PORTABLE TERMINAL AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME

• US 20140313151A1
• Filed: 06/27/2014
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Jong-Hwan, LEE, Tae Jin
• Application Number:
  US14/318,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20140313151A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04101 2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0233 Character input methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• 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 1/236 including keys on side or rear faces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A portable terminal including a touch screen configured to receive a touch input and display a plurality of images. The method includes a motion sensing unit configured to sense a motion of the portable terminal; and a controller operatively connected to the motion sensing unit and the touch screen, and configured to: receive, via the touch screen, a touch input to select a particular image among the displayed plurality of images, and change a size of the selected image, in response to a combination of the touch input to the particular image and the motion sensed by the motion sensing unit.

Claims

1. A portable terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to receive a touch input and display a plurality of images;

a motion sensing unit configured to sense a motion of the portable terminal; and

a controller operatively connected to the motion sensing unit and the touch screen, and configured to;

receive, via the touch screen, a touch input to select a particular image among the displayed plurality of images, and

change a size of the selected image, in response to a combination of the touch input to the particular image and the motion sensed by the motion sensing unit.

2. The portable terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller enlarges the selected image each time a shaking motion of the portable terminal is sensed while the touch input to the particular image is maintained.

3. The portable terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the touch screen to display the selected image on an entire display area of the touch screen, when a plurality of motions of the portable terminal are sensed by the motion sensing unit while the touch input to the particular image is maintained.

4. The portable terminal of claim 1, wherein the touch screen displays the plurality of images in a lengthwise format.

5. The portable terminal of claim 1, wherein the plurality of images are displayed in different sizes on the touch screen.

6. The portable terminal of claim 1, wherein when the size of the selected image is enlarged in response to the combination of the touch input to the particular image and the motion sensed by the motion sensing unit, the controller controls the touch screen to display the enlarged image in a size larger than other images among the displayed plurality of images.

7. The portable terminal of claim 1, wherein when another combination of a touch input to the touch screen and a motion of the portable terminal is detected, the controller randomly selects any one of the displayed plurality of images, and changes a size of the randomly selected image.

8. A portable terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to receive a touch input and display a plurality of images including a first image;

a motion sensing unit configured to sense a motion of the portable terminal; and

a controller operatively connected to the motion sensing unit and the touch screen, and configured to;

change an image being displayed on touch screen from the first image to at least one second image, in response to a combination of the touch input to the touch screen and the motion sensed by the motion sensing unit.

9. The portable terminal of claim 8, wherein when the sensed motion includes an upward or downward tilting motion of the portable terminal, the controller controls the touch screen to display upwardly or downwardly scrolled images among the plurality of images.

10. The portable terminal of claim 8, wherein when the sensed motion includes a horizontally tilting motion of the portable terminal, the controller controls the touch screen to display side scrolled images among the plurality of images.

11. The portable terminal of claim 10, wherein the horizontally tilting motion includes a right side tilting motion or a left side tilting motion.

12. The portable terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller controls the touch screen to scroll through the plurality of images according to a motion of the portable terminal.

13. The portable terminal of claim 8, wherein the at least one second image is displayed on the touch screen to be brighter than the first image.

14. The portable terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller controls the portable terminal to notify a user using a vibration or sound of the portable terminal, when the changing of the image from the first image to the at least one second image is completed.

15. The portable terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller controls the portable terminal to notify a user using a vibration or sound of the portable terminal, when the changing of the image from the first image to the at least one second image is in progress.