Claims
- 1. A system, comprising:
a three-dimensional (3D) volumetric display output configuration having a display content; and an input configuration coupled to the volumetric display output configuration and allowing a user to affect the display content.
- 2. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the output configuration comprises one of a dome, a cylinder, a cubical box and an arbitrary shape.
- 3. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the input configuration comprises one of a 3D volumetric input space mapped to the 3D volumetric display, a planer 2D input space mapped to the 3D volumetric display, a planar 2D input space mapped to a planar 2D space within the 3D volumetric display, and a non-planar 2D input space mapped to the 3D volumetric display.
- 4. A system as recited in claim 3, wherein the user produces inputs comprising one or directly with a hand, with a surface touching device and with an intermediary device.
- 5. A system as recited in claim 3, wherein the input configuration further comprises one of an input volume adjacent to the display, an input volume surrounding the display, a digitizing surface covering a surface of the display, a digitizing surface offset from the surface of the display, and an intermediary device used with the display.
- 6. A system as recited in claim 5, wherein the intermediary device comprises one of a stylus, a surface fitting mouse, a park able mouse, a multi-dimensional mouse, a movable input device positioned on a bottom periphery of the display and a set of identical input devices positioned spaced around a bottom periphery of the display.
- 7. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the input configuration comprises a non-planar 2D input space mapped to the 3D volumetric display.
- 8. A system as recited in claim 7, wherein the non-planar 2D input space comprises a digitizing surface covering a surface of the display and a digitizing stylus interacting with the surface.
- 9. A system as recited in claim 8, wherein the stylus has a tip, and the stylus and digitizing surface produce a pointing vector and a cursor is created in the display at a fixed distance from the tip along the vector.
- 10. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the input configuration comprises a tracking system tracking a user.
- 11. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the input configuration is non-spatial.
- 12. A system as recited in claim 11, wherein the input configuration comprises a voice recognition system allowing the use to affect the display content using voice commands.
- 13. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the input configuration and output configuration define a spatial correspondence between an input space and an output space.
- 14. A system as recited in claim 13, wherein the spatial correspondences comprises one of 3D to 3D, 2D planar to 3D, 2D planar to 2D planar and non-planar 2D to 3D.
- 15. A system as recited in claim 12, where the input configuration, output configuration and the user define a dynamically updatable spatial correspondence.
- 16. A system, comprising:
a dome shaped three-dimensional (3D) volumetric display having an enclosure surface; an input configuration comprising:
a digitizing surface covering the enclosure surface; a digitizing stylus having a tip and interacting with the digitizing surface under the control of a user; and a digitizing system coupled to the digitizing surface and outputting non-planar position coordinates and a pointing vector responsive to the interaction between the stylus and the digitizing surface; and a computer coupled between the display and the digitizing system, producing 3D content displayed in the display, mapping the non-planar position coordinates to a 3D coordinate position in the display by offsetting along the vector by an offset distance from the tip and affecting the content at the 3D coordinate position.
- 17. A method, comprising:
interacting, by a user, with a surface of a three-dimensional (3D) volumetric display; and affecting the 3D content of the display responsive to the interaction.
- 18. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the display comprises a digitizing grid formed on the surface, the interacting comprises the user manipulating the stylus in a sensing region of the grid and the affecting comprises mapping a stylus position in the sensing region to a 3D display position and creating a cursor at a the 3D display position.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION(S)
[0001] This application is related to and claims priority to U.S. provisional application entitled User Interfaces For Volumetric Displays, having serial No. 60/350,952 (S&H Docket 1252.1054P), by Kurtenbach et al, filed Jan. 25, 2002, this application is also related to U.S. application entitled Volume Management System For Volumetric Displays, having Ser. No. ______ (S&H Docket 1252.1065), by Kurtenbach et al, filed herewith, to U.S. application entitled Widgets Displayed And Operable On A Surface Of A Volumetric Display Enclosure, having Ser. No. ______ (S&H Docket 1252.1066) by Fitzmaurice et al, filed concurrently herewith, to U.S. application entitled Graphical User Interface Widgets Viewable And Readable From Multiple Viewpoints In A Volumetric Display, having Ser. No. ______ (S&H Docket 1252.1067), by Fitzmaurice et al, filed concurrently herewith, to U.S. application entitled A System For Physical Rotation of Volumetric Display Enclosures To Facilitate Viewing, having Ser. No. ______ (S&H Docket 1252.1068), by Balakrishnan et al, filed concurrently herewith, to U.S. application entitled Techniques For Pointing To Locations Within A Volumetric Display, having Ser. No. ______ (S&H Docket 1252.1069), by Balakrishnan et al, filed concurrently herewith, and all of which are incorporated by reference herein.
Provisional Applications (1)
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