APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING MACRO

• US 20080294986A1
• Filed: 11/06/2007
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: MYUNG, In-Sik, SEO, Young-Wan, CHUNG, Sun-Wha
• Application Number:
  US11/935,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20080294986A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/704
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells

Abstract

An apparatus and method for creating a macro are provided. The apparatus includes a generation unit generating a user interface (UI) performing a function of a macro command created by combining macro commands corresponding to a plurality of objects, and an output unit displaying the UI on a screen.

Claims

1. An apparatus for creating a macro comprising:

a generation unit which generates a user interface (UI) that performs a function of a macro command created by combining macro commands corresponding to a plurality of objects; and

an output unit which displays the UI on a screen.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the screen includes a first display screen having the plurality of objects and a second display screen on which the macro command is created.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein if the plurality of objects are selected from the first display screen and moved to the second display screen, the generation unit generates commands corresponding to the plurality of objects as the macro command.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first display screen and the second display screen are implemented as touch screens that receive input signals.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the macro command is a combination of commands corresponding to objects that have been moved sequentially from the first display screen to the second display screen.

6. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the output unit comprises a change unit which changes at least one of a size, shape and color of the UI according to a frequency of use or a significance level preset by a user.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the change unit changes at least one of a size, shape, and color of the UI according to whether the macro command is feasible.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein if a predetermined object is positioned on the UI, the generation unit reconstructs the macro command using the command corresponding to the predetermined object.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a plurality of UIs are displayed on the screen and wherein the apparatus further comprises an execution unit which executes a macro command corresponding to a UI selected from the plurality of UIs.

10. A method of forming a macro, comprising:

generating a user interface (UI) which performs a function of a macro command created by combining macro commands corresponding to a plurality of objects; and

displaying the UI on a screen.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the screen includes a first display screen having the plurality of objects and a second display screen on which the macro command is created.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein if the plurality of objects are selected from the first display screen and are moved to the second display screen, the generating of the UI comprises generating the commands corresponding to the plurality of objects as the macro command.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the first display screen and the second display screen are implemented as touch screens that receive input signals.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the macro command is a combination of commands corresponding to objects sequentially moved from the first display screen to the second display screen.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising changing at least one of a size, shape, and color of the UI according to a frequency of use or a significance level preset by a user.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising changing at least one of a size, shape, and color of the UI according to whether the macro command is feasible.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

if a predetermined object is positioned on the UI, reconstructing the macro command using the command corresponding to the predetermined object.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

if the UI displayed on either the first display screen or the second display screen is selected, an execution unit executing a macro command corresponding to the selected UI.