MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140123013A1
• Filed: 09/17/2013
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: LEE, Minjeong, LEE, Choonjae, LEE, Sangwoon
• Granted Patent: US 10,338,763 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/719
• 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 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0435 Change or adaptation of the frame rate of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations

Abstract

A mobile terminal allowing for a touch input and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes a display unit configured to output a first home screen page among at least one home screen page, and a controller configured to output a first image corresponding to video data, as a background image of the first home screen page, wherein in response to a sensed touch input for switching the first home screen page to a second home screen page different from the first home screen page, the controller controls the display unit to play an image corresponding to the video data while the first home screen page is being switched to the second home screen page.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display unit configured to output a first home screen page among at least one home screen page; and

a controller configured to output a first image corresponding to video data, as a background image of the first home screen page,

wherein in response to a sensed touch input for switching the first home screen page to a second home screen page different from the first home screen page, the controller controls the display unit to play an image corresponding to the video data while the first home screen page is being switched to the second home screen page.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the video data includes a plurality of images including information regarding different points in time, and

the image played on the display unit is related to at least one image continued from the first image among the plurality of images.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein when the switching from the first home screen page to the second home screen page is completed, the controller stops playing of the image and

outputs a second image, which was being output to the display unit at a point in time at which the playing of the image is stopped, as a background image of the second home screen page.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein at least one function icon corresponding to different functions is displayed in the home screen page, and

when a touch input corresponding to a pre-set scheme is applied to the display unit, the controller does not output the function icon any longer and activates a clean view mode for playing an image corresponding to the video data on the display unit.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the touch input corresponding to the pre-set scheme is a pinch-in touch input, and

when a pinch-out touch input, the opposite to the pinch-in touch input, is applied to the display unit,

the controller terminates the clean view mode and outputs again the function icon on the home screen page.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein when the clean view mode is terminated,

a third image, which was being displayed on the display unit at a point in time at which the pinch-out touch input was applied, is output as a background image of the home screen page.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller outputs images corresponding to different video data according to a degree in which the pinch-in touch input is applied.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein when the home screen page is output to the display unit, state information is output to a region of the display unit, and

in a state in which the clean view mode is activated, only an image corresponding to the video data is played without outputting the state information.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein when a touch input is applied to the display unit while the image is being played, the controller outputs at least one graphic image related to control and change of the video data.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first home screen page is switched to the second home screen page according to a flicking or dragging touch input applied to the display unit, and

a play rate of the image being played while the first home screen page is switched to the second home screen page varies according to a touch rate of the flicking or dragging touch input.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein play sections of images played while the first home screen is being switched to the second home screen page according to the flicking or dragging touch input are different.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when an output request with respect to a home screen page is received from a user while an image corresponding to video data different from the video data on the display unit,

the controller plays the image corresponding to the different video data in a background of the home screen page together with the home screen page or outputs any one image included in the different video data.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein while the first home screen page is being switched to the second home screen page, the amount of images included in the video data played on the display unit varies according to a user setting.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when a touch input is applied to the display unit in a first direction, the controller switches the first home screen page output to the display unit to the second home screen page, and

when a touch input is applied to the display unit in a second direction, the controller changes the video data to video data different from the video data, and changes a background image of the first home screen page to an image corresponding to the different video data.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the video data is video data edited to have a capacity level equal to or smaller than pre-set capacity in the video data equal to or greater than the pre-set capacity, and

the video data is stored in a memory, together with the different video data edited to have a capacity level equal to or smaller than the pre-set capacity.

16. A control method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

outputting a home screen page in which a first image corresponding to video data as a background image;

sensing a touch input corresponding to a pre-set scheme with respect to the home screen page; and

terminating outputting of the home screen page on the basis of the touch input, and playing video corresponding to the video data, starting from a point corresponding to the first image,

wherein in the playing of the video, a function icon included in the home screen page is not output.