional globe, the first signals representing a first geographical area/region, said first geographical area/region being based on a location of the globe touched by a user for the first time;
- displaying a representation of the first geographical area/region based on the first signals;
- receiving second signals from the globe device, the second signals representing a second geographical area/region of the globe, said second geographical area/region being based on the same location being touched by the user for the second time;
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- displaying a representation of the second geographical area/region based on the second signals, the second geographical area/region being smaller than the first geographical area/region.
A method comprising:
- receiving first signals from a globe device having a touch-sensitive three-dimensional globe, the first signals representing a first geographical area/region of the globe, said first geographical area/region being based on a location on the globe touched by a user;
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- accessing the Internet based on the first signals to obtain information regarding the first geographical area/region that correspond to the location on the globe touched by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.