Mobile device and method of controlling screen thereof

• US 8,982,072 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Ji Hoon, Sim, Sang Hyun, Seo, Bo Yle, Oh, Yoon Seok
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, VIET DAVID
• Application Number:
  US13/535,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20130285933A1
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

There are provided a mobile device and a method of controlling a screen of the mobile device. The mobile device includes: a display unit including an effective display area for displaying a screen; a touch screen panel including a plurality of sensing electrodes; and a control unit detecting a touch input based on a sensing signal generated from the plurality of sensing electrodes and controlling the screen displayed by the display unit, wherein when the touch input corresponds to a previously set first input gesture, the control unit controls such that a size of the screen is reduced at a predetermined first ratio and the reduced screen is only displayed in a portion of the effective display area.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

a display unit including an effective display area for displaying a screen;

a touch screen panel including a plurality of sensing electrodes; and

a control unit detecting a touch input based on a sensing signal generated from the plurality of sensing electrodes and controlling the screen displayed by the display unit,

when the touch input corresponds to a previously set first input gesture, the control unit controls reduction of a size of the screen, which is displayed, at a predetermined first ratio and the reduced size of the screen is only displayed in a portion of the effective display area,

the control unit determines a position of the portion of the effective display area in which the reduced size of the screen, which is displayed, at the predetermined first ratio, and the predetermined first ratio is based on at least two of direction information of the touch input corresponding to the first input gesture, coordinates of a point at which the touch input starts, and coordinates of a point at which the touch input ends.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit converts an operation of at least some of the sensing electrodes corresponding to a remaining area portion except the portion in which the reduced size of the screen at the first ratio is displayed, into a sleep mode.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls such that when a touch input that is different from the first input gesture and corresponds to a previously set second input gesture is detected, a size of the screen is converted at a second ratio that is different from the first ratio and displayed.

4. The mobile device of claim 3, wherein the size of the screen converted at the second ratio corresponds to a size of an entire effective display area of the display unit.

5. The mobile device of claim 3, wherein the first input gesture and the second input gesture include swipe gestures including unique directional information and unique length information.

6. The mobile device of claim 5, wherein the direction information of the first input gesture and the direction information of the second input gesture are opposite to each other.

7. The mobile device of claim 6, wherein the first input gesture includes direction information corresponding to one of a clockwise direction and a counter-clockwise direction.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the portion of the effective display area in which the reduced size of the screen at the predetermined first ratio corresponds to an area in which a user may apply the touch input using one hand.

14. The mobile device of claim 1,

wherein the predetermined first ratio is based on at least the coordinates of the point at which the touch input starts, which corresponds with a lower center portion of the screen, and the coordinates of the point at which the touch input ends, which corresponds with a position above the point at which the touch input starts and that is one of:

right of the point at which the touch input starts and left of the point at which the touch input starts, and

wherein the touch input is a swipe gesture that forms an arc between the point at which the touch input starts and the point at which the touch input ends.

15. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the predetermined first ratio is determined based on coordinates of the first touch input gesture being at a lower edge of the display unit.

9. A method of controlling a screen of a mobile device, the method comprising:

sensing a touch input based on a sensing signal generated from a plurality of sensing electrodes;

determining whether the touch input corresponds to a previously set first input gesture;

when the touch input corresponds to the first input gesture, the display unit controls reduction of a size of a screen displayed on a display unit at a predetermined first ratio and the reduced size of the screen is only displayed in a portion of an effective display area of the display unit; and

determining a position of the portion of the effective display area in which the reduced size of the screen displayed on the display unit at the predetermined first ratio and determining the predetermined first ratio are determined based on at least two of direction information of the touch input corresponding to the first input gesture, coordinates of a point at which the touch input starts, and coordinates of a point at which the touch input ends.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein in the controlling, the screen is controlled to only be displayed in the portion of the effective display area in which a user applies the touch input using one hand.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising converting operations of a driving line and a data line of the display unit corresponding to a remaining area except the portion of the display unit in which the reduced size of the screen displayed on the display unit at the predetermined first ratio is displayed, into a sleep mode.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising converting an operation of some of the sensing electrodes corresponding to the remaining area except the portion of the effective display area in which the reduced size of the screen displayed on the display unit at the predetermined first ratio is displayed, into a sleep mode.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising, when a touch input corresponding to a second input gesture that is different from the first input gesture is sensed, converting a size of the screen at a second ratio that is different from the first ratio and displaying the screen.