KR20160045402A - Method for screen covering in smart phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for covering of a screen in a smartphone, in which a application selected among a plurality of applications is set as an activated application, and a screen covering image is displayed on an uppermost screen of a display unit when a non-activated application is executed during an operation time for screen covering, thereby disabling a user from manipulating the non-activated application. The method for covering of a screen in a smartphone comprises the steps of: setting, by a control unit, an operation time for screen covering and an activated application which the user can execute and operate during the operation time for screen covering; executing an application according to an execution commend when the execution command for the application is input to an input unit during the operation time for screen covering, and determining whether the executed application is the activated application; and disabling, by the control unit, the user from manipulating the executed application by displaying the screen covering image as an uppermost screen on a display panel when the executed application is not the activated application.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a screen covering method for a smart phone,

The present invention relates to a screen covering method in a smart phone.

More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting an active application among a plurality of application programs (hereinafter abbreviated as an application) stored in a smartphone as an active application, It is possible to operate the activated application normally. When the application other than the activated application is executed, the operation of the corresponding application is performed. However, by displaying the screen covering screen with the top screen on the display unit, And to a screen covering method in a smartphone which makes it impossible to operate.

In general, a smart phone integrates the advantages of a cellular phone and a personal digital assistant (PDA), and is an intelligent terminal that combines functions of a computer such as a portable telephone, Internet communication, and information retrieval.

Unlike an existing mobile phone which has been released as a finished product and can only use a predetermined function, the smartphone provides a wide variety of apps, installs predetermined apps, Deletion, and so forth of the user.

In addition, the smart phone can directly access the Internet using wireless Internet communication, and can access a site requested by the user in various ways using various browsing programs. In addition, the smartphone can create and execute an application desired by a user, implement an appropriate interface through various applications, and smart phones having the same operating system can share applications with each other The point is also a big advantage compared to the existing mobile phone.

Recently, a smartphone with an Android operating system has been released. The Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes operating systems, middleware, and core apps for mobile devices, including mobile phones.

This Android allows developers to build apps in the Java language and provides runtime libraries to run compiled bytecode. In addition, Android provides tools and API (application program interface) necessary for developing an application through the Android SDK (Software Development Kit).

The smartphone of the Android operating system can download various apps from the App store or the like and can also delete the installed apps and display icons of the apps on the display panel of the display unit When the user selects the icon of the application, the smartphone executes the operation of the corresponding app.

As the age of users who use these smartphones gradually decreases, many types of game apps and entertainment apps are naturally installed in smart phones. The game apps and entertainment apps cause a user's fun and interest due to various contents and methods, and thus have a positive aspect of entertainment and leisure.

However, many children and adolescents spend too much time in the game application and the recreational app, so that they are addictive and cause personal and social problems.

Therefore, it is necessary to research and develop methods to reduce the excessive use of games and entertainment while enjoying games and entertainment on smart phones.

Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1169424 is known as one method for reducing excessive use of games and entertainment.

According to the related art, it is possible to unlock the smartphone easily and easily by releasing the lock by executing a simple application in advance and various applications are locked in the smartphone, The user can control the game time on the smartphone by allowing the user to play the game only for a predetermined time, and automatically lock the app when the predetermined time has elapsed.

However, it is possible to execute the lock of the app only by the manufacturer of the smartphone or the corresponding communication company of the smartphone due to a security problem or the like, and is not allowed to the general individual app developer.

In addition, even when the application is locked, when the user displays the notification window screen and commands the execution of a predetermined application included in the notification window screen, the operation of the corresponding application is executed to insufficiently lock the application.

Korean Registered Patent No. 10-1169424 (registered on July 23, 2012)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for a smartphone in which a smartphone communicates with a screen covering server to obtain classification information, sets an active application according to the acquired classification information, And allows a user to operate only the activated application to perform a predetermined operation in the smart covering operation time.

A problem to be solved by the present invention is that when a user sets a screen covering operation time and displays a notification window screen during a screen covering operation time and commands an execution of an application other than an active application on the notification window screen And a screen covering screen is displayed on a display panel as a top screen so that a user can not operate the operation of the application.

Further, a problem to be solved by the present invention is to enable a user to operate an operation of an application by displaying an uppermost screen on a display panel in addition to operating an active application in a screen covering operation time, It provides a screen covering method in a smartphone that does not have a screen.

Further, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to at least partially solve the problems in the conventional arts. It can be understood.

A method of screen covering in a smartphone of the present invention includes the steps of: setting a screen covering operation time by a control unit and executing it at the screen covering operation time to set an active application that the user can operate; The method comprising the steps of: determining whether an application that executes and executes the application according to the execution command is an active application when the execution command of the application is input; and if the executed application is not the active application, And displaying the screen covering screen on the panel as the top screen so that the user can not operate the executed app.

Wherein the control unit sets a screen covering operation time and executes the screen covering operation time to set an active application that can be operated by the user, the method comprising: the control unit obtaining the classification information of the application from the outside through the communication unit; And setting the plurality of applications stored in the storage unit as an active application, an activatable application, and an unavailable application according to the classification information.

Displaying an entire app screen including icons of all apps stored in the storage unit on a display panel when an additional command of an active app is input from the input unit; And setting the activatable app as an active app.

Wherein the step of determining whether the app that has executed and executed the application according to the execution command is the active application when the execution command of the application is inputted from the input unit at the time of the screen covering operation, The method comprising: displaying the notification window screen on the display panel when the input unit receives an execution command of the application through the notification window screen; And determining whether the application is an application.

Further comprising the step of allowing the control unit to display an operation screen of the executed application on the display panel as a topmost screen when the executed application is the activated application so that the user can operate the executed application .

According to the screen covering method in the smartphone of the present invention, only an application selected from among a plurality of applications stored in the smart phone is set as an active application, and an alert window screen is displayed according to a user's operation during a smart covering operation time, It is possible to prevent the operation of the application other than the active application from being operated by displaying the screen covering screen as the top screen on the display panel while executing the operation of the corresponding application.

In addition, the present invention performs an operation of an active application when instructing execution of an active application at a smart covering operation time, displays an operation screen of the active application as a top screen on the display panel, can do.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.
1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a smart phone to which the screen covering method of the present invention is applied;
2 is a signal flow diagram showing the operation of the control unit according to the screen covering setting operation in the screen covering method of the present invention, and Fig.
3 is a signal flow diagram illustrating the operation of the controller according to the screen covering execution in the screen covering method of the present invention.

The following detailed description is merely an example, and is merely an example of the present invention. Further, the principles and concepts of the present invention are provided for the purpose of being most useful and readily explaining.

Accordingly, it is not intended to provide a more detailed structure than is necessary for a basic understanding of the present invention, but it should be understood by those skilled in the art that various forms that can be practiced in the present invention are illustrated in the drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a smart phone to which the screen covering method of the present invention is applied. 1, the present invention includes a communication unit 110, a display unit 120, an input unit 130, a voice signal processing unit 140, a storage unit 150, and a control unit 160 .

The communication unit 110 is for performing predetermined communication with the outside under the control of the controller 160. The communication unit 110 may be a wireless communication system between a smartphone and a wireless communication system or between a smartphone and a network in which another smart phone is located. .

For example, the communication unit 110 may include one or more communication modules for performing wireless data communication with an external screen covering server (not shown) to receive classification information of an app according to the present invention have.

The communication module included in the communication unit 110 may include, for example, a broadcast receiving module, a mobile communication module, a wireless Internet module, a short distance communication module, and a location information module.

The display unit 120 displays a predetermined screen according to the operation of the smartphone under the control of the controller 160. [

For example, according to the method of the present invention, the display unit 120 may include a screen covering setting screen capable of setting screen covering, a screen covering execution screen for performing a screen covering operation, A screen covering screen for making it impossible for a user to operate an operation screen of a predetermined app, and a screen covering screen for displaying predetermined notification information received through the communication unit 110 A notification window screen for displaying information, and the like can be displayed on the display panel.

The display panel 120 may include a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel, a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, an organic light emitting diode An organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel, a 3D display panel, and a flexible display panel.

The input unit 130 generates an operation command for the user to control the operation of the smartphone and inputs the generated operation command to the controller 160. The input unit 130 may include a key pad, a dome switch, a touch pad , An optical system, a capacitive system, an ultrasonic system, a pressure system, etc.), a jog wheel, a jog switch, or the like.

In the method of the present invention, for example, a touch screen may be used as the input unit 130, and the touch screen may be an input unit 130 and may operate as a display panel of the display unit 120.

The voice signal processing unit 140 inputs and processes a voice signal of a user and processes a predetermined voice signal under the control of the control unit 160 so that a user can perform a telephone conversation or the like.

The storage unit 150 may store a program for allowing the control unit 160 to perform a predetermined operation and may also store a plurality of programs related to the application and predetermined information Can be stored.

The storage unit 150 may be a flash memory type, a hard disk type, a multimedia card micro type, a card type memory (for example, SD or XD memory, etc.) ), A random access memory (RAM), a static random access memory (SRAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), an electrically erasable programmable read- Memory, and magnetic disk, and optical disks.

The controller 160 controls the screen covering operation according to the present invention and includes a timer 162, an app manager 164, an app executing unit 166, and a screen covering executing unit 168 .

The timer 162 counts time to determine whether the set screen covering operation time has elapsed.

The application management unit 164 classifies a plurality of applications stored in the storage unit 150 according to the classification information of the application received through the communication unit 110. For example, the application management unit 164 manages a plurality of applications stored in the storage unit 150 according to the classification information of the application received through the communication unit 110, .

For example, the app manager 164 classifies apps such as map, phone, and message as active applications according to the classification information of the application, and apps such as notepad, e-mail, , And apps such as games, music playback, video, YouTube, and the Internet can be classified as inapplicable.

Here, the classification of the active application, the activatable application, and the non-activatable application is described by way of example. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be variously implemented by a manager and a worker of the screen covering server.

In addition, the application management unit 164 may convert the activatable apps selected by the user through the input unit 130 into active apps.

The application execution unit 166 can execute an operation of the corresponding application when an operation command of the predetermined application is inputted through the input unit 130. [ Here, the application execution unit 166 can execute the operation of the application input through the input unit 130 regardless of the classified active application, the activatable application, and the non-activatable application.

The screen covering execution unit 168 causes the display unit 120 to display the screen covering screen as the top screen when the application execution unit 166 executes the activatable application or the inapplicable application at the screen covering operation time The user can not operate the operation of the app currently being executed by the application execution unit 166. [

FIG. 2 is a signal flow diagram illustrating the operation of the controller 160 according to the screen covering setting operation in the screen covering method of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, the application execution unit 164 of the control unit 160 determines whether a command for executing a screen covering application is input from the input unit 120 (S202).

For example, when the user operates the main key of the input unit 130 to activate the smartphone, the controller 160 displays an initial screen on the display panel of the display unit 120. [ The initial screen includes an icon of a screen covering application according to the method of the present invention. The control unit 160 selects an icon of the screen covering application by the user and determines whether or not an execution command of the screen covering application is inputted do.

When the execution command of the screen covering application is inputted, the application manager 164 of the controller 160 communicates with the screen covering server through the communication unit 110 and classifies the applications stored in the storage unit 150 (S204).

That is, according to the present invention, a plurality of applications stored in the storage unit 150 can be displayed, for example, an active application that allows a user to execute an operation and manipulate an operation at an operation time of a screen covering, The application management unit 164 can classify a plurality of applications stored in the storage unit 150 into an active application, an active application, and an active application, And obtains the classification information of the application for classifying it into the enabled application and the non-enabled application.

Here, if the application management unit 164 can not obtain the classification information of the application through the communication unit 110 due to a communication failure or the like, the application management unit 164 may perform a screen covering operation, It is also possible to obtain the classification information of the application stored in the storage 150.

When the classification information of the application is acquired, the application management unit 164 classifies all the applications stored in the storage unit 150 into an active application, an activatable application, and an unavailable application (S206) And may be stored in the storage unit 150.

Here, the apps stored in the storage unit 150 may be apps that are stored in the storage unit 150, as well as apps that the user has acquired through various paths as well as apps created and stored by the user. You can not categorize all of your apps.

Therefore, in implementing the present invention, it is preferable that, among all the apps stored in the storage unit 150, the apps that can not be classified according to the classification information are classified as the activatable apps.

When the apps stored in the storage unit 150 are classified as described above, the controller 160 displays a screen covering setting screen on the display panel of the display unit 120 so that the user can set the screen covering operation S208).

Here, the screen covering setting screen may include an operation time setting icon for allowing the user to adjust the screen covering operation time and the screen covering operation time, an icon of the activated applications, an icon for instructing the addition of the activated application, .

In the state that the screen covering setting screen is displayed, the control unit 160 displays a time setting command for setting the operation time of the screen covering from the input unit 130, an additional command of the active application, It is determined whether a completion command is input (S210, S212, S214).

When the time setting command is input in step S210, the controller 160 sets and displays the operation time of the screen covering operation (S216).

That is, when the user operates the operation time setting icon in the state that the screen covering setting screen is displayed on the display unit 120, the controller 160 sets the screen covering operation time to be variable and sets the set screen covering operation time Is displayed on the screen covering setting screen so that the user can visually confirm it.

If an additional command of an active application is input from the input unit 130 in step S212, the application manager 164 of the controller 160 displays the entire app screen on the display panel of the display unit 120 (S218). That is, the application manager 164 displays an entire app screen including icons of all apps stored in the storage unit 150 on the display panel.

In a state where the entire app screen is displayed, the app manager 164 determines whether a command for selecting a predetermined app is input from the input unit 130 (S220). Here, the selection command of the predetermined application may be a selection command of one application or a selection command of selecting a plurality of applications.

When the selection command of the predetermined application is inputted, the application management unit 164 determines whether the application according to the selection command is an unavailable application (S222), and ignores the selection command of the application in the case of the unavailable application (S224).

That is, according to the present invention, when the user instructs to add the non-activatable application classified by the classification information as the active application, the user can ignore the selection command of the corresponding application, do.

If it is determined in step S222 that the application is not an activatable application, that is, if the application is an activatable application, the application manager 164 sets the activatable application as an active application (S226) and displays a screen covering setting screen on the display panel (S228). Here, in the screen covering setting screen displayed on the display panel in the step S228, not only the activation icon according to the classification information, but also an icon of the activated application set by the user among the activatable applications are displayed together.

When the completion of the screen covering setting operation is completed and the completion command is input from the input unit 130 in the step S214, the control unit 160 displays a screen covering execution screen on the display panel of the display unit 120 (S230), and ends the screen covering setting operation.

Therefore, the screen covering execution screen includes the icon of the active application according to the classification information, and among the activatable applications according to the classification information, the icon of the active application set according to the operation of the user is included as described above, Through the screen covering execution screen, it is possible to visually check active apps that can be executed during the screen covering operation time.

3 is a signal flow diagram showing the operation of the controller 160 according to the screen covering execution operation in the screen covering method of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, the controller 160 displays a screen covering execution screen on the display panel of the display unit 120 (S302). That is, the controller 160 displays a screen covering execution screen including the icon of the active application, which is set according to the operation of the user, as well as the icon of the active application according to the classification information on the display panel.

In this state, the timer 162 provided in the controller 160 counts elapsed time (S304), and determines whether the current time is a predetermined screen covering operation time (S306).

If the current time is the predetermined screen covering operation time, the application execution unit 164 of the control unit 160 determines whether an execution command of the predetermined app is input from the input unit 130 (S308).

That is, as described above, the screen covering execution screen displayed on the display panel of the display unit 120 includes an icon of the active application. The application execution unit 164 operates the input unit 130 by the user to determine whether or not an execution command of the active application included in the screen covering execution screen is input.

If the execution command of the active application is input, the application execution unit 164 performs the operation of the corresponding application (S310) and displays the operation screen of the corresponding application as the top screen on the display panel of the display unit 120 S312).

At this time, the screen execution unit 168 of the control unit 160 does not operate as the application set to be activated by the application execution unit 164.

Therefore, the user can operate the operation screen of the app displayed as the top screen on the display panel of the display unit 120 so that the app can perform a predetermined operation requested by the user.

If the application execution command is not inputted in step S308, the controller 160 determines whether a display command of the notification window is input from the input unit 130 in step S314.

Here, the notification window includes various information such as a missed call received through the communication unit 110, an update notification of an application, a reproduction of a moving picture, a reproduction of a predetermined music, a reception of a message, etc., So that it can be easily informed to the user.

The display command of the notification window differs depending on the type of the smartphone, but is usually included in the uppermost position of the display panel. The user touches the uppermost position of the display panel with a finger or the like, . ≪ / RTI >

In step S314, when a display command of the notification window is inputted from the input unit 130, the controller 160 displays the notification window on the display panel as the top screen (S316).

In this manner, when the screen of the notification window is displayed on the display panel, the application execution unit 166 of the control unit 160 determines whether an execution command of the predetermined application included in the notification window is input (S318).

When the execution command of the application is inputted in the step S318, the application execution unit 166 performs the operation of the corresponding application inputted the execution command (S320), and determines whether or not the application is the active application (S322).

If it is determined in step S322 that the active application is an active application, the controller 160 displays the operation screen of the corresponding application as a top screen on the display panel of the display unit 120 so that the user can operate the operation of the corresponding application (S324) .

If it is determined in step S322 that the application is not an active application, the screen covering execution unit 168 of the control unit 160 displays a screen covering screen on the display panel of the display unit 120 as a top screen, (S326).

That is, when the screen covering execution screen is displayed and only the active application is displayed as shown in FIG. 2, when the user commands the display of the notification window, the control unit 160 displays a notification window on the display panel of the display unit 120.

The notification window may notify the user of the reception of various information including a missed call, an update of an application, a reproduction of a moving picture, and a reception of a message. In addition to the activated application, an activatable app and an unavailable app may be displayed.

Therefore, in the present invention, when an execution command of a predetermined application is input through the input unit 130 while the notification window is displayed in the screen covering operation time, the application execution unit 166 of the control unit 160 performs an operation of the corresponding application And then determines whether the corresponding application is an active application. When the application is an active application, the control unit 160 displays an operation screen of the corresponding application as a top screen on a display panel of the display unit 120 so that the user can operate the operation of the corresponding application, The screen covering execution unit 168 of the control unit 160 displays the screen covering screen on the display panel of the display unit 120 as the top screen so that the user can not operate the operation of the corresponding application.

If it is determined in step S306 that the time is not the screen covering time, the controller 160 displays the entire app screen on the display unit 120 to display icons of all the apps stored in the storage unit 150 (step S328) .

In step S330, it is determined whether the execution command of the application is inputted in the above state. If the execution command of the application is input, the controller 160 executes the operation of the corresponding application (S322) The screen is displayed on the display panel of the display unit 120 as the highest-level screen (S324).

Therefore, when the user is not in the screen covering operation time, the user can selectively execute a plurality of apps stored in the storage unit 150, and the executed predetermined app can perform an operation according to a user's operation.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, All or some of the embodiments may be selectively combined.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the above-described embodiments, but should be determined by equivalents to the appended claims, as well as the appended claims.

110: communication unit 120: display unit
130: input unit 140: audio signal processor
150: storage unit 160:
162: Timer 164:
166: App executing section 166: Screen covering executing section

Claims (5)

Setting a screen covering operation time by the control unit and executing the screen covering operation time to set an active application that the user can operate;
Determining whether the application corresponding to the execution command is executed when the execution command of the application is input from the input unit at the time of the screen covering operation; And
And displaying the screen covering screen on the display panel as a top screen when the executed application is not the activated application, so that the user can not operate the executed application. .
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the control unit sets a screen covering operation time and executes the screen covering operation time to set an active application that the user can operate,
The control unit acquiring the classification information of the application from the outside through the communication unit; And
And setting the plurality of applications stored in the storage unit as an active application, an activatable application, and an unavailable application according to the classification information.
3. The method of claim 2,
Displaying an entire app screen including icons of all apps stored in the storage unit on a display panel when an additional command of an active app is input from the input unit; And
And setting an activatable app selected through the input unit as an active app on the entire app screen.
The method according to claim 1,
When the execution command of the application is input from the input unit at the time of the screen covering operation, the step of determining whether the application executed and executed the application according to the execution command is the active application,
Displaying the notification window screen on the display panel when the notification window display command is input from the input unit; And
And a step of determining whether or not the application executed and executed by the execution command according to the execution command is the activated application when the execution command of the application is inputted through the notification window screen.
The method according to claim 1,
And displaying the operation screen of the application executed by the control unit on the display panel as a top screen on the display panel when the executed application is the active application so that the user can operate the executed application How to Screen Cover a Smartphone.

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