ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MENU USING THE SAME

• US 20120096406A1
• Filed: 08/29/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: CHAE, Jisuk, Kim, Hyunmin, Lee, Byunghun, Hong, Sayoon
• Granted Patent: US 9,043,709 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/825
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An electronic device and a method for providing a menu are disclosed. The electronic device displays a plurality of words on the screen, detects a first action specifying selection of at least one of the displayed words, searches an option item related to the word selected by the first action, generates at least one menu item based on the selected word and the searched option item, and displays the generated menu item in a first area of the screen.

Claims

1. A displaying method of an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of words on a screen;

detecting a first action to select one of the displayed words;

obtaining at least one option item related to the selected word in response to the detecting of the first action;

generating at least one menu item based on the selected word and the obtained at least one option item; and

displaying the generated at least one menu item on the screen.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting a second action to select one of the displayed at least one menu item;

obtaining information related to the selected menu item in response to the detecting of the second action; and

displaying the obtained information on the screen.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein obtaining the information comprises:

transmitting a search request signal from the electronic device; and

receiving a search result based on the transmitted search request signal, the search result including the obtained information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected word is one of a place name, a project name, a name, a shop name, a building name or a product name.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the generated at least one menu item includes displaying a popup menu that includes the one menu item.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the at least one menu item includes composing a name for each menu item based on a part of the selected word and a part of the at least one option item.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the at least one menu item includes displaying a plurality of menu items in a specific arrangement order based on an arrangement order of the at least one option item.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a screen to edit the at least one option item;

detecting a second action to edit the at least one option item; and

editing the at least one option item in response to the detecting of the second action.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein editing the at least one option item comprises one of adding an option item, deleting an option item or re-arranging an option item.

10. An electronic device comprising:

a display to display information on a screen; and

a controller to control the display, the controller to select one of a plurality of words displayed on the screen based on a first user action, the controller to obtain at least one option item related to the selected word in response to the first user action and to generate at least one menu item based on the selected word and the obtained at least one option item, and the controller to control the display to display the generated at least one menu item on the screen.

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the controller selects one of the displayed at least one menu item based on a second user action, the controller obtains information related to the selected menu item in response to the detected second action, and the controller controls the display to display the obtained information on the screen.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein controller obtains the information by transmitting a search request signal from the electronic device, and receives a search result based on the transmitted search request signal, the search request signal including the obtained information.

13. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the selected word is one of a place name, a project name, a name, a shop name, a building name or a product name.

14. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the controller displays the at least one menu item in a popup menu.

15. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the controller generates the at least one menu item by composing a name for each menu item based on a part of the selected word and a part of the at least one option item.

16. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the controller displays a screen to edit the at least one option item, and the controller edits the option item based on a second user action.

17. A displaying method of an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of word identifiers on a screen;

detecting a first gesture while displaying the plurality of word identifiers;

selecting one of the word identifiers based on the detected first gesture;

obtaining a plurality of search options related to the selected word identifier;

determining a plurality of names of menu items based on the selected word identifier and the plurality of search options;

displaying the generated names of menu items;

detecting a second gesture while displaying the generated names of menu items;

selecting one of the displayed names based on the detected second gesture;

obtaining information related to the selected name of the menu item; and

displaying the obtained information on the screen.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein each of names of the menu items relates to a combination of at least a part of the word identifier and a part of the corresponding search option.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the selected word identifier is a place name, a project name, a name, a shop name, a building name or a product name.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying the names of menu items includes displaying a popup menu that includes the names of menu items.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying the names of menu items includes displaying the names of menu items based on an arrangement order of the plurality of search options.

22. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

displaying a screen to edit the plurality of search options;

detecting a second gesture to edit the plurality of search options; and

editing the plurality of search options in response to detecting the second gesture.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein editing the plurality of search options comprises adding an additional search option, deleting a search option or re-arranging the plurality of search options.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein displaying the screen to edit the search options includes displaying at least one candidate search option to be selected as the search option.