Mobile terminal and user interface of mobile terminal

• US 9,207,854 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2013
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• 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:
  US13/925,382
• Publication Number:
  US 20130278533A1
• Time in Patent Office: 897 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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, and a controller coupled to the display, the controller configured to display information on the display, scroll the displayed information in response to a touch and moving input applied on the display in a direction, and refresh the displayed information if the touch and moving input is released subsequent to the scrolling of the displayed information.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication;

a memory configured to store information;

a display; and

a controller configured to;

display at least part of the stored information on the display,

scroll the displayed information based on one or more drag inputs, and

receive new information via the wireless communication unit to display the received new information in response to a drag input applied to the display, if information to be displayed by the scrolling is not included in the stored information.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the drag input for receiving the new information is applied to the display along a first direction.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the first direction is a vertical direction or a downward direction.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

convert a current page, by a user input, to a new page of information in a state where the at least part of the stored information is displayed on the display.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the drag input for receiving the new information is applied to the display in a first direction, and

wherein the user input includes a drag input in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the first direction is a vertical direction and the second direction is a horizontal direction.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the displayed information is refreshed with the received new information.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller further configured to:

display at least one of a text or an image to notify that the displayed information is being refreshed before displaying the received new information.

9. A mobile terminal comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication;

a memory configured to store information;

a display; and

a controller configured to;

display at least part of the stored information on the display,

scroll the displayed at least part of the stored information to display another part of the stored information based on one or more drag inputs, and

receive new information via the wireless communication unit to display the received new information in response to a drag input applied to the display when the displayed another part of the stored information is not scrolled by the drag input.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the drag input for receiving the new information is applied to the display along a first direction.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the first direction is a vertical direction or a downward direction.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to:

convert a current page, by a user input, to a new page of information in a state where the at least part of the stored information is displayed on the display.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the drag input for receiving the new information is applied to the display in a first direction, and

wherein the user input includes a drag input in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the first direction is a vertical direction and the second direction is a horizontal direction.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein information displayed on the display is refreshed with the received new information.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller further configured to:

display at least one of a text or an image to notify that the displayed information is being refreshed before displaying the received new information.

17. A mobile terminal comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication;

a memory configured to store information;

a display; and

a controller configured to;

display at least part of the stored information on the display, and execute one of first and second functions in response to a drag input applied to the displayed information,

wherein the first function is executed to scroll the displayed info nation in response to the drag input, and

wherein the second function is executed to receive new information via the wireless communication unit to display the received new information in response to the drag input when the displayed information is not scrolled.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the drag input is applied to the display along a vertical direction or a downward direction.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller is further configured to:

convert a current page, by a user input, to a new page of information in a state where the at least part of the stored information is displayed on the display.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller is further configured to:

display at least one of a text or an image to notify that the displayed information is being refreshed before displaying the received new information.