Mobile terminal, display device and controlling method thereof

• US 9,576,339 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2015
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Byoungwook, Kim, Woongchang, Hwang, Jeongseop, Zhang, Kangwon, Lee, Jongsung, Yun, Chanphill, Song, Eungkyu
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Dung
• Application Number:
  US14/878,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20160027150A1
• Time in Patent Office: 502 Days
• Field of Search: 455418-419, 455/550.1, 455/556.1, 455/557, 455/566, 345 11- 34, 345 4- 6
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• 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 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/042 for monitor identification
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2092 Details of a display terminals using a flat panel, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto suitable for both CRT and flat panel G09G5/003; specific for a CRT G09G1/165
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

A display device including an interface unit configured to be connected to a mobile terminal having a first display unit displaying a mobile screen image; a second display unit for displaying a monitor window having two orientation directions; and a controller configured to display the monitor window in a first orientation direction for displaying a monitor screen image corresponding to the mobile screen image on the second display unit; receive a user command relating to a modification of the mobile screen image; transmit a control signal relating to the user command to the mobile terminal; and display a modified monitor screen image in response to the user command on a second orientation direction of the monitor window.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

an interface unit configured to be connected to a mobile terminal having a first display unit displaying a mobile screen image;

a second display unit for displaying a monitor window; and

a controller configured to;

display the monitor window in a first orientation direction for displaying a monitor screen image corresponding to the mobile screen image on the second display unit;

maintain the monitor window in the first orientation direction even though an orientation direction of the mobile screen image is changed from a first orientation direction to a second orientation direction;

receive a user command relating to a modification of the mobile screen image;

transmit a control signal relating to the user command to the mobile terminal; and

display the monitor window in a second orientation direction with a modified monitor screen image based on the user command, even though an orientation direction of a housing of the mobile terminal is not changed.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the user command intends to change the orientation direction of the monitor window from the first orientation direction to the second orientation direction.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein the first orientation direction of the monitor window is a horizontal direction and the second orientation direction of the monitor window is a vertical direction.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein the user command is received through a touchscreen.

5. The display device of claim 1, wherein the mobile screen image and the monitor screen image share a content image related to a menu or application executed in the mobile terminal.

6. The display device of claim 1, wherein the monitor window has a substantially identical shape to one face of the housing of the mobile terminal.

7. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to display the monitor window at a position on the second display unit regardless of a display position of at least one object that is previously displayed on the second display unit.

8. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to display the monitor window at a position on the second display unit to avoid blocking at least one object that is previously displayed on the second display unit.

9. The display device of claim 1, wherein in response to a user command for zooming-in the monitor screen image, the controller is configured to transmit information related to the user command for zooming-in the monitor screen image to the mobile terminal, and receive a video signal from the mobile terminal corresponding to the information while a size of the monitor window is maintained.

10. The display device of claim 1, wherein in response to a user command for zooming-out the monitor screen image, the controller is configured to transmit information related to the user command for zooming-out the monitor screen image to the mobile terminal, and receive a video signal from the mobile terminal corresponding to the information while a size of the monitor window is maintained.

11. The display device of claim 1, wherein in response to a user command for enlarging the monitor window, the controller is configured to control the monitor window to be enlarged and control the monitor screen image to be enlarged within the enlarged monitor window while a zoom level of the monitor screen image is not changed.

12. The display device of claim 1, wherein in response to a user command for enlarging the monitor window, the controller is configured to control the monitor window to be enlarged and transmit information to the mobile terminal, the information indicating the user command for enlarging the monitor window is input, and the controller is configured to receive a video signal from the mobile terminal corresponding to the information and control the monitor screen image to be enlarged within the enlarged monitor window using the video signal.

13. The display device of claim 1, wherein in response to a user command for reducing the monitor window, the controller is configured to control the monitor window to be reduced and control the monitor screen image to be reduced within the reduced monitor window while a zoom level of the monitor screen image is not changed.

14. The display device of claim 1, wherein in response to a user command for reducing the monitor window, the controller is configured to control the monitor window to be reduced and transmit information to the mobile terminal, the information indicating the user command for reducing the monitor window is input, and the controller is configured to receive a video signal from the mobile terminal corresponding to the information and control the monitor screen image to be reduced within the reduced monitor window using the video signal.

15. The display device of claim 1, wherein in response to a predetermined event occurring in the mobile terminal, the controller is configured to control the monitor window to be visually changed in the second display unit.

16. The display device of claim 1, wherein in response to a predetermined event occurring in the mobile terminal, the controller is configured to display an alarm message indicating the predetermined event occurs on the monitor window.

17. The display device of claim 1, wherein in response to information being received from the mobile terminal, the information indicating a predetermined event has occurred in the mobile terminal and the mobile terminal is not in a mute mode, the controller is configured to control the monitor window to be maintained without being visually changed in the second display unit.

18. A method for displaying a monitor screen image in a display device having a second display unit for displaying a monitor window, the method comprising:

interfacing to a mobile terminal having a first display unit displaying a mobile screen image;

displaying the monitor window in a first orientation direction for displaying the monitor screen image corresponding to the mobile screen image on the second display unit;

maintaining the monitor window in the first orientation direction even though an orientation direction of the mobile screen image is changed from a first orientation direction to a second orientation direction;

receiving a user command relating to a modification of the mobile screen image;

transmitting a control signal relating to the user command to the mobile terminal; and

displaying the monitor window in a second orientation direction with a modified monitor screen image based on the user command, even though an orientation direction of a housing of the mobile terminal is not changed.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the user command intends to change the orientation direction of the monitor window from the first orientation direction to the second orientation direction.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first orientation direction of the monitor window is a horizontal direction and the second orientation direction of the monitor window is a vertical direction.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the user command is received through a touchscreen.

22. The method of claim 18, wherein the mobile screen image and the monitor screen image share a content image related to a menu or application executed in the mobile terminal.

23. The method of claim 18, wherein the monitor window has a substantially identical shape to one face of the housing of the mobile terminal.

24. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

displaying the monitor window at a position on the second display unit regardless of a display position of at least one object that is previously displayed on the second display unit.

25. A system, comprising:

a mobile terminal having a first display unit displaying a mobile screen image; and

a display device including a second display unit for displaying a monitor window and a controller,

wherein the controller of the display device is configured to;

interface to the mobile terminal having the first display unit displaying the mobile screen image;

display the monitor window in a first orientation direction for displaying a monitor screen image corresponding to the mobile screen image on the second display unit;

maintain the monitor window in the first orientation direction even though an orientation direction of the mobile screen image is changed from a first orientation direction to a second orientation direction;

receive a user command relating to a modification of the mobile screen image;

transmit a control signal relating to the user command to the mobile terminal; and

display the monitor window in a second orientation direction with a modified monitor screen image based on the user command, even though an orientation direction of the housing of the mobile terminal is not changed.