# US 10,503,389 B2 · Electronic device combining functions of touch screen and remote control and operation control method thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,503,389 B2 - Document ID: US10503389B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/426,517 - Filed: 2017-02-07 - Published: 2017-05-25 - Granted: 2019-12-10 - Earliest claimed: 2010-01-04 - Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Jae-kwon Kim - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10503389B2 ## CPC - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - G06F 3/04817: using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) - G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus - G06F 3/0483: Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor - G06F 3/0486: Drag-and-drop - G06F 3/04883: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text - G06F 3/04886: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus - G08C 17/00: Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link - G08C 17/02: using a radio link - G08C 23/04: using light waves, e.g. infrared - H04N 21/42204: {User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor (constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205)} - H04N 21/42209: {for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic programme guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel} - H04N 21/42224: {Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control} - G08C 2201/30: User interface - H04W 84/12: WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G08C: TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS (fluid pressure transmitting systems F15B; mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member into a different variable G01D5/00; mechanical control systems G05G) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract An electronic device having a touch screen and an operation control method thereof are provided. The electronic includes a touch screen which receives a plurality of manipulations; and a controller which determines whether a second manipulation is made on a screen displayed on the touch screen during a predetermined time period after a first manipulation is made on the screen, and controls to perform an operation corresponding to the second manipulation instead of an operation corresponding to the first manipulation to be performed, if the second manipulation is made during the predetermined time after the first manipulation is made. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An operation control method of an electronic device having a touch display, the electronic device remotely controlling an external device, the operation control method comprising: executing an application program for controlling the external device; controlling the touch display to display a first menu page of the application program, the first menu page including at least one menu item of a first type for controlling the external device; determining whether to control the external device or to control the electronic device based on a touch received on the touch display and whether a touch move is received on the touch display after the touch, based on determining there is the touch at a position on which a menu item of the at least one menu item of the first type is displayed and determining there is no touch move after the touch, controlling the external device by: transmitting a first command signal to control the external device to perform an operation corresponding to the menu item of the first type when the touch at the position of the menu item occurs and the touch is released without the touch move; and transmitting a second command signal to control the external device to perform the operation corresponding to the menu item of the first type repeatedly when the touch at the position of the menu item of the first type is maintained for at least a predetermined time period, until the touch move or the touch being released occurs; and based on determining there is the touch move after the touch, controlling the electronic device by displaying a second menu page of the application program, the second menu page including at least one menu item of a second type for controlling the external device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the touch is pressing an operation area of the first menu page, and wherein the touch move is flicking or dragging the operation area of the first menu page. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising determining whether the touch move is a manipulation to perform a first operation or to perform a second operation with reference to a given time after at least the predetermined time period, wherein the controlling the electronic device to execute the operation comprises: controlling to perform the first operation if a release on the first menu page is made on the touch display before the given time; and controlling to perform the second operation if the release on the first menu page is made on the touch display on or after the given time. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The operation control method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the first operation is a flicking operation and the second operation is a dragging operation, and wherein the flicking operation comprises converting or moving the first menu page on the touch display, and the dragging operation comprises dragging an icon on the touch display. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operation corresponding to the touch is generating a signal to control the external device, the signal being an infrared (IR) signal, a radio frequency (RF) signal, or a wireless local area network signal. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a remote control. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein based on the touch move being made during at least the predetermined time period after the touch is made, no signal corresponding to the operation for the touch move is generated. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The operation control method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the menu item of the at least one menu item of the first type is any one of a number button, a channel button, and wherein the at least one menu item of the second type is any one of source change button, mute button, internet execute button, multimedia execute button. ### Claim 9 An electronic device remotely controlling an external device, the electronic device comprising: a touch display; and a controller configured: to execute an application program for controlling the external device, to control the touch display to display a first menu page of the application program, the first menu page including at least one menu item of a first type for controlling the external device, to determine whether to control the external device or to control the electronic device based on a touch received on the touch display and whether a touch move is received on the touch display after the touch, based on determining there is the touch at a position on which a menu item of the at least one menu item of the first type is displayed and determining there is the touch move after the touch, to control the external device by: transmitting a first command signal to control the external device to perform an operation corresponding to the menu item of the first type when the touch at the position of the menu item of the first type occurs and the touch is released without the touch move, and to transmitting a second command signal to control the external device to perform the operation corresponding to the menu item of the first type repeatedly when the touch at the position of the menu item of the first type is maintained for at least a predetermined time period, until the touch move or the touch being released occurs, and based on determining there is the touch move after the touch, to control the electronic device by to control the touch display to display a second menu page of the application program when the touch move after the touch at the position of the menu item of the first type occurs, the second menu page including at least one menu item of a second type for controlling the external device. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the touch comprises pressing an operation area of the touch display. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the touch move comprises flicking or dragging an operation area of the touch display. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the operation corresponding to the touch is generating a signal to control the external device, the signal being an infrared (IR) signal, a radio frequency (RF) signal, or a wireless local area network signal. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein based on the touch move being made during at least the predetermined time period after the touch is made, the controller generates no signal for the operation corresponding to the touch move. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the controller is configured to control the electronic device to execute the operation corresponding to the menu item to control the external device based on the touch being released. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The electronic device as claimed in claim 14, the controller is configured to control the touch display to display the second menu page based on the touch move within at least the predetermined time period after the touch without the touch being released until a touch release of the touch move is made. ### Claim 16 (depends on 9) The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, the controller is configured to control the touch display to display the second menu page based on the touch move within at least the predetermined time period after the touch without the touch being released until a touch release of the touch move is made. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The electronic device as claimed in claim 16, the touch move corresponds to one of plurality of touch manipulations consisting a flicking manipulation. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The electronic device as claimed in claim 16, the touch move is a touch manipulation within at least the predetermined time period after the touch. ### Claim 19 (depends on 9) The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, the controller is configured to control the electronic device to execute the operation corresponding to the menu item to control the external device based on the touch being released without the touch move. ### Claim 20 (depends on 9) The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the menu item of the first type is any one of a number button, a channel button, and wherein the at least one menu item of the second type is any one of source change button, mute button, internet execute button, multimedia execute button. ### Claim 21 A non-transitory computer readable recording medium comprising a program for executing an operation control method of an electronic device having a touch display, the electronic device remotely controlling an external device, the operation control method comprising: executing an application program for controlling the external device; controlling the touch display to display a first menu page of the application program, the first menu page including at least one menu item of a first type for controlling the external device; determining whether to control the external device or to control the electronic device based on a touch received on the touch display and whether a touch move is received on the touch display after the touch, based on determining there is the touch at a position on which a menu item of the at least one menu item of the first type is displayed and determining there is no touch move after the touch, controlling the external device by: transmitting a first command signal to control the external device to perform an operation corresponding to the menu item of the first type when the touch at the position of the menu item occurs and the touch is released without the touch move; and transmitting a second command signal to control the external device to perform the operation corresponding to the menu item of the first type repeatedly when the touch at the position of the menu item of the first type is maintained for at least a predetermined time period, until the touch move or the touch being released occurs; and based on determining there is the touch move after the touch, controlling the electronic device by displaying a second menu page of the application program, the second menu page including at least one menu item of a second type for controlling the external device.