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US 9,791,996 · App. 14/056,298 · Granted Oct 17, 2017

Method for displaying background screen in mobile terminal

Inventor: Young-Jun Kim (Pocheon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 9,791,996
App. No.
14/056,298
Granted
Oct 17, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for displaying a background screen in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes resizing at least one of a plurality of background screens according to a first input, displaying at least one of the at least one resized background screen, detecting a second input, and transitioning among the resized background screens based on the detected second input, wherein the background screens respectively include an icon.

Claims (64)

1. A method for displaying a screen in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

displaying, via a display including a touch screen operatively coupled with the mobile communication terminal, at least one background screen on the mobile communication terminal;

resizing, via the display, at least two of a plurality of screens according to a first touch input;

displaying, via the display, at least one of the at least two resized screens over at least a portion of the displayed at least one background screen;

changing a transparency of the at least one of the at least two resized screens; detecting, via the display, a second touch input; and

scrolling, via the display, among the at least two resized screens based on the detected second touch input,

wherein the plurality of screens respectively include at least one icon, and

wherein, when the at least two of the plurality of screens are resized, at least a

portion of the at least one icon included in each of the at least two screens is resized and displayed within the corresponding resized screen.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detecting of the second touch input comprises:

detecting an orientation of the mobile communication terminal.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the at least two screens comprises an icon among the resized and displayed at least one icon that is emphatically displayed.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the emphatically displayed icon corresponds to at least one of:

an icon selected or executed equal to or more than a predefined number of times;

an icon which has been most recently selected or executed at a time point when the first touch input occurs; and

an icon preset to be emphatically displayed in a background screen which includes the emphatically displayed icon.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: when

one of the at least two screens is selected, transitioning to a background screen corresponding to the selected screen.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the transitioning to the background screen comprises:

setting the background screen corresponding to the selected screen as a current background screen; and

displaying the current background screen.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: when

a third touch input is input while the at least two screens are displayed, stopping the displaying of the at least two screens.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least two screens are displayed with a background element to distinguish the at least two screens from the at least one background screen.

9. The method of claim 2 , wherein the detecting of the orientation of the mobile communication terminal comprises:

detecting a motion of the mobile communication terminal.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the

detecting of the motion of the mobile communication terminal comprises:

detecting a tilting of the mobile communication terminal.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor to perform a method comprising:

displaying, via a display including a touch screen operatively coupled with the at least one processor, at least one background screen on a mobile communication terminal;

resizing, via the display, at least two of a plurality of screens according to a first touch input;

displaying, via the display, at least one of the at least two resized screens over at least a portion of the displayed at least one background screen;

changing a transparency of the at least one of the at least two resized screens; detecting, via the display, a second touch input; and

scrolling, via the display, among the at least two resized screens based on the detected second touch input,

wherein the plurality of screens respectively include at least one icon, and

wherein, when the plurality of screens are resized, at least a portion of the at

least one icon included in each of the at least two screens is resized and displayed within the corresponding resized screen.

12. A mobile communication terminal for displaying a background screen, the mobile communication terminal comprising:

a display including a touch screen operatively coupled with the mobile communication terminal and configured to display at least one background screen to a user;

an input device configured to receive a touch input from the user;

and at least one processor configured to:

resize, via the display, at least two of a plurality of screens when a first touch input is input,

display, via the display, at least one of the at least two resized screens over at least a portion of the displayed at least one background screen,

change a transparency of the at least one of the at least two resized screens,

detect, via the display, a second touch input, and

scroll, via the display, among the at least two resized screens based on the second touch input,

wherein the plurality of screens respectively include at least one icon, and

wherein, when the at least two of the plurality of screens are resized, at least a

portion of the at least one icon included in each of the at least two screens is resized and displayed within the corresponding resized screen.

13. The mobile communication terminal of claim 12 , wherein the second touch input corresponds to an orientation detected by using a sensor.

14. The mobile communication terminal of claim 12 , wherein at least one of the at least two screens comprises an icon among the resized and displayed at least one icon that is emphatically displayed.

15. The mobile communication terminal of claim 14 , wherein the emphatically displayed icon corresponds to at least one of:

an icon selected or executed equal to or more than a predefined number of

times;

an icon which has been most recently selected or executed at a time point when the first touch input occurs; and

an icon preset to be emphatically displayed in a background screen which includes the emphatically displayed icon.

16. The mobile communication terminal of claim 13 , wherein, when one of the at least two screens is selected, the at least one processor transitions to a background screen corresponding to the selected screen.

17. The mobile communication terminal of claim 16 , wherein, when the at least one processor transitions to the selected screen, the at least one processor sets the background screen corresponding to the selected screen as a current background screen, and controls the display to display the current background screen.

18. The mobile communication terminal of claim 13 , wherein, when a third touch input is input when the at least two screens are displayed, the at least one processor controls to stop display of the at least two screens.

19. The mobile communication terminal of claim 13 , wherein the at least two screens are displayed with a background element to distinguish the at least two screens from a current background screen.

20. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying of the at least one of the at least two screens comprises:

displaying a first screen and at least a portion of at least one second screen, as at least partially overlapped with the at least one background screen.

21. The mobile communication terminal of claim 12 , wherein the processor displays a first screen and at least a portion of at least one second screen, as at least partially overlapped with the at least one background screen.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2009-0097255 · Oct 13, 2009 · national
Continuity (2)
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