MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20150277654A1
• Filed: 03/26/2015
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: IBARAKI, Atsuko
• Granted Patent: US 9,910,590 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen

Abstract

In an e-mail input mode, a control module can cause text information selected by a touch operation on a portion of a touch panel that overlaps an operation key display area of a display to be displayed in an edit display area, and can cause time information and a detected state of position information to be displayed in a first notification area. In the e-mail input mode, when a touch operation is performed on a portion of the touch panel that overlaps the first notification area, the control module can cause the time displayed in a time display area to be displayed in an editable manner, and can cause edited time to be displayed in an edit display area as text information.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display module having a screen;

a touch panel located to overlap said screen and configured to accept an operation by a user; and

a control module configured to, in an input mode of inputting text information, control said display module to cause said text information selected by a touch operation on a portion of said touch panel that overlaps a first area in said screen to be displayed in a second area in said screen, and to cause information to be notified to said user to be displayed in a third area in said screen,

when said touch operation is performed on a portion of said touch panel that overlaps said third area in said input mode, said control module being configured to cause said information displayed in said third area to be displayed in said second area as said text information as related.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein

said third area includes a time display area in which time information is displayed, and

when said touch operation is performed on a portion of said touch panel that overlaps said time display area in said input mode, said control module is configured to cause said time information to be displayed in said second area as said text information.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a detection device configured to detect position information on a current location, wherein

said third area includes a position display area in which a detected state of said position information obtained by said detection device is displayed, and

when said touch operation is performed on a portion of said touch panel that overlaps said position display area in said input mode, said control module is configured to cause an address of said current location detected by said detection device to be displayed in said second area as said text information.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a communication module configured to obtain weather information by making communication with an external instrument of said mobile terminal, wherein

said third area includes a weather display area in which said weather information is displayed, and

when said touch operation is performed on a portion of said touch panel that overlaps said weather display area in said input mode, said control module is configured to cause said weather information obtained via said communication module to be displayed in said second area as said text information.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein

said third area includes a date display area in which a plurality of dates in a predetermined period are displayed as date information, and

said control module is configured to cause a date selected by said touch operation performed on a portion of said touch panel that overlaps said date display area in said input mode to be displayed in said second area as said text information.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said third area includes an area displayed overwriting at least one of said first area and said second area partially or entirely by a predetermined operation on said touch panel.

7. A method for controlling a mobile terminal including a display module having a screen and a touch panel located to overlap said screen and configured to accept an operation by a user, comprising the steps of:

in an input mode of inputting text information, controlling said display module to display said text information, selected by a touch operation on a portion of said touch panel that overlaps a first area in said screen, in a second area in said screen, and to display information to be notified to said user in a third area in said screen; and

when said touch operation is performed on a portion of said touch panel that overlaps said third area in said input mode, causing said information displayed in said third area to be displayed in said second area as said text information as related