Method of presenting images on the screen of a display provided in a wireless terminal and wireless terminal implementing the same

• US 20060274087A1
• Filed: 04/26/2006
• Published: 12/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hwan, Lim, Chae-Whan
• Application Number:
  US11/410,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20060274087A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/649
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1622 with enclosures rotating around an axis perpendicular to the plane they define or with ball-joint coupling, e.g. PDA with display enclosure orientation changeable between portrait and landscape by rotation with respect to a coplanar body enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/00 Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0233 Including a rotatable display body part
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations

Abstract

A method and wireless terminal for presenting characters or images on a screen of a display provided in a folder pivotally mounted on the main body of a wireless terminal are provided. The method involves detecting an existence of a rotation allowable zone on the screen of the display upon turning the folder relative to the main body, detecting the existence of a pop-up window in the rotation allowable zone, if the rotation allowable zone exists, detecting the existence of particular keys provided in the folder, if the pop-up window exists in the rotation allowable zone, and turning the data presented in the rotation allowable zone and the data in the pop-up window, as well as rearranging the functions of the particular keys, to match the rotational direction of the folder, if the particular keys exist.

Claims

1. A method of presenting images on the screen of a display provided in a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

detecting an existence of a rotation allowable zone on the screen of the display upon turning the folder; and

turning data presented in the rotation allowable zone to match the rotational direction of the folder, if the rotation allowable zone exists.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the rotation allowable zone shape and size remains with the turning of the folder.

3. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the screen of the display comprises rotation allowable and unallowable zones.

4. The method as defined in claim 3, wherein the screen is divided into a first display zone presenting icon display data, a second display zone presenting the characters or images, and a third display zone presenting soft key display data, the first and third display zones comprising the rotation unallowable zones, and the second display zone comprising the rotation allowable zone.

5. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the folder is disposed crosswise to the main body of the wireless terminal.

6. A method of presenting images on the screen of a display provided in a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

detecting an existence of a rotation allowable zone on the screen of the display upon turning the folder;

detecting an existence of a pop-up window in the rotation allowable zone, if the rotation allowable zone exists; and

turning data presented in the rotation allowable zone and in the pop-up window to match the rotational direction of the folder, if the pop-up window exists.

7. The method as defined in claim 6, further comprising turning the data presented in the rotation allowable zone to match the rotational direction of the folder, if the pop-up window does not exist in the rotation allowable zone.

8. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein the rotation allowable zone size and shape remains with the turning of the folder.

9. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein the screen of the display comprises rotation allowable and unallowable zones.

10. The method as defined in claim 9, wherein the screen is divided into a first display zone presenting icon display data, a second display zone presenting the characters or images, and a third display zone presenting soft key display data, the first and third display zones comprising the rotation unallowable zones, and the second display zone comprising the rotation allowable zone.

11. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein the folder is disposed crosswise to the main body of the wireless terminal.

12. A method of presenting images on the screen of a display provided in a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

detecting an existence of a rotation allowable zone on the screen of the display upon turning the folder;

detecting an existence of particular keys provided in the folder, if the rotation allowable zone exists; and

turning the data presented in the rotation allowable zone as well as rearranging the functions of the particular keys to match the rotational direction of the folder, if the particular keys exist.

13. The method as defined in claim 12, further comprising turning the data presented in the rotation allowable zone to match the rotational direction of the folder, if the particular keys does not exist.

14. The method as defined in claim 12, wherein the rotation allowable zone size and shape remains with the turning of the folder.

15. The method as defined in claim 12, wherein the screen of the display comprises rotation allowable and unallowable zones.

16. The method as defined in claim 15, wherein the screen is divided into a first display zone presenting icon display data, a second display zone presenting the characters or images, and a third display zone presenting soft key display data, the first and third display zones comprising the rotation unallowable zones, and the second display zone comprising the rotation allowable zone.

17. The method as defined in claim 12, wherein the folder is disposed crosswise to the main body of the wireless terminal.

18. A method of presenting images on the screen of a display provided in a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

detecting an existence of a rotation allowable zone on the screen of the display upon turning the folder;

detecting an existence of a pop-up window in the rotation allowable zone, if the rotation allowable zone exists;

detecting an existence of particular keys provided in the folder, if the pop-up window exists in the rotation allowable zone; and

turning the data presented in the rotation allowable zone and the data in the pop-up window, and rearranging the functions of the particular keys to match the rotational direction of the folder, if the particular keys exist.

19. The method as defined in claim 18, comprising detecting an existence of particular keys provided in the folder, if a pop-up window does not exist in the rotation allowable zone;

and

turning data presented in the rotation allowable zone and rearranging the functions of the particular keys to match the rotational direction of the folder, if the particular keys exist.

20. The method as defined in claim 19, comprising turning the data presented in the rotation allowable zone to match the rotational direction of the folder, if the particular keys does not exist.

21. The method as defined in claim 18, comprising turning the data presented in the rotation allowable zone and the data in the pop-up window to match rotational direction of the folder, if the particular keys does not exist.

22. The method as defined in claim 18, wherein the rotation allowable zone size and shape remains with the turning of the folder.

23. The method as defined in claim 18, wherein the screen of the display comprises rotation allowable and unallowable zones.

24. The method as defined in claim 23, wherein the screen is divided into a first display zone presenting icon display data, a second display zone presenting the characters or images, and a third display zone presenting soft key display data, the first and third display zones comprising the rotation unallowable zones, and the second display zone comprising the rotation allowable zone.

25. The method as defined in claim 18, wherein the folder is disposed crosswise to the main body of the wireless terminal.

26. A wireless terminal comprising:

a main body;

a folder pivotally mounted on the main body to be turned to at least one of a first lengthwise position at which the folder is disposed parallel with the main body and a second crosswise position at which the folder is disposed crosswise to the main body;

a display mounted on the folder; and

a control unit for presenting characters or images on the screen of the display by detecting an existence of a rotation allowable zone on the screen of the display upon turning the folder, an existence of a pop-up window in the rotation allowable zone, if the rotation allowable zone exists, an existence of particular keys provided in the folder, if the pop-up window exists in the rotation allowable zone, and turning the data presented in the rotation allowable zone and the data in the pop-up window, and rearranging the functions of the particular keys to match the rotational direction of the folder, if the particular keys exists.