Electronic device and operation method thereof

• US 10,055,813 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2014
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Woo-Yong, Lee, Chul-Hwan, Jeon, Seong-Joon
• Primary Examiner(s): Guo, Xilin
• Application Number:
  US14/471,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20150062126A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,454 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1633 Protecting arrangement for the entire housing of the computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/02 Affine transformations for image registration G06T3/147; for image mosaicing G06T3/4038
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/20 Linear translation of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724092 Interfacing with an external cover providing additional functionalities

Abstract

An electronic device including a cover having a display protection function and a method thereof are provided. The method includes acquiring at least one of context information and attribute information of an application according to whether the cover is closed and displaying an object related to the acquired information on a region which is included or is not included in a region corresponding to the cover window of a display of the electronic device.

Claims

1. A method an electronic device comprising a display, the method comprising:

determining whether a cover is closed or open with respect to the display, wherein the cover comprises a cover window in a part of the cover and the cover window is transparent;

when it is determined that the cover is open, displaying, on an entire area of the display, a content in a first user interface associated with an application; and

when it is determined that the cover is closed with respect to the display, displaying, on the display, the content in a second interface associated with the application, and attribute information,

wherein the content in the second interface is displayed on a part area of the display corresponding to the cover window when the cover is normally closed,

wherein the attribute information is displayed on a frame area surrounding the part area, and

wherein the frame area is further displayed on an outside of the part area such that at least part of the frame area is exposed via the cover window when the cover is abnormally closed state in which the cover window does not match to the part area corresponding to the cover window.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the attribute information is displayed using at least one of a color, a shape, a pattern, a size, a text, and an image.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying status information on the frame area,

wherein the status information includes at least one of weather information, position information, screen brightness information, and battery information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the attribute information of the application includes at least one of a kind of the application, a genre of the application, a level of the application, and an execution state of the application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the cover being closed on the display is detected using a magnetic sensor.

6. An electronic device comprising:

a memory;

a display;

a cover, openably installed to cover the display comprising a cover window in a part of the cover, the cover window being transparent;

at least one processor; and

at least one program, wherein the at least one program is stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the at least one processor, the at least one program comprising instructions for;

determining whether the cover is closed or open with respect to the display,

when it is determined that the cover is open, displaying, on an entire area of the display, a content in a first user interface associated with an application, and

when it is determined that the cover is closed with respect to the display, controlling display to display the content in a second interface associated with the application, and attribute information,

wherein the content in the second interface is displayed on a part area of the display corresponding to an area of the cover window when the cover is normally closed, and

wherein the attribute information is displayed on a frame area surrounding the part area, and

wherein the frame area is further displayed on an outside of the part area such that at least part of the frame area is exposed via the cover window when the cover is abnormally closed state in which the cover window does not match to the part area corresponding to the cover window.

7. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the at least one program further comprises instructions for verifying at least one of status information and the attribute information associated with the application, at a time point when the cover is closed on the display.

8. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the at least one program further comprises instructions for receiving an event for displaying the contents of the application.

9. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the at least one program further comprises instructions for controlling display to detect an input for editing the frame area.

10. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the at least one program further comprises instructions for setting a resolution for the area on which the contents of the application is displayed.

11. The electronic device of claim 7,

wherein the at least one program further comprises instructions for controlling display to display, on the frame area, the status information of the electronic device, and

wherein the status information includes at least one of weather information, position information, screen brightness information, and battery information.

12. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the attribute information of the application includes at least one of a kind of the application, a genre of the application, a level of the application, and an execution state of the application.

13. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the at least one program further comprises instructions for controlling the display to display, in response to receiving the event for displaying a received message, the attribute information using a message icon image.

14. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the at least one program further comprises instructions for controlling display to display, in response to receiving the event for displaying a preview screen of a camera input, the attribute information corresponding to a recognized object in the preview screen.

15. The electronic device of claim 6 further comprising a magnetic sensor configured to determine whether the cover is closed on the display.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon one or more programs comprising instructions for allowing an electronic device comprising a display to perform a method of:

determining whether a cover is closed or open with respect to the display, wherein the cover comprises a cover window in a part of the cover and the cover window is transparent;

when it is determined that the cover is open, displaying, on an entire area of the display, a content in a first user interface associated with an application; and

when it is determined that the cover is closed with respect to the display, displaying, on the display, the content in a second interface associated with the application, and attribute information,

wherein the content in the second interface is displayed on a part area of the display corresponding to the cover window when the cover is normally closed,

wherein the attribute information is displayed on a frame area surrounding the part area, and

wherein the frame area is further displayed on an outside of the part area such that at least part of the frame area is exposed via the cover window when the cover is abnormally closed state in which the cover window does not match to the part area corresponding to the cover window.