Mobile terminal and control method thereof

• US 9,804,742 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2015
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Younghoon, Lee, Minjin, Park, Shinjun, Lee, Jungbin, Park, Minsoo, Yim, Soyeon
• Primary Examiner(s): Batista, Marcos
• Application Number:
  US14/593,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20150128092A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,026 Days
• Field of Search: 455566, 370338, 715841
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• 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 a touchscreen and a method of controlling the mobile terminal may be provided. The mobile terminal may cause the touchscreen to display a first item; cause the touchscreen to display a first indicator on at least part area of the first item upon receiving a first input of the first item; and cause the touchscreen to display a second item upon receiving a second input of the first indicator. Furthermore, the first item can be changed into the second item by expanding the first item. Additionally, the first item and the second item indicate items for executing a specific application. The second item has a bigger size than a size of the first item, and the second item displays first information associated with execution results of the specific application.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touchscreen; and

a controller configured to;

display, via the touchscreen, a first icon having a first size and corresponding to a first application,

in response to receiving a first touch input on the first icon, display an execution screen of the first application on the touchscreen,

in response to receiving a second touch input on the first icon, display a change indicator overlapping at least part of the first icon,

in response to receiving a third touch input on the change indicator, transition the first icon into a widget object on the touchscreen, wherein the widget object has a second size that is larger than the first size of the first icon,

display changing preview information corresponding to dynamic execution results of the first application within an outer boundary of the widget object, and

in response to receiving a fourth touch input on the widget object, display the execution screen of the first application on the touchscreen, wherein the execution screen is larger than the widget object for displaying additional information.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein a size of the widget object is variable among a plurality of sizes, and each of the plurality of sizes is bigger than the size of the first icon.

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

cause the touchscreen to display a second indicator on at least part of an area of the widget object upon receiving a fifth touch input on the widget object; and

cause the touchscreen to display the first icon upon receiving a sixth touch input on the second indicator, wherein the widget object can be changed into the first icon.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display each of a plurality of contents in each of separate display areas of the widget object.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first icon corresponds to location information for directly executing the first application, and the widget object corresponds to a small window for operating an executed result of the first application.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the execution screen has a third size larger than the second size of the widget object and smaller than an entire area of the touchscreen.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the execution screen is displayed on an entire area of the touchscreen.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first icon has a square shape and the widget object has a rectangular shape.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the preview information includes a graphical object.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first icon is displayed on a home screen.

11. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touchscreen; and

a controller configured to;

display an icon corresponding to an application on a home screen,

in response to receiving a first input on the icon, display a first indicator on a part of the icon, wherein the first indicator indicates a direction for expanding a size of the icon,

in response to receiving a second input on the first indicator, expand the size of the icon,

in response to the size of the icon exceeding a predetermined icon size, change the icon into a widget on the home screen, wherein the widget includes information associated with execution results of the application,

in response to receiving a third input on the widget, expand a size of the widget, and

in response to the size of the widget exceeding a predetermined widget size, transition the touchscreen from displaying the widget on the home screen to displaying an application execution screen of the application.