KR101663909B1 - Electronic device, and method thereof - Google Patents

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KR101663909B1
KR101663909B1 KR1020150123648A KR20150123648A KR101663909B1 KR 101663909 B1 KR101663909 B1 KR 101663909B1 KR 1020150123648 A KR1020150123648 A KR 1020150123648A KR 20150123648 A KR20150123648 A KR 20150123648A KR 101663909 B1 KR101663909 B1 KR 101663909B1
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Abstract

An electronic device and its method of operation are disclosed. An operation method of an electronic device according to an embodiment includes sensing a touch of a user's fingers and defining buttons corresponding to each of the fingers at a position of the fingers.

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ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME,

The following embodiments relate to an electronic device, and a method of operation thereof.

The GUI interface has long been used as an interface for computers and portable devices. However, in addition to using GUI controls such as buttons, work efficiency has also been used with GUI interfaces, such as using shortcut keys. Such a hot key input method is easy to use in a desktop environment having a physical keyboard, but it is difficult to use it in a touch screen based portable device such as a tablet or a smart phone without a separate keyboard.

Embodiments provide a technique for providing a button corresponding to the position of a finger so that a user can easily perform a shortening function by sequentially touching several fingers without looking at the screen.

A method of operating an electronic device according to an embodiment may include sensing a touch of a user's fingers and defining buttons corresponding to each of the fingers at a location of the fingers.

The defining step may include displaying the buttons based on a touch point of the fingers.

Wherein the defining step comprises the steps of: setting a horizontal boundary of each of the buttons based on a center point between touch points of each of the fingers; and setting one of the fingers, And setting a vertical boundary of each of the buttons based on the position.

The method comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of taps input via the buttons from the user; and performing a function corresponding to the plurality of taps based on at least one of a tab order and a tap count of the user's finger .

The method may further include displaying function items corresponding to the buttons at a position where the buttons are defined.

The method may further comprise receiving a selection of any one of the functional items from the user and displaying sub-functional items of the selected functional item in response to the selection.

The sub-function items are displayed in a position where the buttons are defined, and the function items can be displayed in addition to the positions where the buttons are defined.

One of the functional items may be a backward function.

The method comprising: receiving a selection of any one of the functional items from the user except for the backward function; and selecting, from among the buttons, the sub-functional items of the selected functional item in response to the selection, And displaying the buttons except for the buttons at the defined positions.

An electronic device according to an embodiment may include an input interface for sensing a touch of a user's fingers and a controller for defining buttons corresponding to each of the fingers at a position of the fingers on the input interface.

The controller may display the buttons on the input interface based on a touch point of the fingers.

The controller sets a horizontal boundary of each of the buttons based on a center point between touch points of each of the fingers, and based on the position of one of the fingers other than the user's thumb and the thumb, The vertical boundaries of each of the buttons can be set.

The controller may receive a plurality of tabs input from the user through the buttons and perform a function corresponding to the plurality of tabs based on at least one of a tab order and a tap count of the user's finger.

The controller may display function items corresponding to the buttons at the positions where the buttons are defined.

The controller may receive a selection of one of the functional items from the user and display the sub-functional items of the selected functional item on the input interface in response to the selection.

The sub-function items are displayed in a position where the buttons are defined, and the function items can be displayed in addition to the positions where the buttons are defined.

One of the functional items may be a backward function.

Wherein the controller receives from the user a selection of any one of the functional items except for the backward function and, in response to the selection, subordinate functional items of the selected functional item to the backward- Can be displayed at the defined position.

The input interface may be implemented as a touch display or a touch pad.

1 is a schematic block diagram of an electronic device according to one embodiment.
2 is a view for explaining an operation of the controller shown in Fig. 1 to define buttons corresponding to respective fingers on an input interface; Fig.
Fig. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the button definition operation of the controller of Fig. 2;
4 is a view for explaining an embodiment for operating buttons defined in the input interface.
5 is a view for explaining another embodiment for operating the buttons defined in the input interface.
6 is a view for explaining another embodiment for operating the buttons defined in the input interface.
7 is a flowchart for explaining an operation method of the electronic device shown in Fig.

It is to be understood that the specific structural or functional descriptions of embodiments of the present invention disclosed herein are presented for the purpose of describing embodiments only in accordance with the concepts of the present invention, May be embodied in various forms and are not limited to the embodiments described herein.

Other embodiments of the inventive concept may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, as various changes may be made and the embodiments may be varied in many ways. However, it is not intended to limit the embodiments according to the concepts of the present invention to the specific disclosure forms, but includes changes, equivalents, or alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the present invention.

The terms first, second, or the like may be used to describe various elements, but the elements should not be limited by the terms. The terms may be named for the purpose of distinguishing one element from another, for example without departing from the scope of the right according to the concept of the present invention, the first element being referred to as the second element, Similarly, the second component may also be referred to as the first component.

It is to be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected or connected to the other element, . On the other hand, when an element is referred to as being "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that there are no other elements in between. Expressions that describe the relationship between components, such as "between" and "between" or "neighboring to" and "directly adjacent to" should be interpreted as well.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. The singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In this specification, the terms "comprises ", or" having ", and the like, are used to specify one or more of the features, numbers, steps, operations, elements, But do not preclude the presence or addition of steps, operations, elements, parts, or combinations thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries are to be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning of the context in the relevant art and, unless explicitly defined herein, are to be interpreted as ideal or overly formal Do not.

Hereinafter, embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the scope of the patent application is not limited or limited by these embodiments. Like reference symbols in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a schematic block diagram of an electronic device according to one embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 1, an electronic device 10 may include an input interface 100, and a controller 200.

The electronic device 10 may be implemented as a personal computer (PC), a data server, or a portable device.

Portable devices include laptop computers, mobile phones, smart phones, tablet PCs, mobile internet devices (MIDs), personal digital assistants (PDAs), enterprise digital assistants (EDAs) A digital still camera, a digital video camera, a portable multimedia player (PMP), a personal navigation device or a portable navigation device (PND), a handheld game console, an e-book e-book, or a smart device.

A smart device can be implemented as a smart watch or a smart band.

The input interface 100 may receive an input of a user of the electronic device 10. [ For example, the input interface 100 may sense (or receive) a touch of the user's fingers of the electronic device 10. [ As another example, the input interface 100 may receive a plurality of taps of a user of the electronic device 10. [

The input interface 100 may be implemented as a display or a touchpad. For example, the display may be a liquid crystal display (LCD), a touch screen display, a thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD), a light emitting diode (LED) display, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) ) Display, or a flexible display.

The controller 200 can control the overall operation of the electronic device 10. [ The controller 200 may receive an input of a user input through the input interface 100.

The controller 200 may define, at the input interface 100, buttons corresponding to each of the fingers of the user of the electronic device 10. [ For example, the controller 200 may display, on the input interface 100, buttons corresponding to each of the fingers based on the touch points of the user's fingers.

At this time, the user of the electronic device 10 can tap the buttons defined in the input interface 100. [ The controller 200 may perform a function corresponding to a user's tab based on a user's tab input through the input interface 100. [ For example, the function may include at least one function provided by the OS of the electronic device 10 and / or the application running on the electronic device 10. [ The function may include a menu.

For example, the controller 200 may receive a plurality of taps input from the user through the buttons defined in the input interface 100. The controller 200 may perform a function corresponding to the plurality of tabs based on at least one of the tab order and the tap count of the user's finger.

In another example, the controller 200 may display functional items (or menu items) corresponding to each of the buttons defined in the input interface 100 at a location where the buttons of the input interface 100 are defined. The controller 200 may receive a selection of any one of the functional items from the user. For example, the controller 200 may perform the functions assigned to the selected function item in response to the selection. As another example, the controller 200 may display the sub-function items of the selected function item in response to the selection.

The electronic device 10 can quickly perform various functions corresponding to successive touches of each finger of the user by providing buttons corresponding to the positions of the fingers and can assign function items to each of the user's fingers . In addition, the electronic device 10 may enable the user to quickly access various functions without additional sensors.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an operation of the controller shown in FIG. 1 to define buttons corresponding to respective fingers on the input interface, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the button definition operation of the controller of FIG. 2 .

Referring to FIGS. 1 to 3, the input interface 100 may sense a touch of a user's fingers 310 to 350 of the electronic device 10 (S310).

The controller 200 may determine whether the user's fingers are touched (S320). Although FIGS. 2 and 3 illustrate the case where all five fingers 310 to 350 of the user are touched, the present invention is not limited thereto. have. For example, the number of the user's fingers to be touched to define the buttons corresponding to each of the fingers in consideration of the size and the like of the input interface 100 may be set.

Hereinafter, for the sake of convenience of explanation, five fingers 310 to 350 of the user, for example, a thumb 310, an index finger 320, a middle finger 330, a ring finger 340, and a little finger 350 are all touched.

The controller 200 may determine whether all five fingers 310 to 350 of the user have been touched (S320). That is, the controller 200 may determine whether to start the operation of defining the buttons B1 to B5 corresponding to the fingers 310 to 350, respectively, according to the detection result. The controller 200 can start the operation of defining the buttons B1 to B5 when all five fingers 310 to 350 of the user are touched.

The controller 200 can set the horizontal boundaries of each of the buttons B1 to B5 based on the center point between the touch points of each of the fingers 310 to 350 at step S330.

Specifically, the controller 200 can align the touch points of each of the fingers 310 to 350 on the x-axis basis. The controller 200 can calculate the center point between the touch points of each of the fingers 310 to 350 and set the center point as the horizontal boundary of the button.

For example, the controller 200 may calculate the center point between the touch point of the thumb 310 and the touch point of the forefinger 320 and set the center point as the horizontal boundary of the button B1 and the button B2 have. The controller 200 can calculate the center point between the touch point of the forefinger 320 and the touch point of the middle finger 330 and set the center point as the horizontal boundary of the button B2 and the button B3. The controller 200 can calculate the center point between the touch point of the middle finger 330 and the touch point of the finger 340 and set the center point as the horizontal boundary of the button B3 and the button B4. The controller 200 may calculate the center point between the touch point of the weak finger 340 and the touch point of the little finger 350 and set the center point as the horizontal boundary of the buttons B4 and B5.

In the case of the thumb 310 and the little finger 350, the controller 200 can set any horizontal boundary because there is no finger adjacent to both ends. In the case of the thumb 310, the controller 200 extends outward by a distance m times the distance from the touch point of the thumb 310 to the center point of the thumb 310 and the index finger 320, ) Can be set. In the case of the little finger 350, the controller 200 extends outward by n times the distance from the touch point of the little finger 350 to the center point of the little finger 340 and the little finger 350, ) Can be set. For example, m and n may be one or more. By extending the horizontal boundaries of the buttons B1 and B5 corresponding to the thumb 310 and the little finger 350 respectively, the user can select the buttons B1 to B5 defined in the input interface 100 a little more Can be used smoothly.

The controller 200 can set the vertical boundaries of each of the buttons B1 to B5 based on the position of one of the fingers 320 to 350 excluding the thumb 310 and the position of the thumb 310 (S340). For example, any one of the fingers 320 to 350 excluding the thumb 310 may be a finger located at the highest position among the fingers that touch the input interface 100. The controller 200 sets a vertical boundary below the touch point of the thumb 310 located at the lowest position and sets a vertical boundary above the touch point of the finger located at the highest position. At this time, the vertical boundary can be set by placing a touch region (or a margin) on the touch point of the thumb 310 and the touch point of the finger located at the highest position.

The controller 200 may generate the buttons B1 to B5 based on the horizontal boundary and the vertical boundary (S350). 2, the controller 200 can display the buttons B1 to B5 on the input interface 100 by setting a vertical boundary and a horizontal boundary of the buttons B1 to B5. In addition, the controller 200 may display the horizontal coordinates of the touch points of the fingers 310 to 350 on the input interface 100 as indicated by a dotted line, in order to smoothly touch the user.

2 to 3 can be directly applied to the left hand of the user according to the embodiment, and thus the detailed description thereof will be omitted. Will be omitted.

4 is a view for explaining an embodiment for operating buttons defined in the input interface.

1 to 4, a user of the electronic device 10 may tap the buttons B1 to B5 defined in the input interface 100. [

The controller 200 may perform a function corresponding to a user's tab based on a user's tab input through the input interface 100. [

In addition, the controller 200 may receive a plurality of tabs input through the buttons defined in the input interface 100 from the user. The controller 200 may perform a function corresponding to the plurality of tabs based on at least one of the tab order and the tap count of the user's finger.

When the user taps the thumb 310, the middle finger 330, and the little finger 350 in this order, the controller 200 can perform a function corresponding to the plurality of taps, for example, a copy function . When the user taps the thumb 310, the index finger 320 and the finger 340 in this order, the controller 200 can perform a function corresponding to the plurality of tabs, for example, a paste function . When the user taps the thumb 310, the index finger 320, the middle finger 330, and the little finger 350 in this order, the controller 200 performs a function corresponding to the plurality of tabs, for example, Can be performed. When the user taps in the order of the little finger 350 and the thumb 310, the controller 200 can perform a function corresponding to the plurality of taps, for example, a reverting function.

That is, the user and / or designer of the electronic device 10 can set various functions and perform various functions quickly by changing the tab order and the number of tabs of the finger.

5 is a view for explaining another embodiment for operating the buttons defined in the input interface.

1 to 3 and 5, the controller 200 transmits function items (or menu items) corresponding to each of the buttons B1 to B5 defined in the input interface 100 to the input interface 100 ) Buttons can be displayed at the defined position.

The controller 200 may receive a selection of any one of the functional items from the user. For example, the controller 200 may perform the functions assigned to the selected function item in response to the selection. As another example, the controller 200 may display the sub-function items of the selected function item in response to the selection.

As shown in Fig. 5, the functional items corresponding to each of the buttons B1 to B5 may include a hierarchical function.

All the functions can be hierarchically configured, and one function item is assigned to each finger 310 to 350, and when the user selects a specific function item, the input interface 100 belongs to the selected function item By showing the sub-function items, the user can access a large number of function items.

When all five fingers 310 to 350 are used for function item selection, the electronic device 10 can support 5 ^ n number of function items with n tap operations.

The depths of all function items do not have to be the same and the electronic device 10 can make it easier to arrange the function item selection by allowing the final function item to exist at a shallower depth in the case of frequently used function items.

6 is a view for explaining another embodiment for operating the buttons defined in the input interface.

1 to 3 and 5 and 6, the controller 200 inputs functional items (or menu items) corresponding to each of the buttons B1 to B5 defined in the input interface 100 The buttons of the interface 100 can be displayed at the defined positions.

One of the function items may be a backward function. For example, the backward function may include a cancel function.

The controller 200 may receive a selection of any of the functional items 610 except for the function of returning from the user. The controller 200 can display the lower functional items 620 of the selected function item at a position where the buttons B2 to B4 except the button B1 to which the menu is allocated are defined. For example, if Paragraph is selected from among the function items 610, the controller 200 can display Indent, Spacing, Align, and Bullet, which are sub-functional items of the Paragraph, at the position where the buttons B2 to B4 are defined have.

In addition, the controller 200 may receive a selection of any of the function items 620, excluding the function of returning from the user. The controller 200 can display the lower functional items 630 of the selected function item at a position where the buttons B2 to B4 except the button B1 to which the menu is allocated are defined. For example, when Align is selected from among the function items 620, the controller 200 can display the subordinate function items Left, Center, Justify, and Right of the Align in a position where the buttons B2 to B4 are defined have.

Since the hierarchical functional item structure is used, current depth information can be important. Accordingly, the controller 200 can display function items selectable at the current depth at the positions where the buttons B2 to B4 are defined except the button B1 to which the backward function is allocated on the input interface 100 .

If the current depth is n, the controller 200 may display the functional items of the previous n-1 depth and the functional items of the previous n-2 depth on the input interface 100. The function items of the previous n-1 depth and the function items of the previous n-2 depth may be displayed on the input interface 100 in addition to the positions where the buttons B1 to B4 are defined. The existing functional items can be displayed on the input interface 100 with one column up as shown in FIG.

Thus, the electronic device 10 can provide information to the user to easily understand the current position in the hierarchical functional item structure, and can assist in switching to another selection if an incorrect selection is made through the backward function.

As shown in FIG. 6, the previously selected function items can be highlighted on the input interface 100 and displayed.

7 is a flowchart for explaining an operation method of the electronic device shown in Fig.

Referring to FIG. 7, the input interface 100 may sense a touch of a user's finger (S710).

The controller 200 may define the buttons corresponding to the respective fingers at the positions of the fingers on the input interface 100 (S730).

The apparatus described above may be implemented as a hardware component, a software component, and / or a combination of hardware components and software components. For example, the apparatus and components described in the embodiments may be implemented within a computer system, such as, for example, a processor, a controller, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital signal processor, a microcomputer, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) , A programmable logic unit (PLU), a microprocessor, or any other device capable of executing and responding to instructions. The processing device may execute an operating system (OS) and one or more software applications running on the operating system. The processing device may also access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to execution of the software. For ease of understanding, the processing apparatus may be described as being used singly, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the processing apparatus may have a plurality of processing elements and / As shown in FIG. For example, the processing unit may comprise a plurality of processors or one processor and one controller. Other processing configurations are also possible, such as a parallel processor.

The software may include a computer program, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more of the foregoing, and may be configured to configure the processing device to operate as desired or to process it collectively or collectively Device can be commanded. The software and / or data may be in the form of any type of machine, component, physical device, virtual equipment, computer storage media, or device , Or may be permanently or temporarily embodied in a transmitted signal wave. The software may be distributed over a networked computer system and stored or executed in a distributed manner. The software and data may be stored on one or more computer readable recording media.

The method according to an embodiment may be implemented in the form of a program command that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions to be recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and configured for the embodiments or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs; magnetic media such as floppy disks; Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the embodiments, and vice versa.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. For example, it is to be understood that the techniques described may be performed in a different order than the described methods, and / or that components of the described systems, structures, devices, circuits, Lt; / RTI > or equivalents, even if it is replaced or replaced.

Therefore, other implementations, other embodiments, and equivalents to the claims are also within the scope of the following claims.

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Sensing a touch of a user's fingers;
Defining buttons corresponding to each of the fingers at a position of the fingers; And
Performing a function corresponding to a plurality of taps input through the buttons based on a tap order and a tap count of the fingers
Lt; / RTI >
The step of defining,
Setting a horizontal boundary of each of the buttons based on a center point between touch points of each of the fingers; And
Setting a vertical boundary of each of the buttons based on the position of one of the fingers except for the thumb of the user and the position of the thumb;
Lt; / RTI >
The method according to claim 1,
The step of defining,
Displaying the buttons based on a touch point of the fingers
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delete delete The method according to claim 1,
Displaying function items corresponding to each of the buttons at a position where the buttons are defined
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6. The method of claim 5,
Receiving a selection of any one of the functional items from the user;
Displaying the sub-function items of the selected function item in response to the selection
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The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the subordinate function items are displayed in a position where the buttons are defined, and the function items are displayed in a place other than the position where the buttons are defined.
6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein one of the functional items is a backward function.
9. The method of claim 8,
Receiving from the user a selection of any one of the functional items except for the backward function; And
Displaying the subordinate function items of the selected function item in a position where the buttons other than the button to which the backward function is assigned are defined in response to the selection
≪ / RTI >
An input interface for sensing a touch of a user's fingers; And
A controller for defining buttons corresponding to each of the fingers at a position of the fingers on the input interface,
Lt; / RTI >
The controller comprising:
Setting a horizontal boundary of each of the buttons based on a center point between touch points of each of the fingers; and setting the horizontal boundary of each of the buttons based on a position of one of the fingers other than the user's thumb and the thumb, Each vertical boundary is set,
The controller comprising:
And performs a function corresponding to a plurality of taps input through the buttons based on a tap order and a tap count of the fingers.
11. The method of claim 10,
The controller comprising:
And displays the buttons on the input interface based on a touch point of the fingers.
delete delete 11. The method of claim 10,
The controller comprising:
And displays function items corresponding to each of the buttons at a position where the buttons are defined.
15. The method of claim 14,
The controller comprising:
Receive a selection of one of the functional items from the user and display the sub-functional items of the selected functional item on the input interface in response to the selection.
16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein the sub-function items are displayed in a position where the buttons are defined, and the function items are displayed in a place other than where the buttons are defined.
15. The method of claim 14,
Wherein one of the function items is a backward function.
18. The method of claim 17,
The controller comprising:
Wherein the control unit receives a selection of any one of the function items from the user except for the backward function and, in response to the selection, selects the subordinate function items of the selected function item from the buttons except for the button assigned with the backward function The electronic device displays buttons at defined locations.
11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the input interface comprises:
Wherein the electronic device is implemented with a touch display or a touch pad.
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