METHOD FOR INPUTTING USER COMMAND USING USER'S MOTION AND MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS THEREOF

• US 20090077491A1
• Filed: 03/19/2008
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Kyung-min
• Application Number:
  US12/051,074
• Publication Number:
  US 20090077491A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• 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 3/0488 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

Abstract

A method for controlling a multimedia apparatus includes determining whether a dragging function display command is input during a playback of content, if the dragging function display command is input, determining a type of the reproduced content, displaying a plurality of dragging functions according to the determined type of the content, and setting one of the plurality of dragging functions.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a multimedia apparatus, the method comprising:

determining a type of a reproduced content;

displaying a plurality of dragging functions according to the determined type of the content; and

setting one of the plurality of displayed dragging functions.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the dragging is a user'"'"'s motion that is made by touching an area where the content is displayed, and dragging from the touched area in a predetermined direction.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining of the type of the content comprises determining the type of content based on a compression type or file format of the content.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content is at least one of a still image, a moving picture, a broadcast, text, or a combination thereof.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein, if the content is a moving picture, the displaying of the dragging functions comprises displaying at least one function of changing a reproduction speed, of reproducing a moving picture in the unit of file, and/or skipping forward a predetermined time.

6. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

reproducing the content according to the set function, if a user command is input by dragging;

wherein, if the content is a broadcast, the user command input by dragging is a user command to change a reproduced broadcast channel.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein:

the dragging comprises a normal-direction dragging and a reverse-direction dragging; and

the reproducing of the content comprises reproducing a broadcast channel having a frequency higher than that of the reproduced broadcast channel, if the user command is input by the normal-direction dragging, and reproducing a broadcast channel having a frequency lower than that of the reproduced broadcast channel, if the user command is input by the reverse-direction dragging.

8. A multimedia apparatus comprising:

a display to display a plurality of dragging functions according to a type of a reproduced content; and

a controller to set a function selected among the plurality of dragging functions to be a user command activated by dragging.

9. The multimedia apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the dragging is a user'"'"'s motion that is made by touching an area of the display and dragging from the area in a predetermined direction.

10. The multimedia apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the controller determines the type of the content based a compression type or file format of the content.

11. The multimedia apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the content is at least one of a still image, a moving picture, a broadcast, text, or a combination thereof.

12. The multimedia apparatus according to claim 11, wherein, if the content is a moving picture, the controller displays at least one function selectable between changing a reproduction speed, reproducing a moving picture in the unit of file, and skipping forward a predetermined time based on the dragging function on the display.

13. The multimedia apparatus according to claim 11, wherein, if the content is a broadcast, the controller sets the detected dragging to be a user command to change a reproduced broadcast channel.

14. The multimedia apparatus according to claim 13, wherein:

the dragging comprises a normal-direction dragging and a reverse-direction dragging; and

the controller sets the normal-direction dragging to be a user command to reproduce a broadcast channel having a frequency higher than that of the reproduced broadcast channel, and sets the reverse-direction dragging to be a user command to reproduce a broadcast channel having a frequency lower than that of the reproduced broadcast channel.

15. A method of controlling a multimedia apparatus having a touch screen, comprising:

assigning a command to a user motion, based on input received from a user;

receiving user input corresponding to the user motion during reproduction of content on the multimedia apparatus; and

performing the assigned command in response to the user input.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the user motion is a dragging motion comprising touching the touch screen and dragging for a predetermined distance.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the performing of the assigned command comprises:

determining a type of the content being reproduced; and

performing the assigned command based on the type of the content.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the assigning of the command comprises:

selecting one of a plurality of user motions; and

for the selected motion, selecting one of a plurality of commands corresponding to a type of the content.

19. A computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a multimedia apparatus, cause the multimedia apparatus to perform the method of claim 15.

21. The multimedia apparatus of claim 18, wherein the user motion is a dragging motion comprising touching the touch screen and dragging for a predetermined distance.

22. The multimedia apparatus of claim 18, wherein the controller determines a type of content being reproduced by the multimedia apparatus and performs the assigned command based on the type of the content.

20. A multimedia apparatus comprising:

a touchscreen to display content and to receive user input; and

a controller to assign a command to a user motion based on input from a user and to perform the assigned command in response to the user motion on the touchscreen.