MOBILE APPARATUS PROVIDING PREVIEW BY DETECTING RUBBING GESTURE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140258866A1
• Filed: 02/11/2014
• Published: 09/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: JIN, Hyung-Joo, LEE, Jae-Myoung, JANG, Chul-Ho
• Granted Patent: US 10,048,855 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/719
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A mobile apparatus control method that detects a gesture to provide a preview is provided. The method includes displaying a thumb-nail of video contents on a touch screen, detecting a rubbing gesture on the thumb-nail of the video contents displayed on the touch screen, and displaying the preview of the video contents on the touch screen when the rubbing gesture is detected.

Claims

1. A mobile apparatus control method that provides a preview by detecting a gesture, the method comprising:

displaying a thumb-nail of video contents on a touch screen;

detecting a rubbing gesture on the thumb-nail of the video contents; and

displaying the preview of the video contents on the touch screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the rubbing gesture comprises a continuous touch or a rotating continuous touch within a pre-set region on the touch screen.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the preview of the video contents is displayed on the touch screen, the preview is displayed at a pre-set position adjacent to the thumb-nail of the video contents.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, displaying the preview of the video contents, the preview appears and disappears according to a time sequence of the video contents.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

stopping the displaying of the preview on the touch screen when interruption for the rubbing gesture is detected; and

displaying the preview on the touch screen again when the rubbing gesture is detected again.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the preview is displayed in such a manner that a time interval of preview images of the video contents is adjusted to correspond to the speed of the rubbing gesture.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the preview is displayed in such a manner that a time interval of preview images of the video contents is reduced when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes slower and increased when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes faster.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the preview is displayed in such a manner that a positional spacing of preview images of the video contents is adjusted to correspond to the speed of the rubbing gesture.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the preview is displayed in such a manner that, when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes slower, a positional spacing of preview images of the video contents is reduced, and when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes faster, the positional spacing of the preview images of the video contents is increased.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the preview is displayed in such a manner that the positions of preview images of the video contents are arranged, in response to a consistent direction of the rubbing gesture, in a direction which is the same as the consistent direction of the rubbing gesture.

11. A mobile apparatus that detects a rubbing gesture to provide a preview, the mobile apparatus comprising:

a touch screen configured to display a thumb-nail of video contents; and

a controller configured to detect a rubbing gesture on the thumb-nail of the video contents, and to display the preview of the video contents on the touch screen.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the rubbing gesture comprises a continuous touch or a rotating continuous touch within a pre-set region on the touch screen.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein, when the preview of the video contents is displayed on the touch screen, the controller displays the preview at a pre-set position adjacent to the thumb-nail of the video contents.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein, the controller displaying the preview of the video contents, the preview appears and disappears according to a time sequence of the video contents.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller stops the displaying of the preview on the touch screen when interruption for the rubbing gesture is detected, and displays the preview on the touch screen again when the rubbing gesture is detected again.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller adjusts a time interval of preview images of the video contents to correspond to the speed of the rubbing gesture so as to display the time interval.

17. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller reduces a time interval of preview images of the video contents when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes slower and increases the time interval of the preview images when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes faster.

18. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller adjusts a positional spacing of preview images of the video contents to correspond to the speed of the rubbing gesture.

19. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller reduces positional spacing of preview images of the video contents when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes slower and increases the positional spacing of the preview images of the video contents when the speed of the rubbing gesture becomes faster.

20. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller arranges, in response to a consistent direction of the rubbing gesture, the positions of preview images of the video contents in a direction which is the same as the consistent direction of the rubbing gesture and displays the preview images.