User terminal, electronic device, and control method thereof

• US 10,416,848 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2017
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jin, Young-kyu, Rhee, Young-ho, Jang, Young-shil, Chang, Il-ku
• Primary Examiner(s): Nabi, Reza
• Application Number:
  US15/407,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20170123610A1
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• Field of Search: 715841
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/211 producing three-dimensional [3D] effects, e.g. stereoscopic images
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2400/92 Driver displays
• 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 3/0482 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

Abstract

A method for controlling a user terminal is provided. The user terminal controlling method includes, when an external apparatus providing a UI screen is connected, providing a touch mode where a touch manipulation to navigate menu items provided on the UI screen is input, and when a predetermined touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, transmitting information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a user terminal, comprising:

when an external apparatus providing a UI screen is connected, providing a touch mode where a touch manipulation to navigate menu items provided on the UI screen is input; and

when a predetermined touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, transmitting information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus,

wherein the external apparatus is a center fascia screen apparatus of a vehicle, and

wherein, when the touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, comparing information corresponding to the input touch manipulation with the receiving information regarding the UI screen by comparing a number of touch points with a number of sub menu items of the selected item.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information corresponding to a touch manipulation is at least one of a number of touch manipulations and the number of touch points input at a time,

wherein the number of touch manipulations navigates a depth of the menu items and the number of touch points input at a time navigates menu items provided in a same depth.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving information regarding the UI screen from the external apparatus,

wherein the transmitting information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus comprises transmitting information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus according to a result of the comparison.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3,

wherein the information regarding a UI screen is information regarding an item currently selected on a menu provided on the UI screen and the number of sub menu items of the selected item,

wherein the information corresponding to a touch manipulation is at least one of a number of touch manipulations and the number of touch points input at a time.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein if the number of touch points exceeds the number of sub menu items of the selected item based on the comparison result, an error message is output, and

if the number of touch points does not exceed the number of sub menu items of the selected item, the number of touch points is transmitted to the external apparatus.

6. A method for controlling an electronic apparatus which is interlocked with a user terminal, comprising:

providing a UI screen;

performing connection with a user terminal which provides a touch mode where a touch manipulation to navigate menu items provided on the UI screen is input;

receiving information corresponding to a touch manipulation input in a touch mode of the user terminal; and

navigating menu items provided on the UI screen according to the received information,

wherein the electronic apparatus is a center fascia screen apparatus of a vehicle, and

wherein, when the touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, comparing information corresponding to the input touch manipulation with the receiving information regarding the UI screen by comparing a number of touch points with a number of sub menu items of the selected item.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6,

wherein the information corresponding to a touch manipulation is at least one of a number of touch manipulations and the number of touch points input at a time,

wherein the number of touch manipulations navigates a depth of the menu items and the number of touch points input at a time navigates menu items provided in a same depth.

8. A user terminal, comprising:

a communicator which performs communication with an external apparatus providing a UI screen;

a display which provides a touch mode where a touch manipulation to navigate menu items provided on the UI screen is input; and

a controller which, when it is connected to the external apparatus, provides the touch mode, and when a predetermined touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, controls to transmit information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus,

wherein the external apparatus is a center fascia screen apparatus of a vehicle, and

wherein, when the touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, comparing information corresponding to the input touch manipulation with the receiving information regarding the UI screen by comparing a number of touch points with a number of sub menu items of the selected item.

9. The user terminal as claimed in claim 8,

wherein the information corresponding to a touch manipulation is at least one of a number of touch manipulations and the number of touch points input at a time,

wherein the number of touch manipulations navigates a depth of the menu items and the number of touch points input at a time navigates menu items provided in a same depth.

10. The user terminal as claimed in claim 8, wherein the controller, when information regarding the UI screen is received from the external apparatus and the touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, controls to compare information corresponding to the input touch manipulation with the received information regarding the UI screen and transmit information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus.

11. The user terminal as claimed in claim 10,

wherein the information regarding the UI screen is information regarding an item which is currently selected on a menu provided on the UI screen and the number of sub menu items of the selected item,

wherein the information corresponding to a touch manipulation is at least one of a number of touch manipulations and the number of touch points input at a time.