Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jung Sic Sung

Yo Han Lee

Jeong Hun Kim

Hyo Jin Lee

Ki Won Lee

Yong Jin Kwon

Chul Hwan Lee

Young Keun Choi

Ho Shin Lee

Young Jip Kim

Yung Kwan Kim

Se Jun Song

Ji Hea Park

A method and an apparatus for navigating content larger than a display screen of a terminal using a pointing device are provided. The method includes acquiring, when a pointing position is changed on a screen partially displaying a content that is larger than the screen, a current pointing position by tracking the change of the pointing position, comparing an X axis displacement and a Y axis displacement from an initial pointing position as a starting position to the current pointing position with a predefined X axis threshold value and Y axis threshold value, respectively, determining a movement direction as one of an X axis, a Y axis, and an XY (diagonal) axis directions based on the comparison result, and scrolling the content in the movement direction to display an off-screen part of the content.

Method and apparatus for navigating content on screen using pointing device

A method for operating a call function of a portable terminal that may simply execute a call function while operating various applications, and intuitively provide a call relation interface, and an apparatus thereof, are provided. The method for operating a call function, includes displaying a call interface in which a phone number is automatically input when interaction is input to the call item, and executing a call function using the phone number when a call transmission interaction is input from the call interface.

Method and apparatus for operating call function of portable terminal

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Jung Sic Sung