US 9,794,397 B2 · Watch type mobile terminal and method for controlling the same

Abstract

A watch type mobile terminal configured to be wearable on a wrist and a control method thereof are provided. The watch type mobile terminal includes a display unit configured to display screen information, a terminal body configured to allow the display unit to be installed therein and disposed on the wrist, a sensing unit configured to sense a position in which the mobile terminal is worn, and a controller configured to allocate a particular region of the display unit, as a control region for receiving a control command based on the sensing result, and process a user's touch input applied to the control region, as a control command for controlling an operation of the mobile terminal.

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Dependent claims

A watch type mobile terminal, comprising:

a terminal body shaped to be wearable by a user;
a display located on the terminal body and configured to display clock information, wherein the clock information comprises an hour hand image, a minute hand image, and a background image representing current time;
an information processing unit configured to obtain current situation information associated with the mobile terminal;
and
a controller configured to:
determine a shape or form of the hour hand image and the minute hand image to be displayed such that a current mode corresponding to the current situation information is represented via the hour hand image and the minute hand image having the determined shape or form;
cause the display to change the shape or form of the hour hand image and the minute hand image based on the current situation information such that a different hour hand image and a different minute hand image are displayed according to a change of the current situation information, a first hour hand image and a first minute hand image displayed when a first situation mode corresponds to the current situation information, and a second hour hand image and a second minute hand image displayed when a second situation mode corresponds to the current situation information,
wherein each of the first situation mode and the second situation mode, which is different from the first situation mode, is one of a weather mode, a traffic mode, a meal mode, a work mode, or an exercise mode;
and
execute one of a plurality of functions based on the current mode in response to a touch input received via the display, the touch input received while the hour hand image and the minute image are displayed on the display,
wherein:
an exercise related function is executed and screen information related to the exercise related function is displayed on the display when the hour hand image and the minute hand image correspond to the exercise mode;
and
a weather related function is executed and screen information related to the weather related function is displayed on the display when the hour hand image and the minute hand image correspond to the weather mode.

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Description25,127 words

Summary2,119 words

#Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §119(a), this application claims the benefit of earlier filing date and right of priority to Korean Application Nos. 10-2013-0123519, filed on Oct. 16, 2013, and 10-2013-0147745, filed on Nov. 29, 2013, the contents of which are all hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.

#1. Field of the Invention

#The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and, more particularly, to a watch type mobile terminal that can be worn on a user's wrist, and a control method thereof.

Brief description of the drawings25 figures

#The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate exemplary embodiments and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the invention.

#In the drawings:

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a mobile terminal according to an exemplary embodiment disclosed in the present disclosure.

Detailed description22,152 words

#The embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which like numbers refer to like elements throughout although the embodiments are different, and a description of the like elements a first embodiment will be used for those of the different embodiment. In the following description, usage of suffixes such as ‘module’, ‘part’ or ‘unit’ used for referring to elements is given merely to facilitate explanation of the present invention, without having any significant meaning by itself. In describing the present invention, if a detailed explanation for a related known function or construction is considered to unnecessarily divert the gist of the present invention, such explanation has been omitted but would be understood by those skilled in the art. The accompanying drawings of the present invention aim to facilitate understanding of the present invention and should not be construed as limited to the accompanying drawings.

#Mobile terminals described in the present disclosure may include mobile phones, smart phones, notebook computers, tablet computers, digital broadcast receivers, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), PMPs (Portable Multimedia Player), navigation devices, slate PCs, tablet PCs, ultra-books, and the like. However, it would be understood by a person skilled in the art that the configuration according to embodiments of the present invention can be also applicable to the fixed types of terminals such as digital TVs, desk top computers, and the like, except for any elements especially configured for a mobile purpose.

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Facts

Application

14/515,370Filed 15 Oct 2014

Priority

KR 10-2013-012351916 Oct 2013

Published

US 2015/0105125 A116 Apr 2015

Granted

17 Oct 2017

Term ends

30 Jan 2035

Estimated · how

20 years from earliest known nonprovisional domestic filing plus recorded patent term adjustment, including 107 days of adjustment. Maintenance-fee lapses, terminal disclaimers and statutory extensions have not been checked. The continuity chain may be incomplete; this is not an enforceability determination.

Classification13 codes

H04M 1/72469
User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones: for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed…
G04C 3/002
Electromechanical switches for setting or display: position, e.g. inclination dependent switches
G04G 21/04
Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces: using radio waves
G06F 3/0412
Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means: digitisers structurally integrated in a display

Timeline

16 Oct 2013Priority claimedKR 10-2013-0123519
15 Oct 2014Application filedUS 14/515,370
15 Oct 2014Assigned to LG Electronics Inc.assignment of assignor's interest
16 Apr 2015PublishedUS 2015/0105125 A1
17 Oct 2017GrantedUS 9,794,397 B2
12 Oct 2026TodayWithin its term
30 Jan 2035Term endsEstimated, includes 107 days of adjustment

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