WEARABLE DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR SUPPORTING COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEVICE

• US 20160110012A1
• Filed: 10/16/2015
• Published: 04/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: YIM, Soyeon, AHN, Shinhui, JEON, Youjin, KIM, Soomin
• Granted Patent: US 10,001,869 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 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0384 Wireless input, i.e. hardware and software details of wireless interface arrangements for pointing devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/014 Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 including near field communication means, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/06 including a wireless LAN interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with a wearable device; a touch screen; a sensor unit configured to sense at least one of a mobile terminal acceleration signal and a mobile terminal vibration signal; and a controller configured to display a screen corresponding to an application executing on the mobile terminal, receive first state information from the wearable device indicating at least one of a wearable device acceleration signal and a wearable device vibration signal of the wearable device, receive second state information from the sensor unit indicating said at least one of the mobile terminal acceleration signal and the mobile terminal vibration signal of the mobile terminal, and transfer operations of the application executing on the mobile terminal to the wearable device, based on the first and second state information.

Claims

1. A wearable device, comprising:

a touch screen;

a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with a mobile terminal;

a sensor unit configured to sense at least one of a wearable device acceleration signal and a wearable device vibration signal; and

a controller configured to;

display a screen corresponding to an application executing on the wearable device,

receive first state information indicating the at least one of the wearable device acceleration signal and the wearable device vibration signal,

receive second state information from the mobile terminal indicating at least one of a mobile terminal acceleration signal and a mobile terminal vibration signal of the mobile terminal, and

transfer operations of the application executing on the wearable device to the mobile terminal based on the first and second state information.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display an image received from the mobile terminal on the touch screen when only the wearable device vibration signal is sensed by the sensor unit.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to transfer an image displayed on the touch screen to at least part of a screen where an application is executed on the mobile terminal.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the image displayed on the touch screen comprises at least one menu for controlling an operation of the application executing on the mobile terminal.

5. The device according to claim 3, wherein the image displayed on the touch screen comprises a list of at least one content information or content relating to the application executing on the mobile terminal.

6. The device according to claim 3, wherein the image displayed on the touch screen comprises event information occurring on the mobile terminal.

7. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with a wearable device;

a touch screen;

a sensor unit configured to sense at least one of a mobile terminal acceleration signal and a mobile terminal vibration signal; and

a controller configured to;

display a screen corresponding to an application executing on the mobile terminal,

receive first state information from the wearable device indicating at least one of a wearable device acceleration signal and a wearable device vibration signal of the wearable device,

receive second state information from the sensor unit indicating said at least one of the mobile terminal acceleration signal and the mobile terminal vibration signal of the mobile terminal, and

transfer operations of the application executing on the mobile terminal to the wearable device based on the first and second state information.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein, when the first state information includes only the wearable device vibration signal and the second state information includes both the mobile terminal acceleration signal and the mobile terminal vibration signal, the controller is configured to transfer partial operations of the executing application to the wearable device.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to transfer, to the wearable device, identical information of the executing application displayed on the touch screen with a reduce size to match a display of the wearable device.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to transfer information including a menu for controlling an operation of the executing application to the wearable device.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to transfer event information occurring from a second application different from the executing application to the wearable device.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein when the first state information includes both the wearable device acceleration signal and the wearable device vibration signal and the second state information includes only the mobile terminal vibration signal, the controller is configured to execute an application corresponding to an image displayed on the wearable device.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to:

display a virtual keyboard on the touch screen, and

transfer text input through the virtual keyboard to the wearable device.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein the controller is further configured to transfer event information to the wearable device corresponding to an event occurring on the mobile terminal.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein when the first state information includes only the wearable device vibration signal and the second state information includes both the mobile terminal acceleration signal and the mobile terminal vibration signal, the controller is configured to designate the mobile terminal as a main device executing the application and the wearable terminal as a sub device displaying partial information the application executing on the mobile terminal.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein when the first state information includes both the wearable device vibration signal and wearable device acceleration signal, and the second state information includes only the mobile terminal vibration signal, the controller is configured to designate the wearable device as a main device and the mobile terminal as a sub device displaying partial information the application executing on the wearable device.

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

performing, via a wireless communication unit, wireless communication with a wearable device;

sensing, via a sensor unit, at least one of a mobile terminal acceleration signal and a mobile terminal vibration signal;

displaying, via a touch screen, a screen corresponding to an application executing on the mobile terminal;

receiving, via a controller, first state information from the wearable device indicating at least one of a wearable device acceleration signal and a wearable device vibration signal of the wearable device;

receiving, via the controller, second state information from the sensor unit indicating said at least one of the mobile terminal acceleration signal and the mobile terminal vibration signal of the mobile terminal; and

transferring, via the wireless communication unit, operations of the application executing on the mobile terminal to the wearable device based on the first and second state information.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein, when the first state information includes only the wearable device vibration signal and the second state information includes both the mobile terminal acceleration signal and the mobile terminal vibration signal, the method further comprises transferring partial operations of the executing application to the wearable device.

19. The method according to claim 17, further comprising:

transferring, to the wearable device, identical information of the executing application displayed on the touch screen with a reduce size to match a display of the wearable device.

20. The method according to claim 17, further comprising:

transferring information including a menu for controlling an operation of the executing application to the wearable device.