Mobile terminal setting first and second control commands to user divided first and second areas of a backside touch screen

• US 9,489,129 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2015
• Issued: 11/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Byunghwa, Shin, Choonghwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Elhag, Magdi
• Application Number:
  US14/629,029
• Publication Number:
  US 20160048288A1
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1613 for portable computers cooling arrangements therefor G06F1/203; constructional details or arrangements for pocket calculators, electronic agendas or books G06F15/0216; constructional details of portable telephone sets: with several bodies H04M1/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/70 Protecting specific internal or peripheral components, in which the protection of a component leads to protection of the entire computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• 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 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly

Abstract

A mobile terminal comprising: a case having a front surface and a rear surface; a touch screen and first touch pad provided in the front surface of the case; a second touch pad provided in the rear surface of the case; and a controller configured to: divide an area of the second touch pad into at least first and second control command areas based on a touch point of a basic touch input on the second touch pad, set first and second control commands to the first and second command areas, respectively, control the mobile terminal according to the first control command in response to an additional touch input in the first control command area, and control the mobile terminal according to the second control command in response to an additional touch input in the first control command area.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a case having a front surface and a rear surface;

a touch screen and first touch pad provided in the front surface of the case;

a second touch pad provided in the rear surface of the case; and

a controller configured to;

set an end point of a basic touch input on the second touch pad as a touch point, the basic touch input is a continuous touch input or a pattern touch input,

divide an area of the second touch pad into at least first and second control command areas based on the touch point, the first control command area is located in a left direction from the touch point on the second touch pad and the second control command area located in a right direction from the touch point on the second touch pad,

set first and second control commands to the first and second command areas, respectively,

control the mobile terminal according to the first control command in response to a continuous touch input from the touch point into the first control command area, and

control the mobile terminal according to the second control command in response to a continuous touch input from the touch point into the second control command area,

wherein the first control command comprises moving a screen of the touch screen in a right direction or moving a scroll to the right direction, and

wherein the second control command comprises moving a screen of the touch screen in a left direction or moving a scroll to the left direction.

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

a gyro-sensor configured to sense a motion of the mobile terminal,

wherein the controller sets the touch point when the gyro-sensor senses a first motion.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to cancel the divided area of the second touch pad, when the gyro-sensor senses an additional motion of the mobile terminal.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cancel the divided area of the second touch pad, when a preset time period passes after sensing the basic touch input or when sensing an end input.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to re-set areas of the divided area of the second touch pad based on a position of the additional touch input in the first or second control command areas.

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

cancel the setting of the second control command in response to the additional touch input in the first control command area, and

set the first control command on a whole area of the second touch pad.

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

change the first and second control commands into different control commands when additionally sensing the basic touch input from the second touch pad.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to divide the first and second control command areas at a uniform angle with respect to the touch point.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to divide the area of the second touch pad into:

a third control command area located in a third direction rotated 90 degrees from the first direction along a clockwise direction, and

a fourth control command area located in a fourth direction rotated 90 degrees from the second direction along the clockwise direction.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display an indicator on the touch screen indicating the first and second control commands set to the first and second control command areas.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to set a plurality of control commands in the first or second control command area based on a type of the additional touch input in the first or second control command areas.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the type of the touch input includes at least one of single tap input, a touch and drag input, and long touch input.

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

enter a locked state of the mobile terminal, and

release the locked state when the basic touch input occurs in the first and second control command areas in a preset order.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the second touch pad is located an upper portion of the rear surface of the mobile terminal.

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

a Light Emitting Diode (LED) matrix disposed in an inner surface of the second touch pad, the LED matrix comprising a plurality of LEDs configured to emit light,

wherein the controller is further configured to output a specific character, image and figure using the LED matrix for the basic touch input.