Three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and method and apparatus for providing the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyun-joo Kang, Sung-woo Kim, Joo-kyung Woo, Joon-ho Ok, Jung-bong Lee
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Abstract
A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface includes a first polyhedron component which exists in a first space, and a second polyhedron component which exists in a second space, wherein the first polyhedron component includes identification information that identifies the second polyhedron component, and if an information object selected by a user is located inside the first polyhedron component, the information object is moved inside the second polyhedron component using the identification information.
Claims27
A computer program product for enabling a computer to implement a graphic user interface, the computer program product comprising:
- software instructions for enabling the computer to implement the graphic user interface;
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- a non-transitory computer-readable medium bearing the software instructions;
- the graphic user interface comprising:
- a first polyhedron component which exists in a first space at first position coordinates;
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- a second polyhedron component which exists in a second space at second position coordinates,
- wherein identification information that identifies the second polyhedron component is set to the first polyhedron component, and
- when a display location of an information object selected by a user is moved to the first polyhedron component at the first position coordinates, the display location of the information object is automatically moved to a location of the second polyhedron component at the second position coordinates using the set identification information.
An apparatus for providing a user interface, the apparatus comprising:
- a control module which creates a first polyhedron component in a first space at first position coordinates having identification information that identifies a second polyhedron component in a second space at second position coordinates;
- a storing module which stores the first polyhedron component;
- an input module to which a display location of an information object selected by a user is input;
- a user interface module which compares the display location of the information object and the first position coordinates of the first polyhedron component and changes the display location of the information object to a location of the second polyhedron component at the second position coordinates if the information object is determined to be moved to the first polyhedron component at the first position coordinates by the comparison;
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- an output module which displays a processing result of the user interface module.
A method for providing a user interface, the method comprising:
- (a) setting, in a memory, identification information that identifies a second polyhedron component at second position coordinates to a first polyhedron component at first position coordinates, wherein the second polyhedron component exists in a space that is different from that of the first polyhedron component;
- (b) moving a display location of an information object selected by a user to the first polyhedron component at the first position coordinates;
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- (c) moving the display location of the information object to the second polyhedron component at the second position coordinates using the set identification information.
A non-transitory recording medium having a computer readable program recorded therein, the program for executing a method for providing a user interface, the method comprising:
- (a) setting identification information that identifies a second polyhedron component at second position coordinates to a first polyhedron component at first position coordinates, wherein the second polyhedron component exists in a space that is different from that of the first polyhedron component;
- (b) moving a display location of an information object selected by a user to the first polyhedron component at the first position coordinates;
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- (c) moving the display location of the information object to the second polyhedron component at the second position coordinates using the set identification information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.