Method and apparatus for displaying lists

• US 9,323,427 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2011
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Jae Myung, Kim, Yu Sic, Lee, Eun Ju, Yu, Seock Hyun, Kwon, Giang Yoon, Yang, Chang Mo, Lee, Bo Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Duong, Hien
• Application Number:
  US13/270,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20120144342A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,659 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A list display method and apparatus are disclosed. The list display method, for a terminal having a display unit, includes detecting a necessity for displaying a list, classifying list items into viewable items and aggregated items, displaying the viewable items in the list view region and displaying information regarding the aggregated items in the list aggregate region. Responsive to inputs aggregate items may be classified as viewable items and corresponding ones of the viewable items are classified as aggregate items.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

classifying, by a processor, a first set of one or more items in a list as viewable items and a second set of one or more other items in the list as aggregated items;

displaying, on a display unit, a view region, wherein displaying the view region includes displaying the viewable items; and

displaying, on the display unit, an aggregate region representing at least some of the aggregated items;

wherein the list is organized in an order and displaying the aggregate region includes;

(i) displaying in full an aggregated item that is last in the order; and

(ii) displaying partially, between the aggregated item that is last in the order and the view region, one or more other aggregated items; and

wherein the aggregated item that is last in the order is displayed in a brightness of color that is based on a count of the aggregated items represented by the aggregate region.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the aggregate region includes displaying the aggregated item that is last in the order at a tilt relative to the view region, the tilt creating a visual appearance of the aggregated item receding away from the view region and a point of view of any person viewing the view region on the display unit.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the aggregate region includes displaying at least some of the other aggregated items in a stacked arrangement.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the aggregate region is displayed based on the order.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the aggregate region includes displaying only one aggregate region together with the view region, the aggregate region representing fewer than all of the aggregated items.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the aggregate region comprises drawing lines based on the count of the aggregated items represented by the aggregate region.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein an area of the aggregate region is proportional to the count of the aggregated items represented by the aggregate region.

8. An electronic device comprising a display unit and a processor, the processor being configured to:

classify a first set of one or more items in a list as viewable items and a second set of one or more other items in the list as aggregated items;

display, on the display unit, a view region, wherein displaying the view region includes displaying the viewable items; and

display, on the display unit, an aggregate region representing at least some of the aggregated items;

wherein the list is organized in an order and displaying the aggregate region includes;

(i) displaying in full an aggregated item that is last in the order; and

(ii) displaying partially, between the aggregated item that is last in the order and the view region, one or more other aggregated items; and

wherein the aggregated item that is last in the order is displayed in a brightness of color that is based on a count of the aggregated items represented by the aggregate region.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein displaying the aggregate region includes displaying an aggregated item that is last in the order at a tilt relative to the view region, the tilt creating a visual appearance of the aggregated item receding away from the view region and a point of view of any person viewing the view region on the display unit.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein displaying the aggregate region includes displaying at least some of the other aggregated items in a stacked arrangement.

11. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the aggregate region is displayed based on the order.

12. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein displaying the aggregate region includes displaying only one aggregate region together with the view region, the aggregate region representing fewer than all of the aggregated items.

13. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein displaying the aggregate region comprises drawing lines based on the count of the aggregated items represented by the aggregate region.

14. The electronic device of claim 8, The electronic device of claim 10 wherein an area of the aggregate region is proportional to the count of the aggregated items represented by the aggregate region.