Mobile terminal and control method thereof

• US 9,268,463 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2014
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jung, Hojae, Jung, Juhyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Van
• Application Number:
  US14/221,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20140313143A1
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

Provided is a mobile terminal that includes a touch screen formed to enable a touch input, and a controller configured to generate a plurality of screen regions dividing the touch screen in which the touch screen is divided into a plurality of screen regions, and determine whether or not to display an icon in a first screen region based on whether or not the execution screen of a preset application is displayed in a second screen region among the plurality of screen regions, wherein the icon is an icon corresponding to a function of controlling the execution screen of the preset application displayed in the second screen region based on the execution screen of an application displayed in the first screen region.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to receive a touch input; and

a controller configured to control the touch screen, wherein

the touch screen is divided into a plurality of regions in response to an input to display execution screens for a plurality of applications, wherein a first execution screen for a first application is displayed in a first region and a second execution screen for a second application is displayed in a second region,

an icon is displayed in the first region based on a type of the second application displayed in the second region, the icon configured to access a function to capture and append content from the first application in the second application,

in response to the touch input at the icon, the content from the first application is captured and appended to content in the second application, and

when a size of the second region corresponds to a prescribed size, the size of the second region is changed for a prescribed period of time while the captured content is moved from the first region to the second region.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the type of the second application is a type of application capable of appending content to a message.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the second application is at least one of an email application or a messaging application.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, in response to the touch input at the icon, an image is captured from the first execution screen, the captured image being appended to the content in the second application.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein additional information associated with the captured image is appended to the content in the second application.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein a popup window for selecting the additional information to be appended is displayed on the touch screen.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein, when the image of the first execution screen of the first application is captured, the captured image is displayed to overlap the first execution screen in the first region, then moved on the touch screen into the second execution screen in the second region, a graphical effect being provided to show movement of the captured image from the first execution screen to the second execution screen.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the touch screen is controlled to display a content input screen for appending the captured image to the content in the second application.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein an object is displayed to indicate that the captured image has been appended in the content input screen.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the object to indicate that the captured image content has been appended includes at least one of a thumbnail image or text corresponding to the captured image.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein, when a second touch input is sensed on the icon, a second image of an execution screen of an application displayed in the first screen region is captured, and the second image is appended in the content input screen of the second application along with the previously captured image.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein, when the touch input at the icon is a first type of input, the image captured is an image of the displayed execution screen, and when the touch input at the icon is a second type of input, the image captured is an image of an entire page associated with the content displayed in the first execution screen, the first and second types of input being different types of input.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein, when the touch input at the icon is a first type of input, the image from the first execution screen is captured and appended to the content in the second application, and when the touch input at the first icon is a second type of input, the captured image is displayed for editing prior to appending to the content in the second application, the first and second types of inputs being different types of inputs.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the edited image is appended to the content in the second application displayed in the second region based on a subsequent touch input at the first icon after editing the image.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, in response to the touch input at the icon, a content file associated with multimedia content being executed by the first application is transferred to the second application, the content file being appended to the content in the second application.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, in response to the touch input at the icon, text displayed in the first screen region is captured, the captured text being appended to the content in the second application.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 16, wherein a popup window is displayed on the touch screen for selecting whether to translate the captured text to another language prior to appending the captured text in the second application.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the touch screen is divided into the plurality of regions to display execution screens for a plurality of applications in a split mode.

19. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to receive a touch input; and

a controller configured to control the touch screen, wherein

the touch screen is divided into a plurality of screen regions to display execution screens for a plurality of applications, a first execution screen for a first application being displayed in a first region of the touch screen, an icon corresponding to a function to capture an image of the first execution screen being displayed in the first region, and a second execution screen for a second application being displayed in a second region of the touch screen,

wherein an image of the first execution screen for the first application is captured and the captured image is appended to content in the second execution screen for the second application when the icon is selected, and

wherein, when a size of the second region corresponds to a prescribed size, the size of the second region is changed for a prescribed period of time while the captured image is moved from the first region to the second region.

20. A method of controlling a mobile terminal having a touch screen, the method comprising:

dividing the touch screen into a plurality of regions in response to an input to display a plurality of execution screens for a plurality of applications, wherein a first execution screen for a first application is displayed in a first region and a second execution screen for a second application is displayed in a second region; and

determining whether the second application displayed in the second region is a prescribed type of application;

displaying an icon in the first region when the second application is determined to be the prescribed type of application, the icon configured to access a function to capture and append content from the first application in the second application; and

capturing and appending the content from the first application to content in the second application in response to the touch input at the icon,

wherein, when a size of the second region corresponds to a prescribed size, the size of the second region is changed for a prescribed period of time while the captured content is moved from the first region to the second region.