METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING CHARACTER IN MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20140365932A1
• Filed: 06/11/2014
• Published: 12/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Hwang, Hyungsuk
• Application Number:
  US14/302,364
• Publication Number:
  US 20140365932A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/768
• 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

Abstract

An apparatus for displaying characters in a mobile device includes a screen configured to display an input window containing a virtual keyboard and a message window, wherein the screen is configured to receive one or more characters through a virtual keyboard in the input window on a screen in a typing mode, and a controller configured to cause the screen to display the one or more characters in the input window, and a message window on the screen at a substantially same time by each character received. A method includes receiving one or more characters through a virtual keyboard in an input window on a screen in a typing mode, and displaying the one or more characters in the input window, and a message window on the screen at a substantially same time by each character received. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for displaying characters in a mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving one or more characters through a virtual keyboard in an input window on a screen in a typing mode; and

displaying the one or more characters in the input window, and a message window on the screen at a substantially same time by each character received.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

splitting the screen into the input window and the message window upon the typing mode being selected.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more characters are displayed in an overlapping manner on the virtual keypad contained in the input window.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more characters overlapped on virtual keyboard are partially transparent.

5. The method of claim 1, the one or more characters on the input window are cleared away upon a break event while the one or more characters on the message window remain.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

performing an error inspection for the one or more characters upon the break event; and

if a typing error is found through the error inspection, displaying an error alarm on the in put window.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the break event is receiving a division mark comprising at least one of a space key, an enter key, and a plurality of punctuation mark keys.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the break event is that the one or more characters form one of a syllable and a word.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the error alarm is one of a blink of characters with an error, a blink of the virtual keypad, changing a color of characters with an error, changing a color of the virtual keypad, and a combination thereof.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the error alarm is disappeared when the typing error is corrected.

11. An apparatus for displaying characters input in a mobile device, the apparatus comprising:

a screen configured to display an input window containing a virtual keyboard and a message window, wherein the screen is configured to receive one or more characters through a virtual keyboard in the input window on a screen in a typing mode; and

a controller configured to cause the screen to display the one or more characters on the input window, and a message window on the screen at a substantially same time by each character received.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the display is configured to split the screen into the input window and the message window upon the typing mode being selected.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the control unit is further configured to perform an error inspection for the inputted character when a division mark key is inputted, and if a typing error is found through the error inspection, to control the display unit to display an error alarm on the input window.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the one or more characters are displayed in an overlapping manner on the virtual keypad contained in the input window.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the one or more characters overlapped on virtual keyboard are partially transparent.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the one or more characters on the input window are cleared away upon a break event while the one or more characters on the message window remain.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the controller is further configured to:

perform an error inspection for the one or more characters upon the break event; and

if a typing error is found through the error inspection, display an error alarm on the input window.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the break event is receiving a division mark comprising at least one of a space key, an enter key, and a plurality of punctuation mark keys.

19. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the break event is that the one or more characters form one of a syllable and a word.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the error alarm is one of a blink of characters with an error, a blink of the virtual keypad, changing a color of characters with an error, changing a color of the virtual keypad, and a combination thereof.

21. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the error alarm is disappeared when the typing error is corrected.