Patent ID: 9058095
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: displaying, via a touch screen included on the mobile terminal, a background region and a plurality of functional widgets; activating a zooming mode by receiving, via a controller included on the mobile terminal, a long touch or double touch one-handed input at a specified location on the background region corresponding to the location of the long touch or double touch one-handed input; displaying, via the touch screen, a notifying icon based on the long touch or double touch one-handed input at the specified location on the background region corresponding to the location of the long touch or double touch one-handed input; and receiving a second one-handed input on a portion of the background region, the second one-handed input including at least one of a first touch-and-drag one-handed input toward the notifying icon on the touch screen, and a second touch-and-drag one-handed input away from the notifying icon on the touch screen; wherein the second one-handed input including at least one of the first touch-and-drag one-handed input toward the notifying icon on the touch screen, and the second touch-and-drag one-handed input away from the notifying icon on the touch screen is set as a predetermined outlined area having four coordinates associated with four corners of the predetermined area, respectively, while the notifying icon is displayed, wherein a portion of the background region within the predetermined outlined area is increased to fill a whole of the touch screen as a result of the second touch-and-drag one-handed input away from the notifying icon on the touch screen being released, and wherein, when the portion of the background region within the predetermined outlined area is increased to fill a whole of the touch screen, the notifying icon does not move and stays in a fixed location on the touch screen corresponding to the location of the long touch or double touch one-handed input.