WO1997041508A1 - User interface for navigating among, organizing and executing program, files and data in a computer system - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to a graphical user interface and more particularly, relates to a graphical user interface wherein a desired command can be quickly and certainly input.
- GUI graphical user interface
- icons graphical images
- the GUI enables a user to point a desired icon by using a pointing device such as a mouse, so that a desired program is selected and executed. Therefore, the user need not memorize commands to execute a program and even a beginner user has become able to operate a computer easily.
- a multi-window system for providing plural independent display areas (windows) in a two-dimensional display.
- WINDOWS trademark
- Microsoft Corp. is an example of such a system.
- a window called a folder is provided for each category and each icon is displayed in a folder of the corresponding category.
- positions where these windows (folders) are displayed are not necessarily specified. Therefore, a window is sometimes hidden behind other windows.
- the user cannot recognize the hidden window, he cannot quickly select a desired window. To resolve this kind of problem, it is possible to provide a new graphical user interface.
- This invention is made in light of this situation and provides a new type of three-dimensional graphical user interface which enables the user to intuitively recognize menus arranged in a three-dimensional space so that the user can quickly and certainly input a command by using the menu.
- a graphical user interface which displays a first menu image on a display for an operating system of a computer.
- the first menu image includes a taskbar image which carries button images selectable by a user to carry out corresponding function.
- the GUI also displays a second menu image on the display for a navigator software which is running under the operating system.
- the navigator software provides a quasi- operating system environment.
- the GUI displays the taskbar image in the second menu image whereby the user can carry out functions of the operating system from within the quasi-operating system environment provided by the navigator software.
- Fig. 1 is a perspective drawing for showing an example of a personal computer system to which a graphical user interface according to the present invention applies.
- Fig. 2 is a block diagram for showing an example of internal construction of main body 31 shown in Fig. 1.
- Fig. 3 is a drawing for explaining transitions of display screens of display 51 shown in Fig. 1.
- Figs. 4A and 4B show a display example in the Video mode.
- Fig. 5 shows a display example in the A/V mode.
- Figs. 6A and 6B show a display example in the Application mode.
- Fig. 7 shows another display example in the Application mode.
- Fig. 8 shows another display example in the Video mode.
- Fig. 9 shows another display example in the A/V mode.
- Fig. 10 shows a display example in the Net Space mode.
- Fig. 11 shows a display example when the WAV player button shown in Fig. 5 is operated.
- Fig. 12 shows a display example when the Game Arcade button shown in Fig. 6A is operated.
- Fig. 13 shows a display example when an Add Application button shown in Fig. 12 is operated.
- Figs. 14A and 14B show a display example when a Quick Start Setting icon shown in Figs. 4A and 4B is operated.
- Fig. 15 is a drawing for explaining bit map data for indicating a rotating condition of an icon.
- Fig. 16 is a flow-chart for explaining an operation of the embodiment shown in Fig. 2.
- Fig. 17 is a drawing for explaining imaginary screens.
- Fig. 18 is a drawing for explaining imaginary screens.
- Fig. 19 is a drawing for explaining imaginary screens.
- Fig. 20 is a drawing for explaining imaginary screens.
- Fig. 21 is a drawing for explaining imaginary screens.
- Fig. 22 is a drawing for explaining imaginary screens.
- Fig. 23 shows another display example of Walls.
- Fig. 24 is a drawing for explaining imaginary screens when a background image changes.
- Fig. 1 shows a construction of a personal computer system to which a graphical user interface according to the present invention applies.
- the personal computer system has main body 31, keyboard 21 and mouse 22 operable to input a command to main body 31, and display 51 for displaying an image.
- Main body 31 has a dimension of 225 mm width, 373 mm height and 430 mm depth.
- Tapred faces 32 and 33 At the corners between the front face and the two side faces of main body 31, there are provided with tapered faces 32 and 33 so that the width of main body 31 looks narrow.
- power switch 34 operable to turn on/off a power supply to main body 31.
- Lower panel 36 and upper panel 37 are provided on the front face of main body 31 .
- Lower panel 36 is forced to protrude outward by a spring (not shown) .
- the user can push lower panel 36 against the force of the spring so as to make lower panel 36 depressed toward main body 31.
- Upper panel 37 is guided by left and right guides 45 to be slidable upward and downward. The downward movement of upper panel 37 is restricted when lower panel 36 is protruding.
- upper panel 37 When upper panel 37 has moved upward to a certain position along guides 45, lower panel 36 comes to protrude outward in accordance with the force of the spring and restricts the downward movement of upper panel 37.
- main body 31 When main body 31 is not in use, the inside devices are not exposed by closing upper panel 37 so that flat and simple design image is achieved.
- upper panel 37 is designed such that it can be modified to a drawer type or rotating type.
- Display 51 basically comprises pedestal 52 and display portion 53 which is connected to pedestal 52 oveably in a horizontal direction (pan direction) and in a vertical direction (tilt direction) .
- CRT 55 is arranged at the front of display portion 53.
- Speakers 61 and 62 are arranged inside left and right tapered faces 56 and 57 of display portion 53.
- Fig. 2 shows an example of the inside of main body 31.
- PENTIUM trademark
- Intel Corp. is used as CPU (Central Processing Unit) 71.
- This CPU operates in accordance with an internal clock of 166 MHZ or an external clock of 66 MHZ.
- RAM 72 is a main memory of 16 MB to store data and program to be processed by CPU 71.
- ROM 73 stores a program necessary for CPU 71 to execute various processes.
- EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory) 74 stores data which need to be stored even after a power supply to main body 31 is turned off.
- Graphics processing portion 75 handles a moving picture processing (color space transformation for transforming YUV signals which is a display format for moving picture data, to RGB signals which is a format for graphics data; scaling (enlarging or reducing) for displaying in a desired image size; or processing for displaying an MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) image as a full screen moving picture of 30 frames/s) .
- Graphics processing portion 75 also handles a three-dimensional graphics processing (e.g. a rasterizing process for projecting a three-dimensional object onto a two- dimensional image plane; a glow-shading processing for making a surface of an object look smooth; or an alpha-blending processing for describing a half-transparent object) .
- graphics processing portion 75 writes results of the processing in display memory 76, transforms them to analogue RGB signals and outputs them to display 51.
- Digital sound processing portion 77 carries out expansion of ADPCM (Adaptive Difference Pulse Code Modulation) sound source, expansion of MPEG audio data, generation of sound effect such as reverberation and surrounding, FM (Frequency
- the MIDI wave table synthesis process is a process for reproducing MIDI data by a built-in synthesizer with a wave table for storing digital data which are phonemes of various musical instruments.
- Each processed audio signal is mixed by a built- in audio mixer, transformed into an analogue audio signal and supplied to speakers 61 and 62 of display 51.
- INTERCAST (trademark) board 78 receives INTERCAST broadcast signals through antenna 91 and demodulates them.
- HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) data which is a basis of World Wide Web (WWW) page, is inserted into vertical blanking periods of a video signal and transmitted.
- the received data is stored in hard disk drive (HDD) 80.
- HDD hard disk drive
- the user can obtain a pseudo interactive environment by accessing HTML data back and forth in hard disk drive 80.
- scores, still pictures of crucial scenes, video clips and so on are transmitted by the INTERCAST in accordance with contents of programs. These still pictures and video clips are linked with relevant information. For example, it is possible to access a source of the relevant information through an analogue telephone line and to obtain the relevant information.
- the INTERCAST has been developed by Intel Corp.
- DSVD modem 79 time- division multiplexes voice and data in DSVD format developed by Corp. , and outputs them to a telephone line via modular jack 92.
- DSVD modem 79 also demodulates and separates an input signal of DSVD format, which signal is input via a telephone line, into a voice signal and data.
- digital-compressed audio signals and ordinary data signals are multiplexed by the use of a header of V.42 protocol. If there is no audio signal, the maximum data transfer rate is 28.8k bits/s. If there is an audio signal, the maximum data transfer rate is 19.2k bits/s and the transfer rate of the audio signal is 9.6k bits/s.
- DIGITALK trade mark
- Rockwell TrueSpeech (trademark) by DSP Group and so on may be used.
- Floppy disk drive device 41 can drive a 3.5 inch floppy disk and can read and write data from and on floppy disks of three formats; 1.44MB, 1.2MB and 720kB.
- Hard disk drive 80 reads and writes data from and on a hard disk having 1.6GB storage capacity.
- CD-ROM drive 42 drives a CD-ROM at the 4 times speed of CD (compact disk) .
- Keyboard/mouse controller 81 carries out an interface function between keyboard 21 and CPU 71 or between mouse 22 and CPU 71. Keyboard/mouse controller 81 also receives an output of infrared ray receiver 24 and outputs corresponding signals to CPU 71. Although a single bus is shown in Fig.
- the ISA bus is a bus of 8 bits or 16 bits.
- the PCI bus is a bus of 32 bits or 64 bits.
- the PCI bus operates at the speed between 25MHz and 66MHz and achieves a throughput of 528 KB/s at the maximum. This speed is more than 42 times faster than that of the ISA bus.
- Expansion slot 82 is one for the PCI bus and expansion slot 83 is one for the ISA bus.
- a peripheral circuit of any desired function for example, a SCSI board and DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) player
- SCSI board and DVD Digital Versatile Disc
- a graphical user interface according to the invention is displayed by a "navigator" software which operates under the WINDOWS 95 (trademark) operating system manufactured by Microsoft Corp.
- Fig. 3 shows transition of menu screens of the graphical user interface.
- a menu image of each level belongs to one of four categories (levels) .
- Category 1 displays the first level menus and has buttons of categories 2 to 4 therein which will be later explained.
- the buttons are clicked, the first level menu goes to second level menus (Category 2) corresponding to the clicked button.
- Category 2 is a Application folder for registering application software.
- An icon of each application software is displayed in Category 2 (the Application folder) .
- Category 3 shows application software which is of the third level.
- Category 4 shows a pop up dialogue box or a temporary window for setting and displaying.
- Video mode in which Video Wall 111 is displayed in the center, as shown in Fig. 4A.
- Video Wall 111 may be a transparent screen so that a background image can be seen through it.
- a certain moving picture image (not shown in Fig. 4A) is displayed as the user chooses.
- Fig. 4B is also provided to show the same as Fig. 4A except that the background image is removed.
- Video Wall 111 When a screen saver mode is turned on, if the user does not input anything by using keyboard 21 or mouse 22 within a predetermined certain period after Video Wall 111 is displayed, the display is changed to a full screen video condition. In the full screen video condition, the moving picture image displayed in Video Wall 111 will be expanded onto an entire screen of display 51.
- the screen saver function inhibits printing of an image on CRT 55 of display 51.
- the user can also intentionally select the full screen video. When the user clicks Video Wall 111 by operating mouse 22, the video screen changes to the full screen video.
- Video Wall 111 is displayed at the center of the screen, a portion of A/V Wall
- the Video mode shown in Fig. 4A when the user clicks once with mouse 22 any portion of A/V Wall 112 which is displayed on the left, the Video mode turns to the A/V mode as shown in Fig. 5.
- A/V Wall 112 is displayed at the center
- Video Wall 111 is displayed on the right (at the position where Application Wall 113 was displayed until then as shown in Fig. 4A) and Application Wall 113 is displayed on the left (at the position where A/V Wall 112 was displayed until then) .
- A/V Wall 112 moves to the center and when the user further clicks any button in A/V Wall 112, a corresponding function is activated.
- the user may double-clicks the button in A/V Wall 112 when A/V Wall 112 is displayed on the left in the
- Video mode so that the corresponding function is immediately activated.
- the Video mode shown in Fig. 4A when the user clicks once any portion of Application Wall 113 which is displayed on the right, the Video mode turns to the Application mode, as shown in Fig. 6A.
- Application Wall 113 is displayed at the center, Video Wall 111 is displayed on the left and A/V Wall 112 is displayed on the right.
- Application Wall 113 moves to the center and when the user further clicks any button in Application Wall 113, a corresponding function is activated.
- the user may double-clicks the button in Application Wall 113 when Application Wall 113 is displayed on the right in the Video mode, so that the corresponding function is immediately activated.
- A/V mode as shown in Fig.
- A/V Wall 112 is displayed at the center of the screen.
- A/V Wall 112 may also be a transparent screen so that a background image can be seen through it.
- selection buttons of a CD player, a WAV player, a MIDI player and a Mixer are displayed as a group. As explained above, these buttons are clicked with mouse 22 when the corresponding functions need to be carried out.
- the CD player button is operated to drive CD-ROM drive 42.
- WAV is a format name of files of sounds handled by a personal computer.
- the WAV player button is clicked to reproduce audio data of a certain name which data is stored as a file.
- the MIDI player button is operated to reproduce musical instrument sounds by using a WAV table for storing digital data of phoneme of the musical instrument sounds.
- the Mixer button is operated to mix plural audio signals. Under the group of these buttons, PHONE button is displayed.
- the PHONE is a telephone software for a personal computer. By starting the PHONE, a telephone function, an answering machine function and a facsimile function can be achieved. It also has a telephone directory function and can store plural telephone numbers. By simply selecting a certain number among the plural telephone numbers and instructing a start command, the user can make a call to that number.
- a Video File Player button is arranged on the right of the CD player button.
- the Video File Player button is operated to playback a VCR and/or video disk (not shown) .
- a Video CD Player button under it is for playbacking a Video CD Player (not shown) .
- a More A/V button is arranged at the lower right position of A/V Wall 112.
- the More A/V button is operated when a new application software is stored.
- the More A/V button is also operated for setting of a surround system, a volume of main body 31 of the personal computer and so on.
- Application Wall 113 is displayed at the center of the screen.
- A/V Wall 112 may also be a transparent screen so that a background image can be seen through it.
- Four buttons (folders) of Work Center, Reference Library, Game Arcade and Kid's Land are displayed in Application Wall 113.
- the Work Center is a folder for registering business software and the Reference Library is a folder for registering dictionaries and so on.
- the Game Arcade is a folder for registering game software and the Kid's Land is a folder for registering educational software.
- Figs. 4A, 5 and 6A which show the Video mode, the A/V mode and the Application mode, respectively, taskbar 101 of the WINDOWS 95 operating system is visible at the bottom of the screen during operation of the three- dimensional GUI created and displayed by the navigator software.
- This taskbar is same as displayed when the user is in the WINDOWS 95 operating system environment.
- Start button 102 and a clock image for indicating a time are respectively displayed on the left and the right of taskbar 101.
- image displaying portion 103 is provided and a substantial menu image is displayed there.
- the navigator software provides access to important operating system functions from within the graphical user interface by the navigator.
- the navigator makes taskbar 101 available from within the graphical user interface, either by fixing the display of taskbar 101 along the bottom of the screen no matter which wall the user is viewing at the center, as shown in Figs. 4A, 5 and 6A, or by using "autohide" feature.
- the autohide feature keeps taskbar 101 hidden so that the entire screen of CRT 55 can be used to display the graphical user interface by the navigator. This is shown in Fig. 6B, for example. No taskbar appears at the bottom of the screen in Fig. 6B.
- taskbar 101 becomes visible again, as shown in Fig. 6A. Once visible, the user can select and activated the buttons on taskbar 101 to invoke function of the WINDOWS 95 operating systems.
- Other means for un-hiding taskbar 101 are possible such as by using a predefined "hot key" on keyboard 21.
- the navigator By allowing the navigator to co-exist with taskbar 101 of the operating system, the user can use remembered "paths" to access and launch programs and data. Because the navigator software behaves as an application to the operating system, the user can easily move back and forth between the operating system and the navigator. This is because the navigator will appear as an application program and can be provided with a "Navigator button" (not shown) on the taskbar.
- buttons 6A all the four buttons are always seen and can be directly selected by double-clicking in either the Video mode or the A/V mode, as shown in Figs. 4A or 5. Therefore, a desired folder can be immediately activated without changing these modes to the Application mode first.
- Application button 154 is operated to add a new application software to a folder displayed by Net Space Wall 141.
- the mode turns to the Video mode, the A/V mode and the Application mode shown in Figs. 4A, 5 and 6A, respectively.
- the mode turns to a full screen video mode when there is no input by the user for a predetermined period.
- keyboard 21 or mouse 22 is operated in the full screen video mode, it turns back to the immediately proceeding mode (the last mode) .
- the WAV player button in A/V Wall is double-clicked in the Application mode shown in Fig. 6A, it turns to the A/V mode shown in Fig. 11 and an operational panels of the WAV player and Mixer are immediately displayed.
- the WAV player button in the A/V mode shown in Fig. 6A not only changes the mode to the A/V mode, but also immediately activates the WAV player function a shown in Fig. 11. Therefore, a quick operation is possible.
- a display condition shown in Fig. 13 goes back to a display condition shown in Fig. 12.
- icons 121 to 129 in the form of symbolized three-dimensional objects are superimposed on the background image. They are displayed in certain fixed positions such that they do not overlap any of Video Wall 111, A/V Wall 112 and Application Wall 113.
- Icon 124 is selected for setting as to whether, immediately after the power-on of main body 31, a software to be started is the WINDOWS 95 (trademark) or the navigator software, or whether a screen saver is on or off. Operations when icon 124 is selected will be explained later referring to Figs. 14A and 14B.
- Icon 128 is Sony Station (trademark) icon and is displayed in the form of a three-dimensional symbol of two rings arranged under the letter S.
- Sony Station icon 128 is clicked, a browser software is started so that a home page of the company which provides this navigator software is automatically accessed through the Internet.
- Icon 129 is an icon for Sony Online Support (SOS) . When this icon is clicked, a service center for a personal computer is automatically accessed through a network so that the user can obtain on-line instructions for trouble shootings of the personal computer.
- SOS Sony Online Support
- Fig. 14A shows a display example when Quick Start Settings icon 124 is operated.
- Quick Start Settings icon 124 is clicked in a situation shown in Fig. 4A, for example, Quick Start Settings window 211 is displayed in front of Video Wall 111, A/V Wall 112 and Application Wall 113, as shown in Fig. 14A.
- Quick Start Settings window 211 which is of lower level, is transparent so that the Walls behind and the background can be seen through.
- Fig. 14B shows the same as Fig. 14A except that the upper level Walls and the background image to be displayed behind are removed.
- a volume of the audio signals in that case is set in displaying area 227 so that a certain audio volume can be achieved.
- On or Off of the screen saver function can be selected.
- Set Up button 232 is clicked so that an image of moving picture to be displayed in the screen saver function can be selected.
- Set Up button 232 is operated, a directory for storing moving pictures is displayed.
- button 231 is operated after a desired directory is selected, a certain file name among files stored in the directory is displayed in displaying area 230. The user operates button 231 to scroll the file names so that a desired file name is displayed in displaying area 230.
- these three-dimensional icons are always displayed at the same fixed positions regardless of the modes selected.
- the three-dimensional icons never disappear except in a rare case. Therefore, the undesirable printing of the icon images on the CRT is more likely to occur than regular type of icon and buttons which appear and disappear at various locations depending upon the mode selected.
- rotational movement of them reduces a period for which a certain image is displayed at the same position.
- EEPROM 74 ( or hard disk drive 80) memorizes which one of the Video mode, A/V mode and Application mode is the last mode at the moment of the last power-off.
- CPU 71 reads the last mode from EEPROM 74 and controls display 51 to display the screen corresponding to the memorized last mode. If the last mode is not stored, that is, if the last mode is not one of the three modes; Video mode, A/V mode and Application mode, a predetermined default screen (screen in the Video mode, for example) will be displayed. If the user turns off the power in the A/V mode, for example, the image shown in Fig. 5 will be displayed again in display 51 when the power is turned on.
- step S4 it is determined whether a predetermined time period (the time set in displaying area 228 shown in Figs. 14A and 14B) has lapsed or not. If the predetermined time period has not lapsed yet, it goest to step S9 where it is determined whether keyboard 21 or mouse 21 is operated, and if not, it goes back to step S4. In this way, it waits until keyboard 21 or mouse 22 is operated. If it is determined in step S4 that the predetermined time period has lapsed without operation of keyboard 21 or mouse 22, it goes to step S5 so that the full screen display is carried out.
- a predetermined time period the time set in displaying area 228 shown in Figs. 14A and 14B
- Fig. 17 shows an imaginary screen arrangement of four basic Walls.
- an imaginary screen of a three-dimensional rectangular parallelepiped (cube) is imagined.
- the rectangular parallelepiped (cube) has six faces comprising four sides of front, left, right and back faces and top and bottom faces. Each Wall is arranged on one of the front, left, right and top faces out of the six faces.
- a menu image is displayed as if the view point of the user exists inside the rectangular parallelepiped.
- Fig. 17 corresponds to the Video mode shown in Fig. 4A.
- letters A, B, C and D are displayed on Video Wall 111 in the front, A/V Wall 112 on the left, Application Wall 113 on the right and Net Space Wall 141 on the top, respectively.
- A/V Wall 112 on the left is clicked in a situation shown in Fig. 17, A/V Wall 112 moves to the front, as shown in Fig. 18.
- A/V Wall 112 has been displayed until then. In this situation, it would be natural for A/V Wall 112, which has been displayed on the left until then, to be displayed on the back, as shown in Fig. 20. In this embodiment, however, A/V Wall 112 is displayed on the right where Application Wall 113 has been displayed until then.
- Application Wall 113 is displayed not on the left, but on the back as shown in Fig. 19, Application Wall 113 would disappear from display 51 and the user would not be able to view it.
- Fig. 22 it is possible to display the images displayed on the three sides of an imaginary triangular prism as if they were seen from a view point inside the prism. However, by doing so, it becomes impossible to display the Walls of the right and left sides on display 51 which is two-dimensional.
- FIG. 4A Video Wall 111 and A/V Wall 112 are displayed to constitute a right angle therebetween.
- Video Wall 111 and Application Wall 113 are also displayed to constitute a right angle therebetween.
- the two Walls are displayed to have an acute angle therebetween, the user cannot recognize the image as three- dimensional because a range of human vision is not so wide. Therefore, it is preferable to utilize a display method as shown in Figs. 17, 18 and 21.
- a background image corresponding to a wall which is displayed in front is displayed as a background image for display 51, the user can intuitively recognize from the background image which window the currently selected wall is so that operational performance is improved.
- the background is displayed and three Walls 111 to 113 are displayed not totally covering the background image but leaving a part of the background image uncovered and further making the background image seen through, as shown in Fig. 4A.
- icons 121 to 129 constitute a part of the background image and are displayed as if floating and rotating in a three-dimensional space. Accordingly, the user is provided with a menu giving open- space impression.
- no image is displayed on the bottom face of the rectangular parallelepiped in the above embodiments, it is possible to display an image on the bottom face.
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