TERMINAL, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE METHOD

• US 20090132960A1
• Filed: 10/03/2008
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Min Seok
• Application Number:
  US12/245,383
• Publication Number:
  US 20090132960A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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

Abstract

A terminal includes a display unit, a storage unit storing objects corresponding to at least one of a plurality of object categories, and a control unit displaying one or more higher priority objects selected from a plurality of objects according to a priority of each of the plurality of object categories, on a screen of the display unit.

Claims

1. A terminal comprising:

a display unit;

a storage unit storing objects corresponding to at least one object category among a plurality of object categories; and

a control unit displaying one or more higher priority objects selected from a plurality of objects according to a priority of each of the plurality of object categories on a screen of the display unit.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit aligns the one or more higher priority objects in different directions according to corresponding categories to which the one or more higher priority objects belong.

3. The terminal of claim 2, wherein the control unit further displays the one or more higher priority objects such that figures of the one or more higher priority objects are visually distinguished from each other according to the corresponding categories.

4. The terminal of claim 3, wherein the control unit associates an appearance of the one or more higher priority objects with a direction of a category to which the one or more higher priority objects belong.

5. The terminal of claim 2, wherein the display unit comprises a touchscreen and the one or more higher priority objects belonging to a prescribed category are aligned on the touchscreen such that the control unit displays lower priority objects among the one or more higher priority objects on the touchscreen if the touchscreen is scrolled in a first direction.

6. The terminal of claim 5, wherein the control unit scrolls the touchscreen if the touchscreen is touched and flicked.

7. The terminal of claim 6, wherein the control unit executes a flicked object if the one or more higher priority objects belonging to the prescribed category on the touchscreen is flicked in a second direction substantially vertical to the first direction.

8. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit associates a single object corresponding to at least two object categories with only one of the at least two object categories.

9. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the plurality of object categories comprise at least one of a recent call number category, a recent stored number category, a recently absent number category, a most frequently call number category, a recent message category, a recently executed multimedia contents category, a most frequently executed multimedia contents category or a recently stored multimedia contents category.

10. The terminal of claim 2, wherein the control unit aligns the one or more higher priority objects in a 3-dimensional space.

11. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit aligns the one or more higher priority objects belonging to the object categories in specific directions associated with corresponding object categories.

12. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the control unit locates the one or more higher priority objects belonging to the corresponding at least one object category at a central part of the screen of the display unit and the control unit locates the one or more objects in a peripheral part of the screen of the display unit if priorities of the one or more objects become lower.

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

storing objects corresponding to at least one of a plurality of object categories; and

displaying at least one of a plurality of objects according to a priority of each of the plurality of object categories such that one or more higher priority objects are displayed on a display screen of the terminal.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of object categories comprise at least one of a recent call number category, a recent stored number category, a recently absent number category, a most frequently call number category, a recent message category, a recently executed multimedia contents category, a most frequently executed multimedia contents category or a recently stored multimedia contents category.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one higher priority objects are aligned in different directions according to corresponding object categories to which the at least one higher priority objects belong.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one higher priority objects are aligned in a 3-dimensional space.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one higher priority objects belonging to a plurality of corresponding object categories are aligned in specific directions associated with the plurality of corresponding object categories.

18. A recording medium comprising a recorded program, the program executing a method of controlling a terminal, the method comprising:

storing objects corresponding to at least one of a plurality of object categories; and

displaying at least one or more of a plurality of the objects according to a priority for each of the plurality of object categories such that at least one higher priority objects displayed on a display screen of the terminal.

19. The recording medium of claim 18, wherein the plurality of object categories comprises at least one of a recent call number category, a recent stored number category, a recently absent number category, a most frequently call number category, a recent message category, a recently executed multimedia contents category, a most frequently executed multimedia contents category or a recently stored multimedia contents category.