Mobile terminal and control method thereof for displaying home screen background images and video

• US 10,338,763 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2013
• Issued: 07/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Minjeong, Lee, Sangwoon, Lee, Choonjae
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Kieu D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Borja, Roberto
• Application Number:
  US14/029,406
• Publication Number:
  US 20140123013A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,114 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0435 Change or adaptation of the frame rate of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations

Abstract

A mobile terminal allowing for a touch input and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes a display unit configured to output a first home screen page among at least one home screen page, and a controller configured to output a first image corresponding to video data, as a background image of the first home screen page, wherein in response to a sensed touch input for switching the first home screen page to a second home screen page different from the first home screen page, the controller controls the display unit to play an image corresponding to the video data while the first home screen page is being switched to the second home screen page.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display outputting a first home screen page among at least one home screen page; and

a controller configured to;

control the display to output a first still image included in video data corresponding to a first point in time of the video data as a background image of the first home screen page;

receive a touch input, applied to the display displaying the first home screen page, for switching the first home screen page to a second home screen page different from the first home screen page;

control, in response to the received touch input, the display to move the first home screen page in a touch direction of the received touch input to switch the first home screen page to the second home screen page on the display;

control the display to play a video corresponding to the video data in response to moving the first home screen page based on the received touch input, wherein playing of the video corresponding to the video data is maintained while the first home screen page is moved, wherein the playing of the video is started from the first point in time, and wherein a play rate of the video is different according to a touch rate of the received touch input;

control the display to stop playing of the video corresponding to the video data when the switching from the first home screen page to the second home screen page is completed, wherein a play point in time, different from the first point in time, at which the playing of the video is stopped is different according to the touch rate of the received touch input; and

control the display to output the second home screen page having a background image in response to the completion of the switching from the first home screen page to the second home screen page,

wherein the background image of the second home screen page is set as a second still image included in the video data,

wherein the second still image, set as the background image of the second home screen page, is different according to the touch rate of the received touch input,

wherein if the touch rate is a first touch rate, the background image of the second home screen page is a second still image corresponding to a second point in time of the video data, and

wherein if the touch rate is a second rate different from the first touch rate, the background image of the second home screen page is a third still image corresponding to a third point in time of the video data.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the video data includes a plurality of still images including information regarding different points in time, and

wherein the video played on the display is related to at least one image continued from the first image among the plurality of images.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein at least one function icon corresponding to different functions is displayed in the home screen page, and

wherein when a touch input corresponding to a pre-set scheme is applied to the display, the controller does not output the function icon any longer and activates a clean view mode for playing the video data on the display.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the touch input corresponding to the pre-set scheme is a pinch-in touch input, and

wherein when a pinch-out touch input, the opposite to the pinch-in touch input, is applied to the display, the controller terminates the clean view mode and outputs again the function icon on the home screen page.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein when the clean view mode is terminated, a third image, which was being displayed on the display at a point in time at which the pinch-out touch input was applied, is output as a background image of the home screen page.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the controller outputs still images corresponding to different video data according to a degree in which the pinch-in touch input is applied.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein when the home screen page is output to the display, state information is output to a region of the display, and

wherein in a state in which the clean view mode is activated, only the video data is played without outputting the state information.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein when a touch input is applied to the display while the video is being played, the controller outputs at least one graphic image related to control and change of the video data.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the touch input is a flicking touch input or a dragging touch input, and

wherein play sections of images played while the first home screen is being switched to the second home screen page according to the flicking touch input or the dragging touch input are different.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when an output request with respect to a home screen page is received from a user while a still image corresponding to video data different from the video data is on the display, the controller plays the video corresponding to the different video data in a background of the home screen page together with the home screen page or outputs any one still image included in the different video data.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein while the first home screen page is being switched to the second home screen page, the amount of still images included in the video data played on the display varies according to a user setting.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when a touch input is applied to the display in a first direction, the controller switches the first home screen page output to the display to the second home screen page, and

wherein when a touch input is applied to the display in a second direction, the controller changes the video data to video data different from the video data, and changes a background image of the first home screen page to an image corresponding to the different video data.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the video data is video data edited to have a capacity level equal to or smaller than a pre-set capacity that was edited from video data having a capacity greater than the pre-set capacity, and

wherein the video data is stored in a memory, together with the different video data edited to have a capacity level equal to or smaller than the pre-set capacity.

14. A control method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

outputting, n a display, a first home screen page having a first still image included in video data corresponding to a first point in time of the video data as a background image;

sensing a touch input, applied to the display displaying the first home screen page, for switching the first home screen page to a second home screen page different from the first home screen page with respect to the first home screen page;

controlling, in response to the received touch input, the display to move the first home screen page in a touch direction of the received touch input to switch the first home screen page to the second home screen page on the display;

controlling the display to play a video corresponding to the video data in response to moving the first home screen page based on the received touch input, wherein playing of the video corresponding to the video data is maintained while the first home screen page is moved, wherein the playing of the video is started from the first point in time, and wherein a play rate of the video is different according to a touch rate of the received touch;

stopping playing of the video corresponding to the video data when the switching from the first home screen page to the second home screen page is completed, wherein a play point in time, different from the first point in time, at which the playing of the video is stopped is different according to the touch rate of the received touch; and

outputting, on the display, the second home screen page having a background image in response to the completion of the switching from the first home screen page to the second home screen page,

wherein the background image of the second home screen page is set as a second still image included in the video data,

wherein the second still image, set as the background image of the second home screen page, is different according to the touch rate of the received touch input,

wherein if the touch rate is a first touch rate, the background image of the second home screen page is a second still image corresponding to a second point in time of the video data, and

wherein if the touch rate is a second rate different from the first touch rate, the background image of the second home screen page is a third still image corresponding to a third point in time of the video data.