Mobile terminal and method for controlling mobile terminal

• US 9,910,590 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2015
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Ibaraki, Atsuko
• Primary Examiner(s): Earles, Bryan
• Application Number:
  US14/670,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20150277654A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,076 Days
• 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: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen

Abstract

In an e-mail input mode, a control module can cause text information selected by a touch operation on a portion of a touch panel that overlaps an operation key display area of a display to be displayed in an edit display area, and can cause time information and a detected state of position information to be displayed in a first notification area. In the e-mail input mode, when a touch operation is performed on a portion of the touch panel that overlaps the first notification area, the control module can cause the time displayed in a time display area to be displayed in an editable manner, and can cause edited time to be displayed in an edit display area as text information.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touch panel display configured to display information and accept a touch operation by a user; and

at least one processor configured to

display first information in a notification area on the touch panel display, and,

in an input mode for inputting text information into a text input area that is distinct from the notification area,

in response to a first touch operation, expand the notification area over the text input area, and display second information in the expanded notification area,

when a second touch operation is performed to select at least a portion of the second information in the expanded notification area, insert third information, related to the selected at least a portion of the second information, into the text input area, and contract the expanded notification area,

wherein the at least one processor simultaneously displays the contracted notification area, the text input area, and a virtual keyboard for inputting characters into the text input area.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of the second information comprises time information, and wherein the third information comprises formatted time information.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a detection device configured to detect a current location of the mobile terminal, wherein the at least a portion of the second information comprises a location indicator, and wherein the third information comprises an address corresponding to the current location of the mobile terminal.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of the second information comprises first weather information, and wherein the third information comprises formatted second weather information derived from the first weather information.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the second information comprises a plurality of dates in a predetermined period, and wherein the third information comprises a date selected from the plurality of dates by the second touch operation.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, wherein the address in the third information comprises a link that, when selected, activates an application for displaying a map corresponding to the address.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, wherein the third information further comprises a map image corresponding to the address.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the first information comprises an hour value and a minute value, wherein the formatted time information comprises an hour value and a minute value, and wherein the second information comprises one or more inputs for changing the hour value and the minute value to be used in the formatted time information from the hour value and the minute value displayed as the first information.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined period is one month, and wherein the plurality of dates are arranged in a calendar format representing the one month.

6. A method for controlling a mobile terminal including a touch panel display configured to display information and accept a touch operation by a user, the method comprising:

displaying first information in a notification area on the touch panel display; and

,

in an input mode for inputting text information into a text input area that is distinct from the notification area,

in response to a first touch operation, expanding the notification area over the text input area, and displaying second information in the expanded notification area,

when a second touch operation is performed to select at least a portion of the second information in the expanded notification area, inserting third information, related to the selected at least a portion of the second information, into the text input area, and contracting the expanded notification area,

wherein the contracted notification area, the text input area, and a virtual keyboard for inputting characters into the text input area are simultaneously displayed.