Apparatus and method for processing displayed information in portable terminal

• US 9,921,738 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2014
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Heejin, Jang, Sihak, Koh, Sanghyuk, Sim, Bohyun, Lee, Hyemi
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Jin-Cheng
• Application Number:
  US14/326,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20150015604A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,350 Days
• Field of Search: 345626, 345173, 345620, 345621, 345622, 345623, 345624, 345625, 345627, 345676
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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 3/04842 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/77 Retouching; Inpainting; Scratch removal

Abstract

A method for processing information in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes displaying a content, displaying a clip area on the content when detecting a clip touch interaction, correcting the clip area by analyzing a pattern and/or information of the clip area, and storing information of corrected clip area in a clipboard.

Claims

1. A method for processing information in a portable terminal, the method comprising:

displaying a content;

receiving a user input on the displayed content;

setting a clip area on the displayed content according to a pattern of the received user input;

analyzing the pattern of the user input and a type of at least one content in the clip area;

automatically correcting the pattern of the received user input to a pattern corresponding to a shape of an image in the clip area, when the type of at least one content is the image;

automatically correcting the pattern of the received user input to a pattern corresponding to a shape of paragraph of the text in the clip area, when the type of at least one content is the text;

correcting the clip area according to the corrected pattern of the received user input; and

storing information of corrected clip area in a clipboard.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein the correcting of the pattern of the clip area comprises correcting the clip area to include the information of the clip area when the information of the clip area is located on a boundary of the clip area, and

wherein the information of the clip area comprises at least one of an image and a text.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the correcting of the pattern of the clip area comprises:

generating a clip area separating the text from the image when the information within the clip area comprises the image and the text;

correcting the clip area of the separated image according to the pattern corresponding to the shape of the image; and

correcting the clip area of the separated text according to the pattern corresponding to the shape of the paragraph.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the correcting of the pattern of the clip area comprises:

examining a number of vertices of the clip area;

correcting the clip area according to a circle when the number of vertices is two or less; and

correcting the clip area according to a polygon corresponding to the number of vertices when the number of vertices is three or more.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the correcting of the pattern of the clip area according to a circle comprises setting a corrected circular clip area having a radius which has a length ranging from a center of the information of the clip area within the clip area to farthest information of the clip area.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the correcting of the pattern of the clip area according to a circle comprises:

correcting the clip area according to a circular clip area having a radius larger than the corrected circular clip area as much as a set number of pixel when the information of the clip area is located on the boundary of the corrected clip area; and

correcting the clip area according to a circular clip area having a radius smaller than the corrected circular clip area as much as a set number of pixel when the information of the clip area is smaller than the corrected clip area.

7. A method for processing information in a portable terminal, the method comprising:

displaying a content;

receiving a user input on the displayed content;

setting a clip area on the displayed content according to a pattern of the received user input;

determining the pattern of the user input and type of at least one content in the clip area;

searching an additional information relating to the at least one content included in the clip area by analyzing an executed application corresponding to the clip area;

automatically correcting, by at least one processor of the portable terminal, the at least one content of the clip board by adding the searched additional information to the clip area;

automatically correcting the pattern of the received user input to a pattern corresponding to a shape of at least one content in the clip area and the type of at least one content in the clip area;

correcting the clip area including the added searched additional information according to the corrected pattern of the received user input; and

storing the corrected information of the clip area in a clipboard.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the correcting of the at least one content of the clip area comprises clipping information of the clip area by adding a data of subscriber registered in a contact list to subscriber information of the clip area when the execution application is a contact application.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the correcting of the at least one content of the clip area comprises clipping information of the clip area by separating a text from an image from the subscriber information of the clip area to generate clip areas respectively when the execution application is a contact application.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the correcting of the at least one content of the clip area comprises clipping information of the clip area by adding corresponding schedule information to the information of the clip area when the execution application is a calendar application.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the correcting of the at least one content of the clip area comprises clipping information of the clip area by adding subscriber information corresponding to a message of the clip area to the message when the execution application is a message application.

12. A portable terminal comprising:

a display unit configured to display a content;

a touch panel configured to receive a user input on the displayed content;

at least one processor configured to;

cause the display unit to display a clip area on the displayed content set according to a pattern of the received user input,

analyze the pattern of the user input and a type of at least one content in the clip area,

automatically correct the pattern of received user input to a pattern corresponding to a shape of an image in the clip area, when the type of at least one content is the image,

automatically correct the pattern of the received user input to a pattern corresponding to a shape of paragraph of the text in the clip area, when the type of at least one content is the text, and

correct the clip area according to the corrected pattern of the received user input; and

a storage unit configured to store information of corrected clip area in a clipboard.

13. The terminal of claim 12,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to correct the clip area to include the information of the clip area when the information of the clip area is located on a boundary of the clip area, and

wherein the information comprises an image and/or a text.

14. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to correct the clip area by separating the text from the image when the information within the clip area comprises the image and the text.

15. The terminal of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

examine a number of vertices of the clip area, to correct the clip area according to a circle when the number of vertices is two or less, and

correct the clip area according to a polygon corresponding to the number of vertices when the number of vertices is three or more.

16. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

analyze an execution application when setting the clip area, and

clip information of the clip area by adding information of currently executed application to information included in the clip area to be included in the clip area.

17. The terminal of claim 16, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to clip by adding a data of subscriber registered in a contact list to subscriber information of the clip area when the execution application comprises a contact application.

18. The terminal of claim 16, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to clip by adding registered schedule information to the information of the clip area when the execution application comprises a calendar application.