Mobile communication terminal and control method thereof

• US 9,495,089 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2013
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jeong, Hoe Kyung, Yoo, Jun Hyun, Lee, Han Na
• Primary Examiner(s): HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA
• Application Number:
  US14/043,155
• Publication Number:
  US 20140089844A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,141 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal including a display unit; a controller configured to display, on a screen of the display unit, a first list including a plurality of tasks; and an input unit configured to select at least one of the plurality of tasks. The controller is further configured to visually and discriminately divide the screen, display information corresponding to a task selected, display a second list including icons corresponding to tasks that are being currently executed, display progress state information indicating a progress state of the currently executing tasks on the bottom screen, and update the second list based on a detection result of the tasks being currently executed, and scroll through the icons listed in the second list so as to display other icons not being displayed in the bottom screen when a scroll signal indicating a scroll of the second list is received from the input unit.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a display unit; and

a controller configured to;

display on the display unit a task list in a horizontal direction including more than one scrollable application icons respectively corresponding to more than one application with program functions that have been executed, and corresponding more than one scrollable progress state information indicating a progress state of the program functions that are executing, and

in response to a user input indicating a scroll of the task list in a left direction or a right direction, horizontally scroll through the application icons listed in the task list and the corresponding progress state information while displaying the application icons together and vertically adjacent to the corresponding progress state information in a same display screen so as to display other application icons and corresponding progress state information,

wherein the corresponding progress state information indicates a real-time execution status of the corresponding executing program function and is displayed in the same display screen, and

wherein the corresponding progress state information is displayed in a window larger than the vertically adjacent application icon in the same display screen.

2. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the task list includes a scroll bar configured to scroll through the more than one scrollable application icons listed in the task list.

3. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the more than one scrollable corresponding progress state information is displayed as a bar graph, a percentage, or a shape being gradually filled or changed as the corresponding executing program function progresses.

4. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the task list includes only program functions that can be simultaneously executed.

5. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the more than one scrollable corresponding progress state information includes start information indicating a starting time of the corresponding executing program function and a current updated time indicating where the currently executing program function is with respect to the start time.

6. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the window in the same display screen includes progress state information only for the corresponding executed task.

7. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the more than one scrollable corresponding progress state information corresponds to a video or audio application currently executing.

8. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the more than one scrollable corresponding progress state information includes at least one of a type of the corresponding executing program function and a percentage or ratio of how much of the corresponding executing program function has been completed.

9. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display a name of a selected application icon in the task list.

10. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein a blank space is between the corresponding application icon and progress state information.

11. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying, on a display unit of the mobile terminal, a task list in a horizontal direction including more than one scrollable application icons respectively corresponding to more than one application with program functions that have been executed, and corresponding more than one scrollable progress state information indicating a progress state of the program functions that are executing; and

in response to a user input indicating a scroll of the task list in a left direction or a right direction, horizontally scrolling through the application icons listed in the task list and the corresponding progress state information while displaying the application icons together and vertically adjacent to the corresponding progress state information in a same display screen so as to display other application icons and corresponding progress state information,

wherein the corresponding progress state information indicates a real-time execution status of the corresponding executing program function and is displayed in the same display screen, and

wherein the corresponding progress state information is displayed in a window larger than the vertically adjacent application icon in the same display screen.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the task list includes a scroll bar configured to scroll though the more than one scrollable application icons listed in the task list.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the displaying step displays the more than one scrollable corresponding progress state information as a bar graph, a percentage, or a shape being gradually filled as the corresponding task progresses.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the task list includes only program functions that can be simultaneously executed.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the more than one scrollable corresponding progress state information includes start information indicating a starting time of the corresponding executing program function a current updated time indicating where the currently executing program function is with respect to the start time.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the window in the same display screen includes progress state information only for the corresponding executed task.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the progress state information corresponds to a video or audio application currently executing.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the more than one scrollable corresponding progress state information includes at least one of a type of a executing program function and a percentage or ratio of how much of the executing program function been completed.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying a name of a selected application icon in the task list.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein a blank space is between the corresponding application icon and progress state information.