Mobile terminal and method of controlling therefor

• US 10,038,851 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2015
• Issued: 07/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kwon, Yunmi, Lee, Kiseon
• Primary Examiner(s): Pasiewicz, Daniel M
• Application Number:
  US14/956,012
• Publication Number:
  US 20170034443A1
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/53 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72472 wherein the items are sorted according to specific criteria, e.g. frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/64 Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a display unit; a camera configured to capture a plurality of images; a wireless communication unit configured to obtain location information corresponding to each of the plurality of the images; a memory configured to store at least one of the location information, a date on which each of the plurality of the images is captured and a time at which each of the plurality of the images is captured together with the plurality of the images; and a controller configured to display a group of images having a matching at least one of the location information, the date and the time, in response to a first command, and sequentially arrange the group of images according to a predetermined image quality condition different than the at least one of the location information, the date and the time.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display unit;

a camera configured to capture a plurality of images;

a wireless communication unit configured to obtain location information corresponding to each of the plurality of the images;

a memory configured to store at least one of the location information, a date on which each of the plurality of the images is captured, and a time at which each of the plurality of the images is captured together with the plurality of the images; and

a controller configured to;

display a group of images having a same date, a same location and being captured within a predetermined time range, in response to a first command,

sequentially arrange the group of images according to a predetermined image quality condition different than the at least one of the location information, the date and the time, and

display a camera indicator only on at least one first image of the group of images that does not meet or exceed the predetermined image quality condition, the camera indicator being for capturing a new image to be included in the group of images.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the predetermined image quality condition comprises a focus of a corresponding image.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to sequentially arrange the group of images such that images with a better focus are displayed before images with a lesser focus.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display an image quality condition indicator on a corresponding image indicating an image quality of the corresponding image.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display a sharing indicator only on at least one second image of the group of images that meets or exceeds the predetermined image quality condition, the sharing indicator indicating that the at least one second image can be shared with an external terminal.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller is further configured to display a delete indicator only on the at least one first image that does not meet or exceed the predetermined image quality condition.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to a selection of the camera indicator, display a preview image captured by the camera on a specific position of the touch screen corresponding to a position of the at least one first image corresponding to the selected camera indicator.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first command corresponds to touching and dragging an image having an earliest capture time or a latest capture time among the group of images.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first command corresponds to touching a thumbnail indicator containing thumbnail images corresponding to the group of images on a partial region of an image having an earliest capture time or a latest capture time among the group of images.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control a display size of each image included in the group of images according to a number of images included in the group of images.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display only one image among multiple images in the group that have a same object at a same position in the multiple images.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to display a count indicator indicating a number of the multiple image in the group that have the same object at the same position in the multiple images.

13. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

capturing, via a camera, a plurality of images;

obtaining, via a wireless communication unit, location information corresponding to each of the plurality of the images;

storing, via a memory, at least one of the location information, a date on which each of the plurality of the images is captured and time at which each of the plurality of the images is captured together with the plurality of the images;

displaying, via a touch screen, a group of images having a same date, a same location and being captured within a predetermined time range, in response to a first command;

sequentially arranging, via a controller, the group of images according to a predetermined image quality condition different than the at least one of the location information, the date and the time; and

displaying a camera indicator only on at least one first image of the group of images that does not meet or exceed the predetermined image quality condition, the camera indicator being for capturing a new image to be included in the group of images.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the predetermined quality condition comprises a focus of a corresponding image.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

sequentially arranging the group of images such that images with a better focus are displayed before images with a lesser focus.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

displaying an image quality condition indicator on a corresponding image indicating an image quality of the corresponding image.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

displaying the sharing indicator only on at least one second image of the group of images that meets or exceeds the predetermined image quality condition.