APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GUI INTERACTING ACCORDING TO RECOGNIZED USER APPROACH

• US 20110043463A1
• Filed: 04/27/2010
• Published: 02/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KOOH, Sung-wook, KIM, Jae-hwan, CHO, Seong-il
• Granted Patent: US 9,170,726 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/014 Force feedback applied to GUI
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An interface controlling method and an apparatus thereof are provided to control a user interface based on a proximity sensor and a touch pad. A number of items are displayed, an item approached by a user is identified by sensing an approach, information is provided regarding the identified item, contact by the user is sensed, and a function corresponding to the user contact is performed.

Claims

1. A method for providing a graphical user interface, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of items on a display screen;

sensing an approach to the display screen by a user and identifying one item of the plurality of items approached by the user;

in response to the identifying the one item, displaying information regarding the one item;

sensing a contact of the display screen by the user; and

in response to the sensing the contact, performing a function corresponding to the contact.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the displaying information regarding the one item, further comprises:

displaying information regarding at least one function corresponding to the one item.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the at least one function comprises at least one function which can be performed in response to the user contact.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the displaying the at least one function comprises displaying at lease one symbol indicating an operation which can be performed by a user contact operation, corresponding to the at least one function.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the displaying information regarding at least one function comprises displaying at lease one animation corresponding to the at least one function.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

removing from the display screen the information regarding the one item based on no user contact being sensed for a predetermined period of time.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying information regarding the one item, further comprises:

changing a size of the information according to a distance from the user to the one item.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the sensing the contact of the display screen by the user, further comprises:

sensing a type of user contact and determining a user command corresponding to the type of user contact; and

wherein the performing the function corresponding to the contact, further comprises;

performing a function corresponding to the determined user command.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the sensing the type of user command, further comprises:

identifying path of user contact on the display screen; and

identifying a command which executes a function corresponding to the identified path of user contact.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the performing the function corresponding to the determined user contact, further comprises:

performing a function corresponding to the determined user command with the one item.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the approach by the user and the contact by the user is approach and contact by a part of the user'"'"'s body.

12. A display apparatus, comprising:

a display unit which displays a plurality of items;

a proximity sensor unit which senses an approach to the display unit by a user;

a touch sensor unit which senses contact of the display unit by the user; and

a control unit which identifies one item of the plurality of items by analyzing an approached point on the display unit sensed by the proximity sensor unit, which displays information on the display unit corresponding to the one item, and performs a function corresponding to the user contact sensed by the touch sensor unit.

13. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display information regarding the function corresponding to the user contact and to display information regarding an input method.

14. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to remove the information on the display unit corresponding to the one item based on no user contact being sensed for a predetermined period of time.

15. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to change a size of the information on the display unit corresponding to the one item according to a distance from the user to the one item.

16. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to remove the information on the display unit corresponding to the one item based on a contact by the user being through the touch sensor unit.

17. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display information regarding a function that can be performed corresponding to the one item.

18. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display a symbol indicating an operation which can be performed by the user contact operation.

19. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display information regarding the function corresponding to the user contact as an animation.

20. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the touch sensor unit transmits information regarding a type of user contact to the control unit,

wherein the control unit determines a user command corresponding to the type of user contact and performs the user command corresponding to the type of user contact based on the user command being associated with the one item.

21. A method of providing a graphical user interface, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of items on a display screen;

sensing an approach of a user to the display screen;

identifying one item of the plurality of items which is approached by the user;

displaying information corresponding to the one item;

sensing a contact of the display screen by the user;

determining, of a plurality of types of contact, one type of contact of the contact of the display screen by the user, and determining a function corresponding to the one type of contact;

performing the function corresponding to the one type of contact.