MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140184486A1
• Filed: 04/22/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: MOON, Kyungjin, JUNG, Sehyun, OH, Sesook, YANG, Yoonseok, KANG, Shinnyue
• Granted Patent: US 9,766,694 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/005 Input arrangements through a video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/632 for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera

Abstract

There are disclosed a mobile terminal and a controlling method thereof, which is able to simply input a real-time external image to an input field as data, specifically, such that a user may input a character or picture captured from the real-time image inputted from the outside via the camera and that the real time image maybe captured without switching a screen displaying the input field, so as to allow a user to intuitively recognize which input field an object provided in the image is inputted to.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a camera configured to input an image thereto from the outside;

a display configured to display a first input field operating in a first input mode is activated; and

a controller configured to;

control at least some area of the image of the camera to be displayed in the first input field operating in a second input mode, when an input mode of the first input field is switched from the first input mode into the second input mode,

capture the image displayed in the first input field, and

input at least some area of the captured image in the first input field as data.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller further configured to display a command icon for inputting a command to process the data input to the first input field

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller further configured to control the display to:

display a second input field operating in the first input mode, and

display together the first input field operating in the second input mode that displays at least some area of the image of the camera and the second input field operating in the first input mode when the input mode of the first input field is switched from the first input mode into the second input mode.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller further configured to perform character recognition in the captured image, when the at least some area of the captured image is input to the first input field, and controls a text extracted by the character recognition to be inputted to the first input field as data.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the first input field is a search box, and

the controller further configured to display the result of searching for an object provided in the captured image when at least predetermined area of the captured image is input to the first input field.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein the controller further configured to perform searching for the object based on location information of the mobile terminal.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the first input mode includes at least one of a text input mode, a stored-image load mode, a voice input mode, a write input mode and a clipboard paste mode.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the input mode of the first input field to be switched from the first input mode into the second input mode, when detecting a first user command, and

the first user command is a touch drag input performed from one end of the first input field along a longitudinal direction of the first input field.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein the controller controls the input mode of the first input field to be switched from the first input mode into a third input mode, when detecting a second user command, and

the second user command is a touch drag input performed from the other end of the first input field along the longitudinal direction of the first input field.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein the controller controls the first input field to be split into a first sub input field and a second sub input field and displayed, when the touch drag input of the first user command finishes in the first input field, and controls an input mode of the first or second sub input field to be switched into the second input mode.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein the controller automatically captures the displayed image, when the touch drag input of the first user command reaches the other end of the first input field.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller automatically capture the displayed image, when an overall area of a character object provided in the displayed image is arranged in the first input field.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller separately displays a character object and a picture object that are provided in the captured image, as the image is captured, and controls one of the separated character object and picture objects selected by the user to be inputted to the first input field as data.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller changes the size of the first input field, when detecting a third user command.

15. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the size of the first input field to be automatically changed and displayed to arrange an overall area of one object out of objects provided in the image of the camera in the first input field.

16. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the image of the camera to be automatically zoomed out and displayed to arrange an overall area of one object out of objects provided in the image in the first input field.

17. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller stores an overall external image including the image displayed in the first input field, when the displayed image is captured, and

the controller displays a different area of the overall external image from the image displayed in the first input field to be displayed in the first input field, when detecting a fourth user command.

18. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller configured to perform character recognition for a character object provided in the captured image,

automatically display an implementing screen of an application connected with an information type of a text extracted by the character recognition, and

input the extracted text to a third input field provided in the implementing screen as data.

19. A controlling method of a mobile terminal comprising steps of:

inputting an external image to a camera;

displaying a first input field operating in a first input mode;

controlling at least predetermined area of a image of the camera in the first input field operating in the second input mode, when the input mode of the first input mode is switched from the first input mode into the second input mode; and

controlling at least predetermined area of the image captured from the image displayed in the first input field to be inputted to the first input field as data.

20. A recording medium comprising:

a command configured to input an external image to a camera;

a command configured to display a first input field operating in a first input mode;

a command configured to control at least predetermined area of a image of the camera in the first input field operating in the second input mode, when the input mode of the first input mode is switched from the first input mode into the second input mode; and

a command configured to control at least predetermined area of the image captured from the image displayed in the first input field to be inputted to the first input field as data.