MOBILE TERMINAL AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD THEREIN

• US 20130002725A1
• Filed: 02/21/2012
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Dongwoo, Park, Hyekyung, Cho, Hyunah, Kim, Hyehyun
• Granted Patent: US 9,384,014 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/684
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/086 using security domains

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a communication unit configured to communicate with at least one external terminal; a memory configured to store at least first and second operating systems including at least first and second modes, respectively; and a controller configured to activate the first mode using the first operating system, to display, in a first display region of a display unit of the mobile terminal, the activated first mode, and to display in a second display region of the display unit, at least one second indicator that when selected, activates a second corresponding application in the second mode.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with at least one external terminal;

a memory configured to store at least first and second operating systems including at least first and second modes, respectively; and

a controller configured to activate the first mode using the first operating system, to display, in a first display region of a display unit of the mobile terminal, the activated first mode, and to display in a second display region of the display unit, at least one second indicator that when selected, activates a second corresponding application in the second mode.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display in the second display region at least one first indicator that when selected, executes a first corresponding application in the first mode.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the second display region is a quick launch tray including quick launch indicators that when selected, activate corresponding applications in the first or second modes.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the quick launch indicators includes mode identifiers indicating the corresponding application will be activated in the first or second modes.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to scroll through the first and second indicators based on a touch and drag action performed on the display unit.

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

a sensor configured to sense a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation of the mobile terminal,

wherein the controller is further configured to automatically display more of the first and second indicators when the sensor senses the mobile terminal is in the landscape orientation.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the first and second indicators identify favorite applications.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to display at least one third indicator a third corresponding application that can be activated in both of the first and second modes.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein when the third indicator is selected, the third corresponding application is executed in the first mode that is already activated.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first mode is a personal mode of the user using the mobile terminal, and the second mode is a business mode associated with the user.

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

allowing, via a communication unit on the mobile terminal, communication with at least one external terminal;

storing, in a memory of the mobile terminal, at least first and second operating systems including at least first and second modes, respectively;

activating, via a controller of the mobile terminal, the first mode using the first operating system;

displaying, in a first display region of a display unit of the mobile terminal, the activated first mode; and

displaying, in a second display region of the display unit, at least one second indicator that when selected, activates a second corresponding application in the second mode.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying in the second display region, at least one first indicator that when selected, executes a first corresponding application in the first mode.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the second display region is a quick launch tray including quick launch indicators that when selected, activate corresponding applications in the first or second modes.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the quick launch indicators includes mode identifiers indicating the corresponding application will be activated in the first or second modes.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

scrolling through the first and second indicators based on a touch and drag action performed on the display unit.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

sensing, via a sensor of the mobile terminal, a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation of the mobile terminal; and

automatically displaying more of the first and second indicators when the sensor senses the mobile terminal is in the landscape orientation.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the first and second indicators identify favorite applications.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

displaying at least one third indicator a third corresponding application that can be activated in both of the first and second modes.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein when the third indicator is selected, the third corresponding application is executed in the first mode that is already activated.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the first mode is a personal mode of the user using the mobile terminal, and the second mode is a business mode associated with the user.