TERMINAL HAVING RADIO FREQUENCY FUNCTION AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION OF THE TERMINAL

• US 20140167926A1
• Filed: 02/24/2014
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: HAN, Sang-jun, KIM, Dae-Hyun, KIM, Bo-mi, KYUNG, Bo-hyun, CHOI, Myoung-soon, HAN, Kuk-hyun, YANG, Pil-seung, KIM, Hark-joon
• Granted Patent: US 9,007,183 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.51
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10366 the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13095 PIN / Access code, authentication

Abstract

Provided are a terminal having a radio frequency identification (RFID) function and a method of processing information of the terminal for allowing intuitive interaction between a screen manipulation and an RFID manipulation with respect to using an RFID related service. The method of processing the information of the terminal including a screen and an RFID recognition unit, includes detecting a screen area corresponding to a position of the RFID recognition unit disposed at a predetermined position of the screen; displaying an RFID icon at a position of the detected screen area; recording information in an RFID tag based on the RFID tag contacting the RFID icon, and recognizing the information from the RFID tag the RFID tag contacting the RFID icon.

Claims

1. A method of processing information of a terminal including a screen and a radio frequency identification (RFID) recognition unit, the method comprising:

detecting a screen area corresponding to a position within the terminal of the RFID recognition unit disposed at a predetermined position of the screen;

displaying an user interface (UI) object at a position of the detected screen area indicating the corresponding position of the RFID recognition unit within the terminal; and

recording information in an RFID tag in response to contacting the RFID tag with the UI object indicating the corresponding position of the RFID recognition unit within the terminal, and recognizing the information from the RFID tag in response to contacting the RFID tag with the UI object indicating the corresponding position of the RFID recognition unit within the terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the RFID control related menu around the UI object in response to a touch of an object to the UI object on the screen.

3. The method of claim 2, the displaying the RFID control related menu comprises;

detecting a touch of the object to the UI object on the screen; and

displaying RFID tag-write menu and RFID tag-read menu and RFID tag-print menu on the screen if the touch of the object is detected.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording the information comprises:

dragging an object of contents to be recorded in the RFID tag to the UI object;

switching the RFID recognition unit to an information write mode; and

recording contents information of the dragged object in the RFID tag when the RFID tag contacts the UI object.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising displaying a message requesting contact of the RFID tag on the screen if an object of contents is dragged to the UI object.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the recognizing the information comprises:

determining whether the RFID tag contacts the UI object;

reading information of the RFID tag if it is determined that the RFID tag contacts the UI object; and

displaying the read information of the RFID tag on the UI object.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the recognizing the information further comprises displaying a message on the UI object while the information of the RFID tag is read, wherein the message indicates that tag information is being read.

8. A terminal having a radio frequency identification (RFID) function, the terminal comprising:

a screen unit which displays an UI object and information;

an RFID recognition unit which is disposed within the terminal at a predetermined position of the screen unit, and recognizes an RFID tag; and

a control unit which detects a screen area corresponding to the position within the terminal of the RFID recognition unit, displays the UI object on a position of the screen area indicating the corresponding position of the RFID recognition unit within the terminal, records contents in the RFID tag in response to contacting the RFID tag with the UI object indicating the corresponding position of the RFID recognition unit within the terminal, and recognizes information of the RFID tag in response to contacting the RFID tag within the UI object indicating the corresponding position of the RFID recognition unit within the terminal.

9. The terminal of claim 8, wherein the screen unit comprises a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen and the RFID recognition unit is disposed at a fixed position of a lower corner of the LCD screen.

10. The terminal of claim 8, wherein the UI object on the screen unit and an antenna of the RFID recognition unit are disposed at a same position.