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US 10,705,652 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for providing user keypad in a portable terminal
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsBo Ram Nam Goong, Hwang Joon Lee
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Abstract
A method of providing a user defined user keypad and a mobile terminal supporting the same are provided. The method includes displaying guide information when entering a user keypad setting mode, determining a designation range for the user keypad according to a user interaction inputted based on the guide information, computing a key arrangement of the user keypad in response to the determined range, and configuring the user keypad according to the computed key arrangement.
Claims18
A mobile device comprising:
- a display;
- a sensor configured to detect an orientation of the mobile device;
- and
- at least one processor configured to:
- display, on the display, a user keypad in a first configuration in which the user keypad is a single keypad having a plurality of keys grouped together in a region of the display of the mobile device,
- determine whether the mobile device is in a landscape mode based on the detected orientation of the mobile device detected by the sensor,
- display, in response to receiving a user input for reconfiguring the user keypad and determining that the mobile device is in the landscape mode, the user keypad in a second configuration in which the user keypad is split into two parts, wherein the two parts comprise a first part of the user keypad that is located closer to a first lateral edge of the mobile device than a second lateral edge of the mobile device and a second part of the user keypad that is located closer to the second lateral edge than the first lateral edge,
- receive a user input for selecting and rearranging one of the plurality of keys, and
- based on receiving the user input for selecting and rearranging one of the plurality of keys, reconfigure the second part of the user keypad in the second configuration to include the selected one of the plurality of keys that was displayed in the first part,
- wherein a position of another key in the second part of the user keypad is modified according to a position or a size of the selected one of the plurality of keys moved to the second part from the first part while the first part of the user keypad and the second part of the user keypad maintain a split state.
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A mobile device comprising:
- a display configured to display a user keypad;
- and
- at least one processor configured to:
- display, on the display, the user keypad in a first configuration in which the user keypad is split into two parts, wherein the two parts comprise a first part of the user keypad that is located closer to a first lateral edge of the mobile device than a second lateral edge of the mobile device and a second part of the user keypad that is located closer to the second lateral edge than the first lateral edge,
- receive a user input for selecting and rearranging one of a plurality of keys,
- based on receiving the user input, reconfigure the second part of the user keypad in the first configuration to include the selected one of the plurality of keys that was displayed in the first part, wherein a position of another key in the second part of the user keypad is modified according to a position or a size of the selected one of the plurality of keys moved to the second part from the first part while the first part of the user keypad and the second part of the user keypad maintain a split state, and
- display the user keypad in a second configuration in which the user keypad is reconfigured based on the user input.
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A method of providing a user keypad in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- displaying, on a display, the user keypad in a first configuration in which the user keypad is split into two parts, wherein the two parts comprise a first part of the user keypad that is located closer to a first lateral edge of the mobile terminal than a second lateral edge of the mobile terminal and a second part of the user keypad that is located closer to the second lateral edge than the first lateral edge;
- receiving a user input for selecting and rearranging one of a plurality of keys;
- based on receiving the user input, reconfiguring the second part of the user keypad in the first configuration to include the selected one of the plurality of keys that was displayed in the first part, wherein a position of another key in the second part of the user keypad is modified according to a position or a size of the selected one of the plurality of keys moved to the second part from the first part while the first part of the user keypad and the second part of the user keypad maintain a split state;
- and
- displaying, on the display, the user keypad in a second configuration in which the user keypad is reconfigured based on the user input.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.