Watch terminal and method of controlling the same

• US 10,345,959 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2018
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Taehoon, Eim, Sanghyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Davis, David D
• Application Number:
  US15/905,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20180181256A1
• Time in Patent Office: 498 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/20 for imaging minute objects, e.g. light-pointer
• CPC Class Codes: G04F 1/005 using electronic timing, e.g. counting means pulse time delay arrangements H03K5/13; modifications of electronic switches for introducing a time delay before switching H03K17/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• 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 3/014 Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L

Abstract

A watch terminal includes a memory, at least one of a sensor and a touchscreen configured to receive a touch input from a user. A rim of the touchscreen has a specific shape and a wireless communication unit is configured to pair with at least one of an external terminal. A controller is coupled to the memory, the at least one of the sensor, the touchscreen and the wireless communication unit. The controller controls the wireless communication unit to transmit a control signal to a specific external terminal currently operating in a presentation mode, control the touchscreen to output a counting indicator indicating a current page, control the touchscreen to output a circular progress indicator indicating a progress status of the current page among the total page on a circular rim of the touchscreen, and provide a warning feedback when it exceeds a set target time during the presentation mode.

Claims

1. A watch terminal comprising:

a memory;

at least one of a sensor;

a touchscreen configured to receive a touch input from a user, wherein a rim of the touchscreen has a specific shape;

a wireless communication unit configured to pair with at least one of an external terminal; and

a controller coupled to the memory, the at least one of the sensor, the touchscreen and the wireless communication unit, wherein the controller is configured to;

control the wireless communication unit to transmit a control signal to a specific external terminal currently operating in a presentation mode among the at least one of the external terminal,

control the touchscreen to output a counting indicator indicating a current page with a total page in the presentation mode,

control the touchscreen to output a circular progress indicator indicating a progress status of the current page among the total page on a circular rim of the touchscreen, and

provide a warning feedback when it exceeds a set target time during the presentation mode.

2. The watch terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control a cursor to be outputted through a display unit of the specific external terminal, and to control the outputted cursor to move using the watch terminal.

3. The watch terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control the touchscreen to output a first button for moving to a previous page, a second button for moving to a next page and a third button for stopping an elapsed time.

4. The watch terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to control the touchscreen to receive a first touch input to any one of the first button, the second button and the third button and to control the wireless communication unit to transmit the control signal corresponding to the first touch input to the specific external terminal in response to the reception of the first touch input.

5. The watch terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control the touchscreen to receive a second touch input for selecting the counting indicator and to control the touchscreen to output a page list in response to the reception of the second touch input.

6. The watch terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller is further configured to control the touchscreen to receive a third touch input for selecting a specific page on the page list and to control the specific external terminal to display the selected specific page in response to the reception of the third touch input.

7. A method of controlling a watch terminal, the method comprising:

receiving, via a touchscreen, a touch input from a user, wherein a rim of the touchscreen has a specific shape;

pairing, via a wireless communication unit, with at least one of an external terminal;

controlling, via a controller, the wireless communication unit to transmit a control signal to a specific external terminal currently operating in a presentation mode among the at least one of the external terminal;

controlling, via the controller, the touchscreen to output a counting indicator indicating a current page with a total page in the presentation mode;

controlling, via the controller, the touch screen to output a circular progress indicator indicating a progress status of the current page among the total page on a circular rim of the touchscreen; and

providing, via the controller, a warning feedback when it exceeds a set target time during the presentation mode.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

controlling, via the controller, a cursor to be outputted through a display unit of the specific external terminal; and

controlling, via the controller, the outputted cursor to move using the watch terminal.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

controlling, via the controller, the touchscreen to output a first button for moving to a previous page, a second button for moving to a next page and a third button for stopping an elapsed time.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

controlling, via the controller, the touchscreen to receive a first touch input to any one of the first button, the second button and the third button; and

controlling, via the controller, the wireless communication unit to transmit the control signal corresponding to the first touch input to the specific external terminal in response to the reception of the first touch input.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

controlling, via the controller, the touchscreen to receive a second touch input for selecting the counting indicator; and

controlling, via the controller, the touchscreen to output a page list in response to the reception of the second touch input.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

controlling, via the controller, the touchscreen to receive a third touch input for selecting a specific page on the page list; and

controlling, via the controller, the specific external terminal to display the selected specific page in response to the reception of the third touch input.