Abstract: A method and apparatus for preventing a user from interpreting optional stored data information even when the user extracts the optional stored data, by managing data associated with a flash memory in a flash translation layer, the method comprising searching at least one page of the flash memory when writing data to the flash memory, determining whether authority information corresponding to respective searched pages includes an encryption storage function, generating, corresponding to respective searched pages, a page key according to an encrypting function when the authority information includes the encryption storage function encrypting the data using the generated page key and storing the encrypted data in the respective searched pages, and storing the data in the respective searched pages without encryption when the authority information does not include the encryption storage function.

Abstract: A portable terminal and a method for providing a haptic effect in the portable terminal are provided. The method includes displaying an application on a touch screen, detecting a touch in a haptic providing region set by a user, and providing a haptic effect corresponding to the haptic providing region in response to the detected touch.

Abstract: A hybrid User Interface (UI) apparatus for supporting both handwriting and speech in a user terminal and a method for supporting the same are provided. The apparatus is configured to display, upon user selection of a whole or of part of the contents of a note on a screen, menu icons for processing the selected contents, and process, upon user selection of one of the displayed menu icons, the selected contents by a function corresponding to the selected menu icon.

Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving data between a memo layer and an application and an electronic device using the same are provided. The method includes executing an application and displaying the executed application on a touch screen, detecting a gesture on the touch screen during execution of the application, displaying a memo layer overlapped on the application according to the detected gesture, the memo layer including a handwriting input area for displaying data to be provided to the application and a display area for displaying data received from the application, receiving a handwriting image in the handwriting input area of the memo layer, recognizing the received handwriting image and comparing the recognized handwriting image with preset data, and displaying a feedback received from the application in the display area of the memo layer according to a comparison result.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for a portable terminal using a touch pen and a handwriting input method using the same are provided. In the apparatus, upon receipt of a handwriting image in an input field provided by an executed application through the touch pen, the received handwriting image is converted to text, the text is inserted in the input field, and the input field with the text is displayed.

Abstract: A handwriting-based User Interface (UI) apparatus in a user terminal supporting a handwriting-based memo function and a method for supporting the same are provided, in which upon receipt of a handwritten input on a memo screen from a user, the handwritten input is recognized, a command is determined from the recognized input, and an application corresponding to the determined command is executed.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an application by handwriting image recognition are provided. The method includes displaying an executed application on a touch panel, detecting a predefined user input, displaying a memo window including a handwriting input area and a non-handwriting input area over the application in response to the detected the user input, receiving and recognizing a handwriting image in the handwriting input area of the memo window, and controlling a function of the application according to a recognized result.

Abstract: A User Interface (UI) apparatus and a method for supporting the same at a user terminal supporting a handwriting-based memo function are provided, in which an application is executed, a memo layer is provided during executing the application, a first input event is received in a first area of the memo layer, a second input event is received in a second area of the memo layer, one of the first and second input events is recognized as a handwriting input and the other input event is recognized as a drawing input based on the first and second input events, and a predetermined function from among functions of the application is performed according to an input recognition result.

Abstract: A portable apparatus comprising a touch screen for browsing information displayed on a screen of an external apparatus and a method for browsing information thereof are provided. The method includes displaying a link area included in the web page displayed on the screen of the external apparatus on the touch screen of the portable apparatus, in response to a first gesture of a user on the touch screen, magnifying the link area displayed on the touch screen, and in response to a second gesture of the user on the magnified link area transmitting information regarding displaying another web page related to the link area on the screen of the external apparatus from the portable apparatus to the external apparatus. Accordingly, users may browse information displayed on a screen of an external apparatus using a portable apparatus having a touch screen swiftly and conveniently.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling a menu in a media device are provided. If a first icon in a first icon group including at least one icon is pressed, the media device changes display status of remaining icons in the first icon group except for the first icon, and displays, in a set display area, a second icon group including at least one icon related to a function corresponding to the first icon. If a second icon in the second icon group is selected due to a drag of the first icon, which is performed while the first icon is pressed, the media device performs a function corresponding to the second icon, making it possible to easily control menus of the media device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for preventing a user from interpreting optional stored data information even when the user extracts the optional stored data, by managing data associated with a flash memory in a flash translation layer, the method comprising searching at least one page of the flash memory when writing data to the flash memory, determining whether authority information corresponding to respective searched pages includes an encryption storage function, generating, corresponding to respective searched pages, a page key according to an encrypting function when the authority information includes the encryption storage function encrypting the data using the generated page key and storing the encrypted data in the respective searched pages, and storing the data in the respective searched pages without encryption when the authority information does not include the encryption storage function.

Abstract: A method for preventing a user from interpreting optional stored data information even when the user extracts the optional stored data, and an apparatus thereof. The apparatus for encrypting and processing data in a flash translation layer includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash translation layer searches at least one page of the flash memory storing the data when a write of optional data is requested from the controller, generates, corresponding to respective searched pages, a page key according to a predetermined encrypting function when the searched page supports an encryption, and encrypts and stores the data by the page key in the respective searched pages.

Abstract: A device for inputting characters or numbers in a mobile terminal having a touch screen, the device including a display screen for displaying characters or numbers at a display area and a wheel for selecting a desired character or number at another display area in a text input mode; and a control unit for controlling the display screen to display the characters or numbers and the wheel for selecting a desired character or number at the display areas, placing a cursor on a character or number corresponding to rotation of the wheel, and controlling the display screen to display a character or number selected by placing the cursor.

Abstract: A method for preventing a user from interpreting optional stored data information even when the user extracts the optional stored data, and an apparatus thereof. The apparatus for encrypting and processing data in a flash translation layer includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash translation layer searches at least one page of the flash memory storing the data when a write of optional data is requested from the controller, generates, corresponding to respective searched pages, a page key according to a predetermined encrypting function when the searched page supports an encryption, and encrypts and stores the data by the page key in the respective searched pages.

Abstract: A device for inputting characters or numbers in a mobile terminal having a touch screen, the device including a display screen for displaying characters or numbers at a display area and a wheel for selecting a desired character or number at another display area in a text input mode; and a control unit for controlling the display screen to display the characters or numbers and the wheel for selecting a desired character or number at the display areas, placing a cursor on a character or number corresponding to rotation of the wheel, and controlling the display screen to display a character or number selected by placing the cursor.