Portable terminal and method of utilizing background image of portable terminal
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsKyung Min Kim, Sung Ho Park, Sang Ho Hong, Seung Bae Pyon, Yong Woog Shin
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Abstract
A method of utilizing a background image of a portable terminal, and a portable terminal for implementing the method, are provided. The method includes displaying the background image, determining whether an input event is detected in the displayed background image, identifying a coordinate of an area in which the input event is detected upon detection of the input event, determining whether there exists a function mapped to the identified coordinate, and performing the function if there exists the function mapped to the identified coordinate.
Claims17
A method of accessing an application in a portable terminal, the method comprising:
- identifying a current location of the portable terminal;
- displaying a background image mapped to the current location of the portable terminal, the background image including a plurality of image objects each mapped respectively to each of a plurality of applications executable in the portable terminal;
- detecting a first input event selecting two or more image objects from the plurality of image objects in a particular order while the background image is displayed in a locked state of the portable terminal;
- entering an unlocked state of the portable terminal if the particular order matches a predetermined order for unlocking the portable terminal without executing any of two or more applications mapped to the two or more image objects selected by the detected first input event;
- detecting a second input event selecting an image object from the plurality of image objects while the portable terminal is in the unlocked state;
- and
- executing an application of the plurality applications mapped to the selected image object based on detecting the second input event.
A portable terminal comprising:
- a display;
- a touch screen;
- and
- at least one processor configured to:
- identify a current location of the portable terminal,
- display a background image mapped to the current location of the portable terminal, the background image including a plurality of image objects each mapped respectively to each of a plurality of applications executable in the portable terminal,
- detect a first input event selecting two or more image objects from the plurality of image objects in a particular order while the background image is displayed in a locked state of the portable terminal,
- enter an unlocked state of the portable terminal if the particular order matches a predetermined order for unlocking the portable terminal without executing any of two or more applications mapped to the two or more image objects selected by the detected first input event,
- detect a second input event selecting an image object from the plurality of image objects while the portable terminal is in the unlocked state, and
- execute an application of the plurality applications mapped to the selected image object based on detecting the second input event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.