Mobile device and method of controlling mobile device

• US 8,896,623 B2
• Filed: 02/09/2012
• Issued: 11/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Sangwon, Kim, Rakhyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Yang, Ryan R
• Application Number:
  US13/370,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20120313925A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method of controlling a mobile device includes detecting, by the mobile device, one or more objects associated with a displayed first page and located on a page other than the displayed first page; receiving, by the mobile device, a selection of at least one object of the one or more detected objects; and displaying, by the mobile device, the at least one selected object on the first page.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a mobile device, the method comprising:

displaying a first page of a plurality of pages of an electronic book;

detecting one or more objects associated with the first page from the plurality of pages other than the first page;

displaying a list comprising a plurality of items each corresponding to an object of the detected one or more objects; and

displaying a selected object corresponding to a selected item of the plurality of items when the selected item is selected from the displayed list.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the detected one or more objects comprise at least an image, a video or text, and each object of the detected one or more objects is tagged with information associated with the first page.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein detecting the one or more objects comprises:

receiving a selection of text on the first page; and

detecting an object that is tagged with information associated with the selected text and located on the plurality of pages other than the first page.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of pages other than the first page is within a threshold page range of the first page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the selected object comprises editing the first page to facilitate the display of the selected object on the first page.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a location for displaying the selected object on the first page; and

rearranging a display of text on the first page based on the selected location.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein rearranging the display of text comprises moving text located at the selected location to a different location on the first page.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein moving the text comprises moving the text to a page consecutive to or previous to the first page.

9. The method of claim 5, further comprising storing the edited first page.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the selected object comprises displaying the selected object to overlap text of the first page in a transparent manner.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting a touch input; and

changing at least the transparency of the displayed selected object based on the detected touch input or moving the displayed selected object based on the detected touch input.

12. A mobile device comprising:

a display unit configured to display a first page of a plurality of pages of an electronic book;

a detector configured to detect one or more objects associated with the first page from the plurality of pages other than the first page in the electronic book; and

a controller configured to cause the display unit to display;

a list comprising a plurality of items each corresponding to an object of the detected one or more objects; and

a selected object corresponding to a selected item of the plurality of items when the selected item is selected from the list.

13. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to at least:

edit the first page to facilitate the display of the selected object on the first page;

or

display the selected object on the first page to overlap text of the first page.

14. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein the detector is further configured to detect an object tagged with information associated with text of the first page.