USER INTERFACE OPERATING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH THE USER INTERFACE AND PROGRAM PRODUCT STORING PROGRAM FOR OPERATING THE USER INTERFACE

• US 20140101188A1
• Filed: 12/26/2012
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: LIN, Kuei-Hong, SHIUE, De-Hui, TSENG, Hsiang-Pei
• Granted Patent: US 9,330,098 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/43 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/438 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A user interface operating method, an electronic device with the user interface and a program product storing a program for operating the user interface are disclosed. A user interface operating method includes steps of displaying a time image, a multimedia object corresponding to a time point in the time image, and first information of the multimedia object corresponding to the time point on a user interface of an electronic device; triggering a search process if the time image and the multimedia object corresponding to the time point in the time image overlap with each other on the user interface, the search process including searching for, based on the first information, multimedia objects corresponding to other time points in the time image related to the first information; and displaying on the user interface the multimedia objects corresponding to other time points in the time image and found in the search process.

Claims

1. A user interface operating method, comprising the following steps of:

displaying a time image, a multimedia object corresponding to a time point in the time image, and first information of the multimedia object corresponding to the time point on a user interface of an electronic device;

triggering a search process if the time image and the multimedia object corresponding to the time point in the time image overlap with each other on the user interface, the search process including searching for, based on the first information, multimedia objects corresponding to other time points in the time image related to the first information; and

displaying on the user interface the multimedia objects corresponding to the other time points in the time image and found in the search process.

2. The user interface operating method of claim 1, wherein the search process further includes searching for, based on the first information, second information related to the first information.

3. The user interface operating method of claim 2, further comprising displaying the second information found in the search process on the user interface.

4. The user interface operating method of claim 1, further comprising the step of, before displaying on the user interface the multimedia objects corresponding to the other time points in the time image and found in the search process, checking bandwidth or communication quality of the electronic device in order to determine the number of multimedia objects corresponding to other time points to be displayed on the user interface.

5. The user interface operating method of claim 1, wherein the user interface displays a switch object.

6. The user interface operating method of claim 5, further comprising the step of, when the multimedia objects corresponding to the time point in the time image has a plurality of targets, switching between the first information of different targets in the multimedia object displayed on the user display through the switch object.

7. The user interface operating method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia object can be a picture, a picture combined with texts, a picture combined with audio or a video clip.

8. A program product storing a program for operating a user interface, when being loaded and executed on a computer, the user interface operating method of claim 1 being accomplished.

9. An electronic device with a user interface, comprising:

a user interface for displaying a time image, a multimedia object corresponding to a time point in the time image, and first information of the multimedia object corresponding to the time point;

a trigger module for triggering a search process if the time image and the multimedia object corresponding to the time point in the time image overlap with each other on the user interface, wherein the search process includes searching for, based on the first information, multimedia objects corresponding to other time points in the time image related to the first information; and

a display module for displaying on the user interface the multimedia objects corresponding to the other time points in the time image and found in the search process.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the search process further includes searching for, based on the first information, second information related to the first information, and the display module further displays on the user interface the second information found in the search process.

11. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the user interface further displays a switch object.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising a switch module for, when the multimedia object corresponding to the time point in the time image has a plurality of targets and the switch object is operated, switching between the first information of different targets in the multimedia objects displayed on the user display through the switch object.

13. The electronic device of claim 9, further comprising an inspection module for checking the bandwidth or communication quality of the electronic device in order to determine the number of multimedia objects at other time points to be displayed on the user interface.

14. A user interface operating method, comprising the following steps of:

displaying a time image and a multimedia object on a user interface;

retrieving data in the multimedia object when a touch on the user interface is detected; and

triggering a search process if the time image and the multimedia object overlap with each other on the user interface, the search process including searching for multimedia information related to the data in the multimedia object.

15. A program product storing a program for operating a user interface, when being loaded and executed on a computer, the user interface operating method of claim 14 being accomplished.