USER TERMINAL DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING CONTENTS AND METHODS THEREOF

• US 20150015511A1
• Filed: 07/10/2014
• Published: 01/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KWAK, Ji-yeon, KIM, Yun-kyung, LEE, Yong-yeon, KIM, Hyun-jin, YOON, Yeo-jun, KUMAR, Nipun, SEO, Joon-kyu
• Granted Patent: US 9,817,486 B2
• 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 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3231 Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• 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 2203/04103 Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• 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 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 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 : for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 : Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 : Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 : Drag-and-drop
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 : by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 : in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 : Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 : Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/50 : in wire-line communication networks, e.g. low power modes or reduced link rate

Abstract

A display method of a user terminal device including a bended touch screen divided into a main area and a sub area, includes receiving a signal requesting displaying of an application installed in the user terminal device, and selectively displaying an application in one of a first layout and a second layout, in response to receiving the signal, in which the first layout corresponds to the sub area and the second layout corresponds to the main area.

Claims

1. An application display method of a user terminal device comprising a bended touch screen divided into a main area and a sub area, wherein the sub area is smaller than the main area, the main area and the sub area are defined by a bending line, and a surface comprising the main area and a surface comprising the sub area form an obtuse angle therebetween, the application display method comprising:

receiving a signal requesting displaying of an application installed in the user terminal device; and

selectively displaying the application in one of a first layout and a second layout, in response to receiving the signal,

wherein the first layout corresponds to the sub area and the second layout corresponds to the main area.

2. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on both of the main area and the sub area according to a third layout, which corresponds to both of the main area and the sub area, in response to receiving the signal.

3. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to a current status of the user terminal device indicating the first layout.

4. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to determining that a gaze of a user of the user terminal device is directed toward the sub area.

5. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to determining that at least part of the main area is obscured from a view of a user of the user terminal device.

6. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to determining that the application requires security.

7. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to an amount of charge remaining in a battery of the user terminal device being less than or equal to a predetermined value.

8. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to sensing a user gesture to move information displayed on the main area to the sub area.

9. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to the application being previously determined to be displayed only on the sub area.

10. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to considering priority order of information provided by the application.

11. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to the user terminal device being tilted by an angle which is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

12. The application display method of claim 1, wherein the selectively displaying further comprises:

displaying the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to another application being currently displayed on the main area.

13. A user terminal device, comprising:

a bended touch screen divided into a main area and a sub area, wherein the sub area is smaller than the main area, the main area and the sub area are defined by a bending line, and a surface comprising the main area and a surface comprising the sub area form an obtuse angle therebetween;

a memory configured to store an application; and

a controller configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application in one of a first layout corresponding to the sub area and a second layout corresponding to the main area, in response to receiving a signal requesting displaying of the application.

14. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on both of the main area and the sub area according to a third layout, which corresponds to both of the main area and the sub area, in response to receiving the signal.

15. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to a current status of the user terminal device indicating the first layout.

16. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to determining that a gaze of a user of the user terminal device is directed toward the sub area.

17. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to determining that at least part of the main area is obscured from a view of a user of the user terminal device.

18. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to determining that the application requires security.

19. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to an amount of charge remaining in a battery of the user terminal device being less than or equal to a predetermined value.

20. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to sensing a user gesture to move information displayed on the main area to the sub area.

21. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to the application being previously determined to be displayed only on the sub area.

22. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to considering priority order of information provided by the application.

23. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to the user terminal device being tilted by an angle which is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

24. The user terminal device of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to control the bended touch screen to selectively display the application on the sub area in the first layout, in response to another application being currently displayed on the main area.

25. A user terminal device comprising:

a front surface that is a touchscreen; and

a rear surface,

wherein the front surface comprises a curved touchscreen side surface connecting the front surface to the rear surface.

26. The user terminal device of claim 25, further comprising a controller configured to control the user terminal device to selectively display content on the curved touchscreen side surface.

27. The user terminal device of claim 25, wherein the front surface and the curved touchscreen side surface are a same touchscreen.

28. A user terminal device comprising:

a touchscreen comprising a flat front surface portion and a curved side surface portion; and

a controller configured to control the touchscreen to selectively display content on one of the flat front surface portion and the curved side surface portion.

29. The user terminal device of claim 28, wherein the touchscreen comprises a first touchscreen comprising the flat front surface portion and a second touchscreen comprising the curved side surface portion.

30. A user terminal device comprising:

a front surface that is a touchscreen;

a rear surface; and

a side surface that is a touchscreen,

wherein the front surface and the side surface form a same touchscreen.

31. The user terminal device of claim 30, further comprising a controller configured to selectively display content on one of the front surface and the side surface.

32. A user terminal device comprising:

a touchscreen comprising a planar main area and a deformed sub area,

wherein the planar main area and the deformed sub area are respectively disposed on adjacent sides of the user terminal device.

33. The user terminal device of claim 32, further comprising a controller configured to selectively display content on one of the planar main area and the deformed sub area.

34. A user terminal device comprising:

a front surface that is a flat touchscreen;

a rear surface; and

a side surface connecting the front surface to the rear surface,

wherein the side surface comprises a convex touchscreen.

35. The user terminal device of claim 34, wherein the side surface further comprises a support portion connecting the convex touchscreen to the rear surface.

36. The user terminal device of claim 35, further comprising a controller configured to control the user terminal device to selectively display content on one of the flat touchscreen and the convex touchscreen.