Property modification of an application object

• US 9,348,509 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2012
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Ahn, Shinhui, Kim, Moonkyung, Seol, Namgung, Kwon, Arim, Kim, Miyoung, Hwang, Hoyoung
• Primary Examiner(s): Chatly, Amit
• Application Number:
  US13/405,156
• Publication Number:
  US 20130215044A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,551 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-178
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method, system, and device for controlling a mobile device with a touch screen are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a mobile terminal comprises a display unit configured to display an object associated with an application, a sensing unit configured to sense a touch on the object, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute the application in response to a first type of touch on the object and execute an edit mode to modify property data of the object in response to a second type of touch applied to the object.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display configured to be touch sensitive; and

a controller configured to;

cause the display to display a plurality of objects associated with one or more applications on a home screen;

execute an edit mode of a first object to modify property data of the first object in response to a first type of touch received on the first object among the plurality of objects, the edit mode terminated when a predetermined period of time lapses after the execution of the edit mode is initiated, wherein objects other than the first object among the plurality of objects are not affected by the first type of touch received on the first object;

cause the display to display an indicator overlapping at least part of the first object, the indicator indicating that the first object is in the edit mode, while no indicator is overlapped with the plurality of objects other than the first object;

cause the display to display an edit screen for modifying property data of the first object or an execution screen of an application corresponding to the first object in response to a second type of touch received on the first object based on whether the first object is in the edit mode when the second type of touch is received, wherein the second type of touch is different from the first type of touch;

cause the display to display the edit screen comprising a plurality of images including a first image representing the first object in response to the second type of touch received on the first object overlapped with the indicator while the first object is in the edit mode, wherein the first image is positioned at a first position while images other than the first image among the plurality of images are positioned at positions other than the first position within the edit screen, wherein the first position and the other positions are arranged in order in at least a vertical or horizontal direction;

terminate the edit mode of the first object when the predetermined period of time lapses such that the indicator is no longer displayed; and

cause the display to display the execution screen in response to the second type of touch received on the first object after the termination of the edit mode of the first object.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first type of touch comprises a long press touch, and wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to display the indicator upon a release of the long press touch.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to:

switch a state of the first object such that the first object becomes movable on the home screen upon sensing the long press touch; and

cause the display to display the indicator if a position of the first object is not altered upon the release of the long press touch.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to terminate the edit mode of the first object and to execute an edit mode of the second object when the first type of touch is sensed on the second object among the plurality of objects during the edit mode of the first object.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first object comprises an image region and a text region, and wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to display the edit screen to change at least one of an image, a size, a color, a text, a font, or a sound of the first object during the edit mode of the first object.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the plurality of images are arranged on the display based on their frequency of use or a degree of their association with an application which corresponds to the first object.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the edit screen comprises a plurality of categories which correspond to at least one of the image, the size, the color, the text, the font, or the sound of the object, and wherein the at least one of the image, the size, the color, the text, the font, or the sound of the first object is configured using the plurality of categories.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller is further configured to implement the property data of the first object when at least one of the plurality of categories is newly configured in response to an input.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to display an update of the property data of the first object on a preview screen when the at least one of the plurality of categories for the first object is newly configured via the edit screen.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to display a control region on the preview screen for modifying at least the sound or the size of the first object.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the property data of the first object comprises data associated with the at least one of the image, the size, the color, the text, the font, or the sound of the first object, and wherein the controller is further configured to change property data of objects whose applications are related to the application associated with the first object and property data of an object associated with each application selected by a user when the property data of the first object is changed based on the user input.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the edit screen comprises an icon with an input window for receiving the image of the first object directly from a user, and wherein the controller is further configured to assign an image which corresponds to image data as the image of the first object when the image data is entered via the input window based on selection of the icon.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the edit screen comprises an icon to access images included in a photo album stored in a memory, and wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to display the images included in the photo album in response to selection of the icon and to configure one of the images selected by a user as an image representing the first object.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to detect a facial image from the image selected by the user using an image recognition algorithm, and to provide a guide image for selecting the facial image on a region which corresponds to the facial image.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein the controller is further configured to search for at least one image which includes another facial image which corresponds to the facial image, and to cause the display to display data of the at least one image.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to display the edit screen for selecting a region on an image selected by the user from the photo album as the image of the first object.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to generate a moving image using a plurality of images from the images included in the photo album if the plurality of images are selected from the photo album and to assign the moving image as an image representing the first object.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

the indicator is displayed on the home screen; and

the second type of touch is applied, in the edit mode, to the first object on the home screen, on which the plurality of objects are displayed, to change the home screen to the edit screen.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to change the home screen to the edit screen when the second type of touch is applied to the indicator overlapping the at least part of the first object.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the home screen is changed to the edit screen when the second type of touch is applied to an area of the first object that does not overlap with the displayed indicator.

21. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the home screen is changed to the edit screen when the second type of touch is applied to the indicator.

22. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

the first object comprises an image region and a text region;

the indicator comprises a first indicator associated with the image region and a second indicator associated with the text region;

the edit screen comprises an image edit screen and a text edit screen; and

the controller is further configured to cause the display to;

display the image edit screen when the second type of touch is applied to the first indicator; and

display the text edit screen when the second type of touch is applied to the second indicator.