Method and apparatus for controlling detailed information display for selected area using dynamic touch interaction

• US 9,495,092 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2012
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Yeon Ji, Cho, Sung Tae
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Gene W
• Application Number:
  US13/527,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20130154962A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,609 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-183, 715/808, 715/863
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A method and apparatus configured to control the level of detailed information displayed for a selected area using a dynamic touch interaction in a mobile terminal including a touch screen, are provided. The apparatus include a memory that stores contents to be output through the touch screen as data, a touch interaction module that analyzes a user'"'"'s touch input through the touch screen and recognizes a stipulated touch interaction, and a control unit that controls an overall operation of the apparatus according to the user'"'"'s input through the touch screen. The control unit also controls the level of subordinate detailed information displayed in an area, which is designated by the user through a stipulated touch input, to be displayed when the stipulated touch input is recognized through the touch interaction module, based on the data stored in the memory.

Claims

1. An apparatus for controlling an amount of detailed information displayed in a selected area using dynamic touch interaction in a mobile terminal including a touch screen, the apparatus comprising:

a memory configured to store contents to be output through the touch screen as data;

a touch interaction module configured to analyze a user'"'"'s touch input through the touch screen and identify a stipulated touch interaction; and

a control unit configured to control an overall operation of the apparatus according to the user'"'"'s input through the touch screen, and control an amount of subordinate detailed information to be displayed in an area on the touch screen based on a stipulated touch input by the user when the stipulated touch input is identified by the touch interaction module, based on the data stored in the memory,

wherein a response of the overall operation of the apparatus differs based on an interaction between the stipulated touch input by the user and a varying amount of subordinate detailed information displayed in the area on the touch screen, and

wherein the memory is a phased detailed information storage unit that divides and stores detailed point of interest (POI) information for the contents to be output through the touch screen based on a control command from the control unit based on depth levels and content information corresponding to a depth level according to executing the user'"'"'s stipulated touch input is configured to be separately stored in a plurality of storage areas in the storage unit which is allocated based on the depth levels.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the touch interaction module is embodied within the control unit.

3. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions executed by a processor or controller, the computer readable medium comprising:

program instructions that recognize touch input of a first pattern input through a touch screen, by a touch module;

program instructions that detect an interaction depth of the first touch input when the touch input of the first pattern is recognized;

program instructions that read out detailed point of interest (POI) information of depth levels corresponding to the interaction depth detected from the detecting an interaction depth of the touch input; and

program instructions that output contents of information read from the detailed POI information on the touch screen based upon the corresponding interaction depth detected,

wherein program instructions that detect the interaction depth differ based on determining the interaction depth by generalizing a number of executed touch inputs of the first pattern, a drag distance, a magnitude of a pressure detected on the touch panel and a varying amount of subordinate detailed information displayed in an area on the touch screen, and

wherein the contents of the program instructions that read out detailed point of interest (POI) information are based on dividing by the control unit the detailed POI information based on the depth levels and separately storing the divided detailed POI information to a plurality of storage areas.

4. A method of controlling detailed information display for a selected area using dynamic touch interaction in a mobile terminal including a memory that stores contents to be output through a touch screen as data, and a control unit that controls contents according to a user command to be output based on the data stored in the memory, the method comprising:

recognizing touch input of a first pattern input through the touch screen, by a touch module;

detecting, by a control unit, an interaction depth of the first touch input when the touch input of the first pattern is recognized;

reading out detailed point of interest (POI) information, via the control unit, of depth levels corresponding to the interaction depth detected from the detecting an interaction depth of the touch input; and

outputting, by the control unit, contents of the information read from the detailed POI information on the touch screen,

wherein the detecting an interaction depth differ based on determining the interaction depth by generalizing a number of executed touch inputs of the first pattern, a drag distance, a magnitude of a pressure detected on the touch panel and a varying amount of subordinate detailed information displayed in the selected area on the touch screen, and

wherein the contents of the information read from the detailed POI information are based on dividing by the control unit the detailed POI information based on the depth levels and separately storing the divided detailed POI information to a plurality of storage areas.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the contents output on the touch screen are configured as navigational information,

the detailed POI information includes at least one of geographic information, location information, and building information of a main building or a place included in the area selected by the touch input of the first pattern.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the contents output on the touch screen includes a menu list of information,

the detailed POI information includes subordinate item information included in the area selected by the touch input of the first pattern.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the touch input of the first input is executed by dragging or flicking at least one touch point.

8. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

inputting a touch input of a second pattern in which two pointers touched on a screen of the touch screen are dragged closer each other; and

detecting an interaction depth of the second touch input when the touch input of the second pattern is recognized,

wherein reading out contents includes reading out detailed POI information of a super ordinate depth level corresponding to the interaction depth of the second pattern from the memory when the touch input of the second pattern is recognized.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the touch input of the first pattern includes selecting an area with two pointers that are touched by the user on the touch screen.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the touch input of the first pattern includes defining an area having a radius that is distance from a first touch point in the center of the content to a second touch point when a second touch pointer touches on the screen of the touch screen within a predetermined time from when the first pointer touches the touch screen.