KR20140070262A - Method and apparatus for copying formatting between objects through touch-screen display input - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for copying an object format using inputs on a touchscreen display and, more specifically, to a method and an apparatus for copying a format applied to an object on an electronic document and applying the copied format to another object, using inputs on a touchscreen display. The method comprises the steps of: detecting a first input for selecting a format copy target object on an electronic document on a touchscreen display; selecting a format applied to the format copy target object in response to the first input; triggering a format application mode for applying the format; displaying information about the format; detecting one or more second inputs on the touchscreen display; and applying the format to one or more format application target objects corresponding to positions where the one or more second inputs are detected. When an object format on an electronic document is copied using inputs on the touchscreen display, the present invention enables a user to separately identify information about a format, thereby reducing a cognitive burden on the user, and can provide a user with an intuitive graphic user interface, thereby enabling the user to easily copy a format.

Description

[0001] METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COPYING FORMATTING BETWEEN OBJECTS [0002] THROUGH TOUCH-SCREEN DISPLAY INPUT [

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of copying an object format through a touch screen display input, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for copying a format applied to an object on an electronic document through a touch screen display input, .

The touch screen display means a device capable of receiving a signal through a display by applying a minute current or pressure on the display. There is a point similar to a touch pad in that an input signal is applied through a touch sensor that recognizes a minute current or pressure. However, in the case of the touch pad, the pointer on the display moves according to the relative movement of the touch fan or the finger input on the touch pad, while in the case of the touch screen display, the touch sensor and the touch pad are implemented together to apply a signal to a specific point on the display The difference is that the pointer works at that point. Therefore, when a signal is applied to the touch screen display through a finger or the like, the sensitivity of recognizing the signal is very important. Recently, a capacitive touch screen display having excellent response to an input signal has been developed, and various functions that can be performed through a touch screen display in an electronic device are being developed. The user does not need a separate input device because the user usually makes a selection on the display screen by pointing the GUI object directly on the display screen with a stylus or a finger. Because of these advantages, mobile devices have been widely used, and since the use of mobile devices equipped with a touch screen display is becoming common, many of programs that have been performed through computers have been implemented through mobile devices. Designing a user interface that allows one device and user to easily interact has become a new challenge.

On the other hand, the form copying means copying a form already applied to an object displayed on an electronic document for editing an electronic document in order to apply the same format to another object equally.

In this regard, the conventional user interface on the touch screen display did not provide a simple and intuitive way to edit the document. When editing an electronic document according to the related art, for example, when a font format such as a thick text, an italic font, an underline size, or a format of a corresponding paragraph is copied, the format of the object to be format- It was not easy to intuitively identify which form was copied, making it difficult to easily identify which form was copied. In addition, in a device having a touch screen display not accompanied by an auxiliary input means, if the form is copied once, the same process must be repeated to apply again. Therefore, it has been required to develop a method and apparatus capable of reducing the perceived burden on the user and providing an efficient interface.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an intuitive graphical user interface that reduces the burden on a user by separately identifying format information of a form in a copy of an object format through a touch screen display input.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an object format copying method and apparatus that can reduce the burden of a user's perception through a touch screen display input and help efficient electronic document editing.

The problems of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned problems, and other problems not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for copying an object format through a touch screen display input, the method comprising: detecting a first input for selecting an object to be copied on an electronic document on a touch screen display; Selecting a style applied to the format copy object in response to the format selection, triggering a style application mode for applying the style, displaying format information about the style, Detecting the input; and applying the format to at least one format application object corresponding to the position where the one or more second inputs are detected.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the first input includes an input to a form copy menu among menus displayed in a pop-up manner.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the format information is an example to which the format is applied.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, the format information displays information related to the format by a menu icon.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, the method further includes visually emphasizing and displaying the format-copying object so that the format-copying object is distinguished from a general object that is not subject to format copying.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, the step of applying the formatting may include a step of, when the format application object corresponding to the position where the one or more second inputs are detected is one of the consecutive Hangul characters without spaces, If the character is one of alphabetic characters of the alphabetic characters, one of consecutive symbols without spaces, and one of consecutive numbers without spaces, consecutive Hangul characters without the space, consecutive alphabetic characters without the space, consecutive symbols without the space Or the above format is applied to all consecutive numbers without spaces.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, the format-copying object includes a block-designated object.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is further provided a method of selecting a format according to a user's selection or a predetermined method when the format information includes two or more formats that can not be simultaneously applied.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer readable medium for detecting a first input for selecting an object to be formatted on an electronic document on a touch screen display, The method comprising: selecting a style applied to an object, triggering a style application mode for applying the style, displaying format information for the style, detecting one or more second inputs on the touch screen display, And a set of instructions for causing the form to be applied to one or more format application target objects corresponding to positions where the input is detected. According to another aspect of the present invention, the first input includes an input to a form copy menu among menus displayed in a pop-up manner.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the format information is an example to which the format is applied.

 According to still another aspect of the present invention, the format information displays information related to the format by a menu icon.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is further provided a set of instructions for visually emphasizing and displaying the format-copying object so as to be distinguished from general objects not subject to format copying.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, the format-copying object includes a block-designated object.

According to another aspect of the present invention, when a set of instructions for selecting the format includes two or more formats in which the format information can not be simultaneously applied, a set of instructions is selected according to a user's selection or a predetermined method Lt; / RTI >

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus including a touch screen display, the touch screen display including a touch screen display unit and a processing unit, Detecting a first input to the touch screen display, triggering a format application mode for applying the format, displaying format information for the format, detecting one or more second inputs on the touch screen display, The screen display unit selects a format applied to the format copy object in response to the first input and applies the format to at least one format application object corresponding to the position where the one or more second inputs are detected do.

In copying an object format on an electronic document through a touch screen display input, format information of a form can be separately identified by a user, thereby reducing a user's perception burden and providing an intuitive graphical user interface. There is an effect that the form can be copied easily.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for copying an object format on an electronic document through a touch screen display input, There is an effect that can be done.

The effects of the present invention are not limited to the effects mentioned above, and other effects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

1 illustrates a block diagram of an object format copy algorithm processing module via a touch screen display input, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 2 illustrates a flow diagram of an object format copy algorithm through a touch screen display input, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIGS. 3A through 3C illustrate a method of copying and applying an object format through a touch screen display input according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a view illustrating an example in which formatting is applied to format information according to an embodiment of the present invention, and a format menu icon is included.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a copy format applied to various objects according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.
FIG. 6 illustrates a copy of a form in a case where a block-designated object includes two or more characters to which a format can not be applied to one character at a time, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIGS. 7A and 7B illustrate copying and applying an object format through a touch screen display input according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention and the manner of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Is provided only to fully inform the owner of the scope of the invention, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims.

Although the first, second, etc. are used to describe various components, it goes without saying that these components are not limited by these terms. These terms are used only to distinguish one component from another. Therefore, it is needless to say that the first component mentioned below may be the second component within the technical spirit of the present invention.

In the present specification, when the same reference numerals are used to denote the same components even when different reference numerals are used, the same reference numerals are used as possible.

In the present specification, when any one element 'transmits' data or signals to another element, the element can transmit the data or signal directly to the other element, and through at least one other element Data or signal can be transmitted to another component.

Each block of the accompanying block diagrams and combinations of steps of the flowchart may be performed by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be loaded into a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus so that the instructions, which may be executed by a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, And means for performing the functions described in each step are created. These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory capable of directing a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to implement a function in a particular manner, It is also possible for the instructions stored in the block diagram to produce a manufacturing item containing instruction means for performing the functions described in each block or flowchart of the block diagram. Computer program instructions may also be stored on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment so that a series of operating steps may be performed on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer- It is also possible that the instructions that perform the processing equipment provide the steps for executing the functions described in each block of the block diagram and at each step of the flowchart.

In addition, each block may represent a module, segment, or portion of code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing the specified logical function (s). It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions mentioned in the blocks may occur out of order. For example, two blocks shown in succession may actually be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be performed in reverse order according to the corresponding function.

1 illustrates a block diagram of an object format copy algorithm processing module via a touch screen display input, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, an object format copy algorithm processing module 100 through a touch screen display input may include a touch screen display unit 110 and a processing unit 120.

As shown in FIG. 1, the touch screen display unit 110 may include a display panel unit 111 for displaying an image and a touch screen panel unit 112 for receiving a control signal. Accordingly, the touch screen display unit 110 can receive not only a document or an image but also a signal for content control. The display panel unit 111 and the touch screen panel unit 112 may be implemented in one module according to an implementation method.

On the other hand, the processing unit 120 may include a memory 121 as required. The memory 121 may include one or more computer-readable storage media and may reside separately external to the processing unit 120 according to various embodiments of the invention, and may be omitted in another embodiment.

Hereinafter, the operation procedure in the object format copy algorithm processing module through the touch screen display input will be described in detail.

Figure 2 illustrates a flow diagram of an object format copy algorithm through a touch screen display input, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. For convenience of explanation, the configuration of FIG. 1 will be described.

A first input for selecting an object to be copied on the electronic document is detected through the touch screen display unit 110 in step S100 for format copying according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The input on the touch screen display is a state in which the user touches the touch screen display not only in a state of physically touching the input tool such as a finger or a stylus but also in a floating touch state by approaching a close distance, .

In the case of physical contact, the input on the touch screen display may be a specific gesture input, for example, depending on the tap gesture on the edited electronic document, an object, such as text, corresponding to the detected position of the tab The insertion bar may be moved to the corresponding position and may be set to select the object when there is an object such as an image corresponding to the detected position of the tab. The input on the touch screen display may also be through a multiple tap, long tap gesture input that includes a double tap. The double tap means a method of inputting two or more times in a certain time and three or more times of input in a plurality of times, and a long tap means inputting a state in which a tap state is maintained for a predetermined time or longer.

On the other hand, an electronic document means information transmitted, received or stored in an electronic form by an information processing system, and can be used in electronic form or printed. The electronic document is not limited to all electronic documents created using a document creation program such as Microsoft Office, Hancom Office of Hangul and Computer Corporation or Acrobat of Adobe, as well as structured documents such as HTML, XML, and SGML Electronic documents, and may also include moving images or images that are created in electronic form and transmitted, received, or stored.

The object includes everything that can be displayed on the electronic document, and may illustratively include text, images, tables and spaces.

When a first input for selecting a format-copying object on an electronic document is detected by the touch-screen display unit 110, the input signal is transmitted to the processing unit 120, The form is selected (S200).

A form means a form or characteristic applied to a font or an entire document applied to an electronic document or the like, and specifies a shape of a font, a "font format" for giving a specific effect to a text, and a shape or a form of a paragraph Quot; and " paragraph format ". Font formatting is exemplified by the font style, font style, font color, shading, etc., which are represented by font, bold and italic. Paragraph formatting can be, for example, the presence of a bullet, indentation or indentation, alignment, line and paragraph spacing, and shading.

Furthermore, depending on the type of the form, a "custom format" defined arbitrarily in advance by a combination of a form previously specified by the user or a combination of one or more basic forms, as well as a "basic form" And so on.

When the form applied to the object to be formatted is selected in the processing unit 120, the form application mode is triggered and the format information of the form copied through the touch screen display unit 110 is displayed in S300.

The form information means information to be displayed to the user as to which form to be applied to the object. Format information can be implemented to display the formatted example in a specific space of the screen or to display format information itself. It can also be implemented as a menu icon associated with the applied form. This will be described later in detail with reference to FIG. 3 and FIG.

The form information of the form copied through the touch screen display unit 110 is displayed so that the user can know that the form copy mode has been triggered and when the second input is applied by the user on the touch screen display, A second input for format change is detected in step S 400.

The second input is for designating one or more objects on the touch screen display unit 110 to select a format application object in order to apply the format copied by the user. As in the case of selecting the format copy target object, the processing unit 120 may select an object designated by a block as a format application object through dragging, or select an object corresponding to a position where a second input is detected as a format application object have.

When a second input is detected in the touch screen display unit 110, a format copied from at least one format application object corresponding to a location where the second input is detected is applied through the processing unit 120 (S500).

The second input is implemented such that the object to which the block is designated through dragging is selected as the template application object and the copied template is applied or an object corresponding to the position where the second input is detected is selected as the template application object, The copied form can be implemented to apply.

On the other hand, if the form information includes the paragraph format information, the copied paragraph format may be applied to the paragraph to which the object corresponding to the position where the second input is detected is included.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when a format application object corresponding to a position where one or more second inputs are detected is one of the consecutive Hangul characters without blanks, one of the consecutive English characters without blanks, If the symbol is one of consecutive symbols, one of consecutive numbers without spaces, consecutive Hangul characters without spaces, consecutive alphabetic characters without spaces, consecutive symbols without spaces, or consecutive numbers without spaces . In the case of inputting with a finger on the touch screen display, in the case where the middle of the word is selected according to the error of the input, it is intended that the user wants to select the word including the word.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a form copied through the processing unit 120 may be repeatedly applied to various objects. In addition to copying and applying a single form, the copied form can be applied to various objects, so that the user can conveniently perform document editing even on a device having a touch screen display.

FIGS. 3A through 3C illustrate a method of copying and applying an object format through a touch screen display input according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3A illustrates selection of a format copy object in order to trigger a format application mode.

When a first input for selecting an object to be formatted on the electronic document 315 is detected on the device 300 having the touch screen display unit, a style applied to the format copy object is selected through the processing unit.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the first input may include an input to a form copy menu from menus displayed in a pop-up fashion. Accordingly, when a menu is called in a place where the insertion bar is located and an input to the form copy menu is detected through the touch screen display unit in the menu, the object immediately after the insertion bar can be selected as the form copy object through the processing unit.

3A, a block-designated object (a block area including " INFRAWARE " in the case of FIG. 3A) may be selected as the format-copying object 320. FIG. A block means that when the object is selected by a drag input, the selected object is highlighted as if the highlight pen were painted. Blocks can be specified for text, tables, images, or whitespace, and blocks of various kinds can be specified simultaneously.

When an input to the form copy menu 331 is detected through the touch screen display unit among the menus 330 in which the block is displayed in a pop-up manner on the designated object, the block designated object is selected as the format copy object 320 .

When the form applied to the form copying object 320 is selected in the processing unit, format information about the form copied through the touch screen display unit 110 is displayed.

FIG. 3B shows format information about the format applied to the format copy object as character information.

As shown in FIG. 3B, the format information 340 for the copied form can be displayed as text information. Referring to FIG. 3B, the 'format all', 'font bold', 'font italic', and 'font color red' are used as the format information 340 for the form copied from INFRAWARE which is the format copy object 320 Is displayed.

FIG. 3C shows a form applied to the format application object in the form of the format copy target object. When the format copy target object 320 is selected, the format application mode is triggered and the selected format can be applied by selecting the object to change the format.

As shown in FIG. 3C, the second input may be selected as the formatting object 350 as an object whose block is designated by dragging, as when the format copying object 320 is selected.

When the second input is detected through the touch-screen display unit 110, the copied form is applied to at least one format application object corresponding to the position where the second input is detected through the processing unit.

As shown in FIG. 3C, when the object designated by the block through dragging is selected as the format application object 350, the copied format is applied. According to FIG. 3C, the same format as the format copy object 320 is applied to the format application object 350.

The paragraph format of the copied copy target object 320 can be applied to the paragraph to which the object corresponding to the position where the second input is detected belongs. Referring to FIG. 3C, it can be seen that the 'right alignment' paragraph style is applied to the paragraph including the format application object 350. In this way, if both 'font style' and 'paragraph style' are included, the user can choose whether to select only one line or both styles.

FIG. 4 is a view illustrating an example in which formatting is applied to format information according to an embodiment of the present invention, and a format menu icon is included.

As shown in FIG. 4, when a form applied to the form copy object is selected, form information about the form copied through the touch screen display unit is displayed. As an example 441 in which the form information is applied to the form information 440 . Also, in the case where it is difficult to show the format as an example, for example, with respect to the paragraph style, it may be implemented to be represented by the menu icon 442 related to the style.

On the other hand, in FIG. 4, when the selected form information is displayed, the "example of formatting" and "icon" are all displayed, but they can be selectively displayed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a copy format applied to various objects according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the copied form can be applied to various objects. According to FIG. 5, a user can apply a copied form to several objects at a time. In FIG. 5, the format application object corresponds to INFRAWARE 550, KOSDAQ 551, and SOUTH KOREA 552, and the user can continuously apply or simultaneously apply the form once copied to a plurality of objects.

The copied form can be applied not only to copying and applying a single form, but also to a plurality of objects, so that the user can conveniently perform document editing also in the apparatus 500 having the touch screen display unit.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the form-copying object can be highlighted to be distinguished from the general object that is not subject to format copying. According to an embodiment of the present invention, when a block is designated as an object to be format-copied, the block-designated object can be highlighted in a form similar to that of the block. Therefore, there is an advantage in that an object can be intuitively confirmed as to which object is to be copied.

As shown in FIG. 5, the INFRAWARE 420, which is a format copying object, can be implemented such that shading is added to text so as to be distinguished from general objects that are not subjected to format copying.

When the end menu 543 is selected from the menu 540, the format application mode may be terminated. When the format application mode ends, the format application mode can be triggered by copying the format again from the format copy object.

FIG. 6 illustrates a copy of a form in a case where a block-designated object includes two or more characters to which a format can not be applied to one character at a time, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

If a block contains two or more characters that can not be applied to one character at the same time, then copying all the formats that can not be applied at the same time can cause confusion for the user. In some cases, certain criteria may be required. If the block specified object contains two or more characters, each of which has a format that can not be applied to one character at a time, for example if the block specified object contains characters with different fonts, Quot ;, and " shadow " include other characters or the like. Thus, if a block contains two or more characters, each of which has a format that can not be applied to one character at a time, the block can be implemented so that the style applied to the first character of the specified object is selected.

As shown in FIG. 6, when the block is designated as INFRAWARE 620, I 621 is in italics, and INFRAWARE 622 is formatted as normal, The format applied to I 621, which is a character of the character string, can be selected. Therefore, the format information 640 for the format applied to I 621 is also displayed.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when a block includes two or more characters each of which is applied to a character whose designated object can not be simultaneously applied to one character, Only specific forms can be implemented to be selected. Alternatively, a selection window may be created so that the user can select a format to be copied.

In the present invention, a style applied to a character at the top of an object is selected, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

FIGS. 7A and 7B illustrate copying and applying an object format through a touch screen display input according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7A shows a form in which format information is displayed by selecting a format applied to the format copy object, and the format applied to the INFRAWARE 720, which is an object to be format copied, is checked by referring to the format information 740 column The font format can be confirmed through the formatted example (741), and the paragraph format can be confirmed through the menu icons (742) related to the format. With respect to the paragraph format, it can be confirmed that the corresponding paragraph format is applied through the left alignment menu icon 742a, the bullet menu icon 742b, and the first menu icon 742c. In addition, the font formatting is "all uppercase fonts", "font bold", "font italics", and "font color red".

FIG. 7B shows a form in which a copied form is applied to a form application object.

According to FIG. 7B, the format application object corresponds to one paragraph 750. In the single paragraph 750, not only the font style copied in FIG. 7A but also the paragraph style can be applied. Thus, according to FIG. 7B, the font formatting 'all of the fonts', 'font bold', 'fonts in italics', and 'font color red' applied to the format copy target object INFRAWARE 720 and left- 742a), Bulleted (see bulleted menu icon 742b), and 1st level (1st level menu icon 742c) all apply.

In this manner, in copying the object format on the electronic document through the touch screen display input, the format information of the format can be separately identified to the user, thereby reducing the burden on the user and providing an intuitive graphical user interface, There is an effect that the form can be copied easily.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. The software module may reside in a RAM memory, a flash memory, a ROM memory, an EPROM memory, an EEPROM memory, a register, a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor, which is capable of reading information from, and writing information to, the storage medium. Alternatively, the storage medium may be integral with the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside within an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC may reside within the user terminal. Alternatively, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention but to limit the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas falling within the scope of the same shall be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

100 Object-Format Copy Algorithm Processing Module with Touch Screen Display Input
110 touch screen display unit
111 display panel section
112 Touch screen panel section
120 processor
121 memory
Devices with 300, 400, 500 touch screen displays

Claims (16)

Detecting a first input to select a format copy object on the electronic document on the touch screen display;
Selecting a style applied to the format copy object in response to the first input;
Triggering a formatting mode for applying the format;
Displaying format information on the form;
Detecting one or more second inputs on the touch screen display; And
And applying the format to one or more format application objects corresponding to locations where the one or more second inputs are detected. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the first input comprises an input to a form copy menu among menus displayed in a pop-up fashion. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the format information is an example to which the format is applied. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the format information indicates information related to the format by a menu icon. The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising the step of visually emphasizing and displaying the format copy target object so as to be distinguished from the general object that is not subject to format copy. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the applying of the formatting comprises: applying one format of the formatting object corresponding to the position where the one or more second inputs are detected to one of the consecutive Hangul characters without blanks, one of the consecutive English characters without blanks, If the symbol is one of consecutive symbols and one of consecutive numbers without spaces, it is determined whether the consecutive Hangul characters without the space, consecutive alphabets without the space, consecutive symbols without the space, or consecutive numbers without the space Wherein the format is applied to the object. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the format copy target object includes a block-specified object. 8. The method of claim 7,
Further comprising the step of selecting one form according to a user's selection or a pre-specified manner if the form information includes two or more forms that can not be applied at the same time. Detecting a first input for selecting a format copy object on the electronic document on the touch screen display,
Selecting a format applied to the format copy object in response to the first input,
Triggering a formatting mode for applying the format,
Displaying format information on the form,
Detecting one or more second inputs on the touch screen display,
And a set of instructions for causing the form to be applied to one or more formatting target objects corresponding to locations where the one or more second inputs are detected. 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the first input comprises an input to a form copy menu from menus displayed in a pop-up manner, 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the format information is an example in which the format is applied. 10. The method of claim 9,
Characterized in that the format information indicates information related to the format by a menu icon. 10. The method of claim 9,
Further comprising a set of instructions for visually highlighting and displaying the form copy target object so that it is distinct from a general object that is not subject to form copying. 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the format-copying object comprises a computer-readable medium, 15. The method of claim 14,
Wherein the set of instructions to select the form further comprises a set of instructions that, when the form information comprises two or more forms that can not be simultaneously applied, cause the user to select one form in accordance with a selection or a pre- Computer readable medium A touch screen display unit; And
Processing unit,
The touch screen display unit detects a first input for selecting an object to be copied on the electronic document on the touch screen display, displays format information for the format, detects one or more second inputs on the touch screen display ,
Wherein the processing unit is configured to select a style applied to the format copy object in response to the first input, to trigger a style application mode for applying the style, and to display the position where the one or more second inputs are detected And the touch screen display is adapted to apply the format to one or more format application objects corresponding to the format application object.

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