USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THEREOF

• US 20150227308A1
• Filed: 02/13/2015
• Published: 08/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Yun-kyung, KIM, Hyun-jin, LEE, Yong-yeon, RHO, Jae-yeon
• Granted Patent: US 10,747,416 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• 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 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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

There is provided a method for displaying of a user terminal device which includes displaying a first screen; and displaying, in response to a user interaction to touch and drag one of corner areas of the first screen being detected, a second screen on a touch location of the corner areas where the user interaction is detected while at least a part of the first screen is being displayed.

Claims

1. A method for displaying of a user terminal device, comprising:

displaying a first screen; and

displaying, in response to detecting a user interaction comprising a touch and drag input at one of a plurality of corner areas of the first screen, a second screen at the one of the plurality of corner areas where the touch and drag input is detected while at least a part of the first screen remains displayed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the second screen comprises, in response to the detecting the user interaction comprising the touch and drag input at the one of the plurality of corner areas of the first screen in a diagonal direction while the one of the plurality of corner areas in which the user interaction is detected on the first screen is folded, displaying the second screen on the folded corner area.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second screen includes different information displayed according to a location of the one of the plurality of corner areas at which the user interaction is detected.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the displaying the second screen comprises displaying one from among information on an application which is currently executed on the second screen according to a location of a corner area at which the user interaction is detected, information indicating that moving to a home screen is available, information on a current status of a user terminal device, and quick access information on an application designated by a user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a size of the second screen varies based on a distance traveled by the touch and drag input, and an amount of information included in the second screen changes according to the size of the second screen.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first screen comprises a square shape, the method comprising:

substituting the first screen with the second screen, in response to the user interaction comprising a touch and drag input that moves from the one of the plurality of a corner areas to a corner area opposite to the one of the plurality of a corner areas.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the first screen is displaying an e-book, the displaying the second screen comprises, in response to the detecting the user interaction comprising the touch and drag input at the one of the plurality of corner areas of the first screen in a diagonal direction, displaying the second screen including a bookmark at the one of the plurality of corner areas where the user interaction is detected.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein, in a case of receiving a message, the displaying the second screen comprises, in response to the detecting the user interaction comprising the touch and drag input at the one of the plurality of the corner areas of the first screen in a diagonal direction, displaying the second screen which includes at least one from among an icon indicating that the message is received at the one of the plurality of corner areas in which the user interaction is detected and information on the received message.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein, in a case of the first screen displaying photographic content, the displaying the second screen comprises, in response to the detecting the user interaction comprising the touch and drag input at the one of the plurality of corner areas of the first screen in a diagonal direction, displaying the second screen which includes at least one icon configured to perform a plurality of tasks on the photographic content at the one of the plurality of corner areas in which the user interaction is detected.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first screen and the second screen comprise a square shape, and the first screen and the second screen share one corner area.

20. The device of claim 1, wherein the first screen and the second screen comprise a square shape, and the first screen and the second screen share one corner area.

11. A user terminal device, comprising:

a display configured to display a first screen;

a detector configured to detect a user interaction; and

a controller configured to, in response to a user interaction comprising a touch and drag input at one of a plurality of corner areas of the first screen being detected by the detector, control the display to display a second screen at the one of the plurality of corner areas where the touch and drag input is detected, while at least a part of the first screen remains displayed.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the controller, in response to the detector detecting the user interaction comprising the touch and drag input at the one of the plurality of corner areas of the first screen in a diagonal direction, controls the display, while the one of the plurality of corner areas in which the user interaction is detected in the first screen is folded, to display the second screen on the folded corner area.

13. The device of claim 11, wherein the second screen includes different information displayed according to a location of the one of the plurality of corner areas at which the user interaction is detected.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the controller controls the display to display one from among information on an application which is currently executed, information indicating that movement to a home screen is available, information on a state of a current user terminal device, and quick access information on an application designated by a user on the second screen according to a location at which the user interaction is detected through the detector.

15. The device of claim 11, wherein the controller changes a size of the second screen according based on a distance traveled by the touch and drag input, and changes an amount of information included in the second screen according to the size of the second screen.

16. The device of claim 11, wherein the first screen comprises a square shape, and

wherein the controller, in response to the user interaction comprising a touch and drag input that moves from the one of the plurality of a corner areas to a corner area opposite side to the one of the plurality of a corner areas, controls the display to substitute the first screen with the second screen.

17. The device of claim 11, wherein the first screen includes e-book content, and

wherein the controller, in response to the detector detecting the user interaction comprising the touch and drag input at the one of the plurality of corner areas of the first screen in a diagonal direction, controls the display to display a second screen including a bookmark at the one of the plurality of corner areas where the user interaction is detected.

18. The device of claim 11,

wherein the controller detects that the user terminal device received a message and, in response to the detector detecting the user interaction comprising the touch and drag at the one of the plurality of corner areas of the first screen in a diagonal direction, controls the display to display the second screen that includes at least one from among an icon indicating that the message is received and information on the received message at the one of the plurality of corner areas where the user interaction is detected.

19. The device of claim 11, wherein the first screen comprises photographic content, and

wherein the controller, in response to the detector detecting the user interaction comprising the touch and drag input at the one of the plurality of corner areas of the first screen in a diagonal direction, controls the display to display a second screen that includes at least one icon configured to perform a plurality of tasks on the photographic content at the one of the plurality of corner areas where the user interaction is detected.