Mobile apparatus providing preview by detecting rubbing gesture and control method thereof

• US 10,048,855 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2014
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jin, Hyung-Joo, Lee, Jae-Myoung, Jang, Chul-Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Xiao, Di
• Application Number:
  US14/177,842
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258866A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,645 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A mobile apparatus control method that detects a gesture to provide a preview is provided. The method includes displaying a thumb-nail of video contents on a touch screen, detecting a rubbing gesture on the thumb-nail of the video contents displayed on the touch screen, and displaying the preview of the video contents on the touch screen when the rubbing gesture is detected.

Claims

1. A mobile apparatus control method that provides a preview by detecting a gesture, the method comprising:

displaying a thumb-nail of video content on a touch screen;

detecting a rubbing gesture on the thumb-nail of the video content, wherein the rubbing gesture comprises a continuously moving touch within a pre-set region that includes at least a part of the thumb-nail on the touch screen; and

displaying the preview of the video content on the touch screen, preview images of the preview changing during the rubbing gesture,

wherein the preview is displayed such that a positional spacing between the preview images of the video content is adjusted to correspond to a speed of the rubbing gesture, while maintaining a same number of preview images.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the rubbing gesture further comprises a continuously rotating touch within the pre-set region on the touch screen.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the preview of the video content is displayed on the touch screen, the preview is displayed at a pre-set position adjacent to the thumb-nail of the video content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, displaying the preview of the video content, the preview appears and disappears according to a time sequence of the video content, and

wherein the appearance and disappearance comprises concurrently performing:

adding a third image to the preview,

maintaining a second image of the preview, and

removing a first image of the preview.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

stopping the displaying of the preview on the touch screen when interruption for the rubbing gesture is detected; and

displaying the preview on the touch screen again when the rubbing gesture is detected again.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the preview is displayed such that a time interval of preview images of the video content is adjusted to correspond to the speed of the rubbing gesture.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the preview is displayed such that a time interval of preview images of the video content is reduced when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes slower and increased when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes faster.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the preview is displayed such that, when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes slower, a positional spacing of preview images of the video content is reduced, and when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes faster, the positional spacing of the preview images of the video content is increased.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the preview is displayed such that the positions of preview images of the video content are arranged, in response to a consistent direction of the rubbing gesture, in a direction which is the same as the consistent direction of the rubbing gesture.

10. A mobile apparatus that detects a rubbing gesture to provide a preview, the mobile apparatus comprising:

a touch screen configured to display a thumb-nail of video content; and

a processor configured to;

detect a rubbing gesture on the thumb-nail of the video content, wherein the rubbing gesture comprises a continuously moving touch within a pre-set region that includes at least a part of the thumb-nail on the touch screen, and

display the preview of the video content on the touch screen, preview images of the preview changing during the rubbing gesture,

wherein the processor is configured to adjust a positional spacing between the preview images of the video content to correspond to a speed of the rubbing gesture, while maintaining a same number of preview images.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the rubbing gesture further comprises a continuously rotating touch within the pre-set region on the touch screen.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein, when the preview of the video content is displayed on the touch screen, the processor is further configured to display the preview at a pre-set position adjacent to the thumb-nail of the video content.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein, when the processor is displaying the preview of the video content, the preview appears and disappears according to a time sequence of the video content, and

wherein the appearance and disappearance comprises concurrently performing:

adding a third image to the preview,

maintaining a second image of the preview, and

removing a first image of the preview.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to stop the displaying of the preview on the touch screen when interruption for the rubbing gesture is detected, and display the preview on the touch screen again when the rubbing gesture is detected again.

15. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to adjust a time interval of preview images of the video content to correspond to the speed of the rubbing gesture so as to display the time interval.

16. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to reduce a time interval of preview images of the video content when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes slower and increase the time interval of the preview images when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes faster.

17. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to reduce positional spacing of preview images of the video content when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes slower and increase the positional spacing of the preview images of the video content when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes faster.

18. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to arrange, in response to a consistent direction of the rubbing gesture, the positions of preview images of the video content in a direction which is the same as the consistent direction of the rubbing gesture and display the preview images.