METHOD FOR EDITING OBJECT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF

• US 20150026569A1
• Filed: 07/16/2014
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Jung-Woo, Jang, Keum-Ju, Choi, Sook-Kyung, Hwang, Hyung-Suk
• Granted Patent: US 10,055,395 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/256
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines

Abstract

An electronic device is configured to perform a method for editing an object. The method includes determining one or more edit references with respect to one or more objects displayed on a display unit, detecting a motion input, and editing the one or more objects based on at least one of the one or more edit references and a characteristic of the motion input.

Claims

1. A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:

determining one or more edit references with respect to one or more objects displayed on a display unit;

detecting a motion input; and

editing the one or more objects based on the one or more edit references and a characteristic of the motion input.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the one or more edit references comprises determining one or more edit references shaped in a straight line according to input information detected through an input unit.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the one or more edit references comprises determining one or more edit references shaped in a straight line perpendicular to a direction of text according to input information detected through an input unit when the text is displayed on the display unit.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein editing the object comprises:

determining one or more edit areas;

determining an edit style based on one or more of;

configuration information of the one or more edit references or a characteristic of the motion input; and

editing the one or more edit areas based on the one or more edit references according to the edit style.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the configuration information of the one or more edit references includes one or more of:

the number of the one or more edit references or a position of the one or more edit references.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein determining the edit areas comprises determining one or more objects at which a cursor is positioned as the edit areas.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein determining the edit areas comprises determining one or more objects including at least a part of the one or more edit references as the edit areas.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a characteristic of the motion input includes one or more of:

a type, a direction, or an intensity of the motion input.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the type of the motion input includes one or more of:

a gesture or a motion of the electronic device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein editing the object comprises:

determining one or more edit areas when text is displayed on the display unit;

determining an edit style based on one or more of;

configuration information of the one or more edit references or a characteristic of the motion input; and

performing indentation on text included in the one or more edit areas based on the one or more edit references when the indentation is determined as the edit style.

11. An electronic device, comprising:

a display unit configured to display one or more objects;

a motion sensor configured to detect a motion input; and

a processor configured to determine one or more edit references with respect to one or more objects displayed on the display unit and edit the one or more objects displayed on the display unit based on a characteristic of a motion input detected through the motion sensor and the one or more edit references.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the motion sensor includes one or more of:

one or more cameras, a gesture sensor, a gyro sensor, a magnetic sensor, an accelerometer, a grip sensor, a proximity sensor, a bio sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, or an ultrasonic sensor.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising an input unit configured to detect an input,

wherein the processor is configured to determine one or more edit references shaped in a straight line according to input information detected through the input unit.

14. The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising an input unit configured to detect an input,

wherein the processor is configured to determine one or more edit references shaped in a straight line perpendicular to a direction of text according to input information detected through the input unit when the text is displayed on the display unit.

15. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to determine one or more edit areas;

determine an edit style based on one or more of;

configuration information of the one or more edit references or a characteristic of the motion input; and

edit the one or more edit areas based on the one or more edit references according to the edit style.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the configuration information of the one or more edit references includes one or more of:

the number of the one or more edit references or a position of the one or more edit references.

17. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to determine one or more objects at which a cursor is positioned as the edit areas.

18. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to determine one or more objects including at least a part of the one or more edit references as the edit areas.

19. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein a characteristic of the motion input includes one or more of:

a type, a direction or an intensity of the motion input, and

the type of the motion input includes one or more of;

a gesture of a user or a motion of the electronic device.

20. The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising a memory including one or more programs to be executable by the processor.