Electronic device and method of operating the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10664129-B2
Application number	US-201815943263-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 2, 2018
Priority date	Mar 31, 2017
Publication date	May 26, 2020
Grant date	May 26, 2020

Abstract

An electronic device is provided and includes a touch screen and a processor that is configured to display a first object among a plurality of sequentially arranged objects on the touch screen, display, when a first user input that satisfies a designated condition is detected via the touch screen while the first object is displayed, a second object arranged subsequent to the first object according to an arrangement order among the plurality of objects on the touch screen, and display, when a second user input that does not satisfy the designated condition is detected via the touch screen while the first object is displayed, a third object designated regardless of the arrangement order among the plurality of objects on the touch screen.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a touch screen; and
a processor configured to:
display a first object among a plurality of sequentially arranged objects on the touch screen,
display, when a first user input that satisfies a first condition is detected via the touch screen while the first object is displayed, a second object arranged subsequent to the first object according to an arrangement order among the plurality of objects on the touch screen, and
display, when a second user input that satisfies a second condition is detected via the touch screen while the first object is displayed, a third object designated regardless of the arrangement order among the plurality of objects on the touch screen.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein,
when a user input is detected within a designated threshold line on the touch screen, the processor is further configured to determine the detected user input to be the first user input, and
when the user input is detected outside the designated threshold line on the touch screen, the processor is further configured to determine the detected user input to be the second user input.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein, when the first object is an object corresponding to a last object among the plurality of sequentially arranged objects, the processor is further configured to display the object corresponding to the last order on the touch screen as the second object.

4. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein, when the first user input that satisfies the first condition is detected, the processor is further configured to display a portion of the third object up to a predetermined reference line of the touch screen for a designated time, and then to display the second object on the touch screen.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein, when the first object is an object corresponding to a last object among the plurality of objects, the processor is further configured to display an object corresponding to a first object among the plurality of objects on the touch screen as the third object.

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the user input is one of a touch input, a drag input, a scrolling input, a flick input, a swipe input, and a force touch input.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein,
when a user input is detected within a designated threshold value for a touch input distance on the touch screen, the processor is further configured to determine the detected user input to be the first user input, and
when the user input is detected outside the designated threshold value for the touch input distance on the touch screen, the processor is further configured to determine the detected user input to be the second user input.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein,
when a difference between a distance of a user input detected on the touch screen and a distance of a previously detected touch input is greater than a designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user input to be the second user input, and
when the difference between the distance of the user input detected on the touch screen and the distance of the previously detected touch input is less than or equal to the designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user input to be the first user input.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein,
when a cumulative number of user inputs detected on the touch screen is greater than a designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user input to be the second user input, and
when the cumulative number of user inputs detected on the touch screen is less than or equal to the designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user input to be the first user input.

10. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein, when the plurality of sequentially arranged objects, which is displayed on the touch screen, is changed, the processor is further configured to initialize the cumulative number of the user inputs.

11. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein,
when a size of a user force touch input detected on the touch screen is less than or equal to a designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user force touch input to be the first user input, and
when the size of the user force touch input detected on the touch screen is greater than the designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user force touch input to be the second user input.

12. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein,
when a difference between an occurrence time of a user input detected on the touch screen and an occurrence time of a previously detected user input is less than or equal to a designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user input to be the second user input, and
when the difference between the occurrence time of the user input detected on the touch screen and the occurrence time of the previously detected user input is greater than the designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user input to be the first user input.

13. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein,
when a speed of a user input detected on the touch screen is greater than a designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user input to be the second user input, and
when the speed of the user input detected on the touch screen is greater than the designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user input to be the first user input.

14. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein,
when a time during which a user input detected on the touch screen is retained is greater than a designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user input to be the second user input, and
when the time during which the user input detected on the touch screen is retained is less than or equal to the designated threshold value, the processor is further configured to determine the user input to be the first user input.

15. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein, when reference information on one or more objects exists for the plurality of objects, the processor is further configured to configure an object designated regardless of the arrangement order among the one or more objects in which the reference information exists as the third object.

16. An electronic device comprising:
a touch screen; and
a processor configured to:
display a first portion of an object on the touch screen to correspond to a screen region of the touch screen,
display, when the first user input is detected via the touch screen while the first portion is displayed a second portion of the object subsequent to the first portion on the touch screen according to the same direction as a direction of a first user input that satisfies a first condition, and
display, when the second user input is detected via the touch screen while the first portion is displayed, a third portion of the object on the touch screen designated regardless of a direction of a second user input that satisfies a second condition.

17. The electronic device of claim 16 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine a size of the second portion and a size of the third portion to correspond to a size of the screen region of the touch screen.

18. The electronic device of claim 16 , wherein,
when

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Jae-Myoung
• Kim Young-Mi
• Kim Young-Seong
• Nam Seung-Wook
• Bang Hyo-Sang
• Lee Sang-Su
• Lee Youngjay
• Lim Kyung-Soo
• Yim Soe-Youn
• Jung Martin
• Cho Jin-Hoon
• LEE Hyun-Yeul

Classifications

• G06F3/0485

  Scrolling or panning · CPC title

• G06F3/0483

  Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor · CPC title

• G06F3/047

  using sets of wires, e.g. crossed wires · CPC title

• G06F3/04883 Primary

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title

• G06F3/0414

  using force sensing means to determine a position · CPC title