Method of selecting one or more items according to user input and electronic device therefor

    公开(公告)号:US12197700B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-14

    申请号:US18144583

    申请日:2023-05-08

    Abstract: A method for selecting one or more items by an electronic device is provided. The method includes, in a scroll mode in which scrolling is performed without thumbnail selection in response to a drag input, displaying a first set of thumbnails among a plurality of thumbnails on a screen by rows and columns while an additional row of thumbnails arranged after the first set of thumbnails is not displayed on the screen, wherein the plurality of thumbnails include the first set of thumbnails and the additional row of thumbnails arranged after the first set of thumbnails; detecting a user input for entering a multiple selection mode; in the multiple selection mode, detecting a first touch input on at least one first thumbnail on a first row of the first set of thumbnails on the screen while displaying the first set of thumbnails and selecting the at least one first thumbnail; in the multiple selection mode, detecting that the first touch input is on a second row of the first set of thumbnails according to a moving of the first touch input; and in the multiple selection mode, after the first touch input is detected on the second row of the first set of thumbnails, as a response to identifying that a first coordinate value related to the first touch input becomes different from a second coordinate value related to the second row of the first set of thumbnails on the screen according to a moving of the first touch input, selecting all of the thumbnails arranged in the second row of the first set of thumbnails passed over by the first touch input, the all of the thumbnails including at least one touched thumbnail arranged in the second row of the first set of thumbnails, and at least one untouched thumbnail arranged in the second row of the first set of thumbnails, wherein the first coordinate value and the second coordinate value are related to a vertical axis.

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