ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY, INTERFACE METHOD USING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE SAME

• US 20120013557A1
• Filed: 07/15/2011
• Published: 01/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoo, Mijun, Kim, Uniyoung, Cho, Yooseok, Chong, Yuonui, LEE, Hyungnam, Kim, Hyoni
• Granted Patent: US 8,624,860 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an interface for controlling a display of a plurality of layers on a touch screen display includes displaying, on a touch screen display of the device, a main display layer and at least one sub display layer, detecting an object-down event at a first position within the main display layer, detecting an object-dragging event at a second position within the main display layer, and moving the main display layer along a movement direction from the first position to the second position, wherein at least one of the at least one sub display layer is displayed to be pulled to the movement direction in accordance with the movement of the main display layer.

Claims

1. An interface method for controlling a display of a plurality layers in a device, comprising:

displaying, on a touch screen display of the device, a main display layer and at least one sub display layer, wherein the main display layer is positioned at a center area of the touch screen display, and wherein the at least one sub display layer is positioned at a side of the main display layer;

detecting an object-down event at a first position within the main display layer;

detecting an object-dragging event at a second position within the main display layer; and

moving the main display layer along a movement direction from the first position to the second position, wherein at least one of the at least one sub display layer is displayed to be pulled to the movement direction in accordance with the movement of the main display layer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the pulled sub display layer corresponds to a sub display layer positioned in a direction opposite to the movement direction of the main display layer.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting an object-up event at a third position within the main display layer; and

terminating the movement of the main display layer in response to detecting the object-up event.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one sub display layer is displayed so that the main display layer appears to be positioned at a deeper end of the touch screen display.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one sub display layer is displayed so that a width of the at least one sub display layer is decreased along a direction facing into the main display layer.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one sub display layer is respectively positioned at an upper-side, a lower-side, a left-side, and a right-side of the main display layer.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the at least one sub display layer displays a broadcast image of at least one channel.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the at least one sub display layer displays information associated with contents being displayed on the main display layer.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the at least one sub display layer displays a chat window.

10. An interface method for controlling a display of layers in a device, comprising:

displaying, on a touch screen display of the device, a plurality of layers including a main display layer and at least one sub display layer, wherein the main display layer is positioned at a center area of the touch screen display, and wherein the at least one sub display layer is positioned at a side of the main display layer;

detecting an object-down event at a first position of the touch screen display within a first layer of the plurality of layers;

detecting an object-up event at a second position of the touch screen display within a second layer of the plurality of layers; and

changing a display state depending on locations of the first and second positions, wherein the first layer is different from the second layer.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the changing the display state includes:

determining whether the object-down event at the first location is on an object of the first layer; and

moving the object of the first layer to the second position of the second layer.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the first layer is the main display layer and the second layer is the at least one sub display layer, and change a position of the sub display layer with a position of the main display layer.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the first layer is the at least one sub display layer and the second layer is the main display layer, and change a position of the sub display layer with a position of the main display layer.

14. An electronic device including, comprising:

a touch screen display configured to display a main display layer and at least one sub display layer, wherein the main display layer is positioned at a center area of the touch screen display, and the at least one sub display layer is positioned at a side of the main display layer; and

a controller configured to detect an object-down event at a first position within the main display layer, to detect an object-dragging event at a second position within the main display layer, and to move the main display layer along a movement direction from the first position to the second position,

wherein at least one of the at least one sub display layer is displayed to be pulled towards the movement direction in accordance with the movement of the main display layer.

15. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the at least one sub display layer is displayed so that the main display layer appears to be positioned at a deeper end of the touch screen display.

16. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the at least one sub display layer is displayed so that a width of the at least one sub display layer is decreased along a direction facing into the main display layer.

17. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the at least one sub display layer is respectively positioned at an upper-side, a lower-side, a left-side, and a right-side of the main display layer.

18. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein one of the at least one sub display layer displays a broadcast image of at least one channel.

19. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein one of the at least one sub display layer displays information associated with contents being displayed on the main display layer.

20. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein one of the at least one sub display layer displays a chat window.

21. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the at least one of the at least one sub display layer which is displayed to be pulled corresponds to a sub display layer positioned in a direction opposite to the movement direction of the main display layer.

22. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the controller detects an object-up event at a third position within the main display layer and terminates the movement of the main display layer in response to detecting the object-up event.