JP2000307768A - Electronic device with longitudinal lateral display conversion function - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To switch a display mode into longitudinal display or lateral display automatically in response to a selected application. SOLUTION: The electronic device is provided with a ROM 8 having a program section 80 storing a plurality of applications, a display section 2 having a rectangular display window to display various kinds of information sets, a key entry section 6 that selects activation of application, a CPU 4 that executes operation control the entire device such as input and output and various arithmetic processing or the like, and a display control section 3 that controls display on the display section 2. The CPU 4 executes display expansion processing on the basis of information as to display direction set to a selected application by a key entry section 6, writes the display expansion data to a display RAM area 30 according to longitudinal display management or lateral display management by the display control section 3 to display data longitudinally or laterally on the display section 2.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic device including a portable device having a display means having a rectangular display window, and more particularly, to displaying information on the display window in a format corresponding to information. The present invention relates to an electronic device having a vertical / horizontal display conversion function that enables the display.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as an electronic device for displaying stored information, for example, a device described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-108055 (hereinafter referred to as "prior art 1") and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 9-138137 are disclosed. (This is referred to as prior art 2).

The device of the prior art 1 can rotate and display an image in an arbitrary direction (that is, from the vertical direction to the horizontal direction and from the horizontal direction to the vertical direction) without changing the original data. Has become. That is, the apparatus main body is provided with a display direction switching button, and when the user presses the display direction switching button, for example, the display in the horizontal direction is converted into the display in the vertical direction.

The device of the prior art 2 distinguishes between vertically long projection and horizontally long projection depending on which of the two types of adapters is attached.

[0005]

However, in the apparatuses of the prior art 1 and the prior art 2 described above, since the user has to perform all the switching operations of the vertical and horizontal display, each time the application is switched, it is suitable for the application. There is a problem that the user has to switch to the display mode one by one. Further, since a button for switching must be provided in the apparatus main body, there is a problem that the number of buttons increases and the degree of freedom of button arrangement also decreases.

[0006] By the way, depending on the application, the vertical display or the horizontal display may be easy to see, but it is rarely necessary to switch the vertical display within the same application.

The present invention has been made in view of such an actual use situation, and its purpose is to automatically switch a display mode between a vertical display and a horizontal display in accordance with a selected application. An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device having an enabled vertical / horizontal display conversion function.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a storage device for storing a plurality of applications, and a rectangular display window for displaying various information. Display means, selecting means for selecting activation of the application, and image generating means for generating display information to be displayed on a display window of the display means,
A direction in which information is to be displayed is set in the application, and the image generation unit generates display information based on a display direction set in the application selected by the selection unit. .
Thus, the user can display each application in the display window in an optimal display form without performing any operation.

The invention described in claim 2 is the first invention.
An electronic device having a vertical / horizontal display conversion function according to
An operation signal of a key provided on the device,
Or a trigger signal from inside or outside.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a storage unit for storing a plurality of applications, a display unit having a rectangular display window for displaying various types of information, and selecting the activation of the application. Selecting means, determining means for determining a display mode of information in response to activation of the application selected by the selecting means, and image generating means for generating display information to be displayed on a display window of the display means, The image generation unit generates display information based on the display mode determined by the determination unit. Accordingly, the display mode of the application is determined by the determination unit and automatically switched, so that the individual application can be displayed on the display window in an optimal display mode without any operation by the user.

[0011] The invention described in claim 4 is the same as the claim 3.
An electronic device having a vertical / horizontal display conversion function according to
There is provided receiving means for receiving information from the outside, and the determining means determines whether the information is received from the receiving means.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is an external view of an electronic device having a vertical / horizontal display conversion function according to the present invention. The electronic device 1 has a rectangular display unit (display window) 2 for displaying data contents and messages, and a key input unit (key group) for performing various operations.
6. Antenna 10 for receiving radio waves by radio telephone
It has.

The key input unit 6 includes a power key 60 for turning on / off the power, a call key 61 for making / receiving a call, and an application of the electronic apparatus 1 (in the present embodiment, the telephone mode and the Internet). Mode), and a scroll key 63 for scrolling display data on the display unit 2. In the mode key group 62, a telephone key for starting a telephone application is indicated by reference numeral 620,
Reference numeral 621 denotes an Internet key for starting an Internet application.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of an electronic device having a vertical / horizontal display conversion function according to the present invention.

The electronic device 1 includes a display unit 2, a display control unit 3, a CPU 4, an input / output port 5, a key input unit 6, a telephone unit 7, a ROM 8, and a RAM 9.

The CPU 4 executes operation control such as input / output of the entire apparatus, various types of arithmetic processing, and the like. The display unit 2 is, for example, a liquid crystal display device (LCD) having a dot matrix configuration, and based on a control signal from the CPU 4, a display control unit (L).
By writing display data into the display RAM area 30 of the CD driver 3, data contents, messages, and the like are displayed. The key input from the key input unit 6 is
The data is input to the CPU 4 via the input / output port 5 and processed there to determine which key has been input.

The telephone unit 7 is a block for receiving telephone wireless data and transmitting it to the CPU 4 for processing, or receiving information from the CPU 4 and transmitting telephone wireless data. Has an interface role between

The ROM 8 includes a program section 80 storing programs for operating various functions including a vertical / horizontal display conversion function according to the present invention, message data used when displaying a message, and used when displaying characters. And a data section 81 storing a character font to be used. The various application programs stored in the program unit 80 include information on the direction in which data processed by the application should be displayed.

The RAM 9 has a memory area for storing data and input data fetched by the apparatus 1, and a memory area for temporarily storing data during operation processing. More specifically, a display mode flag 90 indicating whether the display output state is a vertical display or a horizontal display, a data unit 91 storing telephone mode data and data captured via the Internet, and a data unit 91 A buffer unit 92 is used to read out stored data to perform display and correction, and to transmit and receive data to and from the telephone unit 7. In the present embodiment, RA
M9 is backed up by a backup power supply (battery or the like) (not shown) so that its contents are not erased even when the power is turned off.

Next, the vertical / horizontal display conversion processing operation in the electronic device 1 having the above configuration will be described with reference to a display screen example shown in FIG. 3 and flowcharts shown in FIG. 4 to FIG.

FIG. 3 (a) shows the Internet data taken in earlier (here, news is exemplified).
(B) is a display example of telephone directory data, and (c) and (d) are display examples during an incoming call, and (e) and (e) of FIG.
(F) shows an example of a display during a call after the incoming call operation. Here, news having a large number of characters in the horizontal direction has a long display in the horizontal direction (see FIG. 10A), and a telephone directory having a large number of items has a long display in the vertical direction (see FIG. Fig. (B). If the characteristics of the information are not constant even in the application, vertical and horizontal switching are performed in accordance with the information (see FIGS. 3C and 3D).

The vertical / horizontal display conversion processing operation in such an electronic device 1 will be described with reference to an example in which a call is made while checking Internet data or a call is received.

First, the user operates the Internet key 621 of the key input unit 6 to set the application to the Internet mode, download the application from the Internet, and download the RA.
The news data taken in the data section 91 of M9 is displayed as shown in FIG.
1). In the display at this time, a horizontal display mode flag (here, “0”) is set in the display mode flag 90 because the application that activates the Internet mode includes horizontal display information in advance. . Therefore, the display of the news data is a horizontal display. Thereafter, the system enters a standby state, which is a state waiting for the next step input (step S2).

In this standby state, the judgment section 40
When it is determined that there is an input (Yes in step S3)
s), the input information of what has been input is confirmed (step S4). At this time, if it is determined that there is no input (others), the process returns to step S2 and returns to the standby state.

On the other hand, if the result of the check of the input information in the judgment section 40 indicates that the input is a key input, it is next checked whether or not the key input is the telephone key 620 (step S).
5). If the key is the telephone key, the process proceeds to the telephone mode (the process after step S6). If not, the operation proceeds to step S21 to perform the next key determination process.

On the other hand, if the result of the confirmation of the input information in step S4 is an incoming call input, the operation proceeds to step S10 to shift to incoming call processing. If the result of the check of the input information in step S4 is neither a key input nor an incoming call input, the process returns to step S2 and returns to the standby state similarly to the determination of no input.

Here, the telephone mode transition processing after step S6 will be described. In the telephone mode transition processing, R
A vertical display mode flag (here, “1”) is set in the display mode flag 90 of the AM 9 (step S6). Thereafter, the telephone data stored in the data section 91 of the RAM 9 is read out to the buffer section 92 (step S7). The read data is subjected to display expansion processing by the control unit 41, and display expansion data (pattern data) is written in accordance with the state of the display mode flag 90 in accordance with the vertical display management of the display RAM area 30 of the display control unit 3. (Step S
8) Vertical display is performed on the display unit 2 (step S9). However, the read data is subjected to display expansion processing and vertical display conversion processing by the control unit 41, and the display RA of the display control unit 3 is displayed.
The display development data (pattern data) may be written according to the horizontal display management of the M area 30 and displayed on the display unit 2.

The display mode at this time is the display mode shown in FIG. The display example in the telephone mode shows a display example of one data item, but a list of a plurality of data items may be displayed.

Next, the Internet transfer processing after step S21 will be described. As a result of confirming the input information in the determination section 40, if it is determined that the input is a key input but not a telephone key input (if No is determined in step S5), then the input key is determined in step S21. Judge whether the Internet key 621 is present. If the key is the Internet key 621, the process shifts to the Internet mode after step S22. If the key is not the Internet key 621, the process returns to step S2 and returns to the standby state.

In the Internet mode, first, the RAM 9
Is set to the horizontal display mode flag "0" in the display mode flag 90 (step S22). Thereafter, the news data taken in the data section 91 of the RAM 9 is read out to the buffer section 92 (step S23). The read data is subjected to display expansion processing by the control unit 41, and the display RA of the display control unit 3 is displayed in accordance with the state of the display mode flag 90.
In accordance with the horizontal display management of the M area 30, display development data (pattern data) is written (step S24), and the news data is horizontally displayed on the display unit 2 (from step S24 to step S1). However, the read data is subjected to display expansion processing and horizontal display conversion processing by the control unit 41,
A method of writing display development data (pattern data) according to the vertical display management of the display RAM area 30 of the display control unit 3 and displaying the data on the display unit 2 may be used. The display mode at this time is the display mode shown in FIG.

Next, the incoming call processing after step S10 will be described. When there is an incoming call, the horizontal display mode flag “0” is set in the display mode flag 90 at that time, and the incoming call display at this time is as shown in FIG. That is, the message data is read from the data section 81 of the ROM 8 to the buffer section 92 of the RAM 9 (step S10), the display expansion processing is performed by the control section 41, and the display expansion data (pattern data) is stored in the display RAM area 30 of the display control section 3. ) Is written (step S11), and the incoming data is displayed horizontally on the display unit 2 (step 12). However, this display may be performed after the setting process of the display mode flag 90 after step S13. In that case,
The incoming data is displayed vertically as shown in FIG.

That is, in step S13, RA
A vertical display mode flag is set in the display mode flag 90 of M9, and in step S14, the process of analyzing the caller ID of the telephone is started.

In the process of analyzing the caller ID, first, the caller ID data received by the telephone unit 7 using the antenna 10 is transferred from the telephone unit 7 to the buffer 92 of the RAM 9.
(Step S14), and the analysis is performed by the determination unit 40 (step S15). In this analysis, it is confirmed whether or not the read number data exists (step S16). If there is the number data, the data in the buffer unit 92 is transferred to the control unit 41.
, Display display data (pattern data) is written according to the vertical display management of the display RAM area 30 of the display control unit 3 in accordance with the state of the display mode flag 90 (step S17), and incoming to the display unit 2 The data is vertically displayed (step 18). However, also in this case, similarly to the case of the processing after the telephone mode, the data in the buffer unit 92 is subjected to the display expansion processing and the vertical display conversion processing by the control unit 41, and the data is stored in the display RAM area 30 of the display control unit 3. A method of writing display development data (pattern data) in accordance with the horizontal display management and displaying the data on the display unit 2 may be used. The display at this time is the display shown in FIG.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S16 that there is no number data, the fixed message
The data is read from the data section 81 of the OM 8 to the buffer section 92 of the RAM 9 (step S20). The read data is transferred to the control unit 41 in the same manner as when there is number data.
, Display display data (pattern data) is written according to the vertical display management of the display RAM area 30 of the display control unit 3 in accordance with the state of the display mode flag 90 (step S17), and incoming to the display unit 2 The data is vertically displayed (step 18). The display at this time is shown in FIG.
The display shown in FIG.

Thereafter, when the telephone call is terminated (step S19), the mode is again shifted to the telephone mode, and the process proceeds to step S7.

In the above embodiment, the conversion process from the horizontal display to the vertical display is described only for the data displayed on the screen in each mode. Data (e.g., musical notation, battery and other symbol marks, etc.) that are separately displayed around the screen in an independent or unattached form so that the display direction can be switched in accordance with the conversion process. Is also good. Further, in the above-described embodiment, only the conversion process from the horizontal display to the vertical display is described, but it goes without saying that the conversion process from the vertical display to the horizontal display can be similarly performed.

As described above, according to the electronic device having the vertical / horizontal display conversion function of the present invention, for example, when a telephone call is made or a call is received while Internet data is being confirmed (in the horizontal display state). Even if the user does not perform any key operation for vertical / horizontal conversion, it is possible to automatically switch to the vertical display state which is the telephone mode.

[0039]

According to the electronic apparatus having the vertical / horizontal display conversion function of the present invention, it is possible to automatically switch to a display direction suitable for the intended use in accordance with the intended use. For this reason, the display according to the purpose can be checked with a list, and the visibility is improved. Further, since there is no need for a key for switching the display direction as in the related art, the number of keys on the apparatus main body can be reduced, and the degree of freedom in key arrangement increases. Further, since key operation for switching the display direction is not required, operability and convenience are improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a system configuration of an electronic device having a vertical / horizontal display conversion function according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view of an electronic device having a vertical / horizontal display conversion function of the present invention.

3A and 3B show examples of display states in each mode, wherein FIG. 3A shows a display example of Internet data taken in earlier;
(B) shows a display example of telephone directory data, (c) and (d) show display examples during an incoming call, and (e) and (f) show display examples during a call after an incoming call operation.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a vertical / horizontal display conversion processing operation in the electronic device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a vertical / horizontal display conversion processing operation in the electronic device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a vertical / horizontal display conversion processing operation in the electronic device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Electronic device 2 Display part 3 Display control part 4 CPU 5 I / O port 6 Key input part 7 Telephone unit 8 ROM 9 RAM 10 Antenna 30 Display RAM area 40 Judgment part 41 Control part 60 Power key 61 Send / receive key 62 Mode key group 63 scroll key 80 program section 81 data section 90 display mode flag 91 data section 92 buffer section 620 telephone key 621 internet key

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A storage means for storing a plurality of applications, a display means having a rectangular display window for displaying various information, a selection means for selecting activation of the application, and a display on the display means Image generation means for generating display information to be displayed on a window, wherein a direction in which information is to be displayed is set in the application, and the image generation means is set in the application selected by the selection means. An electronic device having a vertical / horizontal display conversion function, wherein display information is generated based on a displayed display direction. 2. The electronic device having a vertical / horizontal display conversion function according to claim 1, wherein the selecting means is an operation signal of a key provided on the device or a trigger signal from inside or outside. 3. A storage means for storing a plurality of applications, a display means having a rectangular display window for displaying various information, a selection means for selecting activation of the application, and a selection means for selecting the application. Determining means for determining a display mode of information in response to the activation of the application, and image generating means for generating display information to be displayed on a display window of the display means, wherein the image generating means comprises: An electronic device having a vertical / horizontal display conversion function, wherein display information is generated based on a display mode determined by the above. 4. A vertical / horizontal display conversion function according to claim 3, further comprising receiving means for receiving information from outside, wherein said determining means determines whether or not the information is received from said receiving means. Electronic devices.