Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof

• US 9,678,648 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2014
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Hwang, Myunghee
• Primary Examiner(s): Choi, David
• Application Number:
  US14/292,027
• Publication Number:
  US 20140359443A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,110 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which transparency and output location of a video can be automatically adjusted. In performing multitasking for processing an additional task while playing a video, the present invention includes displaying a play window for outputting the video by overlaying the play window on a task window for processing the additional task, receiving a user input for scrolling the task window, and automatically adjusting at least one of a transparency of the play window and a display location of the play window while scrolling the task window in response to the user input.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display unit; and

a processor configured to;

play a video in a play window on the display unit;

in response to reception of a first command for multitasking while the video is played, display a task window for processing an additional task on the display unit, wherein the play window is overlaid on the task window; and

in response to reception of a second command for scrolling the task window, scroll the task window and automatically adjust a transparency of the play window,

wherein if an event occurs through the task window at a first timing point, the processor sets a bookmark to a play timing point of the video corresponding to the first timing point,

wherein if a third command for selecting the bookmark is received, the processor plays the video from the play timing point indicated by the bookmark, and

wherein if an event occurs through the task window, the processor either pauses a play of the video or records the video.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when the play window is slanted in a first direction of the display unit, if the task window is scrolled in the first direction, the processor controls the transparency of the play window to be increased.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the processor adjusts a transparency increase level of the play window in proportion to a scroll distance of the task window.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein when the play window is slanted in the first direction of the display unit, if the task window is scrolled in a second direction opposite to the first direction, the processor controls the transparency of the play window to be maintained or decreased.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when the play window is slanted in a first direction of the display unit, if the task window is scrolled to an end portion of the first direction, the processor controls the transparency of the play window to be increased.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein after the transparency of the play window is increased as the task window is scrolled to the end portion of the first direction, if a fourth command for scrolling the task window in a second direction opposite to the first direction is received, the processor controls the transparency of the play window to return to a previous transparency.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when the play window is slanted in a first direction of the display unit, if the task window is scrolled to move in the first direction, the processor controls a display location of the play window to move along a second direction opposite to the first direction.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the processor adjusts a moving extent of the display location of the play window in proportion to a scroll moving distance of the task window.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein when the play window is slanted in the first direction of the display unit, if the task window is scrolled to move in the second direction opposite to the first direction, the processor fixes the display location of the play window.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein if the play window blocks an object displayed on the task window, the processor controls the transparency of the play window to be increased.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein if a control priority is given not to the play window but to the task window, the processor controls the transparency of the play window to be increased.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller displays a graphic object for displaying the bookmark on the play window and attaches a label for identifying a type of the event to the graphic object.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the display unit is a touch screen and the second command is to touch-drag the touch screen, and

wherein the processor is further configured to:

in response to release of a pointer for touch-dragging from the touch screen, control the transparency of the play window to return to a previous transparency.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein the processor is configured to:

display the play window semi-transparently only if the pointer for touch-dragging is maintained on the touch screen.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine whether to adjust the transparency of the play window based on both a direction in which the task window is scroll and a display location of the play window.

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

playing a video in a play window on a display unit of the mobile terminal;

in response to reception of a first command for multitasking while the video is played, displaying a task window for processing an additional task on the display unit,

wherein the play window is overlaid on the task window; and

in response to reception of a second command for scrolling the task window, scrolling the task window and automatically adjusting a transparency of the play window,

wherein if an event occurs through the task window at a first timing point, setting a bookmark to a play timing point of the video corresponding to the first timing point,

wherein if a third command for selecting the bookmark is received, playing the video from the play timing point indicated by the bookmark, and

wherein if an event occurs through the task window, pausing a play of the video or recording the video.