Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Han-Kyung Jeon

Joo-Il Sung

Seung-Hwan Cho

Yu-Jin Lee

Han-Jun Ku

Young-Il Oh

Je-Sang Yoon

Chan-Su Ahn

A multi-tasking execution apparatus and a method for easily controlling applications running in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a display and a controller. The display displays an application-containing image in which at least one specific image representing at least one application running in a background is contained and arranged. The controller operatively displays at least one specific image representing at least one application running in the background, so as to be contained in the application-containing image, and controls the at least one application running in the background by controlling the specific image based on a specific gesture.

Apparatus and method for performing multi-tasking in portable terminal

A method of providing a user interface of a portable terminal includes receiving a mode switching request into a handwriting input mode from a user during executing an application, switching into the handwriting input mode according to the mode switching request, recognizing handwritten data received from the user, converting the recognized handwritten data to data with a preset format, processing the converted data through a preset scheme and displaying a result of the processing on a touch screen.

Method and apparatus for providing user interface

A method for displaying a marker in a map service is provided. In the method, a plurality of markers each representing information are displayed differentially in a propagation range set according to importance of a user in the map service, and when the plurality of markers are displayed overlapped, only a marker representing information of highest importance is displayed.

Method for displaying marker in a map service

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Han-Kyung Jeon