Application and notification window display management in a mobile terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9916072-B2
Application number	US-201414185383-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2014
Priority date	Feb 20, 2013
Publication date	Mar 13, 2018
Grant date	Mar 13, 2018

Abstract

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed. The present disclosure includes a touchscreen configured to display a window of an application and a controller, when the window is shifted into a specific region of the touchscreen, reducing and transforming the window into an icon and controlling the touchscreen to display the icon within the specific region. Accordingly, after a window of an application has been displayed on a screen, when the window is shifted into a specific region within the screen, the screen is displayed in a manner of being reduced and transformed into an icon.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:
a touchscreen configured to display, on a screen, a window of an application; and
a controller configured to:
when the window is shifted into a prescribed region in the screen, reduce and transform the window into an icon, and
cause the touchscreen to display the icon within the prescribed region,
wherein the controller is further configured to:
when a call is received from a specific counterpart terminal while the window is displayed on the screen, cause the touchscreen to display a notification window indicating that the call is received from a specific counterpart terminal,
when the notification window is displayed on a display location of the window and the notification window is displayed to overlap the window by a size greater than a preset size without a user touch input via the touchscreen, automatically reduce and transform the window into the icon,
when the notification window is disappeared from the screen, automatically transform the icon into the window, and
cause the touchscreen to display the transformed window on the screen.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein, the window displays an executed screen of the application when the application is executed.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein, when the icon is shifted out of the prescribed region, the icon is transformed into the window.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein, when the icon is selected, the icon is transformed into the window.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein, when the window is touched and stroked at a speed greater than or equal to a preset speed in a direction toward the prescribed region, the window is transformed into the icon.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein, when the window is shifted proximate to the prescribed region or a preset area of the window is shifted into the prescribed region, the window is transformed into the icon.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein at least one of information indicating a function of the application or a representative image of the application are displayed within the icon.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the prescribed region includes at least one side region in the touchscreen, and wherein the icon is displayed to be attached to the at least one side region.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8 , wherein, after the icon has been shifted to the prescribed region by a drag touch input, when the touch input to the icon is released, a position of the icon is automatically adjusted at the side region relative to the drag touch input location.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the icon is controlled to be displayed at a location corresponding to a top edge of the shifted active window at the prescribed region.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein, while a different icon is displayed at the prescribed region, when the window is shifted to a location at which the different icon is displayed at the prescribed region, a display location of one of the icon or the different icon is changed in order to prevent the icon for the window and the different icon from overlapping each other.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein a keypad associated with the window is displayed on the touchscreen, and when the window is transformed into the icon, the keypad is not displayed, and when the icon is transformed into the window, the keypad is re-displayed.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein, while the window is displayed, when an event occurs in the mobile terminal, the window is transformed into the icon.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the window includes a memo window including content displayed in the memo window and a memo inputted on the content, wherein, when a display command for the memo window is inputted, the memo window including the content and the memo inputted onto the content is displayed on the touchscreen, and wherein, when a reduced display command for the memo window is inputted, the memo window is transformed to be displayed as the icon.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14 , wherein, after a prescribed area that includes at least one portion of the memo has been designated on the touchscreen, when the memo window display command is inputted, an image displayed on the designated prescribed area is cropped and the memo window including the cropped image is displayed on the touchscreen.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15 , wherein a UI (user interface) for designation of the prescribed area is displayed on the touchscreen, and when the prescribed area is designated through the UI, the image is cropped for display on the designated prescribed area.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 14 , wherein the memo window includes a UI (user interface) for adjusting a transparency of the memo window, and when the transparency of the memo window is changed into a preset transparency through the UI, the memo window is transformed into the icon.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 14 , wherein the touchscreen includes an indicator region on which indicators that indicate a plurality of operating states of the mobile terminal are displayed, and when the memo window is shifted in a direction toward the indicator region, the memo window is transformed into the icon.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 14 , wherein a category of the content is obtained, and when the memo window is transformed into the icon, the icon is displayed to represent the category of the content.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 14 , wherein, when at least two memo windows including a first memo window and a second memo window are displayed on the touchscreen, when the first memo window is shifted to a location at which the second memo window is located, the first memo window and the second memo window are combined into a single integrated memo window for display on the touchscreen.

21. The mobile terminal of claim 14 , wherein, while the memo window is displayed, when a function for attaching an image displayed on the memo window is selected on the touchscreen, the selected function is activated and the image displayed on the memo window is attached to the activated function.

22. The mobile terminal of claim 21 , wherein, when the image displayed on the memo window is attached to the activated window, the memo window is transformed into the icon.

23. The mobile terminal of claim 14 , wherein, when the memo window is displayed on the touchscreen, when a region outside the memo window on the touchscreen is touched, the memo window is displayed to be transparent or the memo window transformed into the icon.

24. A method of displaying a window of an application of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
displaying, on a screen of a touchscreen of the mobile terminal, the window of the application;
when a call is received from a specific counterpart terminal while the window is displayed on the screen, displaying a notification window indicating that the call is received from a specific counterpart terminal;
when the notification window is displayed on a display location of the window, and when the notification window is displayed, without a user touch input to the touchscreen, to overlap the window by a size greater than a preset size, automatically reducing and transforming the window into the icon;
when the notification window is disappeared from the screen, automatically transforming the icon into the window; and

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Song Yoomee
• Jung Juhyun
• Jung Hojae

Classifications

• G06F3/0481

  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 title

• G06F3/04883

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title

• G06F3/04845 Primary

  for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

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

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title