Mobile terminal and method for providing user interface thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorTaehoon Lee
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Abstract
A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a display unit including a touch screen; a sensing unit configured to sense a touch input pattern on the display unit when the display unit is in a lock mode and displaying a lock screen; and a controller configured to detect at least a first code from the touch input pattern, said first code corresponding to at least a first portion of the touch input pattern, change the lock screen into a first screen on the display unit that is preset based on the detected first code, and release the lock mode with the first screen displayed when the sensing unit no longer senses the touch input pattern on the display unit.
Claims14
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal;
- a touch screen configured to display a lock screen in a lock mode;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- receive a drag touch input via the touch screen while the mobile terminal is in the lock mode and displaying the lock screen;
- detect a first touch code and a second touch code from the drag touch input, said first touch code corresponding to a first portion of the drag touch input and said second touch code corresponding to a second portion of the drag touch input,
- change the lock screen into a first screen in response to detecting the first touch code from the drag touch input while the lock mode is maintained,
- change the first screen into a second screen in response to detecting the second touch code from the drag touch input after the first touch code is detected from the drag touch input and the first screen is displayed on the touch screen while the lock mode is maintained, and
- release the lock mode with the first screen or the second screen when the drag touch input is no longer received via the touch screen,
- wherein:
- the controller is further configured to release the lock mode with the first screen when the drag touch input no longer applied to the touch screen before the second touch code is detected from the drag touch input, and
- the controller is further configured to release the lock mode with the second screen when the drag touch input no longer applied to the touch screen after the second touch code is detected from the drag touch input.
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- displaying, on a touch screen, a lock screen indicating the mobile terminal is in a lock mode;
- receiving a drag touch input via the touch screen while the mobile terminal is in the lock mode and displaying the lock screen;
- detecting a first touch code and a second touch code from the drag touch input, said first touch code corresponding to a first portion of the drag touch input and said second touch code corresponding of the drag touch input;
- changing the lock screen into a first screen in response to detecting the first touch code from the drag touch input while the lock mode is maintained;
- changing the first screen into a second screen in response to detecting the second touch code from the drag touch input after the first touch code is detected from the drag touch input and the first screen is displayed on the touch screen while the lock mode is maintained;
- and
- releasing the lock mode with the first screen or the second screen when the drag touch input is no longer received via the touch screen,
- wherein:
- the lock mode is released with the first screen when the drag touch input no longer applied to the touch screen before the second touch code is detected from the drag touch input, and
- the lock mode is released with the second screen when the drag touch input no longer applied to the touch screen after the second touch code is detected from the drag touch input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.