JP2005352655A - Cellphone - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cellphone allowing a user to see information related to a keyword without performing complicated operation by specifying the keyword from contents of a displayed mail, extracting data including the keyword from data previously stored in the cellphone, and displaying them, when the mail is displayed on a display of the cellphone. <P>SOLUTION: A keyword reception part 22 receives selection of the keyword from the user according to the contents of the mail displayed on a display part 9 by user operation. An extraction control part 21 extracts the data including the keyword received by the keyword reception part 22 from a mail storage part 12 and a schedule book data storage part 10, and displays them on the display part 9. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile phone, and more particularly to a technique for improving operability when creating an electronic mail (hereinafter referred to as “mail”) using a mobile phone.

In recent years, mobile phones capable of transmitting and receiving mail (hereinafter referred to as “transmission and reception”) have become widespread, and the number of users who communicate with other parties using mail has increased rapidly.
Along with this, mobile phones that can store hundreds or more of emails sent and received in the past have been provided.
If a mobile phone can store hundreds of emails, users can check the content of emails exchanged quite a while ago.

By the way, if you want to know how you have exchanged emails with a certain recipient in the past, you can display a list of emails that you have exchanged with that recipient from the stored sent and received emails. Patent Document 1 discloses a wireless communication terminal that can select and display the contents of an email.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-108486

However, if there are many emails received from the same partner in the past, even if a list of emails received from that partner is displayed, an operation for searching a series of emails including the topic desired by the user from the list is difficult for the user. It takes a lot of work.
Therefore, in the case where the present invention is creating or displaying an e-mail, an e-mail including a topic desired by the user with a simple operation, or data other than e-mail, such as data such as a schedule book or a memo pad, is displayed. An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone capable of displaying.

  In order to solve the above problems, a mobile phone according to the present invention is a mobile phone that can send and receive mail and includes a display, and stores storage means for storing data and mail display means for displaying the contents of the mail. A part of the content of the displayed mail as a keyword, an extraction means for extracting data including the keyword from the data stored in the storage means, and a display of the data extracted by the extraction means And an extracted data display means for displaying on the screen.

According to this configuration, a keyword is determined from data such as a character string in the displayed mail, and data including the keyword is extracted from data already stored in the mobile phone, for example, received mail or schedule book data. Therefore, the user can see information on keywords.
For example, when a user wants to view a received mail for a topic while composing a mail, the user can view the mail related to the topic without having to check the received mail one by one to see whether the mail is related to the topic.

In addition, the mobile phone further includes a reception unit that receives a keyword specification from the contents of the mail displayed by the mail display unit, and the extraction unit receives a keyword related to the specification received by the reception unit. It is good also as extracting the data to contain.
According to this configuration, the user can directly specify a keyword to be searched from the contents of the displayed mail.

  Further, the data stored by the storage means includes received mail and information indicating the sender of the received mail, and the mobile phone further receives an input from the user and creates a mail to create a mail. And when the received mail is displayed by the mail display means, the extraction means uses a keyword related to the designation of the accepting means from the received mail stored in the storage means other than the displayed received mail. The received mail of the same sender as the displayed sender of the received mail is extracted, and when the mail being created is displayed by the mail display means, from the received mail stored in the storage means, Including a keyword related to the designation of the accepting means, the recipient of the mail being created is the same as the recipient of the received mail stored in the storage means. It may be extracted Le.

According to this configuration, when composing a mail or displaying a received mail, the user can only refer to a mail including a keyword received from the person indicated in the destination of the mail. Can do.
In addition, the mobile phone further includes transfer means for accepting selection by the user of the received mail stored in the storage means and transferring the content of the received mail to a destination other than the source of the received mail, The extraction means may extract a received mail of the same sender as the sender of the received mail accepted by the transfer means from the received mail stored in the storage means including the keyword accepted by the accepting means. Good.

According to this configuration, when transferring the received mail, the user can refer to the mail including the keyword received from the person shown as the sender of the mail.
The mobile phone further includes a pasting unit that pastes a copy of the data displayed by the extracted data display unit on the mail when the mail being created is displayed by the mail display unit. It is good as well.

According to this configuration, the user can paste a copy of the data into the mail being created as necessary while referring to the data including the keyword displayed on the display, and can save the input operation. it can.
Further, when there are a plurality of data extracted by the extraction means, the extracted data display means ranks the plurality of data based on a predetermined condition, displays the first data in the rank, Depending on the operation, the data ranked next to the data displayed on the display may be displayed.

According to this configuration, for example, when the predetermined condition for ranking is descending order of the reception date of the received mail including the keyword, the received mail including the keyword is displayed in order from the received mail close to the current date. Can be referenced from new incoming mail in memory.
The storage means stores an image data file, the extraction means extracts image data including a keyword accepted by the acceptance means in a file name, and the extracted data display means extracts An image indicated by the image data may be displayed.

According to this configuration, the image data including the keyword in the file name is also extracted, so that it is possible to save the trouble of searching for the image data when it is desired to paste the image into the mail.
Further, the data stored by the storage means may include a received mail and a transmitted mail.
According to this configuration, it is possible to extract and view mails including keywords from all mails exchanged by the user.

  The mobile phone 500 according to the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 has a function of transmitting and receiving a mail created by a user operation via an antenna (hereinafter referred to as “transmit / receive”) and a schedule input by the user. It has a schedule function for managing data, and stores transmitted and received mail and schedule data in each storage area. The mobile phone 500 accepts a keyword designation operation by the user from the text of the displayed mail, extracts mail or schedule data including the keyword from the storage area, and displays it on the display.

Hereinafter, the mobile phone 500 will be described.
<Appearance>
First, the appearance of the mobile phone 500 will be described with reference to FIG.
The mobile phone 500 includes a display 510 and an operation button unit 520. The operation button unit 520 includes soft keys 521, 522, and 523, up / down / left / right cursor movement buttons 524 (a), and an enter button 524 (b ), A clear button 525, an on-hook button 526, and a numeric keypad 527.

The user performs each operation by pressing each part of the operation button part 520.
<Configuration>
Next, FIG. 2 shows a functional block diagram of the mobile phone 500, and the configuration will be described with reference to FIG.
The mobile phone 500 includes a radio unit 1, a modem unit 2, an audio processing unit 3, a microphone 4, a speaker 5, a vibrator 6, a ringer 7, an operation unit 8, a display unit 9, a schedule book data storage unit 10, and a phone book data storage unit. 11, a mail storage unit 12, a control unit 20, the control unit 20 includes an extraction control unit 21, a keyword receiving unit 22, a pasting control unit 23, a mail creation unit 24, an extracted data display control unit 25, and a display control The unit 26 is configured to be included.

Here, the radio unit 1 amplifies the reception signal received by the antenna 13, amplifies the transmission signal modulated by the modulation / demodulation unit 2, and transmits the amplified signal from the antenna 13.
The modem unit 20 demodulates the received signal amplified by the radio unit 1 into a received voice signal and a received data signal, and is transmitted from the transmitted voice signal A / D converted by the voice processing unit 3 and the control unit 20. Modulate the data signal into a transmission signal.

Further, the voice processing unit 3 D / A converts the received voice signal demodulated by the modem unit 2 to generate sound from the speaker 5, and A / D converts the transmitted voice signal acquired from the microphone 4.
Note that the configuration for realizing the transmission and reception of voice and data itself is not a characteristic part of the present invention, so that a general configuration conventionally used is appropriately adopted and the description thereof is omitted.
The operation unit 8 receives a button press of the operation button unit 520 of the mobile phone 500 by the user, and sends a signal corresponding to the pressed button to the control unit 20.

The display unit 9 is realized by a color liquid crystal panel or the like, and displays an image such as an email under the control of the control unit 20.
The schedule book data storage unit 10 stores schedule data input by the user, and is read out by the control unit 20 in response to a user operation.
The phone book data storage unit 11 stores identification information including a mail address (hereinafter referred to as “address”) of a partner who transmits and receives mail, and includes identification, name, phone number, etc. in addition to the address. The identification information is read by the mail creation unit 24 when the mail creation unit 24 receives a designation of the transmission destination from the user at the time of creating the outgoing mail.

The mail storage unit 12 stores transmitted / received mail. These emails are read out by the control unit 20 as a search target for emails including the keyword specified by the user.
Here, the stored mail has destination information including the mail address, mail text and subject data, and transmission or reception date data.
The destination information is information indicating a transmission destination (hereinafter referred to as “transmission destination”) in the case of a transmission mail, and is information (hereinafter referred to as “transmission source”) indicating a transmission source in the case of a reception mail.

  The control unit 20 includes a CPU and a memory (ROM and RAM), and has a function of controlling each unit of the mobile phone 500 according to the operation of the operation button unit 520 by the user, and is stored in the ROM. The entire program of the mobile phone 500 is controlled by the CPU executing the stored program. The ROM is a program for realizing an operation that is particularly characteristic of the present invention, that is, an operation that accepts a keyword specifying operation by a user in the displayed mail text, and extracts and displays data including the specified keyword. keeping. The RAM temporarily holds work data for the CPU to execute the program.

The extraction control unit 21 extracts data including the keyword specified by the user from the mail storage unit 12 or the schedule book data storage unit 10, sorts the detected data, and sends the data to the extraction data display control unit 25. The keyword is held in the memory until an instruction for canceling the keyword designation is received from the user.
The keyword receiving unit 22 receives a keyword specified by the user and sends the keyword to the extraction control unit 21.

The pasting control unit 23 pastes a copy of the data displayed by the extracted data display control unit 25 to the mail body created and displayed by the mail creating unit 24 according to a user operation.
The mail creation unit 24 receives the type of creation of the outgoing mail from the user, sends an image related to the creation of the received type of outgoing mail to the display control unit 26, and receives a transmission instruction from the user. The mail data is sent to the mail storage unit 12.

There are two types of outgoing mail creation: reply mail creation, forward mail creation, and new mail creation.
In the case of reply mail creation and forward mail creation, after receiving any selection of received mail in the mail storage unit 12 from the user, an image related to each mail creation is displayed based on the received mail.

When the reply mail creation is accepted from the user, the mail creation unit 24 sends an image related to the mail creation in which the transmission source of the received mail selected by the user is set as the mail transmission destination.
When the forward mail creation is accepted from the user, the mail creation unit 24 sends an image related to the mail creation in which the received mail body data selected by the user is set as the outgoing mail body data.

When new mail creation is accepted from the user, an image related to mail creation in which nothing is set in the destination and mail body data is sent out.
The extracted data display control unit 25 controls the display unit 9 to display an image indicating the data extracted by the extraction control unit 21 (hereinafter referred to as “extraction data”).
The display control unit 26 controls the display unit 9 to display the mail image selected by the user operation, the image related to the schedule book function executed by the user operation, the image of the outgoing mail created by the mail creation unit 24, and the like. I do.
<Data>
FIG. 10 shows received mail data 1000 stored in the mail storage unit 12, and has a transmission source, a body text, a subject, and a reception date.

  The sender and the reception date of the received mail data 1000 are read by the display control unit 26 together with the data in the phone book data storage unit 11 when the received mail list 100 (FIG. 3 (a)) is displayed, When the address and the address stored in the telephone book data storage unit 11 match, the name of the identification information including the address is displayed. When the address does not match, the address of the transmission source is displayed.

Although not shown in the figure for the data of the sent mail, the sent mail, the body, the subject, and the date of the sent date are stored for the sent mail as well as the received mail.
<Operation>
6, 7, 8, and 9 accept the selection of the mail to be displayed on the display 510 of the mobile phone 500 from the user, and accept the keyword specification by the user from the text of the displayed mail. FIG. 5 is an operation flowchart for displaying data including

Hereinafter, the operation of the mobile phone 500 will be described with reference to FIG. 6, FIG. 7, FIG. 8, and FIG.
In step S10 of FIG. 6, it is determined whether or not the display control unit 26 has received an incoming mail selection operation from the user.
In step S10, if the display control unit 26 determines that the received mail selection has been accepted (step S10: Y), the mail creation unit 24 determines whether a transfer mail creation instruction has been received from the user (step S11).

  In step S10, when the display control unit 26 does not accept the received mail selection operation from the user (step S10: N), the mail creation unit 24 displays an image related to new mail creation (hereinafter referred to as a “new creation screen”). The data is sent to the control unit 26, and the display control unit 26 displays a new creation screen on the display unit 9 (step S40). Subsequently, the mail creation unit 24 accepts the input of the transmission destination from the user, stores the received address of the transmission destination in the memory (step S41), and further accepts the data input of the mail text related to the new creation from the user (step S41). S15).

  In step S11, when the mail creation unit 24 receives a transfer mail creation instruction (step S11: Y), the mail creation unit 24 reads the received mail selected in step S10 from the mail storage unit 12, and The address of the sender is stored in the memory (step S12), the read body data is copied to the body of the forwarded mail, and an image related to forwarded mail creation (hereinafter referred to as the “forwarded mail creation screen”) is sent to the display control unit 26. The display control unit 26 displays a transfer mail creation screen on the display unit 9 (step S13). Subsequently, the mail creating unit 24 accepts an input of the transmission destination from the user (step S14), and further accepts data input of the mail text (step S15).

In step S11, when the mail creation unit 24 does not accept the transfer mail creation instruction (step S11: N), the mail creation unit 24 determines whether or not the reply mail creation instruction is received from the user (step S30). .
In step S30, when the mail creation unit 24 receives an instruction to create a reply mail (step S30: Y), the mail creation unit 24 reads the received mail selected in step S10 from the mail storage unit 12, and receives the read reception The address of the mail sender is stored in the memory, and an image related to reply mail creation (hereinafter referred to as “reply mail creation screen”) with the same address as the reply mail destination is sent to the display control unit 26. The display control unit 26 displays a reply mail creation screen on the display unit 9 (step S31). Subsequently, the mail creation unit 24 accepts data input of the body text related to the reply mail from the user (step S15).

  In step S30, if the mail creation unit 24 does not accept the reply mail creation instruction (step S30: N), the display control unit 26 reads the received mail selected in step S10 from the mail storage unit 12, An image showing the content of the read received mail (hereinafter referred to as “received mail display screen”) is displayed on the display unit 9, and the address of the source of the received mail is stored in the memory (step S32).

Next, in step S15, after the mail creation unit 24 receives data input of the mail text from the user, the keyword receiving unit 22 determines whether or not the keyword key on the operation unit 8 has been pressed by the user (step S16). .
In step S16, when it is determined that the keyword receiving unit 22 has not received the keyword key 521 pressing related to keyword selection from the user (step S16: N), the mail creating unit 24 further receives text data input from the user.

If it is determined in step S16 that the keyword accepting unit 22 has accepted the soft key 521 press (step S16: Y), the keyword accepting unit 22 accepts the keyword designation from the mail body data and designates it. The keyword thus stored is stored in the memory (step S17).
Next, the extraction control unit 21 determines whether or not a soft key related to mail extraction (hereinafter referred to as “mail search key”) is pressed by the user (step S18).

  If it is determined in step S18 that the extraction control unit 21 has accepted the mail search key press (step S18: Y), the extraction control unit 21 matches the address stored in the memory from the received mail in the mail storage unit 12. The received mail including the keyword is extracted, the received mail including the keyword is extracted, the extracted received mail is sorted in descending order of the received date, and the received mail data ranked first is sent to the extracted data display control unit 25 Send it out. The extracted data display control unit 25 displays the received mail data on the display unit 9 (step S19).

Further, when the extraction control unit 21 does not accept a mail search key press from the user (step S18: N) and does not accept a press of a soft key related to schedule extraction (hereinafter referred to as a “schedule search key”) (step S20: N) Further, keyword selection is accepted from the user (step S17).
If it is determined in step S20 that the extraction control unit 21 has accepted the pressing of the schedule search key (step S20: Y), the extraction control unit 21 extracts the schedule data including the keyword received from the schedule book data storage unit 10. The extracted schedule data is sorted in descending order of date and the first ranked schedule data is sent to the extracted data display control unit 25. The extracted data display control unit 25 sends the received schedule data to the display unit 9. It is displayed (step S21).

Next, when the received mail display screen is displayed on the display unit 9 in step S32, when the keyword receiving unit 22 determines that the keyword key of the operation unit 8 has not been pressed (step S33: N), the display control unit 26 continues displaying the received mail display screen.
If it is determined that the keyword receiving unit 22 has received the keyword key press (step S33: Y), the display control unit 25 displays a cursor at the beginning of the displayed body data, and the user moves the cursor. The keyword receiving unit 22 receives the selected keyword (step S34).

Subsequently, when the extraction control unit 21 determines that the mail search key is pressed from the user (step S35: Y), it extracts the received mail including the keyword from the mail storage unit 12, and the extracted data display control unit 25 extracts The received mail is displayed (step S36).
If the extraction control unit 21 does not accept the mail search key press (step S35: N) and determines that the schedule search key is not pressed (step S37: N), it further accepts a keyword selection operation from the user.

Also, when it is determined that the extraction control unit 21 has accepted the schedule search key press (step S37: Y), as in step S21, data including keywords is extracted from the schedule book data storage unit 10, and the extracted data display control unit 25 Displays the extracted schedule data on the display unit 9 (step S38).
Next, in the case where extracted data including a keyword specified by the user during creation of the outgoing mail is displayed on the display unit 9, an operation of displaying other extracted data including the keyword according to a user operation, and The operation of pasting a copy of the displayed extracted data to the body of the outgoing mail being created will be described with reference to FIG.

In step S110 in FIG. 8, the extracted data display control unit 25 determines whether or not a soft key 523 related to citation (hereinafter referred to as “quote key”) is pressed by the user.
When it is determined that the extracted data display control unit 25 has accepted the citation key press (step S110: Y), the pasting control unit 23 copies the body data of the mail if the displayed extracted data is a mail. If the extracted data that is pasted and displayed in the text of the outgoing mail being created is schedule data, a copy of the schedule data is pasted in the text of the outgoing mail (step S111).

Further, the extracted data display control unit 25 does not accept pressing of the citation key (step S110: N), and instructs the display of the data ranked next to the displayed extracted data (hereinafter referred to as “next data”). When pressing of the “next” key is accepted (step S120: Y) and it is determined that there is next data (step S121: Y), the data is displayed on the display unit 9 (step S122).
In step S121, if the extracted data display control unit 25 determines that there is no next data (step S121: N), the extracted data display control unit 25 displays a message image “No corresponding data” on the display unit 9. (Step S123).

  In step S120, the extracted data display control unit 25 does not accept the “next” key press (step S120: N), and the data ranked immediately before the displayed extracted data (hereinafter “previous data”). (Step S130: Y), if it is determined that there is previous data (Step S131: Y), the data is displayed on the display unit 9 (Step S132). ).

If it is determined in step S131 that there is no previous data (step S131: N), a message image “No corresponding data” is displayed on the display unit 9 (step S123).
In step S130, if the extracted data display control unit 25 does not accept the “Previous” key press (step S130: N) and accepts the clear button 525 pressed (step S140: Y), the extraction data display ends. Then, the accepted keyword is deleted from the memory (step S141).

If the clear button is not pressed in step S140 (step S140: N), the extracted data display control unit 25 continues displaying the displayed extracted data (step S110).
Note that FIG. 9 shows that when the received mail is displayed in step S32 and the extracted data including the keyword specified by the user is displayed in step S34, the “Next” key, “ The operation when the pressing of either the “Previous” key or the clear button 525 is received is the same as the operation other than the receiving operation for pressing the quotation key in step S110 in FIG.
<Operation example>
An operation example of the mobile phone 500 will be described below based on the operation flowcharts of FIGS. 6, 7, and 8 described above.

In step S10, when the user operates the cursor movement button 524 (a), moves the cursor to the position of the received mail 101 in the received mail list shown in FIG. 3 (a), and accepts pressing of the enter button 524 (b). The display control unit 26 displays the received mail 101 on the display unit 9 (FIG. 3B) (step S10: Y).
Next, in step S11, when the mail creation unit 24 receives an instruction to create a reply email by the operation of the operation button unit 520 by the user (step S30: Y), the source address and subject in FIG. The data is set in the reply mail destination 201 and the subject (step S31), and the reply mail creation screen is displayed on the display unit 9 as shown in FIG. When the user presses the numeric keypad 527, the input of the characters “Airport” is accepted in the text 202.

Subsequently, when the depression of the soft key 521 associated with the keyword 10 at the lower left of the reply mail creation screen is accepted from the user in step S16 (step S16: Y), the keyword designation operation is accepted from the user.
To specify a keyword, the user operates the direction button 524 (a) to move the cursor from the character input in the text 202 to the position of the character that is the starting point of the character string specified as the keyword. When b) is pressed, the starting point of the keyword is determined, and when the determination button 524 (b) is pressed at the position that becomes the end point of the keyword, the end point is determined. A character string sandwiched between the start point and the end point is designated as a keyword (step S17).

  In the example shown in FIG. 4, the letters “Airport” are designated by the user's operation of the direction button 524 (a) and the enter button 524 (b), and the soft key 522 corresponding to the mail at the lower center of the reply mail creation screen is displayed. When is pressed (step S18: Y), the extraction control unit 21 extracts from the mail storage unit 12 a received mail whose sender is “Mr. Nakagawa” and includes the characters “airport”. If there are a plurality of received mails including the characters “Airport”, the received mails are ranked in descending order of the received date, and the received mail 211 of the latest received date is displayed first (step S19).

Next, when the “next” key 522 at the bottom center of the reply mail creation screen 210 is pressed by the user (FIG. 8, step S110: N, step S120: Y), the extracted data display control unit 25 in step S121 Next, the received mail 221 of the ranked reception date 2004/5/3 is displayed on the reply mail creation screen (step S122).
Further, when the received mail 221 is displayed on the reply mail creation screen, when the “quote” key 523 at the lower right of the reply mail creation screen is pressed by the user (step S110: Y), the pasting control unit 23 Then, a copy of the body data of the received mail 221 is pasted on the body 231 of the reply mail creation screen 230, and the extracted data display control unit 25 ends the display of the received mail 221 (step S111).

Next, an operation different from the case of creating the reply mail described above when the forward mail is created and the received mail including the keyword is displayed will be described below.
In step S10, the display control unit 26 displays the received mail (FIG. 3 (b)) on the reception date 2004/5/7 selected from the list of FIG. 3 (a) by the user operation on the display unit 9 (step S10). S10: Y). When the mail creation unit 24 accepts an operation for instructing creation of a forwarded mail from the user (step S11: Y), “Mr. Nakagawa” is stored in the memory as the transmission source information of the received mail (step S12), and FIG. ) Is displayed in the body of the forwarded mail creation screen shown in FIG. 5A (step S13). The mail creation unit 24 accepts a destination input operation from the user (step S14).

  After that, as in the case of reply mail creation, when “Airport” is accepted as a keyword by the keyword specifying operation by the user and the soft key 522 corresponding to mail extraction is accepted (Step S18: Y), the extraction control unit 21 The sender information “Mr. Nakagawa” is read out from the received mail in the mail storage unit 12 and includes the characters “Airport” and matches all addresses corresponding to “Mr. Nakagawa” stored in the phone book data storage unit 11 Extract incoming mail. The extracted data display control unit 25 displays the received mail ranked first (step S19).

Next, when the “quote” key 523 is pressed by the user (step S110: Y), the pasting control unit 23 pastes the text data of the displayed received mail on the mail text being created (step S111). .
Further, when the mail creation unit 24 receives an instruction to create a new mail and displays the new mail creation screen shown in FIG. 5B (step S10: N, step S40), the character “Tokyo” is The keyword receiving unit 22 receives “Tokyo” as a keyword from the user (step S17).

When the extraction control unit 21 receives a press of the soft key 523 corresponding to the schedule 12 by the user (step S18: N, step S20: Y), the schedule data including the characters “Tokyo” is read from the schedule book data storage unit 10. The extracted data display control unit 25 displays the schedule data for May 12 on the screen 410 (FIG. 5 (c)) (step S21).
<Supplement>
As described above, the cellular phone according to the present invention has been described based on the embodiments, but the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. Hereinafter, modifications of the embodiment will be described.

(1) In the above embodiment, data including a keyword specified by accepting a keyword key pressing operation by a user is extracted. However, when a keyword key pressing is accepted, the data is displayed from the body data of the displayed mail. A character string having a high appearance frequency may be extracted as a keyword, and data including the keyword may be displayed.
(2) In the above-described embodiment, the ranking condition for displaying the extracted data is the descending order of the date of the extracted data, but the extracted data is sorted in descending order of the appearance frequency of the keywords. It is good to do.

(3) In the above embodiment, the data including the keyword is extracted from the received mail stored in the mail storage unit and displayed, but stored in the mail storage unit 12 when the mail search key is pressed. Mails including keywords may be extracted from sent / received mails and displayed so that the extracted mails can be distinguished from sent mails or received mails.
(4) In the above embodiment, data including keywords is extracted and displayed from the mail and schedule data. However, the data may be extracted from the data in the memo pad stored in the mobile phone. May be extracted as image data.

  (5) A program for causing the CPU to execute each process (see FIGS. 6 to 9) for realizing each function of the mobile phone shown as the above-described embodiment is recorded on a recording medium or through a telecommunication line or the like It is also possible to provide. The program is used by being stored in a CPU-readable memory or the like in a mobile phone equipped with a CPU, and each function of the mobile phone described in the embodiment is executed by the CPU executing the program. Realized. Note that the recording medium includes an IC card, an optical disk, a flexible disk, and the like.

  The present invention relates to a mobile phone having a mail transmission / reception function, and in particular, when a user is displaying a mail, extracts information related to the displayed mail from data such as e-mail stored in the mobile phone. The present invention relates to a mobile phone provided with a function to display it.

It is a figure which shows the external appearance of the mobile telephone which concerns on embodiment. It is a functional block diagram of the mobile phone according to the embodiment. It is the figure which is displaying the received mail selected from the received mail list received with the mobile telephone which concerns on embodiment. It is the figure which is displaying the received mail containing a keyword in the reply mail preparation screen and the forward mail preparation screen with the mobile phone which concerns on embodiment. It is the figure which is displaying the schedule data containing a keyword in the new mail preparation screen with the mobile phone which concerns on embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement which displays the image which concerns on the mail designated by the user in the mobile telephone which concerns on embodiment. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing an operation of extracting data including a keyword and displaying the extracted data in accordance with displayed mail in the mobile phone according to the embodiment. FIG. 10 is an operation flowchart after extraction data is displayed during mail creation in the mobile phone according to the embodiment. FIG. 11 is an operation flowchart after data extracted during display of received mail is displayed in the mobile phone according to the embodiment. It is the figure which illustrated the data of the received mail memorize | stored in the mail storage part of the mobile telephone which concerns on embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

8 Operation unit
9 Display
10 Schedule book data storage
11 Phonebook data storage
12 Mail storage
20 Control unit
21 Extraction control unit
22 Keyword reception
23 Pasting control unit
24 Email composer
25 Extracted data display controller
26 Display controller
500 mobile phone
510 display
520 operation unit
521, 522, 523 soft keys
524 (a) Direction button
524 (b) OK button
525 Clear button

Claims (9)

A mobile phone capable of sending and receiving e-mails and having a display,
Storage means for storing data;
An email display means for displaying the content of the email;
Extracting means for specifying a part of the content of the displayed mail as a keyword, and extracting data including the keyword from the data stored in the storage means;
A cellular phone comprising: extracted data display means for displaying the data extracted by the extracting means on a display. The mobile phone further includes receiving means for receiving a keyword specification from the contents of the mail displayed by the mail display means,
2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the extracting unit extracts data including a keyword related to the designation received by the receiving unit. The data stored by the storage means includes information indicating the received mail and the transmission source of the received mail,
The mobile phone further includes mail creating means for accepting input from the user and creating mail.
The extraction means includes
When the received mail is displayed by the mail display means, the received mail that includes the keyword related to the designation of the receiving means from the received mail stored in the storage means other than the displayed received mail Extract incoming emails from the same source as
When the mail being created is displayed by the mail display means, the received mail stored in the storage means includes a keyword related to the designation of the accepting means, and the destination of the mail being created and the storage means 3. The mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein the stored received mail is extracted from the same received mail. The mobile phone further includes:
Receiving a selection by the user of the received mail stored in the storage means, and comprising a transfer means for transferring the contents of the received mail to a destination other than the source of the received mail,
The extraction means extracts a received mail of the same sender as the sender of the received mail accepted by the transfer means from the received mail stored in the storage means including the keyword accepted by the accepting means. 4. The mobile phone according to claim 3. The mobile phone further includes:
4. The pasting means for pasting a copy of the data displayed by the extracted data display means to the mail when the mail being created is displayed by the mail display means. Mobile phone. When there are a plurality of data extracted by the extraction means, the extracted data display means ranks the plurality of data based on a predetermined condition, displays the data with the first rank, and allows the user to perform a predetermined operation. 2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the data ranked next to the data displayed on the display is displayed accordingly. The storage means stores an image data file,
The extracting means extracts image data including a keyword accepted by the accepting means in a file name;
2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the extracted data display means displays an image indicated by the extracted image data.   2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the data stored by the storage means includes a received mail and a transmitted mail. A program comprising a CPU, a memory, a display, and a mobile phone capable of sending and receiving e-mails for performing control processing,
The control process is
Storing the data;
Displaying the contents of the email;
Identifying a part of the content of the displayed email as a keyword, extracting data including the keyword from stored data,
And a step of displaying the extracted data on a display.

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