Digital photographing apparatus and method of controlling the same

• US 8,441,567 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2010
• Issued: 05/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hye-jin, Choi, Jun-ho, Eun, Sung-ho, Choi, Na-ri
• Primary Examiner(s): DIEP, TRUNG T
• Application Number:
  US12/838,552
• Publication Number:
  US 20110063491A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,030 Days
• Field of Search: 348/333.01, 348/333.02, 348/333.05, 348/333.07, 348/333.11, 348/333.12, 348/207.99, 345/73, 345/173
• US Class Current: 348/333.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/005 Input arrangements through a video camera
• 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 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters

Abstract

A digital photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus prevent a touch malfunction from occurring while holding the digital photographing apparatus by having a touch protection area in the digital photographing apparatus. The digital photographing apparatus includes a large-sized touch screen on one surface thereof, wherein the touch screen includes: a touch area which inputs a touch from a user and executes icons corresponding to the touch; and a touch protection area which is not activated by the touch when the touch from the user is input on the touch screen.

Claims

1. A digital photographing apparatus comprising a display unit in the form of a touch screen, comprising:

a touch area which receives a touch from a user and executes icons corresponding to the touch; and

a touch protection area which is not activated by the touch when the touch by the user is sensed, wherein;

the touch protection area is turned on by the user, the touch protection area selected by the user is activated on the touch screen in a photographing mode and the activated touch protection area is indicated on the touch screen for the user to recognize the activated touch protection area; and

when the touch protection area is turned off, the touch protection area contains operable icons actuatable by touch.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the touch protection area is arbitrarily set on the touch screen and a plurality of points are input in the touch area so as to form the touch protection area comprising the points as vertexes.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a size or a location of the touch protection area is arbitrarily changed on the touch screen.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein when the size or the location of the touch protection area is changed, a size or a location of the icons is adjusted so that the icons in an original touch area and the changed touch protection area do not overlap each other.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a plurality of touch protection areas are included on the touch screen.

6. A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus, the method comprising:

setting a touch protection area which is not activated by a touch when the touch is input on a touch screen, wherein;

the touch protection area is turned on by the user;

activating the set touch protection area selected by a user on the touch screen;

inputting a touch on the touch screen, wherein the touch is performed by the user;

detecting coordinate information for the input touch;

determining whether the input touch is in the touch protection area by using the coordinate information;

blocking when the input touch is determined to correspond to the touch protection area when the set touch protection area is activated;

deactivating the set touch protection area;

operating an actuable icon in response to a touch in the touch protection area when the set touch protection area is deactivated.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the touch protection area is set by inputting a plurality of points on the touch screen and forming an area comprising the points as vertexes.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein in the setting of the touch protection area, a size or a location of the touch protection area is arbitrarily changed on the touch screen.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein when the size or the location of the touch protection area is changed, a size or a location of icons is adjusted so that the icons in an original touch area and the changed touch protection area do not overlap each other.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein in the setting of the touch protection area, a plurality of touch protection areas are included on the touch screen.

11. A digital photographing apparatus comprising:

a touch protection area setting unit which sets a touch protection area on a touch screen which is not activated by a touch by a user when the touch is sensed, wherein;

the touch protection area is turned on by the user;

a touch protection area activation unit which activates and deactivates the set touch protection area selected by the user on the touch screen;

a touch input unit which inputs a touch on the touch screen by the user;

a coordinate detection unit which detects coordinate information for the input touch;

a touch protection area determining unit which determines whether the input touch is in the touch protection area by using the coordinate information;

a touch protection execution unit which blocks the input touch when the input touch corresponds to the touch protection area when the set touch protection area is activated;

wherein the touch protection execution unit allows the input touch to activate an operable icon in the set touch protection area is deactivated.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the touch protection area setting unit sets the touch protection area by inputting a plurality of points on the touch screen and forming an area comprising the points as vertexes.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the touch protection area setting unit arbitrarily changes a size or a location of the touch protection area on the touch screen.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein when the size or the location of the touch protection area is changed, a size or a location of icons is adjusted so that the icons in an original touch area and the changed touch protection area do not overlap each other.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the touch protection area setting unit sets a plurality of touch protection areas on the touch screen.