Mobile terminal and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9600143-B2
Application number	US-201313916135-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 12, 2013
Priority date	Nov 15, 2012
Publication date	Mar 21, 2017
Grant date	Mar 21, 2017

Abstract

A mobile terminal for classifying contents and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit configured to display a plurality of contents; a touch sensor configured to sense a touch input applied to the display unit; and a controller configured to classify at least one of a plurality of contents selected on the basis of a touch input applied to the display unit into a particular category, and display an object indicating the category of the selected contents in a region adjacent to the selected contents.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile terminal comprising:
a touch screen; and
a controller configured to:
display a reproduced screen for a plurality of content items on the touch screen, wherein the plurality of content items include at least one of a video content item and an audio content item and the reproduced screen includes a first progress bar indicating a
progress degree of reproduction for the plurality of content items;
select a content item included in the plurality of content items based on a touch input applied to the first progress bar;
display a pop-up window including a plurality of objects corresponding to different categories;
classify the content item included in the plurality of content items into a first category among the different categories when one of the plurality of objects is selected in the pop-up window, wherein the first category corresponds to the selected object;
display the selected object in a region adjacent to the first progress bar wherein the displayed object indicates that the content item is classified in the first category; and
reproduce a set of content items classified in the first category when a touch input is applied to the displayed object in the region adjacent to the first progress bar,
wherein the set of content items classified in the first category is reproduced in a sequential order, and the plurality of content items is different than the set of content items classified in the first category,
wherein the controller displays a second progress bar indicating a degree of progress of playback with respect to the set of content items selected from the plurality of contents, in a position adjacent to the first progress bar, and
wherein when any one of the objects displayed in the second progress bar in an overlapping manner is selected, the controller displays a pop-up window for controlling or editing a group corresponding to the selected object.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of content items includes a first set of first content items and a second set of second content items different from the first content items.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the touch screen displays a category list, and
wherein the controller controls the touch screen to display the number of contents classified into the different categories corresponding to the plurality of objects, respectively, together with the plurality of objects.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3 , wherein the controller generates priority information wherein priority levels of the different categories are determined, and controls displaying of the objects displayed in the category list on the basis of the priority information.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein when the second progress bar indicates a degree of progress of playback with respect to the set of content items, the controller displays objects corresponding to the different categories for the plurality of content items, respectively, in the second progress bar in an overlapping manner.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein at least one of color, shape, size, thickness, transparency, and 3D depth value of the objects are different.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to:
display at least one image content item classified in the first category while another content item classified in the first category is reproduced when the at least one image content item is included in the first category.

8. A control method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
displaying a reproduced screen for a plurality of content items on a touch screen of the mobile terminal, wherein the plurality of content items include at least one of a video content item and an audio content item and the reproduced screen includes a first progress bar indicating a progress degree of reproduction for the plurality of content items;
selecting a content item included in the plurality of content items based on a touch input applied to the first progress bar;
displaying a pop-up window including a plurality of objects corresponding to different categories;
classifying the content item included in the plurality of content items into a first category among the different categories when one of the plurality of objects is selected in the pop-up window, wherein the first category corresponds to the selected object;
displaying the selected object in a region adjacent to the first progress bar wherein the displayed object indicates that the content item is classified in the first category; and
reproducing a set of content items classified in the first category when a touch input is applied to the displayed object in the region adjacent to the first progress bar,
wherein the set of content items classified in the first category is reproduced in a sequential order, and the plurality of content items is different than the set of content items classified in the first category,
wherein a second progress bar is displayed indicating a degree of progress of playback with respect to the set of content items selected from the plurality of contents, in a position adjacent to the first progress bar, and
wherein when any one of the objects displayed in the second progress bar in an overlapping manner is selected, a pop-up window is displayed for controlling or editing a group corresponding to the selected object.

9. The control method of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of content items includes a first set of first content items and a second set of second content items different from the first contents.

10. The control method of claim 8 , further comprising:
displaying at least one image content item classified in the first category while another content item classified in the first category is reproduced when the at least one image content item is included in the first category.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Arun Kumar M
• Paruchuri Sasikala
• Suhail K

Classifications

• G06F16/45

  Clustering; Classification · CPC title

• G06F17/30017

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0482 Primary

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title