Mobile terminal, display device and controlling method thereof

• US 8,583,178 B2
• Filed: 02/15/2011
• Issued: 11/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yun, Chanphill, Kim, Woongchang, Kim, Sunryang
• Primary Examiner(s): SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL
• Application Number:
  US13/027,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20120088549A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 455/557, 455/566, 345/1.1, 345/2.1, 345/2.2, 345/2.3, 345/3.1, 345/5
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4586 Content update operation triggered locally, e.g. by comparing the version of software modules in a DVB carousel to the version stored locally deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction of the data by redundancy during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

The mobile terminal has a memory unit configured to store a software, a first display unit configured to display a first screen image generated by a first version of the software, and an interface unit configured to be connected to an external display device having a second display unit. A controller is configured to display the first screen image corresponding to the software of a first version on the first display unit when the software is executed, and to control a second screen image corresponding to the first image, according to the software of a second version to be displayed on the second display unit when the interface unit is connected to the external display device, the second image generated by a second version of the software. Accordingly, a user is able to experience different versions of software simultaneously.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a memory unit configured to store software;

a first display unit configured to display a first screen image generated by a first version of the software;

an interface unit configured to be connected to an external display device, the external display device configured to be controlled by a microprocessor and having a second display unit; and

a controller configured to display the first screen image, and to control a second screen image corresponding to the first image, to be displayed on the second display unit when the interface unit is connected to the external display device, the second image being generated by a second version of the software,

wherein the second screen image is displayed on the second display unit while the first screen image is displayed on the first display unit.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to provide information about the first screen image to the external display device, and to control a monitor window to be generated on the second display unit, the monitor window displaying the second screen image corresponding to the first screen image.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the software comprises an OS (operating system) software for the mobile terminal.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the first version of the software and the second version of the software are stored in the memory unit.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to provide information about the second screen image to the external display device.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the first version of the software and the second version of the software are the same version.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller is further configured to control the external display device to generate the second screen image by providing the external display device with the information about the first screen image ion.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein when the mobile terminal is connected to the external display device, the controller is further configured to display a list of various versions for the software on the second display unit, and

wherein the controller is further configured to control one of the various versions to be selected as the second version of the software.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein when a user command is input via the monitor window for displaying the second screen image, wherein the controller is further configured to receive the input user command from the external display device and then to execute the received user command first version of the software.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to control the first screen image to be changed in the first display unit in response to the user command, and

wherein the controller is further configured to control the external display device to change the second screen image to correspond to the changed first screen image by providing the external display device with information about the changed first screen image.

11. A display device configured to be controlled by a microprocessor comprising:

an interface unit configured to be connected to an external mobile terminal, the external mobile terminal having a memory unit configured to store a software and a first display unit configured to display a first screen image generated by a first version of software;

a second display unit; and

a controller configured to display a second screen image generated by a second version of the software corresponding to the first image on the second display unit in response to a connection to the external mobile terminal,

wherein the second screen image is displayed on the second display unit while the first screen image is displayed on the first display unit.

12. The display device of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to receive information about the first screen image from the external mobile terminal and to control a monitor window for displaying the second screen image on the second display unit.

13. The display device of claim 11, wherein the software comprises an OS (operating system) software for the external mobile terminal.

14. The display device of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to control information about the second image received from the external mobile terminal.

15. The display device of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to receive the information about the first screen image to generate the second screen image.

16. The display device of claim 11, wherein when the display device is connected to the external mobile terminal, the controller is further configured to display a list of various versions for the software, and

wherein the controller is further configured to select one of the various versions to be the second version of the software.

17. The display device of claim 11, wherein when a user command is input via the monitor window for displaying the second screen image, the controller is further configured to provide the input user command to the external mobile terminal and then to execute the user command received by the external mobile terminal in the first version of the software.

18. The display of claim 17, wherein when the first screen image is changed in the first display unit in response to the user command, the controller is further configured to receive information about the changed first screen image from the external mobile terminal and to control the second screen image to correspond to the changed first screen image.

19. A method of controlling a display device configured to be controlled by a microprocessor, comprising:

connecting an external mobile terminal having a first display unit configured to display a first screen image generated by a first version of software to the display device having a second display unit; and

displaying the first screen image when the software is executed in the external mobile terminal;

controlling a second screen image generated by a second version of the software to be displayed on the second display unit, the second screen image corresponding to the first screen image; and

displaying the second screen image on the second display unit while the first screen image is displayed on the first display unit.