Mobile terminal and method of managing object related information therein

• US 9,026,940 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2011
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jung, Sungho, Lee, Jieun
• Primary Examiner(s): RIEGLER, PATRICK F
• Application Number:
  US13/110,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20120096403A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,448 Days
• Field of Search: 715/817, 715/810, 715/854, 715/855, 715/968, 701/425, 701/426, 701/436, 701/438, 345/632, 345/633, 707/724, 707/754
• US Class Current: 715/810
• 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 position information of the mobile terminal and object related information of at least one object corresponding to the position information;

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

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

control the display module to display a first list including at least one district name of at least one object included in the stored object related information, wherein the at least one district name indicates a real district location of the at least one object included in the stored object related information;

when at least one district name is selected from the first list, search the stored object related information for at least one item of object related information of at least one object located in a district corresponding to the selected district name;

control the display module to display a second list including the searched at least one item;

control the display module to display a third list including at least one storage time information of at least one item included in the stored object related information;

when at least one storage time information is selected from the third list, search the stored object related information for at least one item stored at a time corresponding to the selected storage time information; and

control the display module to display a fourth list including the searched at least one item.

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 position information of the mobile terminal, 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 control the display module to display at least one object image corresponding to the at least one item, such that each of the at least one object image is displayed as a thumbnail image on the second list.

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

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

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

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

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

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to set the background image to a map image when the object represented by the specific item is located beyond a predetermined distance from the mobile terminal.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 7, 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 item, and control the display module to display the at least one object indicator of the at least one object situated within the predetermined distance from the mobile terminal.

10. 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.

11. 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.

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

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

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

receiving, at a user input unit of the mobile terminal, 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 of the mobile terminal, object related information of the object represented by the selected object indicator;

displaying, on the display module, a first list including at least one district name of at least one object included in the stored object related information, wherein the at least one district name indicates a real district location of the at least one object included in the stored object related information;

when at least one district name is selected from the first list, searching the stored object related information for at least one item of object related information of at least one object located in a district corresponding to the selected district name;

displaying, on the display module, a second list including the searched at least one item

displaying, on the display module, a third list including at least one storage time information of at least one item included in the stored object related information;

when at least one storage time information is selected from the third list, searching the stored object related information for at least one item stored at a time corresponding to the selected storage time information; and

displaying, on the display module, a fourth list including the searched at least one item.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein displaying the second list comprises displaying at least one item of object related information corresponding to the position information of the mobile terminal or position information designated by a user.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

when a specific item is selected from the second list, displaying, on the display module, the object indicator corresponding to the specific item at a point corresponding to the object represented by the specific item on the background image.