Method, apparatus and recording medium for a scrolling screen

• US 10,474,344 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2014
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Ho-Young, Jang, Chul-Ho, Cho, Min-Kyung
• Primary Examiner(s): Ell, Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ayad, Maria S
• Application Number:
  US14/465,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058793A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,909 Days
• Field of Search: 715784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method for scrolling a screen on a display, the method comprising determining whether a screen is located at a scroll boundary when receiving a scrolling gesture, and adding at least one boundary effect to at least one object contained on the screen when the screen is located at the scroll boundary. An apparatus for scrolling a screen, the apparatus comprising a touch display to display the screen and receive a scrolling gesture, and a controller configured to determine whether a screen on the touch screen is located at a scroll boundary when a scrolling gesture is detected, and if the screen on the touch screen is located at the scroll boundary, add at least one boundary effect to at least one object contained on the screen.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an electronic device including a display, the method comprising:

identifying whether a screen being displayed on the display is located at a scroll boundary in response to receiving a scrolling gesture, wherein the screen comprises an object having hidden information associated with the object and the hidden information is not displayed on the screen; and

in response to identifying that the screen is located at the scroll boundary;

adding a shadow effect to a first part of a contour of the object contained on the screen, wherein the first part of the contour of the object corresponds to a progress direction of the scrolling gesture;

displaying the hidden information to cover part of the shadow effect; and

adding a first boundary effect to at least a part of the scroll boundary.

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

identifying a current time zone among preset time zones, wherein the shadow effect has a different length for each preset time zone.

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

detecting metadata information of the object displayed on the screen, wherein the shadow effect added to the first part of the contour of the object is further determined based on the metadata information.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the metadata information includes a capacity of the object, and the shadow effect added to the first part of the contour of the object has a different length for each size of the capacity of the object according to the metadata information.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the metadata information comprises at least one attribute information of a quality of material of the object, a transparency of the object, and a thickness of the object, and the shadow effect added to the first part of the contour of the object has at least one attribute of a transparency and a color, the at least one attribute being set differently according to the metadata information.

6. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the metadata information comprises at least one information of a frequency of use of the object, and a generation date of the object, and the shadow effect added to the first part of the contour of the object is set differently depending on each of the at least one information according to the metadata information.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying of the hidden information comprises displaying, for a first object having the first part of the contour in which the hidden information exists, the hidden information to cover part of the shadow effect associated with the first object with a remaining part of the shadow effect associated with the first object.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the object comprises at least one of an icon, a widget, a text, a picture, a photograph and an electronic book.

9. An electronic device, comprising:

a touch screen; and

a controller configured to;

identify whether a screen being displayed on the touch screen is located at a scroll boundary in response to detecting a scrolling gesture through the touch screen, wherein the screen comprises an object having hidden information associated with the object and the hidden information is not displayed on the screen; and

in response to identifying that the screen is located at the scroll boundary;

add a shadow effect to a first part of a contour of the object contained on the screen, wherein the first part of the contour of the object corresponds to a progress direction of the scrolling gesture;

display the hidden information to cover part of the shadow effect; and

add a first boundary effect to at least a part of the scroll boundary.

10. The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the shadow effect has a length which is set differently for each preset time zone, and the controller is configured to identify a current time zone from among preset time zones.

11. The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the shadow effect has at least one attribute of a length, a transparency, a color and a form, the attribute being set differently depending on metadata information.

12. The electronic device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the metadata information comprises at least one information of a capacity, a quality of material, a thickness, a frequency of use, and a generation date of the object.

13. The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the controller is configured to:

in displaying the hidden information, display, for a first object having a part of a contour corresponding to the progress direction of the scrolling gesture in which the hidden information exists, the hidden information to cover part of the shadow effect associated with the first object with a remaining part of the shadow effect associated with the first object.

14. A non-transitory recording medium storing a program for controlling an electronic device including a display, the program when executed by a processor causing the processor to perform operations comprising:

identifying whether a screen being displayed on the display is located at a scroll boundary in response to receiving a scrolling gesture, wherein the screen comprises an object having hidden information associated with the object and the hidden information is not displayed on the screen; and

in response to identifying that the screen is located at the scroll boundary;

adding a shadow effect to a first part of a contour of the object contained on the screen, wherein the first part of the contour of the object corresponds to a progress direction of the scrolling gesture;

displaying the hidden information to cover part of the shadow effect; and

adding a first boundary effect to at least a part of the scroll boundary.