APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE DISPLAY DEPENDING ON MOVEMENT OF TERMINAL

• US 20130120240A1
• Filed: 11/12/2012
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: HONG, Hyun-Su
• Application Number:
  US13/674,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20130120240A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03 Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form

Abstract

A method for controlling image display based on movement of a terminal is provided. The method includes displaying any one image in an image list, when an image view feature runs; detecting movement of the terminal; and sequentially replacing and outputting images in the image list based on at least one of a moving direction and a moving angle of the terminal, upon detecting the movement of the terminal.

Claims

1. An apparatus for controlling image display based on movement of a terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a storage for storing one or more images;

a display for displaying an image in an image list stored in the storage;

a sensor unit for detecting movement of the terminal; and

a controller for sequentially replacing and outputting images in the image list on the display based on at least one of a moving direction and a moving angle of the terminal, upon detecting movement by the sensor unit.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller calculates a rate of change in movement based on at least one of a moving distance in the moving direction of the terminal and the moving angle of the terminal,

determines a loading speed of images based on the calculated rate of change in movement, the loading speed representing a speed at which a next image is loaded following the current image displayed on the display, and

sequentially replaces and outputs the images based on the determined loading speed.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the loading speed of images varies based on the rate of change in movement that is calculated based on the moving angle.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the moving direction of the terminal is at least one of up/down, left/right and back/forth directions in which the terminal is moved with respect to a user of the terminal, and directions in which the terminal is tilted around a reference axis.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the controller sequentially replaces and outputs images displayed on the display in a previous/next image direction based on the moving direction of the terminal.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller sequentially replaces and outputs the images when the moving angle of the terminal exceeds a predetermined angle.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller sequentially replaces and outputs the images at regular intervals while the moving angle of the terminal exceeds a predetermined angle for a predetermined period of time.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller keeps the output of the current image, if the movement of the terminal is stopped while sequentially replacing and outputting images in the image list.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a vibrator for outputting vibrations when the images are sequentially replaced and output on the display.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller detects a moving direction of an object in consecutive images captured in a burst mode, and stores the consecutive images in the storage after mapping the detected moving direction to the consecutive images.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the controller sequentially replaces and outputs the consecutive images when the moving direction of the terminal is identical to the moving direction mapped to the consecutive images.

12. A method for controlling image display based on movement of a terminal in the terminal, the method comprising:

displaying any one image in an image list, when an image view feature runs;

detecting movement of the terminal; and

sequentially replacing and outputting images in the image list based on at least one of a moving direction and a moving angle of the terminal, upon detecting the movement of the terminal.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

calculating a rate of change in movement based on at least one of a moving distance in the moving direction of the terminal and the moving angle of the terminal;

determining a loading speed of images in the image list based on the calculated rate of change in movement; and

sequentially replacing and outputting the images based on the determined loading speed.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the loading speed of images is a speed at which a next image is loaded following the presently output image, and varies based on the rate of change in movement that is calculated based on the moving angle.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the moving direction of the terminal is at least one of up/down, left/right and back/forth directions in which the terminal is moved with respect to a user of the terminal, and directions in which the terminal is tilted around a reference axis.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein sequentially replacing and outputting the images comprises sequentially replacing and outputting images in a previous/next image direction of the image being displayed, based on a moving direction of the terminal.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein sequentially replacing and outputting the images comprises sequentially replacing and outputting the images when the moving angle of the terminal exceeds a predetermined angle.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein sequentially replacing and outputting the images comprises sequentially replacing and outputting the images at regular intervals while the moving angle of the terminal exceeds a predetermined angle for a predetermined period of time.

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

determining whether the movement of the terminal is stopped, while sequentially replacing and outputting images in the image list; and

keeping the output of the current image, if the movement of the terminal is stopped.