MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20150339055A1
• Filed: 12/29/2014
• Published: 11/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: CHO, Jungsun
• Application Number:
  US14/584,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20150339055A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0339 Touch strips, e.g. orthogonal touch strips to control cursor movement or scrolling; single touch strip to adjust parameter or to implement a row of soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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: H04M 1/0268 including a flexible display panel
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a terminal body including a front surface, a lateral surface, and a rear surface; a display unit including a first region disposed on one side of the terminal body and a second region disposed on another side of the terminal body; and a controller configured to when an event occurs on the mobile terminal, display a graphic object indicating the occurrence of the event in one of the first and second regions, when a pre-set type of touch is applied to the graphic object, display notification information related to the graphic object in the other region different from the any one region to allow contents related to the event to be read, and when the notification information displayed in the other region is selected, display contents related to the event in at least a portion of the other region to allow the contents related to the event to be read.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a terminal body including a front surface, a lateral surface, and a rear surface;

a display unit including a first region disposed on one side of the terminal body and a second region disposed on another side of the terminal body; and

a controller configured to;

when an event occurs on the mobile terminal, display a graphic object indicating the occurrence of the event in one of the first and second regions,

when a pre-set type of touch is applied to the graphic object, display notification information related to the graphic object in the other region different from the any one region to allow contents related to the event to be read, and

when the notification information displayed in the other region is selected, display contents related to the event in at least a portion of the other region to allow the contents related to the event to be read.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the notification information displayed in the other region is a graphic object which was displayed in the one region and which has been moved to the other region.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein when the graphic object is moved to the other region from the one region, the moved graphic object is no longer displayed in the one region.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the other region has a particular region in which the moved graphic object is displayed, and

wherein when a pre-set period of time has lapsed, the particular region disappears from the other region together with the graphic object displayed in the particular region.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein, when the particular region is not displayed in the other region, and when a pre-set type of touch is applied to the other region, the particular region is displayed in a sliding manner in the other region, and a graphic object included in the particular region is displayed together with the particular region.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display a plurality of graphic objects corresponding to different events are displayed in the one region,

wherein the other region comprises a first sub-region in which notification information related to the graphic object to which the pre-set type of touch has been applied is displayed and a second sub-region in which at least one of the plurality of graphic objects is displayed,

wherein the graphic object to which the pre-set type of touch has been applied, among the plurality of graphic objects, is displayed in the first sub-region, and

wherein when any one of the plurality of graphic objects is selected, the other graphic objects, excluding the selected graphic object, are displayed in the second sub-region.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein when any one of the plurality of graphic objects is selected, the controller is further configured to display information related to the selected graphic object, to a vicinity of the selected graphic object, and move graphic objects displayed in the vicinity of the selected graphic object, among the plurality of graphic objects, to the second sub-region to display the same in the second sub-region.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein when the selected graphic object is selected again, the controller is further configured to stop displaying the information related to the selected graphic object disappear, and move the graphic objects displayed in the second sub-region back to one region.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein, as the graphic objects displayed in the second sub-region are moved to the one region, the graphic objects disappear from the second sub-region.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the display unit further comprises a third region on a front surface thereof, and

wherein when a drag input toward the third region is applied to the selected graphic object, the controller is further configured to display an execution screen related to the selected graphic object to at least a portion of the third region.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein when the drag input starts from one of the first and second regions, passing through the third region, and reaches the other region, the controller is further configured to execute a pre-set function related to the selected graphic object.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein when the selected graphic object is a graphic object denoting a message application, and when the drag input moves from one region to reach the other region, the controller is further configured to transmit a call signal to an external device related to the message.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to execute different functions depending on a direction of a flicking input applied to the graphic object denoting the occurrence of the event.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein when the flicking input is an input applied in a first direction as an upward direction based on the front surface of the terminal body,

wherein the controller is further configured to display the graphic object to which the flicking input has been applied, in the other region, and when the flicking input is an input applied in a second direction as a downward direction based on the front surface of the terminal body, and

wherein the controller is further configured to display detailed information related to the graphic object to which the flicking input has been applied, in at least a portion of one of the first and second regions.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the display unit further comprises a third region on a front surface thereof,

wherein when the flicking input is an input applied in a third direction from any one of the first and second regions to the other, the controller is further configured to display screen information related to the graphic object to which the flicking input has been applied, in at least a portion of the third region, and

wherein when the flicking input is an input applied in a fourth direction from any one of the first and second regions toward an outside of an output region of the display unit, the controller is further configured to stop display the graphic object to which the flicking input has been applied on the display unit.

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

display a plurality of graphic objects in the first and second regions, and

when at least one of the plurality of graphic objects displayed in the first and second regions is selected, display at least one screen information related to the at least one selected graphic object in at least a portion of the third region.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 16, wherein the at least one screen information is displayed in a position corresponding to a position of the selected graphic object in the first region, and

when a touch is applied to the at least one screen information, the controller is further configured to execute a pre-set function with respect to the at least one screen information.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when at least one graphic object is displayed in the first and second regions, and when a first touch applied to both the first and second regions together is sensed, the controller is further configured to stop displaying the at least one graphic object on the first and second regions, and

when a second touch different from the first touch is sensed, the controller is further configured to again display the at least one graphic object.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the display unit further comprises a third region on a front surface thereof, and

wherein when a call signal is received, the controller is further configured to display notification information indicating the reception of the call signal in a portion of the first and second regions, and display a graphic object denoting a function related to the reception of the call signal in at least a portion of the third region.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 19, wherein the controller is further configured to execute a function related to the call signal by using the graphic object denoting the function of the call signal displayed in the third region, and

wherein when the function related to the call signal is executed, the controller is further configured not to display the notification information indicating the reception of the call signal any longer.