MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20150169166A1
• Filed: 11/11/2014
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: PARK, Yongchul, KIM, Junghee, AN, Hyunjin
• Granted Patent: US 9,977,590 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification

Abstract

A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a display configured to output a specific image in the image view mode; an extractor that extracts a specific area from the specific image, based on a touch gesture on the specific image; and a controller that creates a thumbnail of the specific image from an image of the extracted specific area, and when the image preview function is executed, outputs a thumbnail list that displays the created thumbnail of the specific image to be visually distinct from the thumbnails of other images.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display configured to display information; and

a controller configured to;

cause the display to display a specific image in an image view mode;

create a thumbnail image of the specific image, the created thumbnail image comprising an extracted area of the specific image; and

cause the display to display a plurality of thumbnail images including the created thumbnail image in an image gallery mode, wherein the created thumbnail image is displayed differently from the remaining thumbnail images of the plurality of thumbnail images.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1 further comprising a memory, wherein the controller is further configured to:

recognize a face in the specific image, and

cause the display to display a graphics object corresponding to the recognized face, the graphics object indicating a recommended area for the extracted area when the recognized face matches a stored face in the memory.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the extracted area corresponds to:

a first area of the specific image indicated by a touch gesture, wherein the touch gesture indicates that the first area is to be hidden;

or

a second area of the specific image other than the first area.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the extracted area corresponds to the first area, and the controller is further configured to:

recognize a face in the first area; and

create the thumbnail image comprising the first area as a first type thumbnail image when the recognized face corresponds to a first face group;

or

create the thumbnail image comprising the first area as a second type thumbnail image when the recognized face corresponds to a second face group.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to:

cause the display to hide the recognized face when the plurality of thumbnail images is displayed when the recognized face corresponds to the first face group; and

cause the display to display the recognized face when the plurality of thumbnail images is displayed when the recognized face corresponds to the second face group.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

cause the display to display related information of an object in the thumbnail image when the created thumbnail image is displayed in the image gallery mode.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the object corresponds to a recognized face, and the controller is further configured to:

cause the display to display profile information stored in a memory, the profile information corresponding to the recognized face.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to display the created thumbnail in a size larger than a size of the remaining thumbnail images of the plurality of thumbnail images.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

cause the display to display the created thumbnail image proximate to a center of the displayed plurality of thumbnail images; and

rearrange the displayed plurality of thumbnail images after a threshold period of time to be displayed in an original order of the displayed plurality of thumbnail images.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

scroll the displayed plurality of thumbnail images in the image gallery mode in response to a scrolling input; and

stop scrolling the displayed plurality of thumbnail images or decrease the speed of scrolling when the created thumbnail image enters a predetermined region.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

cause the display to enlarge the created thumbnail image to an enlarged size in response to an input selecting the created thumbnail image in the image gallery mode; and

change the enlarged created thumbnail image to the specific image after a threshold length of time.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to:

enlarge the created thumbnail image to an enlarged size in response to an input selecting the created thumbnail image in the image gallery mode; and

display a corner indicator in a first area of the enlarged created thumbnail image after a threshold length of time.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to change the enlarged created thumbnail image to the specific image in response to a touch input in a direction indicated by the displayed corner indicator.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to:

recognize a face in the enlarged thumbnail image; and

cause the display to display a related thumbnail image comprising the recognized face, the related thumbnail image displayed in a first region distinct from a second region where the enlarged thumbnail image is displayed.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

group one or more related images with the specific image in a group of images based on a predetermined grouping criterion; and

create a group thumbnail image from a selected area of the specific image in response to a touch input to the specific image.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to display:

the group thumbnail image in the image gallery mode; and

information on the displayed group thumbnail image indicating a number of images included in the group of images.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein:

the predetermined grouping criterion is based on a type of touch input to the one or more related images and the specific image; and

the controller is further configured to cause the display to display the group thumbnail image in the image gallery mode to be distinctly displayed from the other plurality of thumbnail images.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to display:

the group thumbnail image in the image gallery mode; and

individual thumbnail images corresponding to the grouped images consecutively in the image gallery mode in response to an input selecting the displayed group thumbnail image.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the controller is further configured to:

cause the display to stop displaying the individual thumbnail images; and

change the group thumbnail image to a selected one of the individual thumbnail images in response to a selection of the selected one individual thumbnail image.

20. A method for controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying a specific image in an image view mode;

creating a thumbnail image of the specific image, the thumbnail image comprising an extracted area of the specific image; and

displaying a thumbnail list comprising a plurality of thumbnail images including the created thumbnail image in an image gallery mode, wherein the created thumbnail image is distinctly displayed from the remaining thumbnail images of the plurality of thumbnail images.