Device and method for displaying image in chatting area and server for managing chatting data

• US 10,666,586 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2017
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kakao Corp.
• Original Assignee: Kakao Corp.
• Inventors: Ji, Joo Hyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Choi, David E
• Application Number:
  US15/811,833
• Publication Number:
  US 20180069814A1
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services

Abstract

There is provided a device that displays an image in a chatting area where a text is displayed. The device includes a data communication unit that receives a text from an external device via a network; a text display unit that displays the received text in the chatting area; an image search unit that searches for image data of an image selected through a user interface; a position detection unit that detects position information of a region selected through the user interface in the chatting area; and an image display unit that displays the searched image data in a region corresponding to the detected position information. Further, when the displayed text is shifted in the chatting area, the displayed image data are also shifted in the chatting area.

Claims

1. A device that displays an image in a chatting area where a text is displayed, the device comprising:

a data communication unit that receives a text from an external device via a network;

a text display unit that displays the received text in the chatting area;

an image search unit that searches for image data of an image selected through a user interface;

a position detection unit that detects position information of a region selected through the user interface in the chatting area; and

an image display unit that displays the searched image data in a region corresponding to the detected position information,

wherein when the displayed text is shifted in the chatting area, the displayed image data are also shifted in the chatting area, and

wherein the region where the image data are displayed is a region where the text is displayed and the image data are overlapped in whole or in part with the text.

2. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

an image deletion unit that non-displays the displayed image data when the region where the image data are displayed is selected through the user interface.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein when the image deletion unit non-displays the displayed image data, the data communication unit transmits a signal for notifying non-display of the image data to the external device.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein when the region selected through the user interface is in a predetermined distance range from the displayed text, the text display unit emphasizes the displayed text.

5. The device of claim 1,

wherein when the position detection unit receives a shift command of the displayed image data through the user interface, the position detection unit detects position information of a destination region of the display image data on the basis of the shift command, and

the image display unit shifts the displayed image data to a region corresponding to the detected position information of the destination region and displays the image data on the destination region.

6. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

an image deletion unit that non-displays at least one image data already displayed in the chatting area when a command to non-display an image is input through the user interface.

7. The device of claim 1,

wherein the chatting area is divided into at least two cell regions by at least one dividing line, and

the selected region is any one cell region selected through the user interface from the at least two cell regions divided by the at least one dividing line.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the user interface provides a user with a list of multiple images arranged in used order.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the user interface provides a tool for modifying the image data.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein when the data communication unit receives external image data and external position information from the external device, the image display unit displays the external image data in a region corresponding to the external position information in the chatting area.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein when the data communication unit receives the external image data, the image display unit displays a notice message for notifying receipt of the external image data on a display of the device.

12. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a payment processing unit that performs at least one payment process related to the image data.

13. A server that manages chatting data, the server comprising:

a text management unit that receives a text from a first device and transmits the received text to a second device from among multiple devices connected via a network;

an image data management unit that receives information of image data from the first device and transmits the received information of the image data to the second device; and

a position information management unit that receives position information related to the image data from the first device and transmits the received position information to the second device,

wherein the image data are displayed in a region corresponding to the position information in the chatting area of the second device, and

wherein the region where the image data are displayed is a region where the text is displayed and the image data are overlapped in whole or in part with the text.

14. A device that transmits and receives a chatting message, the device comprising:

a data communication unit that receives a text from an external device via a network;

a text display unit that displays a text bubble of the received text in a chatting area;

a position detection unit that detects position information of the text bubble selected through the user interface in the chatting area; and

an image display unit that makes the text bubble corresponding to the detected position information blinded,

wherein when the received text is shifted in the chatting area, the text bubble is also shifted in the chatting area while keeping the text bubble blinded.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein when the image display unit makes the text bubble blinded, the data communication unit transmits the position information of the text bubble to a chatting data management server or the external device.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein when the data communication unit receives an external position information of a text bubble of the external device, the image display unit makes a text bubble corresponding to the external position information blinded.

17. A method for transmitting and receiving a chatting message, the method comprising:

receiving a text from an external device via a network;

displaying a text bubble of the received text in a chatting area;

detecting position information of the text bubble selected through the user interface in the chatting area; and

making the text bubble corresponding to the detected position information blinded,

wherein when the received text is shifted in the chatting area, the text bubble is also shifted in the chatting area while keeping the text bubble blinded.