Apparatus and method for grouping and displaying icons on a screen
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoung-Jun Kim, Youn Seog Chang, Joon Woo Kim
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Abstract
A method for displaying a background screen in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes resizing at least one of a plurality of background screens according to a first input, displaying at least one of the at least one resized background screen, detecting a second input, and transitioning among the resized background screens based on the detected second input, wherein the background screens respectively include an icon that may represent a grouping of a first icon and a second icon respectively displayed on one of the plurality of background screens.
Claims22
A mobile device comprising:
- a touch screen;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- control the touch screen to display a group icon on which representations of a first icon and a second icon are shown, wherein the first icon associated with a first function and the second icon associated with a second function,
- receive a first touch input on the group icon,
- in response to the first touch input on the group icon, control the touch screen to display, in place of the group icon, at least one of the first icon that is larger than the representation of the first icon or the second icon that is larger than the representation of the second icon,
- receive a second touch input to at least one of the first icon and the second icon, after the displaying of the at least one of the first icon that is larger than the representation of the first icon or the second icon that is larger than the representation of the second icon, and
- in response to the second touch input, control to perform a function corresponding to the at least one of the first icon and the second icon.
A method of displaying an icon in a mobile terminal comprising a touch screen, the method comprising:
- controlling the touch screen to display a group icon on which representations of a first icon and a second icon are shown;
- receiving a first touch input on the group icon, in response to the first touch input on the group icon, controlling the touch screen to display, in place of the group icon, at least one of the first icon that is larger than the representation of the first icon or the second icon that is larger than the representation of the second icon;
- receiving a second touch input to at least one of the first icon and the second icon, after the displaying of the at least one of the first icon that is larger than the representation of the first icon or the second icon that is larger than the representation of the second icon;
- and
- in response to the second touch input, controlling to perform a function corresponding to the at least one of the first icon and the second icon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.