User terminal device for displaying contents and methods thereof

• US 10,318,120 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2014
• Issued: 06/11/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kwak, Ji-yeon, Kim, Yun-kyung, Lee, Yong-yeon, Kim, Hyun-jin, Yoon, Yeo-jun, Kumar, Nipun, Seo, Joon-kyu
• Primary Examiner(s): Polo, Gustavo D
• Application Number:
  US14/329,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20150015512A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,796 Days
• Field of Search: 345173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3231 Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04103 Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• 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 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 : for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 : Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 : Scrolling or panning
• 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: G06F 3/04886 : by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 : in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 : Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 : Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/50 : in wire-line communication networks, e.g. low power modes or reduced link rate

Abstract

A content display method of a user terminal device including a bended touch screen divided into a main area and a sub area, includes displaying, on the main area, a first main content provided by a first application, and displaying, on the sub area, a first sub content associated with the first main content, receiving a user gesture input on the main area, and in response to receiving the user gesture, displaying, on the main area, a second main content provided by a second application, and displaying, on the sub area, a second sub content associated with the second main content.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a rigid exterior body constituting a rear surface of the electronic apparatus;

a display which constitutes a front surface of the electronic apparatus and a side surface of the electronic apparatus, wherein the display comprises a main display area corresponding to the front surface and a curved edge display area corresponding to the side surface extended integrally from the main display area to bend away from one side of the main display area towards the rear surface, the curved edge display area being smaller than the main display area; and

a controller which, while information is not provided on the main display area and information is only provided on the curved edge display area, in response to receiving a first touch input on the curved edge display area, controls the electronic apparatus to provide information on the main display area,

wherein the controller controls the electronic apparatus to change the information provided on the curved edge display area, in response to receiving a second touch input on the curved edge display area in a predefined direction.

2. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information provided on the main display area comprises information related to the information provided on the curved edge display area.

3. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the information provided on the main display area further comprises at least part of the information provided on the curved edge display area.

4. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller, in response to receiving a third touch input on the curved edge display area after the information provided on the curved edge display area is changed, controls the electronic apparatus to provide information on the main display area.

5. A method of controlling an electronic apparatus comprising an exterior body constituting a rear surface of the electronic apparatus and a display which constitutes a front surface of the electronic apparatus and a side surface of the electronic apparatus, wherein the display comprises a main display area corresponding to the front surface and a curved edge display area corresponding to the side surface extended integrally from the main display area to bend away from one side of the main display area towards the rear surface, the curved edge display area being smaller than the main display area, the method comprising:

receiving, while information is not provided on the main display area and information is only provided on the curved edge display area, a first touch input on the curved edge display area; and

providing information on the main display area,

wherein the method further comprising;

changing the information provided on the curved edge display area, in response to receiving a second touch input on the curved edge display area in a predefined direction.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the information provided on the main display area comprises information related to the information provided on the curved edge display area.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the information provided on the main display area further comprises at least part of the information provided on the curved edge display area.

8. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the providing, in response to receiving a third touch input on the curved edge display area after the information provided on the curved edge display area is changed, on the main display area, information related to the changed information provided on the curved edge display area.