Device and method for displaying image in chatting area and server for managing chatting data

• US 9,847,955 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2013
• Issued: 12/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kakao Corp.
• Original Assignee: Kakao Corp.
• Inventors: Ji, Joo Hyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Choi, David
• Application Number:
  US14/437,005
• Publication Number:
  US 20150281145A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,520 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services

Abstract

There is provided a device that displays an image in a chatting area where a text is displayed. The device includes a data communication unit that receives a text from an external device via a network; a text display unit that displays the received text in the chatting area; an image search unit that searches for image data of an image selected through a user interface; a position detection unit that detects position information of a region selected through the user interface in the chatting area; and an image display unit that displays the searched image data in a region corresponding to the detected position information. Further, when the displayed text is shifted in the chatting area, the displayed image data are also shifted in the chatting area.

Claims

1. A method for displaying an image in a chatting area where a text is displayed, the method comprising:

receiving a text from an external device via a network;

displaying the received text in the chatting area;

searching for image data of an image selected through a user interface;

detecting position information for displaying the image data in a region selected through a user interface in the chatting area;

displaying the image data in a region corresponding to the detected position information;

shifting the displayed image data in the chatting area when the displayed text is shifted in the chatting area;

removing the displayed image data when the region where the image data are displayed is selected through the user interface;

displaying a notice message for notifying receipt of an external image data on a display of the device; and

when a request for purchasing an image data is input through the user interface, performing at least one payment process related to the requested image data.

2. A device that transmits and receives a chatting message, the device comprising:

a data communication unit that receives a text from an external device via a network;

a text display unit that displays the received text in a chatting area;

a position detection unit that detects position information of a text bubble selected through a user interface in the chatting area; and

an image display unit that displays the text bubble in the chatting area and makes the text bubble corresponding to the detected position information blinded,

wherein when the displayed text is shifted in the chatting area, the text bubble is also shifted in the chatting area while keeping the text bubble blinded.

3. The device of claim 2,

wherein when the image display unit makes the text bubble blinded, the data communication unit transmits the position information of the text bubble to a chatting data management server or the external device.

4. The device of claim 3,

wherein when the data communication unit receives an external position information of a text bubble of the external device, the image display unit makes a text bubble corresponding to the external position information blinded.