Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for displaying electricity use status. The method comprising identifying at least one electronic appliance in an image on a screen captured through a camera; determining the electricity use status of the at least one electronic appliance; and displaying one of a plurality of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Each of the GUIs corresponds to a stage of the electricity use status of the at least one electronic appliance.
Abstract:
A method of sharing profile image cards of a user of a device is provided. The method may be performed by a server and includes obtaining profile image cards indicating profiles of a first user of a first device related to a field of interest of the first user, categorizing the profile image cards based on pre-set categories, obtaining evaluation information of a second user of a second device regarding the profile image cards, determining rankings of the profile image cards for each of the categories based on the evaluation information, and recommending the profile image cards to at least one other device based on the rankings of the profile image cards.
Abstract:
Provided are a portable apparatus and a method of connecting the portable apparatus to an external apparatus. The portable apparatus includes a communicator, a storage configured to store a connection unlock pattern and an external apparatus connection information, a touchscreen configured to display a lock screen; and a controller configured to control communicator, the storage, and the touchscreen. The controller is configured to unlock the lock screen by detecting the connection unlock pattern that is input to the lock screen, and connects the portable apparatus to the external apparatus via the communicator by using the connection unlock pattern and the external apparatus connection information.
Abstract:
A method, performed by a device, of providing a menu interface on a lock screen of the device, includes receiving a touch input on the lock screen; displaying, on the lock screen, a first level of the menu interface, the first level comprising a first plurality of menu items; receiving a first drag input in a direction of a first menu item from among the first plurality of menu items; and displaying, on the lock screen, a second level of the menu interface, the second level comprising a second plurality of menu items based on the direction of the first drag input.
Abstract:
A method and device for executing an application include operations of displaying an interest object on a screen of the device, in response to selection of the interest object, obtaining metadata matched with the interest object, determining an associated application associated with the interest object, executing the associated application by using the metadata as an input value to the associated application, and displaying, on the screen, a window indicating an execution result of the associated application executed by using the metadata.
Abstract:
Provided are a display apparatus capable of manipulating user interface (UI) objects included in a UI, and a method of providing the UI. The display apparatus includes a touch screen which is configured to display the UI including a plurality of UI objects and receive a user input; and a controller which is configured to determine a plurality of preset sizes corresponding to the UI objects, respectively, and a plurality of pieces of information to be displayed on the UI objects, respectively, in response to the user input, and control the touch screen to display the UI objects with the preset sizes and the plurality of pieces of information.
Abstract:
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for interlinking applications/apparatuses are described. In one method herein, a terminal apparatus displays a User Interface (UI) screen of an operable/running application from among the applications stored on the terminal apparatus. When metadata is input into the operable/running application corresponding to the displayed UI screen, an application which is interlinked with the operable/running application is provided with all or some of the metadata which was input into the operable/running application.
Abstract:
Provided are a device and method for displaying association information associated with a first application and a second application. The method may include: presenting a list of applications executable by the device; receiving a user input of moving an icon of the first application, in the presented list of the applications, to an icon of the second application; obtaining the association information associated with the first application and the second application by using at least one piece of preset data corresponding to the icon of the first application, in response to the received user input; and presenting the obtained association information in a periphery of the icon of the second application.
Abstract:
Provided are a device and method for displaying an execution result of an application. A method of displaying an execution result of an application includes: in response to a user input, displaying execution results of a plurality of applications, which are being executed in the device, in a plurality of windows that are displayed in at least two display modes; arranging the plurality of windows, which show execution results of the plurality of windows, to be adjacent to each other and displaying the plurality of windows on a display; receiving a user input when the plurality of windows are displayed on the display; and scrolling the plurality of windows in response to the user input.
Abstract:
A display device is provided, which includes a memory which stores a plurality of templates which are differently set according to kinds of messages, a detector which detects different pieces of status information, a display which displays a message transfer screen, a controller which automatically generates a message through combination of at least one of the plurality of templates and at least one of the different pieces of status information, which respectively correspond to a selected kind of message, when the kind of message to be transferred is selected on the message transfer screen, and a communicator which transfers the message to an external device. Accordingly, the display device can conveniently transfer the generated message.