Electronic device, and method and computer-readable recording medium for displaying message in electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9641471-B2
Application number	US-201414300798-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 10, 2014
Priority date	Oct 31, 2013
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

A method of displaying a message on a chat window is provided. The method includes selecting a cartoon image group including a plurality of cartoon cut images, receiving a chat content, selecting a cartoon cut image from the selected cartoon cut image group, and displaying the selected cartoon cut image including the received chat content in some areas of the selected cartoon cut image on a messenger chat window.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a memory configured to store instructions therein;
a display configured to display one or more chat contents on a chat window; and
at least one processor configured, upon execution of the instructions, to:
receive a selection of a cartoon cut image selected within a cartoon image group including a plurality of cartoon cut images, and
control the display to display the selected cartoon cut image and the chat contents on the display,

wherein the cartoon cut image is displayed according to the one or more chat contents, and
wherein the cartoon cut images are sequentially displayed in parallel, horizontally across a line of the chat window.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, when a cartoon image group including a plurality of cartoon cut images is selected and a cartoon cut image is selected within the selected cartoon image group according to an input of the chat contents, control to display the input chat contents in at least a part of the selected cartoon cut image on the display.

3. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
analyze the input chat contents,
recommend one or more cartoon cut images within the cartoon image group according to a result of the analysis, and
control to select one cartoon cut image from the one or more recommended cartoon cut images.

4. The electronic device of claim 2 , further comprising a transceiver configured to:
transmit the input chat content to a message server, and
receive one or more cartoon cut images related to the transmitted chat contents from the message server.

5. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein at least the part of the selected cartoon cut image corresponds to an area displayed in a speech bubble form.

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of cartoon cut images included in the cartoon image group correspond to images having different sizes.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
determine whether a previously displayed cartoon cut image exists in the chat window,
determine whether the previously displayed cartoon cut image can be arranged on a line of an immediately preceding displayed cartoon cut image when the previously displayed cartoon cut image is determined to exist in the chat window, and
arrange the cartoon cut image to be displayed on the line of the immediately preceding displayed cartoon cut image when the previously displayed cartoon cut image is determined to be able to be arranged on the line of the immediately preceding displayed cartoon cut image.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
determine whether a previously displayed cartoon cut image exists in the chat window,
determine whether an arrangement space exists on a line of an immediately preceding displayed cartoon cut image when the previously displayed cartoon cut image is determined to exist in the chat window, and
arrange a preset advertisement image at an arrangement space when the previously displayed cartoon cut image is determined to be unable to be arranged on the line of the immediately preceding displayed cartoon cut image.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the cartoon cut image displayed on the chat window additionally has a user indicator by at least one of a color, an edge, an icon, an avatar, an image, a nickname, or a name.

10. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, when an entire length of the input chat contents exceeds a length which can be displayed on a chat content displaying area of the selected cartoon cut image, control to display a subset of the chat content selected from the input chat contents.

11. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, when the subset of the chat content selected from the input chat content is displayed, add an indication indicating that the subset of the chat content is displayed within the chat content displaying area.

12. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, when the subset of the chat content selected from the received chat content is displayed, add a scroll bar which can scroll the chat content within the chat content displaying area.

13. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, when an entire length of the input chat contents exceeds a length which can be displayed on a message displaying area of the selected cartoon cut image, scale and display a font size of the input chat contents.

14. An electronic device comprising:
a memory configured to store instructions therein;
a display configured to display one or more chat contents on a chat window; and
at least one processor configured, upon execution of the instructions, to:
receive a selection of a cartoon frame in which a plurality of cartoon cut images are arranged in a preset order and chat contents are input through the chat window,
sequentially select cartoon cut images from the selected cartoon frame according to the order of the arrangement of the plurality of cartoon cut images, and
control to display the selected cartoon cut images and the input chat contents on the display,

wherein the cartoon cut images are displayed according to the one or more chat contents, and
wherein the cartoon cut images are displayed in order, in parallel, and horizontally across a line of the chat window.

15. A method of displaying a message on a chat window, the method comprising:
selecting a cartoon image group including a plurality of cartoon cut images;
receiving a chat content;
selecting a cartoon cut image from the selected cartoon cut image group; and
displaying the selected cartoon cut image including the received chat content in some areas of the selected cartoon cut image on a messenger chat window,
wherein the cartoon cut image is displayed according to the chat content, and
wherein the cartoon cut images are sequentially displayed in parallel, horizontally across a line of the messenger chat window.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the selecting of the cartoon cut image comprises:
analyzing the received chat content;
recommending one or more cartoon cut images from among the cartoon image group according to a message analysis result; and
selecting one or more cartoon cut images from the recommended one or more cartoon cut images.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the selecting of the cartoon cut image comprises:
transmitting the received chat content to a messenger server;
receiving one or more cartoon cut images related to the transmitted content from the messenger server; and
selecting one or more cartoon cut images from the received one or more cartoon cut images.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the some areas of the selected cartoon cut image on the messenger chat window correspond to areas indicated in a speech bubble form.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of cartoon cut images included in the cartoon image group correspond to images having at least one of different sizes or different shapes.

20. The method of claim 15 , wherein the displaying of the selected cartoon cut image on the messenger chat window comprises:
determining whether a previously disp

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Byung-Hee

Classifications

• G06Q10/10

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title

• H04L51/10 Primary

  Multimedia information · CPC title

• G06Q50/50 Primary

  Business processes related to the communications industry (charging, metering or billing arrangements specially adapted for data communications H04L12/14; telephonic communication involving automatic or semi-automatic exchanges H04M3/00; arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication H04M15/00; prepayment telephone systems H04M17/00; accounting or billing for wireless communication networks H04W4/24) · CPC title