US 11,745,585 B2
Vehicle infotainment apparatus using widget and operation method thereof
Junghan So, Seongnam-Si (KR); Wonjun Heo, Seongnam-Si (KR); Daeun Kim, Seongnam-Si (KR); Seokwon Choi, Seongnam-Si (KR); Taekyun Kim, Seongnam-Si (KR); and Younjoo Shin, Seongnam-Si (KR)
Assigned to THINKWARE CORPORATION, Seongnam-si (KR)
Filed by THINKWARE CORPORATION, Seongnam-Si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/218,877.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0047646 (KR), filed on Apr. 20, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0165735 (KR), filed on Dec. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0323406 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. B60K 35/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01)
CPC B60K 35/00 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.02); B60K 2370/115 (2019.05); B60K 2370/119 (2019.05); B60K 2370/1438 (2019.05); B60K 2370/1468 (2019.05); B60K 2370/152 (2019.05); B60K 2370/164 (2019.05); B60K 2370/52 (2019.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing at least one program, the at least one program comprising instructions to, when executed by at least one processor of an electronic device included within a vehicle and including a display, cause the electronic device to:
while executing a first application and a second application, display an execution screen of the first application within a first partial area, and display a widget of the second application including a first executable element and a second executable element, and a first executable object to indicate the first application, within a second partial area located adjacent to the first partial area, the first partial area and the second partial area forming a display area of the display;
based on receiving a first user input for the first executable element of the widget of the second application while displaying the execution screen of the first application within the first partial area and displaying the widget of the second application and the first executable object within the second partial area, display an execution screen of the second application switched from the execution screen of the first application within the first partial area and display within the second partial area a widget of the first application switched from the first executable object and the second executable element to indicate the second application, being switched from the widget of the second application; and
based on receiving a second user input for the second executable element of the widget of the second application while displaying the execution screen of the first application within the first partial area and displaying the widget of the second application and the first executable object within the second partial area, display at least one visual item available through the second executable element within an area extending from the widget of the second application, in an overlapping manner, on the execution screen of the first application displayed within the first partial area.