WO2007097526A1 - Procédé pour la mise en oeuvre d'un menu tournant hiérarchique pour interface graphique et appareil associé - Google Patents

Procédé pour la mise en oeuvre d'un menu tournant hiérarchique pour interface graphique et appareil associé Download PDF

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WO2007097526A1
WO2007097526A1 PCT/KR2007/000384 KR2007000384W WO2007097526A1 WO 2007097526 A1 WO2007097526 A1 WO 2007097526A1 KR 2007000384 W KR2007000384 W KR 2007000384W WO 2007097526 A1 WO2007097526 A1 WO 2007097526A1
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  • the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a ring menu, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for providing a hierarchical ring menu for a graphic user interface, that are capable of facilitating the manipulation of an user and reducing a mouse operation time by outputting a hierarchical menu item on a circular circumference spaced apart from a mouse pointer by a shortest distance to minimize a mouse movement distance.
  • GUI graphic user interface
  • ⁇ 3> In order to execute another application program in a state that an application program is currently being executed on a window, the window on which the application program is being executed is closed or minimized and the icon of a desired program on a background screen is clicked using a mouse pointer. Alternatively, a start button located at a lower end of the screen is pressed and a menu button corresponding to a desired program is found and clicked.
  • a context menu 100 including a series of commands suitable for a program currently being executed was displayed at the position of a mouse pointer in a form of pop-up window when a user clicks a right button of a mouse on a window.
  • commands such as icon sort and refreshing
  • commands such as paste, character format and paragraph format
  • the menu such that the user moves the mouse pointer to the position of a menu to be executed and clicks a left button of the mouse to execute the menu.
  • the menu items displayed in the context menu 100 are stored in the registry of a computer system or file resource information and the computer system checks a program which is currently being executed by the user and provides a menu item suitable for the program in the registry or data file when the user clicks the right button of the mouse.
  • a menu item which is not frequently used by the user may be included in the context menu such that the menu becomes complicated. Therefore, the user must inconveniently perform a plurality of input operations in order to select a desired menu.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for providing a hierarchical ring menu for a graphic user interface, that are capable of minimizing the movement distance of a mouse and allowing a user to rapidly and efficiently perform an operation by outputting hierarchical menu items on a circular circumference spaced apart from a mouse pointer by a shortest distance when a right button of a mouse is clicked regardless of the current position of the mouse pointer.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for providing a hierarchical ring menu for a graphic user interface, that are capable of outputting hierarchical menu items on a circular circumference spaced apart from a mouse pointer by a shortest distance when a right button of a mouse is clicked regardless of the current position of the mouse pointer and executing a menu or program only by moving the mouse pointer to the menu or the program to be executed in a menu item zone.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for providing a hierarchical ring menu for a graphic user interface, that are capable of facilitating the operation of an application program menu and a system menu by extracting all automated execution commands in a form of list and allowing a user to directly edit the configuration of a context menu in a desired form when a program is of an ActiveX control or a type of automation model, such as a web browser, an excel, a word, a flash player, or a media player even in an automation interface of a system operating system and a GUI application program which is already produced.
  • a method for providing a ring menu for a graphic user interface including: a program operating step of starting the operation of an application program for supporting the ring menu for the GUI according to the manipulation of a user; a list extracting step of extracting and storing all execution commands used by the user from a computer system in a form of list; a menu editing step of editing menu items of the ring menu according to the manipulation of the user and updating and storing attribute information of the edited ring menu; and a menu operating step of outputting the ring menu to a display device and executing a command in response to the selection of a menu item by the user.
  • GUI graphic user interface
  • an apparatus for providing a hierarchical ring menu for a graphic user interface (GUI) which displays the ring menu for the GUI of an application program comprising: a menu editing module which edits menu items of the ring menu! a menu operating module which outputs the ring menu to a display device and executes the menu items registered in the ring menu according to the selection of a user; a database module which stores attribute information of the menu items registered by the menu editing module; and an application program module which supports the GUI for executing a command when the user selects one of the menu items, in association with the menu editing module, the menu operating module and the database module.
  • GUI graphic user interface
  • a method and apparatus for providing a hierarchical ring menu for a graphic user interface according to the present invention have the following effects.
  • FIG. 1 is an example of a screen for displaying a conventional context menu.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of an apparatus for provising a ring menu for a graphic user interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 is an example of a screen for displaying a ring menu according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG.4 is a view showing a ring menu according to another embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 is an example of a screen for displaying a state that the ring menu is edited according to the embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 are examples of a screen for displaying a state that the ring menu is edited according to other embodiments of the present invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart showing a method for providing a ring menu for a graphic user interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG.9 is a flowchart showing a ring menu editing step in detail.
  • FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a ring menu operating step in detail.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of an apparatus for providing a ring menu for a graphic user interface (GUI) according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • GUI graphic user interface
  • the ring menu providing apparatus includes a menu editing module 10, a menu operating module 20, a database module 30, and an application program module 40.
  • the menu editing module 10 is used to edit menu items for configuring a ring menu.
  • the menu editing module 10 includes a menu extracting module 11 which extracts a system menu and an application program menu for supporting a GUI, a menu list output module 12 which outputs the system menu and the application program menu for the GUI extracted by the menu extracting menu 11 to a display device, and a menu link module 13 which links the system menu and the application program menu with the ring menu by a dragging operation of a user.
  • the menu operating module 20 is used to output the ring menu to the display device and executes the menu items registered in the ring menu according to the selection of the user.
  • the menu operating module 20 includes a menu output adjusting module 21 which outputs the ring menu at the position of a mouse pointer on the display device by the manipulation of the user and a registration menu executing module 22 which executes a menu selected by the user among the menu items registered in the ring menu.
  • the database module 30 is used to store attribute information of the menu items registered by the menu editing module 10.
  • the application program module 40 is used to support the GUI for executing a desired command according to the selection of the menu item of the user in association with the menu editing module 10, the menu operating module 20 and the database module 30.
  • the term "module” used in the embodiment of the present invention indicates a software or hardware component for performing any function.
  • the module is not limited to the software or hardware component and may be configured to be stored in a storage medium which can be addressed or may be configured to reproduce at least one processor.
  • the module includes components such as software components, object-oriented software components, clsss components and task components, functions, attributes, procedures, subroutines, segments of program codes, drivers, firmware, microcodes, circuits, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables.
  • the functions provided by the components or the modules may be combined with a smaller number of components and variable or may be separated from additional components and modules.
  • FIG. 3 is an example of a screen for displaying a ring menu according to an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 4 is a view showing a ring menu according to another embodiment of the present invention.
  • the ring menu 4 displayed on the screen is donut shaped and has a predetermined diameter and a thickness centered on a mouse pointer (The shape of the ring menu is not limited to the donut shape and may be any one of a variety of shapes, such as a circular or polygonal shape).
  • the circumference of the ring menu 4 is divided into at least one section having a predetermined area. In each section, menu items including a variety of application programs and data files registered through the editing process of a ring menu editor, menu items (see FIG.
  • the inner central part of the ring menu 4 is a standby/execution zone 5 of the ring menu 4, which displays a character label for describing the name or the attribute of the menu item and the mouse pointer which is displayed in a dotted shape.
  • the ring menu 4 may have a two-layer structure. As described above, each layer may be divided into at least one section for displaying a variety of menus. When the ring menu 4 has a two-layer structure, the number of menu items to be displayed can significantly increase.
  • a control menu 6 for controlling the hierarchical operation of the ring menu 4, such as a previous menu movement button, a next menu movement button, and an upper-level movement button, may be included in the circumference of the standby/execution zone 5 located at the inner central part of the ring menu 4.
  • the above-described menu items of the ring menu 4 are not limited to the menu items for executing the variety of application programs and data included in a specific computer system and may be network folder items for supporting a network sharing function in order to use an execution file, a folder, and data of the other computer system connected over a network (see FIG. 7).
  • a method for operating the ring menu 4 having the above-described structure may be classified into a basic selection mode in which the user moves the mouse pointer located on the standby/execution zone 5 to the position of a specific menu item of several menu items located at the circumference thereof to activate the menu item and then returns the mouse pointer to the standby/execution zone 5 or clicks the position of a specific menu item such that the application program corresponding to the activated menu item is executed and a rapid selection mode in which the user moves the mouse pointer located on the standby/execution zone 5 to the position of a specific menu item of several menu items located at the circumference thereof to activate the menu item and at the same time executes a command corresponding to the menu item.
  • the ring menu 4 may be configured such that the ring menu immediately disappears on the screen when the mouse pointer gets out of the display space of a monitor.
  • the same operation as a single-layer structure may be performed using a method for activating or inactivating each layer by controlling a mouse wheel, in order to prevent the confusion of the operation due to the overlapping between the execution zones of the menu items. For example, when the user scrolls the mouse wheel upward in a state that the menu items of a first layer are activated, the menu items of a second layer are activated and the menu items of the first layer are inactivated and, when the user scrolls the mouse wheel downward in this state, the menu items of the first layer are activated and the menu items of the scond layer are inactivated.
  • Menu items for directly executing the variety of application programs or menus registered by the user and menu items corresponding to the folder menus may be added to or deleted from the plurality of menu items displayed on the ring menu 4.
  • the ring menu 4 may include a sub ring menu having several levels according to the registration form of the folder menu.
  • a satellite menu having a predetermined shape which can display the level of the current ring menu, such as a satellite menu (not shown) for displaying a numeral 0, 1, 2, or 3 according to the level of the current ring menu, may be further displayed at the outside of the ring menu.
  • the mouse pointer is moved and clicked over the satellite menu, the ring menu having the level indicated by the satellite menu is displayed.
  • the ring menu according to the present invention can allow the user to rapidly and efficiently perform an operation by outputting the hierarchical menu items on the circumference of the ring spaced apart from the mouse pointer by a shortest distance to minimize the movement distance of the mouse, according to the above-described structure and the operating method.
  • FIG. 5 is an example of a screen for displaying a state that the ring menu is edited according to the embodiment of the present invention.
  • a ring menu editing window is outputted as shown in FIG. 5.
  • the ring menu editing window includes a program menu registration window 1 for displaying a list of main menus of an application program which is currently being executed, a system menu registration window 2 for displaying a list of system menus registered in the window, a variety of command buttons 3 relating to the ring menu edit, such as a folder adding button, a command adding button, a deleting button, and a storing button, and the ring menu 4.
  • the ring menu 4 displayed in the edit window is changed in real time in response to the manipulation of the user.
  • the user selects any one of the application programs or menus displayed in the program menu registration window 1 and the system menu registration window 2, which are located at the left side of the edit window, as an item to be registered to the menu item in the ring menu 4 located at the right side of the edit window using the mouse and performs a dragging and dropping operation (that is, an operation for moving the mouse pointer while pressing the left button of the mouse and dropping the left button of the mouse in an empty space of the menu item zones formed on the circumference of the ring menu 4), the menu item is moved to the empty space and a new menu item is created in the ring menu 4.
  • a dragging and dropping operation that is, an operation for moving the mouse pointer while pressing the left button of the mouse and dropping the left button of the mouse in an empty space of the menu item zones formed on the circumference of the ring menu 4
  • a folder adding button of the plurality of command buttons 3 is used to newly creat a menu item having a folder shape in a portion of the circumference of the ring menu 4.
  • the menu item having the folder shape is clicked, the lower-level folder of the ring menu which is currently being displayed can be displayed to be edited.
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 are examples of a screen for displaying a state that the ring menu is edited according to the other embodiments of the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a view showing a ring menu editing state for configuring, in the ring menu 4, a menu item which is associated with the existing tree type structure, such as a file system and an external tree structure type command system
  • FIG. 7 is a view showing a ring menu editing state for configuring, in the ring menu 4, a network folder item for supporting a network sharing function in order to use an execution file, a folder and data of the other computer system connected over a network.
  • the ring menu may be configured by a virtual folder creation method for displaying a virtual folder which does not exist actually but is displayed in an execution zone for the purpose of hierarchical display/access on the basis of the maximum number of items to be displayed on the screen.
  • the menu items are sorted according to a predetermined sort criterion, a smallest number of layers of the tree structure which can be accessed stepwise is calculated on the basis of the maximum number of items to be displayed on the screen, the number of virtual folders necessary for the current state is calculated, a start key value according to the sort criterion (a file name in a case where the sort criterion is the name or a size in a case where the sort criterion is the size) is set to a virtual folder name, the calculated number of virtual folders is created and outputted, the number of actual items in the virtual folder according to the selection of the user and the number of items to be displayed are compared to repeatedly create a lower-level virtual folder or display the actual items, thereby hierarchically accessing to the unhierarchical actual items in a form of list.
  • a predetermined sort criterion a file name in a case where the sort criterion is the name or a size in a case where the sort criterion is the size
  • the items are sorted in a specific order, that is, in order of charater, type or size, according to a reference object, nine virtual folders having 100 lower-level items are created, a start item index and the number of items in each virtual folder are stored, and a key value corresponding to the start item index is outputted as a virtual folder name.
  • the user selects a specific virtual folder and the number of items in the virtual folder is less than the number of items to be displayed, the actual items are displayed on the screen by referring to the start item index and the number of items of the virtual folder.
  • the number of items of the virtual folder is greater than the number of the items to be displayed, the user is allowed to easily select the actual items by creating a lower-level virtual folder as described above.
  • the ring menu can be shared between users in a peer-to-peer (P2P) manner over a network server.
  • P2P peer-to-peer
  • the user first adds a network folder item using an editor, receives a network user connection point (IP address) which can be shared over the server in a form of list, and adds the received item as a menu item for displaying the connection point with a user ID in a lower- level menu of the network folder item.
  • IP address network user connection point
  • a user who operates the ring menu selects the item for displaying the connection point of the lower-level menu of the network folder item
  • a network sharing route menu of the user is connected and starts to be operated in a referring method.
  • the menu item shared with the other computer system is executed, the executed result is received as a captured screen image or result data. Alternatively, when data of a menu item shared with the other computer system is accessed, the data is received.
  • FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart showing a method for providing a ring menu for a graphic user interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a user executes an application program for supporting a ring menu (SlO)
  • it is determined whether the user performs an input operation (S20).
  • FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the ring menu editing step S70 shown in FIG. 8 in detail.
  • the ring menu editing window includes a program menu registration window 1 for displaying a list of main menus of the application program which is currently being executed, a system menu registration window 2 for displaying a list of system menus registered in the window, a variety of command buttons 3 relating to the ring menu edit, such as a folder adding button, a command adding button, a deleting button, and a storing button, and the ring menu 4.
  • ⁇ 68> It is determined whether the user presses any one of the plurality of command buttons 3 in a state that the ring menu editing window is outputted (S103). When the user presses any command button, it is determined whether the command button operated by the user is an execution command adding button (S104).
  • the menu item zone of the ring menu is rearranged and the size thereof is optimized (S105).
  • a new execution command menu space is added to the menu item zone of the ring menu such that the operation of the execution command adding button by the user is finished (S106).
  • the new execution command menu space is added in an empty space state in which a menu item is not included and a menu item will be registered in the empty space by the below-described dragging operation of the user.
  • a menu link items on a system memory which is edited by the user up to now, is converted into a format written in a stream (serialization) (S119) and the values of the ring menus, which are edited before the user presses the storing button, are stored in a database (or a file system) such that the operation of the storing button by the user is finished (S120).
  • the determining steps S104, S108, S113, and S118 are sequentially performed and the predetermined processes corresponding to the command buttons are performed according to the determined results. At this time, although the sequence of the determining processes may be changed, the same effect can be obtained.
  • the extraction of the menu may use a method of extracting a menu from a dynamic link library (DLL), in which an execution file relating to the system is stored in the System32 directory of the window as an execution file used as a library shared among several functions and an external application program is stored in an installation directory and cannot be directly executed by a final user unlike a general application program, and a method of extracting a menu from an ActiveX control for interaction in a network environment regardless of a language which is necessary for software components to configure a desired component using a component object model (COM) .
  • DLL dynamic link library
  • COM component object model
  • the application program searches for the file system of the user to produce a list of DLL files, extracts a built-in function and a list of individual functions by referring to the produced list of DLL files (for example, a direct function calling method of calling a function using a DLLImport keyword or a LoadLibrary from a C++ program builder and calling a function using a DLLImport attribute from a C# program builder or a conversion calling method of converting an whole ActiveX control type library at one time and producing an assembly using Aximp.exe which is the ActiveX import tool), gives aliases, which can be easily understood by the user, to the extracted list of built-in functions or a combination of functions as necessary, outputs a list of aliases, and operates a desired function from the list of aliases according to the selection of the user.
  • aliases which can be easily understood by the user, to the extracted list of built-in functions or a combination of functions as necessary, outputs a list of aliases, and
  • the ActiveX control is a COM component that supports standard interfaces relating to persistence, connection points, and hosting. These standard interfaces define a protocol by which a control can be hosted in a control container, exchange messages, and handle events.
  • Most of application programs of Microsoft Corporation such as Internet Explorer 3.x or more, Visual Basic 4.x or more, Visual C++ 4.x or more, Access 95 or more, Excel 97 or more, Word 97 or more, Access 97 or more, FrontPage 97 or more, PowerPoint 97 or more, InterDev 97 or more may include the ActiveX control and application programs such as PowerBuilder, Delphi, C++ Builder, NCompass plugin for Netscape Navigator may include the ActiveX control without the window.
  • FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the ring menu operating step S40 shown in FIG.8 in detail.
  • the mouse pointer is prepared to be moved to the lower-level menu having the same central point (S211) and a new sub ring menu corresponding to the lower-level folder menu which is currently selected by the mouse pointer is outputted (S212).
  • the mouse pointer which is located at the lower-level folder menu occupying a section of the circumference of the ring returns to the central position of the new ring menu and the method returns to the step S206.
  • step S216 If the step S216 is finished, the ring menu which is currently outputted to the application program window is released or disappeared (S217).
  • the mouse pointer is prepared to be moved to the lower-level menu having the same central point (S218) and a new sub ring menu corresponding to the lower-level folder menu selected by the current mouse pointer is outputted (S219).
  • the mouse pointer located at the lower-level folder menu returns to the the central point of the new ring menu and the method returns to the step S213.
  • step S210 of releasing the output of the ring menu in the rapid selection mode state or the step S219 of releasing the output of the ring menu in the basic selection mode state is finished, it is determined whether the application program for supporting the ring menu which is currently being executed is finished (S210) and the method returns to the step S201 such that the steps S201 to S219 are repeatedly performed until the user finishes the application program.
  • GUI graphic user interface
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • ⁇ 98> it is possible to facilitate the manipulation of a user and to reduce a mouse operation time by outputting a hierarchical menu item on a circular circumference spaced apart from a mouse pointer by a shortest distance to minimize the movement distance of a mouse. Since a space of a computer screen necessary for displaying hierarchical execution commands having a menu form is minimized to the ring size, it is possible to more efficiently and widely the ring menu in a handheld computing environment. Since the hierarchical menu commands are outputted in a concentric circular shape with a predetermined size such that an infinite menu command system can be theoritically established, it is possible to widely use the ring menu in a high-quality mass program requiring a complicated user operation. Since a user interface for allowing a user to hierarchically divide and process all menu systems which are available on a computer according to the object and taste of the user is provided, it is possible to provide an optimal application program use environment for an individual user.

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L'invention concerne un procédé et un appareil servant à fournir un menu tournant hiérarchique pour interface graphique (GUI). Ce procédé comprend une étape de démarrage du fonctionnement d'un programme d'application pour prendre en charge le menu tournant destiné à l'interface graphique en fonction d'une manipulation d'un utilisateur, une étape d'extraction et de stockage sous forme de liste de toutes les commandes d'exécution utilisées par l'utilisateur à partir d'un système informatique, une étape d'édition d'articles du menu tournant selon la manipulation de l'utilisateur et de mise à jour et de stockage d'informations d'attributs du menu tournant édité et, enfin, une étape de restitution du menu tournant à un dispositif d'affichage et d'exécution d'une commande en réponse à la sélection d'un article de menu par l'utilisateur.
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