Patent ID: 7565628

Claim:
A mobile terminal having an On Screen Display (OSD) functional icon, the mobile terminal comprising: a display unit; and a control unit controlling a functional icon having at least one function assigned thereto to be displayed on the display unit by OSD, the control unit controlling the function assigned to the functional icon to be executed if the functional icon is selected, wherein the functional icon is movable on the display unit according to a predetermined external signal, and transparency of the functional icon is varied according to a position displayed on the display unit; wherein the functional icon comprising a plurality of sub-icons to which different sub-functions are assigned, respectively, if one of a plurality of the sub-icons is selected, the control unit controls the sub-function assigned to the selected sub-icon to be executed; wherein the display unit comprises a touch screen, the prescribed signal inputted externally corresponds to a movement of an external touch for one of a plurality of the sub-icons on the touch screen and the control unit controls the touched sub-icon to be moved separate from the rest of the sub-icons according to the movement of the external touch; and the control unit decides whether to display each of a plurality of the sub-icons, according to an execution frequency of the sub-function assigned to each of a plurality of the sub-icons.