MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20150268811A1
• Filed: 06/20/2014
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: MIN, Jihye, LEE, Yongdeok, BAE, Kwonhan, JANG, Juhee
• Granted Patent: US 9,977,589 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

Disclosed is a mobile terminal which provides a plurality of home screen pages where application-related graphic objects have been arranged. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit configured to output one of the plurality of home screen pages; a sensing unit configured to sense a touch to the display unit, in a state where one of the plurality of home screen pages has been output; and a controller configured to output graphic objects arranged on the plurality of home screen pages to a single page, in response to a preset type of touch to the display unit, wherein at least one graphic object arranged on said one home screen page, and at least one graphic object arranged on one or more other home screen pages rather than said one home screen page among the plurality of home screen pages are together output to the single page.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touchscreen; and

a controller configured to;

cause the touchscreen to display a first home screen among a plurality of home screen pages at a given time such that remaining home screen pages among the plurality of home screen pages are not displayed while the first home screen page is displayed individually, each of the plurality of home screen pages including a plurality of graphic objects and each of the plurality of graphic objects associated with a respectively corresponding application; and

cause the touchscreen to display a first graphic object that is associated with the first home screen and a second graphic object that is associated with another home screen page, but not associated with the first home screen, on a single screen page in response to a first touch input that is applied to the touchscreen while the first home screen page is displayed.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to redisplay the first home screen page in response to a second touch input that is applied to the touchscreen while the first and second graphic objects are displayed on the single screen page, the first home screen page redisplayed not including the second graphic object.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display options in response to a user input received prior to the first touch input, the options comprising a first option for displaying thumbnail images, each of the thumbnail images representing a respectively corresponding one of the plurality of home screen pages, and a second option for displaying the first and second graphic objects on the single screen page;

and

the first touch input is for selecting the second option.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display an icon for switching between displaying the single screen page including the first and second graphic objects and displaying the thumbnail images such that the thumbnail images are displayed instead of the first and second graphic objects in response to selection of the icon while the first and second graphic objects are displayed on the single screen page.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second graphic objects displayed on the single screen page have different sizes, the sizes adjusted based on a preset condition.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the preset condition is determined according to a usage pattern of each of the first and second graphic objects such that a size of the first graphic object that is used more frequently is greater than a size of the second graphic object that is used less frequently.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the preset condition is time of a day, and a size of each of the first and second graphic objects is determined based on time when the first touch input is applied to the touchscreen such that a size of one of the first and second graphic object is greater when the first touch input is applied at first time than when the first touch input is applied to the touchscreen at a second time that is different from the first time.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein:

the preset condition is attribute information of the graphic objects; and

the controller is further configured to determine sizes of the first and second graphic objects according to the attribute information.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to determine display positions of the first and second graphic objects on the single screen page based on types of the first and second graphic objects.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display the first and second graphic objects at one portion of the single screen page in an overlapping manner when the first and second graphic objects are associated with a same application.

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

display first content of the first graphic object when the first and second graphic objects are displayed in the overlapping manner such that second content of the second graphic object is obscured by the first graphic object and not displayed; and

display the second content in response to a touch input that is applied at the overlapped first and second graphic objects while the first content is displayed such that the first content is not displayed when the second content is displayed from the overlapped first and second graphic objects.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

the first touch input comprises a pinch-in; and

the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display progressive shifting of the second graphic object onto the single screen page during the pinch-in.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

the first touch input is applied to two points on the touchscreen; and

the first and second graphic objects displayed on the single screen page are of a same type as a type of a graphic object that is positioned at a first point of the two points and touched via the first touch input.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein:

the plurality of graphic objects comprise different types of graphic objects; and

the controller is further configured to control the touchscreen not to display graphic objects that are different types compared to the type of the graphic object positioned at the first point.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

the first and second graphic objects displayed on the single screen page comprise at least one widget and at least one icon; and

the controller is further configured to activate an edit mode, in which a display type of the at least one widget and at least one icon is changeable, in response to a user input that is received while the single screen page is displayed.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is further configured to change the display type of the at least one widget and at least one icon in response to a second touch input that is applied to the touchscreen during the edit mode.

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

change the display type of the at least one widget and at least one icon into a first type when the second touch input is applied to a first region of the single screen page; and

change the display type of the at least one widget and at least one icon into a second type when the second touch input is applied to a second region of the single screen page that is different from the first region.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 16, wherein:

the controller is further configured to deactivate the edit mode and cause the touchscreen to redisplay the first home screen page in response to a third touch input that is applied to the touchscreen after the display type of the at least one widget and at least one icon is changed on the singe screen page; and

an arrangement of graphic objects on the redisplayed first home screen page is changed according to the change of the display type of the at least one widget and at least one icon on the single screen page.

19. A method of controlling a mobile terminal comprising a touchscreen, the method comprising:

displaying, on the touchscreen, a first home screen among a plurality of home screen pages at a given time such that remaining home screen pages among the plurality of home screen pages are not displayed while the first home screen page is displayed individually, each of the plurality of home screen pages including a plurality of graphic objects and each of the plurality of graphic objects associated with a respectively corresponding application; and

displaying a first graphic object that is associated with the first home screen and a second graphic object that is associated with another home screen page, but not associated with the first home screen, on a single screen page in response to a first touch input that is applied to the touchscreen while the first home screen page is displayed.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising redisplaying the first home screen page in response to a second touch input that is applied to the touchscreen while the first and second graphic objects are displayed on the single screen page.