Mobile terminal to display a window of an application and displaying information method thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsYoomee Song, Juhyun Jung, Hojae Jung
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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.
Claims19
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 the window is shifted into a preset region in the screen in response to a first touch input, reducing and transforming the window into an icon;
- displaying the icon within the preset region;
- when the icon is shifted out of the preset region in response to a second touch input, transforming the icon into the window, and
- displaying the window within the screen,
- wherein the window includes a UI (user interface) for changing a transparency of the window, and
- wherein when the transparency of the window is changed into a preset transparency in response to a third touch input for the UI, the window is reduced and transformed into the icon.
A mobile terminal, comprising:
- a touchscreen capable of displaying a window of an application on a screen;
- and
- a controller capable of:
- when the window is shifted into a preset region in the screen in response to a first touch input, reducing and transforming the window into an icon,
- causing the touchscreen to display the icon within the preset region,
- when the icon is shifted out of the preset region in response to a second touch input, transforming the icon into the window, and
- causing the touchscreen to display the window,
- wherein the window includes a UI (user interface) for changing a transparency of the window, and
- wherein when the transparency of the window is changed into a preset transparency in response to a third touch input for the UI, the controller is further capable of reducing and transforming the window into the icon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.