Method for providing user interface using drawn pattern and mobile terminal thereof

• US 9,110,585 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2011
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Taehun, Park, Jieun, Hong, Nayoung
• Primary Examiner(s): Lao, Lun-Yi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lau, Johny
• Application Number:
  US13/220,290
• Publication Number:
  US 20120184335A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,450 Days
• Field of Search: 345/158, 345/159, 345/160, 345/173, 345/177, 345/440, 715/702, 715/730, 715/764, 715/830, 715/863, 379/85, 455/418, 700/94, 382/187, 382/202
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Disclosed are a method for providing a user interface by mapping various types of multimedia to patterns drawn on a display, and a mobile terminal thereof. A user may draw a pattern according to his or her preference, and a controller may generate an object by mapping one or more multimedia data to the pattern. The controller may play the mapped multimedia data by tracking the multimedia data-mapped pattern. The controller may store the multimedia data-mapped pattern (object) in a memory. And, the controller may transmit the object to a selected specific party to provide an enhanced user interface (UI).

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a memory;

a display that includes a touchpad; and

a controller operatively connected to the memory and the display, and the

controller configured to;

detect a pattern drawn on the touchpad during a call;

extract call voices and information related to the call;

map the call voices and the information related to the call to the pattern drawn on the touchpad, wherein the call voices are currently being outputted or received at the mobile terminal while the pattern is being drawn on the touchpad,

wherein a shape of the drawn pattern is independent of the call voices and the information related to the call;

store information of the call voices and the information related to the call-mapped pattern in the memory;

display, on the display, a graphical object corresponding to the drawn pattern based on a user'"'"'s selection; and

output call voices and the information related to the call in response to a touch input applied to the displayed graphical object,

wherein the controller forms a synthesized pattern based on at least two drawn patterns, and the controller provides a tool to edit the synthesized pattern.

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

a communication module to transmit, to a specific entity, the call voices and the information related to the call-mapped pattern.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein in response to receiving the user input at the touchpad, the controller edits the pattern displayed on the display.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display to display the information related to the call on an adjacent area with the displayed graphical object.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display to display a plurality of patterns stored in the memory, the controller to detect, based on an input from a user, selection of a specific pattern from the displayed plurality of patterns, and the controller to transmit the specific pattern to a specific entity.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller displays, on the display, a plurality of patterns stored in the memory, the controller detects the call voices and the information related to the call-mapped pattern to an overlapped part between the displayed patterns, and the controller outputs the detected call voices and the information related to the call.

7. A method to provide multimedia data, the method comprising:

receiving an input of a pattern drawn on a display of a mobile terminal during a call;

extracting call voices and information related to the call;

mapping the call voices and the information related to the call to the drawn pattern,

wherein the call voices are currently being outputted or received at the mobile terminal while the pattern is being drawn on the touchpad,

wherein a shape of the drawn pattern is independent of the call voices and the information related to the call;

storing the call voices and the information related to the call mapped to the pattern as a multimedia data-mapped pattern in a memory of the mobile terminal;

displaying, on the display, a graphical object corresponding to the drawn pattern based on a user'"'"'s selection; and

outputting the call voices and the information related to the call in response to a touch input applied to the graphical object

further comprising forming a synthesized pattern based on at least two drawn patterns, and providing a tool for a user to edit the synthesized pattern.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising transmitting, to a specific entity, the call voices and the information related to the call-mapped pattern.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising editing the pattern displayed on the display.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising displaying the information related to the call on an adjacent area with the displayed graphical object.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the call voices are output based on movement of the touch input applied to the graphical object.

12. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

displaying a plurality of patterns stored in the memory;

detecting, based on an input of a user, a specific pattern from the displayed plurality of patterns; and

transmitting the detected specific pattern to a specific entity.

13. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

displaying a plurality of stored patterns;

detecting the call voices and the information related to the call mapped to an overlapped part between the displayed patterns; and

outputting the detected call voices and the information related to the call.

14. The method of claim 7, wherein the pattern includes a first pattern and a second pattern, wherein first multimedia data corresponding to a caller'"'"'s voice is mapped to the first pattern during a call, and second multimedia data corresponding to a caller'"'"'s voice is mapped to the second pattern during a call.

15. The method of claim 7, wherein outputting the call voices and the information related to the call includes displaying an image relating to the call mapped to the pattern.