Method of displaying for user interface effect and electronic device thereof

• US 9,804,762 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2015
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Ho Young, Bae, Soo Jung, Lee, Min Hee, Choi, Hye Ryoung, Jang, Chul Ho, Kim, Ha Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdul-Ali, Omar
• Application Number:
  US14/721,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20150339047A1
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/165 the additional display being small, e.g. for presenting status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• 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 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first display and a second display, a display module configured to display a first display screen on the first display and a second display screen on the second display, a sensing module configured to detect an event corresponding to a rotation of the electronic device, and a processor configured to respectively determine whether to rotate each of a plurality of objects included in the first display screen based on the event.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display configured to include a first display screen and a second display screen;

a display module configured to display a first display screen on the display and a second display screen on the display, wherein the first display screen includes at least one first object and the second display screen includes at least one second object;

a sensing module configured to detect an event corresponding to a rotation of the electronic device; and

a processor configured to determine whether to rotate the at least one first object included in the first display screen based on the event independently of a rest of the at least one first object and the at least one second object.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the processor determines whether to rotate the first display screen based on the event.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2,

wherein the processor determines whether to rotate the second display screen based on the event;

and

wherein whether to rotate the first display screen and whether to rotate the second display screen are determined differently from each other.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the second display screen and the at least one second object included in the second display screen rotate in the same direction based on the event.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first object and the at least one second object comprise an image object and a text object.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein if the electronic device disposed vertically rotates to be disposed horizontally, the processor rotates the image object and does not rotate the text object.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the image object is determined to rotate 90 degrees in a clockwise direction.

8. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the processor determines whether to rotate the first display screen based on a rotation direction of the electronic device.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein if the electronic device rotates in a clockwise direction, the processor rotates the first display screen 180 degrees in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction.

10. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the object further comprises a page indicator object and the processor does not rotate the page indicator object.

11. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the first display screen is rotated during a rotation process of the electronic device, and the processor determines a rotation angle of the first display screen to be proportional to a rotation angle of the electronic device.

12. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the first display screen fades in after fading out during a rotation process of the electronic device.

13. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the first display screen is zoomed in after being zoomed out during a rotation process of the electronic device.

14. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the first display screen rotates based on a major axis of the first display screen during a rotation process of the electronic device.

15. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the first display screen is scrolled in one direction of the first display screen during a rotation process of the electronic device.

16. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the sensing module detects a rotation of the electronic device or a user'"'"'s face direction with respect to the electronic device.

17. The electronic device according to claim 16, wherein the sensing module detects an angle formed by a longitudinal axis of the first display screen and a vertical axis formed by a direction of a gaze of the user'"'"'s eyes.

18. A method of displaying a user interface (UI) effect, the method comprising:

displaying a first display screen and a second display screen, wherein the first display screen includes at least one first object and the second display screen includes at least one second object;

detecting an event corresponding to a rotation of an electronic device; and

determining whether to rotate each of the at least first object included in the first display screen based on the event independently of a rest of the at least one first object and the at least one second object.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising:

rotating the at least one first object included in the first display screen according to a result of the determination.

20. The method according to claim 18, further comprising:

determining whether to rotate the at least one second object included in the second display screen; and

rotating the at least one second object included in the second display screen according to a result of the determination.