METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INPUT IN TERMINAL HAVING TOUCH SCREEN

• US 20090002332A1
• Filed: 06/02/2008
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sung-Soo, Han, Dong-Kyoon, Lee, Yu-Sheop
• Application Number:
  US12/131,372
• Publication Number:
  US 20090002332A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• 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 3/04886 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

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for detecting input to a terminal having a touch screen. The method includes the steps of: displaying an active cell activating any one of a plurality of objects displayed on a screen; sensing a touch on a display screen; checking a position touched and a shift direction and a shift distance touched on a basis of the position touched by the user'"'"'s finger; shifting a position of the active cell according to the shift direction and the shift distance touched; and performing an action of a corresponding object of an area of the active cell if a double tapping signal input on the display screen is sensed.

Claims

1. A method for input in a terminal having a touch screen, the method comprising:

displaying an active cell for activating any one of a plurality of objects displayed on a screen;

sensing a touch on a display screen;

checking a position touched on the display screen and a shift direction and a shift distance of the sensed touch on a basis of the position of the display screen sensed as being touched;

shifting a position of the active cell according to the shift direction and the shift distance of the sensed touch; and

performing an action of a corresponding object of an area of the active cell if a double tapping signal applied to the display screen is sensed.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a screen shift bar at a predetermined position of the display screen if information on a currently displayed screen area is received and the screen area is equal to or more than a threshold;

sensing the touch on the displayed screen shift bar; and

checking the touch on an area except for an area of the screen shift bar if the touch is sensed on the screen shift bar, and shifting the currently displayed screen according to the shift direction and the shift distance of the sensed touch.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein an action of the screen shift bar is implemented by actuation of a predetermined key button.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein, if the predetermined key button is sensed as being actuated one time, the acutation corresponding to a touch action on the screen shift bar.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein, if the predetermined key button is sensed as being actuated two times, the screen shift bar displayed on the screen is activated.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising performing an action of a corresponding object of an area of the active cell if an action signal of actuating a predetermined execution button is sensed.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising shifting a position of the active cell to an area of the corresponding object on which the sensed touch is currently positioned if a tapping signal is sensed one time on the display screen.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein an area for displaying the corresponding object to a predetermined area is recognized as an area for sensing the taping signal.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shift of the active cell is displayed according to the shift direction and the shift distance of the sensed touch.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the object includes any one of a number, a character, an icon, a scroller, a check box, and a slider.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the object is displayed on the screen and is activated by touch.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the active cell can be implemented by means of a pointer pointing to the object.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the pointer is displayed as an arrow of a predetermined direction.

14. An apparatus for touch input in a terminal having a touch screen, the apparatus comprising:

a sensing unit sensing a touch on a display screen and a tapping signal applied to the display screen, and for discriminating a corresponding area of the sensed touch so as to output the corresponding area;

a check unit outputting a shift direction and a shift distance of the sensed touch on the display screen; and

a control unit receiving an output from the sensing unit that a tapping signal has been sensed by the sensing unit and for controlling a position of an active cell or a pointer activating an object displayed on the display screen according to the shift direction and the shift distance of the sensed touch checked from the check unit.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the control unit controls the position of the active cell or the pointer to be a position of the corresponding object selected by the sensed touch on the display screen if the corresponding area of the sensed touch on the display screen is included in an area for displaying a plurality of objects.

16. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the control unit controls a screen shift bar displayed on a predetermined position of the display screen when the control unit receives information on a currently displayed screen and determines that an area of all screen is equal or more than a threshold.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, further comprising an execution unit for performing an action of the corresponding object activated by means of the active cell or the pointer if a control signal is input from the control unit.

18. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the object includes any one of a number, a character, an icon, a scroller, a check box, and a slider.

19. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the object is displayed on the screen for selection.

20. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the pointer is displayed as an arrow of a predetermined direction.