WATCH TYPE MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20170269715A1
• Filed: 11/01/2016
• Published: 09/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Yung, KIM, Jonghwan
• Granted Patent: US 10,025,399 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G04C 3/001 Electromechanical switches for setting or display in general H01H
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/08 Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/007 combined with a calculator or computing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2747 Scrolling on a display
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means

Abstract

A watch-type mobile terminal including a display; a bezel forming a rim of the display and including a touch sensor; a crown; and a controller configured to display first content on the display, sense a rotation input on at least one of the crown and the bezel when the first content is displayed on the display, and display second content associated with the first content on the display in response to the rotation input.

Claims

1. A watch-type mobile terminal, comprising:

a display;

a bezel forming a rim of the display and including a touch sensor;

a crown; and

a controller configured to;

display first content on the display,

sense a rotation input on at least one of the crown and the bezel when the first content is displayed on the display, and

display second content associated with the first content on the display in response to the rotation input.

2. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display the second content on the display based on at least one of a speed of the rotation input, a direction of the rotation input, and a type of the displayed first content.

3. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the rotation input corresponds to a drag touch input on the bezel or an input for rotating the crown.

4. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein when the first content corresponds to a contact list, the controller is configured to:

in response to the speed of the rotation input exceeding a predetermined speed range, activate a quick scroll function of the contact list, and

in response to the speed of the rotation input belonging to the predetermined speed range, display a favorite list of contacts.

5. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein when the first content corresponds to an application list, the controller is configured to:

in response to the speed of the rotation input exceeding a predetermined speed range, output a recently used application list among the application list, and

in response to the speed of the rotation input belonging to the predetermined speed range, activate a voice recognition mode.

6. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein when the first content corresponds to a notification notifying occurrence of an event, the controller is configured to:

in response to the speed of the rotation input exceeding a predetermined speed range, output a notification notifying occurrence of a different event, and

in response to the rotation input belonging to the predetermined speed range, output detail information of the notification.

7. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 2, further comprising:

a voice recognition unit configured to receive an input voice,

wherein in response to the input voice and the rotation input being sensed, the controller is configured to output at least one of an emoticon and a sentence based on contents of the voice input.

8. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein in response to the input voice corresponding to a word, the controller is configured to:

extract a voice pattern of a user of the watch-type mobile terminal from the input voice, and

output a sentence containing the word based on the voice pattern of the user.

9. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 2, further comprising:

an hour hand and a minute hand.

10. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is configured to:

in response to the rotation input belonging to a predetermined speed range, move the hour hand,

in response to the rotation input exceeding the predetermined speed range, move the minute hand, and

in response to a predetermined time elapsing after the rotation input is sensed, set an alarm.

11. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein when the first content corresponds to content containing a watch and weather, the controller is configured to:

in response to the rotation input corresponding to a first direction, output future weather information based on a current time, and

in response to the rotation input corresponding to a second direction corresponding to an opposite direction of the first direction, output past weather information based on the current time or weather of a different location based on the current time.

12. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to:

in response to the rotation input belonging to a predetermined speed range, output hourly weather information based on a current time, and

in response to the rotation input exceeding the predetermined speed range, output daily weather information based on the current time.

13. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to:

in response to the rotation input being sensed when a touch input is sensed on the display, magnify an area at which the touch input is sensed in the first content.

14. The watch-type mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to:

in response to the display of the mobile terminal being positioned within a viewing angle range of a user, execute content currently executed in a foreground in response to the rotation input, and

in response to the display of the mobile terminal being positioned outside of the viewing angle range of the user, execute the content currently executed in a background in response to the rotation input.

15. A method of controlling a watch-type mobile terminal including a display, a bezel forming a rim of the display and including a touch sensor;

a crown, the method comprising;

displaying, via a controller, first content on the display;

sensing, via the controller, a rotation input on at least one of the crown and the bezel when the first content is displayed on the display; and

displaying, via the controller, second content associated with the first content on the display in response to the rotation input.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

displaying the second content on the display based on at least one of a speed of the rotation input, a direction of the rotation input, and a type of the displayed first content.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the rotation input corresponds to a drag touch input on the bezel or an input for rotating the crown.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein when the first content corresponds to a contact list, the method further comprises:

in response to the speed of the rotation input exceeding a predetermined speed range, activating, via the controller, a quick scroll function of the contact list; and

in response to the speed of the rotation input belonging to the predetermined speed range, displaying, via the controller, a favorite list of contacts.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein when the first content corresponds to an application list, the method further comprises:

in response to the speed of the rotation input exceeding a predetermined speed range, outputting, via the controller, a recently used application list among the application list; and

in response to the speed of the rotation input belonging to the predetermined speed range, activating, via the controller, a voice recognition mode.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein when the first content corresponds to a notification notifying occurrence of an event, the method further comprises:

in response to the speed of the rotation input exceeding a predetermined speed range, outputting, via the controller, a notification notifying occurrence of a different event; and

in response to the rotation input belonging to the predetermined speed range, outputting, via the controller, detail information of the notification.