MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20110310048A1
• Filed: 08/31/2011
• Published: 12/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: B.R, Prasanna, Kim, Jonghwan
• Granted Patent: US 8,780,076 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof

Abstract

Disclosed is a mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same. The mobile terminal includes a body having a wireless communication module, a display unit disposed on one surface of the body, displaying one or more icons thereon, and configured to have a touch input thereon, and a controller configured to compensate for a control command corresponding to a touch, based on at least one of a touch duration, a touch point and a change of the touch point, when the touch on the display unit is detected during a change of a position or a shape of the icon.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a body;

a display unit disposed on one surface of the body, displaying one or more icons thereon, and configured to have a touch input thereon; and

a controller configured to compensate for a control command corresponding to a touch, based on at least one of a touch duration, a touch point and a change of the touch point when the touch on the display unit is detected during a change of a position or a shape of the icon.

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

a sensing unit mounted to the body, and configured to sense a relative position of a user'"'"'s reference portion with respect to the display unit,

wherein a change of a position or a shape of the icon is performed in correspondence to a change of the relative position.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the sensing unit changes a touch point corresponding to the icon according to a change of a position or a shape of the icon.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the sensing unit detects a movement of the reference portion based on the body, or to detect tilting of the body based on the reference portion.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control command is compensated when the touch duration is less than a preset time, but is not compensated when the touch duration is more than the preset time.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein upon detection of a drag operation consecutive with the touch, the controller determines the operation as selection for an icon adjacent to a touch point in a drag direction.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein an icon to be selected by the touch for a touch duration is highlighted on the display unit.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when the icon exists on the touch point for a touch duration, the controller determines the touch as selection for the icon,

wherein when the icon does not exist on the touch point, the controller determines the touch as selection for an icon adjacent to the touch point.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the icon is an icon of a stereoscopic image, and the control command corresponding to the touch includes selection for the icon of the stereoscopic image itself and selection for a part of the icon of the stereoscopic image.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control command is compensated based on a user'"'"'s preset information.

11. A method for controlling a mobile terminal which implements a touch input on a display unit, the method comprising:

displaying, on the display unit, a plurality of objects selectable by touch;

changing positions or shapes of the objects; and

when touch on the display unit is detected during changes of the positions or the shapes of the objects, determining which object among the objects is selected in correspondence to the touch.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein in the step of determination, upon to detection of a drag operation consecutive with the touch, the operation is determined as selection for an object adjacent to a touch point in a drag direction among the objects.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein in the step of determination, when a is touch duration exceeds a preset reference value, the touch is determined as selection for an object positioned at a touch point on the display unit.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein in the step of changing, a relative position of a user'"'"'s reference portion with respect to the display unit is detected, and the positions or the shapes of the objects are changed according to a change of the relative position.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the objects are icons of stereoscopic images, or are parts of the icons.

16. A method for controlling a mobile terminal which implements a touch input on a display unit, the method comprising:

sensing a relative position of a user'"'"'s reference portion with respect to the display unit;

sensing a change of the relative position for a touch duration on the display unit; and

compensating for a control command corresponding to the touch based on the change of the relative position.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein in the step of detection, a movement of the reference portion is detected based on the mobile terminal, or tilting of the mobile terminal is detected based on the reference portion.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein a plurality of icons selectable by the touch are displayed on the display unit, and positions or shapes of the icons are changed according to a movement of the reference portion.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein in the step of compensating, a control command corresponding to the touch is compensated based on the change of the relative position and the touch duration.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein when the change of the relative position is detected and the touch duration is less than a preset time, the control command is not processed,

wherein when the change of the relative position is detected and the touch duration is more than the preset time, the control command is processed.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein in the step of compensating, when no icon exists on a touch point of the display unit for the touch duration, the touch is determined as selection for an icon adjacent to the touch point.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein the step of compensating includes:

when no icon exists on a touch point of the display unit for the touch duration, highlighting an icon adjacent to the touch point; and

determining whether the adjacent icon is selected or not, based on information relating to touch release with respect to the touch point.