KR20120139893A - Apparatus and method of moving user interface for mobile - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a mobile user interface for a portable terminal capable of touch manipulation with a hand holding the portable terminal as a user interface for a portable terminal such as a smart phone. A user interface for detecting a movement and moving a component of a user interface screen according to a tilting direction or a hand holding a terminal device is provided.
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The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a moving user interface for a portable terminal capable of touch manipulation with a hand holding the portable terminal as a user interface for a portable terminal such as a smartphone.
Conventional mobile communication terminals, such as mobile phones, portable devices, and small information processing devices, are still not easy due to the limitation of the screen size. For example, when a user uses a mobile communication terminal or a personal information terminal, it is inconvenient to use both hands. In particular, currently used personal terminals are input and output using a touch screen (Touch Screen), the user can directly select the menu by touching the screen. Therefore, there are many difficulties in operating the terminal with one hand.
In particular, mobile communication terminals such as mobile phones, which have become more convenient to carry with miniaturization and high functionality, still have to move the menu bar through up, down, left, and right direction buttons and select a desired menu by the limitation of the size or user interface. For example, when using data communication such as wireless Internet, the conventional mobile communication terminal has a disadvantage in that the terminal operation for data communication is very inconvenient because the user has to repeatedly select a menu by operating a button several times. have. Therefore, if the mobile communication terminal is provided with a more convenient user interface, a great response can be obtained from the user.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for providing a mobile user interface for a mobile terminal, which can provide a user interface for detecting a tilt so that the terminal can be operated with one hand and moving a component for user input according to the tilt direction. To provide.
The present invention provides a means for solving the problem, an output unit for outputting a user interface screen including a component for one or more user input; Sensor unit for detecting the movement of the terminal device; And a component extracting module for extracting a component for user input from a user interface screen output from the output unit, and a component moving module for moving the position of the component extracted on the user interface screen according to the movement of the terminal. A terminal device is provided.
In the terminal device of the present invention, the sensor unit may include one or more of a gyroscope sensor, an acceleration sensor, an inclination sensor, and a motion estimator.
In the terminal device of the present invention, the sensor unit is characterized in that for detecting one or more of the rotation, tilting, shaking, movement of the terminal device.
In the terminal device of the present invention, the component moving module is characterized by moving the position of the extracted component to be close to the position of the thumb while the user is holding the terminal device.
In the terminal device of the present invention, the controller further comprises a setting module for setting whether the user is right-handed or left-handed, and the component moving module checks the position of the thumb according to the information set in the setting module. .
In the terminal device of the present invention, the setting module may further set a preset type of motion according to a user input.
In the terminal device of the present invention, the component moving module further checks whether the movement of the terminal device is a movement of a preset type, and moves the extracted component when the movement of the preset type is a preset type.
In the terminal device of the present invention, the component moving module moves the component in a preset direction or a moving direction when the movement of the preset type is confirmed.
In the terminal device of the present invention, the component moving module checks the direction in which the terminal device moves and moves the extracted component in the moving direction.
In the terminal device of the present invention, the controller checks whether an input event for a component whose position has been moved by the component moving module occurs, and when an input event occurs, executes a function set corresponding to the component. .
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for solving a problem, the method including: outputting a user interface screen including a component for one or more inputs in a terminal device; Checking the movement of the terminal device; And moving the component for one or more inputs so as to approach the position of the thumb when the user grabs the terminal device according to the movement of the terminal device. do.
A moving user interface providing method for a mobile terminal of the present invention, before the moving of the component, characterized in that it further comprises the step of extracting the component for input included in the user interface screen.
The present invention provides a means for solving the problem, comprising the steps of: extracting a component for user input on the user interface screen; Checking the movement of the terminal device; And a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the step of moving the position of the extracted component on the user interface screen in response to the movement of the terminal device.
In a computer-readable recording medium recording a program of the present invention, a component for user input is characterized by including soft buttons, scroll bars, and icons implemented on a user interface screen for selecting a specific function.
In the computer-readable recording medium recording the program of the present invention, the step of confirming the movement of the terminal device is one of whether the movement including any one of the tilt, rotation, shaking, movement of the terminal device occurs, the direction and speed of the movement; Characterized in that the step of identifying one or more.
In the computer-readable recording medium recording the program of the present invention, the step of confirming the movement of the terminal device is a sensing signal of a sensor including at least one of a gyroscope sensor, a tilt sensor, an acceleration sensor, a motion estimator provided in the terminal device. Characterized in that it comprises the step of checking.
In the computer-readable recording medium recording the program of the present invention, the step of confirming the movement of the terminal device further comprises the step of confirming whether the movement of the identified terminal device is a predetermined type of movement.
In the computer-readable recording medium on which the program of the present invention is recorded, the step of moving the position of the extracted component is characterized by moving the extracted component in the direction of the identified movement.
In the computer-readable recording medium on which the program of the present invention is recorded, the step of moving the extracted component is characterized by moving the extracted component so as to be close to the thumb position when the user holds the terminal device by hand.
In the computer-readable recording medium recording the program of the present invention, the step of moving the position of the extracted component comprises the steps of: checking whether the user is right handed or left handed; Moving the extracted component to the right when the user is right-handed, and moving the extracted component to the left when the user is left-handed.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon the program of the present invention, characterized in that it further comprises the step of setting whether the user is right-handed or left-handed at the time of initial operation.
According to the present invention, it is possible to operate the mobile terminal with one hand only with a simple movement, so that the terminal can be operated with one hand only when using public transportation or walking, so that the mobile terminal can be operated more conveniently in daily life. Can be.
1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a terminal apparatus according to the present invention.
2 and 3 are flowcharts illustrating a method of providing a moving user interface for a mobile terminal according to the present invention.
4 is an exemplary view showing an example of a screen in the case of providing a moving user interface for a mobile terminal according to the present invention.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description and the accompanying drawings, detailed description of well-known functions or constructions that may obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted. In addition, it should be noted that like elements are denoted by the same reference numerals as much as possible throughout the drawings.
The terms or words used in the specification and claims described below should not be construed as being limited to the ordinary or dictionary meanings, and the inventors are properly defined as terms for explaining their own invention in the best way. It should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that it can. Therefore, the embodiments described in the present specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are merely the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the technical ideas of the present invention are described. Therefore, It is to be understood that equivalents and modifications are possible.
Providing a moving user interface for a portable terminal according to the present invention can be made based on the terminal device (100).
1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a
In the present invention, the
The component may include soft buttons, scroll bars, and icons that are implemented on a user interface screen to select a specific function.
Here, the
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2 and 3 are flowcharts illustrating a method of providing a moving user interface for a mobile terminal according to the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a moving user interface for a portable terminal according to the present invention when the component is set to move according to the movement direction of the
The method of moving the component may be set through a pop-up window for setting component movement or a separate setting screen according to a user input.
When the
When it is set to move according to the movement direction of the
In this case, it may be determined whether the checked movement of the terminal device is a preset movement, and in the case of the preset movement, the component may be set to move the component in the preset direction or the direction in which the movement is confirmed. For example, when tilting the
When an input event occurs for the moved component (S125), the function set corresponding to the component is executed (S130).
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a moving user interface for a mobile terminal according to the present invention when the component is set to move according to a user's hand of the
When the
When the movement of the terminal device is confirmed, the
In the case of the right handed operation (S215), the
Then, it is checked whether an input event occurs with respect to the moved component (S240), and when an input event occurs, a function set corresponding to the component is executed (S245).
4 is an exemplary view showing an example of a screen in the case of providing a moving user interface for a mobile terminal according to the present invention.
Fig. 4A shows the screen before the component moves and Fig. 4B shows the screen after the component moves.
In the case of FIG. 4A, since the component is located far from the thumb, it is difficult to operate, but by checking the movement of the
The method for providing a user interface for a portable terminal according to the present invention may be implemented in software form readable through various computer means and recorded on a computer readable recording medium. Here, the recording medium may include program commands, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the recording medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. For example, the recording medium may be magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tapes, optical disks such as Compact Disk Read Only Memory (CD-ROM), digital video disks (DVD), Magnetic-Optical Media, such as floppy disks, and hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, random access memory (RAM), flash memory, and the like. do. Examples of program instructions may include machine language code such as those generated by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that may be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. Such hardware devices may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.
While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, It will be apparent to those skilled in the art. In addition, although specific terms are used in the specification and the drawings, they are only used in a general sense to easily explain the technical contents of the present invention and to help the understanding of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
According to the present invention, it is possible to operate the mobile terminal with one hand only with a simple movement, so that the terminal can be operated with one hand only when using public transportation or walking, so that the mobile terminal can be operated more conveniently in daily life. Can be.
100: terminal device 110: output unit 120: sensor unit
130: input unit 140: control unit 141: component extraction module
142: component moving module 143: setting module
150: storage unit 11: component
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Sensor unit for detecting the movement of the terminal device; And
A component extracting module for extracting a component for user input from the user interface screen output from the output unit, and a component moving module for moving a position of the extracted component on the user interface screen according to the movement of the terminal; Terminal device characterized in that it comprises.
A terminal device comprising one or more of a gyroscope sensor, an acceleration sensor, a tilt sensor, and a motion estimator.
Terminal device, characterized in that for detecting one or more of the rotation, tilting, shaking, movement of the terminal device.
And the position of the extracted component is moved so as to be close to the position of the thumb while the user holds the terminal device.
It further includes a configuration module for setting whether the user is right-handed or left-handed,
And the component moving module checks the position of the thumb in accordance with the information set in the setting module.
The terminal device, characterized in that for further setting in accordance with the user input a predetermined type of movement instructing the movement of the component.
And checking whether the movement of the terminal device is a movement of a preset type, and if the movement of the preset type, moves the extracted component.
When the movement of the preset form is confirmed, the terminal device, characterized in that for moving the component in a predetermined direction or a moving direction.
Confirming the moving direction of the terminal device, and moving the extracted component in the moving direction.
And checking whether an input event for the component whose position has been moved by the component moving module is generated, and executing the set function corresponding to the component when the input event occurs.
Checking the movement of the terminal device; And
In response to the movement of the terminal device, moving the component for the one or more inputs so as to approach the position of the thumb when the user grabs the terminal device.
And before the moving the component, extracting a component for input included in the user interface screen.
Checking the movement of the terminal device; And
And when the terminal device is determined to be moved, moving the position of the extracted component on the user interface screen according to the movement of the terminal device.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program comprising soft buttons, scroll bars, and icons embodied on a user interface screen for selecting a specific function.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program, the method comprising: checking at least one of a movement including any one of tilt, rotation, shaking, and movement of a terminal device, and a direction and a speed of the movement.
And confirming a detection signal of a sensor including one or more of a gyroscope sensor, an inclination sensor, an acceleration sensor, and a motion estimator provided in the terminal device.
And confirming whether the checked movement of the terminal device is a movement of a predetermined type.
And move the extracted component in the direction of the identified movement.
And when the user grasps the terminal device by hand, the extracted component is moved to approach the thumb position.
Checking whether the user is right-handed or left-handed;
And moving the extracted component to the right when the user is right-handed, and moving the extracted component to the left when the user is left-handed.
And during the initial operation, setting whether the user is right-handed or left-handed.
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