KR20150103558A - Method and apparatus for thumb-nail managing on terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for managing a thumbnail on a terminal. More specifically, the method for managing a thumbnail on a terminal provides a user-centered thumbnail view mode to enable a user to directly control the size, color and arrangement of a thumbnail displayed on a terminal. The method for managing a thumbnail, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a control command for a thumbnail of a group of images displayed on a terminal; extracting data for the group of images; applying a feature corresponding to the control command based on extracted data to the thumbnail of the group of images; and storing the thumbnail of the group of images to which the feature corresponding to the control command has been applied. According to the present invention, the method and the apparatus for managing a thumbnail on a terminal enable a user to directly control a view mode of the thumbnail displayed on the terminal, thereby providing a user-centered intuitive thumbnail view mode with improved user convenience; and enhancing access to a specific file, document and document page through the thumbnail.

Description

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THUMB-NAIL MANAGING ON TERMINAL [0002]

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for managing a thumbnail on a terminal, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for providing a user-centered thumbnail view by directly controlling the size, color, and arrangement of thumbnails displayed on the terminal And apparatus.

A thumbnail provides a user with a reduced-size image representing the corresponding information so that the user can confirm the rough information including the files of various formats such as images, images, electronic documents, and pages of the electronic documents. And is provided through various types of preview interfaces depending on the operating system of the terminal.

Conventionally, such a thumbnail is provided as an image of a reduced size in a batch, so that when the type and the number of used data are large, information represented by the thumbnail can not be intuitively recognized, , The accessibility of the document and the page of the document is deteriorated.

Accordingly, there has been a need to develop a technique and apparatus for managing thumbnails that provides a user-centered viewing scheme in providing thumbnails to users.

[Related Technical Literature]

One. Thumbnail changing method and print control apparatus (Korean Patent Application No. 2008-0133038)

An object of the present invention is to provide an intuitive thumbnail viewing method based on a user that improves user's convenience by directly controlling a viewing method of thumbnails displayed on a terminal.

Another problem to be solved by the present invention is to improve the accessibility of pages of a specific file, a document and a document through a thumbnail by providing a user-oriented intuitive thumbnail view method.

The problems of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned problems, and other problems not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of managing thumbnails on a terminal, the method comprising: receiving a control command for a thumbnail of a group of images displayed on a display of the terminal; Applying the function corresponding to the control command to the thumbnail of the group of images based on the data, and storing the thumbnail of the group of images to which the function corresponding to the control command is applied .

According to another aspect of the present invention, the step of extracting data of a group of images includes a step of loading a group of images into a temporary memory area so as to extract data.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a control command includes at least one of information including a thumbnail of a group of images, a size of thumbnail of a group of images, and an instruction regarding control of color and arrangement.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a thumbnail of a group of images to which a function corresponding to a control command is applied may include information that can additionally be displayed in a thumbnail of a group of images.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable medium including instructions for managing thumbnails on a terminal, the apparatus comprising: a control unit for receiving a control command for a thumbnail of a group of images displayed on a display of the terminal, Extracts data of a group of images, applies the function corresponding to the control command to the thumbnail of the group of images based on the data, and stores the thumbnail of the group of images to which the function corresponding to the control command is applied Lt; / RTI >

According to another aspect of the present invention, a set of instructions for extracting data of a group of images comprises a set of instructions for loading a group of images into a temporary memory area so as to extract data .

According to another aspect of the present invention, a control command includes at least one of information including a thumbnail of a group of images, a size of thumbnail of a group of images, and an instruction regarding control of color and arrangement.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a thumbnail of a group of images to which a function corresponding to a control command is applied may include information that can additionally be displayed in a thumbnail of a group of images.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a device for managing a thumbnail on a terminal, the device comprising: a display unit corresponding to a display area of the terminal; A communication unit for receiving a control command for a thumbnail of a group of images displayed on a display unit; A control unit for extracting data of a group of images and applying a function corresponding to a control command to a thumbnail of a group of images based on the data; And a storage unit for storing a thumbnail of a group of images to which a function corresponding to the control command is applied.

According to the method and apparatus for managing thumbnails on a terminal of the present invention, there is an effect of providing an intuitive thumbnail viewing method based on a user, which improves user's convenience by directly controlling the manner of viewing the thumbnails displayed on the terminal.

According to the thumbnail management method and apparatus on the terminal of the present invention, providing an intuitive thumbnail view method based on a user has an effect of improving accessibility to a specific file, a document, and a page of a document through a thumbnail.

The effects according to the present invention are not limited by the contents exemplified above, and more various effects are included in the specification.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a thumbnail management algorithm on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart of a method of managing thumbnails on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3A to 3C illustrate an embodiment of managing a thumbnail on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4A and 4B illustrate an embodiment of a method of viewing thumbnails on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention and the manner of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Is provided to fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims.

In the drawings, the same reference numerals are used for the same elements in different drawings unless otherwise indicated.

It is to be understood that each of the features of the various embodiments of the present invention may be combined or combined with each other partially or entirely and technically various interlocking and driving is possible as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, It may be possible to cooperate with each other in association.

A terminal as used herein may be embodied in devices such as a computer, a smart phone, a note pad, a notebook, and a tablet PC, and may receive input from a user and execute a set of programs or instructions stored in memory based thereon And the like, as long as it is an apparatus which is implemented to have a wired or wirelessly connected display area capable of displaying and displaying the information.

In the present specification, a thumbnail refers to a thumbnail image indicating a thumbnail image representing a corresponding information, such as an image, a video, an electronic document, etc., And includes various types of preview interfaces provided by the operating system of the terminal and the electronic document editor. Here, the electronic document editor means a program capable of loading an electronic document, and includes all programs capable of creating an electronic document or modifying the loaded electronic document. That is, an electronic document viewer, such as a document editing program, an html editor, a memo program, a video editor, or an image editor, may also be included in the electronic document editor.

In this specification, a group of images refers to a group of files of various types and pages of an electronic document on which the aforementioned thumbnail can be provided on the terminal.

Various embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a thumbnail management algorithm on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, an apparatus 100 for performing a thumbnail management algorithm on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit 110, a control unit 120, a display unit 130, ), And a storage unit 140.

A thumbnail management apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention detects data of a group of images based on an input of a user and displays thumbnails of various schemes through the data. The thumbnail management apparatus 100 may be included in a terminal such as a computer, a smart phone, a note pad, a notebook, and a tablet PC, or may be connected to such a terminal, or may be such a terminal itself.

The communication unit 110 receives all input by the user, such as a command related to control of thumbnails, and transmits the input to the control unit 120 to be described later. In addition, when the display unit 130 to be described later is a touch screen display for detecting a touch input, the communication unit 110 may perform the role of the display unit 130 as well.

The manner in which the input by the user is applied may differ depending on the type of the thumbnail management apparatus 100. A mouse or a keyboard may be used on a PC basis, and a user's finger or a stylus may be used on a device having a touch screen display. At this time, the input on the touch screen display can be used not only in a state in which the user physically touches the touch screen display with a finger or an input tool such as a stylus, but also in a state of floating contact Lt; / RTI >

The control unit 120 is configured to manage a method of viewing a thumbnail by performing operations such as executing a program or a set of instructions stored in a memory based on an input received by the communication unit 110 or the like, And applies the function corresponding to the control command received through the communication unit 110 to a thumbnail of a group of images. The control unit 120 may include at least one processor and a memory, and the plurality of processors may be configured to share memory with one another. A memory stores a program or a set of instructions, and the memory can be a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a magnetic disk device, an optical disk device, And the like.

The display unit 130 displays data processed by the control unit 120 to the user as visual information, and includes a touch screen display. When the display unit 130 is a touch screen display, the display unit 130 may include a display panel unit for displaying information and a touch screen panel unit for receiving a control signal. In addition to displaying information on the touch screen display, And may perform a part of the role of the communication unit 110 described above together. In addition, the display unit 130 may be implemented to be connected to the thumbnail management apparatus 100 in a wired or wireless manner.

The storage unit 140 may store data such as thumbnails of a group of images processed by the control unit 120, and may include at least one memory, or may be configured to use a part of a memory .

2 is a flowchart of a method of managing thumbnails on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Will be described with reference to Fig. 1 for convenience of explanation.

First, the communication unit 110 receives a control command for a thumbnail of a group of images displayed on the terminal (S100), and transmits the control command to the controller 120. [

A group of images means a group of files of various types and pages of electronic documents on which a thumbnail can be provided on the terminal as described above.

For example, data of a type that can provide a thumbnail such as a screen at a specific time point of an image file, a specific page of an electronic document composed of one or more pages, a file containing an image, and the like can all be included in a group of images. That is, thumbnail images of a group of images are included in a document, image, or image file provided by Microsoft (Windows) or Apple's Mac (Mac), which is a typical operating system of a PC Or may be an image displayed through a page provided by various electronic document editors or through a slide preview interface.

The control command for the thumbnail received by the communication unit 110 may include at least one of a command regarding control of information including the size, color, arrangement, and thumbnail of a group of thumbnails, May be different depending on the type of the thumbnail management apparatus 100. [

Specifically, the selection and control of thumbnails to be controlled is controlled by clicking, right-clicking, double-clicking and mouse tap, double-tap, multiple-tap, A long-tap method or the like. It is also possible to control the thumbnails by methods such as dragging, sweeping, or flicking, or by changing the size of the thumbnails, changing the colors, changing the arrangement, etc., .

When the control unit 120 receives the control command through the communication unit 110, the control unit 120 extracts data of a group of images (S110).

Generally, in order to generate a thumbnail, the operating system performs an iterative process on a file including a plurality of files or an electronic document including a plurality of pages. The information represented by the thumbnail is an image having a predetermined resolution (or size) generated through such a process. The resolution of the image or the like included in the file does not determine the resolution of the thumbnail. For this reason, even if the size of the thumbnail is controlled, the resolution of the information represented by the thumbnail does not change. Therefore, a low resolution can be a limiting factor for intuitively confirming the information.

Accordingly, the controller 120 performs functions according to various control commands, such as changing the size of the thumbnails received from the user, so that not only the size of the thumbnails but also the information represented by the thumbnails, The data of the image of the forbidden group, that is, data to be applied to the thumbnail is extracted (S110).

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the process of extracting data of a group of images may be performed by the control unit 120 loading a group of images in the temporary memory area, It is possible to extract data of a group of images that are not being processed.

When the data is extracted, the control unit 120 applies a function corresponding to the control command to a thumbnail of a group of images based on the data (S120).

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the control command may include at least one of commands relating to control of the size, color, and arrangement of thumbnails of a group of images, and the controller 120 performs the functions accordingly. At this time, in the case of a control command related to the change of the thumbnail size, the controller 120 may change the arrangement of the thumbnails according to a predetermined method or change the arrangement of the thumbnails according to the user's designation. Changing the size of the thumbnail and thus the arrangement thereof will be described later in detail in FIG.

When the function corresponding to the control command is applied to the thumbnail of one group of images by the control unit 120 (S120), the storage unit 140 stores the function (S130).

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a thumbnail of a group of images stored by the storage unit 140 may be called with a function corresponding to a control command applied when a call of the corresponding thumbnail is requested.

For example, if the user enlarges the thumbnail of the file indicating the " A information " in the folder in which the thumbnails of the three files representing the 'A information', 'B information', and 'C information' When the folder is accessed, the thumbnail of the file indicating 'A information' is provided to the user in an enlarged state.

3A to 3C illustrate an embodiment of managing a thumbnail on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A shows an embodiment in which a thumbnail 131 indicating 'A information' among the thumbnails displayed on the display unit 130 is selected and controlled by the user (140). 3A, the user can select a thumbnail 131 to be controlled through the various input methods described above, and can apply a control command related to size, color, arrangement, and the like to the selected thumbnail. In the case of the control command 140 for changing the size of the thumbnail, the control command can be applied through simple input such as dragging using a size adjustment interface displayed on the selected thumbnail.

FIG. 3B and FIG. 3C show an example in which the thumbnail size and arrangement are changed when the user applies a control command to change the size of the thumbnail, as shown in FIG. 3A.

3B, according to the control command 140 for changing the size of the thumbnail, the thumbnail indicating 'A information' is enlarged, so that the arrangement of the thumbnails that have not been selected is changed and displayed on the display unit 130 . When the size of some thumbnails is changed, the thumbnails that are not selected may be arranged in a partially overlapped form so that they are all displayed on the display unit 130. [

As shown in FIG. 3C, when the thumbnail indicating 'A information' is enlarged according to the control command 140 for changing the size of the thumbnail, unlike FIG. 3B, when the thumbnail is superimposed and displayed, It may be arranged to display only as many thumbnails that can be displayed at one time on the display unit 130, since the intuitiveness for information confirmation may deteriorate.

The arrangement of the remaining thumbnails according to the size change of some thumbnails shown in FIG. 3B and FIG. 3C can be arranged according to the setting of the user or a predetermined process, and the user can select a thumbnail and apply a drag You can also change the array directly.

4A and 4B illustrate an embodiment of a method of viewing thumbnails on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4A shows a thumbnail displayed on the display unit 130 by changing the size, color, and arrangement according to a user's control command for the thumbnail.

As shown in FIG. 4A, the size of the thumbnail is changed or the 'A information' 131, the 'B information' 132, and the 'B information' 131, And 'E information' 133. When a plurality of thumbnails, which are relatively difficult to distinguish the information displayed on the thumbnails, are displayed on the display of the terminal, the user can access You can easily access the file you want. The setting of the thumbnails changed by the user's control command can be stored in the storage unit 140. The thumbnails of a group of images stored by the storage unit 140 are then stored , And a function corresponding to the control command may be applied.

4B illustrates an example of displaying the corresponding information on the display unit 130 according to the control 160 of the user when the thumbnail 150 includes information that can be additionally displayed according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is.

Referring to FIG. 4B, when the thumbnail indicates information of 'Title: Thumbnail Management' corresponding to one page of the electronic document, the user inputs the control command 160 in the various input methods described above, It can be displayed further.

As described above with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, the user directly controls the size, color, and arrangement of the thumbnails displayed on the terminal, so that the user can use the intuitive thumbnail view method. It is possible to facilitate access to the page of the document.

Each block of the accompanying block diagrams and combinations of steps of the flowchart may be performed by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be loaded into a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus so that the instructions, which may be executed by a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, And means for performing the functions described in each step are created. These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory capable of directing a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to implement the functionality in a particular manner so that the computer usable or computer readable memory It is also possible for the instructions stored in the block diagram to produce a manufacturing item containing instruction means for performing the functions described in each block or flowchart of the block diagram. Computer program instructions may also be stored on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment so that a series of operating steps may be performed on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer- It is also possible that the instructions that perform the processing equipment provide the steps for executing the functions described in each block of the block diagram and at each step of the flowchart.

In this specification, each block may represent a portion of a module, segment, or code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing the specified logical function (s). It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions mentioned in the blocks may occur out of order. For example, two blocks shown in succession may actually be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be performed in reverse order according to the corresponding function.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. The software module may reside in a RAM memory, a flash memory, a ROM memory, an EPROM memory, an EEPROM memory, a register, a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor, which is capable of reading information from, and writing information to, the storage medium. Alternatively, the storage medium may be integral with the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside within an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC may reside within the user terminal. Alternatively, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention but to limit the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

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Claims (9)

Receiving a control command for a thumbnail of a group of images displayed on a display of the terminal;
Extracting data of the group of images;
Applying a function corresponding to the control command to a thumbnail of the group of images based on the data; And
And storing a thumbnail of the group of images to which the function corresponding to the control command is applied. The method according to claim 1,
The step of extracting data of the group of images includes:
And loading the group of images into a temporary memory area so as to extract the data. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the control command includes at least one of information on thumbnail of the group of images, command on control of size, color and arrangement of thumbnails of the group of images. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the thumbnail of the group of images to which the function corresponding to the control command is applied can include information that can additionally be displayed in the thumbnail of the group of images. Receiving a control command for a thumbnail of a group of images displayed on a display of the terminal,
Extracting data of the group of images,
Applying a function corresponding to the control command to the thumbnail of the group of images based on the data,
And a set of instructions for causing a computer to store thumbnails of the group of images to which the function corresponding to the control command is applied. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the set of instructions for extracting data of the group of images comprises:
And a set of instructions for loading the group of images into a temporary memory area so as to extract the data. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the control command comprises at least one of information about the thumbnail of the group of images, instructions for controlling the size, color and arrangement of thumbnails of the group of images. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein a thumbnail of the group of images to which the function corresponding to the control command is applied can include information that can additionally be displayed in thumbnails of the group of images. A display unit corresponding to a display area of the terminal;
A communication unit for receiving a control command for a thumbnail of a group of images displayed on the display unit;
A control unit for extracting data of the group of images and applying a function corresponding to the control command to a thumbnail of the group of images based on the data; And
And a storage unit for storing a thumbnail of the group of images to which the function corresponding to the control command is applied.

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