MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140011487A1
• Filed: 05/22/2013
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: HWANG, Myunghee, LEE, Kimoon, HWANG, Soojeong, LEE, Nalin
• Granted Patent: US 9,622,056 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/416
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/62 user interface aspects of conference calls
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a memory configured to store a phonebook database including personal information and a profile image of each of a plurality of counterparts; a memory; a display unit; and a controller configured to recognize faces of people in an image displayed on the display unit, extract available personal information from the phonebook database of counterparts corresponding to the recognized faces, and perform a group call or a group chat, via the wireless communication unit, with the corresponding counterparts using the extracted personal information.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

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

a memory configured to store a phonebook database including personal information and a profile image of each of a plurality of counterparts;

a display unit; and

a controller configured to;

recognize faces of people in an image displayed on the display unit,

extract available personal information from the phonebook database of counterparts corresponding to the recognized faces, and

perform a group call or a group chat, via the wireless communication unit, with the corresponding counterparts using the extracted personal information.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether the recognized faces correspond to counterparts included the phonebook database.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to identify first recognized faces of the corresponding counterparts that are included in the phonebook database and identify second recognized faces of the corresponding counterparts that are not included in the phonebook database.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to identify the first recognized faces using a first icon displayed near the first recognized faces, and identify the second recognized faces using a second icon displayed near the second recognized faces.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to request for the personal information of at least one counterpart corresponding to the second recognized faces from at least one of the counterparts corresponding to the first recognized faces.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configure to access a cloud account of at least one of the counterparts corresponding to the first recognized faces to retrieve the personal information of at least one counterpart corresponding to the second recognized faces.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to access an SNS account or a homepage of at least one of the counterparts corresponding to the first recognized faces to retrieve the personal information of at least one counterpart corresponding to the second recognized faces.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein if a corresponding second icon is selected, the controller is further configured to create a new corresponding counterpart having the second recognized face as a profile image in the phonebook database.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display on the display unit the image including the faces of the people as a background image when performing the group call or group chat.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to display a success indication near a recognized face included in the image that has been successfully connected to and to display a fail indication near a recognized face included in the image that has not been successfully connected to.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein while the group call is in progress, the controller is further configured to control the display unit to visually indicate a person currently speaking.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein while the group call is in progress, the controller is further configured to control the display unit to display language captions for speech included in the call.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein while the group call is in progress, and if a specific recognized face is selected from the image, the controller is further configured to terminate the call with the person corresponding to the specific recognized face.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein while the group call is in progress, and if a specific recognized face is selected from the image, the controller is further configured to initiate a separate message communication with only the person corresponding to the specific recognized face.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein while the group call is in progress, and if a specific recognized face is selected from the image, the controller is further configured to initiate a separate message communication with only persons excluding the person corresponding to the recognized face.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein while the group call is in progress, the controller is further configured to control the display unit to visually distinguish a recognized face corresponding to a person having sent a message.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the image includes a combination of profile images included in the phonebook database.

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

a camera configured to capture a real-time image as corresponding to the image including the recognized faces.

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

storing, in a memory, a phonebook database including personal information and a profile image of each of a plurality of counterparts;

recognizing, via a controller, faces of people in an image displayed on a display unit;

extracting, via the controller, available personal information from the phonebook database of counterparts corresponding to the recognized faces; and

perform, via the controller controlling a wireless communication unit, a group call or a group chat with the corresponding counterparts using the extracted personal information.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

identifying first recognized faces of the corresponding counterparts that are included in the phonebook database and identifying second recognized faces of the corresponding counterparts that are not included in the phonebook database.