ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH SCREEN AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110167370A1
• Filed: 12/30/2010
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Jae-kwon
• Granted Patent: US 9,595,186 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/30 User interface
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

An electronic device having a touch screen and an operation control method thereof are provided. The electronic includes a touch screen which receives a plurality of manipulations; and a controller which determines whether a second manipulation is made on a screen displayed on the touch screen during a predetermined time period after a first manipulation is made on the screen, and controls to perform an operation corresponding to the second manipulation instead of an operation corresponding to the first manipulation to be performed, if the second manipulation is made during the predetermined time after the first manipulation is made.

Claims

1. An operation control method of an electronic device having a touch screen, the operation control method comprising:

determining whether a second manipulation is made on a screen displayed on the touch screen during a predetermined time period after a first manipulation is made on the screen; and

controlling to perform an operation corresponding to the second manipulation instead of an operation corresponding to the first manipulation, if the second manipulation is made during the predetermined time period after the first manipulation is made.

2. The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controlling comprises controlling to perform the operation corresponding to the first manipulation if the second manipulation is not made during the predetermined time period after the first manipulation is made.

3. The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controlling comprises controlling to repeatedly perform the operation corresponding to the first manipulation at a regular interval until a third manipulation is made on the screen if the second manipulation is not made during the predetermined time period after the first manipulation is made, and

wherein the third manipulation comprises releasing an operation area of the screen.

4. The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first manipulation is pressing an operation area of the screen, and

wherein the second manipulation is flicking or dragging an operation area of the screen.

5. The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising determining whether the second manipulation is a manipulation to perform a first operation or to perform a second operation with reference to a given time after the predetermined time period,

wherein the controlling comprises:

controlling to perform the first operation if a third manipulation is made on the screen before the given time; and

controlling to perform the second operation if the third manipulation is made on the screen on or after the given time.

6. The operation control method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first operation is a flicking operation and the second operation is a dragging operation, and

wherein the flicking operation comprises converting or moving the screen, and the dragging operation comprises dragging an icon on the screen.

7. The operation control method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the third manipulation comprises releasing an operation area of the screen.

8. The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operation corresponding to the first manipulation is generating a signal to control an external device, the signal being an infrared (IR) signal, a radio frequency (RF) signal, or a WiFi™

signal.

9. The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a remote control.

10. An electronic device comprising:

a touch screen which receives a plurality of manipulations; and

a controller which determines whether a second manipulation is made on a screen displayed on the touch screen during a predetermined time period after a first manipulation is made on the screen, and controls to perform an operation corresponding to the second manipulation instead of an operation corresponding to the first manipulation, if the second manipulation is made during the predetermined time period after the first manipulation is made.

11. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the controller controls to perform the operation corresponding to the first manipulation if the second manipulation is not made during the predetermined time period after the first manipulation is made.

12. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the controller controls to repeatedly perform the operation corresponding to the first manipulation at a regular interval until a third manipulation is made on the screen if the second manipulation is not made during the predetermined time period after the first manipulation is made, and

wherein the third manipulation comprises releasing an operation area of the screen.

13. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the first manipulation is pressing an operation area of the touch screen.

14. The electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the second manipulation is flicking or dragging an operation area of the screen.

15. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the controller further determines whether the second manipulation is a manipulation to perform a first operation or to perform a second operation with reference to a given time after the predetermined time period, and

wherein the controller further controls to perform the first operation if a third manipulation is made on the screen before the given time, and controls to perform the second operation if the third manipulation is made on the screen on or after the given time.

16. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the first operation is a flicking operation and the second operation is a dragging operation, and

wherein the flicking operation comprises converting or moving the screen, and the dragging operation comprises dragging an icon on the screen.

17. The electronic device as claimed in claim 15, wherein the third manipulation comprises releasing an operation area of the screen.

18. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the operation corresponding to the first manipulation is generating a signal to control an external device, the signal being an infrared (IR) signal, a radio frequency (RF) signal, or a WiFi™

signal.

19. A controller comprising:

an input unit which receives a plurality of manipulations of a user; and

a control unit which recognizes the plurality of manipulations, determines a time period between a first manipulation and a second manipulation, which is an immediate next manipulation, among the plurality of manipulations, and determines an operation to be performed based on the time period.

20. The controller as claimed in claim 19, wherein if the second manipulation is not recognized by the control unit during the time, the control unit controls a device connected to the controller to perform an operation corresponding to the first manipulation, and

wherein if the second manipulation is recognized by the control unit during the time, the control unit controls an operation with respect to the input unit to be performed at the input unit.