METHOD FOR INPUTTING MEMO IN TOUCH SCREEN TERMINAL AND DEVICE THEREOF

• US 20120174009A1
• Filed: 12/22/2011
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Kwon, Woo-Up
• Application Number:
  US13/335,663
• Publication Number:
  US 20120174009A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/768
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method inputs a memo in a touch screen terminal. The method includes determining whether a memo function is requested while displaying contents of a specific function on a screen, upon receiving the request of the memo function, displaying a memo window that is transparently or translucently overlaid on the screen on which the contents of the specific function are displayed and that supports free drawing, and detecting an input of the contents onto the memo window and storing the contents displayed on the screen upon receiving a request for storing the contents at a later time.

Claims

1. A method of inputting a memo in a touch screen terminal, the method comprising:

determining whether a memo function is requested while displaying contents of a specific function on a screen;

upon receiving a request of the memo function, displaying a memo window that is transparently or translucently overlaid on the screen on which the contents of the specific function are displayed and that supports free drawing; and

detecting an input of contents onto the memo window and storing the input of the contents onto the memo window upon receiving a request for storing.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

upon receiving a request for ending the memo function, closing the memo window and ending the memo function.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

zooming in or out the contents of the specific function together with the contents of the memo window upon receiving a request for zooming in or out the contents after displaying the memo window.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein upon receiving the request of the memo function, a speaker phone mode is used in a call until the memo function ends.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the input of the contents onto the memo window and storing the input of the contents onto the memo window upon receiving the request for storing comprises:

storing the contents of the specific function displayed on the screen and the contents input onto the memo window together.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein in storing the input of the contents onto the memo window upon receiving the request for storing only the contents displayed on the memo window are stored.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the contents displayed on the screen are stored as image data or run-length data.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

storing the contents of the specific function displayed on the screen in association with the input of the contents onto the memo window upon receiving the request for storing.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

responsive to identifying that the request of the memo function is received during a call, determining whether the call is made in a speaker phone mode;

responsive to determining that the call is not made in the speaker phone mode, switching to the speaker phone mode.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the memo window is overlaid on a window displayed on the screen and associated with the speaker phone mode.

11. An apparatus configured to input a memo in a touch screen terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a controller configured to display a memo window that is transparently or translucently overlaid on a screen on which contents of a specific function are displayed and supports free drawing upon receiving a request of a memo function while displaying the contents of the specific function on the screen, and detect an input of contents onto the memo window and storing the input of the contents onto the memo window upon receiving a request for storing.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to close the memo window and end the memo function upon receiving a request for ending the memo function.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to zoom in or out the contents of the specific function together with the contents of the memo window upon receiving a request for zooming in or out the contents after displaying the memo window.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to allow a speaker phone mode to be used in a call until the memo function ends upon receiving the request of the memo function.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to store the contents of the specific function displayed on the screen and the contents input onto the memo window together.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein in storing the input of the contents onto the memo window upon receiving the request for storing the controller is further configured to only store the contents displayed on the memo window.

17. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to store the contents displayed on the screen as image data or run-length data.

18. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to store the contents of the specific function displayed on the screen in association with the input of the contents onto the memo window upon receiving the request for storing.

19. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to determine, responsive to identifying that the request of the memo function is received during a call, whether the call is made in a speaker phone mode, and switch, responsive to determining that the call is not made in the speaker phone mode, to the speaker phone mode.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the memo window is overlaid on a window displayed on the screen and associated with the speaker phone mode.