ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120084308A1
• Filed: 03/21/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kang, Yeonseok
• Granted Patent: US 8,725,709 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70

Abstract

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device may include a memory, a display unit, and a controller. The controller may generate a first folder having a name including text obtained from first contents displayed on the display unit, search the memory for second contents that are associated with the obtained text, and store information related to the searched second contents in the first folder. Thus a user of the electronic device may integrally store, manage, and utilize the second contents associated with the text.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a memory configured to store information;

a display unit configured to display information; and

a controller configured to generate a first folder having a name including text obtained from first contents displayed on the display unit, search the memory for second contents that are associated with the obtained text, and store information related to the searched second contents in the first folder.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

inquire whether a user desires to store the information related to the searched second contents; and

store the information related to the searched second contents based on the user'"'"'s response.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the text obtained from the first contents includes at least text included in the first contents, text extracted by character recognition from an image included in the first contents, or text corresponding to an object recognized from an image included in the first contents.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to generate the first folder as a subfolder of a previously generated second folder.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to search the memory for the second contents that are associated with both the obtained text and text corresponding to the second folder.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the second contents that are associated with the obtained text are contents that include the obtained text in at least names, abstract information, dates, formats, or storing locations.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the information related to the searched second contents comprises at least images corresponding to the searched second contents, names of the searched second contents, abstract information of the searched second contents, formats of the searched second contents, storing locations of the searched second contents, sizes of the searched second contents, or dates associated with the searched second contents.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to generate an icon for accessing the first folder on an idle screen of the display unit.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to provide a name of the first folder as a default for part of a name of the second contents upon storing the second contents.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to store the second contents in the first folder with the name of the first folder as part of the name of the second contents.

11. An electronic device comprising:

a memory configured to store information;

a display unit configured to display information; and

a controller configured to generate and display a first folder on the display unit, search the memory for first contents that are associated with the first folder based on text associated with the first folder, and store information related to the searched first contents in the first folder.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to generate the first folder and set text selected by a user as the text associated with the first folder in response to a touch input received on an empty space of the display unit.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to obtain the text associated with the first folder from second contents displayed on the display unit.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the text obtained from the second contents includes at least text included in the second contents, text extracted by character recognition from an image included in the second contents, or text corresponding to an object recognized from an image included in the second contents.

15. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to generate the first folder and obtain the text associated with the first folder from second contents displayed on the display unit in response to a touch input received on an empty space of the display unit.

16. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the first contents that are associated with the first folder are contents that include the text associated with the first folder in at least names, content, or attribute information of the first contents.

17. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to:

inquire whether a user desires to store the information related to the searched first contents; and

store the information related to the searched first contents based on the user'"'"'s response.

18. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the controller is further to configured to generate the first folder as a subfolder of a previously generated second folder.

19. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the controller is further configured to search the memory for the first contents that are associated with the first folder based on both the text associated with the first folder and text associated with the second folder.

20. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the information related to the searched first contents include at least dates associated with the searched first contents or images corresponding to the searched first contents, names of searched second contents, abstract information of the searched second contents, formats of the searched second contents, storing locations of the searched second contents, and sizes of the searched second contents.