Mobile terminal and method of controlling therefor

• US 10,348,972 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2018
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• 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:
  US16/028,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20180316866A1
• Time in Patent Office: 369 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 for capturing an image, a wireless communication unit for obtaining location information corresponding to the image, a memory for storing the image and at least one of the location information, a date on which the image is captured, and a time at which the image is captured, and a controller for displaying 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 display a camera indicator on a specific image of the group of images, the camera indicator being for capturing a new image to be included in the group of images.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display unit;

a camera configured to capture an image;

a wireless communication unit configured to obtain location information corresponding to the image;

a memory configured to store the image and at least one of the location information, a date on which the image is captured, and a time at which the image is captured; 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

display a camera indicator on a specific image of the group of images, 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 specific image is an image that does not meet or exceed a predetermined image quality condition.

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

in response to selection of the camera indicator, display a preview image of the camera instead of the specific image among the group of images.

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

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

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

6. The mobile terminal of claim 4, 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.

7. 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.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display a sharing indicator on a corresponding image indicating the corresponding image can be shared with an external terminal.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller is further configured to display the sharing indicator only on corresponding images that meet or exceed a predetermined image quality condition.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to display a delete indicator only on corresponding images that do not meet or exceed the predetermined image quality condition.

11. 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.

12. 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 having a latest capture time.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14, 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.

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

capturing, via a camera, an image;

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

storing, via a memory, the image and 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;

displaying, via a touch screen, 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

displaying a camera indicator on a specific image of the group of images, the camera indicator being for capturing a new image to be included in the group of images.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the specific image is an image that does not meet or exceed a predetermined image quality condition.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

in response to selection of the camera indicator, displaying a preview image of the camera instead of the specific image among the group of images.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

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