KR20070027027A - Method for hierarchical user interface using multi demensional graphic in mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus for offering a hierarchical UI(User Interface) using multidimensional graphic in a mobile communication terminal and a method thereof are provided to enable a user to intuitively and quickly use the UI by expressing one depth and two depth in an existing hierarchy concurrently like expressing overall items in a 3D area and lower level items or explanation for each item in a 2D area. An apparatus for offering a hierarchical UI(User Interface) using multidimensional graphic in a mobile communication terminal comprises a UI setup unit(220), a user UI construction management database(210) and a UI matching unit(230). The UI setup unit(220) enables a user to set up a UI in case of booting a newly purchased mobile communication terminal or booting a mobile communication terminal initially after changing setup of the UI. The user UI construction management database(210) stores data on the UI setup inputted via the UI setup unit(220). The UI matching unit(230) loads the stored data on the UI setup when storing the data on the UI setup is finished and the mobile communication terminal is rebooted, and displays the loaded data on the UI setup.

Description

Device and method for providing hierarchical user interface using multi-dimensional graphics in mobile communication terminal {METHOD FOR HIERARCHICAL USER INTERFACE USING MULTI DEMENSIONAL GRAPHIC IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

1 is a view showing the configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a UI generation block according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart showing a UI application flow according to an embodiment of the present invention, and

4 is a diagram illustrating a UI screen configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a hierarchical user interface (UI) providing apparatus and method using multi-dimensional graphics in a mobile communication terminal.

The use of the mobile communication terminal is increasing rapidly due to the convenience of portable. With the rapid increase in the use of mobile communication terminals, service providers (terminal manufacturers) are competitively developing terminals having more convenient functions to secure a large number of users.

E.g. The mobile communication terminal includes a phone book, a game, a short message, an internet, an e-mail, a morning call, a file viewer, a file transfer. It provides various additional functions such as 3D UI (User Interface).

In particular, as the performance of the mobile communication terminal has been greatly improved in recent years, in the past, a UI or a game using 3D graphics that can be used in a personal computer may be used in the mobile communication terminal.

However, the UI technology of the existing mobile communication terminal provides only one UI to one model regardless of the user's age and proficiency with the UI, and since the UI configuration cannot be changed after being installed in the mobile communication terminal, the elderly and the simple The general user has a problem of using an unnecessary complex UI.

In addition, as the UI enters a sub-menu, as the depth of the sub-menu deepens, intuition decreases, and a user takes a long time to find and execute a required menu.

Of course, while providing a favorite item for the frequently used items to solve the above problems in the existing UI, there is a problem that does not solve the inherent complexity.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a hierarchical UI providing apparatus and method using multi-dimensional graphics in a mobile communication terminal.

A device of the present invention for achieving the above object is a device supporting a changeable UI (User Interface) in a mobile communication terminal, the first booting (Booting) of the mobile communication terminal (Booting) for the first time after setting the user's UI change When booting, the UI setting unit for receiving the UI settings by the user, the user UI configuration DB for storing the UI settings received through the UI setting unit, and the UI settings are stored after rebooting the UI settings after the user UI configuration It is characterized by including the loading from the DB (Display) to display on the display.

The method of the present invention for achieving the above object in the method for changing the UI settings in the mobile communication terminal, the user changing the UI settings through the UI setting unit, and the changed UI setting information to the user UI configuration DB It characterized in that it comprises a process of storing.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of applying a UI setting changed in a mobile communication terminal, the process of booting the mobile communication terminal after changing a user's UI setting, and after the booting, the controller And loading the UI settings stored in the UI matching unit and displaying them on the display unit.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of configuring a UI screen in a communication terminal, the method comprising: dividing a screen into a 3D display area and a 2D display area, and configuring the UI of the mobile communication terminal in the 3D display area. Selecting at least one of the top items from among the items and displaying them on the display unit; and displaying detailed items of the items selected by the user among the displayed items on the 2D display area. do.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, detailed descriptions of related well-known technologies or configurations will be omitted when it is determined that the detailed description of the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described a hierarchical UI providing apparatus and method using multi-dimensional graphics in a mobile communication terminal.

1 shows a configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention. In the following description, the mobile communication terminal includes both a cellular phone, a personal communication system (PCS), a personal data assistant (PDA), and an international mobile telecommunication-2000 (IMT2000) terminal. The following description will be described with the general configuration of the above examples.

Referring to FIG. 1, a control unit (MPU: Micro-Processer Unit) 100 controls the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal. For example, it performs processing and control for voice call and data communication, and is in charge of control functions for 3D and 2D UI in addition to the usual functions. In the following description, description of the processing and control of the conventional control unit 100 is omitted.

The ROM 102 may store microcodes and various reference data of a program for processing and controlling the controller 100. In particular, it stores programs for 3D and 2D UIs in accordance with the present invention in addition to conventional functions. A random access memory (RAM) 104 is a working memory of the controller 100 and stores temporary data generated during execution of various programs. Flash ROM 106 stores various updatable archiving data such as phone books, outgoing messages and incoming messages and, in particular, in accordance with the present invention in addition to conventional functions, the user's UI configuration DB. Save it.

The keypad (key pad) 108 is a numeric key of 0-9, menu key (menu), cancel key (clear), confirmation key, call key (TALK), end key (END), Internet access key, navigation key A plurality of function keys such as (or direction keys) are provided, and key input data corresponding to a key pressed by a user is provided to the controller 100. The display unit 110 displays status information generated during the operation of the mobile communication terminal, a limited number of characters, a large amount of video and still images, and the like. The display unit 110 may use a color liquid crystal display (LCD).

The codec (Coder-Decoder) 112 connected to the control unit 100 and the speaker 116 and the microphone 114 connected to the codec 112 are voice input / output blocks used for phone calls and voice recording. . The codec 112 converts the PCM data provided from the controller 100 into an analog voice signal, transmits the same through the speaker 116, and converts the voice signal received through the microphone 114 into PCM data. To the control unit 100.

In addition, the RF unit (Radio Frequency unit) (120) is the frequency of the radio frequency signal received via the antenna 118 is provided to the baseband processing unit 122 by lowering the frequency, the baseband signal from the baseband processing unit 122 The frequency is raised and transmitted through the antenna 118. The baseband processor 122 processes a baseband signal transmitted and received between the RF unit 120 and the controller 100. For example, in case of transmission, the channel coding and spreading of data to be transmitted are performed, and in case of reception, the function of despreading and channel decoding of the received signal is performed. .

2 illustrates a configuration of a UI generation block according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the user UI configuration DB (DataBase) 210 is located in the flash ROM 106 and stores UI configuration information set by the user. That is, the UI configuration information of the 3D screen and the 2D screen set by the user is stored.

The UI setting unit 220 is located in the control unit 100 and boots the mobile communication terminal for the first time (Booting), or upon first booting after setting the user's UI change, receives the new UI configuration information from the user UI configuration DB ( It is responsible for the function to save to 210.

The UI matching unit 230 is located in the control unit 100 and after setting the UI configuration information from the user, when booting the mobile communication terminal, by loading the UI configuration information from the user UI configuration DB (Loading) It is responsible for the function of displaying on the display unit 110. In other words, a UI consisting of a 3D screen and a 2D screen set by the user is displayed.

3 illustrates a UI application flow according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, when the controller 100 of the mobile communication terminal is booted by turning on the power of the mobile communication terminal in step 310, whether the booting is the first booting of the mobile communication terminal or the UI of the user. Check if it is the first boot after changing configuration.

In the case of the first boot corresponding to the two cases, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 330 and receives a setting for UI configuration from the user. That is, when the control unit 100 detects the first booting, the UI setting unit 220 is driven to receive configuration settings of 3D configuration items and items to be configured in 2D, and the setting value is converted into a user UI configuration DB (DataBase). Save to 210.

In operation 350, the controller 100 reboots the mobile communication terminal.

If it is not the first boot corresponding to the two cases in step 310, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 320 and loads the UI setting values stored in the user UI configuration DB (DataBase) 210. In step 340, the loaded setting value is applied to the display unit 110 and the algorithm according to the present invention is terminated.

As described above, when the user sets the UI change setting and boots the mobile communication terminal, the UI setting may be changed.

4 illustrates a UI screen configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the screen configuration of the UI is divided into a 3D area 410 and a 2D 420 area. The 3D area 410 displays the top items of the UI configuration items of the mobile communication terminal. In other words, items with a depth of 1 are displayed in a hierarchical structure.

Selection of one of the items 430, 432, 434, 436, 438, and 439 displayed on the 3D area 410 is selected using the direction keys of the keypad 108.

In addition, the item 430 selected from the item having a depth of 1 is larger than the items 432, 434, 436, 438, and 439 of other 3D menus, and is positioned in the center of the 3D area 410. Display on.

The number or location of the items can be arbitrarily determined and arranged by the user. By using the function, the user using only an intuitive and simple function and the elderly who have difficulty in the UI operation can set a UI configuration that provides only a simple call, text viewing, and writing.

The lower items 450 of the item 430 selected by the user among the items of the 3D area 410 are displayed in the 2D area 420. That is, items having a depth of 2 are displayed in a hierarchical structure.

Meanwhile, the contents of the remaining items 445, 455, and 460 of the 2D area 420 may be arbitrarily determined by the user. In addition, the number and position of items displayed in the 2D area 420 may be arbitrarily determined by the user. In the present invention, the frequently used menu 445, memo function 455, menu search, and shortcut 460 are shown as one embodiment.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the present invention has the advantage that the user can change the configuration of the UI, even if the user of the mobile communication terminal is changed to provide a UI suitable for the purpose of use by the age group of the changed user.

In addition, the UI displays the entire item in the 3D area so that it can be seen at a glance, and the sub-item for each item or the description of the item can be displayed in the 2D area so that one depth of the existing hierarchical structure can be displayed. Since both and depth can be expressed at the same time, the user can use the UI more quickly and intuitively.

Claims (8)

In a device supporting a changeable UI (User Interface) in a mobile communication terminal, A UI setting unit receiving the UI setting by the user when booting the mobile communication terminal for the first time or booting for the first time after setting the user's UI change; A user UI configuration DB for storing UI settings received through the UI setting unit; And a UI matching unit for loading the stored UI settings from the user UI configuration DB and displaying them on the display unit after rebooting the UI settings. The method of claim 1, The UI device comprises a 3D (Dimension) screen and a 2D screen. The method of claim 1, And the user UI configuration DB is located in a storage device capable of rewriting without erasing the recorded contents even if there is no power supply. In the method for changing the UI settings in the mobile communication terminal, The user changes the UI settings through the UI setting unit, And storing the changed UI setting information in a user UI configuration DB. The method of claim 4, wherein The method of changing the UI setting may include booting the mobile terminal for the first time or booting for the first time after setting the UI change of the user. In the method of applying the UI settings changed in the mobile communication terminal, Booting the mobile communication terminal after changing a user's UI setting; After the booting, the control unit loads the UI settings stored by the UI matching unit and displays the display unit on the display unit. In the UI screen configuration method in the mobile communication terminal, Dividing the screen into a 3D display area and a 2D display area; Selecting at least one of the highest items among the UI configuration items of the mobile communication terminal and displaying them on the display unit in the 3D display area; And displaying detailed items of the items selected by the user among the displayed items on the 2D display area. The method of claim 7, wherein The 2D display area, characterized in that further comprising the user can add the UI setting item by selection to display.

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