Displaying indicators that indicate ability to change a size of a widget on a display of a mobile terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9367206-B2
Application number	US-201313891053-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2013
Priority date	May 17, 2012
Publication date	Jun 14, 2016
Grant date	Jun 14, 2016

Abstract

A mobile terminal capable of performing a touch input and a control method therefor are provided. A mobile terminal includes a display unit, a sensing unit and a controller. The display unit outputs an objective related to an application. The sensing unit senses a touch input to the objective. The controller executes the application related to the objective, in response to that a first touch input to the objective is sensed, and executes an edition mode for changing the size of the objective displayed on the display unit, in response to that a second touch input different from the first touch input to the objective is sensed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:
a touchscreen; and
a controller configured to:
cause the touchscreen to display a plurality of widgets, wherein each widget of the plurality of widgets is associated with an application executable at the mobile terminal;
cause the touchscreen to display a first indicator in response to user input received with regard to a first widget of the plurality of widgets when a size increase of the first widget is not limited acco…

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Koo Bon Joon
• Koo Deukmo

Classifications

• G06F3/04817 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04883 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N21/488

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/587

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/224

  Electricity · mapped topic