KR101880310B1 - Terminal having chatting information display function in the chatting thread and control method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A display unit displaying a conversation thread screen including a friend list or a chat room list; A user input unit for inputting information on the conversation thread screen through a user's touch action or button input; And displaying a profile information screen including information on a chat room in which the user and the friend are participating together with respect to any friend selected from the friend list based on the input information, There is provided a terminal having a conversation information display function in a conversation thread including a control section for displaying information of a chat room in which the friend participates together and performing a movement to the chat room.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a terminal having a function of displaying conversation information in a conversation thread, and a control method thereof. [0002]

The present invention relates to a terminal having an interactive information display function in a conversation thread and a control method thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to a terminal that searches for and displays a plurality of chat rooms in which a friend and a user participate together in a conversation thread, The present invention relates to a terminal having a function of displaying conversation information in a conversation thread capable of searching for and displaying contents shared in a terminal and a control method thereof.

A terminal can be divided into a mobile / portable terminal and a stationary terminal depending on whether the terminal is movable or not. The mobile terminal can be divided into a handheld terminal and a vehicle mount terminal according to whether the user can directly carry the mobile terminal.

Such a terminal has various functions, for example, a communication function of voice, text, video and e-mail, as well as a function of shooting a picture or a moving picture, reproducing music or video file, And is implemented in the form of a multifunctional multimedia device having various functions.

In order to support and enhance the functionality of such terminals, it may be considered to improve the structural and / or software parts of the terminal.

[0003] A variety of application programs running on a terminal are chucking threads. In addition, multiple conversation threads can be executed within an application. For example, multiple conversation threads may be created for each function. Conventionally, it has been difficult to search for a plurality of chat rooms participating in a user in the chat thread or to search for and display contents shared in the chat room.

A problem to be solved by the present invention is to search for and display a plurality of chat rooms in which a friend and a user participate together in a conversation thread, or to search and display contents shared in the chat room, A terminal having a display function and a control method thereof.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display device including a display unit displaying a conversation thread screen including a friend list or a chat room list; A user input unit for inputting information on the conversation thread screen through a user's touch action or button input; And displaying a profile information screen including information on a chat room in which the user and the friend are participating together with respect to any friend selected from the friend list based on the input information, There is provided a terminal having a conversation information display function in a conversation thread including a control section for displaying information of a chat room in which a friend participates together and displaying the chat room in response to a request.

The controller may perform a dialogue content editing function including a dialogue content hide function or a dialogue content delete function by an action in a chat room by sensing a touch action of the user.

The control unit detects the touch action of the user and sorts the contents included in the chat room according to the type, displays any kind of content selected from the sorted contents, displays the chat room screen Can be displayed.

The control unit can display a chat room having unacknowledged conversation contents among a plurality of chat rooms using flicking.

The control unit can read and display the chat room information having the latest unacknowledged chat content when flicking is detected.

The control unit can search for and display the contents included in the corresponding room based on the image information inputted by the user.

The control unit can display a chat room of the talker by clicking a thumbnail icon of the participant in the chat room.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising: displaying a conversation thread screen including a friend list or a chat room list; When an arbitrary friend is selected from the friend list, a profile information screen including information of the chat room in which the user and the friend are participating together is displayed, or a friend is searched in the chat room list and the information of the chat room ; And displaying the chat room when a user's request is made for the information of the chat room displayed in the dialogue thread of the terminal.

The method of displaying conversation information in the conversation thread of the terminal may further include performing a conversation content editing function including a conversation content hiding function or a conversation contents deleting function by an action in a chat room by sensing a touch action of the user .

A method for displaying conversation information in a conversation thread of the terminal comprises the steps of: sorting contents included in a conversation room by sensing a touch action of the user; Displaying contents of any sort selected from the sorted contents by type; And displaying a chatting screen at the time of chatting including the content.

According to the present invention, it is possible to display chat room information in which a user and a friend participate together in a profile. When an arbitrary friend is selected from the friend list, the user easily moves from the profile to the chat room by displaying the profile information screen including the chat room information in which the user and the friend are participating together.

According to the present invention, a chat room can be sorted and displayed by searching a friend in a chat room list. By searching for a friend in the chat room list, the user can easily move from the chat room list to the chat room by showing the chat room where the user and the friend are participating together.

According to the present invention, it is possible to perform various conversation contents editing functions including a function of concealing conversation contents and a function of deleting conversation contents by a user's action in a chat room by detecting the action of the user. It is possible to improve the user's convenience in editing the conversation contents in the chatting room by performing an operation of hiding or deleting the conversation contents in response to the action of the user.

According to the present invention, the action of the user can be detected, the chat room contents can be sorted according to the type, the selected content can be displayed, and the conversation can be easily performed at the time of including the content.

According to the present invention, when a plurality of chat rooms are operated using left and right flicking, a chat room with unidentified chat contents is always displayed on the right side and a chat room screen with unconfirmed chat contents is displayed by flicking left. Thereby enabling effective operation.

According to the present invention, contents included in a corresponding room are searched and displayed based on image information directly input by users, thereby facilitating searching for contents in a room.

According to the present invention, by clicking a thumbnail icon of a participant in a chat room and sorting and displaying the chat room of the talker, it is possible to easily refer to the participating chat rooms.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying conversation information in a conversation thread of a terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIGS. 3A to 3C are diagrams for explaining a chatting room displaying function in which a user and a friend participate in a profile according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIGS. 4A through 4C are diagrams illustrating a dialogue list according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
5A to 5D are diagrams for explaining a function of hiding conversation contents in a chatting room screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6A to 6D are diagrams for explaining a dialog content eraser function in a chat screen according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
7A to 7E are diagrams for explaining a content sorting function in a chat room screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8A to 8C are diagrams for explaining a method of moving a chat room using left and right flicking according to an embodiment of the present invention.
9A to 9D are diagrams for explaining a search function according to a user image input.
FIGS. 10A to 10C are diagrams for explaining screen movement according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following embodiments are provided by way of example so that those skilled in the art can fully understand the spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described below, but may be embodied in other forms. In the drawings, the width, length, thickness, and the like of the components may be exaggerated for convenience. Like reference numerals designate like elements throughout the specification. The suffix "module" and " part "for the components used in the following description are given or mixed in consideration of ease of specification, and do not have their own meaning or role.

The mobile terminal described in this specification includes a mobile phone, a smart phone, a pad, a notebook, a tablet PC, a laptop computer, a digital broadcast terminal, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistants), a PMP And the like. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the configuration according to the embodiments described herein may be applied to a fixed terminal such as a digital TV, a desktop computer, and the like, unless the configuration is applicable only to a mobile terminal.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, a mobile terminal 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a wireless communication unit 110, an audio / video (A / V) input unit 120, a user input unit 130, a sensing unit 140, An output unit 150, a memory 160, an interface unit 170, a control unit 180, and a power supply unit 190. The components shown in FIG. 1 are not essential, and a mobile terminal having more or fewer components may be implemented.

The wireless communication unit 110 may include one or more modules for enabling wireless communication between the mobile terminal 100 and the wireless communication system or between the mobile terminal 100 and the network in which the mobile terminal 100 is located. For example, the wireless communication unit 110 may include a broadcast receiving module 111, a mobile communication module 112, a wireless Internet module 113, a short range communication module 114, and a location information module 115 .

The broadcast receiving module 111 receives broadcast signals and / or broadcast-related information from an external broadcast management server through a broadcast channel. Here, the broadcast channel may include a satellite channel and a terrestrial channel. The broadcast management server may be a server for generating and transmitting broadcast signals and / or broadcast-related information, or a server for receiving broadcast signals and / or broadcast-related information generated by the broadcast server and transmitting the generated broadcast signals and / or broadcast- The broadcast signal may include a TV broadcast signal, a radio broadcast signal, a data broadcast signal, and a broadcast signal in which a data broadcast signal is combined with a TV broadcast signal or a radio broadcast signal.

The broadcast-related information may mean information related to a broadcast channel, a broadcast program, or a broadcast service provider. The broadcast-related information can also be provided through a mobile communication network. In this case, it may be received by the mobile communication module 112. Broadcast-related information can exist in various forms. For example, an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) of DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) or an ESG (Electronic Service Guide) of Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H).

The broadcast receiving module 111 may be a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB-T), a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB-S), a media forward link only (DVF-H) (ISDB-T), and digital broadcasting systems such as ISDB-T (Integrated Services Digital Broadcast-Terrestrial). Of course, the broadcast receiving module 111 may be configured to be suitable for other broadcasting systems as well as the digital broadcasting system described above.

The broadcast signal and / or broadcast related information received through the broadcast receiving module 111 may be stored in the memory 160.

The mobile communication module 112 transmits and receives radio signals to at least one of a base station, an external terminal, and a server on a mobile communication network. Here, the wireless signal may include various types of data depending on a voice call signal, a video call signal, or a text / multimedia message transmission / reception.

The wireless Internet module 113 is a module for wireless Internet access, and may be built in or externally attached to the mobile terminal 100. WLAN (Wi-Fi), Wibro (Wireless broadband), Wimax (World Interoperability for Microwave Access), HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) and the like can be used as wireless Internet technologies.

The short-range communication module 114 refers to a module for short-range communication. Bluetooth, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), infrared data association (IrDA), Ultra Wideband (UWB), ZigBee, and the like can be used as a short range communication technology.

The position information module 115 is a module for acquiring the position of the mobile terminal, for example, a Global Position System (GPS) module.

The A / V (Audio / Video) input unit 120 is for inputting an audio signal or a video signal and may include a camera 121 and a microphone 122. The camera 121 processes an image frame such as a still image or moving image obtained by the image sensor in the video communication mode or the photographing mode. The processed image frame can be displayed on the display unit 151. [

The image frame processed by the camera 121 may be stored in the memory 160 or transmitted to the outside through the wireless communication unit 110. [ Two or more cameras 121 may be provided depending on the use environment.

The microphone 122 receives an external sound signal through a microphone in a communication mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, or the like, and processes it as electrical voice data. The processed voice data can be converted into a form that can be transmitted to the mobile communication base station through the mobile communication module 112 when the voice data is in the call mode, and output. Various noise reduction algorithms may be implemented in the microphone 122 to remove noise generated in receiving an external sound signal.

The user input unit 130 generates input data for a user to control the operation of the terminal. The user input unit 130 may include, for example, a key pad dome switch, a touch pad (static / static), a jog wheel, and a jog switch.

The sensing unit 140 senses the current state of the mobile terminal 100 such as the open / close state of the mobile terminal 100, the position of the mobile terminal 100, the presence or absence of user contact, the orientation of the mobile terminal, A sensing signal for controlling the operation of the mobile terminal 100 may be generated. For example, when the mobile terminal 100 is in the form of a slide phone, it is possible to sense whether the slide phone is opened or closed. It is also possible to sense whether the power supply unit 190 is powered on, whether the interface unit 170 is connected to an external device, and the like. The sensing unit 140 may include a touch sensor 141 and a proximity sensor 142, for example. The touch sensor 141 is a sensor for sensing a touch operation. For example, the touch sensor 141 may have the form of a touch film, a touch sheet, a touch pad, or the like.

The touch sensor 141 may form a mutual layer structure (hereinafter referred to as 'touch screen') with the display unit 151. The touch sensor 141 may be configured to convert a change in a pressure applied to a specific part of the display part 151 or a capacitance generated in a specific part of the display part 151 into an electrical input signal. The touch sensor 141 can be configured to detect not only the position and area to be touched but also the pressure at the time of touch.

If there is a touch input to the touch sensor 141, the corresponding signal (s) is sent to the touch controller. The touch controller processes the signal (s) and transmits the corresponding data to the controller 180. Thus, the control unit 180 can know which area of the display unit 151 is touched or the like.

The proximity sensor 142 may be disposed within an interior region of the mobile terminal or proximate to the touch screen that is enclosed by the touch screen. The proximity sensor 141 refers to a sensor that detects the presence of an object approaching a predetermined detection surface or an object existing in the vicinity thereof without mechanical contact using the force of the electromagnetic field or infrared rays. The proximity sensor 141 has a longer life than the contact type sensor and its utilization is also high.

Examples of the proximity sensor 142 include a transmission type photoelectric sensor, a direct reflection type photoelectric sensor, a mirror reflection type photoelectric sensor, a high frequency oscillation type proximity sensor, a capacitive proximity sensor, a magnetic proximity sensor, and an infrared proximity sensor. When the touch screen is electrostatic, it is configured to detect the proximity of the pointer by the change of the electric field along the proximity of the pointer. In this case, the touch screen (touch sensor) may be classified as a proximity sensor.

The term "proximity touch " refers to an act of causing the pointer to be located on the touch screen in proximity to the touch screen without the pointer touching the touch screen. "Contact touch" refers to the act of actually contacting the pointer on the touch screen. The position where the pointer is proximately touched on the touch screen means the position where the pointer corresponds vertically to the touch screen when the pointer is touched proximately.

The proximity sensor 142 detects a proximity touch and a proximity touch pattern (e.g., a proximity touch distance, a proximity touch direction, a proximity touch speed, a proximity touch time, a proximity touch position, a proximity touch movement state, and the like). Information corresponding to the detected proximity touch operation and the proximity touch pattern can be output on the touch screen.

The output unit 150 is for generating output related to the visual, auditory or tactile sense and includes a display unit 151, an audio output module 152, an alarm unit 153, and a haptic module 154 .

The display unit 151 displays (outputs) information processed by the mobile terminal 100. For example, when the mobile terminal is in the call mode, a UI (User Interface) or a GUI (Graphic User Interface) associated with a call is displayed. When the mobile terminal 100 is in the video communication mode or the photographing mode, the photographed and / or received video or UI and GUI are displayed.

The display unit 151 may be a liquid crystal display (LCD), a thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), a flexible display display, and a 3D display.

Some of these displays may be transparent or light transmissive so that they can be seen through. This can be referred to as a transparent display, and a typical example of a transparent display is TOLED (Transparent OLED) and the like. The rear structure of the display unit 151 may also be of a light transmission type. With this structure, the user can see an object located behind the terminal body through the area occupied by the display unit 151 of the terminal body.

There may be two or more display units 151 according to the embodiment of the mobile terminal 100. For example, in the mobile terminal 100, a plurality of display portions may be spaced apart from one another or may be disposed integrally with each other, or may be disposed on different surfaces.

The audio output module 152 may output audio data received from the wireless communication unit 110 or stored in the memory 160 in a call signal reception mode, a call mode or a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, a broadcast reception mode, The sound output module 152 also outputs sound signals related to functions (e.g., call signal reception sound, message reception sound, etc.) performed in the mobile terminal 100. [ The audio output module 152 may include a receiver, a speaker, a buzzer, and the like.

The alarm unit 153 outputs a signal for notifying the occurrence of an event of the mobile terminal 100. Examples of events that occur in the mobile terminal include call signal reception, message reception, key signal input, touch input, and the like. The alarm unit 153 may output a signal for notifying the occurrence of an event in a form other than the video signal or the audio signal, for example, vibration. The video signal or the audio signal may be output through the display unit 151 or the audio output module 152. Accordingly, the display unit 151 and the audio output module 152 may be classified as a part of the alarm unit 153. [

The haptic module 154 generates various tactile effects that the user can feel. A typical example of the haptic effect generated by the haptic module 154 is vibration. The intensity and pattern of the vibration generated by the hit module 154 can be controlled. For example, different vibrations may be synthesized and output or sequentially output.

In addition to the vibration, the haptic module 154 may include a pin arrangement vertically moving with respect to the contact skin surface, a spraying force or a suction force of the air through the injection port or the suction port, a touch on the skin surface, contact with an electrode, And various tactile effects such as an effect of reproducing a cold sensation using an endothermic or exothermic element can be generated.

The haptic module 154 can be implemented not only to transmit the tactile effect through the direct contact but also to allow the user to feel the tactile effect through the muscular sensation of the finger or arm. At least two haptic modules 154 may be provided according to the configuration of the mobile terminal 100.

The memory 160 may store a program for the operation of the controller 180 and temporarily store input / output data (e.g., a phone book, a message, a still image, a moving picture, etc.). The memory 160 may store data related to vibrations and sounds of various patterns that are output upon touch input on the touch screen.

The memory 160 may be a flash memory type, a hard disk type, a multimedia card micro type, a card type memory (for example, SD or XD memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), SRAM (Static Random Access Memory), ROM (Read Only Memory), EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), PROM A disk, and / or an optical disk. The mobile terminal 100 may operate in association with a web storage that performs storage functions of the memory 160 on the Internet.

The interface unit 170 serves as a path for communication with all external devices connected to the mobile terminal 100. The interface unit 170 receives data from an external device or supplies power to each component in the mobile terminal 100 or transmits data to the external device. For example, a wired / wireless headset port, an external charger port, a wired / wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio I / O port, A video input / output (I / O) port, an earphone port, and the like may be included in the interface unit 170.

The identification module is a chip for storing various information for authenticating the use right of the mobile terminal 100 and includes a user identification module (UIM), a subscriber identity module (SIM), a general user authentication module A Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM), and the like. Devices with identification modules (hereinafter referred to as "identification devices") can be manufactured in a smart card format. Accordingly, the identification device can be connected to the terminal 100 through the port.

The interface unit 170 may be a path through which the power from the cradle is supplied to the mobile terminal 100 when the mobile terminal 100 is connected to an external cradle or various command signals input from the cradle by the user, As shown in FIG. The various command signals or power from the cradle may be operated as a signal for recognizing that the mobile terminal 100 is correctly mounted on the cradle.

A controller 180 controls the overall operation of the mobile terminal. For example, the control unit 180 may perform related control and processing for voice call, data communication, video call, and the like. The control unit 180 may include a multimedia module 181 for multimedia playback. The multimedia module 181 may be implemented in the control unit 180 or may be implemented separately from the control unit 180. [

The control unit 180 may display a profile information screen including information of the chat rooms participating with the user and the friend with respect to any friend selected from the friend list based on the inputted information.

The control unit 180 searches for a friend in the chat room list, displays information of the chat room participated with the friend, and displays the chat room in response to the request.

The controller 180 may detect a touch action of the user and perform a dialogue content editing function including a dialogue content hide function or a dialogue content delete function by an action in a chat room.

The controller 180 may sense the touch action of the user and sort the contents included in the chat room according to the type and display any kind of content selected from the sorted contents. In addition, the control unit 180 can display a chatting screen at the chatting time point including the content.

The control unit 180 can display a chat room having unacknowledged conversation contents among a plurality of chat rooms using flicking. The control unit 180 can read and display the chat room information having the latest unacknowledged chat content when flicking is detected.

The control unit 180 can search for and display the contents included in the corresponding room based on the image information inputted by the user.

The control unit 180 can display the conversation of the talker by clicking the thumbnail icon of the participant in the chat room.

The power supply unit 190 receives external power and internal power under the control of the controller 180 and supplies power necessary for operation of the respective components.

The various embodiments described herein may be embodied in a recording medium readable by a computer or similar device using, for example, software, hardware, or a combination thereof.

According to a hardware implementation, the embodiments described herein may be implemented as application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays May be implemented using at least one of processors, controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors, and other electronic units for performing other functions. In some cases, May be implemented by the control unit 180.

According to a software implementation, embodiments such as procedures or functions may be implemented with separate software modules that perform at least one function or operation. The software code may be implemented by a software application written in a suitable programming language. The software codes are stored in the memory 160 and can be executed by the control unit 180. [

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying conversation information in a conversation thread of a terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the control unit 180 executes a conversation thread to display a conversation thread screen. The conversation thread screen may include a friend list or a chat room list (S11).

The user input unit 130 receives information on the conversation thread screen through a touch action or button input by the user (S12).

The control unit 180 determines whether or not a profile search is requested in the friend list based on the inputted information (S13), and displays the profile information screen including the information of the chat room in which the user and the friend are participating together (S14).

The control unit 180 determines whether a friend search is requested in the chat room list (S15), searches for a friend, and displays information on the chat room in which the user and the friend are participating together (S16).

If there is a request from the user for the information of the displayed chat room, the control unit 180 moves to the selected chat room and displays the chat room contents on the screen (S17).

FIGS. 3A to 3C are diagrams for explaining a chatting room displaying function in which a user and a friend participate in a profile according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3A, the control unit 180 provides the friend list screen 23 through the display unit 151. FIG. For this, the control unit 180 reads the friend list information from the memory 160 of the terminal 100 and creates the friend list screen 23. The friend list screen 23 can be implemented as a friend list including, for example, picture information 23a and name information 23b for each friend.

The friend list displayed on the friend list screen 23 can be sorted and displayed according to a predetermined sorting criterion. For example, a friend list can be sorted alphabetically or in alphabetical order.

When an arbitrary friend is selected from the friend list, the control unit 180 provides the friend's profile information screen 24 as shown in FIG. 3B.

At this time, the profile information screen 24 includes profile information of the friend. For example, the profile information screen 24 may include a photograph 24a, a name or nickname, a telephone number 24b, and additional information 24c. The additional information 24c may include home phone, e-mail, memo information, and SNS information, for example. The profile information screen 24 may include a dialog window list 24d in which the user and the friend are participating together. The chat window list 24d can be sorted and displayed according to a predetermined sorting criterion.

In the drawing, the chat window list 24d includes a photograph, a name of a chat participant, or a participant number. Only a few people are listed in the chat participant name.

The chat window list 24d may include a list of friends who have participated in the same chat room with the user. Therefore, the friends displayed on the friend list screen are friends who are participating in the same chat room as the user.

When an arbitrary dialog window is selected from the displayed dialog window list, the control unit 180 displays (1) a dialog screen of the corresponding dialog screen 22 as shown in FIG. 3C. The chat room screen 22 includes a photo 22a and a message 22b.

FIGS. 4A through 4C are diagrams illustrating a dialogue list according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4A, the control unit 180 displays the conversation list screen 25. The conversation list displayed on the conversation list screen 25 is a list 25a of chat rooms in which the user participates. Accordingly, the chat rooms displayed in the chat list screen 25 are chat rooms in which the user and at least one or more friends participate. The chat room list displayed on the chat list screen 25 is sorted and displayed according to a predetermined sorting criterion. In the drawing, the chat room list includes a chat room photograph 25a, a name of a chat participant 25b, and a participant number. Only a few people are listed in the chat participant name. The conversation list screen 25 includes a conversation list search window 25c.

Referring to FIG. 4B, the control unit 180 may receive a search word in the conversation list search window 25c. The control unit 180 may display the keyboard 25d on the screen in order to receive the search word in the conversation list search window 25c. When the search is requested to be executed after receiving the search word in the conversation list search window 25c (1), the controller 180 searches the chat conversation list window 25c for the participant corresponding to the search word input from the displayed chat room list (25e). The search execution request can be made by clicking the search icon displayed adjacent to the conversation list search window. The control unit 180 displays the searched chat room list on the screen. In the drawing, two chat rooms with a name of 'TK' are displayed. At this time, the two chat rooms mean at least a chat room in which the user TK and the user are participating together. The control unit 180 displays a dialog screen of the selected dialog window when the selected dialog window is selected from the displayed dialog window list.

5A to 5D are diagrams for explaining a function of hiding conversation contents in a chatting room screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5A, the control unit 180 displays a chat screen 22. The chat room screen 22 includes information 22a of the participants participating in the conversation and conversation contents 22b. The control unit 180 can hide some of the conversation contents selected from the conversation contents displayed on the chat room screen 22. [ Hiding here involves hiding the conversation on the screen. The control unit 180 displays a pop-up menu 22e for executing the hide function for the conversation contents as shown in FIG. 5B, when the selection is made for the arbitrary conversation contents 22d. The pop-up menu 22e includes a field for executing the hide function. When the hide function is requested from the user through the click (1) of the field for executing the hide function, the controller 180 does not display the corresponding dialog content on the chat screen 22 as shown in FIG. 5C, Quot; hidden content " message 22f at the place where the conversation contents exist. The control unit 180 displays the hidden content on the screen when a click on the message 'view hidden content' is detected. On the other hand, the control unit 180 may display a deletion icon 22g for executing a delete function in a box called " hidden content display ". Accordingly, when a click on the delete icon 22g is detected, the control unit 180 deletes the corresponding chat content from the chat screen 22 as shown in FIG. 5D.

6A to 6D are diagrams for explaining a dialog content eraser function in a chat screen according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6A, the control unit 180 displays a chat room screen 26. FIG. The chat room screen 26 includes information 26a of the participants participating in the conversation and conversation contents 26b. The control unit 180 can delete some of the conversation contents selected from the conversation contents displayed on the chat room screen 26. [ The chat room screen 26 may include a deletion icon 26d for executing a function of deleting chat content in one area of the screen. In the drawing, a delete icon 26d is provided at the upper right portion of the screen.

The control unit 180 displays a pop-up menu called 'eraser' on the screen as shown in FIG. 6B when a click (1) is detected on the delete icon 26d. 6C, when an action such as the user's touch operation (2) is performed on an arbitrary dialogue content displayed on the screen, the control unit 180 displays the corresponding dialogue content as a dialogue screen 26). That is, the control unit 180 can delete the conversation contents by a user action such as a touch operation of the user through the eraser function. The eraser function is executed through an action such as a touch rather than a click, thereby improving the user's convenience. The user's touch behavior includes a left-to-right touch, a right-to-left touch, a bottom-up touch, a top-down touch, a bottom left-up diagonal touch, , Oblique direction from upper left to lower right, and oblique direction from lower right to upper left. In addition, the control unit 180 can perform an eraser function by sensing a touch action to be thrown out of the chat room screen 26 after touching an arbitrary chat content by the user. In addition, the control unit 180 may detect that the user is moving the finger in the left or right direction or the up and down direction while touching the dialog content on the screen with the finger as if erasing the eraser, thereby executing the eraser function. Here, the control unit 180 executing the eraser function means that the dialogue content is gradually or temporally disappeared on the screen.

7A to 7E are diagrams for explaining a content sorting function in a chat room screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7A, the control unit 180 displays the chat room screen 26. FIG. The chat room screen 26 includes information 26a of the participants participating in the conversation and conversation contents 26b. The control unit 180 can display various contents included in the dialog displayed on the chat room screen 26 according to content types. For example, as shown in FIG. 7B, when the controller 180 detects a pinch operation of the user on the screen, the control unit 180 displays a folder that divides various contents included in the corresponding chat room into content types. The division of the folder may include, for example, a photo folder 27a, a movie folder 27b, a music folder 27c, and a document folder 27d. Accordingly, in the photo folder 27a, photo files exchanged among the participants in the corresponding chat room are separately stored. In the video folder 27b, video files exchanged among the participants in the corresponding chat room are separately stored. In the music folder 27c, music files exchanged between the participants in the corresponding chat room are separately stored. In the document folder 27d, document files exchanged between participants in the corresponding chat room are separately stored.

When the control unit 180 detects a click on any displayed folder, the control unit 180 displays the content stored in the folder on the screen. In the drawing, the photo folder 27a is clicked, and the control unit 180 accordingly displays the photos 28 stored in the corresponding photo folder 27a as shown in FIG. 7C. When the controller 180 detects a click (1) on an arbitrary picture 28a among the displayed pictures, the controller 180 displays the picture in the full screen mode 28b as shown in FIG. 7d. In the full screen mode 28b, a return icon button 28c and an associate dialogue go button 28d are provided. When a click on the return icon button 28c is detected, the control unit 180 moves to a mode in which the photos stored in the photo folder 27a are displayed. On the other hand, if a click (1) on the button 28d is detected, the control unit 180 displays a chat screen 28d when the corresponding photo file is exchanged in the chat room as shown in FIG. 7E give.

8A to 8C are diagrams for explaining a method of moving a chat room using left and right flicking according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 8A, the control unit 180 displays an arbitrary first chat room screen 29a. The name of the chat room displayed on the first chat room screen 29a is 'Oyako chat room'. The control unit 180 senses the flickering input 4 from the user. Flicking is a touch action that moves from right to left or from left to right by the user's touch. The controller 180 displays the second chat screen 29b as shown in FIG. 8B when the user's flicking 4 is detected. When another flicking 3 is detected on the second chat room screen 29b, the controller 180 displays the third chat room screen 29c as shown in FIG. 8C. In this way, the controller 180 detects the flicking of the user and performs movement between the chat rooms. The control unit 180 moves to the chat room where the latest conversation contents always arrive by the flicking operation when the user moves the chat room by flicking. To this end, the control unit 180 stores the information of the chat room in which the latest conversation contents are always stored in the memory 150, and displays the chat room screen in which the latest conversation contents arrive when there is a flicking operation from the user. The control unit 180 can set the direction of flicking in advance. For example, when a plurality of chat rooms are operated, the control unit 180 may set a chat room having an unacknowledged message to always be located on the right side and flicking to the left to display a chat room screen having an unconfirmed message. Therefore, it is possible to set the display of the information of the chat room in which the latest chat contents arrived by the operation of flicking from right to left. Alternatively, by flicking from left to right, you can set to display the information in the chat room with unacknowledged conversations. Therefore, when a user participates in a plurality of chat rooms and flickers in a set direction, the user can participate in various chat rooms without missing the chat conversation in the chat room where the latest chat contents arrive continuously.

9A to 9D are diagrams for explaining a search function according to a user image input.

Referring to FIG. 9A, the control unit 180 displays a chat screen 30. A data input window 21 and an instruction execution button 31 are provided below the chat room screen 30. When the controller 180 detects that the command execution button 31 is depressed for a long time, the controller 180 may display the extended menu as shown in FIG. 9B. The expanded menu can include various chat room menus. For example, the extended menu includes a general dialogue button 31, a whisper button 32, a draw button 33, a search button 34, a dialogue add button 35, a share button 36, 37). The control unit 180 moves the position of the data input window 21 to the upper position as shown in FIG. 9C when the search button 34 is selected from the expanded menu, And displays the input keypad 40. The input keypad 40 may include a keypad 41. The control unit 180 displays the drawing input window 41a at the lower part of the data input window 21 as shown in FIG. 9D when the drawing button 41 is clicked. The control unit 180 displays the image 41b input by the user's drawing operation on the drawing input window 41a. When the control unit 180 detects that the search button 34 is clicked (1) after receiving the image 41b from the user, as shown in FIG. 9E, the control unit 180 searches for the image 41b And displays a chat screen 41d of the chat room containing the image 41c.

FIGS. 10A to 10C are diagrams for explaining screen movement according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 10A, the controller 180 displays the first chat room screen 50. The first chat room screen 50 includes a thumbnail area 51 for displaying a user participating in the chat room in the lower part thereof. When an arbitrary user is selected in these thumbnail regions 51, the control unit 180 displays the information of the chat rooms currently participated by the user as shown in FIG. 10B. For example, in FIG. 10B, a second chat room image 51a representing the second chat room and a third chat room image 51b representing the third chat room are displayed. When the controller 180 detects that the third chat room image 51b is selected, the controller 180 displays the third chat room screen 51d including the chat room screen 51c as shown in FIG. 10C. In the drawing, the name of the third chat room screen 51d is 'lonely chat room'.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the above-described method can be implemented as a code readable by a processor on a medium on which a program is recorded. Examples of the medium that can be read by the processor include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, etc., and may be implemented in the form of a carrier wave (e.g., transmission over the Internet) .

The mobile terminal described above can be applied to not only the configuration and method of the embodiments described above but also all or some of the embodiments may be selectively combined so that various modifications may be made to the embodiments It is possible.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the claims and the claims.

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In the mobile terminal,
A touch screen for displaying a conversation screen for conversation with the other party; And
Receiving a first request to execute a hide function for conversation contents located on a speech balloon,
Displaying a menu on the touch screen to execute the hide function according to a first request received,
And a control unit for concealing the conversation contents on the conversation screen in response to a second request for selecting the menu,
The control unit
Wherein the display unit is configured to display only the conversation contents on the speech bubble while keeping the display of the speech bubble in accordance with the second request
Mobile terminal. delete delete In the mobile terminal,
A touch screen for displaying a conversation screen for conversation with the other party; And
Receiving a first request to execute a hide function for conversation contents located on a speech balloon,
Displaying a menu on the touch screen to execute the hide function according to a first request received,
And a control unit for concealing the conversation contents on the conversation screen in response to a second request for selecting the menu,
The control unit
Receiving a third request for the hidden conversation content,
And displays the hidden conversation on the conversation screen in a state that the hidden conversation contents are not hidden on the conversation screen in response to the received third request
Mobile terminal. In the mobile terminal,
A touch screen for displaying a conversation screen for conversation with the other party; And
Receiving a first request to execute a hide function for conversation contents located on a speech balloon,
Displaying a menu on the touch screen to execute the hide function according to a first request received,
And a control unit for concealing the conversation contents on the conversation screen in response to a second request for selecting the menu,
The control unit
Displaying a plurality of conversation contents including the conversation contents and other conversation contents on the conversation screen,
Only the conversation contents are hidden according to the second request, and the remaining conversation contents are not hidden on the conversation screen
Mobile terminal. The method according to any one of claims 1, 4, and 5,
Wherein the conversation screen further includes conversation contents received from the mobile terminal of the other party and information about the other party
Mobile terminal. delete delete delete delete

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