Method and apparatus for processing key pad input received on touch screen of mobile terminal

• US 10,423,327 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2014
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Ho-yeon
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitaro, Ryan F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Orr, Henry
• Application Number:
  US14/295,702
• Publication Number:
  US 20140359514A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,938 Days
• Field of Search: 715773
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A method of processing an input received through a touch screen in a mobile terminal. The method includes displaying, if a first key to which a plurality of key values are allocated is input, a second key to which a plurality of the key values are allocated, on a screen, and determining a first key value displayed at a cursor by an input of the first key as a final input value if the second key is input, moving the cursor to a next first position, and then displaying one of the plurality of key values of the first key.

Claims

1. A method of processing an input received through a touch screen in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying, on the screen, a first key, wherein a plurality of key values are allocated to the first key and at least one key value among the plurality of key values is displayed on the first key;

in response to receiving an input on the first key, displaying a key value among the plurality of key values at a current position of a cursor, and displaying, on the screen, a second key while maintaining the display of the first key, wherein the same plurality of key values are allocated to the second key and the at least one key value is displayed on the second key;

when a repeated input on the first key is received after the input on the first key, changing the key value displayed at the current position of the cursor to another key value among the plurality of key values without moving the position of the cursor; and

when an input on the second key is received after the input on the first key, moving the cursor to a next position while maintaining the key value displayed at the current position of the cursor, and displaying one of the plurality of key values at the next position.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sequentially displaying the plurality of key values without moving the position of the cursor, whenever receiving repeated input on the second key after the cursor is moved from the current position to the next position; and

when an input on the first key is received, moving the cursor to a subsequent position while maintaining the key value displayed at the next position of the cursor, and displaying one of the plurality of key values at the subsequent position.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising sequentially displaying the plurality of key values without moving the position of the cursor whenever receiving repeated input on the second key after the cursor is moved from the current position to the next position.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon a computer program, which, when executed by a computer, performs the method of claim 1.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the second key comprises displaying the same plurality of key values allocated to the first key and the second key twice as the first key and the second key.

6. A mobile terminal comprising:

a memory configured to store at least one program; and

a processor configured to process an input received through a touch screen by executing the at least one program,

wherein the at least one program comprises commands for performing;

displaying, on the screen, a first key, wherein a plurality of key values are allocated to the first key and at least one key value among the plurality of key values is displayed on the first key;

in response to receiving an input on the first key, displaying a key value among the plurality of key values at a current position of a cursor, and displaying, on a screen, a second key while maintaining the display of the first key, wherein the same plurality of key values are allocated to the second key and the at least one key value displayed on the second key

when a repeated input on the first key is received after the input on the first key, changing the key value displayed at the current position of the cursor to another key value among the plurality of key values without moving the position of the cursor; and

when an input on the second key is received after the input on the first key, moving the cursor to a next position while maintaining the key value displayed at the current position of the cursor, and displaying one of the plurality of key values at the next position.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the at least one program further comprises commands for performing:

sequentially displaying the plurality of key values without moving the position of the cursor, whenever receiving a repeated input on the second key after the cursor is moved from the current position to the next position; and

when an input on the first key is received after the input on the second key, moving the cursor to subsequent position while maintaining the key value displayed at the next position of the cursor, and displaying one of the plurality of key values at the subsequent position.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the at least one program further comprises commands for performing sequentially displaying the plurality of key values without moving the position of the cursor whenever receiving a repeated input on the second key after the cursor is moved from the current position to the next position.

9. A method of processing an input received through a touch screen in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying a first key to which a plurality of key values are allocated;

displaying a key value among the plurality of key values at a current position of a cursor in an input window of the screen and displaying a second key to which the plurality of key values are allocated, based on a first selection of the first key;

moving the cursor to a next position in the input window and displaying the key value at the next position in the input window, based on a second selection of the second key after the first selection; and

changing the displayed key value at the next position in the input window to another one from among the plurality of key values, based on a third selection of the second key when the cursor is at the next position; and

moving the cursor to a subsequent position in the input window, based on a fourth selection of the first key when the cursor is at the next position.