Mobile terminal and method of providing user interface using the same

• US 8,850,340 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2009
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Moosung, Song, Yoomee, Lee, Junghun
• Primary Examiner(s): HAILU, TADESSE
• Application Number:
  US12/357,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20100058211A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,077 Days
• Field of Search: 715/864, 715762-765, 455/566
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• 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 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a display configured to display a graphical user interface, a user identification unit configured to connect at least first and second user identification modules to the mobile terminal, in which the first and second user identification modules include first and second telephone numbers, respectively, a memory configured to store at least first and second user interface information corresponding to the first and second user identification modules, respectively, and a controller configured to control the display to display the graphical user interface using the first user interface information when the first user identification module is used and to display the graphical user interface using the second user interface information when the second user identification module is used.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display configured to display a graphical user interface;

a user identification unit configured to connect at least first and second user identification modules to the mobile terminal, said first and second user identification modules including first and second telephone numbers, respectively;

a memory configured to store at least first and second user interface information corresponding to said first and second user identification modules, respectively; and

a controller configured to;

set first and second user interface information,

wherein the first and second user interface information are related to content display characteristics including at least one of color, brightness, saturation, intensity, theme, background image or font, and audio output characteristics including at least one of audio profile or audio volume, and

wherein the first user interface information is different from the second user interface information,

selectively construct a first content display screen and a first output audio based on the first user interface information when a specific event is performed through the first identification module, or a second content display screen and a second output audio based on the second user interface information when the specific event is performed through the second identification module,

wherein the first content display screen, the first audio, the second content display screen and the second audio correspond to the specific event, and

output one of the first content display screen and first output audio or the second content display screen and second output audio, based on whether the specific event is performed through the first identification module or through the second identification module.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second user interface information include different image characteristics including at least one of a different color, a different brightness, a different saturation, a different image characteristic value and a different intensity.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second user interface information include information corresponding to different background images.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second user interface information include different audio outputting profiles for outputting different audio data.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second user interface information include different text characteristics including at least one of a different font and a different color.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the specific event is executing at least one of a file function, a phonebook function, a call history function and a message function.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second user interface information include information corresponding to different menus.

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

an input unit configured to select characteristics of the first user information for the first user identification module and to select characteristics of the second user information for the second identification module.

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

connecting at least first and second user identification modules to the mobile terminal, said first and second user identification modules including first and second telephone numbers, respectively;

storing at least first and second user interface information corresponding to said first and second user identification modules, respectively;

setting first and second user interface information,

wherein the first and second user interface information are related to content display characteristics including at least one of color, brightness, saturation, intensity, theme, background image or font, and audio output characteristics including at least one of audio profile or audio volume, and

wherein the first user interface information is different from the second user interface information,

selectively constructing a first content display screen and a first output audio based on the first user interface information when a specific event is performed through the first identification module, or a second content display screen and a second output audio based on the second user interface information when the specific event is performed through the second identification module,

wherein the first content display screen, the first audio, the second content display screen and the second audio correspond to the specific event; and

outputting one of the first content display screen and first output audio or the second content display screen and second output audio, based on whether the specific event is performed through the first identification module or through the second identification module.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first and second user interface information include different image characteristics including at least one of a different color, a different brightness, a different saturation, a different image characteristic value and a different intensity.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the first and second user interface information include information corresponding to different background images.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the first and second user interface information include different audio outputting profiles for outputting different audio data.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the first and second user interface information include different text characteristics including at least one of a different font and a different color.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the specific event is executing at least one of a file function, a phonebook function, a call history function and a message function.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the first and second user interface information include information corresponding to different menus.

16. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

selecting characteristics of the first user information for the first user identification module and selecting characteristics of the second user information for the second identification module.