KR102009133B1 - Electronic document touch control method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to control a touch in an electronic document. More specifically, according to the present invention, disclosed is the technique highlighting an electronic document row by row or moving a cursor without scrolling the electronic document with a touch input performed at a position not determined in an edge area of a display.

Description

Electronic document touch control method

The present invention relates to electronic document touch display control, and more particularly, to an electronic document touch control method, a program and a computer-readable recording medium.

Electronic documents displayed on touch screens such as smartphones, tablet PCs, and e-book readers can be controlled through a mouse that a user directly touches or interacts with.

While the method of directly touching the touch screen is more convenient than the mouse, there is an uncomfortable aspect that has not yet been solved.

For example, when dragging in a vertical direction to lead the eyes of a user who reads an electronic document, the mouse can be highlighted by dragging input so that the electronic document does not scroll, whereas the cursor can be directly touched to highlight it. It is inconvenient to operate precisely so that the cursor does not malfunction due to the cumbersome process and incorrect input that must be generated separately.

And, unless the user is adept at reading the electronic document, the gaze fixed to a specific position while reading the electronic document on the touch screen is dispersed while scrolling the electronic document, and the visual fatigue is increased to move the gaze to the intended position. It must be.

In addition, the scrolling of the electronic document is more likely to be distracted by the user's gaze than the page turning of the paper document, and the possibility of being fixed by a habit of skipping words or skipping lines is high.

Therefore, there is a need to develop a technology capable of accurately reading the distributed gaze of a user who reads an electronic document with a touch display.

An efficient electronic document touch control method that does not skip a word or skip a line by reading the text displayed on the touch screen so that the line of sight moves in the same manner as the position of the user's finger to touch input, so that the line of sight is not dispersed. Can be provided.

Electronic document touch control method according to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, in the display having a touch panel, (a) the edge of the text area and the edge (edge) area displayed on the display separately Generating an input signal with the first touch input at an undefined position of the region; (b) moving in a first direction on the display while maintaining the first touch input; (c) releasing the first touch input at some location on the display; (d) generating an input signal with a second touch input at an undefined position of the edge region; (e) moving in a first or second direction on the display while maintaining the second touch input; and (f) releasing the second touch input at some location on the display, The edge area is a vertical area of a left or right edge of the display, in which the text area is not scrolled, the first direction is either an upper side or a lower side of the display, and the second direction is the first direction. Can be the opposite of

The positions corresponding to the first touch input and the second touch input are displayed as dots on the edge region, and the dot display of steps (c) and (f) is maintained. The dot display may be moved in units of text lines of the text area corresponding to a horizontal direction with respect to the movement of the first touch input and the second touch input.

Further, the text of the text area corresponding to the horizontal direction of the first touch input performed in steps (a) to (c) is selected on a line basis to maintain highlight display. The text of the text area corresponding to the horizontal direction of the second touch input performed in step f) may be selected and displayed in line units.

In addition, the text of the text area corresponding to the horizontal direction of the first touch input performed in steps (a) to (c) is selected and displayed in line units, and the highlight is released at the same time as the step (d). The text of the text area corresponding to the horizontal direction of the second touch input performed in steps (d) to (f) may be selected and highlighted in line units.

In addition, the steps (a) to (c) is an input for moving the first cursor of the first cursor and the second cursor generated in a portion on the display by the user's long touch input in the vertical direction, and the (d) Steps (f) to (f) are inputs for moving the second cursor in a vertical direction, and according to the scroll input degree performed on the text area at the same time as either the first touch input or the second touch input, One of the first cursor and the second cursor can be moved to the text area outside the display.

According to the present invention, there is an advantage in that the position and range of reading text can be displayed in a variable and intuitive manner without scrolling the text according to the degree of touch input performed at an edge area that is separated from the text area on the touch screen. have.

In addition, there is an advantage in that the user's gaze can be accurately read when moving between lines by displaying a touch input position performed in the edge area.

In addition, according to the touch input size performed in the edge area, text may be highlighted in units of lines.

In addition, there is an advantage in that the position where the touch input is released and the position where the re-touch input is started in the edge area can be distinguished.

In addition, there is an advantage that the text area is automatically scrolled according to the touch input size performed in the edge area.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating an electronic document touch control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 through 8 illustrate examples of an electronic document touch control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The following detailed description of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings that show, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. It is to be understood that the various embodiments of the invention are different, but need not be mutually exclusive. For example, specific shapes, structures, and characteristics described herein may be embodied in other embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention in relation to one embodiment. In addition, it is to be understood that the arrangement of individual components in each disclosed embodiment may be changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the following detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention, if properly described, may be said to be equivalent or equivalent to those claimed by the claims within the scope of the present invention. have. The same reference numerals in the drawings or refer to the same reference numerals refer to the same element, the term "and / or" may include any one of the plurality of items and all combinations of one or more. The first component, the second component, and the like, which are used to distinguish different components, are not limited to the term itself, and the following first component is a second component without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It can be expressed as.

The display having a touch panel described herein includes an OLED, a TFT-LCD, an e-ink display, a touch display with a touch panel, which displays objects such as various software programs, icons, texts and images, Smart boards, prompters and the like. The display may be divided into a text area displaying text and an edge area in which the text area is not displayed. The edge region may be the margin portion of the left and right edges, which is generally equal to the vertical length of the text region without displaying text on the display. In addition, in the case of a display composed of an edge panel, it may be a curved corner portion, and the width and vertical length of the text area and the edge area may be adjusted or applied in the generated format according to a user's or developer's setting. The touch input of the user performing in the edge area may be changed to perform a function other than the scroll input for the text area and the text, or at least some functions may be limited.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the electronic document touch control method may be set to at least one of the left or right edge regions.

According to another embodiment, a tool for performing an electronic document touch control method may be positioned in at least one of the left or right edge regions. In this case, the tool may be in the form of a program stored on the storage 140. In addition, although not shown in the drawings, it may be displayed to be identified in a rectangular form or may not be displayed.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a display apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the display 100 includes a display unit 110, an input unit 120, a controller 130, and a storage 140. The display unit 110 may be a panel displaying the above-described object according to a user's input performed on the input unit 120. The input unit 120 may be configured as a touch panel that provides a user input interface. In addition, the display unit 110 and the input unit 120 may be separately divided and linked in a wired or wireless form or may be combined into one. The input signal generated to be displayed on the display unit 110 through the left or right edge region may be an input signal through the input unit 120 using a user's finger or a touch pen, a wired / wireless mouse, or a touch pad. The input signal may be generated by a remote controller, and may be the same as an input signal through the left or right edge region to communicate with the controller 130 by wire or wirelessly.

The controller 130 may include a hardware including an at least one processor and an operating system (OS), and determine the input signal through the input unit 120 to be displayed on the display unit 110, but the storage unit 140 ) May be displayed on the display unit 110 in a processed or regenerated form. The storage 140 may store and store instructions, data, and programs for the electronic document read control method described herein.

Electronic Document Touch Control Method

2 is a schematic flowchart illustrating an electronic document touch control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 to 7 are diagrams showing an example of an electronic document touch control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The first touch input may be a touch input performed first in the edge region, and the second touch input may be a touch input performed second in the edge region. In this case, when the highlight display corresponding to the first touch input is not maintained in the edge region or the text region, the second touch input may be described without distinguishing from the first touch input.

In step S201 of FIG. 2, an input signal is generated by the first touch input at an undefined position of an edge region among the text region and the edge region displayed separately on the display.

Referring to FIGS. 3A and 3B, the right edge of the text area 3, the left edge area 1 and the right edge area 2, which are separated from the text area 3, on the display 100. The first touch input 5 is performed at an undefined position of the region 2, and a dot 10 is displayed in the horizontal left edge region 1 corresponding to the first touch input 5. Can be. At this time, the display of the point 10 may be displayed as a marker such as 'V' or an arrow.

According to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIG. 3C, the left edge region 1 and the right edge region 2 in correspondence with the first touch input 5 performed in the right edge region 2. ) And the text area 3 may be highlighted by a method such as a dot 10 or the text of the text area 3 may not be scrolled. In this case, scrolling of the text may be performed in the text area 3. The user does not scroll the text by the touch and the touch movement input performed in the predetermined edge area on the display 100, thereby allowing the user to move the line of sight of the text that is connected to the line before or after the line. There is an effect that can lead to the edge accurately.

In addition, one of the left edge region 1 and the right edge region 2 may not respond to the capacitive input, but may react to the pressure sensitive input, and the other region may enable scroll input.

In step S202 of FIG. 2, the display moves in a first direction on the display while maintaining the first touch input.

In FIG. 3B, the point 10 of the left edge region 1 corresponds to an input moving downward while the first touch input 5 performed on the right edge region 2 is maintained. It is not fixed and can move downward in the line size of the text displayed in the text area 3. In this case, the first touch input 5 may not scroll the text of the text area 3.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when performing the first touch input 5 in the left edge region 1, the point 10 is a horizontal right edge region corresponding to the first touch input 5. 2). Also, in response to the input moving downward while the first touch input 5 performed on the left edge region 1 is maintained, the point 10 of the right edge region 2 is not fixed and the text is not fixed. You can move up or down in the row size of the test displayed in the area. In this case, the first touch input 5 may not scroll the text of the text area 3.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the first touch input 5 starting in one of the left edge region 1 and the right edge region 2 releases the touch input in a region different from the region where the touch has started. In this case, the display of the point 1 of the text may move in a size and a direction corresponding to the moving distance from the first touch input start position and the touch release position. In this case, another area for releasing the touch may include the text area 3.

On the other hand, when moving to a state of maintaining a touch input starting from the text area 3, the text of the text area 3 may be scrolled in a size and direction corresponding to the degree of the touch input.

According to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIGS. 4A to 4D, the first touch input 5 is performed in the same manner as in FIG. 3, except for a dot display, except for a text area. The highlighted display area can be expanded or the expanded area can be reduced so that the text of (3) is highlighted in various ways. As shown in (a) and (b) of FIG. 4, the display is shaded, or as shown in (c) and (d) of FIG. 4, underlined or highlighted so as to be highlighted by changing font size, text color, enlargement, etc. can do. In addition, the highlight display type may be set or changed by a user or a developer. Also, at least one or more of the left edge region 1 and the right edge region 2 may be marked to be identified as shown in FIG. 3 (c) or not identified as shown in FIG. 3 (a) and (b). Can be.

Step S203 of Figure 2 releases the first touch input at some location on the display.

As shown in FIG. 5A, when releasing the first touch input 5 touched in the right edge area 2, the highlight display for the text in the text area 3 may be maintained.

Step S04 of FIG. 2 generates an input signal with the second touch input at an undefined position of the edge region among the text region and the edge region displayed separately on the display.

As shown in FIGS. 5B and 5C, the text area 3 corresponding to the second touch input performed in the right edge area 2 that does not overlap with the first touch input position of FIG. 5A. You can highlight a line of text. In this case, the highlight line may be released by the second touch input 6 in the text line where the highlight mark is maintained in FIG. 5B.

Step S205 of Fig. 2 moves in the first direction or the second direction on the display while maintaining the second touch input.

As illustrated in FIG. 5C, the highlight line may be extended in the text line of the text area 3 in response to the size and direction of the input moving in the state where the second touch input 6 is maintained.

Step S206 of Figure 2 releases the second touch input at some location on the display.

As shown in FIG. 5A, when releasing the first touch input 5 touched in the right edge area 2, the highlight display for the text in the text area 3 may be maintained.

According to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIGS. 6A and 6B, a second touch input performed at a position that does not overlap with the text line highlighted by the first touch input 5 previously released ( 6) the highlight display is not released, and a highlight display area on the text area 3 corresponding to the second touch input 6 may be added. Although not illustrated in the drawing, when a plurality of touch inputs performed in the left edge region 1 or the right edge region 2 do not overlap, three or more highlight regions may be generated according to the number of additional touch inputs to the user. have. In addition, when the positions of the touch input previously performed and the positions of the next touch input performed overlap, the highlight of the text line of the text area 3 may release the highlight of the text line corresponding to the overlapping size. Specifically, the text line of the text area 3 corresponding to the position where the odd touch input is performed is highlighted, and the highlight display of the text line of the text area 3 corresponding to the position where the even touch input is performed is Can be released.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention referring to FIGS. 7A and 7B, the touch input 7 performed in the text area 3 may release the highlight display. For example, the touch input 7 on the highlight display position may dedisplay the unconnected area. The entire highlight display may be released by a touch input performed in the non-highlighted area on the text area 3.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in response to a touch tap input performed in the left edge region 1 or the right edge region 2, a text sentence including a text line of the text region 3 is automatically highlighted. Can be. In addition, in response to an additional touch tap input performed at a non-overlapping position of the left edge region 1 or the right edge region 2 corresponding to the previously highlighted sentence, the previously highlighted sentence is de-displayed and another sentence is displayed. It can be highlighted automatically. In addition, when a highlight is displayed to an area outside the display 100, the display 100 may be automatically scrolled to be displayed on the display 100.

According to one embodiment of the invention, in the left edge region 1 or the right edge region 2, the text area with the position of the first touch input 5 or the second touch input 6 fixed without moving. In response to the touch scroll input continuously performed in (3), the text line of the text area 3 may expand and contract the highlight display area to such an extent that the text line of the text area 3 leaves the display 100 in a direction opposite to the scroll input direction. In this case, when the highlight display area is re-displayed on the display 100 by the user's scroll after leaving the display 100, the highlight display may be maintained.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the electronic document touch control method may be limited to a read-only electronic document that cannot be edited by a user, or may include an editable electronic document.

According to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIG. 8, one or two left edge regions 1 and right edge regions 2 on the display 100 are generated by a user's tap-touch or long touch input. Cursors can be moved vertically. For example, one cursor may be moved in the vertical direction, and two cursors may be formed by the edge region 1 of the first cursor 81 and the second cursor 82 of FIG. 8A. Moves the first cursor 81 located at the left or the top of the two cursors to the first touch input 5 performed at, and the first touch input 5 or second performed at the right edge region 2. The touch input 6 may be used as a function of moving the second cursor 82 located at the right or the lower side of the two cursors. In this case, the cursor may be moved vertically downward or in the right edge of the row which is the position of the second cursor 82 in FIG.

On the other hand, when the virtual keyboard is displayed together with the generation of the cursor, the left edge region 1 and the right edge region 2 are automatically adjusted to be equal to the vertical length of the electronic document displayed on the display 100 or left. The edge area 1 and the right edge area 2 may be automatically adjusted according to the vertical length of the virtual keyboard.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the above electronic document touch control method may be divided into respective detailed steps and configured individually, or may be a combination of a plurality of steps.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the above electronic document touch control method may be implemented as a computer program stored in a medium for executing at least one of the above embodiments in combination with hardware.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the electronic document touch control method is implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means for performing at least one of the above embodiments to be recorded on a computer readable recording medium. Can be. The computer readable recording medium may include solely or a combination of program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like. Program code or instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, magnetic-optical media such as floppy disks, and the like. Hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute programs such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like are included. Examples of program instructions include machine language code, such as produced by a compiler, and high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The computer readable recording medium may be non-transitory computer readable medium. The hardware device may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

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Claims (7)

In the touch display,
(a) selecting and highlighting a row corresponding to a first touch input performed at an undefined position of an edge region among the text region and the edge region displayed on the display;
(b) selecting and expanding the highlight display in units of rows according to a degree of vertical movement in the first or second direction on the display while maintaining the first touch input;
(c) maintaining the highlight display at the time of releasing the first touch input at some location on the display;
(d) Select and highlight a row corresponding to a second touch input performed at an undefined position of the edge area, but when reselecting a highlighted row by the first touch input, the reselected row is highlighted. Releasing it;
(e) Selecting and expanding the highlight display in units of rows according to the degree of vertical movement in the first or second direction on the display while maintaining the second touch input, and highlighting the first touch input. When reselecting a row, removing the highlight from the reselected row; And
(f) releasing the second touch input at some location on the display and the highlight indication is maintained;
The text area is an area in which a touch scroll input is possible, and the edge area is a vertical area indicated by a margin of a left or right edge of the display in which the text area is not scrolled, and the first direction is an upper side of the display. Direction or the downward direction, and the second direction is opposite to the first direction, and the highlight display is expanded in a plurality of rows by the steps (a) to (f), or the steps (d) to In step (f), the highlight display is expanded or reduced, with the row of odd-numbered rows being highlighted, the row of even-numbered rows being highlighted, and the highlighted row or area being positioned at the position of the second touch input. Electronic document touch control method characterized in that divided into one or two according to The method of claim 1,
The highlighted one, corresponding to the degree and direction of a touch scroll input performed at least once in the text area while keeping the first touch input or second touch input without highlighting one or more rows without moving The above rows may be selected to extend an area highlighting an area beyond the scrollable display of the text area in the first direction or the second direction, or may be selected by reselecting the highlighted row with the first touch input. Electronic document touch control method, characterized in that to release the highlight display delete delete delete A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the method of claim 1. A computer program stored on a medium for executing the method of claim 1 in combination with hardware.

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