Mobile Device Equipped With Touch Screen

• US 20100182264A1
• Filed: 07/25/2008
• Published: 07/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vanilla Breeze Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Vanilla Breeze Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hahn, David, Lee, JiHoon, Lee, YoungEun
• Application Number:
  US12/676,552
• Publication Number:
  US 20100182264A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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: H04M 1/0281 for providing single handed use or left/right hand conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/23 Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof by improving visibility H04M1/22
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

The present invention relates to the touch-screen mobile device provides a better user experience by enabling a true one-hand operation, as the user can hold the mobile device with one hand and operate the device with the thumb of the same hand. The present invention is comprising: a touch screen; an arc-shaped user interface, displayed on the touch screen, which takes one corner of the touch screen as its center; and a control part that detects user'"'"' touch actions such as tap, multiple-taps, swipe, drag, or hold & drag, and processes the user'"'"' feedback accordingly.

Claims

1. A mobile device equipped with a touch screen comprising:

A touch screen;

An arc-shaped user interface, displayed on the touch screen, which takes one corner of the touch screen as its center; and

A control part that performs the processes corresponding to the contact on the user interface when contact and movement is detected on the user interface.

2. The mobile device equipped with a touch screen as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radius of the interface is between 2 to 6 cm.

3. The mobile device equipped with a touch screen as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control part performs the process corresponding to the coordinates of contact point when contact and movement on the user interface is detected.

4. The mobile device equipped with a touch screen as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control part performs the process according to moving direction and/or moving distance and/or moving speed in case the contact point was moved with contact still maintained on the interface.

5. The mobile device equipped with a touch screen as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the control part moves the focus among selections displayed on the touch screen in case the contact point was moved with contact maintained on the interface along the predefined area of the user interface.

6. A mobile device equipped with a touch screen comprising:

A touch screen;

An arc-shaped user interface, displayed on the touch screen, which takes one corner of the touch screen as its center; and

A control part that controls the playback of multimedia contents wherein the control part controls the playback speed and direction of multimedia contents according to the direction, distance and speed of the user'"'"'s thumb movement when the contact is maintained on the touch screen along the predefined area of the user interface.

7. The mobile device equipped with a touch screen as claimed in claim 6, wherein the control part controls the speed and/or the direction of the playback according to the the direction of user'"'"'s thumb movement while the touch maintained on the user interface, and controls the speed and/or the direction of the playback at normal speed and/or direction as soon as the contact on the user interface is detected to be off.

8. The mobile device equipped with a touch screen as claimed in claim 6, wherein the control part plays back repeatedly the corresponding section of the multimedia contents after the contact point is moved from one point to another along the predefined area of the user interface.

9. The mobile device equipped with a touch screen as claimed in claim 6, wherein the control part plays each frame of the video separately from the previous frame to the next or vice versa, whenever the contact point moves a certain distance along the interface.

10. The mobile device equipped with a touch screen as claimed in claim 6, wherein the soft buttons to control the mobile device are displayed within the user interface.

11. A mobile device equipped with a touch screen comprising:

A touch screen;

An arc-shaped user interface, displayed on the touch screen, which takes one corner of the touch screen as its center; and

A control part that moves the focus among selections displayed on the touch screen when the contact point is moved with contact maintained on the interface along the predefined area of the user interface.