Mobile terminal and method of displaying information in mobile terminal

• US 8,762,896 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2009
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Yongdeok, Kim, Jungwoo, Bae, Kwonhan, Ahn, Hyesang
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): NABI, REZA U
• Application Number:
  US12/540,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20100304791A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,776 Days
• Field of Search: 715/864
• US Class Current: 715/864
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A mobile terminal comprises a first touch screen and a controller. The controller provides the first touch screen with an information region that includes at least one information item and first and second control regions for controlling a display of the information region. The controller also controls a viewing perspective of the information region in response to a first touch input for the first control region, and controls at least one of the number or type of the at least one information item in response to a second touch input for the second control region. The controller may also control the information region to have a two-dimensional or three-dimensional viewing perspective in response to the first touch input.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a first touch screen; and

a controller configured to provide the first touch screen with an information region including at least one information item and first and second control regions for controlling a display of the information region, control a viewing perspective of the information region in response to a first touch input for the first control region, and control at least one of a number or type of the at least one information item in response to a second touch input for the second control region, wherein the controller controls the information region so that the at least one information item included in the information region changes between a two-dimensional (2D) and a three-dimensional (3D) in response to the first touch input wherein the first control region includes

a first slider movable by the first touch input and a first bar which is a moving path of the first slider and the second control region includes a second slider, having a plurality of icons representing different type of information item, movable by the second touch input and a second bar which is moving path of the second slider; and

a second touch screen,

wherein the controller expands the first bar to the second touch screen in response to activation of the second touch screen is detected.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, in a case where the at least one information item is controlled to be displayed as a 2D image, the controller displays the at least one information item in either a thumbnail mode or a list mode in response to the first touch input.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

when a position of the first slider on the first bar moves to a first position, the controller controls the at least one information item in the information region to be displayed as the 2D image, viewing and

when a position of the first slider on the first bar moves to a second position, the controller controls the at least one information item in the information region to be displayed as the 3D image.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when a position of the first slider changes, a viewing perspective of the information region changes between a 2D viewing perspective and a 3D viewing perspectives having different virtual focuses.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, when a position of the first slider changes, the controller changes a viewing perspective of the information region continuously or discontinuously between a 2D viewing perspective and a 3D viewing perspective.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a second touch screen, wherein the controller displays information corresponding to the at least one information item, included in the information region, on the second touch screen when the second touch screen is activated.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a second touch screen, wherein the controller provides the second touch screen with a portion of the first control region when the second touch screen is activated.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the second control region includes a second slider movable by the second touch input and a second bar which is a moving path of the second slider.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller changes the at least one information item when a position of the second slider on the second bar changes.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller changes the at least one information item in a scroll manner or a screen update manner when the position of the second slider changes.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller discontinuously changes one or more information items including the at least one information item when the position of the second slider changes.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first or second control regions includes an icon for receiving the first touch input or the second touch input, or both.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one information item is selected from the group consisting of an icon, a menu, or content including at least one of text, a still picture, or a motion picture.

14. A method of displaying information in a mobile terminal, comprising:

providing a first touch screen of the mobile terminal with an information region that includes at least one information item and first and second control regions for controlling a display of the information region;

controlling a viewing perspective of the information region in response to a first touch input for the first control region; and

controlling at least one of a number or a type of the at least one information item in response to a second touch input for the second control region, wherein controlling the viewing perspective includes controlling the information region so that the at least one information item included in the information region changes between a two-dimensional (2D) image viewing perspective and a three-dimensional (3D) image in response to the first touch input wherein the first control region includes

a first slider movable by the first touch input and a first bar which is a moving path of the first slider and the second control region includes a second slider, having a plurality of icons representing different type of information item, movable by the second touch input and a second bar which is moving path of the second slider; and

a second touch screen,

wherein the controller expands the first bar to the second touch screen in response to activation of the second touch screen is detected.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein, when the at least one information item in the information region is controlled to be displayed as have a 2D image, the at least one information item is displayed in a thumbnail mode or a list mode in response to the first touch input.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

controlling the information region to change between a 2D viewing perspective and a 3D viewing perspective in response to the first touch input, wherein the 2D viewing perspective and the 3D viewing perspective have different virtual focuses.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein controlling at least one of the number or type of the at least one information item includes changing the at least one information item in response to the second touch input.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein controlling at least one of the number or type of the at least one information item includes changing the at least one information item in a scroll manner or a screen update manner.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the at least one information item includes at least one of an icon, a menu, or content including at least one of text, a still picture, or a motion picture.