MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20160349958A1
• Filed: 08/08/2016
• Published: 12/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: HYUN, Juha
• Application Number:
  US15/231,282
• Publication Number:
  US 20160349958A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• 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 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a mobile terminal includes a touch screen configured to display a user interface of a multi-layered structure, the user interface including at least one layer stack having a plurality of layers, a command input unit configured to receive a command from a user, and a controller configured to display a first layer of a first plurality of layers in the first layer stack on a first zone of the touch screen, display the first plurality of layers in a spread mode in response to a first command to enter the spread mode, and in the spread mode, change a location of the first layer on the touch screen to a second zone of the touch screen and display the first plurality layers of the first layer stack except for the first layer on a third zone of the touch screen.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touch screen configured to display a user interface of a multi-layered structure, the user interface including at least one layer stack having a plurality of layers, wherein the at least one layer stack includes a first layer stack;

a command input unit configured to receive a command from a user; and

a controller configured to display a first layer of a first plurality of layers in the first layer stack on a first zone of the touch screen, to display the first plurality of layers in a spread mode in response to a first command to enter the spread mode received through the command input unit, to change a location of the first layer on the touch screen in the spread mode to a second zone of the touch screen and to display the first plurality layers of the first layer stack except for the first layer on a third zone of the touch screen,

wherein the third zone is generated in response to the changed location of the first layer,

the first plurality of layers including the first layer are spaced apart from each other at a spacing interval corresponding to the first command, and

the first plurality of layers are arranged on a virtual stereoscopic space with predetermined three-dimensional (3D) depths in a stacked form.