MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20130024814A1
• Filed: 07/19/2012
• Published: 01/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Seho, Lee, Yeonhwa, Jung, Byeonghak, Park, Youngsun
• Granted Patent: US 9,219,812 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• 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 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal may include a display module and a controller. The display module displays a plurality of icons on a background thereof. The controller changes the background to a specific background predetermined for a specific icon upon selection of the specific icon from the plurality of icons, and executes a specific application corresponding to the specific icon using information corresponding to a specific region of the changed background when the selected specific icon is moved to the specific region.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display module configured to display a plurality of icons on a background; and

a controller configured to change the background to a specific background predetermined for a specific icon upon selection of the specific icon from the plurality of icons, and execute a specific application corresponding to the specific icon using information corresponding to a specific region of the changed background when the selected specific icon is moved to the specific region.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the background predetermined for the specific icon comprises at least one of a execution screen of an application predetermined for the specific icon and a screen predetermined for providing information used in connection with the specific application.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to maintain the changed background only when the specific icon is selected and restores the changed background to a default background upon cancellation of selection of the specific icon.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to restore the changed background to the default background after completion of execution of the specific application using the information corresponding to the specific region.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein, when the specific icon is moved to the specific region of the changed background, the controller executes a specific function of the specific application using information relating to the specific application, which corresponds to the specific region.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to maintain the changed background until a control signal for changing the changed background to a different background is input.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to maintain the changed background in a deactivated state until a predetermined icon corresponding to the changed background is selected and activate a function of the changed background, which corresponds to the predetermined icon, when the predetermined icon is selected.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to display the specific icon and at least one of at least one predetermined icon corresponding to the changed background, on the changed background.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to set a screen on which the specific icon and the at least one of the at least one predetermined icon corresponding to the changed background are displayed as a home screen page.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein, when the icon selected from the at least one icon is moved to a specific region of the changed background, the controller is configured to execute an application corresponding to the selected icon using information corresponding to the specific region.

11. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display module is configured to display a specific icon on a background; and

a controller is configured to divide the background into a plurality of regions while maintaining display state of the background when the specific icon is selected and execute a function of a specific application predetermined for the specific icon when the specific icon is moved to a specific region from among the plurality of regions.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the specific icon is an icon corresponding to the specific application.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is configured to activate the specific region only when the specific icon is selected and deactivate the specific region when selection of the specific icon is cancelled.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is configured to display the specific region such that the specific region is visually discriminated from other regions of the background when the specific icon is selected.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein the controller is configured to display an identification means corresponding to a function of the predetermined specific application in the specific region when the specific icon is selected.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is configured to display an identification means corresponding to a function of the predetermined specific application in the specific region before the specific icon is selected.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to perform an additional function for a basic function provided by the predetermined specific application when the specific icon is moved to the specific region.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the specific icon is an icon of a specific file,

wherein the specific application is an application capable of executing the specific file.

19. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display module is configured to display a specific icon on a background; and

a controller is configured to display a layer on which a predetermined menu of a specific application corresponding to the specific icon is displayed when the specific icon is selected by a first touch, and execute the predetermined menu using information corresponding to a region selected by a second touch applied to the layer while the first touch is maintained.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 19, wherein the layer is displayed on at least part of the background and comprises a transparent, translucent or opaque region on which a plurality of items are displayed.

21. The mobile terminal of claim 19, wherein the controller is configured to execute the predetermined menu using the information corresponding to the region when the first touch is cancelled in the state that the region is selected by the second touch.

22. The mobile terminal of claim 19, wherein the controller is configured to execute the predetermined menu using the information corresponding to the region to which the second touch is applied.

23. The mobile terminal of claim 19, wherein, when a specific item from among a plurality of items scrolled by the second touch is located in the region, the controller is configured to execute the predetermined menu using information relating to the specific item.