Method for moving object between pages and interface apparatus

• US 9,898,164 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2011
• Issued: 02/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Tae-young, Lee, Yeon-hee, Cha, Sang-ok, Park, Min-kyu
• Primary Examiner(s): Ipakchi, Maryam
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chung, Mong-Shune
• Application Number:
  US13/333,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166987A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,253 Days
• Field of Search: 715765, 715794
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• 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 3/0486 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/60 Shadow generation

Abstract

A method and apparatus for moving an object between pages is provided. The method includes displaying a first page including an object; generating a first signal in response to the object on the first page being moved to a predetermined area of the first page; displaying a plurality of pages, including the first page, in response to the first signal; generating a second signal in response to the object being moved to overlap with a second page; and moving the object to the second page in response to the second signal.

Claims

1. A method of moving an object between pages of a screen, the method comprising:

presenting a first page in a first size on the screen, wherein the first page includes a plurality of objects and is one of a plurality of pages;

in response to a first touch input with respect to one object of the plurality of objects, moving the one object to an edge portion of the screen on which the first page is presented;

wherein moving the one object to the edge portion of the screen causes all of the plurality of pages, including the first page and a second page, which overlap one another, to be presented in a reduced size with at least a portion of contents of the all of the plurality of pages being visible and presented inclined in a depth direction;

in response to a second touch input with respect to the one object moved to the edge portion of the screen, moving the one object to the second page while the all of the plurality of pages overlap one another in the reduced size; and

presenting only the second page on the screen after the object is moved to the second page,

wherein the second page is presented as one page in the first size on the screen, and

wherein a plane of the plurality of pages intersects the screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second page including the object is presented when a time during which the object moved by the second touch is presented on the second page is longer than a predetermined time.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second touch of the object is maintained until the object is presented on the second page.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is moved to the edge portion of the screen on which the first page is presented, in response to touching the object for more than a first critical time, dragging the touched object to a predetermined area, and holding the object on the predetermined area for more than a second critical time.

5. An interface apparatus for moving an object between pages of a screen, the apparatus comprising:

a controller for;

presenting a first page in a first size on the screen, wherein the first page includes a plurality of objects and is one of a plurality of pages,

in response to a first touch input with respect to one object of the plurality of objects, moving the one object to an edge portion of the screen on which the first page is presented, wherein moving the one object to the edge portion of the screen causes all of the plurality of pages, including the first page and a second page, which overlap one another, to be presented in a reduced size with at least a portion of contents of the all of the plurality of pages being visible and presented inclined in a depth direction,

moving the one object to the second page while the all of the plurality of pages overlap one another in the reduced size, in response to a second touch input with respect to the one object moved to the edge portion of the screen, and

presenting only the second page on the screen after the object is moved to the second page,

wherein the second page is presented as one page in the first size on the screen, and wherein a plane of the plurality of pages intersects the screen; and

a display for displaying the screen including at least one of the plurality of pages.

6. The interface apparatus of claim 5, wherein the second page including the object is presented when a time during which the object is moved by the second touch is presented on the second page is longer than a predetermined time.

7. The interface apparatus of claim 5, wherein the second touch input is maintained until the object is presented on the second page.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a computer-readable program for executing a method of moving an object between pages of a screen, the method comprising:

presenting a first page in a first size on the screen, wherein the first page includes a plurality of objects and is one of a plurality of pages;

in response to a first touch input with respect to one object of the plurality of objects, moving the one object to an edge portion of the screen on which the first page is presented;

wherein moving the one object to the edge portion of the screen causes all of the plurality of pages, including the first page and a second page, which overlap one another, to be presented in a reduced size with at least a portion of contents of the all of the plurality of pages being visible and presented inclined in a depth direction;

in response to a second touch input with respect to the one object moved to the edge portion of the screen, moving the one object to overlap the second page while the all of the plurality of pages overlap one another in the reduced size; and

presenting only the second page on the screen after the object is moved to the second page,

wherein the second page is presented as one page in the first size on the screen, and wherein a plane of the plurality of pages intersects the screen.