Back to results
US 2016/0259548 A1Published application
Method for displaying virtual keyboard on mobile terminal, and mobile terminal
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorZhen MA
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A mobile terminal displaying a virtual keyboard obtains a direction in which a mobile terminal is inclined and displays a modified virtual keyboard in correspondence to the obtained inclination direction. The virtual keyboard comprises a plurality of virtual keyboard regions. The mobile terminal displays the virtual keyboard in which at least one of the plurality of virtual keyboard regions is enlarged and other non-enlarged virtual keyboard regions are reduced based on the obtained inclination direction.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- obtaining a direction in which a mobile terminal is inclined;
- and
- displaying a modified virtual keyboard in correspondence to the obtained inclination direction,
- wherein the virtual keyboard comprises a plurality of virtual keyboard regions, and
- wherein the displaying of the modified virtual keyboard comprises:
- displaying the virtual keyboard in which at least one of the plurality of virtual keyboard regions is enlarged and other non-enlarged virtual keyboard regions are reduced based on the obtained inclination direction.
3 more elements
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a controller for obtaining a direction in which a mobile terminal is inclined;
- and
- a display for displaying a modified virtual keyboard in correspondence to the obtained inclination direction,
- wherein the virtual keyboard comprises a plurality of virtual keyboard regions, and
- wherein the display displays the virtual keyboard in which at least one of the plurality of virtual keyboard regions is enlarged and other non-enlarged virtual keyboard regions are reduced based on the obtained inclination direction.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.