MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20100045621A1
• Filed: 07/29/2009
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Kang Min, Kim, Jung Eun, Kang, Min Hun, Kim, Kyoung Joung, Lee, Na Ri
• Application Number:
  US12/511,993
• Publication Number:
  US 20100045621A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/32 Means for saving power
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/027 by controlling a display operation or backlight unit
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the operation of the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes displaying a screen image including one or more objects on a first display unit, and if one of the objects is touched and then dragged, displaying the touched-and-dragged object on the second display unit. Therefore, it is possible to continuously display an object even in the event of a power cut by quickly moving the object from the first display unit to the second display unit.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, comprising:

displaying an image on a first display of the mobile terminal;

displaying at least one object on the first display of the mobile terminal, the at least one object relating to an operational function of the mobile terminal;

touching and dragging one of the at least one objects on the first display to an edge of the first display;

displaying the touched and dragged object on a second display of the mobile terminal; and

ceasing to display the touched and dragged object on the first display of the mobile terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first display comprises a touch screen display and the second display comprises electronic paper, the object displayed on the second display being static in the absence of an electric field being applied to the second display.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the at least one objects is separately associated with one of a plurality of different operational functions of the mobile terminal and comprises a menu icon, a control icon, a touch key, an image or a menu item.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising performing an operational function corresponding to a specific one of the at least one objects.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the specific one of the at least one objects is displayed differently from other of the at least one objects.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the touched-and-dragged object is displayed on the entire second display.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the object displayed on the second display during a power-save mode of the mobile terminal.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first display is positioned on a first side of a main body of the mobile terminal and the second display is positioned on a second side of the main body of the mobile terminal.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

placing the mobile terminal into a power-save mode;

ceasing the operation of the first display during the power-save mode; and

displaying the at least one object on the second display during the power-save mode.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

releasing the mobile terminal from the power-save mode; and

displaying the at least one object on the first display.

11. A mobile terminal comprising:

a main body;

a first display disposed on a first surface of the main body and configured to display an image and at least one object, the at least one object relating to an operational function of the mobile terminal;

a second display disposed on a second surface of the main body; and

a controller configured to display one of the at least one objects on the second display in response to the one of the at least one objects being touched-and-dragged to an edge of the first display.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the first display comprises a touch screen and the second display comprises electronic paper, the touched-and-dragged object displayed on the second display being static in the absence of an electric field being applied to the second display.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein each of the at least one objects is separately associated with one of a plurality of different operational functions of the mobile terminal and comprises a menu icon, a control icon, a touch key, an image or a menu item.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to perform an operation corresponding to a specific one of the at least one objects.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein the controller is further configured to display the specific one of the at least one objects differently from other of the at least one objects.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to display the touched-and-dragged object on the entire second display.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to store the object displayed on the second display during a power-save mode of the mobile terminal.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the first display is positioned on a first side of a main body of the mobile terminal and the second display is positioned on a second side, opposite the first side, of the main body of the mobile terminal.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to terminate the operation of the first display and display the at least one object on the second display upon the mobile terminal entering a power-save mode.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 19, wherein the controller is further configured to display the at least one object on the first display upon release of the mobile terminal from the power-save mode.