LIST SCROLLING METHOD AND DEVICE ADAPTED TO THE SAME

• US 20110087997A1
• Filed: 10/12/2010
• Published: 04/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: LEE, Sang Hoon, KIM, Young Hae, JUNG, Jae Eik
• Application Number:
  US12/902,674
• Publication Number:
  US 20110087997A1
• 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 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars

Abstract

A list scrolling control method, system, and device are provided. When scrolling is controlled, the change in data is not displayed on the list area but scrolling information is provided via an information region additionally provided by the scroll bar, thereby quickly performing a list scrolling process. The list scrolling method includes detecting interaction for scroll control on a list screen, and displaying a scroll bar range, varied according to the detected interaction, on an area of a scroll bar.

Claims

1. A list scrolling method, the method comprising:

detecting interaction for scroll control on a list screen; and

displaying a scroll bar range, varied according to the detected interaction, on a certain region of a scroll bar.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

extracting, if the interaction is released, a data item corresponding to the scroll bar range; and

displaying data items on the list screen, with respect to the extracted data item.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the displaying of the data items on the list comprises:

retaining, if the interaction occurs, data items initially displayed on the list screen, and updating and displaying only the scroll bar range, in real time.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the displaying of the data items on the list comprises:

altering, if the interaction is released, the data items, initially fixed and displayed on the list screen, to data items included in a scroll bar range at a time point that the interaction is released; and

displaying the altered data items on the list screen.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the displaying of the data items on the list comprises:

altering and displaying, if the interaction occurs, indicators provided to information regions of the scroll bar to range information corresponding to the scroll bar range.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

altering and displaying, if the interaction is released, range information corresponding to a time point that the interaction is released to the indicators.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the displaying of the data items on the list comprises:

determining range information corresponding to the scroll bar range; and

displaying the determined range information on at least one of an upper information region and a lower information region of the scroll bar.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the range information on the lower information region is acquired by the range information on the upper information region and a preset reference value.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

selecting, if the interaction is released, at least one of a top data item and a bottom data item according to one of the upper range information and the lower range information, corresponding to a setting mode.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

arranging, when the at least one of the top data item and the bottom data item is selected, the selected data item at a certain region of the list screen;

arranging the remaining data items at the locations with respect to the selected data item, in order, so that a total number of data items is identical to a preset reference value; and

displaying the selected data item and the remaining data items arranged with respect to the selected data item on the list screen.

11. A mobile device, the device comprising:

a display unit for displaying a list screen according to a user'"'"'s request, for fixing and displaying data items initially displayed in a list region when control of a scroll is performed, and for updating and displaying a scroll bar range varied according to the scroll control, in real time; and

a controller for retaining, if interaction to control the scroll is detected on the list screen, data items initially displayed on the list screen, and for updating and displaying only the scroll bar range, in real time.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the controller extracts, if the interaction is released, a data item corresponding to the scroll bar range.

13. The device of claim 11, where the display unit retains, if the interaction occurs, data items initially displayed on the list screen.

14. The device of claim 11, wherein the controller divides the scroll bar range into an upper information region and a lower information region of the scroll bar, and displays a list screen varied with data items of the scroll bar range varied when the interaction is released.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the controller alters and displays indicators provided to information regions of the scroll bar to range information corresponding to the scroll bar range if the interaction is detected, and range information corresponding to a time point that the interaction is released to the indicators if the interaction is released.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the controller determines range information corresponding to the scroll bar range, and displays the determined range information on at least one of the upper information region and the lower information region of the scroll bar.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the range information on the lower information region is acquired by the range information on the upper information region and a preset reference value

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the controller selects at least one of a top data item and a bottom data item according to one of the upper range information and the lower range information, corresponding to a setting mode, if the interaction is released, and arranges the remaining data items at locations with respect to the selected data item, in order, so that the total number of data items is identical to the reference value.