Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080198958 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR PHASE JUMP OF REFERENCE SIGNAL IN DIGITAL PHASE-LOCKED LOOP/FREQUENCY-LOCKED LOOP - An apparatus and method for compensating for a phase jump of a reference signal in a digital Phase-Locked Loop (PLL)/Frequency-Locked Loop (FLL) are provided. The apparatus includes a phase discriminator for comparing a phase of an external clock signal (i.e., the reference signal) with a phase of an internal clock signal to determine a phase difference between the two signals, a phase jump compensator for detecting a phase jump moment by using the phase difference, for estimating a previous phase jump value according to a current phase difference upon detecting a phase jump, and for correcting the phase difference by using a phase jump correction value obtained in the estimation process, and a Low Pass Filter (LPF) for filtering a high-frequency component of the corrected phase difference. Accordingly, reliable synchronization can be achieved over an E | 08-21-2008 |
20100073315 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND DATA DISPLAY METHOD FOR THE SAME - A mobile terminal and a method of displaying data for the same are disclosed. The data display method includes displaying one or more tags, checking whether a motion of the mobile terminal is detected, identifying the terminal motion if terminal motion is detected, and displaying rearranged tags when the identified terminal motion is related to tag rearrangement. | 03-25-2010 |
20100083174 | PORTABLE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENTS LIST THEREOF - The present invention relates to a portable terminal and method of displaying a content list using the same. A content list may be classified into groups according to a classification criterion corresponding to an arrangement method selected by a user. The classified groups may be displayed to be visually distinguishable. A first group belonging to the classified groups may be displayed with a background in a first color. The background of a second group may be displayed in a second color different from the first color, and a background of a third group may be displayed in the first color. Accordingly, a user can easily recognize that attribute information associated with the content has changed. | 04-01-2010 |
20100088597 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING IDLE SCREEN OF PORTABLE TERMINAL - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for configuring an idle screen of a portable terminal which is capable of adaptively configuring the idle screen according to the use mode of the portable terminal of a user based on a preset widget set. A method of configuring an idle screen of a portable terminal of the invention includes activating a widget set corresponding to a user request; fetching a widget configured in the widget set in an activation of the widget set; and configuring the idle screen by the fetched widget. | 04-08-2010 |
20100090564 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UNLOCKING A PORTABLE TERMINAL USING PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for unlocking a portable terminal, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for unlocking a portable terminal capable of canceling a hold state of the portable terminal without using a hold key. A portable terminal may include at least one piezoelectric sensor. When a squeeze operation signal is generated as pressure is applied to the at least one piezoelectric sensor, the hold state of the portable terminal is canceled. | 04-15-2010 |
20100100841 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING AN IDLE SCREEN IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and system for configuring an idle screen with an extended virtual area and for displaying a variety of contents on the idle screen extended by the virtual area is described. The method includes providing an idle screen that displays at least one content, and providing a virtual area that extends the idle screen and displays contents. The method may further include checking the settings of the virtual area when the virtual area is provided, and providing, if the virtual area is set, the idle screen extended by the virtual area where contents are provided by the extended idle screen. | 04-22-2010 |
20100123664 | METHOD FOR OPERATING USER INTERFACE BASED ON MOTION SENSOR AND A MOBILE TERMINAL HAVING THE USER INTERFACE - The present invention relates to a method of operating a user interface (UI) based on a motion sensor and a mobile terminal using the same. The method of operating a UI of a mobile terminal including a touch sensor and a motion sensor includes identifying an input of a mode conversion key, activating the motion sensor, and converting a UI mode to a motion mode. The mobile terminal having a touch sensor and motion sensor may include a display unit and a controller. The display unit may display an application execution screen. The controller may activate the motion sensor if mode conversion is requested in an activated state of the touch sensor, and may activate the touch sensor if mode conversion is requested in an activated state of the motion sensor. | 05-20-2010 |
20100130132 | SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL, AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - A short-range communication device and mobile terminal, and a control method and system for the same are disclosed. The control method enables the user to control the mobile terminal through the short-range communication device having motion sensing capability. Hence, the user can conveniently control the operation of the mobile terminal through the short-range communication device. | 05-27-2010 |
20100131749 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATING MODE OF MOBILE TERMINAL - An operating mode control apparatus and method for a mobile terminal are disclosed. The apparatus and method enable the user to control the operation of a mobile terminal on the basis of the proximity of the user to the mobile terminal, the movement of the mobile terminal, and the housing orientation thereof. Hence, the user may enjoy a visuo-spatial user interface. | 05-27-2010 |
20100134312 | INPUT DEVICE FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to an input device and method of a portable terminal. The present invention includes generating an input event by a first input mode, generating a second input event by a motion of the portable terminal simultaneously or consecutively with the input event, and controlling operation of an application program according to the user function of the portable terminal in consideration of the first and second input events. | 06-03-2010 |
20100164893 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PARTICULAR OPERATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING DIFFERENT TOUCH ZONES - An electronic device has a graphical user interface (GUI) such as a touch screen and a physical user interface (PUI) such as a touch pad. A first touch zone in the GUI is disposed adjacently and symmetrically to a second touch zone in the PUI. The touch zones may receive continuous contacts that occur thereon. The continuous contacts may be accepted as a single gestural input, which is used to control a particular operation of the electronic device. | 07-01-2010 |
20100174987 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATION BETWEEN OBJECTS IN AN ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A method and an apparatus of object navigation using a touch screen divided into an output area and a control area utilizes organic interaction between the output area and the control area. A first area is an output area for displaying an object, and a second area for displaying a Graphic User Interface (GUI) is a control area for controlling navigation of the object. When an event for navigation occurs in one of the first area and the second area, change information according to the navigation is provided in both the first area and the second area, so that a touch screen can be manipulated without any blockage of an image. | 07-08-2010 |
20100175008 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLAYING OF MULTIMEDIA ITEM - A method, apparatus, and system are described in which an electronic device includes a display means having an output area and an execution area. An electronic device user may simply and intuitively play a multimedia item through manipulation of objects in the output area and the execution area. The multimedia item playing system may includes an output area to display an object corresponding to a multimedia item, and an execution area to receive the object moved from the output area and to play the multimedia item in response to the receiving. | 07-08-2010 |
20100195565 | Apparatus and method for timing synchronization in a communication system - An apparatus is capable of restoring a clock of a second node in a communication system with a symmetric network construction of a first node that is capable of receiving a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal, and the second node that is not capable of receiving a GPS signal. The method includes identifying synchronization information received from the first node, determining a delay with the first node, generating a clock using the synchronization information and delay, removing a clock phase being out of a reference range in a phase identification interval, dividing the phase identification interval into at least two subdivision intervals, and removing a clock phase being out of a normal operation range of a phase in each subdivision interval. | 08-05-2010 |
20100227556 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING OPERATION BETWEEN TERMINALS AND TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method of automatically controlling operation between mobile terminals and a terminal supporting the same provide for automatic operation control terminals to control each terminal to recognize a specific operation generated in the terminal. Terminals generating the same operation signal automatically activate a near-distance communication module, and automatically forms a communication channel based on the near-distance communication module. | 09-09-2010 |
20100288108 | MUSIC COMPOSITION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PORTABLE DEVICE HAVING TOUCHSCREEN - A music composition method and system is provided for composing a music piece using a touch interaction with a touchscreen-enabled portable device. A music composition method includes setting an accompaniment with chords varying according to the progress of a unit play time; playing the accompaniment; displaying, when a series of touches are detected, a trace of the touches; playing a melody of tones mapped to positions of the touches and matching notes of a note scale defined by chords of the accompaniment playing at the times when the touches are detected; and saving the trace, melody, and accompaniment as a music piece as an ensemble. | 11-18-2010 |
20100289825 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR MOBILE TERMINAL - An image processing method based on zooming for a mobile terminal permits touch zooming on touch screens of a plurality of devices. The image processing method preferably includes: displaying, in response to entering a touch on a touch screen displaying an image, a zooming GUI indicator for image zooming operation; performing image zooming on the touch screen in response to entering a touch point move while retaining the touch; and hiding the zooming GUI indicator from the touch screen in response to entering a touch release. | 11-18-2010 |
20100295789 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EDITING PAGES USED FOR A HOME SCREEN - Provided are a method and related mobile device for editing, in an integrated, convenient and quick manner, various menu pages selectively used for a home screen. In response to a given input signal, the mobile device outputs a page edit screen including a specific page displayed on the home screen. Then, in response to subsequent input signals, the mobile device may add a new page, delete a selected page, change a title of a selected page, move or remove a selected icon in a page, change a background image of a selected page, or change a positional order of pages. | 11-25-2010 |
20100299597 | DISPLAY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MOBILE TERMINAL - A display management method and system of a mobile terminal for switching between user interfaces of applications is disclosed. A display management method of a mobile terminal according to the present invention includes displaying a first execution screen of a first application on a display; detecting an input signal for activating a second application; and displaying a second execution screen corresponding to the second application in response to the input signal, wherein displaying the second execution screen comprising presenting at least one of a first intermediate image obtained by downsizing an image contained within the first execution screen, a second intermediate image obtained by downsizing an image contained within the second execution screen, and a task window containing at least the downsized first and second intermediate images in a sequential order. | 11-25-2010 |
20100299598 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING PAGES AND PORTABLE TERMINAL ADAPTED TO THE METHOD - A method for providing pages and a portable terminal adapted thereto are disclosed. The display unit displays pages belonging to a same category or a different category, according to the generation of different input signals, wherein pages are displayed in accordance with their arrangement within a corresponding category | 11-25-2010 |
20110053641 | MOTION INPUT DEVICE FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL AND OPERATION METHOD USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a motion input device for portable terminal and an operation method using the same. A motion input device of a portable terminal of the present invention includes a sensor unit configured to collect a sensor signal from at least one sensor; an operation recognition unit configured to generate a motion signal corresponding to an operation of portable terminal based on the sensor signal; a scenario preparation unit configured to generate an input scenario based on at least one motion signal; and a scenario mapping unit configured to detect, in a scenario database, a standards scenario corresponding to the input scenario, and to generate an input signal corresponding to the standards scenario. | 03-03-2011 |
20110083105 | LIST-EDITING METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE ADAPTED THERETO - A list-editing method and a mobile device adapted to the method are provided. The method includes displaying a plurality of items on a screen, selecting at least one of the plurality of items according to an input signal, fixing at least one selected item at one side of the screen, and moving at least one non-selected item on the screen, according to a scroll signal. | 04-07-2011 |
20110193878 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HISTORY OF INFORMATION ASSOCIATED TO TIME INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for providing a history of information associated with time information capable of displaying internal or external associated information associated with time information as one information item and capable of intuitively providing a history of information associated with a corresponding time by controlling time information are provided. The method for providing information in a mobile terminal includes, displaying an information item including a combination of time information and associated information, updating and displaying the associated information as time information goes by, extracting associated information corresponding to changed time information when the time information changes according to a control event, and displaying a history of associated information corresponding to the changed time information. | 08-11-2011 |
20110197160 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION OF MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS - A method and apparatus for displaying information of multiple applications simultaneously on the execution screen of a common application is provided. A method for providing information in mobile terminal includes displaying an execution screen having a plurality of information display regions with execution of a common application, detecting an interaction made to one of the information display regions, executing an application related to information presented in the information display region at which the interaction is detected, and displaying original data corresponding to the information presented in the information display region at which the interaction is detected. | 08-11-2011 |
20110256848 | TOUCH-BASED MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING TOUCH LOCK FUNCTION OF THE MOBILE DEVICE - A touch-based mobile device and a method for performing a touch lock function of the mobile device are provided. In the method, the device displays a touch lock screen in which a cover layer is superimposed over a specific underlying screen and allows the underlying screen to be visible. When an input of a touch moving gesture is detected, the device moves the cover layer depending on the touch moving gesture, and determines whether a distance of the touch moving gesture reaches a predefined critical distance. If so, the device removes the cover layer from the touch lock screen and switches the touch lock state to a touch unlock state, thus allowing a user to more conveniently switch the touch lock state to the touch unlock state. | 10-20-2011 |
20110265040 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE AND MOBILE DEVICE ADAPTED THERETO - A method for providing a Graphic User Interface (GUI) and a touch screen-based mobile device adapted thereto permit the user to be notified that additional items are available for display. The method preferably includes: determining whether there is an item to be displayed, other than at least one item arranged in an item display allocation area; and displaying, when there is an item to be displayed, an image object, shaped as a certain shape, at a boundary portion of the item display allocation area at which the item to be displayed is created. The intensity, color, pattern, etc. of the image at the boundary can be varied in accordance with the number and urgency of non-displayed items. | 10-27-2011 |
20120139808 | ANTENNA FOR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM - A Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna apparatus in a wireless communication device is provided. The GPS antenna apparatus includes a GPS antenna radiator and at least one blocking layer. The GPS antenna radiator receives a GPS signal. The at least one blocking layer is installed proximate to the GPS antenna radiator so as to block an external noise introduced to the GPS antenna radiator. | 06-07-2012 |
20120139861 | MUSIC COMPOSITION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PORTABLE DEVICE HAVING TOUCHSCREEN - A music composition method and system is provided for composing a music piece using a touch interaction with a touchscreen-enabled portable device. A music composition method includes setting an accompaniment with chords varying according to the progress of a unit play time; playing the accompaniment; displaying, when a series of touches are detected, a trace of the touches; playing a melody of tones mapped to positions of the touches and matching notes of a note scale defined by chords of the accompaniment playing at the times when the touches are detected; and saving the trace, melody, and accompaniment as a music piece as an ensemble. | 06-07-2012 |
20140015759 | INPUT DEVICE FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to an input device and method of a portable terminal. The present invention includes generating an input event by a first input mode, generating a second input event by a motion of the portable terminal simultaneously or consecutively with the input event, and controlling operation of an application program according to the user function of the portable terminal in consideration of the first and second input events. | 01-16-2014 |