TERMINAL AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING CONTENT THEREOF

• US 20080178104A1
• Filed: 12/11/2007
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Jong Hwan
• Granted Patent: US 7,950,009 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

A method of displaying contents on a mobile terminal. The method includes displaying a plurality of contents on a display of the mobile terminal, selecting a content from the plurality of displayed contents, and displaying the selected content and similar contents having a similar type as the selected content to be discriminated from other displayed contents that do not have the similar type as the selected content.

Claims

1. A method of displaying contents on a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of contents on a display of the mobile terminal;

selecting a content from the plurality of displayed contents; and

discriminately displaying the selected content and similar contents having a similar type as the selected content from other displayed contents that do not have the similar type as the selected content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying step discriminately displays the selected content and the similar contents from the other displayed contents using a font color,

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the discriminately displaying step discriminately displays the selected content and the similar contents from the other displayed contents using a font style.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the discriminately displaying step discriminately displays the selected content and the similar contents from the other displayed contents by aligning the selected content and the similar contents together.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the discriminately displaying step discriminately displays the selected content and the similar contents from the other displayed contents using at least one of a font color, a font size, a font type, a font underlining style, a font effect, and a background color of the discriminated selected content and similar contents.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the similar type of contents have a similar extension file name and are executed using a same program.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

traversing between the selected and similar contents based on an input traversing signal.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the selected and similar contents are displayed in a non-sequential order such that the traversing step skips over the other contents that do not have the similar type when traversing between the selected and similar contents.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the input traversing signal is generated by a user touching a scroll region on a touch-screen on the mobile terminal or by manipulating a key button on the mobile terminal.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

creating a mapping table including a listing of types of contents, file extensions for the types of contents, and a font characteristic to be used when displayed the selected content and the similar contents, wherein the mapping table includes groupings of file extensions that are similar.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the types of contents include a still picture file, a moving picture file, a music file, a sound file, a document file, and an animation file.

12. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display unit configured to display a plurality of contents;

an input unit configured to select a content from the plurality of displayed contents; and

a control unit configured to control the display unit to discriminately display the selected content and similar contents having a similar type as the selected content from other displayed contents that do not have the similar type as the selected content.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to discriminately display the selected content and the similar contents from the other displayed contents using a font color.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to discriminately display the selected content and the similar contents from the other displayed contents using a font style.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to discriminately display the selected content and the similar contents from the other displayed contents by aligning the selected content and the similar contents together.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to discriminately display the selected content and the similar contents from the other displayed contents using at least one of a font color, a font size, a font type, a font underlining style, a font effect, and a background color of the discriminated selected content and similar contents.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the similar type of contents have a similar extension file name and are executed using a same program.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the input unit includes an up and down key to traverse between the selected and similar contents.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the selected and similar contents are displayed in a non-sequential order such that when either of the up and down keys are selected, a next similar content is selected by skipping over the other contents that do not have the similar type when traversing between the selected and similar contents.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the up and down key comprises a side key on the terminal or a soft key on a touch screen of the display unit.

21. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the control unit creates a mapping table including a listing of types of contents, file extensions for the types of contents, and a font characteristic to be used when displayed the selected content and the similar contents, and

wherein the mapping table includes groupings of file extensions that are similar.

22. The mobile terminal of claim 21, wherein the types of contents include a still picture file, a moving picture file, a music file, a sound file, a document file, and an animation file.