User terminal device and display method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10048824-B2
Application number	US-201414245269-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 4, 2014
Priority date	Apr 26, 2013
Publication date	Aug 14, 2018
Grant date	Aug 14, 2018

Abstract

A user terminal device is disclosed. The user terminal device includes a display, an inputter configured to receive a user drawing manipulation, a storage configured to store an image generated by the user drawing manipulation and information of a control operation matched with at least one part of the image, and a controller configured to display a home screen composed of a plurality of display layers sequentially overlaid on the display, and display the image on at least one display layer from among the plurality of display layers. The controller may be further configured to, in response to one part of the image being selected, perform the control operation matched with the selected part. Accordingly, a user's own home screen can be displayed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A user terminal device, comprising:
a display;
a detector configured to detect a user input on the display;
a storage configured to store an image drawn by the user input and information on a plurality of control operations matched with the image, each of the plurality of control operations being matched with a different part of the image, respectively; and
a controller configured to control the display to display the image, wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to one part of the image being selected, perform a control operation, matched with the selected part, among the plurality of control operations, and
wherein the controller is further configured to divide the image drawn by the user input into the different parts by classifying each area of the image into one of the different parts based on the user input.

2. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the display to display a home screen comprising a plurality of display layers sequentially overlaid,
wherein the image is displayed on a display layer among the plurality of display layers, and
wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to the image being a background image, divide the background image into a plurality of parts based on the user input, match each of the plurality of control operations with different parts of the background image respectively.

3. The user terminal device of claim 2 , wherein the controller determines a location on the home screen where the user input occurred and replaces an object in the determined location with the user input and wherein the object is at least one of an icon for executing an application, playing back multimedia contents, and a widget.

4. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the controller is further configured to display the background image on a bottom display layer from among the plurality of display layers.

5. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to the image being a widget, display the widget on an area of a top display layer from among the plurality of display layers.

6. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to the image being an icon, display the icon on at least one display layer from among the plurality of display layers which overlays a display layer from among the plurality of display layers where a background image is displayed, and provide the home screen where the background image is combined with the icon.

7. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the home screen is composed of one page unit screen,
wherein the controller is further configured to enlarge or reduce a size of the image according to a corresponding one of a zoom-in manipulation and a zoom-out manipulation.

8. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to a scroll manipulation to scroll the home screen being detected, display the home screen by scrolling the home screen.

9. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the image, in response to the home screen being displayed on the display, is capable of being directly drawn on a surface of the display by the user input.

10. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to, during the dividing of the drawn image into the different parts, display a recommended control operation information corresponding to a feature in an area of the image from among said each area of the image, and
in response to one control operation being selected from among the recommended control information, match the selected control operation said one part of the image.

11. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to a control operation to be matched with the image being selected before the image is drawn by the user input, display a reference image corresponding to the selected control operation, and in response to a user manipulation being performed to modify the reference image, match the modified reference image and the selected control operation and store corresponding matching information in the storage.

12. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to a control operation to be matched with the image being selected before the image is drawn by the user input, display a reference object corresponding to the selected control operation as a watermark.

13. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to a screen editing menu being selected, display a screen including a first area in which the image can be drawn by the user input and a second area in which a control operation to be matched with the image can be selected.

14. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a communicator configured to communicate with an external server,
wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to a sharing command being input, upload, to the external server, home screen data including the image.

15. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to a new home screen data drawn by another user being downloaded from the external server, convert the home screen based on the new home screen data.

16. The user terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the control operation comprises at least one of displaying an execution screen with respect to at least one application represented by the user input and playing back multimedia contents represented by the user input.

17. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of control operations are independently executable from other ones of the plurality of control operations.

18. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 17 , wherein the controller is further configured to automatically detect the different parts of the image based on analyzing the image, generate a plurality of transparent objects corresponding to the automatically detected different parts, control the storage to store pixel coordinate values for each of the plurality of transparent objects, and match one of the plurality of control operations to each of the plurality of transparent objects.

19. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 17 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the display to display a graphic divider on the image within the user input of the displayed image.

20. A device, comprising:
a detector configured to detect a pen input;
a storage; and
a controller configured to store, in response to an image being drawn by the pen input, information on the image drawn by the pen input and information on a plurality of control operations matched with the image, each of the plurality of control operations being matched with a different part of the image respectively,
wherein the controller is further configured to provide the image to at least one page of a home screen, and in response to one part of the image being selected, perform a control operation, from among the plurality of control operations, matched with the selected part, and
wherein the controller is further configured to divide the image drawn by the pen input into the diffe

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jung Jong-Woo
• Myung In-Sik
• Rhee Taik-Heon
• Cho Dong-Bin

Classifications

• G06F3/04845

  for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour · CPC title

• G06F15/16

  Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs {(coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B)} · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/048 Primary

  Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title