Electronic device and method for changing setting value

• US 9,129,546 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2013
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Chang-Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Sharifi-Tafreshi, Koosha
• Application Number:
  US13/974,518
• Publication Number:
  US 20140132531A1
• Time in Patent Office: 746 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/173, 715/863, 715/702, 715/810, 715/773, 715/779, 715/700, 715/716, 715/735, 715/835, 715/977
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for operating an electronic device for changing a setting value are provided. In the method, a touch input for a set region is detected, so that a mode is switched to a setting change mode for changing a stored setting value. At least one guide interface for receiving a change of at least one setting value among stored setting values is displayed. A predetermined gesture for an arbitrary region of the displayed at least one guide interface is detected, so that whether to store a changed at least one setting value is determined.

Claims

1. A method for operating an electronic device, the method comprising:

detecting a touch input for a set region to switch to a setting change mode for changing a stored setting value;

displaying at least one guide interface for receiving a change of at least one setting value among stored setting values; and

detecting a predetermined gesture for an arbitrary region of the displayed at least one guide interface to determine whether to store a changed at least one setting value,

wherein the determining of whether to store the changed at least one setting value comprises;

determining that an idle mode is being executed on a foreground;

receiving a touch input for an end of the idle mode being executed on the foreground; and

storing the changed at least one setting value, and then ending the idle mode being executed on the foreground.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the set region is an indicator area on which at least one icon representing a current state is arranged.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the touch input for the set region to switch to the setting change mode for changing the stored setting value comprises:

detecting the touch input for the set region for a set time or more; and

detecting the touch input to switch to the setting change mode.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, the at least one guide interface is a set shape for displaying that a drag is performed or that a touch is input in a first direction or a second direction from a set central region so that it controls one of the stored setting values.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing the detected gesture to change at least one of the stored setting values so that it matches the detected gesture; and

reflecting the changed at least one setting value to change a system setting value.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

executing one of the idle mode and stored at least one application on the foreground; and

detecting that the stored setting value has been reflected and that a system setting value has been changed.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of whether to store the changed at least one setting value comprises:

determining that an arbitrary application is being executed on a foreground;

receiving a touch input for an end of the application being executed on the foreground; and

ending the execution of the application without storing the changed at least one setting value.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

executing one of an idle mode and stored at least one application on the foreground; and

detecting a setting value before the change has been reflected and a system setting value has not changed.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

discriminating each application of a stored at least one application to store data information;

detecting that the data information of the at least one application has been stored by a set capacity or more; and

when determining that the application whose data information has been stored by the set capacity or more is being executed on a foreground, applying a setting value reflecting the stored data information.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the applying of the setting value reflecting the stored data information comprises:

reflecting at least one data information of an execution time of the application whose data information has been stored by the set capacity or more, Global Positioning System (GPS) information, and a battery capacity to apply the setting value.

11. An electronic device comprising:

a touchscreen configured to display at least one guide interface for receiving a change of at least one setting value among stored setting values; and

a processor unit configured to detect a touch input for a set region to switch to a setting change mode for changing the stored setting value, and to detect a predetermined gesture for an arbitrary region of the displayed at least one guide interface to determine whether to store a changed at least one setting value,

wherein the touchscreen receives a touch input for an end of an idle mode being executed on a foreground, and

wherein the processor unit determines that the idle mode is being executed on the foreground, stores the changed at least one setting value, and then ends the idle mode being executed on the foreground.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the set region comprises an indicator area on which at least one icon representing a current state is arranged.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor unit detects the touch input for the set region for a set time or more to switch to the setting change mode.

14. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the at least one guide interface is a set shape for displaying that a drag is performed or that a touch is input in a first direction or a second direction from a set central region so that it controls one of the stored setting values.

15. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor unit analyzes the detected gesture to change at least one of the stored setting values so that it matches the detected gesture, and reflects the changed at least one setting value to change a system setting value.

16. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor unit executes one of the idle mode and stored at least one application on the foreground, and detects that the stored setting value has been reflected and a system setting value has been changed.

17. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the touchscreen receives a touch input for an end of an arbitrary application being executed on a foreground, and

the processor unit determines that the arbitrary application is being executed on a foreground, and ends the execution of the application without storing the changed at least one setting value.

18. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the processor unit executes one of the idle mode and stored at least one application on the foreground, and detects a setting value before the change has been reflected and a system setting value has not changed.

19. The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising:

a memory for discriminating each application of a stored at least one application to store data information,

wherein the processor unit detects that data information of the at least one application has been stored by a set capacity or more, and when determining that the application whose data information has been stored by the set capacity or more is being executed on a foreground, applies a setting value reflecting the stored data information.

20. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein the processor unit reflects at least one data information of an execution time of the application whose data information has been stored by the set capacity or more, Global Positioning System (GPS) information, and a battery capacity to apply the setting value.