Patent ID: 8443199

Claim:
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: storing, in a memory of the mobile terminal, a plurality of fingerprint information on at least one of a finger-by-finger basis, a user-by-user basis, and a fingerprint pattern-by-pattern basis in association with different operations to be performed on the mobile terminal; displaying an operation screen on a display module; receiving a fingerprint-touch input through the display module, the display module configured to receive a touch input and simultaneously identify a fingerprint; performing an operation on the mobile terminal corresponding to fingerprint information of the received fingerprint-touch input that matches with one of the stored plurality of fingerprint information; and recognizing the received fingerprint-touch input as an ordinary touch input and performing a predefined operation corresponding to a point of detection of the received fingerprint-touch input if the fingerprint information of the received fingerprint-touch input is determined not to match one of the plurality of fingerprint information stored in the memory, wherein the performing the operation comprises controlling the display of the operation screen in accordance with a control value corresponding to the fingerprint information that matches with the fingerprint information of the received fingerprint-touch input, and wherein the controlling the display of the operation screen comprises scrolling the operation screen at a speed corresponding to the control value, changing a playback speed of the operation screen to a speed corresponding to the control value and moving the operation screen by a distance corresponding to the control value.