An apparatus, system and method is described for controlling one or more consumer electronic devices that is performed by a smart device. The smart device causes one or more graphical elements, each for performing a particular operation to be displayed. The smart device then causes an action to be performed when the user selects one of the graphical elements, for example by pressing one of the keys on the universal controlling device or by speaking a command.

Methods for enhancing touch selections for content are performed by systems and devices. Users apply a contact instrument such as a finger, stylus, or pen to a touch interface to select content displayed via a user interface. Different amounts of the content are selected based on the characteristics of the contact instrument application to the touch interface and displayed to the user. Additionally, selected portions of content can be expanded or reduced by altering the application of the contact instrument, such as changing pressure or orientation, and by receiving other selection modifying inputs from other input devices. Characteristics of interaction for contact instruments are determined and applied to selection commands by the systems and devices. Context information related to the content is also used in determining the scope of selections.

A user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a display configured to display a map screen, a detector configured to sense a user manipulation, and a controller configured to, when a location and a direction are determined by the user manipulation on the map screen, display at least one photo image corresponding to the location and the direction of the user manipulation on the map screen.

An electronic device includes a display screen, and computing hardware to execute a software product. Executing the software product results in generating and rendering a graphical user interface on the display screen to facilitate user interaction. The graphical user interface, when rendered, presents one or more graphical objects, a pointer object configured to be movable over one or more of the one or more graphical objects, and configured to invoke a menu list containing one or more user selectable options as the pointer object is clicked or tapped over the one or more of the one or more of the graphical objects. A user selectable option is selected the pointer object swipes a touch sensitive object and the software product can maintain an effect corresponding to the selected option to be applied to the graphical objects and enable a change in status of the graphical objects

A display apparatus capable of being touched plural times by a single user or being used by a plurality of users is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display; a sensor sensing a user touch on the display; and a processor configured to execute a writing function corresponding to a first touch when the first touch is sensed through the sensor and executing a function corresponding to a second touch of a user at a coordinate value at which the second touch is sensed in response to the second touch when the second touch is sensed in a predetermined range of the first touch based on a coordinate value at which the first touch is sensed during a period in which the first touch is input.

An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling the electronic apparatus are provided, the method includes displaying an image window on a first part of a writing area of a display; displaying, based on a first user input for writing being detected on a second part of the writing area that is outside the image window, first writing information corresponding to the first user input on the writing area with a first thickness that is predetermined; and displaying, based on a second user input for writing being detected on the image window, second writing information corresponding to the second user input on the image window with a second thickness that is set according to the first thickness and a display magnification of the image window.

Provided is a display device including an input detector that detects input information input to an input surface by input devices, an input number determiner that determines, based on the input information detected by the input detector, an input number indicating the number of the input devices of which an input operation on the input surface is enabled, and a display processor that displays an attribute setting object in which an attribute of each of the input devices is settable, based on the input number determined by the input number determiner, in a specific region of the input surface.

Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an input apparatus and a controlling method thereof, more particularly, to an input device for displaying a graphic in a detected color and an input touch form by detecting a color and a touch shape of an input tool for inputting a touch command. An input apparatus according to an embodiment includes a display: a first sensor configured to detect a touch position of a touch command input to the display from an input tool; a second sensor configured to detect a color of the input tool; and a controller configured to control a graphic corresponding to the input touch command to be displayed in the detected color at the detected touch position.

A portable device having a display, the display including a main surface area, a first curved surface area extending from a first side of the main surface area, and a second curved surface area extending from a second side of the main surface area that is opposite the first side, a sensor configured to detect a state of the portable device, and a controller configured to control the display to display a user interface (UI) on one of the first curved surface and the second curved surface based on the state detected by the sensor.

In some embodiments, an electronic device receives handwritten inputs in text entry fields and converts the handwritten inputs into font-based text. In some embodiments, an electronic device selects and deletes text based on inputs from a stylus. In some embodiments, an electronic device inserts text into pre-existing text based on inputs from a stylus. In some embodiments, an electronic device manages the timing of converting handwritten inputs into font-based text. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a handwritten entry menu. In some embodiments, an electronic device controls the characteristic of handwritten inputs based on selections on the handwritten entry menu. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents autocomplete suggestions. In some embodiments, an electronic device converts handwritten input to font-based text. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays options in a content entry palette.