Mobile terminal with touch screen and method of processing data using the same

• US 8,806,364 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2009
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Hwang, Hoyoung
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitaro, Ryan
• Assistant Examiner(s): BARRETT, RYAN S
• Application Number:
  US12/419,481
• Publication Number:
  US 20100122195A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,953 Days
• Field of Search: 715/769, 715/788, 715/790, 715/798, 715/799
• US Class Current: 715/790
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes displaying a data list including at least one data item in a display window of a touch screen on the terminal, displaying at least one icon corresponding to a first application that is executed by the terminal, displaying a graphic user interface (GUI) corresponding to the first application on the display window of the touch screen as the icon is touched and dragged on the touch screen, and controlling at least one of a position and a size of the displayed data list such that a region where the GUI is displayed and a region where the data list is displayed are not overlapped with each other when the GUI is displayed as the icon is touched and dragged on the touch screen.

Claims

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

displaying a data list including a plurality of data items and a plurality of icons representing different applications in a display window of a touch screen of the mobile terminal,

wherein each of the icons is contiguous to a corresponding edge line of the display window, each of the different applications performs a plurality of functions using the data items, and a managing application of the data items is different from the each of the different applications;

selecting a specific icon from among the icons based on a touch operation received through the specific icon;

slidingly displaying an execution screen of a specific application corresponding to the specific icon, from an edge line corresponding to the specific icon to the center of the display window, based on a drag operation in a direction to the center of the display window continuously received following the touch operation received on the specific icon,

wherein an area of the execution screen is increased according to an increase of a distance of the drag operation;

controlling at least positions or sizes of the data items such that the execution screen and a region including the data items are not overlapped with each other according to the increase of the area of the execution screen,

wherein the positions of the data items are determined based on use states of the data items in the managing application;

selecting a specific data item from the data list based on a touch operation on the specific data item; and

executing the specific application using the selected specific data item based on a drag and drop operation continuously received following the touch operation received on the selected specific data item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific application corresponds to one of a video telephony application, a message transmission application and a web browsing application, and the data list relates to at least one of text, still images, moving images, a phonebook and web connecting routes.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein when the specific application corresponds to the video telephony application, the executing step comprises:

transmitting the selected specific data item to a recipient party included in the video telephony application.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein when the specific application corresponds to the message transmission application, the executing step comprises:

inserting the selected specific data item into an appropriate field corresponding to the selected specific data item included in the specific application for the message transmission application.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein when the specific application corresponds to the web browsing application and the selected specific data is a web connecting route, the executing step comprises:

automatically executing a web page corresponding to the web connecting route in the specific application for the web browser application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the executing of the function further comprises zooming in or zooming out the specific application.

7. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display unit; and

a controller configured to;

control the display unit to display a data list including a plurality of data items and a plurality of icons representing different applications in a display window of a touch screen of the mobile terminal,

wherein each of the icons is contiguous to a corresponding edge line of the display window, each of the different applications performs a plurality of functions using the data items, and a managing application of the data items is different from the each of the different applications,

select a specific icon from among the icons based on a touch operation received through the specific icon,

control the display unit to slidingly display an execution screen of a specific application corresponding to the specific icon, from an edge line corresponding to the specific icon to the center of the display window, based on a drag operation in a direction to the center of the display window continuously received following the touch operation received on the specific icon,

wherein an area of the execution screen is increased according to an increase of a distance of the drag operation;

control at least positions or sizes of the data items such that the execution screen and a region including the data items are not overlapped with each other according to the increase of the area of the execution screen,

wherein the positions of the data items are determined based on use states of the data items in the managing application,

select a specific data item from the data list based on a touch operation on the specific data item, and

execute the specific application using the selected specific data item based on a drag and drop operation continuously received following the touch operation received on the selected specific data item.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the specific application corresponds to one of a video telephony application, a message transmission application and a web browsing application, and the data list relates to at least one of text, still images, moving images, a phonebook and web connecting routes.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein when the specific application corresponds to the video telephony application, the controller is configured to transmit the dragged and dropped selected specific data item to a recipient party included in the video telephony application.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein when the specific application corresponds to the message transmission application, the controller is configured to insert the dragged and dropped selected specific data item into an appropriate field corresponding to the selected specific data item included in the specific application for the message transmission application.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein when the specific application corresponds to the web browsing application and the selected specific data item is a web connecting route, the controller is configured to automatically execute a web page corresponding to the web connecting route in the specific application for the web browser application.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein when the controller executes the function, the controller is further configured to zoom in or zoom out the specific application.