MOBILE TERMINAL CAPABLE OF PROVIDING MULTIPLAYER GAME AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120162358A1
• Filed: 12/19/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: CHOI, Kyungdong
• Application Number:
  US13/330,290
• Publication Number:
  US 20120162358A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/36
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A method of controlling a mobile terminal and which includes allowing, via a wireless communication unit of the mobile terminal, wireless communication with at least one other terminal; displaying, on a touch screen display unit of the mobile terminal, a display screen; receiving, via a controller of the mobile terminal, a tap input performed on a main body of the mobile terminal; and dividing, via the controller controlling the touch screen display unit, the display screen into first and second display sections based on the received tap input.

Claims

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

allowing, via a wireless communication unit of the mobile terminal, wireless communication with at least one other terminal;

displaying, on a touch screen display unit of the mobile terminal, a display screen;

receiving, via a controller of the mobile terminal, a tap input performed on a main body of the mobile terminal; and

dividing, via the controller controlling the touch screen display unit, the display screen into first and second display sections based on the received tap input.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a touch input on a first item included in a list of items displayed on the display screen;

displaying the list of items in the second display section when the display screen is divided into the first and second display sections; and

displaying a list of data associated with the first item in the first display section in response to the received touch input on the first item.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first item comprises a folder, and the data associated with the first item includes at one of data within the folder, data deleted from the folder, and clipboard data associated with the first item.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a directional touch input on a boarder of one of the first or second display sections; and

increasing and decreasing a size of said one of the first and second display sections based on a movement of the directional touch input.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein when the tap input is on a first side of the main body, the dividing step divides the display screen vertically into the first and second display screens and displays information displayed on the display screen

in the first display section, and when the tap input is on a second side of the main body, the dividing step divides the display screen vertically into the first and second display screens and displays the information displayed on the display screen in the second display section.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein when the tap input is on a top or bottom side of the main body, the dividing step horizontally divides the display screen into the first and second display sections.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the display screen is a message creation screen, and wherein the dividing step includes displaying the message creating screen in the first display section and displaying files that can be attached to the message creation screen in the second display screen.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a touch input of one of the files displayed in the second display section and a directional touch input of the touched file into the first display section; and

attaching the touched file to the message creation screen such that when a message created via the message creation screen is transmitted to the at least one other terminal, the attached file is included with the message.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the file is attached to the message creation screen at a point where the directional touch input is released within the first display section.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving another tap input on the main body of the mobile terminal; and

displaying information displayed in the second display section as a full screen on the touch screen display unit.

11. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal;

a touch screen display unit configured to display a display screen; and

a controller configured to receive a tap input performed on a main body of the mobile terminal, and to divide the display screen into first and second display sections based on the received tap input.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to receive a touch input on a first item included in a list of items displayed on the display screen, and to control the touch screen display unit to display the list of items in the second display section when the display screen is divided into the first and second display sections and to display a list of data associated with the first item in the first display section in response to the received touch input on the first item.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the first item comprises a folder, and the data associated with the first item includes at one of data within the folder, data deleted from the folder, and clipboard data associated with the first item.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to receive a directional touch input on a boarder of one of the first or second display sections, and to increase and decrease a size of said one of the first and second display sections based on a movement of the directional touch input.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein when the tap input is on a first side of the main body, the controller is further divide the display screen vertically into the first and second display screens and to control the display unit to display information displayed on the display screen in the first display section, and

wherein when the tap input is on a second side of the main body, the controller is further configured to divide the display screen vertically into the first and second display screens and to control the display unit to display the information displayed on the display screen in the second display section.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein when the tap input is on a top or bottom side of the main body, the controller is further configured to horizontally divide the display screen into the first and second display sections.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the display screen is a message creation screen, and

wherein the controller is further configured to control the display unit to display the message creating screen in the first display section and display files that can be attached to the message creation screen in the second display screen.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller is further configured to receive a touch input of one of the files displayed in the first display section and a directional touch input of the touched file into the second display section, and to attach the touched file to the message creation screen such that when a message created via the message creation screen is transmitted to the at least one other terminal, the attached file is included with the message.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the controller is further configured to attach the file to the message creation screen at a point where the directional touch input is released within the first display section.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configure to receive another tap input on the main body of the mobile terminal;

and to control the display unit to display information displayed in the second display section as a full screen on the touch screen display unit.

21. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

allowing, via a wireless communication unit of the mobile terminal, wireless communication with at least one other terminal;

capturing, via a camera of the mobile terminal, a camera preview image;

displaying, on a touch screen display unit of the mobile terminal, the camera preview image;

receiving, via a controller of the mobile terminal, a tap input performed on a main body of the mobile terminal; and

displaying, on the touch screen display unit, a panoramic guide for capturing a panoramic image using the camera.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein if the tap input is received on a first side of the main body of the mobile terminal, the panoramic guide is displayed as moving toward the first side of the mobile terminal, and

wherein if the tap input is received on a second side of the main body of the mobile terminal, the panoramic guide is displayed as moving toward the second side of the mobile terminal.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the camera preview image is displayed on the display unit in response to a touch input being received first on the display unit.

24. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a wireless communication unit configure to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal;

a camera configured to capture a camera preview image;

a touch screen display unit configured to display the camera preview image; and

a controller configured to receive a tap input performed on a main body of the mobile terminal, and to control the display unit to display a panoramic guide for capturing a panoramic image using the camera.

25. The mobile terminal of claim 24, wherein if the tap input is received on a first side of the main body of the mobile terminal, the controller is further configured to control the display unit to display the panoramic guide as moving toward the first side of the mobile terminal, and

wherein if the tap input is received on a second side of the main body of the mobile terminal, the controller is further configured to control the display unit to display the panoramic guide as moving toward the second side of the mobile terminal.

26. The mobile terminal of claim 24, wherein the camera preview image is displayed on the display unit in response to a touch input being received first on the display unit.