Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9916865-B2
Application number	US-201514694726-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2015
Priority date	Feb 24, 2012
Publication date	Mar 13, 2018
Grant date	Mar 13, 2018

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a touchscreen; and a controller configured to display a video list in a first region of the touchscreen, display a selected video from the video list in a second region of the touch screen different than the first region, in response to a first type of input for selecting the video, and display the selected video in the first region of the touch screen, in response to a second type of input for selecting the video different than the first type of touch input. Further, the first type of input corresponds to a direct touch input to the touchscreen, and the second type of input corresponds to a proximity touch input to the touchscreen.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:
a touchscreen; and
a controller configured to:
display a playing image of a first video as a main image in a first region of the touchscreen,
display a video list in a second region of the touchscreen different than the first region while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, the video list comprising a first thumbnail image representing the first video and a second thumbnail image representing a second video,
display a playing image of the second video in a first size as a preview image in the second region in a sub playing window while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, in response to a first proximity touch input to the second thumbnail image, wherein the playing image of the first video in the first region and the playing image of the second video in the sub playing window in the second region are concurrently displayed in response to the first proximity touch input to the second thumbnail image,
display the playing image of the second video in a second size larger than the first size, in response to a first contact touch input to the second thumbnail image, and
display a first progress bar for the first video and a second progress bar for the second video while the first image is played back as the main image, wherein a first sub image of the first video is displayed with respect to the first progress bar and a second sub image of the second video is displayed with respect to the second progress bar, and wherein the first progress bar for the first video, the first sub image of the first video, the second progress bar for the second video, and the second sub image of the second video are concurrently displayed while the first image is played back as the main image.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the sub playing window has a larger display size than the second thumbnail image.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein in response to the first proximity touch input to the second thumbnail image in the video list while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, the controller is further configured not to display the playing image of the second video in the first region.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3 , wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether to additionally play another video with the first and second videos according to a number of activated processing cores.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to display the playing image of the second video in full screen on the touchscreen in response to the first contact touch input to the second thumbnail image.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to overlay the preview image of the second video on the video list in the second region.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to display the playing image of the second video as the main image substituting for the playing image of the first video in response to the first contact touch input to the second thumbnail image.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to:
display the progress bar indicating the progress status of the first video while the playing image of the first video is displayed as the main image,
display a playing image of a first portion of the first video corresponding to a first point of the progress bar as the main image in response to a second contact touch input to the first point of the progress bar, and
display a playing image of a second portion of the first video corresponding to a second point of the progress bar as the preview image while the playing image of the first portion of the first video is displayed as the main image, in response to a second proximity touch input to the second point of the progress bar.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to display the first thumbnail image representing the first video in the second region while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region.

10. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
displaying a playing image of a first video as a main image in a first region of a touchscreen of the mobile terminal;
displaying a video list in a second region of the touchscreen different than the first region while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, the video list comprising a first thumbnail image representing the first video and a second thumbnail image representing a second video;
displaying a playing image of the second video in a first size as a preview image in the second region in a sub playing window while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, in response to a first proximity touch input to the second thumbnail image, wherein the playing image of the first video in the first region and the playing image of the second video in the sub playing window in the second region are concurrently displayed in response to the first proximity touch input to the second thumbnail image;
displaying the playing image of the second video in a second size larger than the first size, in response to a first contact touch input to the second thumbnail image;
simultaneously displaying the playing image of the first video in the first region and the playing image of the second video in the sub playing window in the second region in response to the first proximity touch input to the second thumbnail image; and
displaying a first progress bar for the first video and a second progress bar for the second video while the first image is played back as the main image, wherein a first sub image of the first video is displayed with respect to the first progress bar and a second sub image of the second video is displayed with respect to the second progress bar, and wherein the first progress bar for the first video, the first sub image of the first video, the second progress bar for the second video, and the second sub image of the second video are concurrently displayed while the first image is played back as the main image.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the sub playing window has a larger display size than the second thumbnail image.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein in response to the first proximity touch input to the second thumbnail image in the video list while the playing image of the first video is displayed in the first region, the method further comprises not displaying the playing image of the second video in the first region.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
determining whether to additionally play another video with the first and second videos according to a number of activated processing cores.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Hwang Dohyun
• Kim Hosoo

Classifications

• G06F3/04847

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• G11B27/105

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• G06F3/048 Primary

  Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title

• G06F17/30849

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04842

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