Method for processing data and electronic device thereof

• US 10,007,420 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2014
• Issued: 06/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jung, In-Hyung, Kim, Hyo-Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, CONG LAC T
• Application Number:
  US14/484,830
• Publication Number:
  US 20150082153A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,383 Days
• Field of Search: 715244, 715269, 715273, 715263, 715268
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/287 of Kanji, Hiragana or Katakana characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/32 Digital ink
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/43 Editing text-bitmaps, e.g. alignment, spacing; Semantic analysis of bitmaps of text without OCR

Abstract

A method of operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting at least two object displayed contiguously, determining a line interval of the at least two objects, and reconfiguring an interval of the at least two objects based on the determined line interval.

Claims

1. A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving a user input for inputting a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects including a first object and a second object;

determining, based on a stroke order by which the plurality of objects is input, whether the plurality of objects is input on two or more lines, the two or more lines including a first line and a second line;

identifying the first line including the first object and the second line including the second object;

obtaining a line interval between the first line and the second line, and an inclined state of the plurality of objects;

determining that the line interval is less than a predetermined line interval; and

in response to determining that the line interval is less than the predetermined line interval, reconfiguring the line interval of the plurality of objects based on the detected line interval and the inclined state,

wherein the reconfiguring of the line interval comprises enlarging the line interval between the first line and the second line,

wherein the predetermined line interval corresponds to a minimum line interval required for distinguishing the first line from the second line,

wherein the first line is determined based on the first object which is input on the first line,

wherein the second line is determined based on the second object which is input on the second line, and

wherein at least one of the first line or the second line has an arc shape.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein each of the plurality of objects is all or some parts of an object included in data, and

wherein the data being at least one of photographed image data, captured image data, stored program data, text-format data, or data which is input through an input device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the data is generated by the electronic device and is received from at least one other electronic device connected to the electronic device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of objects are a character string including one or more elements which use at least one of a spelling, a word, a symbol, a number, a design, or a pattern.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a number corresponding to a line interval to be changed is determined on the basis of a height of each of the plurality of objects.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first line determined by the first object is obtained by connecting a specific point, determined by a rectangular grid of a first letter or first spelling of the first object, and another specific point, determined by a rectangular grid of a second letter or second spelling.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the rectangular grid is determined by a lowest height point, a highest height point, a narrowest width point, and a widest width point with respect to each letter or spelling constituting an input object in at least one coordinate configured to a screen of the electronic device with respect to the plurality of objects.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one coordinate is used to determine at least one new first coordinate axes based on an inclination of the input object located in a first coordinate corresponding to the screen, and is used to determine a second coordinate consisting of the determined first coordinate axis and a second coordinate axis orthogonal to the first coordinate axis.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of objects is an object which is input in a handwriting manner by using a touch input or hovering mechanism.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, on a screen of the electronic device, the plurality of objects of which the line interval is reconfigured.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of storing or transmitting the plurality of objects of which the line interval is reconfigured.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the transmission of the plurality of objects comprises transmitting the plurality of objects to at least one of an object recognition system of the electronic device, an object recognition system of an auxiliary device of the electronic device, an object recognition system of at least one other electronic device connected to the electronic device, or an object recognition system of a server which relays data transmission/reception with respect to at least one different electronic device.

13. An electronic device comprising:

a display that displays a plurality of objects;

a memory that stores information on the plurality of objects in the electronic device; and

at least one processor that;

receives a user input for inputting the plurality of objects, the plurality of objects including a first object and a second object,

determines, based on a stroke order by which the plurality of objects is input, whether the plurality of objects is input on two or more lines, the two or more lines including a first line and a second line,

identifies the first line including the first object and the second line including the second object,

obtains a line interval between the first line and the second line, and an inclined state of the plurality of objects;

determines that the line interval is less than a predetermined line interval, and

in response to determining that the line interval is less than the predetermined line interval, reconfigures the line interval of the plurality of objects based on the determined line interval and the inclined state,

wherein the reconfiguring of the line interval comprises enlarging the line interval between the first line and the second line,

herein the predetermined line interval corresponds to a minimum line interval required for distinguishing the first line from the second line,

wherein the first line is determined based on the first object which is input on the first line,

wherein the second line is determined based on the second object which is input on the second line, and

wherein at least one of the first line or the second line has an arc shape.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor detects a stroke of an object among the plurality of objects for at least one element which includes at least one of a spelling, a word, a symbol, a number, a design, or a pattern.

15. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor:

acquires a height of each object among the plurality of objects, changes the determined line interval based on the acquired height, and

reconfigures the plurality of objects based on the changed line interval.

16. The electronic device of claim 13, further comprising a transceiver that transmits the first object and the second object of which the line interval is changed.

17. The electronic device of claim 13, further comprising a transceiver that transmits the first object and the second object to at least one of an object recognition system of the electronic device, an object recognition system of an auxiliary device of the electronic device, an object recognition system of at least one other electronic device connected to the electronic device, or an object recognition system of a server which relays data transmission/reception with respect to at least one different electronic device.

18. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium

storing thereon at least one of an application or a program, the at least one of the application or the program when executed by one or more processors perform operations of:

receiving a user input for inputting a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects including a first object and a second object;

determining, based on a stroke order by which the plurality of objects is input, whether the plurality of objects is input on two or more lines, the two or more lines including a first line and a second line;

identifying the first line including the first object and the second line including the second object,

obtaining a line interval between the first line and the second line, and an inclined state of the plurality of objects;

detecting that the line interval is less than a predetermined line interval, and

in response to detecting that the line interval is less than the predetermined line interval, reconfiguring the line interval of the plurality of objects based on the determined line interval and the inclined state,

wherein the reconfiguring of the line interval comprises enlarging the line interval between the first line and the second line,

wherein the predetermined line interval corresponds to a minimum line interval required for distinguishing the first line from the second line,

wherein the first line is determined based on the first object which is input on the first line,

wherein the second line is determined based on the second object which is input on the second line, and

wherein at least one of the first line or the second line has an arc shape.

19. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium of claim 18, wherein the at least one processor detects a stroke of at least one of the first object and the second object for at least one element which includes at least one of a spelling, a word, a symbol, a number, a design, or a pattern.

20. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium of claim 18, wherein the at least one processor

acquires respective heights of the first object and the second object,

changes the line interval based on the acquired respective heights, and

moves a position of the first object and the second object based on the line interval that is the designated interval.