Display device and control method thereof

• US 10,185,456 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2012
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Kang-Tae, Kim, Chul-Joo, Jeong, Sun-Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Keaton, Sherrod L
• Application Number:
  US13/690,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20140033119A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,244 Days
• Field of Search: 715800
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method of controlling a display device for displaying a window executing an application is provided. The method includes displaying the window, determining whether a window control mode for controlling an operation of the window is executed, determining whether a window control event for controlling the window is input into an internal area of the window, and controlling the window based on the determined window control event.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a touch screen configured to display a window and receive touch inputs; and

at least one processor configured to;

detect a dragging touch input on the touch screen, the dragging touch input being started from an internal area of the window and released at a first point of the touch screen, adjust, if the window is in a window control mode, a size of the window based on a position of the first point, adjust, if the window is in a window control mode and the dragging touch input is started on a control area of the window, a size of the window and a position of the window based on the dragging touch input, wherein the position of the window is independent on all sides of a prior position of the window and the position of the window is independent of a periphery of a user interface containing the window, and control to display the adjusted window, or if the window is not in a window control mode, provide the dragging touch input to an application corresponding to the window, wherein the at least one processor executes the window control mode if a window control mode execution button located on a title bar is touched, the title bar being in an area distinct from the control area, wherein the control area is displayed above the title bar in the window control mode, and wherein the at least one processor ends the window control mode if a back button on an area external to the window is selected, the window remaining visible after the selection of the back button.

2. The electronic device of claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor controls such that an event is not provided to the application, if the window is the window control mode.

3. The electronic device of claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor controls to display an execution screen of the application and a title bar for the application on the window.

4. The electronic device of claim 3,

wherein the at least one processor executes the window control mode if the title bar of the window is touched a preset number of times.

5. The electronic device of claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to detect a direction of the dragging touch input and adjusts the window based on the direction of the dragging touch input and starting point of the dragging touch input.

6. The electronic device of claim 5,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to determine a right direction as an enlargement direction of the window and a left direction as a reduction direction of the window, if the start point of the dragging touch input is a right screen of the window, and determines a left direction as the enlargement direction of the window and a right direction as the reduction direction of the window, if the start point of the dragging touch input is a left screen of the window.

7. The electronic device of claim 5,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to determine whether to enlarge or reduce the window based on the detected direction of the dragging touch input and displays the enlarged or reduced window.

8. The electronic device of claim 7,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to determine to:

enlarge the window when the direction of the dragging touch input is an external direction of the window, and

reduce the window when the direction of the dragging touch input is an internal direction of the window.

9. The electronic device of claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor determines adjustment magnification of the window based on the detected distance of the dragging touch input.

10. The electronic device of claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor detects two touch points, enlarges the window if the dragging touch input increases a distance between the two points, and reduces the window if the dragging touch input decreases the distance between the two points.

11. A controlling method of an electronic device which comprises a touch screen, the method comprising:

displaying a window;

detecting a dragging touch input on the touch screen, the dragging touch input being started from an internal area of the window and released at a first point of the touch screen;

adjusting, if the window is in a window control mode, the size of the window based on to a position of the first point, and displaying the adjusted window, or if the window is not in a window control mode, provide the dragging touch input to an application corresponding to the window; and

adjusting, if the window is in a window control mode and the dragging touch input is started on a control area of the window, a size of the window and a position of the window based on the dragging touch input, wherein the position of the window is independent on all sides of a prior position of the window and the position of the window is independent of a periphery of a user interface containing the window,

wherein the window control mode is executed if a window control mode execution button located on a title bar is touched, the title bar being in an area distinct from the control area, wherein the control area is displayed above the title bar in the window control mode, and

wherein the at least one processor ends the window control mode if a back button on an area external to the window is selected, the window remaining visible after the selection of the back button.

12. The method of claim 11,

wherein an event is not provided to the application, if the window is a window control mode.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying an execution screen of the application and a title bar for the application on the window.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

executing the window control mode if the title bar of the window is touched a preset number of times.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

detecting a direction of the dragging touch input and adjusts the window based on the direction of the dragging touch input and starting point of the dragging touch input.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

determining a right direction as an enlargement direction of the window and a left direction as a reduction direction of the window, if the start point of the dragging touch input is a right screen of the window; and

determining a left direction as the enlargement direction of the window and a right direction as the reduction direction of the window, if the start point of the dragging touch input is a left screen of the window.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

determining whether to enlarge or reduce the window based on the detected direction of the dragging touch input and displaying the enlarged or reduced window.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

determining to enlarge the window when the direction of the dragging touch input is an external direction of the window; and

determining to reduce the window when the direction of the dragging touch input is an internal direction of the window.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining adjustment magnification of the window based on the detected distance of the dragging touch input.

20. The method of claim 11,

wherein the detecting the dragging touch input on the touch screen comprises detecting two touch points,

wherein the adjusting the size of the window comprises enlarging the window if the dragging touch input increases a distance between the two points, and reducing the window if the dragging touch input decreases the distance between the two points.