Method and apparatus for displaying screen of mobile terminal with touch screen

• US 8,670,003 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2011
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Seung Myung
• Primary Examiner(s): Richer, Joni
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wang, Yi
• Application Number:
  US13/312,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20120147049A1
• Time in Patent Office: 826 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A method and apparatus for displaying a screen of a mobile terminal with a touch screen are provided. The method for displaying an edit screen of a mobile terminal with a touch screen, includes: displaying at least one item having the same size on an idle screen in an idle mode; receiving edit mode entry input for editing the at least one item; and setting sizes of respective items to different ones according to location of the items within the touch screen during an edit mode for display.

Claims

1. A method for displaying an edit screen of a mobile terminal having a touch screen, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of items in the same size on the touch screen at first respective positions during an idle mode;

receiving a request for an edit mode; and

during the edit mode, adjusting the size of respective items differently according to location of the items, and displaying the respective items with size adjusted in approximately the first positions thereof.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the items are arranged into at least one row and at least one column.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein adjusting the respective item size comprises setting the size of the items arranged in the same row as same.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein adjusting the respective item size comprises setting the size of the items arranged in each row differently from each other.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein adjusting the respective item size comprises setting the size of items arranged in an upper row to be smaller than a lower row.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving a movement input for a particular item;

relocating the item according to the received movement input to a new location; and

setting a size of the moved item to be identical with that of size preset at the new location.

7. The terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller simultaneously displays the items reflecting light corresponding to the items or providing a shade lower ends of respective items during the edit mode.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the respective item size comprises simultaneously displaying the items on the edit screen and reflected light corresponding to the items or providing a shade at lower ends of respective items.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of items are displayed arranged in at least first and second rows at the first respective positions;

and

further comprising displaying, in the edit mode, all the items in the first row tilted at the same angle with respect to all of the items in the second row.

10. A method for displaying an edit screen of a mobile terminal having a touch screen the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of items in the same size on the touch screen during an idle mode;

receiving a request for an edit mode; and

adjusting the size of respective items differently according to location of the items during the edit mode for display;

wherein the screen comprises a background layer and an item layer running parallel to each other, wherein adjusting the respective item size comprises inclining the item layer including the items at a first angle in a first direction from the background layer during the edit mode.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein inclining the item layer comprises inclining respective items included in the item layer in a second direction by the first angle, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.

12. A terminal for displaying a plurality of items, comprising:

a touch screen unit displaying the items during an idle mode or an edit mode; and

a controller displaying the items in the same size during the idle mode at respective first positions, and. during the edit mode, adjusting the size of respective items differently according to location of the items, and displaying the respective items with size adjusted in approximately the first positions thereof.

13. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the items are arranged into at least one row and at least one column.

14. The terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller sets the size of the items arranged in the same row as same for display during the edit mode.

15. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the controller sets the size of the items arranged in different rows differently for display during the edit mode.

16. The terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller sets the size of the items arranged in an upper row to be smaller than a lower row for display during the edit mode.

17. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the touch screen comprises a background layer and an item layer which are parallel to each other, wherein the controller inclines and displays the item layer including the items at a first angle in a first direction from on the background layer during the edit mode.

18. The terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller inclines and displays respective items included in the item layer in a second direction by the first angle, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.

19. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller relocates a particular item according a movement input to a new location, and sets a size of the moved item to be identical with that of size preset at the new location.

20. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the plurality of items are displayed arranged in at least first and second rows at the first respective positions;

and in the edit mode, all the items in the first row are displayed tilted at the same angle with respect to all of the items in the second row.