KR20210086924A - interaction scroll control method, apparatus, program and computer readable recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses an interactive scroll control method, device, program, and computer-readable recording medium for automatically designating a position at which scrolling is stopped depending on when and where a user start scrolling input for objects on a screen. The method includes the steps of: detecting an interactive scroll input start position at a partial position on the screen; automatically detecting a first position different from the interactive scroll input start position corresponding to a preset position on the screen based on the interactive scroll input start position; generating an interactive scroll input signal by a user to the extent that a position on the object corresponding to the interactive scroll input start position deviates from the first position; and stopping the scrolling so that the position on the object being scrolled in the size and direction corresponding to the scroll input signal stops at the first position.

Description

Interactive scroll control method, apparatus, program and computer readable recording medium

The present invention relates to scroll control, and more particularly, to an interactive scroll control method, apparatus, program, and computer-readable recording medium.

Recently, an electronic device such as a smart phone equipped with a touch screen has become an essential element in daily life, and users can easily access various information.

It is common to control various types of electronic documents output through such a touch screen through various touch inputs input by a user with a finger, a touch pen, or the like.

It is inevitably difficult to always be consistent in a series of processes of visually recognizing an electronic document, determining the size of a scroll, and performing a scroll input. For this reason, a situation in which the user's gaze is scrolled inconsistent with the moving speed and direction frequently occurs. At this time, in order to scroll the electronic document to a desired position, the user repeats input operations such as drag to scroll at a slow speed and flick to scroll at a high speed. Such an operation not only occupies a significant portion of the total time to read an electronic document, but is inevitably a consuming process that lowers concentration and attention.

In addition, the scroll speed and size that cannot always be input consistently confuses the user's gaze, and users who want to acquire a large amount of information at a faster speed may partially skip or scan electronic documents. .

It is an object of the present invention to automatically designate a scrolling size and a position at which scrolling stops on a screen at a time or moment when a user performs an interactive scroll input.

In addition, a position for generating the interactive scroll input signal may be set separately or the interactive scroll input signal may be generated using a separately set touch input method.

In addition, the interactive scrolling input signal may be generated by a mouse or a touchpad that is wired or wirelessly linked to scroll an object.

According to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, in an interactive scroll control method for automatically designating a position at which scrolling is stopped according to a starting point and a position of starting a scroll input for an object on a screen,

(a) detecting an interactive scroll input start position at a partial position on the screen; (b) automatically detecting a first position different from the interactive scroll input start position corresponding to a preset position on the screen based on the interactive scroll input start position; (c) generating an interactive scroll input signal by a user to the extent that a position on the object corresponding to the interactive scroll input start position deviates from the first position; and (d) stopping scrolling so that the position on the object scrolled in the size and direction corresponding to the scroll input signal stops at a first position, wherein among the detected interactive scroll input start position and the first position At least one of the starting position and the first position of the interactive scroll input restarting regardless of the at least one position may be re-detected in at least one of the steps (a) and (b).

In addition, the screen is divided into a basic scroll input area for scrolling to a size corresponding to the scroll input signal and an interactive scroll input area for performing the step (a), and the interactive scroll input start position is the interactive scroll input area It may be a position detected by a touch input.

In addition, the interactive scroll start position may be a detection method by a touch input performed in a vertical area or a horizontal area on the edge of the screen.

In addition, the interactive scroll input start position may be a detection method by two touch points performed at a partial position of the screen.

In addition, the interactive scroll input start position may be a detection method by a long touch input performed at a partial position of the screen.

Also, the scroll input start position may be detected by a touch input exceeding a reference pressure performed at a portion of the screen, and the scroll input signal may be generated using the touch input as a reference pressure.

In addition, the scroll input start position may be a position of a mouse pointer or cursor, and the scroll input signal may be generated by a mouse connected to a controller controlling the mouse pointer or cursor by wire or wirelessly.

In addition, the scroll input start position is a position of a mouse pointer or a cursor, and the scroll input signal is any one of left, right, upper and lower sides on a touch pad that is wired or wirelessly interlocked with a controller for controlling the mouse pointer or cursor. It may be a method generated by a touch input performed with one or more touch points on the edge of .

Also, the scroll direction may be at least one of a horizontal direction, a vertical direction, and a diagonal direction.

In the present invention, in performing interactive scrolling, a tap (a tap () which is performed to prevent an object from being excessively scrolled by automatically re-designating the position at which the scroll stops at every point of scrolling so that the object is not scrolled to an unintended size. tab) input, a drag input performed to move an object to an intended position, and a touch operation such as a fine flick input are minimized.

In addition, in order not to limit basic functions such as general scrolling and accelerated scrolling, it is possible to efficiently control by dividing the number of touch points that generate an interactive scroll input signal, a touch pressure, a touch position, and the like.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an interactive scroll control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating an interactive scroll control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 to 8 are diagrams illustrating an example of an interactive scroll control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The detailed description of the present invention set forth below refers to the accompanying drawings, which 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 present invention. It should be understood that various embodiments of the present invention are different but need not be mutually exclusive. For example, certain shapes, structures, and characteristics described herein may be implemented in other embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention with respect to one embodiment. In addition, it should be understood that the arrangement of individual components within each disclosed embodiment may be changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the detailed description set forth below is not intended to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention, if properly described, may be said to fall within the scope of the present invention if there is an equivalent or equivalent modification to that claimed by the claims. have. In a plurality of drawings, the same reference numerals refer to the same elements, and the term “and/or” may include any one of a plurality of items and any combination of one or more. The first component and the second component used to distinguish different components are not construed as being limited by the term itself, and the following first component is a second component without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. can be expressed as

The screens described in this specification are organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), thin film transistor-liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs), and electronic ink displays (E-inks) that display objects such as various software programs, icons, texts and images. Display) includes a touch display equipped with a touch panel such as a smart board, a prompter, and the like.

interactive scrolling device

1 is a block diagram illustrating an interactive scroll device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1 , the device 100 includes a screen 110 , an input unit 120 , a control unit 130 , and a storage unit 140 . The screen 110 may be a panel that displays the above-described object according to a user input performed on the input unit 120 . The input unit 120 may be configured as a touch panel providing a user input interface. Alternatively, the screen 110 and the input unit 120 may be separately separated and interlocked in a wired or wireless form or may be combined into one, but the screen 110 described in this specification is the input unit 120 and one combined form. An example that is a component of the device 100 will be described in the drawings and embodiments.

In addition, the interactive scroll input signal is generated by a user's finger, a touch pen, a wired/wireless mouse, a touch pad for controlling the mouse pointer, a remote controller, a device including a Bluetooth function, etc. It may be an input signal for communicating and displaying or controlling an object on the screen 110 .

The control unit 130 may be configured to include hardware including at least one processor and an operating system (OS), and determine an input signal through the input unit 120 to be displayed on the screen 110, but the storage unit ( 140) may be displayed on the screen 110 in a processed or regenerated form. The storage unit 140 may include and store commands, data, functions, and programs for performing at least one of the interactive scroll control methods in the present specification.

How to control interactive scrolling

2 is a schematic flowchart illustrating an interactive scroll control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 to 8 are diagrams illustrating an example of an interactive scroll control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step S201 of Fig. 2, the interactive scroll input start position is detected at a partial position on the screen.

At this time, referring to (a) to (c) of FIG. 3 , the interactive scroll input start position 1 is detected as one touch point at an undetermined position 301 on the screen 110 as shown in (a). can be

According to another embodiment of the present invention, as shown in (b) of FIG. 3 , the interactive scroll input start position 1 may be detected as two touch points at an undetermined position 301 on the screen 110 .

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the interactive scroll input start position 1 in FIG. 3(c) is a blank area, an edge, and an edge area that is distinguished from an object area displaying an object on the screen 110. It can be either vertical or horizontal area. For example, as shown in (c) of FIG. 3, it may be at least one area of 302 and 303, and in the case of one area, the other one does not generate an interactive scroll input signal, and a user or developer It may be an area generating an input signal set by . Further, the basic scroll input area 304 of FIG. 3C may be set separately from the interactive scroll input areas 302 and 303 .

In addition, the basic scroll input area 304 may correspond to the user's scroll input signal, scroll at a size or speed greater than or equal to the input signal, or generate a scroll input signal set separately by the user or developer, and may be an interactive scroll input area. The regions 302 and 303 may be displayed to be distinguished by a shadow or a line so as to be distinguished from the basic scroll input region 304, or may be regions in which an interactive scroll input signal is not distinguished.

In addition, the interaction input start position (1) is any one of (302) and (303) of (c) of FIG. 3, and the position at which the interaction input ends or completes is one of (302), (303) and (304). It may be any one partial location.

On the other hand, the basic scroll input start position (1) is (304) in (c) of FIG. 3, and the position at which the basic scroll input ends or completes may be a partial position of any one of (302) and (303).

As described above, the interactive scroll or the basic scroll input signal is classified according to the position where the scroll input is started, but the position where the generation of the scroll input signal ends or is completed may be different from the start position.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in (a) of FIG. 4, the interactive scroll input may detect the start position (1) of the interactive scroll input by the touch input 401 of the reference pressure as shown in (a). .

As another example, as for the interactive scroll input, as shown in FIG. 4B , the interactive scroll input start position 1 may be detected by the touch input 402 exceeding the reference pressure.

As another example, as for the interactive scroll input, as shown in FIG. 4(c) , the interactive scroll input start position 1 may be detected as a long-touch input 403 .

The reference pressure criterion and the long-touch input criterion for maintaining a touch for a predetermined unit time or longer may be set by a user or a developer. In addition, the position at which the touch input 401 of the reference pressure, the touch input 402 exceeding the reference pressure, and the long-touch input 403 referring to FIGS. 4A to 4C is performed is different from the other positions. It may be indistinguishable or highlighted to distinguish it from other locations at the time of input.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the interactive scroll input start position detected on the screen is at least one of the one touch point, the two touch points, and the region for generating the interactive scroll input signal described in the embodiments. It may be a position and a touch method in combination with at least one of a reference pressure touch, a touch exceeding the reference pressure, and a long-touch input described in the above embodiment. For example, in one or more areas of (302) and (303) of (c) of FIG. 3, the long-touch 403 of FIG. 4 (c) may be configured in a combination method, but is not limited thereto, It may be one of various combination methods of the above position and touch method.

According to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIG. 5 , in (a) and (b), the interactive scroll input 501 once ends or completes (502) the interactive scroll input, and in (c) the scroll input starts. At least one of the interactive scroll input start position 1 and the first position 10 that is restarted at the same or different position after the position 1 is scrolled to the first position 10 may be re-detected.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in the interactive scroll input, the interactive scroll input start position 1 is detected by the position of a mouse pointer (not shown) displayed on a screen or a cursor (not shown) displayed on an object. can do.

As another example, the interactive scroll input start position 1 is the position of a mouse pointer or a text input cursor (not shown), and the interactive input signal is on a device including a screen to control the position of the mouse pointer or cursor. It may be generated by a touchpad, a pen, a remote control, etc. that are connected by wire or wirelessly to generate an input signal for controlling the mouse pointer and the GUI of the screen. In this case, in the case of a touch pad, the form of an interactive scroll input signal generated by a touch drag input performed with one or more touch points on at least one edge of the left, right, upper and lower sides of the rectangular touch pad may be included. have. Specifically, a touch drag input starting at an undetermined position of the left edge may generate an interactive scroll input signal without departing from the right, upper, and lower edges or the center outside the left edge vertical area. An object on the screen may be scrolled with a scroll size calculated through the controller 130 and the storage unit 140 based on the size of the interactive scroll input signal generated through the touchpad and the position of the mouse pointer or cursor.

In step S202 of FIG. 2 , a predetermined first position on the screen is further detected based on the interactive scroll input start position.

The first position 10 may be automatically detected at the same time as the interactive scroll input start position 1 is detected, or may be detected as a user input that is continuously performed.

Regardless of the structure of scrolling the object in the vertical and horizontal directions, at least one of the interactive scroll input start position 1 and the first position 10 is detected as the coordinates of the touch points on the screen and is generated to be performed in an oblique (diagonal) direction. It may be an interactive scroll input signal. For example, in the case of maps and images of sizes off-screen, the scroll input start position (1) is any one of the top, bottom, left, and right of the screen or a partial position of the diagonal edge of the screen, and the first position (10) ) is one of the coordinates included in the center, horizontal (X-axis) and center vertical (Y-axis) of the map and image being displayed on the screen, or it may be a location set or determined by a user or developer regardless of this. .

In step S203 of FIG. 2 , a scroll input signal is generated in at least one of a size and a direction in which the position of the object corresponding to the interactive scroll input start position is out of one position.

In step S204 of FIG. 2 , the scrolling may be stopped so that the interactive scroll input start position, which is scrolled in a size and direction corresponding to the interactive scroll input signal, is stopped at the first position.

The user may designate the reference position as the interactive scrolling first position 10 so as to automatically stop the scrolling object on the screen at a predetermined position. For example, the interactive scroll start position (1) can be stopped at the first position (10) set by the user or developer.

At this time, according to an embodiment of the present invention referred to in (a) to (c) of Figure 7, the first position is the center of the screen 110, as shown in (a), or as shown in (b) and (c). , it may be some position on the horizontal or vertical axis different from the center, or some position other than the horizontal or vertical axis. It may be moved by the user before the scroll start position 1 is detected or before the scroll input is performed in the state where the scroll start position 1 is detected. Alternatively, it is detected or fixed by a touch input (eg, a short tap or a long tap performed by one or more touch points) performed at a predetermined position for detecting the first position 10 in a state where the scroll input start position 1 is detected. can be done

Even if the user unconsciously scrolls with an excessive size or a scroll start position (1) in a size and direction that cannot be stopped from the first position (10), at least a part of the scrolled object leaves the screen or does not deviate from the screen It is possible to stop the specified position (ex. the scroll start position) at the specified position (ex. the first position) at the moment when the interactive scroll input is started without the need to repeatedly perform the input.

In addition, in the case of a map or image scrollable in an oblique (or diagonal) direction, not in a horizontal or vertical direction, according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIG. 8, the scroll start position (1) as shown in (a) If the scrolling direction performed in is a scroll input 801 performed in a direction that cannot be accurately reached from the first position 10, the scroll direction is automatically corrected or corrected within the allowable range set by the user or developer. It is performed in step 802 and is scrolled as shown in (b), so that the scroll start position 1 as shown in (c) can be stopped at the first position 10 . However, the scroll start position 1 and the first position 10 may be a reference position that is touched, input, or operated and a position corresponding to an object. In addition, the set allowable range is an inner angle between a linear direction in which the user scrolls based on the scroll start position and a linear direction up to the first position 10 exceeds an angle of 30 degrees and is 60 degrees (angle) It is within an angle, or each angle can be set and applied by a user or a developer to include more or less.

On the other hand, according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIG. 6 , as shown in (a), the interactive scroll input start position 1 is in the upper left direction without releasing the input, that is, the first position 10 In the direction, the interactive scroll input start position (1) is created with a size 601 that does not deviate from the first position (10), or, as shown in (b), the interactive scroll input start position (1) is the first position (10) It can be created with a size 602 that deviates. In this case, scrolling may be automatically stopped while at least one of a non-deviating size and a non-deviating scroll input is scrolled in the first position 10 irrespective of the scroll input size.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the interactive scroll input signal may include a scroll input value generated with a minimum size or more generated by a touch flick or touch drag input in an upward or downward direction from the start position 1 .

When the interactive scroll input signal is re-generated in step S205 of FIG. 2, the process proceeds to step S201.

For example, with reference to (a) to (c) of FIG. 5, the interactive scroll start position (S201) of FIG. 2, which re-(starts) the same or different interactive scroll input signal as the previous position 1) and at least one of the first position may be re-detected according to a user's input, regardless of a previously detected position, or may be automatically detected in the same manner as a previously detected position.

On the other hand, when the interactive scroll input signal is not regenerated in step S205 of FIG. 2 , the interactive scroll control method is terminated.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, at the same time as the detection of the interactive scroll start position (1), the first position (10) is at least one of the upper and lower edges of the vertical axis and the left and right edges of the horizontal axis of the screen (110) can be detected simultaneously. Scrolling is stopped at the upper and lower edges of the screen 110 corresponding to the direction in which the position of the object corresponding to the interactive scroll start position (1) is scrolled, or the upper and lower edges of the screen 110 are at the interactive scroll start position ( In 1), scrolling may be interrupted. In this case, the size of the interactive scroll input performed by the user may be smaller or larger than the size of the scroll from the position where the scrolling starts to the position where the scroll stops. In this case, the size at which the scrolling object stops may be adjusted to be smaller or larger than the scroll input size. However, the adjusted size may be a size from the detected scroll start position (1) to the detected position at the same time.

In this way, the conventional scroll method, which inevitably generates an irregular size without using a position and size determined in advance, determines the moment at which all scroll input starts and the position at which the scroll automatically stops through the present invention. It has the advantage of enabling intuitive scrolling.

In addition, there is an effect that the user's fatigue due to unnecessary touch and gaze dispersion is remarkably improved by eliminating input such as touch tap and touch drag, which are repetitively distracting to stop an excessively scrolling object.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the above interactive scroll control method may be configured individually by being divided into each detailed step, or may be a configuration in which a plurality of steps are combined.

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

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the interactive scroll control method is implemented in the form of a program command that can be executed through various computer means for performing at least one method of the above embodiments and recorded on a computer-readable recording medium. can

The computer-readable recording medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program code or instructions recorded on the medium may be specially designed and configured for the present invention, or may be known and available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tapes, optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, magneto-optical media such as floppy disks, and A hardware device configured to include at least one of a storage unit and a control unit to store and execute programs such as ROM, RAM, and flash memory. Examples of program instructions include machine language codes such as those generated by a compiler and high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The computer-readable recording medium may be a 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.

110: screen
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Claims (12)

An interactive scroll control method for automatically designating a position at which scrolling stops according to a starting point and a position of starting a scroll input for an object on a screen,
(a) detecting an interactive scroll input start position at a partial position on the screen;
(b) automatically detecting a first position different from the interactive scroll input start position corresponding to a preset position on the screen based on the interactive scroll input start position;
(c) generating an interactive scroll input signal by a user to the extent that a position on the object corresponding to the interactive scroll input start position deviates from the first position; and
(d) stopping the scrolling so that the position on the object being scrolled in the size and direction corresponding to the scroll input signal stops at the first position,
At least one of the interactive scroll input starting position and the first position restarting regardless of at least one of the detected interactive scroll input start position and the first position is at least one of steps (a) and (b). Interactive scroll control method, characterized in that it is detected again in one According to claim 1,
The screen is divided into a basic scroll input area for scrolling to a size corresponding to the scroll input signal and an interactive scroll input area for performing the step (a), and the interactive scroll input start position is a touch in the interactive scroll input area Interactive scroll control method, characterized in that the position is detected as an input According to claim 1,
The interactive scroll control method including a detection method by a touch input performed in a vertical area or a horizontal area on the edge of the screen for the interactive scroll start position According to claim 1,
The interactive scroll input start position is an interactive scroll control method including a detection method by two touch points performed at a partial position of the screen According to claim 1,
The interactive scroll input starting position is an interactive scroll control method including a detection method by a long touch input performed at a partial position of the screen According to claim 1,
and a method in which the scroll input start position is detected by a touch input exceeding a reference pressure performed at a portion of the screen, and the scroll input signal is generated using the touch input as a reference pressure. According to claim 1,
The scroll input start position is a position of a mouse pointer or cursor, and the scroll input signal is generated by a mouse connected to a control unit for controlling the mouse pointer or cursor by wire or wirelessly. According to claim 1,
The scroll input start position is a position of a mouse pointer or a cursor, and the scroll input signal is an edge of any one of left, right, upper and lower sides of a touch pad that is wired or wirelessly linked with a controller for controlling the mouse pointer or cursor. Interactive scroll control method including a method generated by a touch input performed with one or more touch points on the screen According to claim 1,
The scroll direction is an interactive scroll control method including a horizontal direction, a vertical direction, and a diagonal direction A computer-readable recording medium recording a program for performing the method of any one of claims 1 to 9 A computer program stored in a medium for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 9 through combination with hardware. An interactive scroll control device comprising:
an input unit for generating an input signal by a user;
a screen for displaying the electronic document;
a control unit for controlling an interactive scroll input by the input unit; and
including storage;
The storage unit includes and stores a program configured to be executed by the control unit, and the program is an interactive scroll control device including instructions for performing the method of any one of claims 1 to 9.

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