TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20140258904A1
• Filed: 09/25/2013
• Published: 09/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ku, Ja Seung
• Application Number:
  US14/036,473
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258904A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A terminal and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the terminal includes an input device configured to receive information from an external source, a display configured to display an image, and a controller configured to control the image displayed on the display according to the received information, wherein the input device comprises a touchscreen. The controller detects the number of touched points on the touchscreen, the magnitude of the pressure applied to each touched point and the position of each touched point based on the information received by the input unit and controls the image displayed on the display to be enlarged, reduced or scrolled based on the number, the magnitude and the position.

Claims

1. A terminal comprising:

an input device configured to receive information from an external source;

a display configured to display an image; and

a controller configured to control the image displayed on the display according to the received information,

wherein the input device comprises a touchscreen, and wherein the controller is further configured to detect the number of touched points on the touchscreen, the magnitude of the pressure applied to each touched point and the position of each touched point based at least in part on the received information and control the image displayed on the display to be enlarged, reduced or scrolled based at least in part on the number, the magnitude and the position.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein when the number of touched points is one, the controller is further configured to control the image to be enlarged or reduced based at least in part on the position of the touched point, and when the position of the touched point is changed by dragging the touched point, the controller is further configured to control the image to be enlarged or reduced based at least in part on the changed position of the touched point.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein when the number of touched points is one, the controller is further configured to control the image to be enlarged or reduced according to the magnitude of the pressure applied to the touched point.

4. The terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to control the image to be enlarged to a larger size or to be reduced to a smaller size as the magnitude increases.

5. The terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to control the image to be enlarged to a larger size or to be reduced to a smaller size as the magnitude decreases.

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein when the number of touched points is two, the controller is further configured to control the image to be enlarged or reduced to a magnification corresponding to the magnitude of the pressure applied to a first point, which was touched first, at a moment when a second point was touched and wherein the controller is further configured to control the magnification to be maintained despite a change in the magnitude of the pressure applied to the first point or a change in the magnitude of the pressure applied to the second point after the second point was touched.

7. The terminal of claim 6, wherein when the position of the first point or the position of the second point is changed by dragging the first point or the second point, the controller is further configured to control the image to be scrolled according to the changed position of the first point or the changed position of the second point.

8. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller is further configured to control the image to be scrolled according to a change in the position of the first point, regardless of a change in the position of the second point.

9. The terminal of claim 7, wherein coordinates of the first point before being dragged are (x1, y1), coordinates of the second point before being dragged are (x2, y2), the coordinates of the first point after being dragged are (x1′

, y1′

), the coordinates of the second point after being dragged are (x2′

, y2′

), and wherein the controller is further configured to control the image to be scrolled by (x1′

−

x1, y1′

−

y1).

10. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller is further configured to control the image to be scrolled in a state where the image has been enlarged or reduced to the magnification corresponding to the magnitude of the pressure applied to the first point at the moment when the second point was touched.

11. The terminal of claim 6, wherein when the position of the first point or the position of the second point is changed by dragging the first point or the second point, the controller is further configured to control the image to be scrolled according to a change in the position of a midpoint between the first point and the second point.

12. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the coordinates of the first point before being dragged are (x1, y1), the coordinates of the second point before being dragged are (x2, y2), the coordinates of the first point after being dragged are (x1′

, y1′

), the coordinates of the second point after being dragged are (x2′

, y2′

), and wherein the controller is further configured to control the image to be scrolled by ((x1′

+x2′

)/2−

(x1+x2)/2, (y1′

+y2′

)/2−

(y1+y2)/2).

13. A method of controlling a terminal having a touchscreen, the method comprising:

receiving a touch input on a first point on the touchscreen;

first displaying, on the touchscreen, an image which has been enlarged to a magnification corresponding to the pressure applied to the first point;

receiving a touch input on a second point on the touchscreen;

second displaying, on the touchscreen, the image which has been enlarged to a certain magnification regardless of a change in the pressure applied to the first point and a change in the pressure applied to the second point after the touch input on the second point was received;

receiving an input corresponding to dragging the first point or the second point; and

scrolling the enlarged screen according to a change in the position of the first point, regardless of a change in the position of the second point, and displaying the scrolled image on the touchscreen.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first displaying comprises displaying the image enlarged to a higher magnification on the touchscreen as the magnitude of the pressure applied to the first point increases.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the first displaying comprises changing the magnification of the enlarged image when the pressure applied to the first point is changed.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the second displaying comprises maintaining the magnification of the image at a magnification corresponding to the magnitude of the pressure applied to the first point at a moment when the second point was touched despite a change in the pressure applied to the first point or a change in the pressure applied to the second point after the touch input on the second point was received.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the scrolling comprises controlling the image to be scrolled in a direction in which the first point was moved by the distance travelled by the first point.

18. A method of controlling a terminal having a touchscreen, the method comprising:

receiving a touch input on a first point on the touchscreen;

displaying, on the touchscreen, an image which has been reduced to a magnification corresponding to the pressure applied to the first point;

receiving a touch input on a second point on the touchscreen;

displaying, on the touchscreen, the image which has been reduced to a certain magnification regardless of a change in the pressure applied to the first point and a change in the pressure applied to the second point after the touch input on the second point was received;

receiving an input corresponding to dragging the first point or the second point; and

scrolling the reduced image according to a change in the position of the first point, regardless of a change in the position of the second point, and displaying the scrolled image on the touchscreen.

19. A method of controlling a terminal having a touchscreen, the method comprising:

receiving a touch input on a first point on the touchscreen;

displaying, on the touchscreen, an image which has been enlarged or reduced to a magnification corresponding to the pressure applied to the first point;

receiving a touch input on a second point on the touchscreen;

displaying, on the touchscreen, the image which has been enlarged or reduced to a certain magnification regardless of a change in the pressure applied to the first point and a change in the pressure applied to the second point after the touch input on the second point was received;

receiving an input corresponding to dragging the first point or the second point; and

scrolling the enlarged or reduced image according to a change in the position of a midpoint between the first point and the second point and displaying the scrolled image on the touchscreen.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the scrolling and displaying comprises controlling the image to be scrolled in a direction in which the midpoint between the first point and the second point was moved by the distance travelled by the midpoint.