公开(公告)号：US20190179487A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-13

申请号：US16322021

申请日：2017-06-26

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Kyucheol KONG ,  Hyesoon JEONG ,  Dae-Sik HWANG ,  Songgeun KIM ,  Jeong-Jin LEE ,  Hoondo HEO ,  Hyun-Suk CHOI

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0488

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for preventing a user's unintentional touch input in an electronic device. According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device may comprise: a display for displaying a user interface; a memory; and a processor functionally connected to the display and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to set a touch blocking area in the edge area of the display, determine an exception area in the touch blocking area on the basis of the user interface, remove the determined exception area from the touch blocking area, so as to set a final touch blocking area, and process a touch event on the edge area on the basis of the final touch blocking area. Various embodiments are possible.