MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20110009169A1
• Filed: 03/05/2010
• Published: 01/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Hyung-Il
• Granted Patent: US 8,760,414 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04892 Arrangements for controlling cursor position based on codes indicative of cursor displacements from one discrete location to another, e.g. using cursor control keys associated to different directions or using the tab key arrangements for controlling cursor position based on coordinate signals G06F3/038
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/18 including more than one keyboard unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a first body, a second body slidably coupled with the first body such that the second body is slidably moved in a widthwise direction to implement an opened and closed configuration with respect to the first body, first and second keypads disposed separately on a front surface of the second body, a display disposed on a front surface of the first body and configured to display content input through manipulation of the first or second keypads, and a touch screen disposed between the first and second keypads and being linked with the first and second keypads so as to display information that can be input and displayed on the display and that is not included on the first or second keypads.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a first body;

a second body slidably coupled with the first body such that the second body is slidably moved in a widthwise direction to implement an opened and closed configuration with respect to the first body;

first and second keypads disposed separately on a front surface of the second body;

a display disposed on a front surface of the first body and configured to display content input through manipulation of the first or second keypads; and

a touch screen disposed between the first and second keypads and being linked with the first and second keypads so as to display information that can be input and displayed on the display and that is not included on the first or second keypads.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the touch screen comprises at least one of numbers, special symbols and emoticons not included on the first and second keypads.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the touch screen comprises navigational keys for navigating the content displayed on the display.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the content displayed on the display comprises a web page and the navigational keys comprises directional keys to scroll through information displayed on the web page and an OK button configured to select a link included on the web page.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the touch screen comprises a list of favorite items that can be scrolled through, and

wherein the touch screen is further configured to enlarge a currently selected favorite item.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the list of favorite items are arranged in a circular pattern that can be rotated through by selecting a forward or reverse button.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the touch screen comprises information about an incoming email or an incoming phone call.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the content displayed on the display includes a list of items, and

wherein the information displayed on the touch screen includes sub-items included in a selected item of the list of items.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the content displayed on the display includes chatting messages performed during a chatting session, and

wherein the information displayed on the touch screen includes a new chatting message to be displayed in the chatting messages displayed on the display.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the touch screen includes a magnified version of content recently input on the display.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the touch screen includes a list of possible words including at least a portion corresponding to content recently input on the display.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second keypads include all letters in a QWERTY keyboard and the touch screen includes all numbers in the QWERTY keyboard so as to form a complete QWERTY keyboard.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second keypads include all letters and numbers in a QWERTY keyboard and the touch screen includes at least one of special symbols and emoticons such that the touch screen serves as an extended input unit with the first and second keypads.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second keypads are linked with the touchscreen such that contents can be input to the display using any combination of the first keypad, the second keypad and the touch screen.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the display is also a touch screen.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the contents displayed in the display include email information, and

wherein the information displayed on the touch screen comprises at least one of an “

@”

sign and a “

.com”

sign that can be selected to facilitate entering an email information in the display.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the contents displayed in the display include web browser entry field for accessing a particular web page, and

wherein the information displayed on the touch screen comprises at least one of a “

www”

sign and a “

.com”

sign that can be selected to facilitate entering the particular web page in the web browser entry field displayed in the display.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the contents displayed in the display include a currently viewed web page, and

wherein the information displayed in the touch screen includes a web address of the currently viewed web page such that if the currently viewed web page displayed in the display freezes, the web address of the currently viewed web page can be selected in the touch screen to re-access the web page.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second keypads and the touch screen are automatically activated when the first and second bodies are slid open into the open configuration.