Apparatus and method for user interfacing

• US 20060092140A1
• Filed: 10/12/2005
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Tae-Young, Hwang, Byeong-Cheol, Kim, Bong-Hee
• Granted Patent: US 7,594,190 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for user interfacing. The user interfacing method of a portable terminal with a pointing device includes checking whether or not pointing through the pointing device has occurred, and removing a current image while distorting the current image around a pointing position if pointing has occurred. The user interfacing apparatus of a portable terminal comprises a pointing device for enabling pointing by a user, a display unit for displaying an image for graphic user interfacing, and a control unit for controlling the display unit in such a manner that a current image is removed by distorting the current image around a pointing position and a resultant image according to the pointing is displayed if the pointing has occurred through the pointing device.

Claims

1. A user interfacing method of a portable terminal including a pointing device, the user interfacing method comprising the steps of:

checking whether pointing through the pointing device has occurred; and

removing a current image while distorting the current image around a pointing position if pointing has occurred.

2. The user interfacing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user interface method employs image distorting schemes selectable by a user'"'"'s requirement.

3. A user interfacing apparatus of a portable terminal, the user interfacing apparatus comprising:

a pointing device for enabling pointing by a user;

a display unit for displaying an image for graphic user interfacing; and

a control unit for controlling the display unit to remove a current image by distorting the current image around a pointing position, and displaying a resultant image according to the pointing if the pointing has occurred through the pointing device.

4. The user interfacing apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the control unit changes an image distorting scheme according to the user'"'"'s requirement.