MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20150261376A1
• Filed: 09/02/2014
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Jihwan, CHUN, Sinae, KIM, Yongsin, LEE, Doyoung, KIM, Jongho
• Granted Patent: US 9,651,989 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04809 Textured surface identifying touch areas, e.g. overlay structure for a virtual keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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

Abstract

Provided is a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal including: a body including a front surface, a side surface and a rear surface, a touch screen including a first region that is disposed on the front surface and formed to have a first curvature and a second region that is disposed on the side surface and extending from the first region and formed to have a second curvature, a sensing unit configured to sense a touch input applied to the touch screen; and a control unit configured to: display on the first region of the touch screen at least a portion of an execution screen of an application, detect a touch input applied to the execution screen, and display on an interface region located between the first region and the second region at least a portion of a graphic object associated with control of an execution screen.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a body including a front surface, a side surface and a rear surface;

a touch screen including a first region that is disposed on the front surface and formed to have a first curvature and a second region that is disposed on the side surface and extending from the first region, and formed to have a second curvature;

a sensing unit configured to sense a touch input applied to the touch screen; and

a control unit configured to;

display on the first region of the touch screen at least a portion of an execution screen of an application;

detect a touch input applied to the execution screen; and

display on an interface region located between the first region and the second region at least a portion of a graphic object associated with control of the execution screen.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit differently changes the execution screen output to the touch screen in response to a dragging input applied to the graphic object is moved from one position in the graphic object to another position.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the graphic object includes information indicating a position of the execution screen output to the touch screen, and

wherein the control unit is further configured to:

control an output range of the execution screen depending on the extent of dragging input applied to the graphic object, and

display additional information corresponding to the dragging input applied to be adjacent to the graphic object.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the sensing unit is formed to further sense an inclination of the touch screen, and

wherein the control unit is further configured to:

display a first graphic object formed to enable dragging to be input in a horizontal direction to the interface region in response to the fact that the touch screen is inclined to be a horizontal viewing mode and,

display a second graphic object formed to enable dragging to be input in a vertical direction to the interface region in response to the fact that the touch screen is inclined to be a vertical viewing mode.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first region having the first curvature is a plane area, and the second region having the second curvature is a curved area.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the sensing unit is configured such that dragging input applied to the graphic object is also able to be sensed with respect to an edge area of the first region adjacent to the interface region and an edge area of the second region adjacent to the interval region.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when the interface region is partitioned into a plurality of areas having different curvatures, the control unit performs control such that the graphic object is output to a position or area in which the first or second curvature is first changed.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when the interface region is partitioned into a plurality of areas having different curvatures,

the control unit performs control such that the graphic object is output to a boundary position or area having the greatest curvature or change extent in the curvature.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when at least a part of the graphic object is output to the interface region while icons of a plurality of applications are output to the second region, the control unit differently changes a method of a touch input for executing functions corresponding to the icons of the plurality of applications.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit performs control such that visual information corresponding to moving of dragging input applied to the graphic object is output to the second region.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the visual information is output to a position opposite to a moving direction of the drag input in the second region, and

wherein, when a touch input is applied to the output visual information, the control unit performs control such that a screen corresponding to visual information to which the touch input is applied is output to the first region.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the touch screen is a flexible display that is bendable so that at least one of the first and second curvatures is changed by an external force, and

wherein the control unit performs control such that the graphic object is moved to a boundary position or area having the greatest change extent in the curvature due to the external force in response to bending of the flexible touch screen due to the external force.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when the dragging input applied to the graphic object leaves the graphic object by a criterion range or more and is moved to one position of the first region or the second region, the control unit performs control such that a predetermined alarm is output.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the graphic object includes a first portion sensing a drag input and a second portion different from the first portion, and

wherein the control unit outputs the first portion to the interface region and outputs the second portion to an edge area of the first region adjacent to the interface region or an edge area of the second region adjacent to the interface region.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when a touch input is sensed with respect to one area of the execution screen while at least a part of the execution screen is output to extend to the interfaceregion and the second region in addition to the first region,

the control unit performs control such that a part of an execution screen that has been displayed to the interface region and the second region is output only to the first region.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when at least a part of the execution screen is output to extend to the interface region and the second region in addition to the first region,

the control unit changes a shape of a graphic object output to the interface region depending on an attribute in a background screen of the execution screen.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when first and second objects associated with control of the execution screen are output at the same time,

the control unit outputs at least a part of the first graphic object to the interface region and outputs the second graphic object to any one of the first region and the second region.

18. A mobile terminal comprising:

a body including a front surface, a side surface and a rear surface;

a touch screen including a first region that is disposed on the front surface and formed to have a first curvature and a second region that disposed on the side surface and extending from the first region and formed to have a second curvature;

a sensing unit configured to sense a touch input applied to the touch screen; and

a control unit configured to;

display on at least one of the first region and the second region of the touch screen at least a portion of an execution screen of an application;

detect a touch input applied to an interface region located between the first region and the second region; and

change the execution screen of the application depending on the extent to which the touch input applied to the interface region is dragged.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the control unit performs control such that at least a part of the execution screen is output to extend to the interface region and the second region in addition to the first region, and

wherein the control unit performs control such that a state in which at least a part of the execution screen is output to the interface region and the second region while the touch input is dragged is maintained.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 19, wherein the control unit performs control such that a first mark corresponding to the touch input and a second mark corresponding to release of the touch input are output to the first region or the second region.