Method of configuring watch screen and wearable electronic device implementing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11327446-B2
Application number	US-201916716635-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2019
Priority date	Aug 25, 2014
Publication date	May 10, 2022
Grant date	May 10, 2022

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of configuring a watch screen and a wearable electronic device implementing the same, which displays various pieces of information provided by an application, in an icon form, to enable a user to easily identify the information. A method of configuring a watch screen, the method comprising selecting one of a plurality of predetermined watch screens, thereby resulting in a selected watch screen; determining at least one icon of a plurality of predetermined icons as components of the selected watch screen; and displaying the selected watch screen, wherein the selected watch screen includes the at least one icon.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wearable device comprising:
a display;
at least one processor; and
a memory configured to store instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
control the display to display a watch screen indicating time and including a first icon associated with a first application of a plurality of applications,
in response to a first user input on the watch screen, control the display to display a first user interface including a reduced-size version of the watch screen, at least a portion of a first user interface item for selecting another watch screen to be displayed on the display from a plurality of watch screens, and a second user interface item for configuring the watch screen or the other watch screen, wherein the first user interface item is a reduced-sized version of the other watch screen such that the second user interface item is displayed in a portion of the display outside portions of the display displaying the reduced-size version of the watch screen and the first user interface item,
in response to a second user input on the second user interface item to configure the other watch screen, control the display to display a second user interface including a second icon associated with a second application of the plurality of applications, and
in response to a third user input for selecting a third icon associated with a third application of the plurality of applications, control the display to display the third icon in place of the second icon in the second user interface,

wherein the reduced-size version of the watch screen is an entirety of the watch screen scaled by a scaling factor, and the reduced-sized version of the other watch screen is an entirety of the other watch screen scaled by the scaling factor.

2. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the first user input is a touch input held on the display for more than a predetermined time period.

3. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the memory is configured to store additional instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
in response to receiving an update event related to the first application, adjust at least one attribute of the first icon displayed in the watch screen according to the update event.

4. The wearable device of claim 3 , wherein the at least one attribute of the first icon is at least one of an image displayed on the first icon, a color of the first icon, and text or number information displayed on the first icon.

5. The wearable device of claim 1 ,
wherein the third user input comprises a toggle input, and
wherein the second icon is changed to the third icon per one toggle input.

6. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the memory is configured to store additional instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
change, in response to occurrence of information update of the first application of a plurality of applications, the first icon to indicate the information update of the first application.

7. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the first icon is a “notification icon” displaying reception information of a message, a “weather icon” displaying weather information, a “health icon” displaying health information of a user, a “dual watch icon” displaying time of a location that is different from a current location of the wearable device, or a “battery icon” displaying a residual battery amount of the wearable device.

8. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the memory is configured to store additional instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
determine at least one first additional icon to be displayed in the watch screen, wherein the at least one first additional icon is mapped to the first icon as another component of the watch screen based on an icon category of the first icon; and
display the watch screen including the first icon and the at least one first additional icon.

9. The wearable device of claim 8 , wherein:
the at least one first additional icon comprises two or more icons, and
while the first icon is displayed, the two or more icons are displayed in a sequence based on a predetermined priority.

10. The wearable device of claim 8 , wherein the memory is configured to store additional instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
in response to a fourth user input to switch display of the first icon to a fourth icon, determine at least one second additional icon, wherein the at least one second additional icon is mapped to the fourth icon as another component of the watch screen based on an icon category of the fourth icon; and
display the watch screen including the fourth icon and the at least one second additional icon, wherein the fourth icon and the at least one second additional icon replace the first icon and the at least one first additional icon.

11. The wearable device of claim 10 , wherein the watch screen further comprises a fixed icon that is unresponsive to the fourth user input.

12. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the memory is configured to store additional instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
install a new application in the wearable device;
set the new application based on a predetermined icon category; and
generate a new icon corresponding to the installed new application.

13. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the memory is configured to store additional instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
receive information update related to the first application from another electronic device, and
update the first icon corresponding to the first application based on the received information update.

14. A method of a wearable device comprising:
controlling a display of the wearable device to display a watch screen indicating time and including a first icon associated with a first application of a plurality of applications;
in response to a first user input on the watch screen, controlling the display to display a first user interface including a reduced-size version of the watch screen, at least a portion of a first user interface item for selecting another watch screen to be displayed on the display from a plurality of watch screens, and a second user interface item for configuring the watch screen or the other watch screen, wherein the first user interface item is a reduced-sized version of the other watch screen such that the second user interface item is displayed in a portion of the display outside portions of the display displaying the reduced-size version of the watch screen and the first user interface item;
in response to a second user input on the second user interface item to configure the other watch screen, controlling the display to display a second user interface including a second icon associated with a second application of the plurality of applications; and
in response to a third user input for selecting a third icon associated with a third application of the plurality of applications, controlling the display to display the third icon in place of the second icon in the second user interface,
wherein the reduced-size version of the watch screen is an entirety of the watch screen scaled by a scaling factor, and the reduced-sized version of the other watch screen is an entirety of the other watch screen scaled by the scaling factor.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jo Hankyung
• Kim Yusic
• Kim Eunjoo
• Seung Jungah

Classifications

• G04G9/0064

  in which functions not related to time can be displayed (digital output to display devices of digital computers G06F3/14) · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

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

• G04G21/00 Primary

  Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces · CPC title

• G04G9/00

  Visual time or date indication means · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

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