HANDHELD TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE HANDHELD TERMINAL USING TOUCH INPUT

• US 20100100855A1
• Filed: 10/07/2009
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: YOO, Jioh
• Application Number:
  US12/575,246
• Publication Number:
  US 20100100855A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A handheld terminal includes a coordinate recognizer to recognize a first coordinate on a screen where a touch starts and to recognize a second coordinate on the screen where the touch ends, a function identifier to identify a function corresponding to the pair of coordinates, and a function performer to perform the identified function. The first and second coordinates may respectively correspond to a service icon displayed at or near the first coordinate and a process area displayed at or near the second coordinate and associated with the identified function. A method for controlling a handheld terminal includes recognizing a first coordinate on a screen where a touch starts and a second coordinate on the screen where the touch ends, identifying a function corresponding to the first coordinate and the second coordinate, and performing the identified function.

Claims

1. A handheld terminal, comprising:

a touch screen to receive a touch and to display a service icon, a first process area, and a second process area, the first process area corresponding to a first function associated with the service icon and the second process area corresponding to a second function associated with the service icon;

a coordinate recognizer to recognize a first coordinate where the touch starts and to recognize a second coordinate where the touch ends;

a function identifier to identify the first function or the second function as an identified function corresponding to a pair of coordinates comprising the first coordinate and the second coordinate; and

a function performer to perform the identified function.

2. The handheld terminal of claim 1, wherein the first coordinate is related to the service icon, and the function identifier identifies the function based on the pair of coordinates and the service icon.

3. The handheld terminal of claim 1, wherein the second coordinate is related to the first process area or the second process area, and the function identifier identifies the first function or the second function as the identified function, respectively.

4. The handheld terminal of claim 1, wherein the function identifier identifies, from a database, the identified function corresponding to the pair of coordinates.

5. The handheld terminal of claim 4, wherein the database stores functions respectively corresponding to pairs of coordinates.

6. The handheld terminal of claim 1, wherein the first coordinate is related to the service icon, and the coordinate identifier identifies the second coordinate within the first process area or the second process area according to where the touch ends.

7. The handheld terminal of claim 6, wherein the function identifier identifies the identified function based on the service icon and the first process area or the second process area according to where the touch ends.

8. The handheld terminal of claim 6, wherein the coordinate identifier recognizes the first coordinate within a start coordinate area where the service icon is displayed.

9. A method for controlling a handheld terminal, comprising:

displaying a service icon, a first process area, and a second process area, the first process area corresponding to a first function associated with the service icon and the second process area corresponding to a second function associated with the service icon;

receiving a touch on a touch screen;

recognizing a first coordinate where the touch starts and a second coordinate where the touch ends;

identifying the first function or the second function as an identified function corresponding to a pair of coordinates comprising the first coordinate and the second coordinate; and

performing the identified function.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first coordinate is related to the service icon, and the identified function is identified based on the pair of coordinates and the service icon.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the second coordinate is related to the first process area or the second process area, and the identified function is identified as the first function or the second function, respectively.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein identifying the identified function comprises identifying, from a database, the identified function corresponding to the pair of coordinates.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

storing functions respectively corresponding to pairs of coordinates.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the first coordinate is related to the service icon, and identifying the identified function comprises identifying the second coordinate within the first process area or the second process area according to where the touch ends.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein identifying the indentified function comprises identifying the identified function based on the service icon and the first process area or the second process area according to where the touch ends.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein identifying the identified function comprises:

identifying the first coordinate within a coordinate start area where the service icon is displayed.

17. A computer comprising a processor and a computer readable recording media storing a program, and the program, when executed, performs the method of claim 9.