MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CHANGING PAGE THEREOF

• US 20120165076A1
• Filed: 08/16/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: YU, Jaehwa, Lee, Hyuntak
• Granted Patent: US 8,712,477 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A mobile terminal for smoothly changing a page between page groups by using an indicator indicating a page group, and a method for changing a page in the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal including: a display unit configured to display an indicator indicating a page group including a plurality of pages; an input unit configured to detect a gesture associated with the indicator; and a controller configured to control the display unit to display a page representing the page group, wherein the indicator discriminately displays the page representing the page group among the plurality of pages.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display unit configured to display an indicator indicating a page group including a plurality of pages;

an input unit configured to detect a gesture associated with the indicator; and

a controller configured to control the display unit to display a page representing the page group,

wherein the indicator discriminately displays the page representing the page group among the plurality of pages.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the page representing the page group is a page which has been most recently displayed among the plurality of pages.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the indicator comprises a plurality of indicators representing each of the plurality of pages.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the indicator reflects the position of each of the plurality of pages.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the detected gesture is a tap or a long press gesture with respect to the indicator.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display unit to display the indicator in a magnified or extended manner in response to the detected gesture.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the input unit detects a second gesture associated with the magnified or extended indicator, and the controller controls the display unit to display a page associated with the detected second gesture in response to the detected second gesture.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the detected gesture is a drag, flick, or a swipe gesture in an area in which the indicator is displayed.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the indicator comprises a discriminator discriminating each page group.

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

a sensing unit configured to sense a tilt of the mobile terminal,

wherein the controller controls the display unit to display the plurality of pages based on the detected tilt.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display unit to display a second page included in a second page group along with the indictor.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the gesture is further associated with an object included in the second page, and the controller controls the display unit to display the object such that it is included in a page which represents the page group.

13. A method for changing a page of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying an indicator indicating a page group including a plurality of page groups;

detecting a gesture associated with the indicator; and

displaying a page representing the page group in response to the detected gesture,

wherein the indicator discriminately displays the page representing the page group among the plurality of pages.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the page representing the page group is a page which has been most recently displayed among the plurality of pages.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the indicator comprises a plurality of indicators representing the plurality of pages, respectively.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the indicator reflects the position or order of each of the plurality of pages.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the displaying of the page representing the page group comprises:

displaying the indicator in a magnified or extended manner in response to the detected gesture.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the displaying of the page representing the page group further comprises:

detecting a second gesture in the magnified or extended indicator; and

displaying a page associated with the detected second gesture in response to the detected second gesture.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the displaying of the indicator comprises:

displaying a second page included in a second page group along with the indicator.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the gesture is further associated with an object included in the second page, and the displaying of the page representing the page group comprises displaying the object such that it is included in the page representing the page group in response to the detected gesture.