Re-Configuring the Standby Screen of an Electronic Device

• US 20130278637A1
• Filed: 06/14/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Innanen, Piia, Kangas, Tita, With, Mikko, Junkkonen, Laura, Fowlie, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 9,390,688 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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 3/0486 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 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/373 for modifying the size of the graphic pattern
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

An electronic device comprising: a user interface having a display for displaying a standby screen when the device is in an idle state and a user input device, wherein the user interface provides a menu system, for re-configuring the standby screen, that is navigated using the user input device.

Claims

1. Apparatus, comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory including computer program instructions configured to, working with the at least one processor, control the apparatus at least to perform;

causing display of a standby screen, comprising a plurality of graphical items, when the apparatus is in a standby state;

responding to user input by causing display of a representation of the standby screen, different from the standby screen; and

enabling a user to use the representation of the standby screen to resize one or more of the graphical items in the standby screen.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the representation of the standby screen comprises a plurality of zones associated with the plurality of graphical items in the standby screen.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein content in the standby screen is represented as the zones in the representation of the standby screen.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein resizing a graphical item comprises adjusting at least one of height of the graphical item and width of the graphical item.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the resizing is in accordance with at least one of a plurality of predetermined re-sizing options.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein resizing a zone in the representation of the standby screen, by a user, causes resizing of a graphical item in the standby screen.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the computer program instructions are configured to, working with the at least one processor, control the apparatus to further perform:

enabling a user to move a zone within the representation of the standby screen, which causes the position of a graphical item associated with that zone to change in the standby screen.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the standby screen and the representation of the standby screen are displayed on a touch screen display, and the user input is provided at the touch screen display.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the standby screen is the root of a menu system.

10. A method, comprising:

causing display of a standby screen, comprising a plurality of graphical items, when an apparatus is in a standby state;

responding to user input by causing display of a representation of the standby screen, different from the standby screen; and

enabling a user to use the representation of the standby screen to resize one or more of the graphical items in the standby screen.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the representation of the standby screen comprises a plurality of zones associated with the plurality of graphical items in the standby screen.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein content in the standby screen is represented as the zones in the representation of the standby screen.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein resizing a graphical item comprises adjusting at least one of height of the graphical item and width of the graphical item.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the resizing is in accordance with at least one of a plurality of predetermined re-sizing options.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein resizing a zone in the representation of the standby screen, by a user, causes resizing of a graphical item in the standby screen.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

enabling a user to move a zone within the representation of the standby screen, which causes the position of a graphical item associated with that zone to change in the standby screen.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the standby screen and the representation of the standby screen are displayed on a touch screen display, and the user input is provided at the touch screen display.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer program instructions configured, working with at least one processor, to cause at least the following to be performed:

causing display of a standby screen, comprising a plurality of graphical items, when the apparatus is in a standby state;

responding to user input by causing display of a representation of the standby screen, different from the standby screen; and

enabling a user to use the representation of the standby screen to resize one or more of the graphical items in the standby screen.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein the representation of the standby screen comprises a plurality of zones associated with the plurality of graphical items in the standby screen.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein content in the standby screen is represented as the zones in the representation of the standby screen.