Data display method and apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSungjoon Won, Jieun Yang, Masato Watanabe, Yun Jegal, Jongsung Joo
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Abstract
A data display method and apparatus display data efficiently on the screen of an electronic device equipped with a touchscreen. The data display method includes setting a scroll rate to a touch movement distance; detecting a touch gesture in a first region of the touchscreen; scrolling icons in the first region at the scroll rate in response to the touch gesture; and displaying detailed information associated with at least one icon newly displayed according to the scroll in a second region of the touchscreen.
Claims15
A data display method of an electronic device having a touchscreen, the method comprising:
- detecting a first touch gesture in a first region of the touchscreen;
- setting a scroll rate based on a touch movement distance of the first touch gesture in the first region;
- detecting a second touch gesture in a second region of the touchscreen;
- scrolling icons in the first region at the scroll rate in response to the second touch gesture to display at least one newly displayed icon with the disappearance of at least one previously displayed icon in the first region;
- and
- displaying detailed information associated with one of the at least one newly displayed icon in the second region of the touchscreen,
- wherein the setting comprises adjusting a number of icons to be displayed in the first region based on the scroll rate.
A data display method of an electronic device having a touchscreen, the method comprising:
- displaying icons in a first region of the touchscreen and detailed information in a second region of the touchscreen, with the detailed information being associated with one of the displayed icons;
- changing a current display level of all of the icons in the first region, with the display level associated with a hierarchy, in response to a pinch gesture, in the second region;
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- displaying detailed information of one of the icons with the changed display level in the second region.
An electronic device comprising:
- a display unit which has a touchscreen including a first region for displaying icons and a second region for displaying detailed information;
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- a control unit which controls detecting a first touch gesture in the first region of the touchscreen, setting a scroll rate based on a touch movement distance of the first touch gesture in the first region, detecting a second touch gesture in the second region of the touchscreen, scrolling icons in the first region at the scroll rate in response to the touch gesture to display at least one newly displayed icon with the disappearance of at least one previously displayed icon in the first region, and displaying detailed information associated with one of the at least one newly displayed icon in the second region of the touchscreen, in response to a scroll,
- wherein the control unit controls adjusting a number of icons to be displayed in the first region based on the scroll rate.
An electronic device comprising:
- a display unit with a touchscreen having a first region for displaying icons and a second region for displaying detailed information associated with one of the displayed icons;
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- a control unit which controls the display unit to change a current display level of all of the icons in the first region with the display level associated with a hierarchy, in response to a pinch gesture, in the second region and to display the detailed information of one of the icons with changed display level in the second region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.