LIST-EDITING METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE ADAPTED THERETO

• US 20110083105A1
• Filed: 09/17/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SHIN, Hyun Kyung, NAM, Seung Wook, SHIN, Seung Woo
• Application Number:
  US12/884,353
• Publication Number:
  US 20110083105A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/830
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A list-editing method and a mobile device adapted to the method are provided. The method includes displaying a plurality of items on a screen, selecting at least one of the plurality of items according to an input signal, fixing at least one selected item at one side of the screen, and moving at least one non-selected item on the screen, according to a scroll signal.

Claims

1. A list-editing method, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of items in a list on a screen;

selecting at least one of the plurality of items according to an input signal;

fixing at least one selected item at one side of the screen; and

moving at least one non-selected item on the screen, according to a scroll signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the fixing of the at least one selected item at the one side of the screen comprises:

fixing at least one selected item at least one of a highest position and a lowest position on the screen; and

fixing at least one selected item at a location in the list at a time point when at least one of the items in the list was selected.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

at least one of translucently and transparently displaying at least one selected item at a placement that differs from a placement on which at least one non-selected item is displayed.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

at least one of displaying at least one non-selected item to be superimposed with at least one selected item that is at least one of translucently and transparently displayed and inserting, if the scroll signal is not input, at least one selected item between non-selected items whose portions are superimposed with at least one selected item, so that the order of items is altered in the list.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the fixing of the at least one selected item at the one side of the screen comprises:

arranging, if the plurality of items are selected in a list screen, the selected items from a highest position of the list screen, in an order, according to the direction of the scroll signal, and fixing the selected items thereat;

arranging, if the plurality of items are selected in the list screen, the selected items from a lowest position of the list screen, in an order, according to the direction of the scroll signal, and fixing them thereat; and

moving, if the plurality of items are selected, the selected items on the list screen according to the direction of the scroll signal, and fixing, if the selected items are located at least one of the highest position and the lowest position of the list screen, the selected items at the highest or lowest position of the list screen.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the moving of the at least one non-selected item on the screen comprises moving at least one non-selected item on the screen so that a display region of at least one non-selected item is not superimposed on a display region of the at least one selected item.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, if the list of items is displayed, a key map for executing a list-edit mode;

creating an input signal according to a selection of the key map; and

entering the list-edit mode according to the selection of the key map.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

altering the order of the selected item in the list of items when the non-selected items are moved in a state where the selected item is fixed at one side of a list screen; and

storing the altered order of items in the list.

9. A mobile device supporting list-edit, the device comprising:

a display panel for displaying a plurality of items in a list;

at least one of an input unit and a touch screen for creating an input signal for selecting at least one of the plurality of items in the list and a scroll signal for moving at least one non-selected item on the display panel; and

a controller for fixing at least one selected item at one side of a screen, for moving at least one non-selected item on the screen according to a scroll signal, and for altering an order of at least one non-selected item in the list.

10. The device of claim 9, further comprising:

a storage unit for storing the altered order of the items in the list.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the controller fixes at least one selected item at least one of a highest position and a lowest position of at least one of the list screen and a region in the list at a time point when at least one item was selected.

12. The device of claim 9, wherein the display panel displays the list and the items so that a placement displaying at least one non-selected item is distinguished from a placement displaying at least one selected item.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the display panel displays at least one selected item at least one of translucently and transparently.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein, if at least one non-selected item is at least one of moved and moved and then stopped according to a scroll signal, the display panel displays part of the non-selected item so that the part of the non-selected item is superimposed with at least one selected item that is being displayed at least one of translucently and transparently.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein, if the scroll signal is not input in a state where the part of the non-selected item is superimposed with at least one selected item, the controller inserts at least one selected item into non-selected item portions of which are superimposed with at least one selected item and alters the order of items in the list.

16. The device of claim 9, wherein the display panel displays items so that the display region of at least one selected item is not superimposed with the display region of at least one non-selected item that is at least one of moved and moved and then stopped according to a scroll signal.

17. The device of claim 9, wherein the display panel displays a key map for executing a list-edit mode.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the input signal is created according to a selection of the key map.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein the list-edit mode is entered according to the selection of the key map.

20. The device of claim 9, wherein the controller alters the order of the selected item in the list of items when the non-selected items are moved in a state where the selected item is fixed at one side of a list screen.