Patent ID: 8793606
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A mobile terminal comprising: a display to display icons; a memory to store information related to the icons; and a controller to perform, when a first icon and a second icon have an icon collision, a control operation of the mobile terminal related to the first and second icons based on a type of the icon collision, wherein the type of the icon collision includes a collision between function icons, a collision between a function icon and a contents icon, and a collision between contents icons, and wherein in response to detecting the icon collision between the first icon and the second icon, the controller determines layer levels of the first and second icon based upon information stored in the memory when the type of the icon collision between the first and the second icon is the collision between function icons; wherein when the determined layer levels of the first icon is the same as the determined layer level of the second icon, the controller executes an operation corresponding to the first icon, executes an operation corresponding to the second icon and controls the display to display a divided screen having a first screen area divided from a second screen area, wherein the first screen area to display an execution screen corresponding to the executed operation of the first icon and the second screen area to display an execution screen corresponding to the executed operation of the second icon; and wherein when the determined layer levels of the first icon and the second icon are different, the controller executes an operation corresponding to the first icon with a high level as a foreground and an operation corresponding to the second icon with a low level as a background.