Mobile terminal and control method for the same

• US 9,398,133 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2012
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jo, Sunghee
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang-Hurst, Kathy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shen, Peijie
• Application Number:
  US13/452,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20130082945A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,551 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal for allowing a touch input and control method thereof. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a display unit configured to display a lock screen in a lock state in which a control command input to an application is restricted, and a controller configured to display at least one object on the lock screen when a first touch input sensed on the lock screen corresponds to set criteria, and display an execution screen corresponding to any one of the displayed objects based on the first touch and a sequentially entered second touch input.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display unit configured to display a lock screen in a lock state in which a control command input to an application is restricted; and

a controller configured to;

display a start position and an end position to unlock the lock screen;

detect a user'"'"'s touch input from the start position to one position of a first position or a second position which is different from the first position, the first position and the second position being an intermediate position in a path from the start position to the end position and being different from the start position and the end position;

display screen information corresponding to the one position on the lock screen while in the lock state,

wherein in response to the user'"'"'s touch input being detected on the first position, a display window including information on events associated with received messages for applications in the mobile terminal is displayed, and

wherein in response to the user'"'"'s touch input being detected on the second position, a plurality of application icons is displayed, each application icon having an associated application;

determine whether the user'"'"'s touch input moves from the one position to a third position, the third position being different from the end position; and

in response to determining that the third position is located on one of the displayed application icons, display an execution screen for the application corresponding to the one of the plurality of application icons.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s touch input includes a first touch input from the start position to the first position or the second position and a second touch input from the first position or the second position to the third position, and

the path from the start position to the third position is a preset path for releasing the lock state.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the first touch input includes a drag input from the start position to the first position or the second position.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the second touch input is a touch input sequentially entered from the first touch input to a release point for generating an unlock command to release the lock state, and

the first and the second touch input are applied on the preset path for releasing the lock state.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein a plurality of objects are displayed at release points included in a plurality of paths, respectively.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller sets a condition for displaying the execution screen when a kind of application corresponding to the displayed application icon corresponds to set criteria.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the condition is an input of a preset number or preset touch.

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

a detection unit configured to detect a displayable application icon on the lock screen,

wherein the detection unit detects an application icon corresponding to any one of an application in which an event has occurred during the lock state, an application that has been executed prior to entering the lock state, a preset application to be displayed on the lock state, and an application being executed in the lock state, based on set criteria.

9. A of controlling a mobile terminal configured to display a lock screen in a lock state in which a control command input to an application is restricted, the method comprising:

displaying a start position and an end position to unlock the lock screen;

detecting a user'"'"'s touch input from the start position to one position of a first position or a second position which is different from the first position, the first position and the second position being an intermediate position in a path from the start position to the end position and being different from the start position and the end position;

displaying screen information corresponding to the one position on the lock screen while in the lock state,

wherein in response to the user'"'"'s touch input being detected on the first position, a display window including information on events associated with received messages for applications in the mobile terminal is displayed, and

wherein in response to the user'"'"'s touch input being detected on the second position, a plurality of application icons is displayed, each application icon having an associated application;

determining whether the user'"'"'s touch input moves from the one position to a third position, the third position being different from the end position; and

in response to determining that the third position is located on one of the displayed application icons, display an execution screen for the application corresponding to the one of the plurality of application icons.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising an end position,

wherein the path from the start position to the end position is a preset path for releasing the lock state without an execution screen.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein there exist a plurality of preset paths, and the plurality of application icons are located on the plurality of paths, respectively, and the execution screen corresponds to an application icon located on a path at which the touch input is sensed among the plurality of paths.