Mobile terminal and control method thereof

• US 9,747,019 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2012
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yun, Yeerang
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehmood, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): Adams, Carl
• Application Number:
  US13/658,579
• Publication Number:
  US 20130222283A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,771 Days
• Field of Search: 345173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• 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

The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to a mobile terminal and a control method thereof capable of a touch input. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a display unit configured to display a page of an electronic note and display a thumbnail image corresponding to another page along with the page; a sensing unit configured to sense a touch input on the display unit; and a controller configured to display a page corresponding to the thumbnail image or execute an edit mode for editing at least one of the page and the thumbnail image based on a kind of touch input on the thumbnail image.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to be touch sensitive; and

a controller configured to;

control the touch screen to display an electronic note comprising at least one note page,

control the touch screen to display a first note page of the electronic note, at least one function icon for inputting note information and an icon comprising a page number information of the first note page currently displayed on the touch screen,

receive a first touch input applied to the icon comprising the page number information of the first note page currently displayed on the touch screen,

control the touch screen to display one or more thumbnail images corresponding to each of the at least one note page in response to the first touch input applied to the icon comprising the page number information of the first note page currently displayed on the touch screen,

wherein the one or more thumbnail images correspond to each of the first note page, at least one of a second note page that is a previous page of the first note page, and a third note page that is a next page of the first note page currently displayed on the touch screen, and

control the touch screen to convert the first note page into a second note page if a second touch input is applied to a thumbnail image corresponding to the second note page different from the first note page among the one or more thumbnail images,

wherein the page number information of the first note page comprised in the icon is changed into page number information of the second note page if the second note page is displayed on the touch screen in response to the conversion of the first note page into the second note page.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein the at least one function icon and the icon are overlapped with the first note page or the second note page,

wherein an execution of an edit mode related to the electronic note is allowed based on a user'"'"'s selection after the one or more thumbnail images are displayed on the touch screen, and

wherein if the second touch input is applied to a thumbnail image corresponding to the first note page among the one or more thumbnail images, the controller maintains the displaying of the first note page.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller provides a highlighting effect on a thumbnail image corresponding to the first note page among the one or more thumbnail images if the first note page is displayed on the touch screen.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein if the first note page is converted into the second note page in response to the second touch input, the controller highlights the thumbnail image corresponding to the second note page and stops the highlight effect for the first note page.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the edit mode related to the electronic note is executed based on the user'"'"'s selection, and

wherein the controller edits at least one note page comprised in the electronic note based on editing at least one thumbnail among the one or more thumbnail image in the edit mode.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein if the at least one thumbnail image among the one or more thumbnail images is deleted in the edit mode, the controller deletes one or more note pages corresponding to the deleted thumbnail image.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein if an arrangement of the one or more thumbnail images is changed in the edit mode, the controller changes an arrangement of the at least one note page comprised in the electronic note.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller changes arrangement of the one or more thumbnail images in response to dragging a thumbnail image to an empty space between different thumbnail images.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the icon comprises information related to total number of pages of the electron note.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein if the one or more thumbnail images are displayed on the touch screen in response to the first touch input, the controller entirely displays three thumbnail images and partially displays one thumbnail image.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller scrolls one or more thumbnail images in response to a flick touch input applied to at least one thumbnail image among the one or more thumbnail images.