METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDITING TOUCH DISPLAY

• US 20150128077A1
• Filed: 01/12/2015
• Published: 05/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHA, Sang-ok, HAN, Sang-jun, SHIM, Jung-hyun
• Granted Patent: US 10,552,012 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• 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 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• 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 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A method and an apparatus are provided for editing a display of a touch display apparatus. A first screen including at least one object is displayed. An object on the first screen is designated. The touch display apparatus is converted to an edit mode for editing the display, when the object is designated. When a movement of the touch display apparatus is detected, the first screen is converted into a second screen according to at least one of a degree and a direction of the movement. The designated object is displayed on the second screen.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a touch screen configured to display a first screen page and a second screen page;

a sensor unit configured to output a signal relating to a movement of the electronic apparatus; and

a control unit configured to select an item on the first screen page based on a user input received via the touch screen and change the first screen page displayed on the touch screen to the second screen page on the touch screen based on the signal relating to the movement of the electronic apparatus from the sensor unit such that the selected item is displayed on the second screen page.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein, after the second screen page is displayed on the touch screen, the control unit positions the selected item in the second screen page according to touch information received from the touch screen.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit enters an edit mode after the item is selected from the first screen page, and

during the edit mode, the control unit processes output signals from the touch screen, concurrently with processing of output signals from the sensor unit, to determine whether the touch screen is being concurrently touched during transitioning from the first screen page to the second screen page.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein, during the edit mode, the control unit determine whether the selected item is being continuously touched based on touch information received from the touch screen and displays the selected item at a location on the touch screen corresponding to the received touch information while the first screen page is being transitioned to the second screen page.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 4, wherein the control unit is configured to exit from the edit mode when it is determined that touch is released.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit detects a tilt movement with respect to an axis of rotation that passes longitudinally through centers of upper and lower surfaces of the apparatus based on signals received from the sensor unit and controls transitioning from the first screen page to the second screen page based on the detected tilt movement.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 6, wherein, in an edit mode, the control unit is configured to change a location of an icon arranged on a plurality of background screen pages based on touch information obtained from the touch screen and the movement-related information obtained from the sensor unit.

8. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first screen page and the second screen page are associated with different multitasking applications executed by the electronic apparatus.

9. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sensor unit comprises a gyro sensor to detect at least one of panning, tilting and rotating movements.

10. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sensor unit comprises an acceleration sensor to detect at least one of panning, tilting and rotating movements.

11. A method of moving an object from a first screen to a second screen displayed on a touch screen of an electronic apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying the first screen including the object on the touch screen;

designating the object on the first screen based on a user input received via a touch screen of the electronic apparatus; and

changing the first screen displayed on the touch screen to the second screen on the touch screen based on a signal relating to a movement of the electronic apparatus from a sensor unit such that the designated object is displayed on the second screen.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

changing the electronic apparatus to an edit mode when the object on the first screen page is touched for a predetermined period of time.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

when the object is no longer touched, releasing the edit mode while the designated object is displayed on the second screen.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

when the electronic apparatus is converted to the edit mode, displaying the first screen as an edit mode status display screen.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

changing the electronic apparatus to an edit mode when an edit option is selected.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

when a background of the second screen is touched, releasing the edit mode while the designated object is displayed on the second screen.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

when the object on the first screen is designated, displaying at least one word on a side area of the designated object,

wherein the electronic apparatus is converted to an edit mode when a command to perform editing is selected from among the at least one displayed word.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the object is one of a plurality of icons displayed on the first screen of the electronic apparatus, and

wherein changing the first screen comprises gradually changing the first screen of the electronic apparatus to the second screen, at a speed corresponding to a magnitude of the movement detected by the sensor unit by sliding or scrolling the first screen to the second screen.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein changing the first screen comprises, when a magnitude of the movement is greater than n times and less than n+1 times a threshold value, changing the first screen to the second screen which is n pages from the first screen.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the first screen comprises one of an application screen, a web browser screen, and a multimedia file screen, and the object comprises an image or text displayed on the first screen, and

wherein changing the first screen comprises changing the first screen into the second screen which is one of another application screen, another web browser screen and another multimedia file screen.

21. The method of claim 11, wherein the movement comprises at least one of panning, tilting and rotating the electronic apparatus.

22. A method comprising:

if a movement of an electronic apparatus is detected, changing a first screen displayed thereon to a second screen according to the detected movement; and

displaying a designated object on the second screen, wherein the object is designated from the first screen.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

transitioning to an edit mode after the object is designated from the first screen; and

during the edit mode, processing touch information received from a touch screen, concurrently with processing movement information received from a motion sensor unit, to determine that the touch screen is being touched during transitioning from the first screen to the second screen.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the designated object is displayed at a location on a touch screen corresponding to the touch information while the first screen is being changed to the second screen.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

exiting from the edit mode when it is determined that touch is released based on the touch information.

26. An article of manufacture for controlling a touch display apparatus, comprising a machine readable medium containing one or more programs which when executed implement the steps of:

displaying a first screen including at least one object on the touch display apparatus;

designating an object on the first screen;

changing the touch display apparatus to an edit mode, when the object on the first screen is designated;

when a movement of the touch display apparatus is detected, changing the first screen into a second screen according to the detected movement; and

displaying the designated object on the second screen.