SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL APPLICATION USING GESTURE

• US 20100122167A1
• Filed: 06/03/2009
• Published: 05/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ryu, Yun Gwan
• Granted Patent: US 8,893,052 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A system and a method for controlling a mobile terminal application using a gesture may identify a gesture corresponding to a contact signal input to a display screen. The gesture may then be verified in an event table as corresponding to a command event for one of many possible different applications, and command event may be performed by an application associated with the gesture. The application may be running in the background of the mobile terminal, and may not be displayed on the mobile terminal display screen when the command event is executed. The method may include executing a first application, executing a second application while executing the first application, identifying a gesture corresponding to a contact signal, verifying a command event corresponding to the gesture, and controlling the first application to perform the command event.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a mobile terminal application using a gesture, comprising:

executing a first application;

executing a second application while executing the first application;

identifying a gesture corresponding to a contact signal;

verifying a command event corresponding to the gesture; and

controlling the first application to perform the command event.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the gesture comprises:

analyzing, from the contact signal, a shape in which a pointer contacts a display screen of the mobile terminal, and

identifying, in an event table, a gesture corresponding to the shape within a range.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein analyzing the shape comprises:

analyzing the shape as one or more characters using a character recognition module.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

registering, in an event table, the gesture inputted through an interface to correspond to the command event,

wherein verifying of the command event comprises;

verifying, in the event table, that the command event is registered to correspond to the gesture.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the contact signal comprises identification information about the first application, and the verifying the command event comprises:

verifying, in an event table, that the command event of the first application is registered to correspond to the gesture.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first application is a media player, and the command event comprises:

at least one of a start/stop reproduction event of a media by the media player, an increase/decrease playback volume event, and a selection event of the media being reproduced.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

stopping an execution of the first application or stopping the forwarding of the verified command event to the first application, upon receiving a call request signal.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing the first application or the second application if a gesture associated with an application execution event for the first application or the second application, respectively, is identified.

9. A method for controlling a mobile terminal application using a gesture, comprising:

executing a plurality of applications;

determining a target application from among the plurality of applications based on a contact signal generated in a display screen;

identifying a gesture corresponding to the contact signal;

verifying a command event corresponding to the gesture; and

controlling the target application to perform the command event.

10. A system to control a mobile terminal application using a gesture, comprising:

an application executing unit to execute a first application, and to execute a second application while executing the first application;

a gesture identifying unit to identify a gesture corresponding to a contact signal;

a command event verifying unit to verify a command event corresponding to the gesture; and

an application controlling unit to control the first application to perform the command event.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the gesture identifying unit analyzes, from the contact signal, a shape in which a pointer contacts a display screen, and the gesture identifying unit identifies, in an event table, a gesture corresponding to the shape within a range.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the gesture identifying unit analyzes the shape as one or more characters using a character recognition module.

13. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

a registration unit to provide an interface to a display screen, and to register, in an event table, the gesture inputted through the interface to correspond to the command event,

wherein the command event verifying unit verifies, in the event table, that the command event is registered to correspond to the gesture.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the contact signal comprises identification information about the first application, and the command event verifying unit verifies, in an event table, that the command event is registered to correspond to the gesture.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the first application is a media player, and the command event comprises at least one of a start/stop reproduction event of a media by a media player, an increase/decrease playback volume event, and a selection event of the media being reproduced.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the application controlling unit stops an execution of the first application, or stops the forwarding of the verified command event to the first application, upon receiving a call request signal.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the application executing unit executes the first application or the second application if a gesture associated with an application execution event of the first application or the second application, respectively, is identified.

19. A mobile terminal, comprising the system of claim 10.

18. A system to control a mobile terminal application using a gesture, comprising:

an application executing unit to execute a plurality of applications, and to determine a target application from among the plurality of applications based on a contact signal generated in a display screen;

a gesture identifying unit to identify a gesture corresponding to the contact signal;

a command event verifying unit to verify a command event corresponding to the gesture; and

an application controlling unit to control the target application to perform the command event.

20. A mobile terminal, comprising the system of claim 18.