MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140040742A1
• Filed: 08/01/2013
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: PARK, Hyekyung, LEE, Joowoo, KIM, Hyehyun, LEE, Sunjung
• Granted Patent: US 9,939,998 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/719
• 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 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which various kinds of informations and/or functions for at least one content can be provided through a plurality of partitioned regions generated by partitioning a region of a display object for the at least one content into a plurality of the partitioned regions. The present invention may include creating a display object corresponding to an upper content in a manner of having an inner space partitioned into a plurality of regions and displaying the created display object on a touchscreen, wherein different lower contents subordinate to the upper content are displayed on a plurality of the regions, respectively.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touchscreen; and

a controller controlling a display object to be created to correspond to an upper content in a manner of having an inner space partitioned into a plurality of regions, the controller controlling the created display object to be displayed on the touchscreen, the controller controlling different lower contents subordinate to the upper content to be displayed on a plurality of the regions, respectively.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the display object further comprises a play menu icon provided to the inner space and wherein if the play menu icon is selected, the controller controls the upper content to be played.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the upper content corresponds to a single video content and wherein the lower content includes side information on the lower content.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the side information comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a thumbnail image, ranking information, inserted audio information, synopsis information and cast member information of the video content.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 3, further comprising a wireless communication unit, wherein the controller obtains the side information by a search through the wireless communication unit.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the lower content further comprises a thumbnail image of a specific play view of the video content and wherein if a region having the specific play view thumbnail image arranged thereon is selected from a plurality of the regions, the controller controls the video content to be played from the specific play view.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein if a prescribed region is selected from a plurality of the regions, the controller controls a lower content corresponding to the selected prescribed region to be displayed as a full screen.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein if a prescribed one of a plurality of the regions is extended in response to a touch input to the touchscreen, the controller changes a display form of a lower content information to correspond to a size of the extended region.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the upper content corresponds to a webpage and wherein the lower content includes an image included in the webpage.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein if a prescribed region is selected from a plurality of the regions, the controller controls a part, which includes an image corresponding to the selected region, to be displayed on the webpage.

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

creating a display object corresponding to an upper content in a manner of having an inner space partitioned into a plurality of regions; and

displaying the created display object on a touchscreen,

wherein different lower contents subordinate to the upper content are displayed on a plurality of the regions, respectively.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the display object further comprises a play menu icon provided to the inner space and wherein the method further comprises the step of if the play menu icon is selected, playing the upper content.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the upper content corresponds to a single video content and wherein the lower content includes side information on the lower content.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the side information comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a thumbnail image, ranking information, inserted audio information, synopsis information and cast member information of the video content.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising the step of obtaining the side information by a search through a wireless communication unit.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the lower content further comprises a thumbnail image of a specific play view of the video content and wherein the method further comprises the steps of receiving an input of a command for selecting a region having the specific play view thumbnail image arranged thereon from a plurality of the regions and playing the video content from the specific play view.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

receiving an input of a command for selecting a prescribed region from a plurality of the regions; and

displaying a lower content corresponding to the selected prescribed region as a full screen.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

extending a prescribed one of a plurality of the regions in response to a touch input to the touchscreen; and

changing a display form of a lower content information to correspond to a size of the extended region.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the upper content corresponds to a webpage and wherein the lower content includes an image included in the webpage.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising the step of if a prescribed region is selected from a plurality of the regions, displaying a part, which includes an image corresponding to the selected region, on the webpage.