Method and apparatus for editing touch display

• US 10,552,012 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2015
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cha, Sang-ok, Han, Sang-jun, Shim, Jung-hyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Yanna
• Application Number:
  US14/594,568
• Publication Number:
  US 20150128077A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,849 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A method and an apparatus are provided for editing a display of a touch display apparatus. A first screen including at least one object is displayed. An object on the first screen is designated. The touch display apparatus is converted to an edit mode for editing the display, when the object is designated. When a movement of the touch display apparatus is detected, the first screen is converted into a second screen according to at least one of a degree and a direction of the movement. The designated object is displayed on the second screen.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a touch screen;

a sensor configured to sense a movement of the electronic apparatus and sense a degree of the movement of the electronic apparatus; and

a controller configured to;

control the touch screen to display a first screen page among a plurality of screen pages, and

in response to the movement of the electronic apparatus being sensed while an item of the first screen page is selected, control the touch screen to change the first screen page displayed on the touch screen to a second screen page among the plurality of screen pages, which is apart from the first screen page by a specific number of pages, and to display the item on the second screen page,

wherein the specific number varies according to the degree of the movement of the electronic apparatus.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to, after the second screen page is displayed on the touch screen, position the item in the second screen page according to touch information received from the touch screen.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to enter an edit mode after the item is touched on the first screen page, and

during the edit mode, process output signals from the touch screen, concurrently with processing output signals from the sensor, to determine whether the touch screen is being concurrently touched while transitioning from the first screen page to the second screen page.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein, during the edit mode, the controller is further configured to determine whether the touch on the item is maintained based on touch information received from the touch screen and display the item at a location on the touch screen corresponding to the received touch information while the first screen page is being transitioned to the second screen page.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to exit from the edit mode when it is determined that touch on the item is released.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to detect a tilt movement with respect to an axis of rotation that passes longitudinally through centers of upper and lower surfaces of the apparatus based on signals received from the sensor and control transitioning from the first screen page to the second screen page based on the detected tilt movement.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 6, wherein, in an edit mode, the controller is further configured to change a location of an icon arranged on a plurality of background screen pages based on touch information obtained from the touch screen and the movement-related information obtained from the sensor.

8. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first screen page and the second screen page are associated with different multitasking applications executed by the electronic apparatus.

9. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises a gyro sensor configured to detect at least one of panning, tilting and rotating movements.

10. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises an acceleration sensor configured to detect at least one of panning, tilting and rotating movements.

11. A method of moving an object from a first screen among a plurality of screens to a second screen among the plurality of screens, the method comprising:

displaying the first screen on a touch screen of an electronic apparatus; and

in response to a movement of the electronic apparatus being sensed while the object of the first screen is selected, changing the first screen displayed on the touch screen to the second screen, which is apart from the first screen by a specific number of screens, and displaying the object on the second screen,

wherein the specific number varies according to a degree of the movement of the electronic apparatus.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

changing the electronic apparatus to an edit mode when the object on the first screen page is touched for a predetermined period of time.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

when the object is no longer touched, releasing the edit mode while the object is displayed on the second screen.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

when the electronic apparatus is converted to the edit mode, displaying the first screen as an edit mode status display screen.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

changing the electronic apparatus to an edit mode when an edit option is selected.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

when a background of the second screen is touched, releasing the edit mode while the object is displayed on the second screen.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

when the object on the first screen is touched, displaying at least one word on a side area of the object,

wherein the electronic apparatus is converted to an edit mode when a command to perform editing is selected from among the at least one displayed word.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the object is one of a plurality of icons displayed on the first screen of the electronic apparatus, and

wherein changing the first screen comprises gradually changing the first screen of the electronic apparatus to the second screen, at a speed corresponding to a magnitude of the movement detected by the sensor by sliding or scrolling the first screen to the second screen.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein changing the first screen comprises, when a magnitude of the movement is greater than n times and less than n+1 times a threshold value, changing the first screen to the second screen which is n pages from the first screen.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the first screen comprises one of an application screen, a web browser screen, and a multimedia file screen, and the object comprises an image or text displayed on the first screen, and

wherein changing the first screen comprises changing the first screen into the second screen which is one of another application screen, another web browser screen and another multimedia file screen.

21. The method of claim 11, wherein the movement comprises at least one of panning, tilting and rotating the electronic apparatus.

22. A method comprising:

receiving a user input touching an object included on a first screen displayed on an electronic apparatus among a plurality of screens;

detecting a movement of the electronic apparatus;

changing the first screen displayed on the electronic apparatus to a second screen among the plurality of screens, which is apart from the first screen by a specific number of screens, in response to the detected movement; and

displaying the object on the second screen,

wherein the specific number varies according to a degree of the movement of the electronic apparatus.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

transitioning to an edit mode after the object is touched on the first screen; and

during the edit mode, processing touch information received from a touch screen, concurrently with processing movement information received from a motion sensor, to determine that the touch screen is being touched during transitioning from the first screen to the second screen.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the object is displayed at a location on a touch screen corresponding to the touch information while the first screen is being changed to the second screen.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

exiting from the edit mode in response to determining that the touch is released based on the touch information.

26. An article of manufacture for controlling a touch display apparatus, comprising a non-transitory machine readable medium containing one or more programs which when executed implement the steps of:

displaying a first screen among a plurality of screens on the touch display apparatus; and

in response to a movement of the electronic apparatus being sensed while an object of the first screen is selected, changing the first screen displayed on the touch screen to a second screen among the plurality of screen pages, which is apart from the first screen by a specific number of screens, and displaying the object on the second screen,

wherein the specific number varies according to a degree of the movement of the electronic apparatus.