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US 10,708,396 B2Granted
Mobile terminal having card unit and method for controlling same
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsTaehoon Cho, Jie Seol, Hyunseok Oh
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Abstract
The present invention provides a mobile terminal comprising: a body; a display unit, formed on one surface of the body, for displaying screen information comprising at least one item of content item corresponding to at least one piece of card information; a card module withdrawable from the body; and a control unit for selecting at least one item of content item according to a touch applied on the screen information and applying at least one piece of card information corresponding to the selected item of content to the card module.
Claims19
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a terminal body;
- a memory storing at least one piece of card information;
- a display unit provided on one surface of the terminal body and displaying screen information including at least one content item corresponding to the at least one piece of card information;
- a card module provided to be withdrawable from the terminal body;
- and
- a controller selecting the at least one content item based on a touch applied to the screen information and applying the at least one piece of card information corresponding to the selected at least one content item to the card module,
- wherein when the screen information includes a plurality of content items corresponding to a plurality of pieces of card information and arranged in a first direction, the controller switches content items displayed on the display unit on the basis of a touch applied in the first direction, selects a second content item as one of the plurality of content items on the basis of a touch applied in a second direction toward an accommodation region of the card module on the display unit, different from the first direction, applies the selected second content item to the card module, and controls the card module to perform a card function using card information corresponding to the selected second content item,
- wherein while the card module is performing the card function using the card information corresponding to the selected second content item, the display unit displays the image in which the second content item is inserted into the card module,
- wherein the terminal body includes a cover provided to open and close the display unit,
- wherein the cover has an opening region,
- wherein the card module is accommodated in an internal space of the cover so as to overlap the opening region of the cover, is formed of a light-transmissive material, and includes a display module,
- wherein the display unit outputs visual information penetrating through the transparent card module, and
- wherein when a touch is applied to the display module of the card module, the display module of the card module outputs screen information including the plurality of content items.
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A method for controlling a mobile terminal including a terminal body and a card module installed to be withdrawable by the terminal body, the method comprising:
- controlling a display unit to output screen information including at least one content item corresponding to at least one piece of card information;
- applying a selected content item to the card module;
- when the card module is brought into contact with a payment device, performing a payment function using card information corresponding to the selected content item;
- and
- outputting a result in accordance with the performing of the payment function,
- when the screen information includes a plurality of content items corresponding to a plurality of pieces of card information and arranged in a first direction, switching content items displayed on the display unit on the basis of a touch applied in the first direction;
- selecting a second content item as one of the plurality of content items on the basis of a touch applied in a second direction toward an accommodation region of the card module on the display unit, different from the first direction, and applying the selected second content item to the card module;
- controlling the card module to perform a card function using card information corresponding to the selected second content item;
- and
- while the card module is performing the card function using the card information corresponding to the selected content item, controlling the display unit to display the image in which the second content item is inserted into the card module,
- wherein the terminal body includes a cover provided to open and close the display unit,
- wherein the cover has an opening region,
- wherein the card module is accommodated in an internal space of the cover so as to overlap the opening region of the cover, is formed of a light-transmissive material, and includes a display module,
- wherein the display unit output visual information penetrating through the transparent card module, and
- wherein when a touch is applied to the display module of the card module, the display module of the card module outputs screen information including the plurality of content items.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.