Mobile Terminal Screen Region Switching for VoLTE Information Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing mobile terminals lack a user-friendly interface for enhancing convenience during Voice over LTE (VoLTE) voice calls, which limits the ability to seamlessly share information and switch between voice and video calls while maintaining excellent voice quality.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal with a touch-sensitive display unit and a controller that allows switching of screen regions for information transmission, enabling real-time information sharing, application execution, and call log management during VoLTE calls, including converting voice data to text and storing transmitted information for intuitive call log viewing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a traditional call interface is used during VoLTE calls, then voice call functionality is maintained, but information sharing capability and user convenience are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation sharing capabilityVSAvoiduser convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The call screen is transformed into a multi-functional interface that combines voice call capabilities with information sharing functions. The screen region is dynamically switched between call display mode and information input mode, allowing users to send texts, images, and other data during the call without leaving the call interface, thus achieving universal functionality in a single interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The interface dynamically switches between different functional modes based on user interaction. When information transmission mode is activated, the screen region transforms from displaying call information to accepting user inputs for various types of data sharing, providing adaptive functionality during the call.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If screen region switching is implemented for information transmission, then information sharing capability is enhanced, but interface complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation transmission capabilityVSAvoidinterface complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The screen is divided into distinct functional regions: a first region for call-related operations and a second region for information transmission. This segmentation allows independent control of each function while maintaining overall interface organization, reducing the perceived complexity through spatial separation of functions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The interface uses dynamic region switching where the second region is activated only when needed for information transmission. This dynamic behavior allows the interface to maintain simplicity during normal call operations while providing enhanced functionality when required, avoiding permanent complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If real-time information transmission is enabled during calls, then communication efficiency is improved, but system resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoidsystem resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables continuous information transmission during the call without interrupting the voice communication. The controller continuously monitors and transmits information data packets while maintaining the call connection, ensuring uninterrupted dual-function operation for enhanced communication efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS9374447B2Mobile terminal and control method thereof
Publication Date: 2016.06.21 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to a mobile terminal capable of making a voice call and a control method thereof. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a display unit formed to enable a touch input and display a screen associated with a call to the counterpart when requesting a call to the counterpart, and a controller configured to switch at least a partial region of the screen to a region for receiving information when an information transmission mode is executed on the screen, and transmit information received by a touch input applied to the switched region to the counterpart.