Mobile terminal and method of controlling the same

• US 9,977,589 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2014
• Issued: 05/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Min, Jihye, Jang, Juhee, Lee, Yongdeok, Bae, Kwonhan
• Primary Examiner(s): Dasgupta, Shourjo
• Application Number:
  US14/311,063
• Publication Number:
  US 20150268811A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,432 Days
• 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 3/0481 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 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

Disclosed is a mobile terminal which provides a plurality of home screen pages where application-related graphic objects have been arranged. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit configured to output one of the plurality of home screen pages; a sensing unit configured to sense a touch to the display unit, in a state where one of the plurality of home screen pages has been output; and a controller configured to output graphic objects arranged on the plurality of home screen pages to a single page, in response to a preset type of touch to the display unit, wherein at least one graphic object arranged on said one home screen page, and at least one graphic object arranged on one or more other home screen pages rather than said one home screen page among the plurality of home screen pages are together output to the single page.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touchscreen; and

a controller configured to;

cause the touchscreen to display a first home screen page among a plurality of home screen pages, wherein each of the plurality of home screen pages includes a plurality of graphic objects, and each of the plurality of graphic objects comprises different types of graphic objects;

receive a first touch input applied to a specific area of the first home screen page while the first home screen page is displayed;

determine a type of one graphic object displayed on the specific area as an icon type or a widget type in response to the first touch input;

extract at least one graphic object among the plurality of graphic objects included in the plurality of home screen pages based on the determined type of one graphic object; and

cause the touchscreen to display the extracted at least one graphic object on a single screen page, wherein the extracted at least one graphic object is a same type as the determined type of one graphic object,

wherein the single screen page is different from each of the plurality of home screen pages,

wherein when the determined type of one graphic object is the icon type, the single screen page includes at least one icon type graphic object included in the plurality of home screen pages and the single screen page does not include any widget type graphic objects included in the plurality of home screen pages,

wherein when the determined type of one graphic object is the widget type, the single screen page includes at least one widget type graphic object included in the plurality of home screen pages and the single screen page does not include any icon type graphic objects included in the plurality of home screen pages, and

wherein the at least one widget type graphic object included in the single screen page includes the one graphic object displayed on the specific area of the first home screen page and at least one widget type graphic object that was not included in the first home screen page when the determined type of one graphic object is the widget type.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to redisplay the first home screen page in response to a second touch input that is applied to the touchscreen on which the single screen page is displayed.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display options in response to a user input received prior to the first touch input, the options comprising a first option for displaying thumbnail images, each of the thumbnail images representing a respectively corresponding one of the plurality of home screen pages, and a second option for displaying the single screen page; and

the first touch input is for selecting the second option.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display an icon for switching between displaying the single screen page and displaying the thumbnail images such that the thumbnail images are displayed in response to selection of the icon while the extracted at least one graphic object is displayed on the single screen page.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one icon type graphic object displayed on the single screen page or the at least one widget type graphic object displayed on the single screen page have different sizes, the sizes adjusted based on a preset condition.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the preset condition is determined according to a usage pattern of each of the at least one icon type graphic object or widget type graphic object.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the preset condition is time of a day, and a size of each of the at least one icon type graphic object or widget type graphic object is determined based on time when the first touch input is applied to the touchscreen.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein:

the preset condition is attribute information of the graphic objects; and

the controller is further configured to determine sizes of the graphic objects according to the attribute information.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

the first touch input comprises a pinch-in that is received via two different graphic objects of a same type included in the first home screen page; and

the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display progressive shifting of the at least one icon type graphic object or widget type graphic object onto the single screen page during the pinch-in.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to activate an edit mode, in which a display type of the at least one icon type graphic object or widget type graphic object is changeable, in response to a user input that is received while the single screen page is displayed.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein in response to a second touch input that is applied to the touchscreen during the edit mode, the controller is further configured to:

change the display type of the at least one icon type graphic object or widget type graphic object into a first type when the second touch input is applied to a first region of the single screen page; and

change the display type of the at least one icon type graphic object or widget type graphic object into a second type when the second touch input is applied to a second region of the single screen page that is different from the first region.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein an arrangement of graphic objects on the redisplayed first home screen page is changed according to the change of the display type of the at least one icon type graphic object or widget type graphic object on the single screen page.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

the at least one widget provides real-time information that is changeable from time to time; and

the at least one icon provides a fixed image that always includes same information.

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

displaying, on the touchscreen, a first home screen page among a plurality of home screen pages, wherein each of the plurality of home screen pages includes a plurality of graphic objects, and each of the plurality of graphic objects comprises different types of graphic objects;

receiving a first touch input applied to a specific area of the first home screen page while the first home screen page is displayed;

determining a type of one graphic object displayed on the specific area as an icon type or a widget type in response to the first touch input;

extracting at least one graphic object among the plurality of graphic objects included in the plurality of home screen pages based on the determined type of one graphic object; and

displaying, on the touchscreen, the extracted at least one graphic object on a single screen page, wherein the extracted at least one graphic object is a same type as the determined type of one graphic object,

wherein the single screen page is different from each of the plurality of home screen pages,

wherein when the determined type of one graphic object is the icon type, the single screen page includes at least one icon type graphic object included in the plurality of home screen pages and the single screen page does not include any widget type graphic objects included in the plurality of home screen pages, and

wherein when the determined type of one graphic object is the widget type, the single screen page includes at least one widget type graphic object included in the plurality of home screen pages and the single screen page does not include any icon type graphic objects included in the plurality of home screen pages,

wherein the at least one widget type graphic object included in the single screen page includes the one graphic object displayed on the specific area of the first home screen page and at least one widget type graphic object that was not included in the first home screen page when the determined type of one graphic object is the widget type.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising redisplaying the first home screen page in response to a second touch input that is applied to the touchscreen while the single screen page is displayed.