Electronic device combining functions of touch screen and remote control and operation control method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJae-kwon Kim
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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.
Claims18
An operation control method of an electronic device having a touch screen, 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 screen of the electronic device to display a first menu screen of the application program, the first menu screen including at least one menu item of a first type for controlling the external device;
- in response to a touch on a first menu item among the at least one menu item, determining whether there is a touch move after the touch on the first menu item before a predetermined time is elapsed;
- in response to determining that the predetermined time is elapsed without a touch move, controlling a communicator of the electronic device to transmit a first command signal to control the external device to perform an operation corresponding to the first menu item;
- and
- in response to determining that there is a touch move before the predetermined time is elapsed, controlling the touch screen of the electronic device to display a second menu screen of the application program, the second menu screen including at least one menu item of a second type for controlling the external device;
- wherein the controlling the communicator of the electronic device to transmit the first command signal comprises before a release manipulation is made after transmitting the first command signal, controlling the communicator of the electronic device to repeatedly transmit the first command signal a plurality of times at an interval until the release manipulation is input, and
- wherein the touch move corresponds to a flicking operation or a dragging operation.
An electronic device remotely controlling an external device, the electronic device comprising:
- a communicator;
- a touch display;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- execute an application program for controlling the external device,
- control the touch display to display a first menu screen of the application program, the first menu screen including at least one menu item of a first type for controlling the external device,
- in response to a touch on a first menu item among the at least one menu item, determine whether there is a touch move after the touch on the first menu item before a predetermined time is elapsed,
- in response to determining that the predetermined time is elapsed without a touch move, control the communicator to transmit a first command signal to control the external device to perform an operation corresponding to the first menu item, and
- in response to determining that there is a touch move before the predetermined time is elapsed, control the touch display to display a second menu screen of the application program, the second menu screen including at least one menu item of a second type for controlling the external device,
- wherein the controller is configured to, before a release manipulation is made after the communicator transmitting the first command signal, control the communicator to repeatedly transmit the first command signal a plurality of times at an interval until the release manipulation is input, and
- wherein the touch move corresponds to a flicking operation or a dragging operation.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an application program executable by at least one processor of an electronic device to execute a method of remotely controlling an external device, the method comprising:
- controlling a touch display of the electronic device to display a first menu screen of the application program, the first menu screen including at least one menu item of a first type for controlling the external device;
- in response to a touch on a first menu item among the at least one menu item, determining whether there is a touch move after the touch on the first menu item before a predetermined time is elapsed;
- in response to determining that the predetermined time is elapsed without a touch move, controlling a communicator of the electronic device to transmit a first command signal to control the external device to perform an operation corresponding to the first menu item;
- and
- in response to determining that there is a touch move before the predetermined time is elapsed, controlling the touch display of the electronic device to display a second menu screen of the application program, the second menu screen including at least one menu item of a second type for controlling the external device;
- wherein the controlling the communicator of the electronic device to transmit the first command signal comprises, before a release manipulation is made after transmitting the first command signal, controlling the communicator of the electronic device to repeatedly transmit the first command signal a plurality of times at an interval until the release manipulation is input, and
- wherein the touch move corresponds to a flicking operation or a dragging operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.