Method for providing link and electronic apparatus thereof

• US 8,522,141 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2011
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kwon, O-jae, Kim, Yoo-tai, Cho, Bong-hyun, Yang, Gyung-hye, Park, Eun-hee, Yoon, Soo-yeoun
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, CONG LAC T
• Application Number:
  US12/984,317
• Publication Number:
  US 20110209037A1
• Time in Patent Office: 966 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/255, 715/273
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking

Abstract

A method for providing a link in an electronic apparatus capable of reproducing contents, includes storing a first part of a first contents in a link storage area, forming a link between a second part of a second contents and the first part stored in the link storage area, and if the link is selected, displaying the first part while a contents screen including the second part is displayed. Accordingly, a user may easily find related contents from among contents stored in the electronic apparatus as a link is formed between related contents.

Claims

1. A method for providing a link in an electronic apparatus which is capable of reproducing a plurality of contents, the method comprising:

selecting a first part of the plurality of contents;

storing the first part in a link storage area;

forming a link between a second part of the plurality of contents and the first part stored in the link storage area when the first part is selected; and

displaying the first part on the contents screen which includes the second part, if a connection icon is selected while a contents screen including the second part is displayed.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storing comprises storing a thumbnail image of the first part of the first contents in the link storage area.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the forming the link comprises:

displaying a link generation icon on the second part;

displaying the link storage area if the link generation icon is selected; and

forming a link between the second part and the first part if the thumbnail image of the first part stored in the link storage area is selected.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the storing, comprising:

registering a tag relating to the first part in the thumbnail image of the first part; and

storing the registered tag along with the thumbnail image of the first part in the link storage area.

5. The method according to claim 1, comprising:

displaying the connection icon on the contents screen which includes the second part, if the link is formed between the second part and the first part,

wherein the displaying displays the first part on the contents screen which includes the second part if the displayed connection icon is selected while the contents screen which includes the second part is displayed.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

converting the contents screen which includes the second part into a contents screen which includes the first part, if the first part displayed on the contents screen which includes the second part is selected.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first contents are the same as the second contents.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the contents are image contents or audio contents.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic apparatus is an E-book device.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the first part displays the first part to overlap the second part.

11. The method according to claim 1 further comprising selecting the first part and the second part to be linked based on a user requirement and the forming of the link comprises forming the link based on the user requirement.

12. The method according to claim 1 further comprising displaying the link storage area on the contents screen.

13. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a display unit; and

a controlling unit which selects a first part a plurality of contents, stores the selected first part in a link storage area, forms a link between a second part of the plurality of contents and the first part stored in the link storage area when the first part is selected, and if a connection icon is selected while a contents screen which includes the second part is displayed, the first part is displayed on the contents screen which includes the second part.

14. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the controlling unit stores a thumbnail image of the first part of the first contents in the link storage area.

15. The electronic apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises:

a GUI unit to generate a link generation icon,

wherein the controlling unit generates a link generation icon on the contents screen which includes the second part, and if the link generation icon is selected, the controlling unit displays the link storage area,

and wherein if the thumbnail image of the first part stored in the link storage area is selected, the controlling unit forms the link between a second part of the second content and the first part of the first content.

16. The electronic apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising:

a manipulation unit to receive a user'"'"'s command,

wherein the controlling unit registers a tag relating to the first part in the thumbnail image of the first part according to a user'"'"'s command received through the manipulation unit, and stores the registered tag along with the thumbnail image of the first part.

17. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein if the link is formed between the second part and the first part, the controlling unit displays the connection icon on the contents screen which includes the second part, and if the connection icon is selected while the contents screen which includes the second part is displayed, the controlling unit displays the first part on the contents screen which includes the second part.

18. The electronic apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the controlling unit converts the contents screen which includes the second part into a contents screen which includes the first part, if the first part is selected on the contents screen including the second part.

19. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the first contents are the same as the second contents.

20. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the contents are image contents or audio contents.

21. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the electronic apparatus is an E-book device.

22. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein if the link is selected while the contents screen which includes the second part is displayed, the first part is displayed to overlap the second part.

23. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the control unit selects the first part and the second part to be linked based on a user requirement and forms the link based on the user requirement.

24. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the controlling unit controls the display unit to display the link storage area on the contents screen.