METHOD OF PROVIDING USER INTERFACE OF MOBILE TERMINAL EQUIPPED WITH TOUCH SCREEN AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREOF

• US 20110072400A1
• Filed: 09/14/2010
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Jong Seong, WATANABE, Masato
• Application Number:
  US12/881,277
• Publication Number:
  US 20110072400A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/00 Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A method of providing an interface in a terminal equipped with a touch screen, including displaying a first screen when receiving an unlock input for displaying the preset first screen. A screen change input for changing a part or an entire of the first screen into a preset second screen is received through the touch screen displaying the first screen; and changing a part of screen displayed on the touch screen from the first screen into the second screen according to a progress of the screen change input.

Claims

1. A method of providing an interface in a terminal equipped with a touch screen, comprising:

displaying a first screen when receiving an unlock input touch command for displaying a preset first screen;

receiving a screen change input touch command for changing a part or an entirety of the first screen into a preset second screen through the touch screen displaying the first screen; and

changing a part of a screen displayed on the touch screen from the first screen into the second screen according to a progress of the screen change input command.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the received screen change touch input command is a predetermined movement along a specific part of the touch screen that changes screen allocation so that a size of the part of the screen displayed as the first screen is reduced as a part of the touch screen displayed as the second screen is increased in correspondence with a distance of a predetermined movement along the specific part of the touch screen.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the preset first screen comprises a screen displaying a zipper, and the screen change input comprises a touch input in which a predetermined movement drags a handle of the zipper displayed on the first screen to open,

wherein changing a part of the screen displayed on the touch screen from the first screen displayed into the second screen displayed comprises changing a screen display of a part where the zipper is opened from the first screen into the second screen as the handle of zipper is dragged.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the preset first screen comprises a screen displaying a plurality of buttons, and wherein the screen change input comprises a touch input which touches the plurality of buttons displayed on the first screen to open, wherein changing a part of the screen comprises changing a screen of a part where the button is opened from the first screen into the second screen as the plurality of buttons are opened.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the preset first screen comprises a screen displaying a knot, wherein the screen change input comprises a touch input which drags a part of the knot displayed on the first screen to release, wherein changing a part of screen comprises changing a part of screen displayed on the touch screen from the first screen into the second screen according to a ratio in which the knot is released.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the preset first screen comprises a screen displaying a door, wherein the screen change input comprises a touch input which drags a handle of the door displayed on the first screen to open, wherein changing a part of screen comprises changing a display of less than an entirety a screen of a part where the door is opened from the first screen into the second screen as the handle of the door is dragged.

7. A terminal for providing an interface, comprising:

a touch screen comprising a touch sensor which is configured to receive an unlock input touch command for displaying a preset first screen and a screen change input for changing a part or an entirety of the first screen into a preset second screen, and a display unit which is configured to display a screen under the control of the controller; and

a controller controlling the display unit to display the first screen when the touch sensor senses the unlock input touch command, controlling the display unit to change a part of screen displayed on the display unit from the first screen into the second screen according to a progress of the screen change input touch command sensed by the touch sensor.

8. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the preset first screen comprises a screen displaying a zipper, and wherein the screen change input comprises a touch input command which drags a handle of the zipper displayed on the first screen to open, and the controller controls the display unit to change a screen of a part where the zipper is opened from the first screen into the second screen as the handle of zipper is dragged.

9. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the preset first screen is a screen displaying a plurality of buttons, the screen change input is a touch input which touches the plurality of buttons displayed on the first screen to open, and the controller controls the display unit to change a screen of a part where the button is opened from the first screen into the second screen as the plurality of buttons are opened.

10. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the preset first screen is a screen displaying a knot, the screen change input touch command is a touch input which drags a part of the knot displayed on the first screen to release, and the controller controls the display unit to change a part of screen displayed on the touch screen from the first screen into the second screen according to a ratio in which the knot is released.

11. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the preset first screen comprises a screen displaying a door, the screen change input touch command is a touch input which drags a handle of the door displayed on the first screen to open the door, and the controller controls the display unit to change a part of the screen where the door is opened from the first screen into the second screen as the handle of the door is dragged.

12. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the received screen change touch input command is a predetermined movement along a specific part of the touch screen that changes screen allocation so that a size of the part of the screen displayed as the first screen is reduced as a part of the touch screen displayed as the second screen is increased in correspondence with a distance of a predetermined movement along the specific part of the touch screen