DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIVERSELY DISPLAYING AN OBJECT ACCORDING TO SCROLL SPEED

• US 20140292760A1
• Filed: 03/28/2014
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SHIKOLAY, Anatoly
• Granted Patent: US 9,823,832 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/428
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/20 Linear translation of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting

Abstract

A display method of a display apparatus is provided. The method includes displaying at least one object in a screen, receiving a user input for receiving a scroll direction for the at least one object, and changing a size of the area of the screen in which the at least one object is displayed on the screen according to scroll speed which corresponds to the received user input, and scrolling the at least one object according to the scroll direction.

Claims

1. A display method of a display apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying at least one object in a screen;

receiving a user input for receiving a scroll direction for the at least one object; and

changing a size of the area of the screen in which the at least one object is displayed on the screen, according to scroll speed which corresponds to the received user input, and scrolling the at least one object according to the scroll direction.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

changing the number of objects and a size of the at least one object according to scroll speed which corresponds to the received user input.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the changing of the number of objects and the size of the at least one object includes increasing or decreasing the number of objects in proportion to the scroll speed and increasing or decreasing the size of the at least one object in inverse proportion to the scroll speed.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the number of objects and the size of the at least one object are linearly changed.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the size of the area of the screen in which the at least one object is displayed, the number of objects, and the size of the at least one object are changed to an initial state and then displayed in response to user input being completed.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one object is at least one selected from the group consisting of an application icon, a content icon, a thumbnail image, a folder icon, a widget, a list item, a menu and a content image.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user input is a touch input performed on a touch screen of the display or a touch screen of a remote control configured to control the display apparatus, and

wherein the scroll speed is calculated on the basis of a degree of change in a touch input point on the touch screen of the display apparatus or the touch screen of the remote control apparatus for a unit period of time.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user input is a point input for the screen transmitted from the remote control apparatus, and

wherein the scroll speed is calculated on the basis of a degree of change in a point of the point input on the screen for a unit period of time.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user input is a control signal transmitted from the remote control apparatus, and

wherein the scroll speed is set according to a type of control signal.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the type of control signal which corresponds to a button is determined and transmitted to the display apparatus in response to the button provided in the remote control apparatus being manipulated.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user input is a control signal transmitted from a remote control apparatus, and

wherein the scroll speed is set according to the number of times of the received control signal for a preset period of time.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the scroll speed is in proportion to the number of times of the received control signal for the preset period of time.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user input is a control signal determined according to time when a specific button of a remote control apparatus is manipulated.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein scroll speed increases according to the control signal, in response to a long press of a specific button of the remote control apparatus.

15. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising changing at least one of resolution and transparency of a content image displayed in the screen according to the scroll speed in response to the at least one object being the content image.

16. A display apparatus comprising:

a display configured to display at least one object in a screen;

an input configured to receive a user input for a scroll direction of the at least one object; and

a controller configured to change a size of the area of the screen in which the at least one object is displayed on the screen according to scroll speed corresponding to the received user input, and scroll the at least one object according to the scroll direction.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16,

wherein the controller changes the number and a size of the at least one object according to scroll speed corresponding to the received user input.

18. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the controller is configured to increase or decrease the number of objects in proportion to the scroll speed and increases or decreases the size of the at least one object in inverse proportion to the scroll speed.

19. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the number of objects and the size of the at least one object are linearly changed.

20. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the controller is configured to control the width of the area of the screen in which the at least one object is displayed, the number of objects, and the size of the at least one object to be changed and displayed to an initial state in response to the user input being completed.

21. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the at least one object is at least one object selected from the group consisting of an application icon, a content icon, a thumbnail image, a folder icon, a widget, a list item, a menu and a content image.

22. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the user input is configured to be a touch input performed on a touch screen of the display apparatus or a touch screen of a remote control apparatus configured to control the display apparatus, and

wherein the scroll speed is calculated on the basis of a degree of change in a touch input point of the touch screen of the display apparatus or the touch screen of the remote control apparatus for a unit period of time.

23. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the user input is a point input for the screen transmitted from the remote control apparatus, and

wherein the scroll speed is calculated on the basis of a degree of change in a point of the point input on the screen for a unit period of time.

24. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the user input is a control signal transmitted from the remote control apparatus, and

wherein the scroll speed is set according to a type of control signal.

25. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the user input is a control signal transmitted from a remote control apparatus,

wherein the scroll speed is set according to the number of times of the received control signal for the preset period of time.

26. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 25, wherein the scroll speed is in proportion to the number of times of the received control signal for the preset period of time.

27. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the user input is a control signal determined according to time when a specific button of a remote control apparatus is manipulated,

wherein the scroll speed is set according to the control signal.

28. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 27, wherein scroll speed increases according to the control signal, in response to a long press of a specific button of the remote control apparatus.

29. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the controller changes at least one of resolution and transparency of a content image displayed in the screen according to the scroll speed in response to the object being the content image.

30. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the at least one object is a sub image constituting one panorama image.