Method and electronic device for controlling scroll speed of content

• US 10,310,722 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2014
• Issued: 06/04/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Ho-Young, Joo, Jin-Hyung, Tae, Eun-Ju, Won, Sung-Joon
• Primary Examiner(s): Belousov, Andrey
• Application Number:
  US14/472,261
• Publication Number:
  US 20150067557A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,741 Days
• Field of Search: 715765, 715758, 715784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A method in an electronic device includes displaying at least a part of the a plurality of contents on a screen, determining a content of interest based on weights of each of the contents, and adjusting a speed of scrolling the plurality of the contents upon detecting the content of interest being displayed on the screen. An electronic device includes one or more processors configured to display at least a part of the a plurality of contents on a screen, determine a content of interest on based on weights of each of the contents, and adjust a speed of scrolling the plurality of the contents upon detecting the content of interest being displayed on the screen when scrolling the contents. Other embodiments also are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a map on an electronic device, comprising:

displaying a first part of the map at a first map scale on a screen while a map application is executed;

in response to receiving a touch input for shrinking the first part of the map, displaying a second part of the map at a second map scale, the second map scale being smaller than the first map scale, the second part including the first part;

determining whether the second part of the map includes a location of interest, wherein the location of interest is a specific location at which the electronic device acquired an image, wherein the specific location was, by the electronic device, designated as the location of interest; and

in response to determining that the second part of the map includes the location of interest, adjusting a speed for shrinking the second part of the map.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

restoring the speed to a previous speed when the location of interest disappears from the screen.

3. An electronic device comprising:

a display; and

one or more processors configured to;

control the display to display a first part of a map at a first map scale on a screen while a map application is executed;

in response to receiving a touch input for shrinking the first part of the map, control the display to display a second part of the map at a second map scale, the second map scale being smaller than the first map scale, the second part including the first part;

determine whether the second part of the map includes a location of interest, wherein the location of interest is a specific location at which the electronic device acquired an image, wherein the specification location was, by the electronic device, designated as the location of interest; and

in response to determining that the second part of the map includes the location of interest, adjust a speed for shrinking the second part of the map.

4. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein one or more processors is further configured to restore the speed to a previous speed when the location of interest disappears from the screen.