MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20170083268A1
• Filed: 08/26/2016
• Published: 03/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Seonhwi, KIM, Donghoe, JU, Wanho, NA, Sungchae
• Application Number:
  US15/248,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20170083268A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 3/0346 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 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/30 User interface
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/32 Remote control based on movements, attitude of remote control device
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/91 Remote control based on location and proximity
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/93 Remote control using other portable devices, e.g. mobile phone, PDA, laptop
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/06 Consumer Electronics Control, i.e. control of another device by a display or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• 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 according to the present disclosure may include a body; a wireless communication unit configured to perform communication with an external communication device; and a touch screen formed to display a home screen and sense a touch; and a controller configured to control the touch screen to display a control screen for performing control on at least part of external devices at a place at which the body is located based on the external communication device connected through the wireless communication unit when a predetermined type of touch is applied to the touch screen while displaying the home screen.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a body;

a wireless communication unit configured to perform communication with an external communication device that is coupled to a plurality of external devices located at a predetermined space;

a touch screen configured to display a home screen and to sense a touch; and

a controller configured to control the touch screen to display a control screen to control one or more of the external devices at the predetermined place,

wherein the control screen is displayed when a predetermined type of touch is applied to the touch screen while displaying the home screen and the body of the mobile terminal is determined to be at the predetermined space based on the external communication device connected through the wireless communication unit.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the predetermined type of touch is a multi-touch applied to at least two or more contact points on the touch screen.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the multi-touch is a pinch-out touch for increasing a relative distance between two contact points on the touch screen.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the multi-touch maintains a predetermined number of two or more contact points on the touch screen for more than a predetermined period of time.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein a first control screen to control at least one external device disposed at a first place is displayed on the touch screen when the body is located at the first place, and a second control screen to control at least one external device disposed at a second place is displayed on the touch screen when the body is located at the second place different from the first place.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when the wireless communication unit is connected to the external communication device in a wireless manner, the controller controls the touch screen to display notification information indicating the wireless connection.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control screen comprises a map image for at least a partial region of the predetermined place.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the map image comprises a first map image for a first region of the predetermined place and a second map image for a second region of the predetermined place, and

the first region and the second region are different regions or regions in which one region includes another region.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein when a predetermined type of touch is applied to the touch screen in a state in which the first map image or the second map image is displayed, the controller controls the touch screen to display another image.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein a sensing unit that senses an angle of the body with respect to the ground is provided in the body, and

the controller controls the touch screen to display a first type of map image when the angle sensed by the sensing unit is above a predetermined angle, and controls the touch screen to display a second type of map image when the angle sensed by the sensing unit is below a predetermined angle.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the map image is a three-dimensional map image for a partial region of the predetermined place, and

the three-dimensional map image is a three-dimensional map image pre-stored in the body or an image received in real time from a camera provided in the body.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the three-dimensional map image is displayed on the touch screen to correspond to at least one of a current location of the body sensed within the predetermined place or a direction relative to the body.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein when a predetermined type of touch is applied to the three-dimensional map image, the controller controls the touch screen to display a plan view image for a partial region containing a current location of the body within the predetermined place.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the control screen comprises at least one of an image object corresponding to an external device disposed at the predetermined place and overlapping with the map image or status information of a corresponding external device.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein the status information is displayed at a position overlapping with or adjacent to the image object of the corresponding external device.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein when the image object is an image object corresponding to a TV set, the controller receives image information being displayed on the TV set through the wireless communication unit, and displays the image information through the touch screen based on a predetermined type of touch applied to the image object.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when a predetermined type of touch is applied to the control screen in a state in which the control screen is displayed on the touch screen, the controller controls the touch screen to display the home screen, and the home screen comprises an icon linked to the control screen.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the icon linked to the control screen comprises a plurality of icons corresponding to a plurality of regions at the predetermined place.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein when an event occurs on a prescribed external device in a state in which the home screen is displayed on the touch screen, the controller displays a notification icon for the event at a position overlapping with or adjacent to one of the plurality of icons corresponding to a region in which the prescribed external device is disposed.

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

performing communication with an external communication device installed at a predetermined place through a wireless communication unit of the mobile terminal; and

controlling a touch screen, by a controller, to display a control screen for performing control of one or more external devices located at the predetermined place,

wherein the control screen is displayed when a predetermined type of touch is applied to the touch screen subsequent to performing communication with the external communication device and based on whether the mobile terminal is located at the predetermined place.