442 results about "Virtual screen" patented technology

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for inputting keys using biological signals in an HMD (Head Mounted Display) mobile information terminal. The apparatus provides a virtual screen that includes a key map and a preview window to a user through a display unit having a micro-display, recognizes and inputs a key selected according to the user's biological signals sensed through a biological signal sensing unit having an EOG (Electrooculogram) input unit and an EMG (Electromyogram) input unit for sensing and receiving the biological signals as key inputs. The apparatus recognizes through a recognition unit the key selected according to the user's biological signals sensed through a biological signal sensing unit. The user can freely use the HMD mobile communication terminal without using his / her hands because the user can input his / her desired key to the HMD information terminal only by the movement of the user's eyes and the biting of his / her right and left back teeth.

A computer pointing device including: a base portion with a lower surface adapted for sliding across a work surface, a spine portion, projecting substantially upward from said base portion and having a thumb-engaging surface on a first lateral side of the spine and at least fingertip-engaging surface on a second lateral side of the spine opposing said first lateral side. A keyboard with an altered arrangement of function of keys, such as an enlarged or truncated appearance in accordance with keys being re-mapped to sensors on a pointing device. A keyboard with a virtual screen display, which may be made semi-transparent by activating a sensor on a pointing device. A computer with a recess capable of accommodating a mouse device. A locked scrolling or zooming means, using any pointing device, in which scrolling or zooming in a defined direction is proportional to the distance travelled by the device, irrespective of direction of movement of the device.

A system, apparatus, and method of remote, virtual on screen data input includes a peripheral data input device (PDID) made up of a proximity sensor and data communications means. The proximity sensor is adapted to dynamically recognize the movement of a target in the proximity of the peripheral device. The data connection device is adapted to transmit signals from the proximity sensor to a processor communicatively coupled to the remote display. The processor constructs a representation of input fields on the display, and, when detected, overlays a real-time, virtual representation of the target over the representation of the input fields.

A capture device for remote, virtual on screen data input by hand annotation comprises at least three functional layers including a bottom rigid layer, a middle pressure sensor layer and a top flexible layer. The bottom rigid layer has a surface that provides a mechanical support for writing. The middle pressure sensor layer is adapted to measuring a pressure array or map on the capture active area and to send data representing the measured pressure to a personal computer. The top flexible touch-sensitive passive LCD display layer includes an LCD surface by which whatever is written down on the LCD is impressed graphically due to its liquid crystal physical properties wherein applied pressure changes the crystal particles orientation and light properties, such that when a stylus presses against a writing surface thereof, it leaves a visible trace allowing the user to produce a drawing though no real ink has flown.

The present invention is a method to develop and test the WML / HTML applications, and in particular web sites, on a multitude of user agents / browsers at the same time. The user selects the browsers in which the user has an interest. The method executes the web site file on the selected browsers and then displays on a virtual screen, screen shots of the file as viewed on different browsers. The user can use this information to modify their HTML / WML source code and run the code again through the program and view the changes in the output. The present invention can incorporate a WML / HTML editor, which will allow the user to make changes on-line and recheck their results. This method receives a HTML / WML file, selects a browser on which to display the file, edit the displayed output to the file and displays the edited version of the file on the screen. This process can be repeated for a number of browsers.

A 3D social media platform is provided that allows users to share and experience a realistic social viewing experience with members of their social network. More specifically, a user shares a virtual 3D social venue with one or more members within their social network (e.g., Facebook friends) for the purpose of experiencing the content (e.g., movie, television, video game) as if each of the members were physically together in the venue. The user selects 2D media content, such as a web page, from an external and independent source (such as a web browser) to instantiate onto a virtual screen, window, or other viewing surface inside the virtual 3D social venue. The instantiated media content is displayed to the user and any invited friends within the context of the virtual three-dimensional space.

A display apparatus includes a rendering unit, a priority determination unit, and a synthesized screen generation unit. The rendering unit determines necessary virtual screens based on an instruction signal from a navigation unit and information processing units. The priority determination unit determines a display priority based on a display content with respect to each virtual screen. The synthesized screen generation unit generates a synthesized screen to be displayed, by overlapping the determined virtual screens based on the determined display priorities. In this configuration, a certain window in a virtual screen, which has been displayed second or later in the order of overlapping windows, may be newly assigned the highest display priority when a display content in the certain window is changed. This allows the certain window to be displayed topmost and easily viewed by a user.

Disclosed is a device and method for inputting characters or drawings on a mobile terminal using a virtual screen. To input characters or drawings through a virtual screen, the mobile terminal includes an electronic pen, a virtual screen generator, a position detector for detecting the electronic pen position, and a character recognition algorithm for recognizing a trail as a character. When a signal is input from the electronic pen, the mobile terminal detects the originating position of the signal and its trail. The mobile terminal recognizes the detected trail as a character and generates a virtual screen with the recognized character.

A method of processing batches of object-part-image data representing object-part images which are taken by one or more image-taking devices from parts of an object, respectively, and thereby obtaining one or more optical characteristic values of the object, the object-part images imaging the parts of the object such that a first object-part image images a first part and a second object-part image images a second part adjacent to the first part in the object and includes an overlapping portion imaging a portion of the first part, each of the batches of object-part-image data including optical characteristic values respectively associated with physical positions, and thereby defining a corresponding one of physical screens, the method including the steps of designating at least one virtual position on a virtual screen corresponding to the parts of the object, modifying, based on predetermined modifying data, the at least one virtual position on the virtual screen, and thereby determining at least one physical position corresponding to the at least one virtual position, on one of the physical screens, and obtaining at least one optical characteristic value associated with the at least one physical position on the one physical screen, as at least one optical characteristic value associated with the at least one virtual position on the virtual screen and as the at least one optical characteristic value of the object.

A plurality of wireless interface devices, interfaced to a server that may be connected in either a wireless or wired LAN. Each wireless interface device may be a pen-based device which communicates with the server over a radio link. An alternative input system is provided on the wireless interface device in the form of a virtual on-screen keyboard (OSK). Once radio communication is established between the wireless interface device and the server and the OSK is launched, the system prevents overriding of the OSK on the display of the wireless interface device.

A plurality of common, modular panels attach to a support frame carrying power and data connections for an electronic display sign. LEDs are used as the light mechanisms for illumination of said sign. Each modular panel is under separate microcontroller control and includes its own on-board memory. The electronic display sign includes a master control element that connects to a PC or laptop computer for loading data or programs into the memory of each modular board. The master control sends out commands or data that is interrogated by every microcontroller on each modular panel of the entire sign such that only the panel with a unique identification number will process data intended therefore. The on-board memory allows for the creation of a virtual screen such that each modular panel of the entire sign is rendering the entire message being displayed on said sign even though each modular panel may only be actually illuminating a portion of said message on the LEDs of each panel. A novel auto-baud scheme re-sets the baud rate for the sign for each packet of data received. A novel identifier assignment scheme allows the end user to assign serial numbers to each panel after the sign is attached to the support frame.

Provides control movement of a display area to an image displayed outside a display screen by means of a touch operation using a touch panel in such a general-purpose environment as a desk-top screen of an operating system. In an example embodiment, a data processing apparatus employs a touch panel unit as an input unit. The data processing apparatus includes an operation event detector for detecting an operation preset, to be distinguished from other normal inputs to the panel touch unit; a cursor movement information generator for generating movement information used to move a cursor positioned at the periphery of a display screen to the outside thereof; a cursor movement controller for moving the position of the cursor on a display image according to the generated movement information; and a virtual screen controller for scrolling an item displayed on the display screen according to a cursor movement.

A virtual touch screen based on camera shooting tube is prepared as pointing at least two camera shooting tubes to display screen from different visual angle to let display screen be in view finding range completely, making virtual screen be any plane in front of and in parallel to display screen, shooting finger movement and click action at virtual screen by said tubes, using computer to convert these actions to be relevant command and executing these commands for realizing man-machine interactive operation.

A display apparatus includes a rendering unit, a priority determination unit, and a synthesized screen generation unit. The rendering unit determines necessary virtual screens based on an instruction signal from a navigation unit and information processing units. The priority determination unit determines a display priority based on a display content with respect to each virtual screen. The synthesized screen generation unit generates a synthesized screen to be displayed, by overlapping the determined virtual screens based on the determined display priorities. In this configuration, a certain window in a virtual screen, which has been displayed second or later in the order of overlapping windows, may be newly assigned the highest display priority when a display content in the certain window is changed. This allows the certain window to be displayed topmost and easily viewed by a user.

A presentation system comprises a display for setting a virtual screen, a pointing mark for operating a point on the display, a photographing device for photographing the pointing mark and the display, a displaying device for displaying a predetermined image or the photographed image photographed by the photographing device, and a control device. The control device calculates coordinates of the pointing mark on coordinates of the virtual screen and has a pointing function for synthesizing a predetermined point image at coordinates of the image on the displaying device, which correspond to the coordinates of the pointing mark.

Interactive blocks (12, 212) that present changeable individual characterizations (118) and sensory output based on meaningful assemblage of sensed individual characterizations from similar juxtaposed blocks (12, 212) are configured to record their interactions to produce an historic log or both successful interactions that yield a sensory output or failed interactions that produce no logical or meaningful sensory event. Uploading of the historical log (158) permits automated computational assessment of all interactions, with a centralized computing resource dynamically arranged to cause selective download of new content and / or new operating instructions to one or more of the interactive blocks (12, 212) based of identification of trends in the historical record. The new content and operating instructions modifies operation of cooperating blocks to produce different, processor controlled individual characterizations an / or sensory outputs that reinforce learning or identified mistakes arising from inappropriate manipulation of the interactive blocks. The interactive blocks (12, 212) can be realized as physical entities or otherwise in a virtual screen environment, with the sensory output being visual, audible and / or a haptic response.

The invention discloses a method for adaptively regulating touch input range of a screen, and a mobile terminal. According to the method, the screen area is divided into M*N lattice areas; and the mobile terminal detects movement of the user finger to define the lattice area where the current finger projection is located and generate a virtual keyboard or a virtual screen to preview in real time on the condition that the central point of the lattice area is used as an anchoring point. The mobile terminal detects touch operation of the user finger, determines the lattice area where the user finger touches or leaves, and determines the virtual keyboard or the virtual screen generated on the condition that the central point of the lattice area is used as an anchoring point so as to be available for a user to input. Due to the method, the user can adaptively regulate touch input range of the screen, and can dynamically regulate position and size of the virtual keyboard or the virtual screen according to the user hand and current specific holding condition so as to improve user experience.

A central position of each character participating in a battle is obtained as a fixation point, and multiple temporary points are set on a hemisphere around the fixation point. Each temporary viewpoint position is set on a straight line connecting the fixation point to each temporary point. Each temporary viewpoint position is a position from which all characters can be projected on a virtual screen when perspective transformation is executed at a predetermined visual angle and a distance to the fixation point is shortest. Points are given to each temporary viewpoint position based on the result of a distance evaluation, an angle evaluation, an overlap evaluation, and a height difference evaluation. The top scoring temporary viewpoint positions are selected as positions where the viewpoint of a virtual camera should be moved.

A method and system for rendering a window from an extended virtual screen on a native display of a mobile computing device is described. The system includes a server that detects a server, a first window associated with an application executing on the server, the server outputting the application to an extended virtual screen; identifies coordinates associated with a position of the first window on the extended virtual screen; and transmits the coordinates of the first window to a mobile computing device to display the first window on a native display of the mobile computing device. The system also includes a mobile computing device that receives a gesture-based instruction on the native display; evaluates contents of a second window at a location where the gesture-based instruction is received; scrolls the contents of the second window if the contents include a scrollbar; and pans the contents of the second window if the contents exclude a scrollbar.

The invention provides a method for deploying software on a wide-screen display and a device. The method includes steps of monitoring mouse clicking or touch screen clicking events in real time; entering a dynamic split screen state when a current focal point window is clicked via a mouse or a touch screen, a clicked state is kept for a period of time longer than preset time; automatically initiating an area in the current focal point window and setting the area in the current focal point window as a virtual screen area in the dynamic split screen state; modifying the size of the virtual screen area according to preset standards, recording coordinates and the size of the virtual screen area after the virtual screen area is modified, and limiting a display interface when the quantity of software in a virtual screen is maximum so that the display interface cannot exceed a recorded coordinate range of the virtual screen; and exiting from the dynamic split screen state and completing split screen operation. By the aid of the method and the device, application programs can be quickly deployed into display programs of inner screens of the virtual screen according to needs of a user, troublesome operation of software deployment is effectively avoided, time of the user is saved, and the method and the device are high in operational efficiency and applicability and are flexible and convenient.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for designing a display for user interaction. The proposed apparatus includes an input unit for receiving physical information of a user and a condition depending on a working environment. A space selection unit selects an optimal near-body work space corresponding to the condition received by the input unit. A space search unit calculates an overlapping area between a viewing frustum space, defined by a relationship between a gaze of the user and an optical system of a display enabling a 3D image to be displayed, and the optimal near-body work space selected by the space selection unit. A location selection unit selects a location of a virtual screen based on results of calculation. An optical system production unit produces an optical system in which the virtual screen is located at the location selected by the location selection unit.

A method to augment, virtualize, or present mixed reality of content to display a larger amount of content on a head worn device (HWD) including: creating a set of virtual screens in the display of the HWD deployed in a manner to both surround and positionally shift from a movement of the viewer to provide an immersive viewing experience wherein the set of virtual screens include: at least a primary virtual screen and one or more secondary virtual screens; enabling the immersive viewing experience by generating dynamic virtual screen arrangements; connecting a first sensor attached to a head of the viewer and a second sensor attached to a torso of the viewer for generating sensed data of rotating differences of the positionally shift of the viewer; and configuring the content on each of the virtual screens to determine a particular virtual screen having a visual attention of the viewer.

A wearable device that is configured to be worn on a body of a user and a control method thereof are provided. The wearable device includes an image projector configured to project a virtual user interface (UI) screen, a camera configured to capture an image, and a processor configured to detect a target area from the image captured by the camera, control the image projector to project the virtual UI screen, which corresponds to at least one of a shape and a size of the target area, onto the target area, and perform a function corresponding to a user interaction that is input through the virtual UI screen.

A system for operating multiple audio input devices for synchronized and position-based audio comprising a media computing device comprising a processor, a memory, wireless network interfaces, a data store, a virtual screen driver, audio input devices connected to the media computing device, each comprising at least a microphone, and audio output devices connected to the media computing device, comprising at least a speaker, and an audio controller further comprising an operating system, an interaction manager and a synchronization manager configured to synchronize a series of audio stream inputs into a singular audio output.

The present invention discloses a system and a method used for outputting a plurality of operating system screens to a single monitor in a virtual terminal at the same time and used for controlling a virtual screen. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the system used for controlling the virtual screen comprises: an operating system unit comprising at least one operating system, wherein, the operating system is configured to generate data to be output to a display device in a frame buffer; and a virtual machine monitor configured to divide the screen into preset windows assigned to the operating systems, converting the data in the frame buffer into the windows, and outputting the virtual screen to the operating systems at the same time. Therefore, by displaying the plurality of operating systems on the display device at the same time, it is possible to allow that contents of application programs executed in the plurality of operating systems can be checked at the same time through the display device.

The invention discloses a real-time virtual scene LED shooting system and method, and belongs to the field of movie and television shooting. According to the invention, the digital assets are called to construct the virtual scene according to the content needing to be presented by shooting scenes, the virtual LED screen and the virtual camera are reconstructed in a virtual engine module, and the real environment illumination information in the photostudio is synchronized to the virtual engine in real time. Distributed real-time rendering is performed on the virtual scene through the virtual engine module and the virtual scene is displayed on a virtual LED screen; the virtual engine further overlaps a picture with a depth channel rendered by the virtual engine in real time according to theposition of the real-time camera and lens distortion information outside the virtual LED screen. The physical LED screen displays the virtual LED screen, the real-time camera completes shooting, the XR module obtains the picture with the depth channel and the picture shot by the real-time camera, and a final picture is obtained through synthesis. The method can replace green screen key to achievethe effect of direct film formation in most environments, optimize the film production process, and save the cost of complex visual special effects.

A method for conducting a contest using a network is provided. Displayed, on a practical screen of a user computer operably connected to the network at a user site, is a plurality of pick spaces, a virtual television set including a first virtual screen, and a virtual computer including a second virtual screen. The apparent area of the first virtual screen constitutes a first display area of the practical screen for showing successive images selected from a first plurality of images. A preselected one of the first plurality of images is designated a lesson image. The apparent area of the second virtual screen constitutes a second display area of the practical screen showing a rolling counter. The rolling counter depicts successive ones of a plurality of available characters, each character being displayed in the rolling counter for a preselected duration. Each time that the lesson image is shown in the first display area, a screen cursor is simultaneously positioned within the second display area, and a pointing device operably connected to the computer is simultaneously triggered, the then-current character shown in the rolling counter is assigned to a successive one of the plurality of pick spaces. Thereafter, the assigned character is displayed in the corresponding pick space. When each pick space displays an assigned character, an entry data packet is assembled including data indicative of the assigned character in each of the plurality of pick spaces. The entry data packet is transmitted from the user computer across the network to a remote site.