TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING FUNCTION THEREOF

• US 20090313567A1
• Filed: 04/30/2009
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Myung, In-sik, Seo, Young-wan, Kwon, Soon-young, Woo, Joo-kyung, Kim, Yeo-jin, Jung, Jong-woo
• Granted Patent: US 8,875,037 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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

Abstract

A terminal apparatus and a method of performing a function thereof are disclosed. A list is scrolled in response to a grab-and-drag operation occurring in a scroll direction in a state in which the list is displayed, a particular object is moved in a dropped area in response to a particular object of the list being dragged and dropped in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction of the list, and an object which is pressed during equal to or more than a predetermined time in a state in which an application is displayed is moved by a drag.

Claims

1. A method of performing a function of a terminal apparatus with a touch screen, the method comprising:

in response to a touch event occurring in a state in which a list is displayed, checking a type of the touch event;

in response to the checked touch event being a touch event corresponding to a scroll direction of the list, scrolling the list; and

in response to the checked touch event being a touch event corresponding to a particular object of the list which-occurs in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction of the list, moving the particular object to a dropped area.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch event corresponding to the scrolling direction of the list is a grab-and-drag event, and the touch event in the direction perpendicular to the scroll direction of the list is a drag-and-drop event.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

in response to a drag with a dragged length which is equal to or more than a predetermined length occurring in the direction perpendicular to the scroll direction, moving the particular object to a dropped area; and

in response to a drag with a dragged length which is less than the predetermined length occurring, ignoring the drag operation.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

in response to the checked touch event being a drag corresponding to a particular object of the list which occurs in the direction perpendicular to the scroll direction of the list, selecting the dragged particular object; and

in response to the selected particular object being dragged and dropped, moving the particular object to the dropped area.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

in response to a drag corresponding to the particular object occurring, checking whether the dragged length is equal to or more than a predetermined length; and

in response to the dragged length being equal to or more than the predetermined length, moving the particular object, and in response to the dragged length being less than the predetermined length, selecting the particular object.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising, after the selecting of the particular object, in response to the selected particular object being dragged with a dragged length which is less than the predetermined length in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction, releasing the selection of the particular object.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising, after the selecting of the particular object, in response to a touch event corresponding to the scrolling direction occurring in a particular area of the list, scrolling the list.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

after the scrolling of the list,

in response to a drag corresponding to a different object of the list occurring in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction, selecting the dragged different object; and

repetitively performing the selecting of the different object to select a plurality of objects, and moving the selected objects by a drag and drop.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to a touch event occurring in a state in which a particular application is displayed by executing a particular object of the list, checking a type of the touch event;

in response to the checked touch event being a press on a particular object of the application, checking whether a pressed time is equal to or more than a predetermined time; and

in response to the pressed time being equal to or more than the predetermined time, selecting the pressed object and moving the pressed object by a drag and drop.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein in response to the application being displayed, an initial mode is a grab-and-drag mode in which an application part displayed on the touch screen is moved, and in response to a time that the particular object is pressed being equal to or more than the predetermined time, an object-drag mode in which only a particular object of the displayed application is moved is executed.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein in response to the particular object being displayed, a counter to indicate the pressed time is displayed, and in response to the pressed time being equal to or more than the predetermined time, a display of the counter is released.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the selecting of the pressed object comprises:

in response to a different object of the application being pressed during a time equal to or more than the predetermined time after the pressed object is selected, selecting the different object; and

repetitively performing the selecting of the different object to select a plurality of objects, and moving the selected objects by a drag and drop.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to the checked touch event being a grab-and-drag event or in response to a drag with a dragged length which is equal to or more than a predetermined time in a state in which a particular object of an application being pressed, moving an application part displayed on the touch screen.

14. A terminal apparatus, comprising:

a touch screen to receive a touch input; and

a controller to control scrolling according to a touch event occurring in a scroll direction in a list in a state in which the list is displayed, and to control movement or selection of a particular object of the list according to a touch event occurring in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction.

15. The terminal apparatus of claim 14, wherein the controller controls the scrolling in response to a grab-and-drag occurring in the scroll direction, moves the particular object in response to a drag-and-drop occurring in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction, and selects the particular object in response to a drag occurring in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction.

16. The terminal apparatus of claim 15, wherein the controller moves the particular object in response to a drag with a dragged length which is equal to or more than a predetermined length occurring in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction, and ignores an occurrence of a drag with a dragged length which is less than the predetermined length.

17. The terminal apparatus of claim 15, wherein the controller moves the particular object to a dropped area in response to a drag-and-drop event corresponding to the particular object selected by a drag which occurs in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction occurring.

18. The terminal apparatus of claim 17, wherein in response to a drag corresponding to the particular object occurring, the controller moves the particular object if a dragged length is equal to or more than a predetermined length and selects the dragged particular object if the dragged length is less than the predetermined length.

19. The terminal apparatus of claim 17, wherein the controller releases the selection of the particular object in response to the selected particular object being dragged with a dragged length which is less than a predetermined length in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction.

20. The terminal apparatus of claim 17, wherein in response to a drag being detected in a particular area of the list, the controller scrolls the list, selects different objects of the list by a drag in a direction perpendicular to the scroll direction and moves the selected objects by a drag and drop.