CONTENTS DISPLAY METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL IMPLEMENTING THE SAME

• US 20130298068A1
• Filed: 06/04/2013
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: LEE, Sanghyup, LEE, Shinjun
• Application Number:
  US13/909,899
• Publication Number:
  US 20130298068A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/776
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method and a mobile terminal for displaying contents are provided. The method of displaying contents for pages of a mobile terminal including a display unit in which a touch panel is installed, includes: displaying a page; detecting movement of a touch input device with respect to the displayed page; and displaying the page so that the page is convexly deformed and skipped in response to the movement of the touch input device.

Claims

1. A method of displaying contents of pages displayed by a mobile terminal including a display unit in which a touch panel is installed, the method comprising:

displaying a page;

detecting movement of a touch input device with respect to the displayed page; and

displaying the page so that the page is convexly deformed and skipped in response to the movement of the touch input device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting an editing request event requesting editing of the contents;

reconfiguring the page in response to the editing request event; and

displaying the reconfigured page and additional information of the reconfigured page.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the additional information comprises information indicating a total number of pages and an order of the displayed pages.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the editing request event comprises one of an addition request to add contents to the contents, a delete request to delete contents from the contents, a movement request to move the contents, and a change request to change a formation of the page.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the reconfiguring of the page comprises changing at least one of a total number of the pages and an order of the displayed pages.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the contents comprises at least one of photographs, videos, audio, images, calendars, contact points, memos, documents, e-books, web pages, thumbnails, and icons.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the page so that the page is convexly deformed and skipped comprises displaying a convexly deformed page corresponding to attribute information set for the page.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the movement of the touch input device comprises detecting at least one of a moving direction, a moving distance, and a speed of the touch input device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the page so that the page is convexly deformed and skipped comprises deforming a plurality of the pages into convex forms which are different from each other and displaying the deformed pages.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a direction of a force applied to the convexly deformed page based on at least one of an initial touch coordinate, a current touch coordinate, a moving distance, and a moving direction of the touch input device; and

displaying the convexly deformed page such that the convexly deformed page is moved according to the determined direction of the force when a touch release of the touch input device with respect to the convexly deformed page is detected.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the convexly deformed page so that the convexly deformed page is moved according to a moving direction of the touch input device before a touch release of the touch input device with respect to the convexly deformed page is detected.

12. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display unit in which a touch panel is installed and configured to display contents for each of a plurality of pages;

a memory configured to store the contents of the pages; and

a controller configured to control the display unit such that one of the pages is displayed, detect movement of a touch input device with respect to the displayed page, and control the display unit such that the page is displayed as convexly deformed and skipped in response to the detected movement of the touch input device.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to detect an editing request event requesting editing of the contents, reconfigure and store the page in response to the editing request event, and control the display unit such that the reconfigured page and additional information of the reconfigured page are displayed.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the additional information comprises information indicating a total number of the pages and an order of the pages.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the editing request event comprises one of an addition request to add contents to the contents, a delete request to delete contents from the contents, a movement request to move the contents, and a change request to change of a formation of the page.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the control unit reconfigures the page by changing of at least one of a total number of the pages and an order of the pages.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the memory is further configured to store attribute information of the page, and the controller is further configured to convexly deform the page corresponding to the attribute information.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured control the display unit to display the page such that the page is moved according to a moving direction of the touch input device before a touch release of the touch input device with respect to the page is detected.

19. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium implemented in a mobile terminal including a display unit in which a touch panel is installed, the non-transitory computer readable recording medium causing the mobile terminal to perform operations comprising:

displaying a page;

detecting movement of a touch input device with respect to the displayed page; and

displaying the page so that the page is convexly deformed and skipped in response to the movement of the touch input device.

20. A method to display pages, the method comprising:

displaying a page on a device comprising a touch input unit;

generating a page mesh corresponding to the displayed page, the page mesh comprising a plurality of nodes having respective weights;

detecting movement of a touch input device with respect to the displayed page, using the touch input unit; and

changing an appearance of the page according to the detected movement and the page mesh,

wherein the changing the appearance of the page comprises convexly deforming the page.