Patent ID: 8565828

Claim:
A mobile terminal comprising: a physical keypad that includes a first portion and a second portion; a detector; a display screen; and a controller to control the display screen to: display a virtual keypad emulating the physical keypad that includes the first portion and the second portion on the display screen when the detector detects that the mobile terminal is in a closed state, wherein both the first portion and the second portion of the physical keypad are inaccessible during the closed state of the mobile terminal; and convert the virtual keypad to emulate only the second portion of the physical keypad on the display screen when the detector detects that the mobile terminal is in a partially open state where the first portion of the physical keypad is accessible but the second portion of the physical keypad is inaccessible, wherein the first portion of the physical keypad and the virtual keypad emulating the second portion of the physical keypad are simultaneously activated during the partially open state of the mobile terminal.