Mobile terminal and control method thereof

• US 9,354,788 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2013
• Issued: 05/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Woo, Seunghyun, Jung, Hayang
• Primary Examiner(s): Kells, Asher
• Application Number:
  US13/898,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20130326340A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,107 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

This specification related to a mobile terminal and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a display unit to output an electronic document page including at least one object, and a controller to select one area on the page in response to a touch input applied onto the display unit, and control the display unit to display the selected one area in a distinguishing manner from the page.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touch screen configured to display an electronic document page; and

a controller operably coupled with the touch screen and configured to;

select an area of the displayed electronic document page in response to a first touch input applied to the touch screen, wherein the selected area comprises an object;

cause the touch screen to display the selected area in a first three-dimensional (3D) depth value and at least one icon representing at least one function executable using the object in a second 3D depth value in response to the first touch input, wherein each of the first 3D depth value and the second 3D depth value is a numeric value other than zero and the second 3D depth value is different from the first 3D depth value; and

cause the touch screen to display a first execution screen corresponding to a function executed using the object in place of the electronic document page in response to a second touch input triggering the execution of the function while the selected area is displayed in the first 3D depth value.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touch screen to replace the first execution screen with a second execution screen corresponding to another of the at least one function associated with the selected area in response to a third touch input applied to the touch screen while the selected area is displayed in the first 3D depth value.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the second touch input comprises a dynamic gesture dragging the object into an icon representing the function.

4. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to at least copy or save the object in response to a user selection.

5. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the first touch input comprises touching at least three points on the touch screen and the controller is further configured to:

select the area formed by the at the least three points; and

cause the touch screen to display the at least three points and a virtual area corresponding to the at least three points such that the at least three points and the virtual area are distinguishable from other areas of the displayed electronic document page.

6. A method of displaying information in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying an electronic document page on a touch screen;

selecting an area of the displayed electronic document page in response to a first touch input applied to the touch screen, wherein the selected area comprises an object;

displaying the selected area in a first three-dimensional (3D) depth value and at least one icon representing at least one function executable using the object in a second 3D depth value in response to the first touch input, wherein each of the first 3D depth value and the second 3D depth value is a numeric value other than zero and the second 3D depth value is different from the first 3D depth value; and

displaying an execution screen corresponding to a function executed using the object in place of the electronic document page in response to a second touch input triggering the execution of the function while the selected area is displayed in the first 3D depth value.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the second touch input comprises a dynamic gesture dragging the object into an icon representing the function.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising at least copying or saving the object in response to a user selection.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the first touch input comprises touching at least three points on the touch screen and the method further comprises:

selecting the area formed by the at the least three points; and

displaying the at least three points and a virtual area corresponding to the at least three points such that the at least three points and the virtual area are distinguishable from other areas of the displayed electronic document page.