User terminal device and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9710161-B2
Application number	US-201514745926-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2015
Priority date	Dec 29, 2014
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

A portable device having a display, the display including a main surface area, a first curved surface area extending from a first side of the main surface area, and a second curved surface area extending from a second side of the main surface area that is opposite the first side, a sensor configured to detect a state of the portable device, and a controller configured to control the display to display a user interface (UI) on one of the first curved surface and the second curved surface based on the state detected by the sensor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A portable device, comprising:
a display, the display comprising:
a main area;
a first curved area extending from a first side of the main area; and
a second curved area extending from a second side of the main area that is opposite the first side;

a sensor configured to detect a state of the portable device; and
a controller configured to control the display to, in response to a change in a state of the device while first information related to a first application is provided on the main area and second information related to a second application is provided on a first curved area, move and provide the second information displayed on the first curved area to the second curved area according to the changed state of the electronic apparatus, and maintain the first information displaced on the main area.

2. The portable device according to claim 1 , wherein the sensor comprises a gyroscope and the state comprises an orientation of the portable terminal detected by the gyroscope.

3. The portable device according to claim 2 , wherein the state comprises a first state corresponding to a first orientation detected by the gyroscope and a second state corresponding to a second orientation detected by the gyroscope.

4. The portable device according to claim 3 , wherein the first orientation comprises a horizontal orientation and the second orientation comprises a vertical orientation.

5. The portable device according to claim 2 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the display to switch display of the UI from the one of the first curved area and the second curved area to another one of the first curved area and the second curved area based on a change in the orientation detected by the gyroscope.

6. The portable device according to claim 5 , wherein the change in orientation comprises a change in an angle of the orientation along an axis of rotation about which the portable device rotates.

7. The portable device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the display to display an application in the main area, and
wherein the UI comprises a UI of the application.

8. The portable device according to claim 7 , wherein the UI of the application comprises event information of an event corresponding to the application.

9. The portable device according to claim 7 , wherein the UI of the application comprises at least one graphical UI element for controlling a function of the application.

10. The portable device according to claim 1 , wherein the main area is flat.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ryu Jong-Hyun
• Choi Youn-Ho
• Kim Yong-Ho
• La Jin
• Park Yong-Gook
• Bae Yu-Dong
• Lim Ae-Young
• Jeong Kyung-Ho

Classifications

• H04M2250/16

  including more than one display unit · CPC title

• G06F2203/04808

  Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen · CPC title

• G06F3/0487

  using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser · CPC title

• G06F3/0481

  based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance · CPC title

• G06F3/002

  Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 (other optical apparatus G02B27/00) · CPC title