KR20070071860A - Key boutton input pattern method of mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

A key button input pattern supporting method of a mobile communication terminal is provided to be capable of differently setting input patterns of key buttons by using existing arrayed key buttons without adding hot keys, so that a user can conveniently select more functions provided from the terminal. When a key signal is inputted, a timer is operated to check input patterns during preset time(S11-S17). The checked input patterns are inquired about from an input pattern table to carry out an execution command matched with the input patterns(S19,S23). The input patterns refer to once-pressing, long-term pressing, and twice-pressing functions.

Description

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1A and 1B are front and rear views showing the appearance of a mobile communication terminal applicable to the present invention, respectively;

2 is an electrical block diagram of a mobile communication terminal that can be applied to the present invention;

3 is a key signal graph for explaining various input patterns of a method for supporting a key button input pattern of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

4 is a flowchart illustrating a key button input pattern supporting method of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

*** Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing ***

100 and 200: mobile communication terminal 110: main body

112: numeric / character key buttons 113: microphone hole

114: Volume button 115: Input pattern setting button

116: Standard terminal slot 117: Camera lens

118: flash 119: infrared communication element

120: slider 121: function key button

122: flat panel indicator 123: speaker hole

130: antenna 140: battery pack

143: charging terminal 210: control unit

220: radio frequency transmitting and receiving unit 222: antenna

230: key input unit 232: function keys

234: numeric / character keys 240: memory

242: program storage unit 244: data storage unit

250: voice signal processor 252: microphone

254: speaker 260: flat panel display driver

262: flat panel indicator 270: vibration generating unit

272: vibration motor 274: LED drive unit

276: LED 280: camera driver

282: camera 284: image processing unit

286: infrared transmitting and receiving unit 288: GPS processing unit

The present invention relates to a method of supporting a key button input pattern of a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a method of supporting a key button input pattern of a mobile communication terminal for supporting various input patterns of a key button.

The mobile communication terminal, which is a necessity for modern people, is not only compact and lightweight due to steady development, but also is emerging as a complex communication terminal with various functions such as mp3, camera and navigation. In addition to the above functions, such a mobile terminal has a voice mail service (also known as a voice mail service) that allows a sender to leave a message in the recipient's voice mailbox or a fax mailbox when the receiver cannot answer a call. Voice Activated Dialing Service, which uses numbers and letters to connect / recognize devices to memorize / register subscriber's voice and to make voice calls without dialing the phone number when subscribers call Short message service (SMS) and short message service that can send and receive messages about 80 bytes, that is, 40 ~ 50 characters in Korean and 80 characters in English, can make a sentence longer and can add sound, video, etc. It provides various functions and services such as Multimedia Message Service (MMS).

On the other hand, such a mobile terminal provides a hot key, that is, a function key that can be executed by pressing once so that the user can conveniently select a number of functions provided by the user. In general, a phone book, a text message, a sound setting, and a camera are provided. And volume control are set. However, in order to set a function other than the above-described function as a hotkey, the manufacturer must additionally install a key button outside the mobile communication terminal. Due to the size limitation of the mobile communication terminal, many hotkeys cannot be arranged. If the arrangement is excessive, the spacing between the hotkeys is narrowed and the key buttons themselves are also small, which may cause inconvenience.

Therefore, in order to improve the above-mentioned problem, the method of selecting and using a mobile communication terminal menu that makes it easier to select a frequently used function without adding a hotkey by setting a frequently used menu as a favorite is disclosed in the Republic of Korea patent in 2002. No. 57260.

However, according to the conventional method of selecting a function by the favorite, the user frequently selects the frequently used functions and registers them in the favorite menu, and then executes the favorite menu when necessary, so that a desired function can be executed quickly without adding a hot key. On the other hand, if many functions are registered in the favorite menu, the cumbersome problem of selecting a desired function still remains after performing key operation several times.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is possible to conveniently select many functions provided by a mobile communication terminal by differently setting an input pattern of a key button using an existing key button without adding a hot key. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for supporting a key button input pattern of a mobile communication terminal.

The key button input pattern supporting method of the mobile communication terminal of the present invention for achieving the above object has at least two input patterns according to the number of times and input time of the key signal generated by the pressing of the key button, (A) confirming the input pattern for a predetermined time by operating a timer when the key signal is input, the mobile communication terminal storing an input pattern table matching different execution commands for each input pattern; and (b And querying the input pattern identified in the step (a) in the input pattern table to execute an execution command matched to the input pattern.

Hereinafter, a key button input pattern supporting method of a mobile communication terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail.

1A and 1B are a front view and a rear view showing an appearance of a mobile communication terminal applicable to the present invention, respectively, illustrating a slide type mobile communication terminal. Of course, it should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the terminal of this manner and structure. As shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, a mobile communication terminal (hereinafter, also referred to as a “terminal”) 100 to which the present invention can be applied includes a main body 110 and a flat panel display 122 having a main circuit built therein. It may be made to include a slider 120 that slides up and down in the main body 110 while mounting.

In the above-described configuration, the front of the main body 110 has a number / letter key button 112 is used to receive the numbers and letters, the upper surface to perform infrared communication (IrDA) with the antenna and other external communication devices The infrared communication element 119 to be used is disposed, and a microphone hole 113 communicating with an internal microphone (not shown) is punctured at a lower position. The main body 110 is also provided with a rear surface in place, for example, a camera lens 117 and a flash 118 for illumination at night, and a battery pack 140 is detachable at the bottom thereof. The lower surface of the main body 110 is provided with a standard connection terminal slot 116 through which electric power for transmitting / receiving data with another terminal or charging the battery pack 140 coupled to the main body 110 is transmitted. do.

On the other hand, the front surface of the slider 120 is provided with a flat panel display 122 for displaying various characters or graphic elements indicating the operation and operation state of the mobile communication terminal 100 and still images and moving pictures, and below the terminal ( A function key button 121 used to select or receive various functions included in 100 is disposed. Further, a speaker hole 123 communicating with an internal speaker (not shown) is drilled in place of the slider 120, for example, the flat display 122. In the drawing, reference numeral 114 denotes a volume button, 115 denotes an input pattern setting button for setting an input pattern of a key button, and 143 denotes a charging terminal exposed under the battery pack 140.

2 is an electrical block diagram of a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention can be applied. As shown in FIG. 2, the electrical configuration of the mobile communication terminal to which the present invention can be applied includes a radio frequency transmitter / receiver 220 and a number / character that transmit / receive a radio frequency signal with a base station through an antenna 222. Key input unit 230 and key button including a function key input unit 232 and a numeric / character key input unit 234 for generating a corresponding key signal when the key button 112 and the function key button 121 are operated. The program storage unit 242 for storing various application programs, such as an input pattern support program that supports the application pattern of the input pattern, and an input pattern table in which data generated during the calculation process is temporarily stored or an input pattern of a key button is stored, and the subscriber sets A memory 240 including a data storage unit 244 for storing data, a microphone 252 for converting external sound waves into a corresponding analog form of voice signal, and inside the terminal Converts the analog voice signal from the speaker 254 and the microphone 252 into a corresponding digital voice signal and converts the digital voice signal into a corresponding analog voice signal. The voice signal processor 250 outputting the speaker 254, the flat panel display 262, the flat panel display driver 260 driving the same, and the vibration motor 272 generating vibrations when the terminal 100 operates in a vibration mode. And its driver 270, an LED 276 that visually displays an event such as a call or message reception, its driver 274, an infrared transmission / reception that emits infrared rays from the outside by means of short-range communication means. It may include a receiving unit 286 and a control unit 210 for controlling them collectively.

In addition to the mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied, a camera driver 280 for driving the camera 282 under the control of the camera 282 installed in place of the main body 110 or the slider 120, the control unit 210, An image processor 284 for processing image data output from the camera 282 and a GPS processor 288 for receiving absolute radio signals emitted from GPS satellites and generating absolute position data of the terminal may be further provided as necessary. will be.

In the above-described configuration, the input pattern support program is achieved by checking an input pattern of a key signal generated from a key button and then executing an execution command matching the identified input pattern in the input pattern table. This is accomplished by matching and executing execution commands to be executed in accordance with the input pattern for each key button, that is, for each key signal.

In this case, the method of registering an execution command can be achieved by selecting a menu to register and pressing an input pattern setting button and pressing a key button to match according to a desired input pattern. You can do it.

3 is a key signal graph for explaining various input patterns of a method for supporting a key button input pattern of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention. FIG. 3 shows one press, long press and two presses.

First, a single press is achieved with an input pattern in which a key signal has been briefly input once during a preset time Δt, and a long press is achieved with an input pattern in which a key signal has been input once long during a preset time Δt, and pressed twice. Is achieved by an input pattern in which a key signal is input twice shortly for a preset time Δt, wherein short press and long press can be achieved by a combination of short press and long press. After the key signal is input shortly once, it shows the input pattern input once long.

On the other hand, the execution command matched to each input pattern, it is preferable that the character displayed on the numeric / character key button 112 is displayed or the function displayed on the function key button 121 is set to be executed in the case of one press. In this case, it may be desirable to set up a function of switching speed dial and ring / vibration to perform a call to a phone number matched to each key button. In particular, in the case of an input pattern added according to the present invention, that is, a combination of a double press or a single press and a long press, a function frequently used, for example, a function provided in a mobile communication terminal such as a schedule useful for managing a game or a schedule such as Tetris, It would be desirable to set it to run.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a key button input pattern supporting method of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, in the method of supporting a key button input pattern of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention, first, in step S11, it is determined whether a key signal exists.

As a result of the determination in step S11, if there is no key signal, step S11 is repeated until there is a key signal, and if there is a key signal, the process proceeds to step S13 to determine whether the screen currently displayed on the flat panel display 122 is the main screen. . The reason for judging step S13 is to avoid conflicts between each program for the same input, since it is generally defined for a double click in a particular program, such as when writing a text message.

As a result of the determination in step S13, if it is not the main screen, the flow proceeds to step S27 to perform a command corresponding to a key input. In the case of the main screen, the flow proceeds to step S15 to operate a timer and corresponds to a key signal, that is, a key button. Check whether the key signal is

Next, in step S17, after checking the input pattern of the key signal for a predetermined time, the flow advances to step S19 to determine whether it is a single press, a double press or a long press.

As a result of the determination in step S19, when it is pressed once, the process proceeds to step S21 to query the input pattern table of the confirmed key signal and executes the execution command matched to one press, and when pressed twice, the process proceeds to step S23. Query the input pattern table of the signal and execute the execution command matched to the double press, and if it is a long press, go to step S25 to query the input pattern table of the confirmed key signal and execute the execution command matched to the long press. .

The method of supporting the key button input pattern of the mobile communication terminal of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment and can be modified in various ways within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

According to the method of supporting the key button input pattern of the mobile communication terminal of the present invention as described above, in addition to the one-click and long press basically provided in the mobile terminal, various key buttons, such as a double press or a combination of one-click and long press, By supporting the input pattern, even if various functions are added to the mobile communication terminal, the effect of the hotkey can be obtained only by the basic key button without adding the hotkey.

Claims (4)

The mobile terminal has at least two input patterns according to the number of times and input time of a key signal generated by pressing a key button, and is performed in a mobile communication terminal in which an input pattern table matching different execution commands is stored for each input pattern. , (a) checking the input pattern for a preset time by operating a timer when the key signal is input; (b) querying the input pattern identified in step (a) in the input pattern table and executing an execution command matched to the input pattern. The method of claim 1, The input pattern is a key button input pattern supporting method of the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the first press, the long press and the second press. The method of claim 2, The input pattern may further include a combination of one press and two presses. The method of claim 3, wherein The execution command includes a key button input pattern supporting method of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that it comprises an execution command of various functions assigned to the mobile communication terminal.

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