Mobile terminal

• US 9,946,446 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2014
• Issued: 04/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Suh, Meeohk, Yoo, Hyejong, Kim, Jongsup
• Primary Examiner(s): TORRES, MARCOS L
• Application Number:
  US14/498,635
• Publication Number:
  US 20150094120A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,299 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touch screen; and a controller configured to receive a touch input on a peripheral region of the touch screen, display at least one display item from among a plurality of display items on the touch screen in response to the received touch input, in which the at least one display item identifies a foreground panel among a plurality of available foreground panels, receive a dragging touch input in which the touch input is dragged and dropped at the at least one display item, and display a foreground panel corresponding to the at least one item by overlapping the foreground panel on at least part of the touch screen.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication;

a memory configured to store a setting foreground panel, a notification foreground panel, a shortcut foreground panel and a plurality of functions for setting an environment of the mobile terminal;

a touch screen; and

a controller configured to;

display, via the touch screen, an execution screen of a specific application,

simultaneously display, via the touch screen, a setting item indicating the setting foreground panel, a notification item indicating the notification foreground panel and a shortcut item indicating the shortcut foreground panel in response to a touch input received on a notification bar display region of the touch screen,

display, via the touch screen, the setting foreground panel including at least one setting sub-item when the touch input is dragged and dropped to the setting item, wherein the at least one setting sub-item indicates each of functions usable in the specific application selected from the plurality of functions,

display, via the touch screen, the notification foreground panel including at least one notification sub-item when the touch input is dragged and dropped to the notification item, wherein the at least one notification sub-item indicates each of messages received at the mobile terminal, and

display, via the touch screen, the shortcut foreground panel including at least one shortcut sub-item when the touch input is dragged and dropped to the shortcut item, wherein the at least one shortcut sub-item indicates each of applications preset as a shortcut,

wherein one of the setting foreground panel, the notification foreground panel and the shortcut foreground panel is displayed by overlapping one foreground panel on the execution screen.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to slidably expand the foreground panel to overlap on the execution screen.

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

display at least one of the setting item, the notification item and the shortcut item based on an operation state of the mobile terminal.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the operation state of the mobile terminal includes at least one of an event occurred on the mobile terminal, a usage pattern of a user using the mobile terminal, a usage pattern of the user with respect to an application currently under execution, and a usage pattern of the user in an execution state of the application currently under execution.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 3,

wherein the controller is further configured to:

if a touch input of a first style is received on a sub-item in the notification foreground panel notifying an occurrence of an event related to a particular application, display an execution screen of a particular application taking into account the occurred event on the touch screen, and

if a touch input of a second style is received on the sub-item in the notification foreground panel, display a user interface dedicated to performing a particular function of the particular application predetermined in accordance with the occurred event by overlapping the user interface on at least part of the touch screen.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the sub-item in the notification foreground panel corresponds to a message reception event, the execution screen is for a messaging application, and the user interface is dedicated to performing a response message corresponding to the message reception event by overlapping the user interface.