Mobile terminal and method of controlling the same terminal

• US 9,778,811 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2014
• Issued: 10/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Hweejea, Hwang, Jaesung, Park, Kwanlock
• Primary Examiner(s): Augustine, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US14/334,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20150128037A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• 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 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function

Abstract

Provided is a mobile terminal including: a display unit on which screen information is output; a translation function unit that translates a translation-source information portion of the screen information that is output to the display unit; and a controller that outputs translation-target information into which the translation-source information portion is translated using the translation function unit, on a translation window, in which in a state where the screen information is output on the display unit, the translation window is positioned in one region of the display unit.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display unit to display screen information;

a translation function unit to translate a translation-source information of the displayed screen information; and

a controller configured to;

display a translation window overlapping with the screen information;

determine the translation-source information based on a display region of the translation window;

translate the determined translation-source information using the translation function unit;

display, on the translation window, translation-target information translated from the translated translation-source information;

receive a predetermined-type touch input applied to the translation-target information displayed on the translation window,

determine a portion of the translation-source information that corresponds to the translation-target information that is output to a region corresponding to the translation window to which the predetermined-type touch input is received; and

in response to the predetermined-type touch input applied to the translation-target information, perform an operation associated with the translation source information.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the translation window is displayed in a region in which the translation-source information is displayed.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the translation window that includes the translation-target information is displayed at the region in which the translation-source information is displayed, and such that the translation window is superimposed on the region in which the translation-source information is displayed, and

wherein the translation window is configured such that the translation-source information can be recognized at the translation window.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the translation-source information is determined based on a position of the translation window, and

wherein the controller sets, as the translation-source information, a portion of the displayed screen information that is output to the region corresponding to the translation window.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the controller moves the translation window based on a touch input to the translation window, and

wherein the translation-target information included in the translation window changes based on movement of the translation window.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the translation-source information is determined based on a size of a region of the display unit corresponding to the translation window, and

wherein the controller sets, as the translation-source information, a portion of the screen information displayed at the region corresponding to the translation window.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the translation window is movable based on a touch input to the display unit, and

wherein when the translation window reaches a border region of the display unit while being moved based on the touch input, the controller to translate the entire screen information displayed on the display unit and to display, at the translation window, the translation-source information into which the entire screen information is translated.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein when the translation window reaches the border region of the display unit, the controller to change a size of the translation window such that the size of the translation window corresponds to a size of an output region of the display unit and to output the translation-target information into which the entire screen information that is output to the display unit is translated, on the translation window whose size is changed.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when a drag input is applied to the translation window when the screen information is displayed on the display unit, the translation window is moved based on the drag input, and

wherein when the translation window is in a border region of the display unit, based on the drag input applied to the translation window when the drag input is continuously applied to the translation window in a state where the translation window is positioned in the border region of the display unit, the controller to scroll the screen information that is displayed on the display unit.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein when the displayed screen information can be no longer scrolled when the drag input is continuously applied to the translation window, the controller to perform a refreshing function of updating the screen information.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when the operation is executed, the screen information is changed to an execution screen associated with the executed operation, the controller to continue to display the translation window independently of the changing of the screen information to the execution screen, and the translation-target information associated with the execution screen is displayed on the translation window.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller to translate the translation-source information into the translation-target information in one language among a plurality of languages, and to change the translation-target information in the one language to translation-target information in a different language that is selected from among the plurality of languages by a user.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the selection of the language is based on at least one, among a predetermined-type touch input applied to the translation window, a touch being applied to one, among a plurality of graphic objects that are displayed at the translation window, and a predetermined-type touch applied to the graphic object that is displayed at the translation window.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the translation-target information is edited based on a user'"'"'s request,

wherein in response to receiving the user'"'"'s request, the controller to display an editing list associated with the editing of the translation-target information, and

wherein when any one item is selected from among items included in the editing list, the controller to edit the translation-target information such that the translation-target information corresponds to the selected item.

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

a position receiving unit to receive position information indicating a position of the mobile terminal,

wherein the controller to translate the translation-source information into the translation-target information in a language of a country where the mobile terminal is positioned.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller to additionally control the output of the translation-target information in an aural manner.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein when the translation window is moved on the display unit, another portion of the displayed screen information, corresponding to the translation window, is translated, and

wherein the moved translation window displays translation-target information corresponding to the another portion of the screen information.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the touch input to move the translation window is a flicking touch input applied to the translation window at a predetermined speed.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller configured to perform the operation associated with the translation-source includes in response to the predetermined-type touch input applied to the translation-target information, the controller configured to access a web address associated with the translation source information.

20. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display to display screen information;

a translation function unit to translate translation-source information of the displayed screen information; and

a controller configured to;

display a translation window to overlap with the screen information;

determine the translation-source information based on a display region of the translation window;

translate, by using the translation function unit, the determined translation-source information into the translation-target information;

display, at the translation window, the translation-target information;

receive, at the displayed translation-target information, a touch input,

determine a portion of the translation-source information that corresponds to the translation-target information that is output to a region corresponding to the translation window to which the touch input is received; and

in response to the touch input at the displayed translation-target information, access a web address associated with the translation source information.