USER INTERFACE METHOD USED IN WEB BROWSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF

• US 20110035663A1
• Filed: 07/08/2010
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Moon, Kwan-kyung, Choi, Ko-eun
• Application Number:
  US12/832,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20110035663A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A User Interface (UI) method and apparatus by which a user can know whether an input by a touch is processed as an event of a web page or an event of a specific event processing area included in the web page when performing web browsing using a UI based on a touch interface. The method includes displaying, when performing web browsing in an electronic device, a first screen in which a web page received by the electronic device is distinguished from at least one specific event processing area included in the web page; and displaying a second screen in which at least one to specific event processing area is displayed as a selected area, if a selection signal corresponding to the at least one specific event processing area is received.

Claims

1. A User Interface (UI) method based on a touch interface, the method comprising:

displaying, when performing web browsing in an electronic device, a first screen in which a web page received by the electronic device is distinguished from at least one specific event processing area included in the web page; and

displaying a second screen in which at least one specific event processing area is displayed as a selected area, if a selection signal corresponding to the at least one specific event processing area is received.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising if an input signal corresponding to a touch on the at least one specific event processing area of the second screen is received, processing the input signal as an event of the at least one specific event processing area.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising if an input signal corresponding to a touch on the first screen is received, processing the input signal as an event of the web page,

wherein, in the first screen, the at least one specific event processing area is displayed as an unselected area.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a display status of the at least one specific event processing area of the first screen is different from a display status of the at least one specific event processing area of the second screen.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the second screen includes changing from displaying the first screen to displaying the second screen in response to a user input signal according to a tap function key-based user input signal or according to an action-based user input signal using a gyro sensor.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising if a de-selection signal of the at least one specific event processing area is received while the second screen is being displayed, changing from displaying the second screen to displaying the first screen.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising outputting a screen change notification to a user when changing from displaying the first screen to displaying the second screen or changing from displaying the second screen to displaying the first screen.

8. The method of claim 2, further comprising if an input signal corresponding to a touch on an area other than the at least one specific event processing area of the second screen is received, processing the input signal corresponding to the touch on the area other than the at least one specific event processing area of the second screen as an event of the web page.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one specific event processing area includes a specific object or a specific content area enabled to perform a dynamic change.

10. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a computer readable program for executing a User Interface (UI) method based on a touch interface, the method comprising:

displaying, when performing web browsing in an electronic device, a first screen in which a web page received by the electronic device is distinguished from at least one specific event processing area included in the web page; and

displaying a second screen in which at least one specific event processing area is displayed as a selected area, if a selection signal corresponding to the at least one specific event processing area is received.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10, further comprising if an input signal corresponding to a touch on the at least one specific event processing area of the second screen is received, processing the input signal as an event of the at least one specific event processing area.

12. An electronic device including a web browsing function, the electronic device comprising:

a display unit for displaying a web page;

a User Interface (UI) unit based on a touch interface; and

a controller for displaying on the display unit a first screen in which a received web page is distinguished from at least one specific event processing area included in the received web page, and if a selection signal corresponding to the at least one specific event processing area is received from the UI unit, displaying a second screen in which at least one specific event processing area is displayed as a selected area on the display unit.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein if an input signal corresponding to a touch on the at least one specific event processing area of the second screen is received from the UI unit, the controller processes the input signal as an event of the at least one specific event processing area.

14. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein if an input signal corresponding a touch on the first screen is received from the UI unit, the controller processes the input signal as an event of the web page, and, in the first screen, the at least one specific event processing area is displayed as an unselected area.

15. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein a display status of the at least one specific event processing area of the first screen is different from a display status of the at least one specific event processing area of the second screen.

16. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein if a de-selection signal of the at least one specific event processing area is received from the UI unit while the second screen is being displayed, the controller changes from displaying the second screen to displaying the first screen.

17. The electronic device of claim 16, further comprising a notification unit for outputting a user notification of a screen change under a control of the controller, upon changing from displaying the first screen to displaying the second screen or changing from displaying the second screen to displaying the first screen.

18. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein if an input signal corresponding a touch on an area other than the at least one specific event processing area of the second screen has been received from the UI unit, the controller processes the input signal corresponding to the touch on the area other than the at least one specific event processing area of the second screen as an event of the web page.

19. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the at least one specific event processing area includes a specific object or a specific content area enabled to perform a dynamic change.