MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120062549A1
• Filed: 04/11/2011
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: WOO, Seunghyun, Lee, Yongdeok, Lee, Kange, Lee, Shinhae, Jung, Jinhwan, Lee, Kunho, Jung, Hayang
• Granted Patent: US 9,207,859 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes displaying at least one portion of a 3D user interface provided with at least two icons including a first icon and a second icon on a touchscreen, situating the first icon and the second icon to different 3D depths in the 3D user interface, respectively, and if a touch command is inputted to the touchscreen, enabling the icon of the first or second icon existing to a specific 3D depth corresponding to the touch command to respond to the touch command.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touchscreen configured to display a three dimensional (3D) user interface; and

a controller operatively connected to the touchscreen and configured to;

display a first icon and a second icon on the 3D user interface with different 3D depths, and

control a specific one of the first and second icons to have a specific 3D depth in response to a touch command inputted to the touchscreen.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the specific icon having the specific 3D depth to be shifted in a direction in parallel with a plane of the touchscreen in response to the touch command.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein, when a first touch gesture is inputted to the touchscreen, the controller is configured to change a 3D depth of the second icon from a first depth to a second depth.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein, when a second touch gesture identical to or different from the first touch gesture is inputted to the touchscreen when the second icon is displayed at the second depth, the controller is configured to control the 3D depth of the second icon to return to the first depth from the second depth.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 3, further comprising:

a sensing unit operatively connected to the controller and configured to detect a shaking of the mobile terminal,

wherein, when the sensing unit detects the shaking, the controller is configured to control the 3D depth of the second icon to return to the first depth from the second depth.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 3,

wherein, when a 3D depth of the first icon is the first depth and the 3D depth of the second icon is the second depth, wherein the controller is configured to select one of the first and second icon which has a specific 3D depth corresponding to a third touch gesture inputted to the touchscreen, and shift the 3D depth of only the selected icon in response to the third gesture.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is configured to control a prescribed visual effect to be given to the second icon after the 3D depth of the second icon is changed to the second depth.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the touchscreen is configured to provide a monoscopic or stereoscopic 3D image.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 6,

wherein a first layer corresponding to the first depth and a second layer corresponding to the second depth exist in the 3D user interface, and

wherein, when the first touch gesture is inputted to the touch screen when the second icon is in the first layer, the controller is configured to control the second icon to be shifted onto the second layer in a direction vertical to the plane of the touchscreen.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein, when the third touch gesture is inputted to the touchscreen, the controller is configured to control the first icon when the first icon is in the first layer to be shifted to the second layer and also control the second icon in the second layer not to be shifted.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein, when a second touch gesture is inputted to the touchscreen when the second icon is in the second layer, the controller is configured to control the second icon to be shifted to the first layer in the direction vertical to the plane of the touchscreen.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein a first layer corresponding to a first depth and a second layer corresponding to a second depth exist in the 3D user interface,

wherein the controller is configured to control a background image to be displayed in the first layer, and

wherein, when the touch command is inputted to the touchscreen, the controller is configured to control the first layer including the background image to be shifted in a direction corresponding to the touch command.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein a first layer corresponding to a first depth and a second layer corresponding to a second depth exist in the 3D user interface, and

wherein the controller is configured to control both of the first layer and the second layer to be parallel with a plane of the touchscreen or inclined at a predetermined inclination angle against the plane of the touchscreen.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13,

wherein the controller is configured to control a background image to be situated in the first layer, and

wherein, when the background image is shifted, the controller is configured to control at least one icon existing in the first layer to be shifted together and also to control at least one icon existing in the second layer not to be shifted.

15. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touchscreen configured to display one or more objects and display a first background image as a background of the one or more objects; and

a controller operatively connected to the touchscreen and configured to;

when an object edit mode is entered from an object use mode, control each of the one or more objects to be set to a dependent type object or an independent type object, and

when the first background image is shifted on the touchscreen, control a first dependent type object to be shifted together with the first background image while controlling the independent type object to be fixedly displayed on the touchscreen irrespective of the shift of the first background image.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is configured to control a second background image to appear on the touchscreen as being shifted relative to the touchscreen as the first background image is shifted to disappear from the touchscreen.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 16,

wherein, as the first background image is shifted to disappear from the touchscreen, the controller is configured to control the first dependent type object to disappear together with the first background image, and

wherein, as a second background image is shifted to appear on the touchscreen, the controller is configured to control a second dependent type object to appear together with the second background image.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein, as the second dependent type object appears together with the second background image, the controller is configured to control both the independent type object and the second dependent type object to be displayed together on the second background image.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is configured to control the dependent type object and the independent type object to be displayed so as to be visually distinguished from each other.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is configured to control one of the dependent type object and the independent type object to be displayed in a manner of being visually brought into contact with the first background image, and to control another of the independent type object and the dependent type object to be displayed in a manner of being visually spaced apart from the first background image.

21. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is configured to control some of the one or more objects to be set to either the dependent type object or the independent type object according to a user'"'"'s pre-selection and also to control one of the of the one or more objects that is an object mandatorily displayed on the touchscreen to be set to the independent type object irrespective of the user'"'"'s pre-selection.

22. The mobile terminal of claim 20,

wherein, when a touch and drag is performed on the touchscreen in a first direction, the controller is configured to control the dependent type object to be shifted together with the first background image, and

wherein, when the touch and drag is performed on the touchscreen in a second direction, the controller is configured to control both the dependent type object and the independent type object to be shifted together with the first background image.

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

displaying, on a three dimensional (3D) user interface of the mobile terminal, a first icon and a second icon with different 3D depths, and

controlling a specific one of the first and second icons to have a specific 3D depth in response to a touch command inputted to the touchscreen.

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

displaying, on a touchscreen of the mobile terminal, one or more objects and displaying a background image as a background of the one or more objects;

when an object edit mode is entered from an object use mode, controlling each of the one or more objects to be set to a dependent type object or an independent type object; and

when the first background image is shifted on the touchscreen, controlling the dependent type object to be shifted together with the first background image while controlling the independent type object to be fixedly displayed on the touchscreen irrespective of the shift of the first background image.