User terminal, electronic device, and control method thereof

• US 9,582,150 B2
• Filed: 03/20/2013
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jin, Young-kyu, Rhee, Young-ho, Jang, Young-shil, Chang, Il-ku
• Primary Examiner(s): NABI, REZA U
• Application Number:
  US14/385,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20150089451A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,441 Days
• Field of Search: 715/841
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/211 producing three-dimensional [3D] effects, e.g. stereoscopic images
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2400/92 Driver displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A photographing device is provided, including a photographing unit, an image processor which separates an object from a first photographing image obtained by the photographing unit, a display which displays background live view on which the separated object is superimposed, and a controller which obtains a second photographing image corresponding to the background live view when a command to shoot a background is input, and generates a composite image by adding the separated object onto the second photographing image. Accordingly, a composite image may be easily generated.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a user terminal, the method comprising:

when an external apparatus providing a UI screen is connected, providing a touch mode where a touch manipulation to navigate menu items provided on the UI screen is input; and

when a predetermined touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, transmitting information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus,

wherein the information corresponding to the input touch manipulation is at least one of a number of touch manipulations and a number of touch points input at a time, and

wherein the number of touch manipulations navigates a depth of the menu items and the number of touch points input at a time navigates menu items provided in a same depth.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving information regarding the UI screen from the external apparatus; and

when a touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, comparing information corresponding to the input touch manipulation with the received information regarding the UI screen,

wherein the transmitting information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus comprises transmitting information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus according to a result of the comparison.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the information regarding the UI screen comprises information regarding an item currently selected on a menu provided on the UI screen and a number of sub menu items of the selected menu item.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the comparing information corresponding to the input touch manipulation with the received information regarding the UI screen comprises comparing the number of touch points with the number of sub menu items of the selected menu item.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein if the number of touch points exceeds the number of sub menu items of the selected menu item based on the comparison result, an error message is output, and if the number of touch points does not exceed a number of sub menu items of the selected menu item, the number of touch points is transmitted to the external apparatus.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the external apparatus comprises a center fascia screen apparatus of a vehicle.

7. A method for controlling an electronic apparatus which is external to and interlocked with a user terminal, the method comprising:

providing a UI screen;

performing connection with a user terminal which provides a touch mode where a predetermined touch manipulation to navigate menu items provided on the UI screen is input;

receiving information corresponding to a touch manipulation input in a touch mode of the user terminal; and

navigating menu items provided on the UI screen according to the received information,

wherein the information corresponding to the touch manipulation is at least one of a number of touch manipulations and a number of touch points input at a time, and

wherein the number of touch manipulations navigates a depth of the menu items and the number of touch points input at a time navigates menu items provided in a same depth.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the electronic apparatus comprises a center fascia screen apparatus of a vehicle.

9. A user terminal, comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus providing a UI screen;

a display unit configured to provide a touch mode where a touch manipulation to navigate menu items provided on the UI screen is input; and

a controller configured to,

when it is connected to the external apparatus, provide the touch mode, and

when a predetermined touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, control to transmit information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus,

wherein the information corresponding to the input touch manipulation is at least one of a number of touch manipulations and a number of touch points input at a time, and

wherein the number of touch manipulations navigates a depth of the menu items and the number of touch points input at a time navigates menu items provided in a same depth.

10. The user terminal as claimed in claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to, when information regarding the UI screen is received from the external apparatus and a touch manipulation is input in the touch mode, control to compare information corresponding to the input touch manipulation with the received information regarding the UI screen and transmit information corresponding to the input touch manipulation to the external apparatus.

11. The user terminal as claimed in claim 10, wherein the information regarding the UI screen comprises information regarding an item which is currently selected on a menu provided on the UI screen and a number of sub menu items of the selected menu item.

12. An electronic apparatus which is external to and interlocked with a user terminal, the electronic apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to provide a UI screen;

a communication unit configured to communicate with the user terminal providing a touch mode where a predetermined touch manipulation to navigate menu items provided on the UI screen is input; and

a controller configured to, when information corresponding to a touch manipulation input in a touch mode of the user terminal is received, navigate menu items provided on the UI screen according to the received information,

wherein the information corresponding to the touch manipulation is at least one of a number of touch manipulations and a number of touch points input at a time, and

wherein the number of touch manipulations navigates a depth of the menu items and the number of touch points input at a time navigates menu items provided in a same depth.