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US 2013/0212535 A1Published application
Tablet having user interface
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorHyun Woo KIM
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Abstract
A tablet may include a display to display information and to receive information, and a controller to control the display to display a user interface on the left of a display area of the display in a right-hand user mode in which the information is input using a right hand and to control the display to display the user interface on the right of the display area in a left-hand user mode in which the information is input using a left hand.
Claims20
A portable electronic apparatus comprising:
- a touch display screen to display information and to receive a user input via at least one of pen-based input and touch-based input;
- and
- a controller operable to display a user interface on the touch display screen, the user interface including a handwriting region in which handwriting information can be input and an expandable menu changeable between an unexpanded state and an expanded state in which a plurality of user selectable color setting items associated with different colors are selectable from an expanded area of the expandable menu,
- wherein the expanded area of the expandable menu covers a portion of the handwriting region when the expandable menu is in the expanded state, and
- respective ones of the user selectable color setting items is independently movable from the expanded area of the expandable menu to a location outside of the expanded area based on a user input received via the touch display screen such that moved color setting items are available for user re-selection even when the expandable menu is in the unexpanded state.
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A method comprising:
- displaying a user interface on a touch display screen of a portable electronic apparatus, the user interface including a handwriting region in which handwriting information can be input and an expandable menu changeable between an unexpanded state and an expanded state in which a plurality of user selectable color setting items associated with different colors are selectable from an expanded area of the expandable menu, wherein the expanded area of the expandable menu covers a portion of the handwriting region when the expandable menu is in the expanded state;
- and
- moving a respective one of the user selectable color setting items from the expanded area of the expandable menu to a location outside of the expanded area based on a user input received via the touch display screen such that moved color setting items are available for user re-selection even when the expandable menu is in the unexpanded state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.