Watch type terminal

• US 10,042,457 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2015
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Samsick, Lim, Jongin, Oh, Sesook, Choi, Younhwa, Kang, Shinnyue, Yang, Yoonseok
• Primary Examiner(s): Awad, Amr
• Assistant Examiner(s): BRAY, STEPHEN A
• Application Number:
  US14/812,596
• Publication Number:
  US 20160239142A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,105 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 13/025 acting only at one preselected time
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/025 for measuring physiological data
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/04 using radio waves radio-controlled time-pieces G04R
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/08 Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• 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 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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: 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 watch-type terminal including a touch screen configured to display screen information; a bezel portion surrounding a periphery of the touch screen and configured to receive a touch input; and a controller configured to display an image object indicating a status associated with the displayed screen information in one region of the touch screen in response to a first touch input received at a first part of the bezel portion, apply a first function to the screen information in response to a second touch input received at a second part of the bezel portion while the first touch input is maintained at the first part of the bezel portion, and apply a second function different from the first function to the screen information in response to a touch area corresponding to the first touch input being changed.

Claims

1. A watch-type terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to display screen information;

a bezel portion surrounding a periphery of the touch screen and configured to receive a touch input; and

a controller configured to;

display an image object indicating a status associated with the displayed screen information in one region of the touch screen in response to a first touch input received at a first part of the bezel portion,

apply a first function to the screen information in response to a second touch input received at a second part of the bezel portion while the first touch input is maintained at the first part of the bezel portion, and

apply a second function different from the first function to the screen information in response to a touch area corresponding to the first touch input being changed,

wherein the controller is further configured to;

scroll the screen information in response to the first and second touch inputs rotationally moving in one direction,

change a scroll unit or speed of scrolling the screen information based on a size of touch areas of the first and second touch inputs,

receive a third touch input on an object included in the displayed screen information while applying the first and second touch inputs, and

scroll the screen information excluding the touched object in response to the first and second touch inputs being rotationally moved in the one direction.

2. The watch-type terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display the image object on a boundary region of the touch screen facing a position at which the first touch input is initially received.

3. The watch-type terminal of claim 1, wherein the image object is a progress bar displayed along a boundary region of the touch screen.

4. The watch-type terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display an icon for applying the second function on the touch screen in response to the touch area corresponding to the first touch input being changed.

5. The watch-type terminal of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to apply a function of the icon to the screen information in response the first touch input being maintained and a touch selecting the icon being received.

6. The watch-type terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

control a scroll extent of the screen information except the touched object based on a rotational movement extent of the first and second touch inputs, and

control a scroll unit or speed of the screen information except the touched object to vary when a touch area corresponding to the first and second touch inputs changing.

7. The watch-type terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

display the touched object as a pop-up window while the first and second touch inputs are rotationally moved in one direction, and

maintain the display of the pop-up window even when the third touch input applied to the object is released.

8. The watch-type terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller is further configured to stop scrolling the screen information and enter an operation mode for comparing the touched object with at least one content included in the displayed screen information when any one of the first and second touch inputs is released.

9. The watch-type terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller is further configured to display at least one of the other contents in comparison with the object included in the pop-up window in response to the other touch input being rotationally moved.

10. The watch-type terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

reconfigure a list of content included the displayed screen information according to a distance between the first and second touch inputs on the bezel portion.

11. The watch-type terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller is further configured to:

reconfigure the list of content in a first configuration in response to the first and second touch inputs being a first predetermined reference distance, and

reconfigure the list of content in a second configuration in response to the first and second touch inputs being a second predetermined reference distance.

12. The watch-type terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller is further configured to:

display a first graphic object indicating a status of the displayed screen information on the touch screen at a boundary position corresponding to first touch input at the bezel portion,

display a second graphic object for changing a status of the displayed screen information on the touch screen at a boundary position corresponding to the second touch input, and

change the status of the displayed screen information in response to the rotational movement of the second touch input.

13. The watch-type terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller is further configured to scroll the reconfigured list in response to any one of first and second touch inputs being dragged in one direction when the other one thereof is fixed.

14. The watch-type terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display a graphic object on the touch screen indicating how the screen information is changed.

15. The watch-type terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to change an operation mode of the mobile terminal in response to a gesture input being rotated in one direction on a front surface of the touch screen.

16. The watch-type terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is further configured to change the operation mode to another operational mode based on a rotational direction and extent of the gesture.

17. The watch-type terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to display the touched object in a larger scale than the other contents while scrolling the screen information excluding the touched object.

18. A method of controlling a watch-type terminal, the method comprising:

displaying, via a touch screen of the mobile terminal, screen information;

displaying, via the touch screen, an image object indicating a status associated with the displayed screen information in one region of the touch screen in response to a first touch input received at a first part of a bezel portion of the mobile terminal;

applying, via a controller of the mobile terminal, a first function to the screen information in response to a second touch input received at a second part of the bezel portion while the first touch input is maintained at the first part of the bezel portion; and

applying, via the controller, a second function different from the first function to the screen information in response to a touch area corresponding to the first touch input being changed,

wherein the method further comprises;

scrolling the screen information in response to the first and second touch inputs rotationally moving in one direction;

changing a scroll unit or speed of scrolling the screen information based on a size of touch areas of the first and second touch inputs;

receiving a third touch input on an object included in the displayed screen information while applying the first and second touch inputs; and

scrolling the screen information excluding the touched object in response to the first and second touch inputs being rotationally moved in the one direction.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising displaying the touched object in a larger scale than the other contents while scrolling the screen information excluding the touched object.