US 11,927,752 B2
Control method and mobile device in immersive system
Yi-Hsin Chang, Taoyuan (TW); and Kuan-Wei Li, Taoyuan (TW)
Assigned to HTC Corporation, Taoyuan (TW)
Filed by HTC Corporation, Taoyuan (TW)
Filed on Oct. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/938,677.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/268,065, filed on Feb. 16, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0258934 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01)
CPC G02B 27/017 (2013.01) [G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control method, comprising:
establishing a communication between a mobile device and a head-mounted display device;
capturing pose data of the mobile device;
detecting a touch event by a touch screen on the mobile device, wherein an interface layout is defined on the touch screen, and the interface layout comprises a plurality of functional regions, wherein the functional regions of the interface layout comprises a first functional region, a second functional region, a third functional region and a fourth function region, and the functional regions are isolated from each other, the functional regions are isolated from each other by X-shaped boundary lines, the first functional region is located between a left edge of the interface layout and the X-shaped boundary lines, the second functional region is located between a right edge of the interface layout and the X-shaped boundary lines, the third functional region is located between a top edge of the interface layout and the X-shaped boundary lines, and the fourth function region is located between a bottom edge of the interface layout and the X-shaped boundary lines;
selecting a target function from candidate functions by mapping a position of the touch event with one of the functional regions in the interface layout; and
rendering a virtual controller in an immersive content displayed by the head-mounted display device according to the pose data of the mobile device, wherein a direction of the virtual controller is decided by the pose data and points toward an item in the immersive content other than the virtual controller; and
executing the target function on the item pointed by the virtual controller and rendering the immersive content displayed by the head-mounted display device according to the target function and the pose data.