APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING SPLIT SCREEN DISPLAY AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR

• US 20170344253A1
• Filed: 11/19/2015
• Published: 11/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: ZHANG, Xun
• Application Number:
  US15/527,634
• Publication Number:
  US 20170344253A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 3/04886 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: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72484 wherein functions are triggered by incoming communication events

Abstract

A method, performed by a split-screen display apparatus, of performing a split-screen display in a terminal includes: when an event notification message is received while an application is being executed, receiving a view instruction for viewing the received event notification message; splitting a screen of the terminal into an original application area and a new application area based on the received view instruction; and displaying an interface of the application that is being executed in the terminal on the original application area and displaying an interface of an application related to the received event notification message on the new application area.

Claims

1. A method, performed by a split-screen display apparatus, of performing a split-screen display in a terminal, the method comprising:

when an event notification message is received while an application is being executed, receiving a view instruction for viewing the received event notification message;

splitting a screen of the terminal into an original application area and a new application area based on the received view instruction; and

displaying an interface of the application that is being executed in the terminal on the original application area and displaying an interface of an application related to the received event notification message on the new application area.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the view instruction is received when the event notification message is displayed on a notification bar or within a predetermined time range after the event notification message is received.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the splitting is performed when the terminal is in a state suitable for performing screen splitting,

wherein, when the terminal is not in the state suitable for performing screen splitting, the interface of the application related to the received event notification message is displayed on the screen of the terminal.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the state suitable for performing screen splitting is a state in which the terminal is in a whole screen display state, and the state not suitable for performing screen splitting is a state in which the terminal is a split-screen display state.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the splitting comprises:

determining a split size of the new application area according to a size of the received event notification message or a size of a display widget of the application related to the received event notification message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the splitting comprises:

sensing a location of the terminal being held by a user and determining a split location of the new application area based on the sensed location.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the view instruction comprises a predetermined touch operation on the screen of the terminal,

wherein the splitting comprises:

determining a split location and a split size of the new application area of a trace of the predetermined touch operation.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a recovery instruction to cancel the split-screen display; and

canceling the original application area and the new application area according to the recovery instruction.

9. An apparatus for performing a split-screen display in a terminal, the apparatus comprising:

when an event notification message is received while an application is being executed, an input section configured to receive a view instruction for viewing the received event notification message; and

a processor configured to split a screen of the terminal into an original application area and a new application area based on the received view instruction and display an interface of the application that is being executed in the terminal on the original application area and displaying an interface of an application related to the received event notification message on the new application area.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the view instruction is received when the event notification message is displayed on a notification bar or within a predetermined time range after the event notification message is received.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor performs splitting when the terminal is in a state suitable for performing screen splitting, and, when the terminal is not in the state suitable for performing screen splitting, displays the interface of the application related to the received event notification message on the screen of the terminal.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the state suitable for performing screen splitting is a state in which the terminal is in a whole screen display state, and the state not suitable for performing screen splitting is a state in which the terminal is a split-screen display state.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor determines a split size of the new application area according to a size of the received event notification message or a size of a display widget of the application related to the received event notification message.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor senses a location of the terminal being held by a user and determines a split location of the new application area based on the sensed location.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the view instruction comprises a predetermined touch operation on the screen of the terminal,

wherein the processor determines a split location and a split size of the new application area according to a trace of the predetermined touch operation.