MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100056220A1
• Filed: 03/30/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Tae-Hoon, Oh, Jung-A
• Granted Patent: US 8,219,152 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• 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 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal includes a display module comprising a front surface and a rear surface, a display controller for displaying an object associated with a first menu on at least one of the front surface or rear surface, a user input unit configured to receive a touch input via the front and rear surface of the display module for selecting one of the displayed objects, and a controller configured to execute an operation associated with the selected object according to which of the front and rear surface is touched.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display module comprising a front surface and a rear surface;

a display controller for displaying an object associated with a first menu on at least one of the front surface or rear surface;

a user input unit configured to receive a touch input via the front and rear surface of the display module for selecting one of the displayed objects; and

a controller configured to execute an operation associated with the selected object according to which of the front and rear surface is touched.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the operation associated with the selected object executes a function associated with the selected object when the front surface is touched.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the operation associated with the selected object executes a preview of information associated with the selected object when the rear surface is touched.

4. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the operation is set according to the type of object displayed on the display module.

5. The terminal of claim 4, wherein one or more additional operations are set according to the type of object displayed on the display module.

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller activates a second menu in response to an input on the display module when the first menu is active.

7. The terminal of claim 6, wherein the second menu is preset according to the location of the touch input.

8. The terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller controls the second menu to utilize information associated with the first menu.

9. The terminal of claim 6, wherein the first menu and the second menu are layered, such that an active menu overlaps a nonactive menu.

10. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller controls the active menu to be displayed relatively sharper than the nonactive menu.

11. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller deactivates the active menu to a nonactive state in response to the touch input on the front surface of the display module and activates the nonactive menu to an active state in response to a touch on the rear surface of the display module.

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

displaying an object associated with a first menu on at least one of a front surface or a rear surface of a display module;

receiving a touch input via the front and rear surface of the display module for selecting one of the displayed objects; and

executing an operation associated with the selected object according to which of the front and rear surface is touched.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the operation associated with the selected object executes a function associated with the selected object when the front surface is touched.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the operation associated with the selected object executes a preview of information associated with the selected object when the rear surface is touched.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the operation is set according to the type of object displayed on the display module.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein one or more additional operations are set according to the type of object displayed on the display module.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein a second menu is activated in response to an input on the display module when the first menu is active.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the second menu is preset according to the location of the touch input.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the controller controls the second menu to utilize information associated with the first menu.

20. The terminal of claim 17, wherein the first menu and the second menu are layered, such that an active menu overlaps a nonactive menu.

21. The terminal of claim 20, wherein the active menu is displayed relatively sharper than the nonactive menu.

22. The terminal of claim 20, wherein the active menu is deactivated to a nonactive state in response to the touch input on the front surface of the display module and the nonactive menu is activated to an active state in response to a touch on the rear surface of the display module.