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US 9,081,426 B2Granted
Image controller
AssigneeAnascape, Ltd.
InventorBrad A. Armstrong
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Abstract
An image controller structured for allowing inputs to be converted or translated into electrical outputs, one preferred controller structured with at least a sufficient number of sensors to aid in controlling three-dimensional objects and navigating a three-dimensional viewpoint shown by a display. An active tactile feedback vibrator is mounted as a component of the controller for providing vibration to be felt by a user. Inputs to the controller include a move forward command, a move back command, a move left command, a move right command, a move up command, and a move down command.
Claims18
A method, comprising:
- generating a three-dimensional (3-D) image according to sensing of a move forward command, the move forward command received into a host graphics image generation device from a six degree of freedom (6 DOF) manipulable controller by wireless communication;
- generating the 3-D image according to sensing of a move back command, the move back command received into the host graphics image generation device from the 6 DOF manipulable controller by wireless communication;
- generating the 3-D image according to sensing of a move left command, the move left command received into the host graphics image generation device from the 6 DOF manipulable controller by wireless communication;
- generating the 3-D image according to sensing of a move right command, the move right command received into the host graphics image generation device from the 6 DOF manipulable controller by wireless communication;
- generating the 3-D image according to sensing of a move up command, the move up command received into the host graphics image generation device from the 6 DOF manipulable controller by wireless communication;
- generating the 3-D image according to sensing of a move down command, the move down command received into the host graphics image generation device from the 6 DOF manipulable controller by wireless communication;
- generating imagery independent of movements of the controller, and according to sensing of movement of a secondary input member in a first direction, the secondary input member being part of the 6 DOF controller, the sensing of movement of the secondary input member in the first direction is independent of sensing 6 DOF movements of the controller;
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- generating imagery independent of movements of the controller, and according to sensing of movement of the secondary input member in a second direction, the sensing of movement of the secondary input member in the second direction is independent of sensing 6 DOF movements of the controller;
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- sending a signal by wireless communication from the host graphics image generation device to the 6 DOF manipulable controller to activate an active tactile feedback device.
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A method, comprising:
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into a host graphics image generation device, a move forward command from a six degree of freedom (6 DOF) manipulable controller and causing at least some of a three-dimensional (3-D) image on a display to move in response to the move forward command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a move back command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller and causing at least some of the 3-D image to move in response to the move back command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a move left command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller and causing at least some of the 3-D image to move in response to the move left command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a move right command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller and causing at least some of the 3-D image to move in response to the move right command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a move up command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller and causing at least some of the 3-D image to move in response to the move up command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a move down command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller and causing at least some of the 3-D image to move in response to the move down command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, an on or off command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a volume control command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a channel control command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller;
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- sending a signal by wireless communication from the host graphics image generation device to the 6 DOF manipulable controller to activate an active tactile feedback device.
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A method, comprising:
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into a host graphics image generation device, a move forward command from a six degree of freedom (6 DOF) manipulable controller and causing at least some of a three-dimensional (3-D) image on a display to move in response to the move forward command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a move back command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller and causing at least some of the 3-D image to move in response to the move back command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a move left command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller and causing at least some of the 3-D image to move in response to the move left command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a move right command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller and causing at least some of the 3-D image to move in response to the move right command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a move up command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller and causing at least some of the 3-D image to move in response to the move up command;
- sensing, by receiving a wireless communication signal into the host graphics image generation device, a move down command from the 6 DOF manipulable controller and causing at least some of the 3-D image to move in response to the move down command;
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- sending a signal by wireless communication from the host graphics image generation device to the 6 DOF manipulable controller to activate an active tactile feedback device.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, in a host graphics image generation device, a move forward command, a move back command, a move left command, a move right command, a move up command, and a move down command from a hand-held six degree of freedom (6 DOF) manipulable controller via wireless communication;
- controlling three-dimensional (3-D) graphics on a display in response to the received commands;
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- sending a signal via wireless communication to the 6 DOF manipulable controller to activate an active tactile feedback device.
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A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for controlling three-dimensional graphics, comprising:
- code for receiving, in a host graphics image generation device, a move forward command, a move back command, a move left command, a move right command, a move up command, and a move down command from a hand-held six degree of freedom (6 DOF) manipulable controller via wireless communication;
- code for controlling three-dimensional (3-D) graphics on a display in response to the received command;
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- code for sending a signal via wireless communication to the 6 DOF manipulable controller to activate an active tactile feedback device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.