Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof

• US 9,431,060 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2014
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Sunhyuk, Jung, Jimyong, Kim, Bumbae
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang, Hung
• Application Number:
  US14/302,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20150003803A1
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, which facilitates a terminal to be used in further consideration of user'"'"'s convenience. The present invention includes a touchscreen, a memory, and a controller outputting a play screen of a video to the touchscreen, the controller, if receiving a touch drag input to the outputted plays screen of the video, activating a memo function of saving a touch path of the touch drag input as a writing memo, the controller recording the outputted play screen of the video while the memo function is activated. Accordingly, while a mobile terminal plays a video, a user interface for enabling a user to input a memo more quickly and conveniently can be provided advantageously.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touchscreen configured to display information and receive touch inputs;

a memory configured to store information; and

a controller configured to;

cause the touchscreen to reproduce a video;

activate a memo function in response to receiving a touch input comprising at least one drag input while the video is reproduced;

display a track information of the received touch input on the touchscreen;

cause the memory to store a memo item comprising the track information and the reproduced video while the memo function is activated;

detect a change of a scene of the reproduced video; and

pause the reproduced video if the change of the scene occurs while the at least one drag input of the touch input is being received.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

terminate the memo function when the touch input is no longer received for a threshold length of time; and

cause the memory to store the memo item after the memo function is terminated.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to reproduce the stored memo item in response to a reproduction command touch input received via the touchscreen.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

detect a change of a background of the reproduced video; and

pause the reproduced video if the change of the background occurs while the at least one drag input of the touch input is being received.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

detect a display of at least one character of the video; and

pause the reproduced video if the detected at least one character is no longer displayed while the at least one drag input of the touch input is being received.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller is further configured to detect the display of the at least one character by performing a face recognition function of the at least one displayed character.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to record the information displayed on the touchscreen beginning from a point prior to the activation of the memo function by a prescribed length of time.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to:

display at least one progress bar of the reproduced video;

display at least one recording section indicator on the at least one progress bar to indicate a start point or an end point of the recorded information; and

reproduce one or more portions of the video corresponding to the at least one recording section indicator in response to an input selecting the at least one progress bar.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to:

display an icon for each of the at least one recording section indicator for removing each corresponding recording section indicator from the at least one progress bar; and

remove a recording section indicator from the at least one progress bar in response to a selection input received via the touchscreen to the corresponding icon.

10. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

reproducing a video via a touchscreen;

receiving, via the touchscreen, a touch input comprising at least one drag input while the video is being reproduced;

activating a memo function in response to receiving the touch input;

display a track information of the received touch input on the touchscreen;

storing a memo item in a memory, where the memo item comprises the track information and the reproduced video while the memo function is activated;

detecting, by a controller of the mobile terminal, a change of a scene of the reproduced video; and

pausing, by the controller, the reproduced video if the change of the scene occurs while the at least one drag input of the touch input is being received.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

terminating the memo function when the touch input is no longer received for a threshold length of time; and

storing the memo item after the memo function has been terminated.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising reproducing the stored memo item in response to a reproduction command touch input received via the touchscreen.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting, via by controller, a change of a background of the reproduced video; and

pausing, via by controller, the reproduced video if the change of the background occurs while the at least one drag input of the touch input is being received.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting, via by controller, a display of at least one character of the video; and

pausing, via by controller, the reproduced video if the detected at least one character is no longer displayed while the at least one drag input of the touch input is being received.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising performing, by the controller, a face recognition function of the at least one displayed character to detect the display of the at least one character.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein recording the information displayed on the touchscreen is performed from a point prior to the activation of the memo function by a prescribed length of time.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

displaying at least one progress bar of the reproduced video;

displaying at least one recording section indicator on the at least one progress bar to indicate a start point or an end point of the recorded output; and

reproducing one or more portions of the video corresponding to the at least one recording section indicator in response to an input selecting the at least one progress bar.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

displaying an icon for each of the at least one recording section indicator for removing each corresponding recording section indicator from the at least one progress bar; and

removing a recording section indicator from the at least one progress bar in response to a selection input received via the touchscreen to the corresponding icon.