MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120015672A1
• Filed: 01/25/2011
• Published: 01/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: JUNG, Eunsoo
• Granted Patent: US 8,433,370 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which object information on an object in a preview image is held in the preview image to be utilized in various ways. The present invention includes displaying a preview image photographed via a camera, obtaining a current position of the mobile terminal, searching object information on at least one object in the preview image based on the current position of the mobile terminal, displaying the found object information within the preview image, if the displayed the object information is selected from the preview image, holding the selected object information within the preview image, and controlling an operation related to the held object information.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a wireless communication unit;

a camera configured to photograph a preview image;

a position information unit configured to obtain a current position of the mobile terminal;

a touchscreen displaying the preview image photographed via the camera; and

a controller searching and displaying object information on at least one object in the preview image based on the current position of the mobile terminal, the controller, if the object information is selected, holding the selected object information within the preview image, the controller controlling an operation related to the held object information.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein if the object information is selected, the controller maintains a display of the object information within the preview image until performing a control of the operation related to the object information.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein as a photographing view of the camera is changed, if an object corresponding to the held object information does not exist in the preview image, the controller maintains the display of the held object information and/or

wherein at least two object informations are displayed in the preview image and wherein if one of the at least two object informations are is selected, the controller holds the selected object information and stops displaying the rest of the object informations that are not held and/or

wherein the controller controls the held object information to be displayed in the preview image in an emphasized manner.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein the held object information is shiftable according to a user'"'"'s touch &

drag operation within the preview image and

wherein each time the held object information passes over one of a plurality of objects within the preview image according to the touch &

drag operation, the controller displays object information on the object having a category related to the held object information.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein the controller displays an edit menu window for editing the held object information and wherein if the held object information is edited via the edit menu window, the controller controls the edited object information to be stored.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein if a command for storing the held object information is inputted, the controller controls a plurality of storage places classified per category of the object to be displayed.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6,

wherein while the object information is stored per the category, if the current position of the mobile terminal approaches the object corresponding to the stored object information within a predetermined distance, the controller controls the stored object information to be displayed in the preview image.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein if the object information is held, the controller controls the held object information to be attached to a menu function selected by a user.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8,

wherein the menu function having the held object information attached thereto comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a menu write menu, an email write menu and a memo write menu.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein while the object information is held, if a command for photographing the preview image is inputted, the controller controls the preview image including the object information to be stored.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10,

wherein the controller stores the held object information in a manner of synthesizing the held object information within the photographed preview image.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 10,

wherein the controller controls the photographed preview image and the held object information to be stored as separate files, respectively, in a manner of linking the preview image and the held object information to each other.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12,

wherein when the stored preview image is executed and displayed, the controller controls both of the stored preview image and the linked object information to be displayed together.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein if the object information is held, the controller controls the preview image including the held object information to be displayed as a thumbnail within the preview image prior to holding the object information.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14,

wherein if the thumbnail image is selected, the controller controls the preview image including the held object information to be photographed and stored.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein if the object information is held, the controller partitions the touchscreen into a first region and a second region,

wherein the controller controls the preview image prior to holding the object information to be displayed in the first region, and

wherein the controller controls the preview image including the held object information to be displayed in the second region.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein while the object information is held, if a different object within the preview image is selected, the controller controls the held object information to be transmitted to a contact of the selected different object via the wireless communication unit.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17,

wherein the different object is located within the preview image including the held object information or the preview image failing to have the held object information included therein due to a changed photographing view of the camera and/or

wherein if the held object information is touched &

dragged to the different object, the controller controls the wireless communication unit to transmit the held object information to the different object and/or

wherein the different object comprises a picture of a counterpart and wherein the control unit recognizes the picture of the selected counterpart and then transmits the held object information to a contact set at the recognized picture.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein while the object information is held, as a photographing view of the camera is changed, if at least one new object is displayed in the preview image, the controller recognizes a pattern of the new object and then transmits the held object information to a contact previously set at the recognized pattern of the new object via the wireless communication unit.

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

displaying a preview image photographed via a camera;

obtaining a current position of the mobile terminal;

searching object information on at least one object in the preview image based on the current position of the mobile terminal;

displaying the found object information within the preview image;

if the displayed the object information is selected from the preview image, holding the selected object information within the preview image; and

controlling an operation related to the held object information.