DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR RELEASING LOCK STATUS AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130167053A1
• Filed: 08/21/2012
• Published: 06/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KWAK, Ji-yeon, Kumar, Nipun, Sohn, Jung-joo
• Application Number:
  US13/590,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20130167053A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones

Abstract

A display apparatus including a display unit for displaying a lock view including an affordance object which represents a changeable natural phenomenon and a control unit for, when the affordance object is touched on the lock view, controlling the display unit to switch to an unlock view while changing the affordance object to display a change of the natural phenomenon in response to the touch.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit for displaying a lock view including an affordance object which represents a changeable natural phenomenon; and

a control unit for, when the affordance object is touched on the lock view, controlling the display unit to switch to an unlock view while changing the affordance object to represent a change of the natural phenomenon in response to the touch.

2. The display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a storage unit for storing information of a plurality of affordance objects,

wherein the control unit randomly determines the affordance object in the storage and changes the affordance object every time the lock view is displayed.

3. The display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a communication unit for receiving a call connection request,

wherein, when the call connection request is received in the lock view, the control unit controls the display unit to generate and display a plurality of the affordance objects, and controls the communication unit to connect the call when a predetermined affordance object is touched and to reject the call connection when another predetermined affordance object is touched.

4. The display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a communication unit for receiving a call connection request,

wherein, when the call connection request is received in the unlock view, the control unit controls the display unit to generate and display a plurality of the affordance objects, and controls the communication unit to connect the call when a predetermined affordance object is touched and to reject the call connection when another predetermined affordance object is touched.

5. The display apparatus of claim 3, wherein the plurality of the affordance objects differ in at least one of a shape, a size, and a color.

6. The display apparatus of claim 4, wherein the plurality of the affordance objects differ in at least one of a shape, a size, and a color.

7. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the affordance object includes a visual representation of a living object which grows in response to user touch.

8. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the affordance object includes a visual representation of an object predicted to change in the natural phenomenon according to laws of nature in response to user touch.

9. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the change of the natural phenomenon includes one of object separation, growing, blooming, raining and snowing.

10. A method for releasing a lock status of a display apparatus, comprising:

displaying a lock view including an affordance object which represents a changeable natural phenomenon; and

when the affordance object is touched on the lock view, switching to an unlock view while changing the affordance object to represent a change of the natural phenomenon in response to the touch.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the affordance object is randomly determined every time the lock view is displayed.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a call connection request;

generating and displaying a plurality of the affordance objects; and

connecting the call when a predetermined affordance object is touched and rejecting the call connection when another predetermined affordance object is touched.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the plurality of the affordance objects differ in at least one of a shape, a size, and a color.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the affordance object includes a visual representation of a living object which grows in response to user touch.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the affordance object includes a visual representation of an object predicted to change in the natural phenomenon according to laws of nature in response to user touch.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the change of the natural phenomenon includes one of object separation, growing, blooming, raining and snowing.