Display apparatus, UI display method thereof and computer-readable recording medium

• US 9,465,447 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2013
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Dae-Hyun, Yoon, Yeo-ri, Kim, Han-soo, Lee, Chang-soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Phantana Angkool, David
• Application Number:
  US14/104,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20140195985A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,034 Days
• Field of Search: 715/856
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A display apparatus which corrects input characters by moving a cursor in word units is provided. The display apparatus includes a communication interface configured to receive a control command for a character input from a control device, a display configured to display characters corresponding to the control command, and a controller configured to control the display to move a cursor in word units when a correction command to correct the displayed characters is received.

Claims

1. A display apparatus which is configured to receive a signal from a control device, the display apparatus comprising:

a communication interface configured to receive input signals from the control device;

a display configured to display a sentence comprising a plurality of words corresponding to the received input signal; and

a controller configured to control the display to move a cursor in word units within the sentence if it is determined that a received input signal is a horizontal moving input signal, and to control the display to replace a word where the cursor is located with input characters if it is determined that the received input signal is a character input signal.

2. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display displays a user interface (UI) window including a first region configured to display the characters corresponding to the received input signal, and a second region configured to display an on-screen keypad for character input.

3. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display displays a selected character in the first region when a character on the on-screen keypad is selected.

4. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display displays a region of one of the first region and the second region which is currently being selected with a highlight and displays a first word of the first region with a highlight when a highlighted region moves to the first region.

5. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display displays a region of one of the first region and the second region which is currently being selected with a highlight and moves the highlight in word units when the horizontal moving input signal is received from the control device in a state in which the highlight is displayed in a specific word of the first region.

6. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein, when an input of characters is received in a state in which the highlight is displayed in the specific word of the first region, the controller controls the display to replace the word displayed with the highlight with input characters.

7. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the controller controls the display to move the cursor in character units when a selection command is received in a state in which the highlight is displayed in the specific word of the first region.

8. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the on-screen keypad comprises a word moving region configured to move the cursor horizontally in word units.

9. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the on-screen keypad has a QWERTY keyboard layout.

10. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display to move the cursor in word units only when the characters being displayed in the display are more than a preset number of words.

11. A display apparatus, comprising:

a user manipulator configured to receive input signals;

a display configured to display a sentence comprising a plurality of words corresponding to the received input signals; and

a controller configured to control the display to move a cursor in word units within the sentence if it is determined that a received input signal is a horizontal moving input signal, and to control the display to replace a word where the cursor is located with input characters if it is determined that the received input signal is a character input signal.

12. A method of displaying a user interface (UI) of a display apparatus which is configured to receive a signal from a control device, the method comprising:

receiving input signals from the control device;

displaying a sentence comprising a plurality of words corresponding to the received input signal;

moving a cursor in word units within the sentence if it is determined that a received input signal is a horizontal moving input signal; and

replacing a word where the cursor is located with input characters if it is determined that the received input signal is a character input signal.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the displaying comprises displaying a UI window including a first region configured to display the characters corresponding to the received input signal, and a second region configured to display an on-screen keypad for character input.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the displaying comprises displaying a selected character in the first region when a character on the on-screen keypad is selected.

15. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the displaying includes displaying a region of one of the first region and the second region currently being selected with a highlight and displaying a first word of the first region with a highlight when a highlighted region moves to the first region.

16. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the displaying includes displaying a region of one of the first region and the second region which is currently being selected with a highlight and the moving includes moving a highlight in word units when the horizontal moving input signal is received from the control device in a state in which the highlight is displayed in a specific word of the first region.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein, when an input of characters is received in a state in which a specific word of the first region is displayed with the highlight, the replacing includes replacing and displaying the selected specific word with input characters.

18. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the moving includes moving the cursor in character units when a selection command is received in a state in which the specific word of the first region is displayed with the highlight.

19. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the on-screen keypad comprises a word moving region configured to move the cursor horizontally in word units.

20. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the on-screen keypad has a QWERTY keyboard layout.

21. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the moving includes moving the cursor in word units when the characters being displayed are more than preset words and moving the cursor in character units when the characters being displayed are less than a preset number of words.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing a user interface (UI) display method, the UI display method comprising:

receiving input signals from a control device;

displaying a sentence comprising a plurality of words corresponding to the received input signal;

moving a cursor in word units if it is determined that a received input signal is a horizontal moving input signal; and

replacing a word where the cursor is located with input characters if it is determined that the received input signal is a character input signal.