METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCROLLING SCREEN OF DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20140168120A1
• Filed: 12/06/2013
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Jae-Myoung, WON, Sung-Joon
• Application Number:
  US14/099,185
• Publication Number:
  US 20140168120A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method of scrolling a screen of a display device is provided. The method includes when a flick input is generated in a display state of a list view, determining whether a predetermined additional touch input, which is temporally and spatially associated with the flick input or is functionally associated with a performance of an operation according to the flick input, is generated according to a predetermined reference, and when the additional touch input is generated according to the predetermined reference, displaying at a topmost or bottommost part of list items of the list view according to a state of the flick input.

Claims

1. A method of scrolling a screen of a display device, the method comprising:

when a flick input is generated in a display state of a list view, determining whether a predetermined additional touch input, which is temporally and spatially associated with the flick input or is functionally associated with a performance of an operation according to the corresponding flick input, is generated according to a predetermined reference; and

when the additional touch input is generated according to the predetermined reference, displaying a topmost or bottommost part of list items of the list view according to a state of the flick input.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the temporally associated additional touch input comprises the predetermined touch input generated at least one time within a predetermined reference time when the flick input is generated.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the additional touch input comprises another flick input.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the spatially associated additional touch input comprises the flick input generated in a multi-touch scheme when the flick input is generated.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the generation of the flick input in the multi-touch scheme when the flick input is generated comprises simultaneous generation of a plurality of flick inputs at a plurality of points.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the generation of the flick input in the multi-touch scheme when the flick input is generated comprises generation of at least one flick input at each of a plurality of points and at least one touch input fixed at a position.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional touch input, which is functionally associated with the performance of the operation according to the flick input, comprises a touch input additionally input before a completion of a scrolling operation according to the flick input.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the additionally input touch input comprises another flick input.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein when the additional touch input is generated according to the predetermined reference, an image, to which an effect of higher-speed moving than an image moving speed during a general screen scrolling operation is added, is displayed according to the state of the flick input, and the topmost or bottommost part of the list items of the list view are displayed according to the state of the flick input.

10. A machine readable non-transitory storage medium encoded with a program for executing the method of scrolling the screen according to claim 1.

11. A portable terminal comprising the machine readable non-temporary storage medium of claim 10.

12. A portable terminal comprising:

an operation unit;

a display unit; and

at least one controller configured to determine, when a flick input is generated in a display state of a list view, whether a predetermined additional touch input, which is temporally and spatially associated with the flick input or is functionally associated with a performance of an operation according to the corresponding flick input, is generated according to a predetermined reference, and to display, when the additional touch input is generated according to the predetermined reference, a topmost or bottommost part of list items of the list view according to a state of the flick input.

13. The portable terminal of claim 12, wherein the temporally associated additional touch input comprises the predetermined touch input generated at least one time within a predetermined reference time when the flick input is generated.

14. The portable terminal of claim 13, wherein the additional touch input comprises another flick input.

15. The portable terminal of claim 12, wherein the spatially associated additional touch input comprises the flick input generated in a multi-touch scheme when the flick input is generated.

16. The portable terminal of claim 15, wherein the at least one controller is further configured to simultaneous generate, when generating the flick input in the multi-touch scheme when the flick input is generated, a plurality of flick inputs at a plurality of points.

17. The portable terminal of claim 15, wherein the at least one controller is further configured to generate, when generating the flick input in the multi-touch scheme when the flick input is generated, at least one flick input at each of a plurality of points and at least one touch input fixed at a position.

18. The portable terminal of claim 12, wherein the additional touch input, which is functionally associated with the performance of the operation according to the flick input, comprises a touch input additionally input before a completion of a scrolling operation according to the flick input.

19. The portable terminal of claim 18, wherein the additionally input touch input comprises another flick input.

20. The portable terminal of claim 12, wherein the at least one controller is further configured to control to display, when the additional touch input is generated according to the predetermined reference, an image, to which an effect of higher-speed moving than an image moving speed during a general screen scrolling operation is added, according to the state of the flick input, and to control to display the topmost or bottommost part of the list items of the list view, according to the state of the flick input.