MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF MANAGING OBJECT RELATED INFORMATION THEREIN

• US 20120096403A1
• Filed: 05/18/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jung, Sungho, Lee, Jieun
• Granted Patent: US 9,026,940 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/817
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3611 using character input or menus, e.g. menus of POIs character input methods in general G06F3/0233
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3614 through interaction with a road map, e.g. selecting a POI icon on a road map
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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 2250/64 file transfer between terminals download of applications H04M1/72406; transfer of messages, e.g. SMS, e-mail or MMS H04M1/7243
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/968 interface for database querying and retrieval

Abstract

The mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit configured to receive terminal position information and object related information of at least one object corresponding to the terminal position information; a display module configured to display at least one object indicator indicating the at least one object and display a storage target object indicator region on a background image corresponding to the terminal position information; a user input unit configured to receive a selection of an object indicator; a memory configured to store object related information; and a controller configured to control the components of the mobile terminal. The display module is further configured to display an identifier corresponding to the selected object indicator within the storage target object indicator region, and display an object item list including an object item corresponding to the stored object related information.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to receive terminal position information and object related information of at least one object corresponding to the terminal position information;

a display module configured to display at least one object indicator indicating the at least one object and display a storage target object indicator region on a background image corresponding to the terminal position information;

a user input unit configured to receive a selection of an object indicator of the displayed at least one object indicator;

a memory configured to store object related information of the selected object indicator from the received object related information; and

a controller configured to control an operation of at least the wireless communication unit, the display module, the user input unit or the memory,

wherein the display module is further configured to;

display an identifier corresponding to the selected object indicator within the storage target object indicator region, and

display an object item list that includes an object item corresponding to the stored object related information after storage of the object related information of the selected object indicator is completed.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the received object related information comprises at least a representative image, name, position information, phone number information, Web site address information, or evaluation information of a corresponding one of the at least one object.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the memory is further configured to store at least the terminal position information, time information, or the background image at a time when the object related information of the selected object indicator is stored.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to classify the object related information of the selected object indicator as at least an object type, storage time and date, or an object position, and store the classified object related information in the memory.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the display module is further configured to display at least one object image corresponding to the at least one object item, such that each of the at least one object image is displayed as a thumbnail image on the object item list.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to arrange the at least one object item in the object item list according to a priority.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the object item list further includes an object item corresponding to at least the terminal position information or position information designated by a user.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

the user input unit is configured to receive a selection input for selecting a specific object item in the object item list; and

the display module is further configured to display the object indicator corresponding to the specific object item at a point corresponding to the object represented by the specific object item on the background image.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to set the background image to a map image when the object represented by the specific object item is located beyond a predetermined distance from the mobile terminal.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein:

the controller is further configured to set a predetermined distance for displaying the at least one object indicator, such that the predetermined distance is a distance from the mobile terminal to the object indicated by the specific object item; and

the display module is further configured to display the at least one object indicator of the at least one object situated within the predetermined distance from the mobile terminal.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to update the stored object related information with reference to the received object related information.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication unit is further configured to transmit the stored object related information to at least one counterpart terminal.

13. A mobile terminal comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to receive terminal position information and object related information of at least one object corresponding to the terminal position information;

a display module configured to display at least one object indicator indicating the at least one object and display a transmission target object indicator region on a background image corresponding to the terminal position information;

a user input unit configured to receive a selection of an object indicator of the displayed at last one object indicator and a selection of at least one counterpart terminal intended to receive object related information of the selected object indicator; and

a controller configured to prepare a message including the object related information of the selected object indicator and to transmit the message to the selected at least one counterpart terminal via the wireless communication unit,

wherein the display module is further configured to display an identifier corresponding to the selected object indicator within the transmission target object indicator region.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the user input unit is further configured to receive the selection of the object indicator and the selection of the at least one counterpart terminal by receiving a touch and drag input from the selected object indicator to each of the at least one counterpart terminal.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein the display module is further configured to display counterpart terminal information of each of the at least one counterpart terminal on at least one point on the preview image corresponding to the at least one counterpart terminal.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein:

the background image is either configured to correspond to the object related information of the selected object indicator or configured such that the object related information of the selected object indicator is mapped to a corresponding point on the background image; and

the wireless communication unit is further configured to transmit the background image.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the wireless communication unit is configured to receive a message including the object related information of the at least one object from one of the at least one counterpart terminal.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the display module is further configured to display an object indicator corresponding to the object related information in the received message on a corresponding background image received from the one of the at least one counterpart terminal, received from an external server or previously stored in the mobile terminal.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the display module is further configured to display a list of messages previously transmitted or received, and indicate whether each corresponding one of the list of messages includes the object related information.

20. A method for managing object related information in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

receiving, at a wireless communication unit, terminal position information and object related information of at least one object corresponding to the terminal position information;

displaying, on a display module, at least one object indicator indicating the at least one object and displaying a storage target object indicator region on a background corresponding to the terminal position information;

receiving, at a user input unit, a selection of an object indicator from the displayed at least one object indicator;

displaying, on the display module, an identifier corresponding to the selected object indicator within the storage target object indicator region;

storing, in a memory, object related information of the object represented by the selected object indicator; and

displaying, on the display module, an object item list including an object item corresponding to the stored object related information.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein displaying the object item list comprises displaying an object item corresponding to at least the terminal position information or position information designated by a user.

22. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

receiving, at the user input unit, a selection signal input for selecting a specific object item in the object item list; and

displaying, on the display module, the object indicator corresponding to the specific object item at a point corresponding to the object represented by the specific object item on the background image.

23. A method for managing object related information in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

receiving, at the mobile terminal, terminal position information and object related information of at least one object corresponding to the terminal position information;

displaying at least one object indicator indicating the at least one object;

displaying a transmission target object indicator region on a background image corresponding to the terminal position information;

receiving a selection of an object indicator of the displayed at least one object indicator;

displaying an identifier corresponding to the selected object indicator within the transmission target object indicator region;

receiving a selection of at least one counterpart terminal intended to receive object related information of the selected object indicator;

preparing a first message for transmission to the selected at least one counterpart terminal, the first message including the object related information of the selected object indicator.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

transmitting the first message by transmitting the background image, wherein the background image is either configured to correspond to the object related information of the selected object indicator or configured such that the object related information of the selected object indicator is mapped to a corresponding point on the background image.

25. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

receiving a second message including the object related information from one of the at least one counterpart terminal; and

displaying, on a display module, the object indicator corresponding to the object related information included in the second message on a corresponding background image,

wherein the corresponding background image is received from the one of the at least one counterpart terminal, received from an external server, or previously stored in the mobile terminal.

26. A method for managing object related information in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

separately displaying, on a display module, at least one object icon corresponding to at least one object, and a background image;

receiving, at a user input unit, an input for selecting an object icon from the at least one object icon and an input for selecting a specific point on the background image;

displaying, on the display module, the selected object icon at the specific point;

determining a position point of an object indicated by the selected object icon within the background image; and

displaying, on the display module, the selected object icon by moving the selected object icon from the specific point to the determined position point of the object.