Method and apparatus for defining overlay region of user interface control

• US 9,117,395 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2012
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Kyoung-Yong, Kim, Seung-Hyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Chu, David H
• Application Number:
  US13/451,155
• Publication Number:
  US 20120268487A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,223 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for defining an overlay region for an application in a user interface control region on a screen of a display in a mobile device. The application queries a platform about an overlay region desired to be generated based on a basic resolution set in the application. The platform calculates an approximate region satisfying an overlay region condition for the queried overlay region and informs the application of the approximate region. Thereafter, the application generates an overlay region corresponding to the approximate region, and the platform displays the generated overlay region on the screen.

Claims

1. A method of defining an overlay region for an application in a user interface control region on a screen of a display in a mobile device, the method comprising:

querying, by the application, a platform of the mobile device about an overlay region desired to be generated based on a basic resolution set in the application;

receiving an approximate region associated with the queried overlay region from the platform; and

generating an overlay region corresponding to the received approximate region,

wherein the approximate region is approximate to the queried overlay region among the regions satisfying an overlay region condition, and the overlay region condition includes restrictive conditions for processing an image of the overlay region.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the overlay region condition includes a condition restricted by a module for processing the image of the overlay region.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the overlay regions and the approximate region are defined by an X axis coordinate and a Y axis coordinate indicating a reference position within the user interface control region and a width and a height of a corresponding region, respectively.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the overlay region condition includes at least one of a condition limiting a width and a height of an overlay region after scaling performed according to a physical resolution of the mobile device and a condition limiting a reference position of the overlay region.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the approximate region is selected by one of the platform and the application from among a plurality of candidate approximate regions scaled from the queried overlay region according to the physical resolution of the mobile device and subsequently modified to satisfy the overlay preset condition.

6. A method of defining an overlay region for an application in a user interface control region on a screen of a display in a mobile device, the method comprising:

calculating, when a platform of the mobile device is queried about an overlay region desired to be generated based on a basic resolution set in the application from the application, an approximate region associated with the queried overlay region and informing the application of the approximate region; and

displaying, by the platform, when an overlay region corresponding to the approximate region is generated by the application, the generated overlay region on the screen of the display,

wherein the approximate region is approximate to the queried overlay region among the regions satisfying an overlay region condition, and the overlay region condition includes restrictive conditions for processing an image of the overlay region.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the overlay region condition includes a condition limited by a module for processing the image of the overlay region.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the overlay regions and the approximate region are defined by an X axis coordinate and a Y axis coordinate indicating a reference position within the user interface control region and a width and a height of a corresponding region, respectively.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the overlay region condition includes at least one of a condition limiting a width and a height of an overlay region after scaling performed according to a physical resolution of the mobile device and a condition limiting a reference position of the overlay region.

10. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the approximate region is selected by one of the platform and the application from among a plurality of candidate approximate regions scaled from the queried overlay region according to the physical resolution of the mobile device and subsequently modified to satisfy the overlay preset condition.

11. A method of defining an overlay region in a user interface control region on a screen of a display in a mobile device by an application, the method comprising:

querying, by the application, a platform of the mobile device about an overlay region desired to be generated based on a basic resolution set in the application;

calculating, by the platform, an approximate region associated with the queried overlay region and informing the application of the approximate region;

generating, by the application, an overlay region corresponding to the approximate region; and

displaying, by the platform, the generated overlay region on the screen,

wherein the approximate region is approximate to the queried overlay region among the regions satisfying an overlay region condition. and the overlay region condition includes restrictive conditions for processing an image of the overlay region.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the overlay region condition includes a condition limited by a module for processing the image of the overlay region.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the overlay regions and the approximate region are defined by an X axis coordinate and a Y axis coordinate indicating a reference position within the user interface control region and a width and a height of a corresponding region, respectively.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the overlay region condition includes at least one of a condition limiting a width and a height of an overlay region after scaling performed according to a physical resolution of the mobile device and a condition limiting a reference position of the overlay region.

15. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the approximate region is selected by one of the platform and the application from among a plurality of candidate approximate regions scaled from the queried overlay region according to the physical resolution of the mobile device and subsequently modified to satisfy the overlay preset condition.

16. An apparatus for defining an overlay region for an application in a user interface control region on a screen of a display in a mobile device, the apparatus comprising:

a controller configured to execute the application and a platform of the mobile device such that;

the application queries a platform of the mobile device about an overlay region desired to be generated based on a basic resolution set in the application,

the platform calculates an approximate region associated with the queried overlay region and informing the application of the approximate region, and

the application generates an overlay region corresponding to the approximate region; and

a display for displaying the generated overlay region on the screen,

wherein the approximate region is approximate to the queried overlay region among the regions satisfying an overlay region condition, and the overlay region condition includes restrictive conditions for processing an image of the overlay region.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the controller controls such that the application queries the platform about an overlay region desired to be generated based on a basic resolution set in the application, and the platform calculates the approximate region satisfying the overlay region condition for the queried overlay region and informs the application of the approximate region.

18. The apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the overlay region condition includes a condition limited by a module for processing the image of the overlay region.

19. The apparatus as claimed in claim 18, wherein the overlay regions and the approximate region are defined by an X axis coordinate and a Y axis coordinate indicating a reference position within the user interface control region and a width and a height of a corresponding region, respectively.

20. The apparatus as claimed in claim 19, wherein the overlay region condition includes at least one of a condition limiting a width and a height of an overlay region after scaling performed according to a physical resolution of the mobile device, and a condition limiting a reference position of the overlay region.

21. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the approximate region is selected by one of the platform and the application from among a plurality of candidate approximate regions scaled from the queried overlay region according to the physical resolution of the mobile device and subsequently modified to satisfy the overlay preset condition.