MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20160335980A1
• Filed: 11/19/2014
• Published: 11/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Ho-Young, WANG, Jee-Yeun, LEE, Jee-Won
• Granted Patent: US 10,497,336 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 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1634 Integrated protective display lid, e.g. for touch-sensitive display in handheld computer
• 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 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/38 with means for controlling the display position
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0243 using the relative angle between housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the same are provided. The mobile terminal includes a touch screen, and a controller which determines an opening angle of a front cover unit of the mobile terminal, where the opening angle is the angle between the mobile terminal and a front cover unit included in a cover where the cover is connected to the mobile terminal, and controls to display one or more pages on the touch screen where each page is displayed at a proportion determined based on the opening angle.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen; and

a controller which determines an opening angle of a front cover unit of the mobile terminal, wherein the opening angle is the angle between the mobile terminal and the front cover unit included in a cover connected to the mobile terminal, and controls to display one or more pages on the touch screen, where each page is displayed at a proportion determined based on the opening angle.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls to simultaneously display an area of a first page and an area of a second page in respective predetermined proportions based on the opening angle, when the opening angle is greater than equal to a first angle and less than or equal to a second angle.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller controls to display a portion of the area of the first page and a portion of the area of the second page to overlap each other in another predetermined proportion.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller controls to display the overlapped area in a ghost view.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the second page is any one of a home execution screen, a previously displayed execution screen, a lock releasing screen, and a notification event screen.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller controls to display only the second page when the opening angle is greater than or equal to the second angle.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller controls to determine whether a touch input is received when the opening angle is greater than or equal to the first angle and less than the second angle, and when the touch input is received and the opening angle is greater than or equal to the second angle, controls to display only the notification event screen.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls to display only the first page when the opening angle is less than the first angle.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, the method further comprising a magnetic force detecting unit which determines the opening angle, wherein the magnetic force detecting unit includes a magnetic force detecting sensor.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller receives information on an angle detected by a flexible sensor disposed on a cover connecting portion included in the cover, and determines the opening angle based on the received angle information.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls to display at least one object included in the second page when the opening angle is a third angle, and to gradually display the at least one object in a direction in which the front cover unit is opened.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller controls to convert a first page displayed on the touch screen into a second page, when the opening angle is greater than or equal to the first angle, so as to display the second page, and the controller controls to sequentially display in a direction, an area of the first page and an area of the second page, in the respective predetermined proportions based on the opening angle.

13. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to display at least one object; and

a controller configured to determine an opening angle of a front cover unit of the mobile terminal, wherein the opening angle is the angle between the mobile terminal and the front cover unit included in a cover connected to the mobile terminal,

wherein the controller is configured to control to reset a display position of the at least one object based on the opening angle, and to rearrange the at least one object on the touch screen depending on the reset display position.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is configured to control to rearrange the at least one object based on a direction in which the front cover unit is opened when the opening angle is greater than or equal to a first angle and less than or equal to a second angle.

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

determining an opening angle of a front cover unit of the mobile terminal, wherein the opening angle is the angle between the mobile terminal and the front cover unit; and

displaying at least one page, where the at least one page is displayed at a proportion determined based on the opening angle.

16. The method of claim 15, the method further comprising determining whether the opening angle is greater than or equal to a first angle.

17. The method of claim 16, the method further comprising simultaneously displaying an area of a first page and an area of a second page in respective predetermined proportions based on the opening angle, when the opening angle is greater than or equal to the first angle.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein when simultaneously displaying the areas of the first and second pages in the respective predetermined proportions, a portion of the area of the first page and a portion of the area of the second page are displayed while overlapping each other in another predetermined proportion.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the overlapped and displayed area is displayed in a ghost view.

20. The method as claimed in of claim 17, wherein the second page is any one of a home execution screen, a previously displayed execution screen, a lock releasing screen, and a notification event screen.

21. The method of claim 20, the method further comprising:

determining whether the opening angle is greater than or equal to a second angle; and

displaying only the second page when the opening angle is greater than or equal to the second angle.

22. The method of claim 20, the method further comprising:

determining whether a touch input is received, when the opening angle is greater than or equal to the first angle and less than the second angle; and

when the touch input is received and the opening angle is greater than equal to the second angle displaying only the notification event screen.

23. The method of claim 21, the method further comprising:

displaying only the first page when the opening angle is not greater than or equal to the second angle.

24. The method of claim 20, the method further comprising:

displaying at least one object included in the second page when the opening angle is equal to a third angle, and gradually displaying the at least one object in a direction in which the front cover unit is opened.

25. The method of claim 17, the method further comprising:

converting the first page displayed into a second page, when the opening angle is greater than or equal to the first angle, so as to display the second page,

wherein converting of the first page into the second page, includes sequentially displaying in a direction, an area of the first page and an area of the second page, in the respective predetermined proportions based on the opening angle corresponding to the opening angle.

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

displaying at least one object;

determining an opening angle of a front cover unit of the mobile terminal, wherein the opening angle is the angle between the mobile terminal and the front cover unit; and

resetting a display position of the at least one object depending on the opening angle, and rearranging the at least one object on the display based on the reset display position.

27. The method as of claim 26, wherein resetting and rearranging of the at least one object, includes rearranging the at least one object based on a direction in which the front cover unit is opened when the opening angle is greater than or equal to a first angle and less than or equal to a second angle.

28. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to display a first page; and

a controller configured to control to display the first page and a second page based on a bending angle of a front cover unit included in a cover connected to the mobile terminal, when the bending angle is greater than or equal to a predetermined angle.

29. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to display a first page; and

a controller which configured to control to display the first page by scrolling based on a bending angle and a direction of a front cover unit included in a cover connected to the mobile terminal, when the bending angle is greater than or equal to a predetermined angle.