Display apparatus and controlling method thereof

• US 10,222,840 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2015
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Yong-yeon, Kang, Dong-goo, Park, Hae-yoon, Yoon, Yeo-jun, Cha, Sang-ok, Kwak, Ji-yeon
• Primary Examiner(s): Yodichkas, Aneeta
• Application Number:
  US14/884,162
• Publication Number:
  US 20160110010A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,237 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a first touch screen, a second touch screen overlaid with or unfolded from the first touch screen and projecting a screen on the first touch screen when the second touch screen overlays the first touch screen, a sensing unit sensing a disposition form of the first touch screen and the second touch screen, and a control unit displaying a user interface (UI) element corresponding to a user touch on at least one of the first touch screen and the second touch screen depending on the disposition form of the sensed two touch screens.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a first touch screen;

a second touch screen capable of being slid on the first touch screen, wherein the second touch screen is configured to be slid out from the first touch screen, in plural directions, in a state in which the second touch screen overlays the first touch screen and is configured to project a screen on the first touch screen when the second touch screen overlays the first touch screen;

a sensor configured to sense a disposition form of the first touch screen and the second touch screen; and

a processor configured to;

control the first touch screen to display a user interface (UI) element,

in response to the second touch screen being slid out from the first touch screen in a first direction, control the second touch screen to display a first information, and

in response to the second touch screen being slid out from the first touch screen in a second direction different from the first direction, control the second touch screen to display a second information different from the first information.

2. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to display the UI element corresponding to a user touch received from the second touch screen on the first touch screen in a state in which the second touch screen overlays the first touch screen.

3. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to display a new UI element on the second touch screen when the second touch screen is slid out from the first touch screen, in a state in which a user touch on the second touch screen is sensed.

4. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the new UI element displayed on the second touch screen corresponds to the UI element displayed on the first touch screen projected to a user touched area on the second touch screen.

5. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the new UI element displayed on the second touch screen includes notice information corresponding to a notification displayed on the first touch screen.

6. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein, if the UI element is a menu, the first or second information is a submenu of the menu,

wherein, if the UI element is brief information, the first or second information is detailed information including the brief information,

wherein, if the UI element is a hyperlink UI element, the first or second information is information linked to the hyperlink UI element, and

wherein, if the UI element is a UI element informing reception of a message, the first or second information is the message.

7. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to extend the UI element displayed on the first touch screen to be displayed on the first touch screen and the second touch screen, when the second touch screen is slid out from the first touch screen, in a state in which a user touch on the second touch screen is not sensed.

8. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to perform an event corresponding to the UI element displayed on the first touch screen when the disposition form of the second touch screen is continuously changed within a preset time.

9. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the event includes a bookmark or a capture of a webpage displayed on the first touch screen.

10. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control the second touch screen to display a new UI element having a size that changes depending on how much the first touch screen and the second touch screen overlay each other.

11. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

display a UI element displayed on the second touch screen on the first touch screen when the second touch screen overlays the first touch screen with a user touch on the second touch screen, and

display the UI element displayed on the first touch screen on the first touch screen when the second touch screen overlays the first touch screen without the user touch on the second touch screen.

12. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to when the second touch screen overlays the first touch screen without a user touch of the second touch screen, change the UI element displayed on the second touch screen to a new UI element corresponding to the UI element displayed on the first touch screen, while keeping the UI element displayed on the first touch screen.

13. A method of controlling a display apparatus having a first touch screen and a transparent second touch screen capable of being slid on the first touch screen, wherein the second touch screen is configured to be slid out from the first touch screen, in plural directions, in a state in which the second touch screen overlays the first touch screen, the method comprising:

displaying, by the first touch screen, a user interface (UI) element;

sensing a disposition form of the first touch screen and the second touch screen;

in response to the second touch screen being slid out from the first touch screen in a first direction, displaying, by the second touch screen, a first information; and

in response to the second touch screen being slid out from the first touch screen in a second direction different from the first direction, displaying, by the second touch screen, a second information different from the first information.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising:

displaying the UI element corresponding to a user touch received from the second touch screen on the first touch screen when the second touch screen overlays the first touch screen.

15. The method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising:

displaying a new UI element on the second touch screen when the second touch screen is slid out from the first touch screen, in a state in which a user touch on the second touch screen is sensed.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the new UI element displayed on the second touch screen corresponds to the UI element displayed on the first touch screen projected to a user touched area on the second touch screen.

17. The method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising:

extending the UI element displayed on the first touch screen to be displayed on the first touch screen and the second touch screen, when the second touch screen is slid out from the first touch screen, in a state in which a user touch on the second touch screen is not sensed.

18. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium comprising a program for executing a method of controlling a display apparatus having a first touch screen and a transparent second touch screen capable of being slid on the first touch screen, wherein the second touch screen is configured to be slid out from the first touch screen, in plural directions, in a state in which the second touch screen overlays the first touch screen, the method comprising:

controlling the first touch screen to display a user interface (UI) element;

sensing a disposition form of the first touch screen and the second touch screen;

in response to the second touch screen being slid out from the first touch screen in a first direction, controlling the second touch screen to display a first information; and

in response to the second touch screen being slid out from the first touch screen in a second direction different from the first direction, controlling the second touch screen to display a second information different from the first information.