ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING PLAYLIST THEREOF

• US 20140298172A1
• Filed: 03/26/2014
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHOI, Young-Keun
• Granted Patent: US 9,804,766 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• 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 user interface method employed by an electronic device displays a folder playlist playable by an application, on a touch screen and detects a touch selecting one folder in the displayed folder playlist. A touch gesture is detected comprising a continuous movement of a touch and performs a sorting operation using a name representation of a storage path of a folder where the touch is detected, in response to the continuous movement of the detected touch gesture.

Claims

1. A user interface method employed by an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying a folder playlist playable by an application, on a touch screen;

detecting a touch selecting one folder in the displayed folder playlist;

detecting a touch gesture comprising a continuous movement of a touch; and

performing a sorting operation using a name representation of a storage path of a folder where the touch is detected, in response to the continuous movement of the detected touch gesture.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing of the sorting operation comprises:

generating a new folder name representation having one of,

(a) an upper hierarchical folder name and

(b) a two level hierarchical upper folder name representing a current storage path of the folder identified by the detected touch gesture and displaying the generated new folder name representation.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a location of the new folder name representation is changeable in the playlist and

the two level hierarchical folder name comprises two portions comprising upper and lower portions of the folder name provided on two different adjacent rows.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the performing of the sorting operation comprises sorting a folder on a basis of the upper hierarchical folder name in the current storage path of the folder where the touch is detected.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the continuous movement of the touch comprises a physical contact that is continuously maintained on the touch screen.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the continuous movement of the touch comprises one of a flick, drag, and rotate movement.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the detection of the touch gesture comprises a multiple touch detected on a text representing a current storage path of the folder.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the continuous movement of the touch comprises the continuous movement of at least one touch of a multiple touch.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising abbreviating a portion of the text representation of the current storage path and displaying an abbreviated portion in response to the continuous movement of at least one touch of the multiple touch.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising performing an abbreviation operation to display both a current folder name and an upper hierarchical folder name of the current storage path in response to the continuous movement.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising performing an abbreviation operation on at least one other folder having the same name as the upper hierarchical folder of the current storage path of the folder in response to the continuous movement.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the continuous movement of the multiple touch comprises a pinch, spread, or rotate gesture.

13. An electronic device comprising:

a touch screen displaying a folder playlist of an application; and

a control unit controlling the touch screen,

wherein the control unit detects a touch on a text representation of a folder in the folder playlist displayed on the touch screen, and performs a sorting operation using a name representation of a storage path of a folder where the touch is detected, in response to the continuous movement of the detected touch.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the control unit performs one of,

(a) generating a new folder name representation having one of,

(i) an upper hierarchical folder name and

(ii) a two level hierarchical upper folder name representing a current storage path of the folder identified by the detected touch gesture and displaying the generated new folder name representation and

(b) performing a sorting operation using an upper hierarchical folder name of a storage path of a folder where the touch is detected.

15. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the continuous movement of the touch comprises a flick, drag, or rotate gesture.

16. An electronic device comprising:

a touch screen displaying a folder playlist of an application; and

a control unit controlling the touch screen,

wherein the control unit detects a multiple touch on a text representation of a folder in a folder playlist displayed on the touch screen, and abbreviates a text portion of a storage path of the folder and displays the abbreviated text portion in response to a continuous movement of at least one touch of the detected multiple touch.

17. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the continuous movement of at least one touch in the detected multiple touch comprises one of a pinch, spread, and rotate gesture, a fixed touch, or a continuous movement of each touch of the multiple touch.