Patent ID: 8893057

Claim:
A mobile terminal comprising: a display unit for displaying a standby screen image; a pressure sensor having a predetermined number of pressure sensing areas on the surface of the display unit to detect pressure on at least three non-contiguous pressure sensing areas and to generate corresponding pressure sensing signals; and a control unit for: sequentially receiving, while a current standby screen image representing a current background image of the mobile terminal is displayed, the at least three pressure sensing signals from the at least three non-contiguous pressure sensing areas, determining whether the received at least three pressure sensing signals have been received within a predetermined time; determining a moving direction according to the received at least three sensing signals, said moving direction being based on an order of receiving the at least three pressure sensing signals from the at least three pressure non-contiguous sensing areas within the predetermined time, determining a rotating direction of the standby screen image according to the determined moving direction, and rotating the standby screen image currently displayed on the display unit by a predetermined angle in the determined rotating direction, wherein the control unit is configured to rotate display of the standby screen image while the mobile device remains in standby mode, and wherein the predetermined angle in the determined rotating direction is proportional to a quantity of received pressure sensing signals within said predetermined time.