METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING FUNCTIONS OF PORTABLE TERMINAL HAVING BENDED DISPLAY

• US 20130300697A1
• Filed: 05/14/2013
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Youngri, KIM, Ilhwan, KIM, Jaehwan, LEE, Juyoun, CHO, Siejoon, KIM, Dongwoo, YOO, Jiyeon, CHA, Sangok
• Application Number:
  US13/894,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20130300697A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A portable terminal having a bended display divided into a main region of a front surface and a sub-region of a side of the portable terminal and operating functions of the portable terminal in connection with the main region and the sub-region, and a method of operating the same are provided. The method of operating functions of a portable terminal having a bended display, includes receiving an input of an event, determining a type of the input event, outputting event information, according to an internal event input based on the bended display, through at least one of a main region and a sub-region of the bended display when the input event is the internal event, and outputting event information, according to an external event input from an outside source, through the sub-region of the bended display when the input event is the external event.

Claims

1. A method of operating functions of a portable terminal having a bended display, the method comprising:

receiving an input of an event;

determining a type of the input event;

outputting event information, according to an internal event input based on the bended display, through at least one of a main region and a sub-region of the bended display when the input event is the internal event; and

outputting event information, according to an external event input from an outside source, through the sub-region of the beaded display when the input event is the external event.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an input of the internal event through the sub-region;

determining a quick command corresponding to the internal event;

executing the functions of the portable terminal corresponding to the quick command; and

displaying a screen corresponding to the execution of the functions on the main region,

wherein the internal event comprises a motion event.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the sub-region is divided into a plurality of quick regions for performing the quick command, and wherein the quick command is received through any one of the plurality of quick regions of the sub-region.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving an input of the internal event through the sub-region;

determining a control command of the internal event according to a screen of the main region; and

transitioning the screen of the main region corresponding to the control command,

wherein the internal event comprises at least one of a scroll event, a zoom-in/out event, and a slide up/down event.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving an input of the internal event to a jump item provided to the sub-region; and

moving a screen of the main region for each section corresponding to the jump item,

wherein the internal event comprises a jump event.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving an input of the internal event configured as contents for selecting the contents from the main region and for moving the contents to the sub-region; and

clipping and copying a clip item of the contents to the sub-region corresponding to the internal event,

wherein the internal event comprises a clip event.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving an input of a clip event moving the clip item of the sub-region to a screen of the main region; and

incorporating clip data corresponding to the clip item to the screen of the main region corresponding to the clip event.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

outputting charge information through the sub-region in response to the input of the external event,

wherein the external event comprises a charge event.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

outputting notice information through the sub-region in response to the input of the external event,

wherein the external event comprises a notice event.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining a size of an attached file corresponding to contents of the main region in response to the input of the external event; and

outputting a file size indicator corresponding to the determined size of the attached file through the sub-region,

wherein the external event comprises a file size determination event.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein file size indicators are displayed in divided regions of the sub-region through a bar pattern using only a part of the divided regions of the sub-region and at a boundary between the main region and the sub-region, and wherein the extent of the bar pattern is represented as a length in proportion to the size of the attached file.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a first input for selecting an index through the sub-region;

receiving a second input for indicating that position of the portable terminal varies in a state that the first input maintains; and

transitioning a screen of the main region to a screen configured based on index information and outputting the transitioned screen.

13. A portable terminal comprising:

a bended display;

a memory for storing at least one program; and

a controller for executing the at least one program to control an operation of functions of the portable terminal based on the bended display,

wherein the at least one program comprises commands for;

receiving an input of an event;

determining a type of the input event;

outputting event information, according to an internal event input based on the bended display, through at least one of a main region and a sub-region of the bended display when the input event is the internal event; and

outputting event information, according to an external event input from an outside source, through the sub-region of the bended display when the input event is the external event.

14. The portable terminal of claim 13, wherein the bended display comprises a main region of a front surface and a side of the portable terminal extending from the main region.

15. The portable terminal of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving a control command corresponding to the internal event through the sub-region, and outputting information associated with the internal event and the external event through the sub-region.

16. The portable terminal of claim 13, wherein the internal event comprises at least one of a motion event, a scroll event, a zoom-in/out event, a slide up/down event, a jump event, and a clip event.

17. The portable terminal of claim 13, wherein the external event comprises at least one of a charge event, a notice event, and a the size determination event.

18. The portable terminal of claim 17, wherein file size indicators are displayed in divided regions of the sub-region through a bar pattern using only a part of the divided regions of the sub-region and at a boundary between the main region and the sub-region, and wherein the extent of the bar pattern is represented as a length in proportion to a size of the attached file.

19. The portable terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller transitions a screen of the main region to a screen configured based on an index and outputs the transitioned screen, when a first input for selecting the index and a second input for varying a position of the portable terminal in a state the first input maintains are received, through the sub-region.

20. The portable terminal of claim 13, wherein the sub-region is divided into a plurality of quick regions for performing a quick command, and wherein the quick command is received through any one of the plurality of quick regions of the sub-region.

21. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for:

outputting event information, according to an internal event input based on a bended display, through at least one of a main region and a sub region of the bended display; and

outputting event information, according to an external event input from an outside source, through the sub-region of the bended display.