Mobile terminal and user interface of mobile terminal

• US 8,497,882 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2012
• Issued: 07/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jeong-Tae, Lim, Hye-Bong
• Primary Examiner(s): Yang, Ryan R
• Application Number:
  US13/562,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20120293556A1
• Time in Patent Office: 364 Days
• Field of Search: 345/661
• US Class Current: 345/661
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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: H04M 1/72481 for visually impaired users

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a display unit configured to display information; a touch layer configured to sense a touch input with respect to the display unit; a controller cooperating with the display unit and the touch layer and configured to: sense a touch input onto the display unit after the display unit displays the information, set a region of the display unit that includes a portion corresponding to the sensed touch input, and display on the display unit one or more graphical images corresponding to one or more selectable functions related to one or more contents displayed in the region. Further, the one or more selectable functions are matched to the corresponding one or more graphical images.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen;

a memory;

a wireless communication unit; and

a controller coupled to the touch screen, the memory, and the wireless communication unit, the controller configured to;

display data comprising text on the touch screen;

display a magnification window of a set region designated by a touch input on the touch screen, wherein the set region comprises at least one word of the text, and a magnified form of the at least one word is displayed in the magnification window;

display at least one function related to the magnified form of the at least one word displayed in the magnification window, wherein the at least one function comprises a transmission function;

display an input window for entering a destination for the transmission function if the transmission function is selected; and

transmit the at least one word to the destination via the wireless communication unit in response to an input executing the transmission function.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein a size of the set region is changed according to an input thereof.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein a position of the magnification window is changed when the touch input selecting the set region is moved to select another set region, and content of the magnification window is changed according a change from the set region to said another set region.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one function further comprises a storage function.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the destination comprises a phone number of another mobile device.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the destination comprises an interne address of a receiving party.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the transmission function is executed via the wireless communication unit.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication unit includes at least one of a broadcast receiving module, a mobile communication module, a wireless Internet module, a short-range communication module, or a location information module.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one word is transmitted as a text or an image.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the data is stored in the memory of the mobile terminal and is invoked from the memory when the data comprising the text is displayed.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the data is accessed via the Internet when the data comprising the text is displayed.

12. A method of a mobile terminal, comprising:

displaying data comprising text on a touch screen of the mobile terminal;

displaying a magnification window of a set region designated by a touch input on the touch screen, wherein the set region comprises at least one word of the text, and a magnified form of the at least one word is displayed in the magnification window;

displaying at least one function related to the magnified form of the at least one word displayed in the magnification window, wherein the at least one function comprises a transmission function;

displaying an input window for entering a destination for the transmission function if the transmission function is selected; and

transmitting the at least one word to the destination in response to an input executing the transmission function.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein a size of the set region is changed according to an input thereof.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein a position of the magnification window is changed when the touch input selecting the set region is moved to select another set region, and content of the magnification window is changed according a change from the set region to said another set region.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one function further comprises a storage function.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the destination comprises a phone number of another mobile device.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the destination comprises an interne address of a receiving party.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the transmission function is executed via a wireless communication unit of the mobile device.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the wireless communication unit includes at least one of a broadcast receiving module, a mobile communication module, a wireless Internet module, a short-range communication module, or a location information module.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one word is transmitted as a text or an image.

21. The method of claim 12, wherein the data is stored in a memory of the mobile terminal and is invoked from the memory of the mobile terminal when the data comprising the text is displayed.

22. The method of claim 12, wherein the data is accessed via the Internet when the data comprising the text is displayed.