MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20130027364A1
• Filed: 02/29/2012
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Seho, Lim, Youngho, Ji, Kwangil
• Granted Patent: US 9,442,743 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a storage unit in which a first operating system (OS) and a second OS are loaded; a first display allocated to the loaded first OS and a second display allocated to the loaded second OS; and a controller configured to receive an indication signal indicating a second OS related event has occurred on the mobile terminal, and to selectively execute a second operation corresponding to the second OS related event using the first OS and allocate at least a portion of the first display to an output of the executing second operation.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a storage unit in which a first operating system (OS) and a second OS are loaded;

a first display allocated to the loaded first OS and a second display allocated to the loaded second OS; and

a controller configured to receive an indication signal indicating a second OS related event has occurred on the mobile terminal, and to selectively execute a second operation corresponding to the second OS related event using the first OS and allocate at least a portion of the first display to an output of the executing second operation.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to selectively execute the second operation and allocate at least the portion of the first display based on a type of at least one of a first operatin executing on the first OS and the second operation.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to selectively execute the second operation and allocate at least the portion of the first display to the output of the second operation, when an importance of the second operation is greater than a preset threshold or when the importance of the second operation is greater than an importance of the first operation.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein when the first OS is in an idle mode, the first operation is displaying an idle screen on the first display, and

wherein the controller is further configured to determine the second operation is more important than the first operation when the first operation is displaying the idle screen.

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

a communication unit configured to form a communication network with an external device,

wherein the controller is further configure to switch outputting an execution result of the first operation to the external device.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller is further configured to control the first OS to execute the first operation in a background, when outputting the execution result of the first operation to the external device.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller is further configured to control the first OS to execute the first operation using input data generating by an input mechanism connected to the communication unit, or to control the external device to execute the first operation using the input data.

8. A mobile terminal comprising:

a communication unit configured to form a communication network with an external device;

a storage unit in which a first OS and a second OS are loaded; and

a controller configured to receive an indication signal indicating a second OS related event has occurred on the mobile terminal, to output an execution result of a first operation operating in the first OS through the external device and to display an output of a second operation corresponding to the second OS related event in a display portion allocated to the first OS.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller is further configured to selectively output the execution result of the first operation on the external device and to display the output of the second operation based on a type of at least one of the first operation executing on the first OS and the second operation.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller is further configured to control the first OS to execute the first operation in a background, when outputting the execution result of the first operation to the external device.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller is further configured to control the first OS to execute the first operation using input data generating by an input mechanism connected to the communication unit, or to control the external device to execute the first operation using the input data.

12. A mobile terminal comprising:

a storage unit in which a first OS and a second OS are loaded;

a first display allocated to the first OS and a second display allocated to the second OS; and

a controller configured to execute a first operation using the first OS and display an output of the executing first operation only on the first display, to receive an indication signal indicating a second OS related event has occurred on the mobile terminal, to split the displaying of the output of the executing first operation on the first display to both of the first and second displays, and to output an execution result of a second operation corresponding to the second OS related event to first or second displays.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to selectively output the execution result of the second operation based on a type of at least one of the first operation executing on the first OS and the second operation.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to control the second OS to execute the first operation.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 12, further comprising:

a communication unit configured to form a communication network with an external device,

wherein the controller is further configure to switch outputting the execution result of the second operation to the external device.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is further configured to control the second OS to execute the second operation in a background, when outputting the execution result of the second operation to the external device.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to control the first OS to execute the first operation using input data generating by an input mechanism connected to the communication unit, or to control the external device to execute the first operation using the input data.

18. A mobile terminal comprising:

a communication unit configured to form a communication network with an external device;

a storage unit in which a first OS and a second OS are loaded; and

a controller configured to receive an indication signal indicating a second OS related event has occurred on the mobile terminal, and to output an execution result of a second operation operating in the second OS through the external device based on a type of at least one of the first operation executing on the first OS and the second operation.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the controller is further configured to control the second OS to execute the second operation in a background, when outputting the execution result of the second operation to the external device.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the controller is further configured to control the second OS to execute the second operation using input data generating by an input mechanism connected to the communication unit, or to control the external device to execute the second operation using the input data.

21. A mobile terminal comprising:

a storage unit in which a first OS and a second OS are loaded; and

a controller configured to share information related to a first application for the first OS with a second application for the second OS for performing the same function as that of the first application.

22. The mobile terminal of claim 21, wherein the controller is further configured to share with the second application at least one of a) setting information of the first application and b) information generated as an execution result of the first application.

23. The mobile terminal of claim 21, further comprising:

a display configured to display an icon of the first application and an icon of the second application on one screen.

24. The mobile terminal of claim 21, further comprising:

a display configured to display a sharing icon of the first application and the second application,

wherein the controller is further configured to receive a selection signal of the sharing icon and to display a sub-area for selecting the first application and the second application.