WO2006134522A1 - Dispositif de commande comportant une interface utilisateur pouvant etre specifiee par l'utilisateur - Google Patents

Dispositif de commande comportant une interface utilisateur pouvant etre specifiee par l'utilisateur Download PDF

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WO2006134522A1
WO2006134522A1 PCT/IB2006/051830 IB2006051830W WO2006134522A1 WO 2006134522 A1 WO2006134522 A1 WO 2006134522A1 IB 2006051830 W IB2006051830 W IB 2006051830W WO 2006134522 A1 WO2006134522 A1 WO 2006134522A1
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Willem F. J. Hoogenstraaten
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    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/01—Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
    • G06F3/048—Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
    • G06F3/0481—Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
    • G06F3/0482—Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
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    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
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  • the invention relates to an electronic device having a user interface for providing access to control options, e.g., for control of electronics equipment or for operational control of the device itself.
  • the invention also relates to a method of providing access to the control options.
  • the invention relates in particular, but not exclusively, to remote control devices used within a consumer electronics (CE) environment.
  • CE consumer electronics
  • An electronic device such as handheld remote control device, has a user interlace that reflects the level of sophistication of the equipment to be controlled.
  • the user interlace may comprise a set of physical buttons ("hard-keys"), each one whereof or a particular combination whereof is associated with a controllable property of the electronic equipment.
  • the device uses a graphical user interface (GUI) having a display monitor combined with a touch screen.
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • the controllable options are then represented as icons in the GUI and the user selects an icon by touching the display monitor at the corresponding location.
  • the level of sophistication of the controllable equipment increases per new generation, and so is the level of sophistication of the user interface of the associated control device.
  • new functionalities arise on the home network as synergetic combinations of existing functionalities are being discovered. Accordingly, remote controls are being marketed that have 50 or more hard-keys. The sheer number of keys is quite intimidating to the average user.
  • the simple auxiliary remote control transmitter device has a minimum of keys, such as power-on, channel-up, channel-down, volume-up, and volume- down, as well as a switch which identifies the user.
  • Different power-on and channel-up and down codes for each switch position is provided by the simple auxiliary remote control transmitter device, and each such code is different than the corresponding codes of the complex remote control transmitter device.
  • a microprocessor in the television will recognize which user is in control.
  • values for personal preference parameter and/or channel rings associated with each user may be entered and stored in a programmable memory of the television. Then, when the television recognizes the power-on code for a particular user, the personal preference parameter and/or channel rings are immediately accessed.
  • less technically oriented users may be the beneficiaries of complex personal preference rings programmed by them by a highly technically oriented user, and will only have to deal with a simple auxiliary remote control transmitter device to control the television.
  • Touch screen remote controls such as the ones of the Pronto family manufactured by Philips Electronics, have the advantage that control options can be clustered in different pages so that the user has access to a single cluster one at a time.
  • An intelligent distribution of the icons over the pages is then a manner to ease the user's pain of being confronted with a large number of sophisticated control options.
  • US patent 5,956,025 (attorney docket PHA 23,248) issued to Lorna Goulden et al., for REMOTE WITH 3D-ORGANIZED GUI FOR A HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM, and herein incorporated by reference.
  • This patent relates to a remote control device for a home entertainment system.
  • the device has a GUI with touch screen functionality.
  • the visible part of the GUI is hierarchically organized in several control levels. All levels have consistent layouts with a first area for selectable items in a first location, a second area with controls for the selected one of the items in a second location and a third area for content data relating to the selected item in a third location. The spatial relationship between locations and areas is maintained throughout the levels.
  • Such a GUI contributes significantly to the user- friendliness of the home entertainment system.
  • see the references listed at the bottom of this text for complementary measures for providing a user-friendly and ergonomic GUI. Nevertheless, the selection menu and navigation through a tree of options in a GUI may again be intimidating to at least the novice user or the occasional user.
  • the inventor emphasizes the need for user-friendliness when it comes to user interlaces.
  • the user interface is that part of the system with which the user interacts and this part determines his/her liking or disliking the system, regardless of its actual functionality and capabilities.
  • the user interface disclosed in above patent is believed to be quite user- friendly, the inventor proposes to add a new dimension in order to facilitate user interaction and its acceptance by the user.
  • the inventor proposes an electronic device that has a user interface for providing access to control options.
  • the device selectively controls the access dependent on a level of (declared or inferred) interest of a user of the device.
  • the level of interest may reflect, for example, the user's current skills in controlling equipment via the device, or his/her mood.
  • a declared novice user thus will be presented a user interface with fewer or with other control options than a declared expert user.
  • the control options offered are simpler and fewer in number.
  • the device In order to be able to determine the level of the user's interest, the device has a user input to enable the user to declare the level of his/her interest.
  • This may be a simple toggle switch, toggling between “simple” and “sophisticated”, or a set of selection options rendered on the device's touch screen that covers “simple”, “sophisticated” and one or more intermediate levels, etc.
  • the level of interest thus declared may determine whether or not to render at least a specific one of the representations. That is, certain control options may be left out at a specific level of interest.
  • the level of interest may determine an allocation of at least a specific one of the representations to a particular one of multiple levels in a hierarchically organized menu of the representations. That is, the level of interest determines distribution and organization of the control options among the levels of a hierarchical menu rendered in the GUI.
  • the control options associated with a previous level of interest may be clustered under a macro in the next level of interest, and so on.
  • the user's level of interest can also be inferred from, e.g., a history of the user's speed of interacting with the device, i.e., the speed of navigating through the menu and selecting the options on his/her way through the menu.
  • a next session of user interaction may take into account that the user has by now gotten more experienced, experienced enough to try interacting with more control options or more sophisticated control options.
  • a further embodiment of the device in the invention has an incremental change in the level of interest causing an incremental change in the access to the options or in the control of the rendering.
  • the incremental change may be implemented by means of adding one of more new control options while maintaining the ones associated with the next lower level of interest in their original configuration and location in the GUI.
  • the new options may be added to the same page (menu level) as wherein the original options are rendered on the touch screen, or may be linked to the page of the original configuration by a sub-menu accessible from that page.
  • This embodiment has the advantage that the user gets gradually acquainted with more control options and capabilities of the controlled equipment without having to get used to a new GUI when graduating to a next level of interest.
  • a further variation may be that, upon turning-on or otherwise initializing the device for a new control session, the GUI has the same configuration as used in the previous session when the latter got terminated or an upgraded configuration based on the history fio user interaction.
  • the device may comprise a remote control device for control of consumer electronics equipment, e.g., via infrared or radio-frequency communication, either directly or via a data network and/or a server.
  • the device comprises a mobile telephone.
  • mobile phones have come to be increasingly more complicated as they accommodate an ever-increasing number of iunctionalities and gadgets.
  • the user interface in the invention may help the user to get used to the device and its capabilities.
  • the invention also facilitates user interaction upon the device having gone through an upgrade, e.g., a software upgrade or a hardware upgrade as an after-market add-on to the device.
  • an upgrade e.g., a software upgrade or a hardware upgrade as an after-market add-on to the device.
  • the user may start with a basic menu and gets gradually guided to more sophisticated control options.
  • the invention further relates to a method of providing a user interface for access to control options.
  • the method comprises selectively controlling the access dependent on a level of interest of a user.
  • the method in the invention is applicable to, e.g., a client-server architecture, wherein the client is provided with a GUI in order to interact with a remote server via a data network.
  • the GUI is rendered in a web page.
  • the user declares to the server or otherwise selects his/her level of interest and the server composes a GUI accordingly.
  • Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a system in the invention.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system 100 in the invention.
  • System 100 comprises an electronic device (102) that has a display monitor and touch screen (104) for rendering a GUI.
  • the GUI provides graphical representations (e.g., icons) of control options, such as icons 106, 108, 110 and 112, for control of the operation of electronic equipment 114.
  • Equipment 114 and device 102 have been drawn as entities spatially separate, suggesting a remote control scenario. However, it is clear that in another scenario both entities 102 and 114 could be integrated within the same physical device as well as discussed above.
  • connection between device 102 and 114 may direct (as drawn) via wire, or via a wireless connection, or may be indirect via a network or an intermediate apparatus such as a server.
  • the GUI represents the control options as icons in logical clusters, for example one cluster per page being displayed.
  • a cluster may be formed by grouping control options together that, for example, belong to the same apparatus or the same functionality in equipment 114, or that belong to the same activity or scenario.
  • a cluster may be formed based on the history of user interaction or using any other practical criterion.
  • US patent 6,748,462 (attorney docket US 018200) issued to Tom Dubil for ACTIVITY BASED REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE, and incorporated herein by reference.
  • This patent relates to a remote control device.
  • the device provides commands and options based on the configuration of components in a user's environment, and based on a defined user activity.
  • a storage device contains a user profile that includes the configuration of components at the user's environment, and defined set of user activities, such as "watching television”, “viewing a movie”, “watching a sports program", and so on.
  • Each user activity has a corresponding mapping of keys on the remote control device to facilitate the user activity.
  • the remote control device communicates commands to the components of the system to support the activity, and subsequently communicates commands to each component corresponding to this activity.
  • a user may define multiple user activities, and the storage device may contain configurations and activities from multiple users. With respect to the clustering according to the history of user interaction, see, e.g., US patent 6,828,992 (attorney docket US 000065) issued to Martin Freeman et al.. for USER INTERFACE WITH DYNAMIC MENU OPTION ORGANIZATION, and incorporated herein by reference.
  • This patent relates to a GUI for a data processing device or system.
  • the GUI has a plurality of menu options arranged in multiple pages. The menu options are dynamically distributed among the pages in accordance with a user history to reduce the effort of user-navigation among the options.
  • a dynamically adaptable GUI is relevant to remote controls, Internet portals or e-commerce sites.
  • device 102 selectively controls the rendering in the GUI of the options, among which options 106-112, dependent on a level of interest of a user of the device. If device 102 determines that the interest level is low, it supplies few options or icons per page and only the basic ones needed to operate the elementary functions of equipment 114. The user then gets the impression of not having to struggle in order to interact with device 102 while still being able to control equipment 114, albeit only with respect to simple functionalities or a small number of functionalities of equipment. If device 102 determines that the level of the user's interest is high, it supplies more icons per page than in the low- interest case. In addition or alternatively, device 102 supplies one or more options for accessing sub-menus from the relevant page being displayed in the GUI. The submenu gives access to control options that go beyond the basic ones made available in the low-interest case.
  • Device 102 has a user input 116 to enable the user to explicitly declare the level of his/her interest.
  • a user with a low interest level or a low expertise level indicates this by touching the left-most option.
  • An experienced user or one with high interest touches the right-most option.
  • Touch options associated with various intermediate levels may be presented as in the drawing.
  • the level of interest determines whether or not to render at least a specific one of the control options 106-112.
  • device 102 is used to control audio equipment 114, and the user has indicated a low interest.
  • the user will then be presented with elementary control options for control of the sound such as: on/off and volume. If the user had indicated he was an experienced user, he/she would have been presented with additional control options bass; treble, balance, etc., for adjusting singular aspects of the audio being rendered. These additional options have been hidden from the user and cannot be accessed in the low- interest mode.
  • the level of interest determines an allocation of at least a specific one of the control options to a particular one of multiple levels in a hierarchically organized menu provided in the GUI of device 102.
  • device 102 controls equipment 114 forming a home network of addressable and cooperating apparatus.
  • the GUI provides a basic menu with at the highest hierarchical level the selection options for the various apparatus. Once an apparatus has been chosen, the next lower level provides the basic controls for that apparatus.
  • the menu presented is one based on activities (see US patent 6,748,462 mentioned above) instead of on apparatus.
  • the controls of the various apparatus are now rendered as linked to the activity instead of to a particular apparatus on home network 114.
  • the selective control determines a modality of access of one or more of the control options in dependence on the level of interest. For example, if the user indicates that he/she has a low interest level, the GUI of device 102 is rendered on touch screen 104. If the user has indicated he/she is experienced, e.g., via option 116 on touch screen 104, device 102 switches the user- interactivity mode from touch screen 102 to, e.g., a speech input mode, wherein the user controls equipment 114 by means of spoken commands captured by device 102 and converted into proper control commands.
  • the patent relates to an electronic device with a user interface (UI) that provides first user-selectable options. Second user selectable options are made available upon selection of a specific one of the first options. An information resolution of the first options, when rendered, differs from the information resolution of the second options when rendered. Also, a first modality of user interaction with the UI for selecting from the first options differs from a second modality of user interaction with the UI for selecting from the second options.
  • UI user interface

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L'invention concerne un dispositif de commande permettant de commander un équipement électronique grand public, qui comporte une interface utilisateur permettant d'accéder à des options de commande. L'accès est déterminé selon le niveau d'intérêt ou le degré d'expérience de l'utilisateur.
PCT/IB2006/051830 2005-06-14 2006-06-08 Dispositif de commande comportant une interface utilisateur pouvant etre specifiee par l'utilisateur WO2006134522A1 (fr)

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