Multi display apparatus and multi display method

• US 9,696,899 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2013
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kwak, Ji-yeon, Kim, Dae-myung
• Primary Examiner(s): Song, Daeho
• Application Number:
  US14/050,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20140101579A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,363 Days
• Field of Search: 715761, 715702, 715863, 345173, 345659
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• 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 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• 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 multi display apparatus includes a first body including a first display, a second body including a second display, a hinge configured to rotatably connect the first body and the second body to support the first body and the second body, a sensor configured to sense a first user manipulation made in a nondecisive location of a nonstructured first screen displayed on the first display and to sense a second user manipulation made in a nondecisive location of a nonstructured second screen displayed on the second display, and a controller configured to combine the sensed first user manipulation and second user manipulation to perform an operation corresponding to a result of the combination.

Claims

1. A multi display apparatus comprising:

a first body comprising a first display;

a second body comprising a second display;

a hinge configured to rotatably connect the first body and the second body to support the first body and the second body;

a sensor configured to sense a first user manipulation made in a nondecisive location of a nonstructured first screen displayed on the first display and to sense a second user manipulation made in a nondecisive location of a nonstructured second screen displayed on the second display; and

a controller configured to combine the sensed first user manipulation on the first screen and the sensed second user manipulation on the second screen to perform an operation corresponding to a result of the combination,

wherein a result of the second user manipulation is modified by the first user manipulation which is made while the second user manipulation is performed,

wherein the result of the second user manipulation is obtained identically regardless of a location of the first user manipulation and a location of the second user manipulation made respectively on the nonstructured first screen and the nonstructured second screen.

2. The multi display apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the controller changes a function matching the second user manipulation according to the first user manipulation; and

the controller performs an operation corresponding to the second user manipulation according to the changed function, when the second user manipulation is sensed.

3. The multi display apparatus of claim 2, wherein:

the second user manipulation is a line input by a drag operation, and;

the controller increases a thickness or transparency of the line input of the second user manipulation when the first user manipulation is a pinch out input;

the controller decreases a thickness or transparency of the line input of the second user manipulation when the first user manipulation is a pinch in input; and

the controller changes a texture or thickness of the line input of the second user manipulation when the first user manipulation is a touch and rotate input.

4. The multi display apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the first user manipulation is a touch and hold input and the second user manipulation is a touch input; and

the controller displays a menu corresponding to the second user manipulation when the first user manipulation and the second user manipulation are sensed at the same time.

5. The multi display apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the controller changes the second screen displayed on the second display according to the first user manipulation when the first user manipulation is sensed; and

the controller displays the second screen changed by the first user manipulation according to the second user manipulation, when the second user manipulation is sensed.

6. The multi display apparatus of claim 5, wherein:

the controller expands the second screen displayed on the second display when the first user manipulation is a pinch out input;

the controller reduces the second screen displayed on the second display when the first user manipulation is a pinch in input; and

the controller rotates the second screen displayed on the second display when the first user manipulation is a touch and rotate input.

8. The multi display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first user manipulation is an input proximate to or touching the first display using a user'"'"'s body, and the second user manipulation is an input proximate to or touching the second display using an input pen.

7. A multi display apparatus comprising:

a first body comprising a first display;

a second body comprising a second display;

a hinge configured to rotatably connect the first body and the second body to support the first body and the second body;

a sensor configured to sense a first user manipulation made in a nondecisive location of the first display and a second user manipulation made in a nondecisive location of the second display, when the first display and the second display respectively display a nonstructured first screen and a nonstructured second screen; and

a controller configured to combine the sensed first user manipulation on the first screen and second user manipulation on the second screen to recognize the combination as one user gesture, and to display an execution screen corresponding to the one user gesture on at least one of the first display and the second display,

wherein a result of the second user manipulation is modified by the first user manipulation which is made while the second user manipulation is performed,

wherein the result is obtained identically regardless of a location of the first user manipulation and a location of the second user manipulation made respectively on the nonstructured first screen and nonstructured second screen.

9. A multi display method of a multi display apparatus comprising a first body comprising a first display, a second body comprising a second display, and a hinge configured to rotatably connect the first body and the second body to support the first body and the second body, the multi display method comprising:

displaying a nonstructured first screen on the first display;

displaying a nonstructured second screen on the second display;

sensing a first user manipulation made in a nondecisive location on the first screen and a second user manipulation made in a nondecisive location on the second screen; and

combining the sensed first user manipulation on the first screen and the sensed second user manipulation on the second screen and performing an operation corresponding to a result of the combination,

wherein a result of the second user manipulation is modified by the first user manipulation which is made while the second user manipulation is performed,

wherein the result of the second user manipulation is obtained identically regardless of a location of the first user manipulation and a location of the second user manipulation made respectively on the nonstructured first screen and the nonstructured second screen.

10. The multi display method of claim 9, wherein performing the operation comprises:

changing a function matching the second user manipulation according to the first user manipulation; and

performing an operation corresponding to the second user manipulation according to the changed function when the second user manipulation is sensed.

11. The multi display method of claim 10, wherein:

the second user manipulation is a line input by a drag operation; and

changing the function comprises;

increasing a thickness of the line input of the second user manipulation when the first user manipulation is a pinch out input;

reducing a thickness of the line input of the second user manipulation when the first user manipulation is a pinch in input; and

changing a texture of the line input of the second user manipulation when the first user manipulation is a touch and rotate input.

12. The multi display method of claim 9, wherein:

the first user manipulation is a touch and hold input and the second user manipulation is a touch input; and

performing the operation comprises;

displaying a menu corresponding to the second user manipulation when the first user manipulation and the second user manipulation are sensed at the same time.

13. The multi display method of claim 9, further comprising:

changing the second screen displayed on the second display according to the first user manipulation when the first user manipulation is sensed,

wherein performing the operation comprises;

displaying the second screen changed by the first user manipulation according to the second user manipulation, when the second user manipulation is sensed.

14. The multi display method of claim 13, wherein changing the second screen comprises:

expanding the second screen displayed on the second display when the first user manipulation is a pinch out input;

reducing the second screen displayed on the second display when the first user manipulation is a pinch in input; and

rotating the second screen displayed on the second display when the first user manipulation is a touch and rotate input.

15. A multi display method of a multi display apparatus comprising a first body comprising a first display, a second body comprising a second display, and a hinge configured to rotatably connect the first body and the second body to support the first body and the second body, the multi display method comprising:

sensing a first user manipulation made in a nondecisive location of a nonstructured first screen displayed on the first display;

sensing a second user manipulation made in a nondecisive location of a nonstructured second screen displayed on the second display;

combining the sensed first user manipulation on the first screen and second user manipulation on the second screen to recognize the combination as one user gesture; and

displaying an execution screen corresponding to the one user gesture on at least one of the first display and the second display,

wherein a result of the second user manipulation is modified by the first user manipulation which is made while the second user manipulation is performed,

wherein the result is obtained identically regardless of a location of the first user manipulation and a location of the second user manipulation made respectively on the nonstructured first screen and the nonstructured second screen.

16. The multi display method of claim 15, wherein the first user manipulation is an input proximate to or touching the first display using a user'"'"'s body, and the second user manipulation is an input proximate to or touching the second display using an input pen.