Method and apparatus for displaying application
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoung-jin KIM, Sung-hee KIM, Seung-woon LEE, Kang-tae KIM, Tae-soo KIM, Jung-hwan CHOI
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Abstract
A method of displaying an application is provided. The method includes displaying an execution screen of a first application on a first area when the first application is executed, displaying the execution screen of the first application on a second area instead of on the first area when a second application is executed while the first application is executed, and displaying an execution screen of a second application on the first area.
Claims11
A method of displaying an application in a terminal device, the method comprising:
- displaying an execution screen of a first application on a full-window;
- displaying an execution screen of a second application on a sub-window displayed by overlapping the full-window;
- displaying a list of sub-windows on the full-window in a stack mode where sub-windows on which applications being currently executed in the terminal device are respectively displayed are overlapped with each other and displayed, as a gesture for requesting a display of the list of the sub-windows is detected on the sub-window;
- displaying a next sub-window in the list of the sub-windows instead of a foremost sub-window in the list, as a gesture for requesting a change of the foremost sub-window in the list of the sub-windows to another sub-window is detected;
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- as a gesture for selecting an application from the list is detected, displaying an execution screen of the selected application instead of the execution screen of the first application, on the full window.
An electronic device for displaying an application, the electronic device comprising:
- a display displaying an execution screen of a first application on a full-window, and displaying an execution screen of a second application on a sub-window displayed by overlapping the full-window;
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- at least one processor configured to:
- control the display to display a list of sub-windows on the full-window in a stack mode where sub-windows on which applications being currently executed in the electronic device are respectively displayed are overlapped with each other and displayed, as a gesture for requesting a display of the list of the sub-windows is detected on the sub-window,
- control the display to display a next sub-window in the list of the sub-windows instead of a foremost sub-window in the list, as a gesture for requesting a change of the foremost sub-window in the list of the sub-windows to another sub-window is detected, and
- as a gesture for selecting an application from the list is detected, control the display to display an execution screen of the selected application instead of the execution screen of the first application, on the full window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.