JP7183295B6 - Method and system for controlling a media player - Google Patents

Description

The following description relates to a method and system for controlling a media player, and more particularly, to allow a user to perform various operations such as playing content provided by the media player, stopping playback, selecting content, searching within content, adjusting volume, etc. A control method that provides a UX (user experience) and/or UI (user interface) so that the user can easily process with one hand, a computer device that executes the control method, and a computer that is combined with the computer to cause the computer to execute the control method. The present invention relates to a computer program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium for the purpose and the recording medium.

Conventional techniques for controlling a media player provide physical key buttons corresponding to various operations provided by the media player, or arrange virtual buttons corresponding to various operations on the screen. It provides a certain UX (user experience) and/or UI (user interface). For example, Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2010-0019241 relates to a technique for controlling a media player, wherein an idle screen of a provided display means controls a built-in media player while receiving user input. It discloses that an icon to be displayed is displayed.

UX (user experience) and/or UI (user experience) is provided so that the user can easily handle various operations such as playback, playback stop, content selection, content search, volume control, etc. provided by the media player. interface), a computer device for executing the control method, a computer program recorded in a computer-readable recording medium for connecting with a computer and causing the computer to execute the control method, and the recording medium. do.

managing a plurality of layered objects for controlling a media player, maintaining a touch input for a first predetermined time or longer at a first location on a touch screen screen of a computer device associated with execution of the media player; displaying a higher-level object of the plurality of objects on the touch screen screen by recognizing that the touch input is performed from the first position to the displayed upper-level object. displaying a lower layer object corresponding to the first object on the touch screen screen by recognizing that the first object moves to a second position corresponding to the first object and is maintained for a second predetermined time or longer; and by recognizing that the touch input moves from the second position to a third position corresponding to the second object among the displayed objects of the lower hierarchy and is maintained for a third predetermined time or more. , applying an operation corresponding to the second object to the media player.

According to one aspect, the step of managing the plurality of hierarchized objects includes: the upper hierarchy objects corresponding to categories that classify a plurality of operations predefined for the media player; Objects in the lower hierarchy corresponding to each operation may be managed.

According to another aspect, the categories include: (1) a first category including previous content selection operation, next content selection operation, play and stop play operations for selected content, and (2) forward search for selected content. and (3) a third category including volume increase and volume decrease operations.

According to yet another aspect, applying a manipulation to the media player corresponding to the second object includes applying the manipulation to the media player based on a distance between the third position and the second position. can be adjusted.

According to yet another aspect, the step of applying an operation corresponding to the second object to the media player includes: the closer the third location is to the second location, the more the operation is applied to the media player. may be relatively decreased, and the farther the third location is from the second location, the greater the degree to which the operation is applied to the media player.

According to still another aspect, the extent to which the operation is applied to the media player may be a decrease in retrieval speed, an increase in retrieval speed, a decrease in volume, and an increase in volume, depending on the type of the second object. Any one of the degrees may be included.

According to another aspect, displaying the higher-level object may dynamically determine a display position of the higher-level object based on the first position.

According to another aspect, displaying the lower-level object may dynamically determine a display position of the lower-level object based on the second position.

According to yet another aspect, the control method provides visual, audible, and visual feedback for at least one of maintaining the touch input at the first position and moving the touch input to the second position. The step of outputting using at least one of the haptics may be further included.

Provided is a computer program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium for connecting with a computer and causing the computer to execute the control method.

A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the control method is provided.

at least one processor implemented to execute computer device readable instructions, the at least one processor managing a plurality of layered objects for control of a media player; by recognizing that a touch input is maintained for a first predetermined time or longer at a first position of a touch screen screen of a computer device associated with the execution of said touching an upper hierarchical object among said plurality of objects. display on a screen, and the touch input moves from the first position to a second position corresponding to the first object among the displayed upper layer objects and is maintained for a second predetermined time or more. by recognizing a lower-layer object corresponding to the first object on the touch screen screen, and the touch input is performed from the second position to the second object among the displayed lower-layer objects. and recognizing that the second object is moved to a third position corresponding to and is maintained for a third predetermined time or longer, thereby applying an operation corresponding to the second object to the media player.

UX (user experience)/UI (user interface) is designed so that a user can easily handle various operations such as playback, playback stop, content selection, content search, volume control, etc. for content provided by a media player. ) can be provided.

1 is a diagram showing an example of a network environment in one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a computing device, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing a control method in one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of displaying objects in a higher hierarchy according to one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of displaying lower-level objects in one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of displaying lower-level objects in one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of displaying lower-level objects in one embodiment of the present invention;

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

A control method according to embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by a computing device such as the electronic device described below. At this time, a computer program according to an embodiment of the present invention may be installed and executed in the computer device, and the computer device executes the control method according to the embodiment of the present invention under the control of the executed computer program. can be executed. The computer program described above may be recorded in a computer-readable recording medium in order to combine with a computer device and cause the computer to execute the control method.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a network environment in one embodiment of the present invention. The network environment of FIG. 1 illustrates an example including multiple electronic devices 110 , 120 , 130 , 140 , multiple servers 150 , 160 , and a network 170 . Such FIG. 1 is merely an example for explaining the invention, and the number of electronic devices and the number of servers are not limited as in FIG.

The plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, 140 may be fixed terminals or mobile terminals implemented by computing devices. Examples of the plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 include smart phones, mobile phones, navigation systems, PCs (personal computers), notebook PCs, digital broadcasting terminals, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), and PMPs (Portable Multimedia Players). ), tablets, etc. As an example, FIG. 1 shows a smart phone as an example of the electronic device 1 (110). It may refer to one of a variety of physical computing devices capable of communicating with other electronic devices 120 , 130 , 140 and/or servers 150 , 160 over network 170 .

The communication method is not limited, and not only the communication method using the communication network (eg, mobile communication network, wired Internet, wireless Internet, broadcast network) that can be included in the network 170, but also the short distance between devices. Wireless communication may be included. For example, the network 170 includes a PAN (personal area network), a LAN (local area network), a CAN (campus area network), a MAN (metropolitan area network), a WAN (wide area network), a BBN (broadband network), and the Internet. Any one or more of the networks may be included. Additionally, network 170 may include any one or more of network topologies including, but not limited to, bus networks, star networks, ring networks, mesh networks, star-bus networks, tree or hierarchical networks, and the like. will not be

Each of servers 150, 160 is implemented by one or more computing devices in communication with a plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, 140 over network 170 to provide instructions, code, files, content, services, etc. good. For example, server 150 provides services (eg, content providing service, social network service, messaging service, search service, mail service, etc.) to multiple electronic devices 110, 120, 130, 140 connected via network 170. It may be a system that

Although FIG. 1 described above describes an example of the communication environment between the server and the client, this is only one embodiment, and the control method according to the embodiment of the present invention is provided by a plurality of electronic devices 110 , 120 , 130 . , 140 separately. For example, the control method according to the embodiment of FIG. 1 may describe a case where the electronic device 110 receives content from the server 150 and plays it on a media player. On the other hand, other embodiments may include the case where the electronic device 110 does not communicate with the server 150 and the content stored in the local storage location of the electronic device 110 is played by the media player.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example computing device, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. Each of the plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, 140 and each of the servers 150, 160 described above may be realized by the computer apparatus 200 shown in FIG. For example, a computer program according to an embodiment may be installed and executed in the computer device 200, and the computer device 200 executes the sound source reproduction and sharing method according to an embodiment of the present invention under the control of the executed computer program. may be executed.

Such a computing device 200 may include memory 210, processor 220, communication interface 230, and input/output interface 240, as shown in FIG. The memory 210 is a computer-readable storage medium and may include random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), and permanent mass storage devices such as disk drives. Here, a permanent mass storage device such as a ROM or disk drive may be included in computer device 200 as a separate permanent storage device separate from memory 210 . Also stored in memory 210 may be an operating system and at least one program code. Such software components may be loaded into memory 210 from a computer-readable medium separate from memory 210 . Such other computer-readable recording media may include computer-readable recording media such as floppy drives, disks, tapes, DVD/CD-ROM drives, memory cards, and the like. In other embodiments, software components may be loaded into memory 210 through communication interface 230 that is not a computer-readable medium. For example, software components may be loaded into memory 210 of computing device 200 based on computer programs installed by files received over network 170 .

Processor 220 may be configured to process computer program instructions by performing basic arithmetic, logic, and input/output operations. Instructions may be provided to processor 220 by memory 210 or communication interface 230 . For example, processor 220 may be configured to execute received instructions according to program code stored in a storage device, such as memory 210 .

Communication interface 230 may provide functionality for computer device 200 to communicate with other devices (eg, the recording device described above) via network 170 . As an example, processor 220 of computing device 200 can transmit requests, commands, data, files, etc. generated according to program code recorded in a recording device such as memory 210 to other devices via network 170 under the control of communication interface 230 . device. Conversely, signals, instructions, data, files, etc. from other devices may be received by computing device 200 through communication interface 230 of computing device 200 over network 170 . Signals, instructions, data, etc. received through the communication interface 230 may be transmitted to the processor 220 and the memory 210, and files may be stored in a recording medium (the permanent recording device described above) that the computing device 200 may further include. may be recorded.

Input/output interface 240 may be a means for interfacing with input/output device 250 . For example, input devices may include devices such as microphones, keyboards, or microphones, and output devices may include devices such as displays, speakers, and the like. As another example, input/output interface 240 may be a means for interfacing with a device that integrates functionality for input and output, such as a touch screen. Input/output device 250 may be one device with computing device 200 .

Also, in other embodiments, computing device 200 may include fewer or more components than the components of FIG. However, most prior art components need not be explicitly shown in the figures. For example, computing device 200 may be implemented to include at least some of the input/output devices 250 described above, and may also include other components such as transceivers, databases, and the like.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing a control method in one embodiment of the present invention. The control method according to the present embodiment may be executed by a computer device 200 that implements any one of the plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 described above. May include a screen environment. For example, processor 220 of computing device 200 may be implemented to execute control instructions according to the code of an operating system and the code of at least one program contained in memory 210 . For example, the program code described above may be code for an application that provides a media player. Here, the processor 220 controls the computer device 200 so that the computer device 200 executes steps 310 to 340 included in the control method of FIG. good.

At step 310, computing device 200 may manage a plurality of hierarchies of objects for media player control. For example, in step 310, the computer device 200 manages high-level hierarchical objects corresponding to categories that classify a plurality of operations predefined for the media player, and low-level hierarchical objects corresponding to each of the plurality of operations. You can At this time, the categories are (1) a first category including previous content selection operation, next content selection operation, playback and playback stop operation of the selected content, (2) forward search operation for the selected content, and selection (3) a third category that includes volume-increase and volume-decrease operations;

As a more specific example, a first operation for playing and stopping playback of the currently selected content, a second operation for selecting content preceding the currently selected content, and a second operation for selecting content before the currently selected content. A third operation for selecting next content may be included in the first category. At this time, the first category may correspond to the object 1-1 in the upper hierarchy, the object 1-1 in the upper hierarchy corresponds to the object 2-1 in the lower hierarchy corresponding to the first operation, and the second operation. It may correspond to the object 2-2 in the lower hierarchy and the object 2-3 in the lower hierarchy corresponding to the third operation. For example, if the upper hierarchy object 1-1 is selected, the lower hierarchy objects 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3 may be provided.

Also, the second category may include a fourth operation for forward searching for the selected content and a fifth operation for backward searching for the selected content. At this time, the second category may correspond to the object 1-2 in the upper hierarchy, and the object 1-2 in the upper hierarchy corresponds to the object 2-4 in the lower hierarchy corresponding to the fourth operation, and the fifth operation. It may correspond to the object 2-5 in the lower hierarchy. For example, if the upper hierarchy object 1-2 is selected, the lower hierarchy objects 2-4 and 2-5 may be provided.

Also, a sixth operation for increasing volume and a seventh operation for decreasing volume may be included in the third category. At this time, the third category may correspond to the object 1-3 in the upper hierarchy, and the object 1-3 in the upper hierarchy corresponds to the object 2-6 in the lower hierarchy corresponding to the sixth operation, and the seventh operation. It may correspond to the object 2-7 in the lower hierarchy. For example, if the upper hierarchy object 1-3 is selected, the lower hierarchy objects 2-6 and 2-7 may be provided.

Such a hierarchy of objects may be configured by predefined operations for the media player, and in some embodiments may be three or more hierarchies, and further additional objects may be included. may For example, an operation to play and an operation to stop playing the selected content may be separated into separate objects by the third layer. Also, an operation for increasing or decreasing the brightness of the screen may be added for playing the moving image.

At step 320, the computing device 200 determines that a touch input is maintained at a first location of the touch screen screen of the computing device associated with execution of the media player for a first predetermined time period (e.g., a first position of the touch screen screen). A higher level object among the plurality of objects may be displayed on the touch screen screen by recognizing that a touch input is maintained for one second or longer at a position. For example, the computer device 200 dynamically determines the position where the upper layer object is displayed on the touch screen screen, that is, the display position of the upper layer object, based on the first position, which is the first position of the touch input. You can Here, the display position is any one point (for example, the center point). As a more specific example, computer device 200 is configured to control the center of object 1-1, object 1-2, and object 1-3 in the upper hierarchy corresponding to the above-described first, second, and third categories. Object 1-1, Object 1-2, and Object 1 such that the points form the vertices of an equilateral triangle by keeping the same distance from the initial coordinates of the touch input (coordinates on the touch screen screen as an example). -3 The position of each may be calculated dynamically. When there are two objects in the upper layer, the center points of each of the two objects are positioned above, below, left and right of the position where the touch input is maintained while maintaining the same distance as the position where the touch input is maintained, or in advance. The positions of the two objects may be calculated so that they are each positioned at a set angular orientation. As another example, if there are four objects in the upper hierarchy, the center points of each of the four objects should be positioned at the same distance from the initial coordinates of the touch input while forming the vertices of a square. , the position of each of the four objects may be calculated. The arrangement of the objects may be variously set according to the embodiment, and the display position thereof may be dynamically calculated according to the position of the touch input.

Each such object 1-1, object 1-2, and object 1-3 may continue to be displayed while the touch input is maintained at dynamically calculated positions. In operation 320, if the touch input is released, the computing device 200 may release the display of the upper layer objects.

In step 330, the computing device 200 determines that the touch input moves from the first position to a second position corresponding to the first object among the displayed upper layer objects and is maintained for a second predetermined time or more. (For example, touch input is maintained for 0.5 seconds or more after moving from the first position to the second position corresponding to the first object), the lower layer corresponding to the first object Objects may be displayed on a touch screen display. For example, when the object 1-1, object 1-2, and object 1-3 are displayed as objects in the upper hierarchy, the position of the touch input is the second position on the area where the object 1-1 is displayed. When moving, instead of objects 1-1, 1-2 and 1-3, objects 2-1, 2-2 and 2-3 in the lower hierarchy corresponding to object 1-1 are displayed. may be

At this time, the computer device 200 may dynamically determine the display position of the lower hierarchical object based on the second position. For example, the positions at which touch input is maintained at step 320 may be the center points of objects 1-1, 1-2, and 1-3. At this time, if the position of the touch input moves to the position where the object 1-1 is displayed and is maintained, the computer device 200 uses the corresponding position (second position) as a reference, The position of each of the hierarchical objects Object 2-1, Object 2-2, and Object 2-3 may be dynamically calculated. As a more specific example, the computer device 200 is configured such that the respective center points of the objects 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3 form an equilateral triangle while maintaining the same distance as the position where the touch input is maintained. The position of each of object 2-1, object 2-2 and object 2-3 may be calculated to form vertices. As described above, the array of objects may be set in various ways, and their display positions may be dynamically calculated according to the current coordinates of the touch input that is moved and maintained.

In step 340, the computing device 200 determines that the touch input moves from the second position to a third position corresponding to the second object among the displayed lower layer objects and is maintained for a third predetermined time or more. (For example, the touch input is maintained for 0.5 seconds or more after moving from the second position to the third position corresponding to the second object), the operation corresponding to the second object can be performed via media. May be applied to players.

For example, assume that object 1-1 is selected at step 320, objects 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3 are displayed at step 330, and object 2-1 is selected at step 340. . As described above, the object 2-1 may correspond to the first operation for playing and stopping playing the selected content, and the playing or stopping operation may be applied to the media player. If the content selected by the media player is being played, the media player may apply a stop play operation, and if the content selected by the media player is not yet playing, the media player may have a play operation. may be applied. At this time, looking at the user's touch operation in detail, after touching the touch screen screen, the user moves the touch position to the object 1-1 and then to the object 2-1. It becomes possible to process operations or playback stop operations. In addition, since the display position of the object starts from the user's touch position, the user can easily perform such a reproduction operation or a reproduction stop operation with one hand. Also assume that object 1-1 is selected at step 320, objects 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3 are displayed at step 330, and object 2-2 is selected at step 340. . Object 2-2 may correspond to a second operation to select content previous to the currently selected content, where the user again touches the touch screen screen and then changes the position of the touch to object 1-2. The previous content can be selected simply by moving to object 1 and then moving to object 2-2. When the user moves the touch position to object 1-1 and then to object 2-3, the next content is selected.

Similarly, after moving the touch position to the object 1-2 or the object 1-3, the user touches the objects in the lower hierarchy (the object 2-4 in the lower hierarchy corresponding to the object 1-2 in the upper hierarchy, or the object 2-4 in the lower hierarchy). By simply moving one hand to object 2-5, or object 2-6 or object 2-7 in the lower hierarchy corresponding to object 1-3 in the upper hierarchy, forward search, reverse search, volume Various operations such as adjustments can be processed.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of displaying upper hierarchical objects in one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 shows a smartphone 400 as an example of the computer device 200 described above, and shows an example in which a track image 420 of an album by a media player is displayed on the first screen 410. An example of touching the 1 position 430 is shown. At this time, as shown in the second screen 440, the smartphone 400 displays an object 450 for the reproduction operation, an object 460 for the search operation, and an object 460 for the volume operation as upper hierarchical objects under the control of the computer program. object 470 may be displayed. At this time, the user's touch may be maintained at the first position 430, and when the user's touch is released, the display of the objects 450, 460, and 470 may also be released. At this time, the touch recognition associated with the display of the objects 450, 460, and 470 may correspond to the entire area of the first screen 410, or may correspond to a predetermined partial area of the first screen 410 depending on the embodiment. may be limited.

On the other hand, the user may select one of the upper layer objects by moving the position of the maintained touch to the positions of the displayed objects 450, 460, and 470. In this case, the smartphone 400 may display lower hierarchical objects corresponding to the selected upper hierarchical objects.

5 to 7 are diagrams showing examples of displaying lower-level objects in one embodiment of the present invention.

The first screen 510 of FIG. 5 moves the position of the touch maintained by the user on the second screen 440 of FIG. 4 from the first position 430 to the second position 520 on the object 450 for playback operation. shows an example. At this time, a lower layer object corresponding to the object 450 for playback operation may be provided based on the second position 520 .

The second screen 530 of FIG. 5 includes an object 540 for playing and stopping the content selected as a lower layer object corresponding to the object 450 for the playing operation, an object 550 for selecting the previous content, and an object 550 for selecting the next content. An example of providing an object 560 for content selection based on a second location 520 is shown. At this time, when the user moves the position where the touch is maintained to the position of one of the objects in the lower hierarchy, an operation corresponding to one of the objects in the lower hierarchy is applied to the media player. good. For example, when the user moves the touch position from the second position 520 onto the object 540 for playing and stopping playing the selected content, playing the selected content may start or stop. As another example, if the user moves the touch location from the second position 520 onto the object 550 for previous content selection, the content previous to the currently selected content in the playlist may be selected. As yet another example, if the user moves the touch location from the second position 520 onto the object 560 for next content selection, the content following the currently selected content in the playlist may be selected. .

The first screen 610 of FIG. 6 moves the position of the touch held by the user on the second screen 440 of FIG. 4 from the first position 430 to the third position 620 on the object 460 for the search operation. shows an example. At this time, a lower hierarchical object corresponding to the object 460 for the search operation may be provided based on the third location 620 .

The second screen 630 of FIG. 6 displays an object 640 for forward search and an object 650 for backward search at a third position 620 as lower hierarchical objects corresponding to the object 460 for search operation. An example is provided based on At this time, when the user moves the position where the touch is maintained to the position of one of the objects in the lower hierarchy, an operation corresponding to one of the objects in the lower hierarchy is applied to the media player. good.

For example, if the user moves the touch location from the third position 620 onto the object 640 for forward search, a forward search for the selected content may be performed. At this time, the degree of forward search may be determined by the time the user's touch continues to be positioned on the object 640 for forward search. Alternatively, the degree of forward search may be determined by the position on object 640 for forward search of the user's touch. As a more specific example, the closer the touch position on the object 640 for the user's forward search is to the third position 620, the faster the speed of the forward search is relatively reduced, and the closer the user's touch position is to the third position. Farther away from 620, the speed of the forward search may relatively increase. As another example, as the user's touch position on the object 640 for forward search is closer to the center of the object 640 for forward search, the forward search speed is relatively decreased, and the user's touch The closer the position is to the edge of the object 640 for forward search, the relative speed of the forward search may increase.

Similarly, when moving the user's touch position from the third position 620 onto the object 650 for backward search, a backward search for the selected content may be performed. At this time, the degree of backward search may be determined by the time that the user's touch continues to be positioned on the object 650 for backward search. Alternatively, the degree of backward search may be determined by the position of the user's touch on object 650 for backward search. As a more specific example, the closer the user's touch position on the object 650 for backward search is to the third position 620, the slower the backward search speed is, and the user's touch position is closer to the third position. Farther away from 620, the speed of the backward search may relatively increase. As another example, the closer the user's touch position is to the center of the object 650 for backward search, the speed of the backward search is relatively decreased, and the closer the user's touch position is to the object 650 for backward search. The speed of the backward search may relatively increase closer to the edge of .

The first screen 710 of FIG. 7 moves the position of the touch held by the user on the second screen 440 of FIG. 4 from the first position 430 to a fourth position 720 on the object 470 for volume manipulation. shows an example. At this time, a lower hierarchical object corresponding to the object 470 for volume manipulation may be provided based on the fourth location 720 .

The second screen 730 of FIG. 7 displays an object 740 for volume increase and an object 750 for volume decrease as lower hierarchical objects corresponding to the object 470 for volume manipulation, based on the fourth position 720 . An example is provided. At this time, when the user moves the position where the touch is maintained to the position of one of the objects in the lower hierarchy, an operation corresponding to one of the objects in the lower hierarchy may be applied to the media player. .

For example, if the user moves the touch position from the fourth position 720 onto the object 740 for volume increase, the playback volume of the selected content may be increased. At this time, the degree of volume increase may be determined by the time that the user's touch continues to be positioned on the object 740 for volume increase. Alternatively, the degree of volume increase may be determined by the location on object 740 for the volume increase of the user's touch. As a more specific example, as the touch position on the object 740 for the user's volume increase is closer to the fourth position 720 , the degree of volume increase is relatively decreased, and the user's touch position is closer to the fourth position 720 . As the distance increases, the degree of volume increase may relatively increase. As another example, the closer the user's touch position is to the center of the object 740 for volume increase, the degree of volume increase is relatively decreased, and the closer the user's touch position is to the edge of the object 740 for volume increase. The closer, the degree of volume increase may relatively increase.

Similarly, if the user moves the touch position from the fourth position 720 onto the object 750 for volume reduction, the playback volume of the selected content may be reduced. At this time, the degree of volume reduction may be determined by the length of time that the user's touch remains on the object 750 for volume reduction. Alternatively, the degree of volume reduction may be determined by the position on object 750 for volume reduction of the user's touch. As a more specific example, as the touch position on the object 750 for the user's volume reduction is closer to the fourth position 720, the degree of volume reduction is relatively decreased, and the user's touch position is closer to the fourth position 720. The degree of volume reduction may relatively increase with distance. As another example, the closer the user's touch position is to the center of the object 750 for volume reduction, the degree of volume reduction is relatively reduced, and the closer the user's touch position is to the edge of the object 750 for volume reduction. The closer, the degree of volume reduction may relatively increase.

On the other hand, in each embodiment, when objects are displayed on the touch screen screen, a portion of the screen where the objects are not displayed is used so that the user can easily recognize that the media player is being operated. may be dimmed or a dominant color applied to the object displayed on the screen to make the object stand out.

In another embodiment, visual, auditory, and/or tactile feedback may be output as the user's touch moves over the object. For example, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the user can easily recognize the selection of the object because the operation of the media player is performed by moving the touch while maintaining one touch of the user. Therefore, when the user's touch moves on an object, the above-described smartphone 400 performs vibration, screen brightness adjustment, object operation (for example, an object shakes on the screen), and the like. Feedback may be provided to the user.

In this way, hierarchically arranged objects for operating the media player are provided according to the user's touch position, so that the user can easily select the hierarchically arranged objects with one hand. Become. Therefore, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a UX is provided so that a user can easily perform various operations such as playing, stopping playing, selecting content, searching in content, adjusting volume, etc. for content provided by a media player. (user experience) and/or UI (user interface) can be provided.

The systems or devices described above may be realized by hardware components, software components, or a combination of hardware and software components. For example, the devices and components described in the embodiments may include, for example, processors, controllers, ALUs (arithmetic logic units), digital signal processors, microcomputers, FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays), PLUs (programmable logic units), microcontrollers, It may be implemented using one or more general purpose or special purpose computers, such as a processor or various devices capable of executing instructions and responding to instructions. The processing unit may run an operating system (OS) and one or more software applications that run on the OS. The processor may also access, record, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to executing software. For convenience of understanding, one processing device may be described as being used, but those skilled in the art will appreciate that the processing device may include multiple processing elements and/or multiple types of processing elements. You can understand. For example, a processing unit may include multiple processors or a processor and a controller. Other processing configurations are also possible, such as parallel processors.

Software may include computer programs, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more of these, to configure a processor to operate at its discretion or to independently or collectively instruct a processor. You can Software and/or data may be embodied in any kind of machine, component, physical device, virtual device, computer storage medium or device for interpretation on or for providing instructions or data to a processing device. may be changed. The software may be stored and executed in a distributed fashion over computer systems linked by a network. Software and data may be recorded on one or more computer-readable recording media.

The method according to the embodiments may be embodied in the form of program instructions executable by various computer means and recorded on a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable media may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. singly or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for an embodiment, or they may be of the kind known and available to those of skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tapes, optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, magneto-optical media such as floptical disks, and ROMs; It includes hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as RAM, flash memory, and the like. Such a recording medium may be a variety of recording means or storage means in the form of a single or multiple hardware combination, and is not limited to a medium directly connected to a computer system, but can be used on a network. It may exist dispersedly. Examples of program instructions include machine language code, such as that generated by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that is executed by a computer, such as using an interpreter.

As described above, the embodiments have been described based on the limited embodiments and drawings, but those skilled in the art will be able to make various modifications and variations based on the above description. For example, the techniques described may be performed in a different order than in the manner described and/or components such as systems, structures, devices, circuits, etc. described may be performed in a manner different from the manner described. Appropriate results may be achieved when combined or combined, opposed or substituted by other elements or equivalents.

Accordingly, different embodiments that are equivalent to the claims should still fall within the scope of the appended claims.

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A computer program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium for connecting with a computer device and causing the computer device to execute the control method,
The control method is
managing a plurality of hierarchies of objects for control of the media player;
By recognizing that a touch input is maintained at a first location of the touch screen screen of the computing device for a first predetermined time period or longer in conjunction with execution of the media player, an upper hierarchy of the plurality of objects is selected. displaying a plurality of objects on the touch screen screen;
Recognizing that the touch input is moved from the first position to a second position corresponding to the first object among the plurality of objects in the displayed upper layer and is maintained for a second predetermined time or more. displaying on the touch screen screen a plurality of lower-level objects corresponding to the first object, and wherein the touch input is the first of the displayed plurality of lower-level objects from the second position. applying an operation corresponding to the second object to the media player by recognizing that it has moved to a third position corresponding to two objects and has been maintained for a third predetermined time or more ;
displaying on the touch screen screen a plurality of lower-hierarchical objects corresponding to the first object,
A computer program for displaying each of the plurality of objects of the lower hierarchy such that a center point of each of the plurality of objects of the lower hierarchy maintains the same distance from the second position . The step of displaying a plurality of objects in a lower hierarchy corresponding to the first object on the touch screen screen includes:
When there are two objects in the lower hierarchy, the center points of each of the two objects are positioned at the same distance from the second position as above, below, left and right of the second position, or in a preset angular direction. displaying the two objects so that they are respectively located at
When the plurality of objects in the lower hierarchy is three or more, the center points of each of the three or more objects form vertices of a polygon by maintaining the same distance from the second position. 2. A computer program according to claim 1, displaying three or more objects. Applying an operation corresponding to the second object to the media player includes:
3. The computer program of claim 1 or 2, adjusting the degree to which the manipulation is applied to the media player based on the amount of time the touch input is maintained at the third position. The step of managing a plurality of hierarchized objects includes:
4. Managing the upper hierarchical object corresponding to each of categories into which a plurality of operations defined in advance for the media player are classified, and managing the lower hierarchical object corresponding to each of the plurality of operations. A computer program according to any one of Claims 1 to 3. The categories are: (1) a first category including a previous content selection operation, a next content selection operation, play and stop playback operations for the selected content; (2) a forward search operation for the selected content; 5. The computer program product of claim 4 , comprising two or more categories of a second category comprising reverse search operations on content; and (3) a third category comprising volume increase operations and volume decrease operations. Applying an operation corresponding to the second object to the media player includes:
6. A computer program as claimed in any preceding claim , adjusting the degree to which the operation is applied to the media player based on the distance between the third position and the second position. Applying an operation corresponding to the second object to the media player includes:
The closer the third position is to the second position, the relatively less extent to which the operation is applied to the media player; 7. Computer program according to any one of claims 1 to 6 , providing a relatively increasing degree of application to the player. The degree for applying the operation to the media player is any one of a degree of search speed decrease, a degree of search speed increase, a degree of volume decrease, and a degree of volume increase, depending on the type of the second object. 8. A computer program as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7 , comprising: The step of displaying the upper hierarchical object includes:
9. The computer program according to any one of claims 1 to 8 , dynamically determining a display position of said upper layer object based on said first position. The control method is
Outputting feedback for at least one of maintaining the touch input at the first position and moving the touch input to the second position using at least one of visual, auditory, and haptic. 10. A computer program as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9 , further comprising the step of: managing a plurality of hierarchies of objects for control of the media player;
A higher hierarchical plurality of the plurality of objects by recognizing that a touch input is maintained at a first location of a touch screen screen of a computing device associated with execution of the media player for a first predetermined time period or longer. displaying on the touch screen screen an object of
Recognizing that the touch input is moved from the first position to a second position corresponding to the first object among the plurality of objects in the displayed upper layer and is maintained for a second predetermined time or longer. displaying on the touch screen screen a plurality of lower-level objects corresponding to the first object, and wherein the touch input is the first of the displayed plurality of lower-level objects from the second position. applying an operation corresponding to the second object to the media player by recognizing that it moves to a third position corresponding to two objects and is maintained for a third predetermined time or more ;
The step of displaying a plurality of objects in a lower hierarchy corresponding to the first object on the touch screen screen includes:
A control method for displaying each of the plurality of objects of the lower hierarchy such that the center point of each of the plurality of objects of the lower hierarchy maintains the same distance from the second position . The step of managing a plurality of hierarchized objects includes:
12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein said upper layer objects corresponding to categories into which a plurality of operations defined in advance for said media player are classified, and said lower layer objects corresponding to said plurality of operations respectively are managed. control method. Applying an operation corresponding to the second object to the media player includes:
13. A control method as claimed in claim 11 or 12 , adjusting the degree to which the operation is applied to the media player based on the distance between the third position and the second position. The step of displaying the upper hierarchical object includes:
14. The control method according to any one of claims 11 to 13, wherein the display position of said upper layer object is dynamically determined based on said first position. Outputting feedback for at least one of maintaining the touch input at the first position and moving the touch input to the second position using at least one of visual, auditory, and haptic. 15. A control method as claimed in any one of claims 11 to 14 , further comprising the step of: A computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute the method according to any one of claims 11 to 15 . at least one processor implemented to execute computer readable instructions;
by the at least one processor;
Manages multiple hierarchies of objects for media player control,
A higher hierarchical plurality of the plurality of objects by recognizing that a touch input is maintained at a first location of a touch screen screen of a computing device associated with execution of the media player for a first predetermined time period or longer. display the object of on the touch screen screen,
Recognizing that the touch input is moved from the first position to a second position corresponding to the first object among the plurality of objects in the displayed upper layer and is maintained for a second predetermined time or longer. displays on the touch screen screen a plurality of lower-hierarchical objects corresponding to the first object,
Recognizing that the touch input is moved from the second position to a third position corresponding to the second object among the plurality of objects in the displayed lower hierarchy and is maintained for a third predetermined time or more. applying an operation corresponding to the second object to the media player by
A computer device that displays each of the plurality of objects in the lower hierarchy such that the center point of each of the plurality of objects in the lower hierarchy maintains the same distance from the second position . by the at least one processor;
managing the upper-layer objects corresponding to categories into which a plurality of operations defined in advance for the media player are classified, and the lower-layer objects corresponding to each of the plurality of operations;
18. A computer device as claimed in claim 17. by the at least one processor;
adjusting the degree to which the operation is applied to the media player based on the distance between the third position and the second position;
19. Computer apparatus according to claim 17 or 18.

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