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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2013
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, KR;
Geehyuk Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Seongkook Heo, Busan, KR;
Jaehyun Han, Daejeon, KR;
Jiseong Gu, Seoul, KR;
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for performing an operation, such as enlargement, reduction and rotation of a screen of a terminal having a touch screen, with one hand using successive touches on the screen. A method of controlling the touch screen may include determining whether two points spaced at a predetermined distance threshold or longer on the touch screen are input as a previous tap and a current tap within a predetermined time threshold, analyzing the previous tap and the current tap to switch to a successive tap operation mode, and performing an operation according to a predetermined successive tap command in the successive tap operation mode.