Method and apparatus for editing screen of mobile device having touch screen

• US 9,395,899 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2012
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Yu Sic, Kim, Kyu Sung, Wang, Jee Yeun, Yang, Hui Chul, Kwon, Joong Hun
• Primary Examiner(s): ULRICH, NICHOLAS S
• Application Number:
  US13/432,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20120304084A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,574 Days
• Field of Search: 715/762, 715/761, 715/769, 715/810, 715/826, 715/815, 715/835, 715/747
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for editing a screen of a mobile device having a touch screen. In an idle mode, the mobile device displays an item display region containing at least one item on an idle screen. In an edit mode, the mobile device displays an edit command region containing at least one predetermined edit command on an edit screen. When a first item contained in the item display region is moved to the edit command region, the mobile device executes the predetermined edit command assigned to a moved position of the edit command region.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying, in an idle mode, two regions comprising a first region and a second region having a predetermined size and containing one or more items, wherein the second region is adjacent to the first region;

in response to activating an edit mode, reducing the predetermined size of the first region and the one or more items contained therein in which the one or more items remain visible in a reduced size, and displaying a third region having a command object and visually distinguished from the first region and the second region by being spaced apart from the first region and the second region;

in response to detecting movement of one item of the one or more items from the first region to the command object of the third region, executing a command assigned to the command object regarding the one item,

wherein when the third region includes a folder creation command, creating a new folder icon in the third region when one item of the one or more items in the first region is moved to the third region;

registering and displaying the first item moved from the first region as a sub-item of the created folder icon; and

when a quit command is detected, displaying of the created folder icon in a current page of an edit screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in the edit mode the first region is displayed with only a single frame of a current page in its entirety.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a visual characteristic of the command object of the third region changes when the one item of the one or more items is moved to the command object of the third region.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the visual characteristic of the command object of the third region changes during the execution of the one item moved to the command object of the third region.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a visual boundary is displayed between the first region and the third region in the edit mode.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a first visual boundary is displayed between the first region and the third region, and a second visual boundary is displayed between the first region and the second region in the edit mode.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein in the edit mode the predetermined size of the second region is maintained.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the command object comprises item deletion command object.

9. An electronic device comprising:

a display unit; and

a control unit configured to;

control the display unit to display, in an idle mode, two regions comprising a first region and a second region having a predetermined size and containing one or more items, wherein the second region is adjacent to the first region;

in response to activating an edit mode, reduce the predetermined size of the first region and the one or more items contained therein in which the one or more items remain visible in a reduced size, and control the display unit to display a third region having a command object and visually distinguished from the first region and the second region by being spaced apart from the first region and the second region; and

in response to detected movement of one item of the one or more items from the first region to the third region, execute a command assigned to the command object regarding the one item,

wherein when the command object includes a folder creation command, a new folder icon is created in the third region in response to the one item being moved to the third region;

wherein the one item is a sub-item of the created folder icon; and

in response to receiving a quit command, the created folder icon is displayed in a current page of an edit screen.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein in the edit mode a size of the first region is displayed with only a single frame of a current page in its entirety.

11. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein a visual characteristic of the command object of the third region changes when the one item of the one or more items is moved to the command object of the third region.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the visual characteristic of the command object of the third region changes during the execution of the one item moved to the command object of the third region.

13. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein a visual boundary is displayed between the first region and the third region in the edit mode.

14. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein a first visual boundary is displayed between the first region and the third region, and a second visual boundary is displayed between the first region and the second region in the edit mode.

15. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein in the edit mode the predetermined size of the second region is maintained.

16. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the command object comprises item deletion command object.