DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF EDITING DISPLAYED LETTERS IN THE DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20130179778A1
• Filed: 01/07/2013
• Published: 07/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Dong-jin, LEE, Hye-jeong, CHOI, Sung-wook
• Application Number:
  US13/735,471
• Publication Number:
  US 20130179778A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/256
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0233 Character input methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A display apparatus and method of editing displayed letters in the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes an input unit for displaying a plurality of input letters in response to receiving a user command; a display unit for, when a plurality of letters is input through the input unit, displaying the plurality of the input letters; and a control unit for selecting a character string including the selected letter and controlling the display unit to divide and display the selected character string based on a preset edit unit when a selection command is input for at least one of the plurality of the displayed letters through the input unit, selecting a character string comprising the selected letter and controlling the display unit to divide and display the selected character string based on a preset edit unit. The control unit edits the selected character string based on the preset edit unit.

Claims

1. A method of editing letters displayed on a display apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of letters input by a user;

when a selection command is input for at least one of the plurality of the displayed letters, selecting a character string including the selected letter;

dividing and displaying the selected character string based on a preset edit unit; and

editing the selected character string based on the preset edit unit, according to a user command.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation of dividing and displaying based on the preset edit unit displays as separate icons the selected character string divided into the preset edit unit.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation of dividing and displaying based on the preset edit unit enlarges and displays the selected character string.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation of dividing and displaying based on the preset edit unit displays the selected character string in at least one of an original form input by the user and an anticipated modification form of the selected character string.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation of dividing and displaying based on the preset edit unit determines whether it is necessary to modify the selected character string, divides and displays only a part that needs modification of the selected character string, based on the preset edit unit.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the preset edit unit is at least one of a word, a syllable, a phoneme, a number and a symbol.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein, when an icon which corresponds to the preset edit unit is selected, the operation of editing the selected character string performs at least one of modification, deletion and location change of the selected icon, according to the user command.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the user command is at least one of drag and drop, flicking, pointing, click and tap.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein, when a region between at least two icons which correspond to the preset edit unit is selected, the operation of editing the selected character string inserts an icon which corresponds to a new letter input into the selected region, according to the user command.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the display apparatus receives the letter using an On Screen Keyboard.

11. A display apparatus comprising:

an input which receives a user command;

a display which displays the plurality of the input letters when a plurality of letters is input through the input unit,; and

a controller which controls a character string including the selected letter and controlling the display unit to divide and display the selected character string based on a preset edit when a selection command is input for at least one of the plurality of the displayed letters through the input unit, wherein the controller edits the selected character string based on the preset edit unit, according to a user command of editing the letters.

12. The display apparatus of claim 11, wherein the display displays, as separate icons, the character string divided into the preset edit unit.

13. The display apparatus of claim 11, wherein the display enlarges and displays the selected character string.

14. The display apparatus of claim 11, wherein the display displays the selected character string in at least one of an original form input by the user and an anticipated modification form of the selected character string.

15. The display apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller determines whether it is necessary to modify the selected character string, and controls the display to divide and display only a part of the selected character string which needs modification based on the preset edit unit.

16. The display apparatus of claim 11, wherein the preset edit is at least one of a word, a syllable, a phoneme, a number and a symbol.

17. The display apparatus of claim 12, wherein the controller selects an icon which corresponds to the preset edit unit and performs at least one of modification, deletion and location change of the selected icon for editing the letters according to the user command.

18. The display apparatus of claim 17, wherein the user command of editing the letters is at least one of drag and drop, flicking, pointing, click and tap.

19. The display apparatus of claim 17, wherein the control unit selects a region between at least two icons which correspond to the preset edit unit and inserts an icon which corresponds to a new input letter into the selected region for editing the letters according to the user command

20. The display apparatus of claim 11, wherein the display apparatus receives the letter using an On Screen Keyboard.