Portable device and method for providing user interface mode thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9965168-B2
Application number	US-201113242697-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2011
Priority date	Nov 29, 2010
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

A portable device and a method for providing a User Interface (UI) mode are provided. The portable device includes a display unit, a sensor unit for sensing a user's motion, and a control unit for controlling, if the user's motion is sensed by the sensor unit, the display unit to release a standby mode of the portable device and to output a UI mode screen corresponding to a type of the motion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A portable device comprising:
a display;
a sensor unit configured to sense a user's gesture comprising a touch input where the display is touched and a proximity input where a motion is input over the display, without touching the display; and
a controller configured to
control the display to display a standby mode screen in a standby mode,
in response to the user's gesture being sensed in the standby mode, determine a type of the user's gesture,
control the portable device to release the standby mode,
control the display to change the standby mode screen to a touch User Interface (UI) mode screen when the determined type of the sensed user's gesture is the touch input that moves an icon to a specified area on the display, and
control the display to change the standby mode screen to a proximity UI mode screen when the determined type of the sensed user's gesture is the proximity input that includes at least three proximity inputs within a specified time,

wherein an arrangement and at least one of a size and a shape of a menu output according to the proximity UI mode screen is different from an arrangement and at least one of a size and a shape of a menu output according to the touch UI mode screen.

2. The portable device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a number of menus output according to the proximity UI mode screen is less than a number of menus output according to the touch UI mode screen.

3. The portable device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller converts, if a specified icon is selected in the proximity UI mode, the proximity UI mode screen into the touch UI mode screen to display the touch UI mode screen.

4. The portable device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein if the sensed user's gesture is an acceleration input caused by a change of acceleration of the portable device, the determined type of the sensed user's gesture is an acceleration input type and the UI mode screen is an acceleration UI mode screen.

5. The portable device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein if the sensed user's gesture is a rotation input caused by at least one of rotations in pitch, roll, or yaw directions, the determined type of the sensed user's gesture is a rotation input type and the UI mode screen is a rotation mode screen.

6. The portable device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller performs at least one function of a conversion, selection, and selection cancellation of a menu display that is displayed on the display according to a gesture direction of the sensed user's gesture.

7. The portable device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller selects, if the sensed user's gesture is performed in a first direction, a first menu to be displayed on the display, and selects, if the sensed user's gesture is performed in a second direction, a second menu to be displayed on the display.

8. The portable device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sensor unit includes at least one of an Infra-Red (IR) sensor, a Radio Frequency (RF) sensor, an acceleration sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, and a gyro sensor.

9. A method of providing a User Interface (UI) mode in a portable device, the method comprising:
displaying a standby mode screen in a standby mode;
in response to a user's gesture being sensed in the standby mode, determining a type of the user's gesture;
releasing the standby mode of the portable device;
changing the standby mode screen to a touch User Interface (UI) mode screen when the determined type of the sensed user's gesture is a touch input that moves an icon to a specified area on the display; and
changing the standby mode screen to a proximity UI mode screen when the determined type of the sensed user's gesture is a proximity input that includes at least three proximity inputs within a specified time,
wherein an arrangement and at least one of a size and a shape of a menu output according to the proximity UI mode screen is different from an arrangement and at least one of a size and a shape of a menu output according to the touch UI mode screen.

10. The method of providing a UI as claimed in claim 9 , wherein a number of menus that are output according to the proximity UI mode screen is less than a number of menus that are output according to the touch UI mode screen.

11. The method of providing a UI as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising converting, if a specified icon is selected in the proximity UI mode, the proximity UI mode screen into the touch UI mode screen to display the touch UI mode screen.

12. The method of providing a UI as claimed in claim 9 , wherein if the sensed user's gesture is an acceleration input caused by a change of acceleration of the portable device, the determined type of the sensed user's gesture is an acceleration input type and the UI mode screen is an acceleration UI mode screen.

13. The method of providing a UI as claimed in claim 9 , wherein if the sensed user's gesture is a rotation input caused by at least one of pitch, roll, and yaw, rotations, the determined type of the sensed user's gesture is a rotation input type and the UI mode screen is a rotation UI mode screen.

14. The method of providing a UI as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising performing at least one function of a conversion, selection, and selection cancellation of a menu display that is displayed on a display of the portable device according to a gesture direction of the sensed user's gesture.

15. The method of providing a UI mode as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising, if the sensed user's gesture is performed in a first direction, selecting a first menu displayed on the display of the portable device and selecting, if the sensed gesture is performed in a second direction, a second menu displayed on the display of the portable device.

16. The method of providing a UI as claimed in claim 9 , wherein determining whether a user's gesture is sensed includes sensing the user's gesture using at least one of an Infra-Red (IR) sensor, a Radio Frequency (RF) sensor, an acceleration sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, and a gyro sensor.

17. The method of providing a UI mode as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the proximity UI mode screen is sequentially revealed based on a number of proximity inputs sensed within the specified time.

18. The portable device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the proximity UI mode screen is sequentially revealed based on a number of proximity inputs sensed within the specified time.

Assignees

• Eom Ju Il
• Han Kuk Hyun
• Park Yong Gook
• Jung Ji Su
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Eom Ju-Il
• Han Kuk-Hyun
• Park Yong-Gook
• Jung Ji-Su

Classifications

• 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

• G06F3/017

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06F3/0483

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

• G06F3/04883 Primary

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