US 2023/0400979 A1Published application

Electronic device including touch sensitive display and method for managing the display

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsDaesik HWANG, Hyesoon JEONG, Jihun KIM, Jaegyun SON, Dongjeon KIM, Jinwan AN

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Abstract

A method for operating an electronic device including a touch sensitive display is provided. The method includes displaying at least two application execution screens on the touch sensitive display not to be superposed on one another, receiving a touch input or a hovering input through the touch sensitive display, selecting at least one application execution screen among the at least two application execution screens at least partially in response to the reception of the touch input or the hovering input, and displaying the selected application execution screen to be superposed on at least a portion of a non-selected application execution screen among the at least two application execution screens.

Claims19

Dependent claims

An electronic device comprising:

a touch sensitive display;
at least one processor;
and
a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:
display a first application execution screen in a first split window, a second application execution screen in a second split window and a separator between the first split window and the second split window on the touch sensitive display,
receive a first touch input for changing the first split window into a pop-up window on the touch sensitive display,
in response to receiving the first touch input:
display the second application execution screen in an extended window, changed from second split window, occupying a region of the first split window and a region of the second split window, and
display the pop-up window, superposable over at least part of the extended window,
receive a second touch input for moving a position of the pop-up window on the touch sensitive display,
provide guide information through the touch sensitive display when the pop-up window is at least partially disposed in a predetermined switching region in response to the second touch input, and
in response to detecting a release of the second touch input in a state that the pop-up window is at least partially disposed on the predetermined switching region on the touch sensitive display:
change the display of the pop-up window into the first split window in a region including at least part of the predetermined switching region, and
change the display of the extended window into the second split window.

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A method for operating an electronic device including a touch sensitive display, the method comprising:

displaying a first application execution screen in a first split window, a second application execution screen in a second split window and a separator between the first split window and the second split window on the touch sensitive display;
receiving a first touch input for changing the first split window into a pop-up window on the touch sensitive display;
in response to receiving the first touch input:
displaying the second application execution screen in an extended window, changed from second split window, occupying a region of the first split window and a region of the second split window, and
displaying the pop-up window, superposable over at least part of the extended window;
receiving a second touch input for moving a position of the pop-up window on the touch sensitive display;
providing guide information through the touch sensitive display when the pop-up window at least partially disposed in a predetermined switching region in response to the second touch input;
and
in response to detecting a release of the second touch input in a state that the pop-up window is at least partially disposed on the predetermined switching region on the touch sensitive display:
changing the displaying of the pop-up window into the first split window in a region including at least part of the predetermined switching region, and
changing the displaying of the extended window into the second split window.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/456,255Filed 25 Aug 2023
Priority: KR 10-2014-011337328 Aug 2014
Published: 14 Dec 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 3/04883
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
G06F 3/04817
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 2203/04803
Indexing scheme relating to G06F3/048: split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
G06F
Computing and data processing

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