DISPLAY APPARATUS INTERWORKING WITH CONTROL APPARATUS INCLUDING TOUCHPAD

• US 20150268844A1
• Filed: 01/05/2015
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Han-soo, YOON, Yeo-ri, LEE, Dong-heon
• Application Number:
  US14/589,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20150268844A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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 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: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control

Abstract

A method of controlling a display apparatus interworking with a control apparatus including a touchpad including displaying a note region and at least one icon, operating in a first mode for displaying an image corresponding to a user touch input on the note region in response to the user touch input in a predetermined region of the touchpad, and operating in a second mode for displaying a highlight on one of the at least one icon and manipulating the at least one icon in response to a user touch input to deviate from the predetermined region of the touchpad.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a display apparatus interworking with a control apparatus comprising a touchpad, the method comprising:

displaying a note region and at least one icon;

operating in a first mode for displaying an image corresponding to a user touch input on the note region in response to the user touch input being input in a predetermined region of the touchpad; and

operating in a second mode for displaying a highlight on one of the at least one icon and manipulating the at least one icon in response to a user touch input being input to deviate from the predetermined region of the touchpad.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined region is spaced away from an edge of the touchpad by as much as a first distance or more.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising displaying visual feedback for guidance of conversion to a second mode from a first mode on a surrounding region of the note region in response to the user touch input being input between the first distance and a second distance greater than the first distance from the edge of the touchpad.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the visual feedback is displayed outside an edge corresponding to a direction in which the user touch input is input, among upper, lower, right, and left edges of the note region.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the displaying of the visual feedback comprises increasing a size of the visual feedback in response to a user touch input being input close to the first distance from the second distance.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating in the first mode comprises maintaining the first mode when the user touch input deviates from the predetermined region of the touchpad and then continuously and seamlessly enters the predetermined region of the touchpad.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating in the first mode comprises maintaining the first mode when the user touch input is input in the predetermined region of the touchpad, continuously deviates from the predetermined region, and then is terminated within a predetermined threshold time.

15. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating of the first mode is converted into an operation of the second mode when a user touch is input to one of an upper, a lower, a right, or a left edge of a four-direction input key.

8. A display apparatus interworking with a control apparatus comprising a touchpad, the display apparatus comprising:

a display configured to display a note region and at least one icon; and

a controller configured to operate in a first mode for displaying an image corresponding to a user touch input on the note region in response to the user touch input being input in a predetermined region of the touchpad and to operate in a second mode for displaying a highlight on one of the at least one icon and manipulating the at least one icon in response to the user touch input being input to deviate from the predetermined region of the touchpad.

9. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the predetermined region is spaced away from an edge of the touchpad by as much as a first distance or more.

10. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the controller displays a visual feedback for guidance of conversion to a second mode from a first mode on a surrounding region of the note region in response to the user touch input being input between a first distance and a second distance greater than the first distance from an edge of the touchpad.

11. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the visual feedback is displayed outside an edge corresponding to a direction in which the user touch input, among upper, lower, right, and left edges of the note region.

12. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the visual feedback is increased in size in response to the user touch input being input close to the first distance from the second distance.

13. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the controller maintains the first mode when the user touch input deviates from the predetermined region of the touchpad and then continuously and seamlessly enters the predetermined region of the touchpad.

14. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the controller maintains the first mode when the user touch input is input in the predetermined region of the touchpad, continuously deviates from the predetermined region, and then is terminated within predetermined threshold time.

16. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the controller converts an operation of the first mode to an operation of the second mode when a user touch is input to one of an upper, a lower, a right, or a left edge of a four-direction input key.