TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20150042588A1
• Filed: 08/12/2014
• Published: 02/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: PARK, Jongseok
• Application Number:
  US14/457,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20150042588A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

The present disclosure may provide a mobile terminal including a display unit configured to display screen information and receive a user'"'"'s touch input generating a first control command for changing the screen information, a bezel portion formed to surround an edge of the display unit to support the display unit and provided with a touch sensor receiving a user'"'"'s touch input, and a controller configured to generate a second control command for changing the screen information by a user'"'"'s consecutive touch input moving along at least one region of the bezel portion, wherein the controller controls the display unit to change the screen information based on at least one of the first and the second control command distinguished from each other.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touchscreen;

a bezel located adjacent to an outer edge of the touchscreen;

a touch sensor operatively coupled to the bezel and being configured to detect touch input received at the bezel; and

a controller configured to;

cause the touchscreen to display data;

change the displayed data according to a first manner in response to a first touch input received at the touchscreen; and

change the displayed data according to a second manner in response to a second touch input received at the bezel.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein

the first touch input is a drag input comprising an input at an initial location of the touchscreen and extending over a distance of the touchscreen without breaking contact with the touchscreen;

and

the second touch input is a drag input comprising an input at an initial location of the bezel and extending over a distance of the bezel without breaking contact with the bezel.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the first manner and the second manner are the same function, but represent different magnitudes of the same function.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the first manner and the second manner are different functions, and wherein the distance of the touchscreen of the drag input of the first touch input is about the same as the distance of the bezel portion of the drag input of the second touch input.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to:

change the displayed data in a first proportion to the distance of the touchscreen of the drag input of the first touch input; and

change the displayed data in a second proportion to the distance of the bezel portion of the drag input of the second touch input,

wherein the distance of the touchscreen of the drag input of the first touch input is about the same as the distance of the bezel portion of the drag input of the second touch input, and

wherein the first proportion is different than the second proportion.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the displayed data comprises a plurality of changeable content, and different content of the plurality of contents are changed based on the first touch input and the second touch input.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first manner and the second manner are different functions, wherein the controller is further configured to:

change an active mode of the touchscreen to an inactive mode in response to the second touch input.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the displayed data comprises a cursor formed in text and at least one region within the text, and wherein

the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to move a location of the cursor, or edit at least part of the text, based on the second touch input.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the bezel comprises a first bezel and a second bezel respectively located adjacent to first and second opposing edges of the touchscreen, and wherein the second touch input is received at either or both of the first and second bezels.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, further comprising:

a sensor configured to sense rotation of the mobile terminal; and

wherein the controller is further configured to;

change a display direction of the displayed data when the sensed rotation identifies a change in layout direction of the mobile terminal, wherein respective functions of the first manner and the second manner are changed according the layout direction of the mobile terminal.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 9, further comprising:

a sensor configured to sense rotation of the mobile terminal; and

wherein the controller is further configured to;

change a function of the second manner according the layout direction of the mobile terminal.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the bezel comprises a first region that is directly adjacent to a second region of the bezel, and wherein the controller is further configured to:

control a different function based on a touch input received at the first region and the second region.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to control a function selected based on an initial touch region of the touch input received at the first region and the second region.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display a display area having data of the function in one region, among the first and second regions, adjacent to the initial touch region.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the displayed data comprises an icon for receiving a touch input at an execution screen of an application, and

the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display specific screen information of the application based on a touch input received beginning at the bezel extending to the icon.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the bezel is shaped to cooperate with a light emitting device, wherein the light emitting device is configured to emit light when a touch input is received at the bezel.

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

a terminal body comprising a front side formed with the touchscreen, a rear side facing away the front side, and a lateral side connecting the front side to the rear side; and

a touch sensing unit comprising a first and a second sensing unit disposed to correspond to the touchscreen and the bezel within the terminal body and being formed to sense a user touch input.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the first and the second sensing unit of the touch sensing unit are formed with independent sensing members.

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

at least one manipulation unit disposed at the bezel of the body to receive a user touch input to generate a predetermined control command,

wherein a sensing region forming the touch sensing unit is located between the at least one manipulation unit.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 19, further comprising:

a circuit board configured to generate an electrical signal; and

a wiring unit extended from the touch sensing unit and formed to transfer a signal based on a user touch input to the circuit board,

wherein at least part of the wiring unit and the touch sensing unit is disposed to face the lateral surface.