DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20160085359A1
• Filed: 06/16/2015
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: PARK, Jeong-hyun, PARK, Chun-woo, CHOI, Kyoung-oh, CHOI, Hyun-mook, HAN, Young-ran, AN, Jin-sung
• Application Number:
  US14/740,490
• Publication Number:
  US 20160085359A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04111 Cross over in capacitive digitiser, i.e. details of structures for connecting electrodes of the sensing pattern where the connections cross each other, e.g. bridge structures comprising an insulating layer, or vias through substrate
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• 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 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• 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

Abstract

A display apparatus and a method for controlling the same are provided. A method for controlling a display apparatus includes sensing a digital pen on a display screen; if a number of a touch point sensed by the digital pen is greater than one, switching a mode of the display apparatus to a touch gesture mode; and if a touch gesture by the digital pen is sensed during the touch gesture mode, controlling the display apparatus according to the sensed touch gesture.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising:

sensing a digital pen on a display screen;

if a number of a touch point sensed by the digital pen is greater than one, switching a mode of the display apparatus to a touch gesture mode; and

if a touch gesture by the digital pen is sensed during the touch gesture mode, controlling the display apparatus according to the sensed touch gesture.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the switching the mode of the display apparatus to the touch gesture mode comprises:

if the digital pen sense two touch points, calculating a distance between the sensed two touch points; and

if the calculated distance between the two touch points is equal to a preset value, switching the mode of the display apparatus to the touch gesture mode.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising displaying an image,

wherein if the sensed touch gesture comprises the digital pen moving in a preset direction, controlling the displayed image to be expanded or reduced according to the preset direction.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein in the controlling of the display apparatus, if the sensed touch gesture comprises the digital pen being rotated, controlling the displayed image to be rotated according to a direction and a rotation angle of the sensed touch gesture.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the controlling of the display apparatus,

if the sensed touch gesture comprises the digital pen moving in a preset direction from a first position and returning to the first position, executing a specific program, and

if the sensed touch gesture comprises the digital pen repeatedly moving in the preset direction from the first position and returning to the first position during the execution of the specific program, terminating the specific program.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the controlling of the display apparatus, if the sensed touch gesture comprises the digital pen moving in a preset pattern, controlling the display apparatus to return to a previous screen.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising setting, on the display screen, a touch gesture region configured to the touch gesture,

wherein the switching the mode comprises displaying the touch gesture region to be different from another region on the display screen in response to the mode of the display apparatus being switched to the touch gesture mode.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising switching the mode of the display apparatus to a coordinate calculating mode and calculating a coordinate value of the touch point sensed by the digital pen if the digital pen senses one touch point.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the touch gesture mode and the coordinate calculating mode sense the digital pen by using different touch sensing schemes from each other.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the touch gesture mode is a touch sensing scheme using electrostatic, and

the coordinate calculating mode is a touch sensing scheme using infrared (IR).

11. A display apparatus comprising:

a display configured to display an image;

a touch sensor configured to sense a digital pen; and

a controller configured to switch a mode of the display to a touch gesture mode if a number of a touch point sensed by the digital pen is greater than one and configured to control the display according to a touch gesture if the touch sensor senses the touch gesture by the digital pen during the touch gesture mode.

12. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to calculate a distance between two touch points if the digital pen senses the two touch points, and configured to switch the mode of the display apparatus to the touch gesture mode if the calculated distance between the two touch points is equal to a preset value.

13. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein if the touch sensor senses the sensed touch gesture comprising the digital pen moving in a preset direction, the controller is configured to control the display to expand or reduce the image according to the sensed touch gesture.

14. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein if the touch sensor senses the sensed touch gesture comprises the digital pen being rotated, the controller is configured to control the display to rotate the image according to a rotation direction and a rotation angle of the sensed touch gesture.

15. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to execute a specific program if the touch sensor senses the digital pen moving in a preset direction from a first position and returning to the first position is sensed, and

wherein the controller is configured to terminate the specific program if the touch sensor senses the digital pen repeatedly moving in the preset direction and returning to the first position during the execution of the specific program.

16. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to control the display to return to a previous screen if the touch sensor senses the digital pen moving in a preset pattern.

17. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to set a touch gesture region, on the display screen, for receiving the touch gesture according to a user instruction, and

wherein the controller is configured to control the display to display the touch gesture region to be different from another region of the display screen if the mode of the display apparatus is switched to the touch gesture mode.

18. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to switch the mode of the display apparatus to a coordinate calculating mode in which the controller is configured to calculate a coordinate value of the touch point sensed by the digital pen if the digital pen senses one touch point.

19. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 18, wherein the touch sensor comprises:

a first touch sensor configured to sense the touch gesture during the touch gesture mode, and

a second touch sensor configured to sense the touch point during the coordinate calculating mode, and

wherein the first touch sensor and the second touch sensor are configured to sense the digital pen by using different touch sensing schemes from each other.

20. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 19, wherein the first touch sensor is configured to sense the touch gesture by a touch sensing scheme using electrostatic, and

wherein the second touch sensor is configured to sense the touch point by a touch sensing schemes using IR.