METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF ITEM

• US 20120287154A1
• Filed: 05/10/2012
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: YOOK, Hyung Min, HWANG, Jae Joon, LEE, Bong Won
• Granted Patent: US 9,323,451 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• 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

Abstract

Provided is a method of controlling display of an item. In the method, a plurality of individual items is displayed. A touch input is detected from at least two of the displayed individual items. An outline of a folder item to be generated is displayed around a plurality of the at least two touched individual items. Upon receiving a touch release input, the folder item is generated and displayed within the outline to arrange the individual items that receive touch inputs therein.

Claims

1. A method, operable in a controller, for controlling a display of a plurality of items, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of individual items;

receiving a touch input from at least two of the displayed individual items;

displaying an outline of a folder item to be generated; and

generating and displaying, upon receiving a touch release input, the folder item within the outline, wherein the at least two individual items from which a touch input was received are represented by the folder item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the folder item has an area larger than an area of the at least two individual items.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the displaying of the outline further comprises:

determining a location of the folder item to be generated such that at least one of the individual items from which touch inputs are received is included.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the displaying of the outline further comprises:

generating the outline in which the individual items from which touch inputs are received are combined.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the outline further comprises:

determining the number of the individual items from which touch inputs are received;

determining a size of the folder item to be generated according to the determined number of the individual items from which touch inputs were received;

determining a location of the folder item such that at least one of the individual items from which the touch inputs were received is included therein; and

displaying the outline of the folder item to be generated on the determined location.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the touch input comprises:

detecting an input of a touch position moving motion.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the folder item comprises:

receiving a touch release input;

displaying a transition effect in which images of the individual items from which touch inputs are received are integrated into one image; and

configuring the folder item to have an image of one of the individual items from which touch inputs are received and displaying the image of the folder item.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, when a predefined key input is received, a change folder item image menu;

displaying, when the change folder item image menu is selected, a list of the individual items arranged therein; and

configuring, when one of the individual items is selected, the folder item to have an image of the selected individual item.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining of the location of the folder item comprises:

determining whether the individual items from which touch inputs are received are adjacent to each other;

determining, when the individual items from which touch inputs are received are determined to be adjacent to each other, the location of the folder item such that all of the individual items from which touch inputs are received are included;

grouping, when at least one individual item is determined to be spaced apart, the individual items from which touch inputs are received based on proximity therebetween; and

determining the location of the folder item such that a group having a largest number of the individual items is included.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the displaying of the folder item comprises:

determining whether there exists an individual item from which a touch input was received and is located outside of the outline; and

moving the individual item from which a touch input was received and is located outside of the outline such that the individual item is located within the outline to be displayed.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the folder item comprises:

determining whether there exists an individual item from which a touch input was not received and is located within the outline;

moving the individual item that does not receive the touch input and is located within the outline such that the individual item from which a touch input was not received is located outside of the outline to be displayed; and

displaying the folder item generated within the outline.

12. A method, operable in a processor, for controlling a display of a plurality of items on a display unit, the method comprising:

receiving a touch input, a touch position moving motion, and a touch release input from at least two of the displayed individual items;

displaying a delete icon on an individual item from which a touch input was received and an individual item located on a touch position moving path;

displaying an outline of a folder item to be generated; and

generating and displaying, upon receiving an input from a particular key, the folder item within the outline to arrange the individual item on which the delete icon is displayed in the folder item.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

displaying, when the delete icon is entered, a screen in which the delete icon is removed from a corresponding individual item; and

displaying, when the outline is touched and the touch position moving motion is entered, the outline that is moved according to the touch position moving motion.

14. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display a plurality of individual items;

a touch sensor unit configured to detect a touch input from at least two individual items among the plurality of displayed individual items; and

a controller configured to;

determine a location of a folder item to be generated based on at least one of the individual items that receive the touch inputs,

display an outline of the folder item on the determined location on the display unit,

generate the folder item within the outline to arrange the individual items that receive the touch inputs in the folder item upon detecting a touch release input by the touch sensor unit, and

control the display unit to display the generated folder item.

15. The display apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the controller is configured to control such that the folder item has an image of one of the individual items that receive the touch inputs and the image of the folder item is displayed by the display unit.

16. A terminal comprising:

a display unit;

an input unit; and

a processor in communication with a memory, the memory contain code, which when accessed by the processor causes the processor to;

display a plurality of individual items on the display unit;

receive at least two inputs from the input units, the received inputs associated with a location of corresponding ones of the individual items;

form an outline area encompassing the individual items from which touch inputs are received on the display unit; and

establish a location based on the outline area;

remove the individual items from which touch inputs are received within the outline area from the display unit; and

present on the display unit a folder item, based on the outline area at the established location, said folder item representative of the removed individual items.

17. The terminal of claim 16, wherein the processor accessing said code to:

identify the outline area by one of the individual items contained within the outline area.

18. The terminal of claim 16, further comprising, the processor accessing said code to:

remove from within the outline area individual items from which said touch inputs were not received.

19. The terminal of claim 16, wherein said outline box is formed around a maximum number of adjacent individual items from which said touch inputs were received.

20. The terminal of claim 19, wherein said location of said outline box is determined at an intermediate point among the individual items from which a touch input was selected.