Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same

• US 10,536,573 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2016
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kong, Daejin, Yi, Suhjin, Jung, Juhyun, Jang, Yujune
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunez, Jordany
• Application Number:
  US15/166,616
• Publication Number:
  US 20170013115A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,327 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a display including a first area and a second area extended in at least one direction of the first area; a wireless communication processor configured to wirelessly communicate with an external device; and a controller configured to display, in the second area, visual information corresponding to at least one replay file executed when the mobile terminal was previously connected to the external device, based on the mobile terminal being connected to the external device when the first area and the second area are non-activated, and execute the at least one replay file, based on a predetermined touch input applied to the second area.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display including a first area and a second area extended in at least one direction of the first area;

a wireless communication processor configured to wirelessly communicate with a first external device; and

a controller configured to;

control the wireless communication processor to communicate with the first external device while the first area and the second area are in a non-activated state,

switch a state of the second area to an activated state from the non-activated state, based on the mobile terminal being connected to the first external device when the first area and the second area are non-activated,

display, in the second area, visual information corresponding to at least one first replay file executed when the mobile terminal was previously connected to the first external device, wherein the non-activated state of the first area is maintained while the visual information corresponding to the at least one first replay file is displayed in the second area,

execute the at least one first replay file based on a predetermined touch input applied to the second area while the first area is in the non-activated state,

switch a state of the first area to an activated state from the non-activated state based on detecting a predetermined touch input,

display, in the first area, a list of a plurality of devices which can be connected to the mobile terminal,

connect the mobile terminal to a second external device different from the first external device based on detecting a predetermined touch input selecting the second external device from the list of the plurality of devices,

display, in the second area, visual information corresponding to at least one second replay file executed when the mobile terminal was previously connected to the second external device, and

execute the at least one second replay file, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the second area.

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

display, in the second area, an icon corresponding to a first replay list including the at least one first replay file.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to:

execute the at least one first replay file included in the first replay list, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the icon corresponding to the first replay list.

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

display, in the second area, visual information corresponding to a replay file being currently executed among the at least one first replay file included in the first replay list.

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

execute the at least one first replay file included in the first replay list by applying a volume value which was set when the mobile terminal was previously connected to the first external device.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to:

display, in the second area, an icon corresponding to a second replay list including at least one third replay file which was executed before the mobile terminal was connected to the first external device, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the display, and execute the at least one third replay file included in the second replay list, based on a predetermined input being applied to the icon corresponding to the second replay list.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller is further configured to:

display, in the second area, an icon corresponding to a third replay list including at least one previously set replay file, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the display, and

execute the at least one previously set replay file included in the third replay list, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the icon corresponding to the third replay list.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to:

display the first replay list in the first area, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the icon corresponding to the first replay list.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller is further configured to:

delete a first replay file from the first replay list or execute the first replay file, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to an icon corresponding to the first replay file included in the first replay list.

10. A method for controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

controlling a wireless communication processor to communicate with a first external device while a first area and a second area of a display are in a non-activated state,

wherein the display includes the first area and the second area extended in at least one direction of the first area;

switching a state of the second area to an activated state from the non-activated state based on the mobile terminal being connected to the first external device when the first area and the second area are non-activated;

displaying, in the second area of a display extending in at least one direction of the first area of the display, visual information corresponding to at least one first replay file executed when the mobile terminal was previously connected to the first external device, wherein the non-activated state of the first area is maintained while the visual information corresponding to the at least one first replay file is displayed in the second area;

executing the at least one first replay file based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the second area, while the first area is in the non-activated state;

switching a state of the first area to an activated state based on detecting a predetermined touch input;

displaying, in the first area, a list of a plurality of devices which can be connected to the mobile terminal;

connecting the mobile terminal to a second external device different from the first external device, based on detecting a predetermined touch input selecting the second external device from the list of the plurality of devices;

displaying, in the second area, visual information corresponding to at least one second replay file executed when the mobile terminal was previously connected to the second external device; and

executing the at least one second replay file, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the second area.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

displaying, in the second area, an icon corresponding to a first replay list including the at least one first replay file.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

executing the at least one first replay file included in the first replay list, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the icon corresponding to the first replay list.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

displaying, in the second area, visual information corresponding to a replay file being currently executed among the at least one first replay file included in the first replay list.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

executing the at least one first replay file included in the first replay list by applying a volume value which was set when the mobile terminal was previously connected to the first external device.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying, in the second area, an icon corresponding to a second replay list including at least one third replay file which was executed before the mobile terminal was connected to the first external device, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the display; and

executing at least one third replay file included in the second replay list, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the icon corresponding to the second replay list.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying, in the second area, an icon corresponding to a third replay list including at least one previously set replay file, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the display; and

executing the at least one previously set replay file included in the third replay list, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the icon corresponding to the third replay list.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying, in the first area, the first replay list based on a predetermined touch input being applied to the icon corresponding to the first replay list.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

deleting a first replay file from the first replay list or executing the first replay file, based on a predetermined touch input being applied to an icon corresponding to the first replay file included in the first replay list.