MOBILE TERMINAL AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100029327A1
• Filed: 12/17/2008
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: JEE, Hyun Ho
• Granted Patent: US 8,082,003 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.100
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 17/045 Mounting of the display
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/02 Detectors of external physical values, e.g. temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0268 including a flexible display panel
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a flexible display provided on a main body of the mobile terminal, in which the flexible display is configured to flex as the mobile terminal is attached to a part of the human body. The mobile terminal also includes a sensor configured to sense at least one of a position and movement of the main body, and a controller configured to control the flexible display to display an image in a first area of the flexible display so that a display direction of the image is in a first direction, and to move the displayed image in the first area to a second area of the flexible display based on the at least of the sensed position and movement of the main body so that the display direction of the image is maintained in the first direction.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a flexible display provided on a main body of the mobile terminal, said flexible display configured to flex as the mobile terminal is attached to a part of the human body;

a sensor configured to sense at least one of a position and movement of the main body; and

a controller configured to control the flexible display to display an image in a first area of the flexible display so that a display direction of the image is in a first direction, and to move the displayed image in the first area to a second area of the flexibly display based on the at least of the sensed position and movement of the main body so that the display direction of the image is maintained in the first direction.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

an input unit configured to receive a touch and drag signal corresponding to a touching and dragging of the image,

wherein the controller is further configured to set the first direction of the image based on the touch and drag signal.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the image corresponds to at least one menu configured to execute an operation on the terminal.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the at least one menu includes a favorites menu.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the image is at least one of a menu icon, a moving image, a photograph, text, a map image, an Internet web browser, and a keypad screen.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

an input unit configured to receive an input corresponding to a selection of the image,

wherein the controller is further configured to control the flexibly display to display an execution screen corresponding to the selected image.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the execution screen includes a Qwerty input window.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a camera configured to capture the image,

wherein the controller is further configured to transmit the image based on said at least one of the sensed position and movement of the main body.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes at least one of a terrestrial magnetic sensor and a position sensor.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to execute a predetermined operation based on the movement of the main body.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

an input unit configured to receive a touching and dragging signal corresponding to a touching and dragging of the image,

wherein the controller is further configured to increase or decrease a size of the image according to the touching and dragging signal.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the sensing unit is farther configured to sense a movement of the human body, and

wherein the controller is further configured to change the first direction to a second direction according to the sensed movement of the human body.

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

sensing at least one of a position and movement of a main body of the mobile terminal, said main body including a flexible display configured to flex as the mobile terminal is attached to a part of the human body;

displaying an image in a first area of the flexible display so that a display direction of the image is in a first direction; and

moving the displayed image in the first area to a second area of the flexibly display based on said at least of the sensed position and movement of the main body so that the display direction of the image is maintained in the first direction.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving a touch and drag signal corresponding to a touching and dragging of the image; and

setting the first direction of the image based on the touch and drag signal.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the image corresponds to at least one menu configured to execute an operation on the terminal.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one menu includes a favorites menu.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the image is at least one of a menu icon, a moving image, a photograph, text, a map image, an Internet web browser, and a keypad screen.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving an input corresponding to a selection of the image,

wherein the display step displays an execution screen corresponding to the selected image.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the execution screen includes a Qwerty input window.

20. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

a camera configured to capture the image; and

transmitting the image based on said at least of the sensed position and movement of the main body.

21. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

executing a predetermined operation based on the movement of the main body.

22. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving a touching and dragging signal corresponding to a touching and dragging of the image; and

increasing or decreasing a size of the image according to the touching and dragging signal.