Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Wook Chang

Joon-ah Park

Hyun-jeong Lee

Kyoung-ho Kang

Sung-jung Cho

Won-chul Bang

Dong-Yoon Kim

Eun-seok Choi

Kee-eung Kim

Jung-hyun Shim

Seong-il Cho

Hyun-jin Kim

Seung Ju Han

Joon Ah Park

Byung-Seok Soh

Won-Chul Bang

Jong-koo Oh

Seung-nyang Chung

Ho-yeal Lee

Yeun-bae Kim

Hyun Jeong Lee

Joon-Ah Park

Joon-Kee Cho

Chang-kyu Choi

Sun-gi Hong

Seong-woon Kim

Soon-joo Kwon

Hyun Yeul Lee

Byung-seok Soh

Joonah Park

Eun-Seok Choi

Hyunjeong Lee

Junghyun Shim

Seung-Nyung Chung

Jeong Hwan Ahn

Dong-yoon Kim

Jing Yang

Gyunghye Yang

Joonkee Cho

Sung Jung Cho

Byung Seok Soh

Eun-sook Choi

Joon-kee Cho

Hyun-Jeong Lee

Yoon Sang Kim

Seung-ju Han

Kyoung-Ho Kang

Seong-Il Cho

Provided is an apparatus and method for controlling a portable terminal. The apparatus includes a contact sensing unit which senses an area of an external surface of the portable terminal contacted by a user as the user holds the portable terminal, a recognizing unit which recognizes a function mode of the portable terminal based on information about the contacted area sensed by the contact sensing unit, and a control unit which changes the portable terminal to a function mode recognized by the recognizing unit. Since a function mode of the portable terminal is controlled according to the way a user holds the portable terminal, convenience of changing a function mode of the portable terminal is provided through a single manipulation.

Apparatus and method for controlling portable terminal

A method of controlling the operation of a mobile terminal is provided. By dynamically selecting or setting a specific function of a mobile terminal according to a change in pressure or contact areas sensed by a plurality of touch sensors which cover the mobile terminal, a user can easily select or set a specific function of the mobile terminal according to his or her intention, and easily recognize information displayed on a screen of the mobile terminal.

Apparatus and method for controlling operation of mobile terminal

A portable terminal including: a controller receiving signals corresponding to a plurality of input buttons and outputting image data to be displayed on the plurality of input buttons using the received signals; and a plurality of buttons for inputting a key from a user and outputting a signal corresponding to the key pressed, and for receiving the image data from the controller and displaying the received image data. By using the display buttons for displaying variable images corresponding to specific functions as well as an essential function of inputting keys from a user when a specific function is input in the portable terminal, a plurality of functions can be input with only a few buttons, providing speed and convenience to the user for function input.

Portable terminal having display buttons and method of inputting functions using display buttons

Disclosed are an apparatus, method, and medium for providing a user interface for file transmission. The apparatus includes a motion perception (recognition) module perceiving (recognizing) a motion input to the user interface and identifying a position of the perceived (recognized) motion, a motion execution module executing a motion corresponding to the perceived motion and the identified position of the perceived motion and modifying components of the user interface according to the executed motion, and a communication module transmitting a file to a transmission target based on the perceived motion and the identified position of the perceived motion. The components of the user interface may include a file list region, a transmission target region, and an execution region.

Apparatus, method, and medium for providing user interface for file transmission

An object manipulation apparatus and method model an object for manipulation of a virtual object, suggest object operation schema, define a physical and mental condition of an avatar, and set motion data of the avatar.

Device for object manipulating with multi-input sources

A sensing technique using a capacitance touch sensor as a user interface is provided. An apparatus for sensing the movement of fingers using a multi-touch sensor includes a touch determination module which determines whether a user has actually touched a touch sensor comprising one or more touch points with at least one of his/her fingers, a clustering module which groups a plurality of electrodes arrayed in the touch sensor into one or more clusters according to a set of standards if the touch determination module determines that the user has actually touched the touch sensor with at least one of his/her finger, a position value calculation module which calculates a finger position value indicating the location of the finger of the user that touches the touch sensor for each of the clusters, and a movement information detection module which detects movement information of the finger of the user that touches the touch sensor using information regarding variations over time in the finger position value.

Apparatus, method, and medium for sensing movement of fingers using multi-touch sensor array

A portable terminal having display buttons for displaying images corresponding to specific functions through keys pressed by a user, and a method of inputting functions of the portable terminal using the display buttons. The portable terminal includes: a controller which receives signals corresponding to a user key pressed from the plurality of input buttons and outputs image data to be displayed on each of the plurality of input buttons using the received signals; and a plurality of buttons for inputting a key from a user and outputting a signal corresponding to the key pressed, and for receiving the image data from the controller and displaying the received image data. Accordingly, by using the display buttons for displaying variable images corresponding to specific functions as well as an essential function of inputting keys from a user when a specific function is input in the portable terminal such as a cell phone, a plurality of functions can be input with only a limited number of buttons, providing speed and convenience to the user for function input.

Disclosed are a touch gesture recognition apparatus and method that can be, or applied to, both a single-touch system and a multi-touch system. The touch gesture recognition method recognizes touch gestures using the diagonal-line length of a bounding box created based on touch location information and variations in the diagonal-line length. After a gesture is recognized, the recognized gesture is mapped to an input event of a user input device and feedback according to the input event is provided.

Apparatus and method recognizing touch gesture

A mobile terminal control apparatus and method is disclosed. The mobile terminal control apparatus includes a plurality of touch sensors formed on a rear of the mobile terminal, a touch recognition unit recognizing a touch of a finger sensed by the plurality of touch sensors and displaying a user interface on a front screen of the mobile terminal according to the recognized touch of the finger, and an execution unit recognizing a change in the touch of the finger, and executing the displayed user interface on the basis of the result of the recognition. The mobile terminal may control user interfaces of a mobile terminal without fingers overlapping a screen of the mobile terminal.

Apparatus and method for controlling mobile terminal user interface execution

Provided is an input device that may sense a first contact occurring along a planar coordinate axis among three-dimensional (3D) spatial coordinate axes to generate first contact information, to sense a second contact occurring along a vertical coordinate axis among the 3D spatial coordinate axes to generate second contact information, to analyze contact information including at least one of the first contact information and the second contact information to generate an input signal to control a predetermined display device, and to transmit the generated input signal to the display device. The display device may control an object that is displayed on the display device, based on the input signal.

Input device and input method

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Wook Chang