Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof

• US 9,858,968 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2016
• Issued: 01/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Hwang, Dohyun, Kim, Hosoo
• Primary Examiner(s): Belousov, Andrey
• Assistant Examiner(s): SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM
• Application Number:
  US15/096,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20160275991A1
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/743 a collection of video files or sequences
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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: G06T 1/20 Processor architectures; Processor configuration, e.g. pipelining
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312

Abstract

A mobile terminal, including a touchscreen and a controller configured to display a playing image of a first video as a main image in a first region of the touch screen, display a video list in a second region of the touchscreen different than the first region while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, the video list including a first thumbnail image representing the first video and a second thumbnail image representing a second video, display a playing image of the second video in a first size as a preview image in the second region while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, such that the playing image of the first video in the first region and the playing image of the second video in the second region are simultaneously displayed, in response to a first proximity touch input to the second thumbnail image, and display the playing image of the second video in a second size larger than the first size, in response to a first contact touch input to the second thumbnail image. In addition, the preview image of the second video is larger than the second thumbnail image.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touchscreen; and

a controller configured to;

display a playing image of a first video as a main image in a first region of the touch screen,

display a video list in a second region of the touchscreen different than the first region while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, the video list comprising a first thumbnail image representing the first video and a second thumbnail image representing a second video,

display a playing image of the second video in a first size as a preview image in the second region while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, such that the playing image of the first video in the first region and the playing image of the second video in the second region are simultaneously displayed, in response to a first proximity touch input to the second thumbnail image, and

display the playing image of the second video in a second size larger than the first size, in response to a first contact touch input to the second thumbnail image,

wherein the controller is further configured to;

display a progress bar indicating a running time of the second video while the playing image of the second video is displayed in a main playing window, wherein the progress bar includes a first visually-discriminated part corresponding to a played part of the second video and a second visually-discriminated part corresponding to a non-played part of the second video,

display the playing image of the second video played back from a first timing point of the running time corresponding to a first point of the progress bar in the main playing window in response to a second contact touch input to the first point of the progress bar, and

display the playing image of the second video played back from a second timing point of the running time corresponding to a second point of the progress bar in a sub playing window while the playing image of the second video is displayed from the first timing point in the main playing window, in response to a second proximity touch input to the second point of the progress bar,

wherein a first indicator for the second video played back from the first timing point in the main playing window and a second indicator for the same second video played back from the second timing point in the sub playing window are concurrently displayed via the same progress bar, the first indicator being displayed between the first visually-discriminated part and the second visually-discriminated part of the progress bar, and

wherein the first indicator, the second indicator, the first visually-discriminated part, the second visually-discriminated part, and the sub playing window are concurrently displayed while the playing image of the second video is displayed from the first timing point in the main playing window.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether to additionally play another video with the first and second videos according to a number of activated processing cores.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to overlay the preview image of the second video on the video list in the second region.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to display the playing image of the second video as the main image substituting for the playing image of the first video in response to the first contact touch input to the second thumbnail image.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the playing image of the second video is displayed in a sub playing window in the second region.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the preview image of the second video in the first size partially overlaps a display region corresponding to the first video in the video list.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the running time and a name of the first video are displayed together with the first thumbnail image in the display region corresponding to the first video in the video list.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the playing image of the second video is displayed instead of the second thumbnail image in the second region.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the playing image of the second video is displayed over a display area of the second thumbnail image.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first indicator is displayed without any sub playing window for the second video played back from the first timing point.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the sub playing window is displayed at a position corresponding to the second indicator.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the progress bar and the sub playing window are displayed within the main playing window.

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

displaying a playing image of a first video as a main image in a first region of a touch screen of the mobile terminal;

displaying a video list in a second region of the touchscreen different than the first region while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, the video list comprising a first thumbnail image representing the first video and a second thumbnail image representing a second video;

displaying a playing image of the second video in a first size as a preview image in the second region while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, such that the playing image of the first video in the first region and the playing image of the second video in the second region are simultaneously displayed, in response to a first proximity touch input to the second thumbnail image; and

displaying the playing image of the second video in a second size larger than the first size, in response to a first contact touch input to the second thumbnail image,

wherein the method further comprises;

displaying a progress bar indicating a running time of the second video while the playing image of the second video is displayed in a main playing window, wherein the progress bar includes a first visually-discriminated part corresponding to a played part of the second video and a second visually-discriminated part corresponding to a non-played part of the second video;

displaying the playing image of the second video played back from a first timing point of the running time corresponding to a first point of the progress bar in the main playing window in response to a second contact touch input to the first point of the progress bar; and

displaying the playing image of the second video played back from a second timing point of the running time corresponding to a second point of the progress bar in a sub playing window while the playing image of the second video is displayed from the first timing point in the main playing window, in response to a second proximity touch input to the second point of the progress bar,

wherein the a first indicator for the second video played back from the first timing point in the main playing window and a second indicator for the same second video played back from the second timing point in the sub playing window are concurrently displayed via the same progress bar, the first indicator being displayed between the first visually-discriminated part and the second visually-discriminated part of the progress bar, and

wherein the first indicator, the second indicator, the first visually-discriminated part, the second visually-discriminated part, and the sub playing window are concurrently displayed while the playing image of the second video is displayed from the first timing point in the main playing window.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

determining whether to additionally play another video with the first and second videos according to a number of activated processing cores.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

overlaying the preview image of the second video on the video list in the second region.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

displaying the playing image of the second video as the main image substituting for the playing image of the first video in response to the first contact touch input to the second thumbnail image.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the playing image of the second video is displayed in a sub playing window in the second region.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the preview image of the second video in the first size partially overlaps a display region corresponding to the first video in the video list.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the running time and a name of the first video are displayed together with the first thumbnail image in the display region corresponding to the first video in the video list.

20. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display unit configured to display a main playing window for playing a first video;

a touch sensor configured to receive a contact touch input;

a proximity sensor configured to receive a proximity touch input; and

a controller configured to;

play back the first video in the main playing window;

display a progress bar indicating a running time of the first video while the first video is played back in the main playing window, wherein the progress bar includes a first visually-discriminated part corresponding to a played part of the second video and a second visually-discriminated part corresponding to a non-played part of the second video;

play back the first video from a first timing point of the running time corresponding to a first point of the progress bar in the main playing window in response to a contact touch input to the first point of the progress bar; and

play back the first video from a second timing point of the running time corresponding to a second point of the progress bar in a sub playing window while the first video is played back from the first timing point in the main playing window, in response to a proximity touch input to the second point of the progress bar,

wherein a first indicator for the first video played back from the first timing point in the main playing window and a second indicator for the same first video played back from the second timing point in the sub playing window are concurrently displayed via the same progress bar, the first indicator being displayed between the first visually-discriminated part and the second visually-discriminated part of the progress bar, and

wherein the first indicator, the second indicator, the first visually-discriminated part, the second visually-discriminated part, and the sub playing window are concurrently displayed while the playing image of the second video is displayed from the first timing point in the main playing window.