JP2000347791A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To exactly move a cursor through simple key operation without being conscious of correspondence between a ten key or the like and a moving direction by providing a moving attribute setting means for setting a value to be determined by a relative position to a key pressed just before. SOLUTION: Respective keys in a ten key unit are ordinarily used as keys for numerical input but functioned as keys for moving the cursor according to moving attributes at the time of pressing in a cursor moving mode. The moving attribute of the key in the cursor moving mode is determined on the basis of the relative position relation of the arranging position (arranging position inside the ten key unit) of a key pressed this time (current key) to the key pressed just before (previous key). When the current key is adjacent to the right side of the previous key, for example, as the moving attribute, 'move to right by one' is set.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus having key input means in which a plurality of keys are two-dimensionally arranged, and for pointing a desired position on a display screen with a cursor. For example, the present invention relates to a mobile phone device having a data communication function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Cursor movement on a device such as a mouse that does not have a pointing device is performed using a dedicated arrow key (eg,
This is performed using predetermined keys such as four-direction arrow keys (up, down, left, and right) and numeric keys that are fixedly associated with the moving direction.

[0003]

A dedicated arrow key cannot be used in a portable information terminal device or the like in which a demand for miniaturization is strict and space for key arrangement is not sufficient. In the method of associating the moving direction with the numeric keypad or the like, it is necessary to accurately remember the association between the moving direction and the key, and there is a problem in operability. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to enable a cursor to be accurately moved by a simple key operation without being aware of a correspondence between a ten-key or the like and a moving direction.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus comprising key input means in which a plurality of keys are two-dimensionally arranged, and instructing a desired position on a display screen with a cursor. A cursor movement mode setting means for setting a cursor movement mode in response to a predetermined key input or in a predetermined operation mode; and, when a key is pressed in the cursor movement mode, movement of the pressed key Cursor control means for moving a cursor in accordance with the attribute; and movement attribute setting means for setting a value determined by a relative position to a key pressed immediately before as a key movement attribute in a cursor movement mode. . According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the information processing apparatus according to the first aspect, the movement attribute setting means is determined by a relative direction and a relative interval of a position where a key pressed this time is arranged with respect to a key pressed immediately before. The value is set as a movement attribute. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 further includes a storage unit that stores a value determined by a zone to which a key belongs as a default value of a movement attribute of each key according to claim 1 or 2, The movement attribute setting means sets a default value of a key pressed first after setting the cursor movement mode, as a movement attribute of the key. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mobile phone device including the information processing apparatus according to any one of the first to third aspects. According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the fourth aspect, the cursor movement mode setting means sets the cursor movement mode in a packet communication state. According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a car navigation apparatus including the information processing apparatus according to any one of the first to third aspects.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1A is an explanatory view showing the appearance of a portable telephone device (the portable telephone device of the embodiment) in which the information processing apparatus of the present invention is incorporated, and FIG. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the portable telephone device, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing default values of movement attributes of each key in the numeric key unit of the portable telephone device of FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for setting a mode, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for moving a cursor in response to a key input in a cursor movement mode, FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of pressing a ten key and a cursor moving direction, and FIG. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a screen display example in which a cursor is moved in the information processing apparatus of the present invention.

The portable telephone device shown in FIG.
Is a device that processes the audio signal received by the control device 10 and outputs it from the speaker 30, and also processes the audio input from the microphone 40 by the control device 10 and transmits it through the communication device 60. The control device 10 processes the data received by the communication device 60 and displays the processed data on the display device 20.
And displays it on the display device 20, and further transmits the data via the communication device 60.

The input device 10 is provided with a menu key for instructing display of a menu and setting of a cursor movement mode, and a ten-key unit.
Each key in the numeric key unit is normally used as a key for inputting numerical values, but in the cursor movement mode, functions as a key for moving a cursor according to a movement attribute when pressed. The cursor movement mode is set by pressing a menu key as shown in FIG.
It is also set by transiting to the packet communication state by sending or receiving packet data.

In the cursor movement mode, the movement attribute of the key is such that the position of the currently pressed key (hereinafter referred to as the “current key”) (the position in the numeric keypad unit) is the key that was pressed immediately before (the “last key”). Key)) is determined based on the relative positional relationship. For example,
If the current key is adjacent to the right of the immediately preceding key, “move right one” is set as the movement attribute.
Similarly, if the current key is adjacent to the left of the previous key, “move one to the left” is set as the movement attribute, and if the current key is adjacent to the top of the previous key, “move as” is set as the movement attribute. "Move up one" is set, and if the current key is adjacent below the previous key, "move down one" is set as the movement attribute. The same applies to upper right, upper left, lower right, and lower left.

As described above, the amount of movement when the current key is adjacent to the immediately preceding key is "one", but when the current key and the immediately preceding key are in an arrangement relationship sandwiching one key, for example, Current key is one key to the right of the previous key
If they are located between them, the movement attribute can be set as “move to rightmost end”.

FIG. 5 shows the above-described rule (the rule is that the amount of movement when adjacent is "one" and the amount of movement when one key is interposed is "the rightmost (left / upper / lower) end"). An example in which the cursor is moved according to the movement attribute determined in ()) is shown in association with the order of the pressed keys and the movement of the cursor displayed on the display device 20.

When a key is first pressed after the cursor movement mode is set, there is no key immediately before that key is pressed. In this case, various methods can be used to determine the movement attribute of the current key. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, a default value of the movement attribute is determined for each zone to which the key belongs, and the default value is determined. The method of using can be adopted. In FIG. 2, 1, 4, 7,
For each key of *, "move one to the left", for keys 2, 5, "move one up", for keys 8, 0, "move one down", 3, 6, 9, # An example in which a default value of “move right by one” is determined as a movement attribute for each of the keys. Of course, the first key pressed after the cursor movement mode is set,
A default value of the movement attribute “do not move” can be adopted.

FIG. 4 shows the procedure in the cursor movement mode described above. As shown in the figure, when a key input is detected in the cursor movement mode (S01: YES), it is checked whether or not it is the first key input. If the key input is the first key input (S03: YES), the current key is detected. Is set as the movement attribute (S0)
5). If it is not the first key input (S03: N
O), a relative positional relationship of the current key with respect to the immediately preceding key is obtained (S11), and a movement attribute determined by the relative positional relationship is set (S13).

After the movement attribute is set, the cursor is moved according to the movement attribute (S07). Also, the key pressed this time (current key) is stored as the "previous key" for processing at the time of the next key input (S0).
9).

In the above, an example in which the present invention is applied to a portable telephone device has been described, but the present invention is not limited to such an example. For example, car navigation devices, PDAs (portable information terminals), notebook computers, portable audio devices (portable CD players, portable MD players / recorders),
The present invention can be similarly applied to a television, a game machine, and the like, such as a satellite digital broadcast, on which a program table or the like is displayed on a screen.

In the upper part of FIG. 6, a device having an Internet access function (any of the above devices)
Shows a state where the menu selection screen is displayed. When the cursor movement method of the present invention is applied to an apparatus having such a menu selection screen, accurate cursor movement by a simple operation can be realized. The lower part of the figure shows an example of the screen of the game machine. In the case of such a screen as well, by applying the cursor movement method of the present invention, similarly, accurate cursor movement by a simple operation can be realized.

[0016]

According to the present invention, a cursor movement mode is set according to a predetermined key input or the like, and when a key is pressed in the cursor movement mode, the cursor is moved according to the movement attribute of the pressed key. Here, as the movement attribute,
A value determined by the relative position to the key pressed immediately before is set. That is, the cursor is moved in the direction in which the key pressed this time is present with respect to the key pressed immediately before (direction of the relative position with respect to the key immediately before). Therefore, the cursor can be accurately moved by a simple key operation without being conscious of the correspondence between the ten keys and the like and the movement direction.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1A is an explanatory diagram illustrating an appearance of a mobile phone device according to an embodiment, and FIG. 1B is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the mobile phone device in FIG.

2A and 2B show default values of movement attributes of respective keys in a numeric key unit of the mobile phone device of FIG. 1, wherein FIG. 2A shows a table for associating zones with default values, and FIG. 2B shows a zone to which the keys belong; FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure for setting a cursor movement mode in the mobile phone device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure in which a cursor is moved according to a key input in a cursor movement mode.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of pressing a numeric keypad and a cursor moving direction.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing a screen display example in which a cursor can be moved by the information processing apparatus of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 control unit 50 key input panel

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus comprising key input means in which a plurality of keys are two-dimensionally arranged, and instructing a desired position on a display screen with a cursor, wherein: A cursor movement mode setting means for setting a cursor movement mode in a predetermined operation mode; a cursor control means for moving a cursor according to a movement attribute of the pressed key when a key is pressed in the cursor movement mode; An information processing apparatus, comprising: movement attribute setting means for setting, as a movement attribute of a key in a mode, a value determined by a relative position with respect to a key pressed immediately before. 2. The moving attribute setting unit according to claim 1, wherein the moving attribute setting means sets a value determined by a relative direction and a relative interval of a position where a currently pressed key is arranged with respect to a key pressed immediately before. An information processing apparatus characterized by being set as: 3. The moving attribute setting means according to claim 1, further comprising a storage means for storing a value determined by a zone to which the key belongs as a default value of the moving attribute of each key. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein a default value of the key is set as a movement attribute of a key pressed first after the cursor movement mode is set. 4. A mobile phone device incorporating the information processing device according to claim 1. Description: 5. The portable telephone device according to claim 4, wherein the cursor movement mode setting means sets a cursor movement mode in a packet communication state. 6. A car navigation device incorporating the information processing device according to claim 1. Description: