METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING SCREEN ON ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20150242065A1
• Filed: 02/23/2015
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KO, Kwanghyun, KANG, Doosuk, PARK, Yonghak, JEONG, Woojin, LEE, Youngsu, CHO, Junhee
• Application Number:
  US14/628,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20150242065A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/38 with means for controlling the display position

Abstract

Disclosed is a screen display method, including recognizing a request for displaying a size-adjusted screen, displaying the size-adjusted screen on one region of a display unit in response to the request, and displaying an auxiliary screen on an outside region of the size-adjusted screen.

Claims

1. A screen display method of an electronic device, comprising:

recognizing a request for displaying a size-adjusted screen; and

displaying the size-adjusted screen on one region of a display unit in response to the request, and displaying an auxiliary screen on an outside region of the size-adjusted screen, the outside region being outside of a perimeter of the size-adjusted screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein recognizing the request includes at least one of:

recognizing an occurrence of a predefined user event as the request for displaying the size-adjusted screen; and

recognizing an occurrence of a communication event or a predefined screen change event in a full screen display state.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the auxiliary screen includes an outer display bar and a menu area which display at least one of a contact list, an application list, and a notification in response to a selection by a user,

wherein the outer display bar is displayed adjacent to a part of the size-adjusted screen, and

wherein the menu area is displayed as a fixed area on a part of a full screen.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the menu area further displays the application according to one of a higher frequency of use, whether a display is set by the user, whether an application executed in the size-adjusted screen is linked to the application in the menu area, or whether a category of the application is identical to a category of the application executed in the size-adjusted screen.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the size-adjusted screen includes displaying direction information indicating a direction of a detected external target on a first part of the outside region, the first part facing the external target, and displaying the size-adjusted screen on a second part of the outside region, the second part being different than the first part.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the size-adjusted screen includes displaying on the outside region an application execution screen which displays one of a user-selected application or a specific application associated with an application executed on the size-adjusted screen, and

wherein the application displayed on the outside region is displayed differently than the application executed on the size-adjusted screen in at least one of scale and content type.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the size-adjusted screen includes displaying a peripheral device allowing a key input on the outside region, and

wherein when the peripheral device is displayed on the outside region, the peripheral device is recognized as being connected to the electronic device.

8. A screen display apparatus of an electronic device, comprising:

a display unit configured to display a size-adjusted screen changed from a full screen of the electronic device and to display an auxiliary screen in an outside region of the size-adjusted screen; and

a control unit configured to recognize a request for displaying the size-adjusted screen and, based on the request, to control the display unit to display the size-adjusted screen and the auxiliary screen.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the control unit is further configured to determine, as the request for displaying the size-adjusted screen, an occurrence of at least one of a predefined user event and a communication event or a predefined screen change event in a full screen display state.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the control unit is further configured to control displaying, as the auxiliary screen, an outer display bar and a menu area which display at least one of a contact list, an application list, and a notification in response to a selection by a user, displaying the outer display bar adjacent to a part of the size-adjusted screen, and displaying the menu area as a fixed area on a part of the full screen.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the menu area displays the application according to one of a higher frequency of use, whether the display is set by the user, whether an application executed in the size-adjusted screen is linked, or whether a category of the application is identical to a category of the application executed in the size-adjusted screen.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the control unit is further configured to control displaying direction information indicating a direction of a detected external target on a first part of the outside region, the first part facing the external target, and to control displaying the size-adjusted screen on a second part of the outside region, the second part being different than the first part.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the control unit is further configured to control displaying on the outside region an application execution screen which displays one of a user-selected application or a specific application associated with an application executed on the size-adjusted screen, and to control the application displayed on the outside region to be displayed differently than the application executed on the size-adjusted screen in at least one of scale and content type.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the control unit is further configured to control displaying a peripheral device allowing a key input on the outside region, and to recognize, when the peripheral device is displayed on the outside region, that the peripheral device is connected to the electronic device.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having recorded thereon a program for executing a screen display method of an electronic device, comprising:

recognizing a request for displaying a size-adjusted screen; and

displaying the size-adjusted screen on one region of a display unit in response to the request, and displaying an auxiliary screen on an outside region of the size-adjusted screen, the outside region being outside of a perimeter of the size-adjusted screen.