JP2000278751A - Mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a mobile communication terminal where a mail display menu is immediately transited to a mail generating menu to prepare a return mail. SOLUTION: The mobile communication terminal is provided with a display section that displays a mail display area 300 and a mail generating area 310 through scrolling and also with a changeover means that switches a displaying state of the display section displaying the mail display area 300 into a displaying state of the display section displaying the mail generating area 310 in response to the entry of a prescribed key without the need of scrolling.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable communication terminal, and more particularly to a portable communication terminal capable of transmitting and receiving mails to and from each other while holding a call.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recent portable communication terminals have a function of receiving various information services. In other words, the mobile communication terminal sends an information service request mail to the information service center that provides the information service,
It is possible to receive the information service menu sent from the information service center and select this menu to receive various information services. In addition, the mobile communication terminal has a function of exchanging e-mails with each other and exchanging characters and data with each other while holding a call between the portable communication terminals.

[0003] Since the size of the display unit of a normal portable communication terminal is small, it is difficult to display all the received information on a screen. Therefore, only a part of the received mail is displayed on the display screen, and the received mail is read by scrolling the screen by operating a key such as an up / down key as necessary. The creation screen for creating a reply mail is configured to be displayed on the display unit following the mail display area, and the mail creation area appears at the end of the mail display area.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a display unit in a portable communication terminal capable of transmitting and receiving mails. The display unit is divided into a mail display area 300 and a mail creation area 310, and these two areas are separated by a separation display area 350. The mail display area is configured to display the destination of the communication partner, the transmitted mail transmitted by the communication partner, and the received mail from the partner. The outgoing mail and the received mail are separated by a separator display area 330. When you want to send a reply mail to the mail sent by the other party, you will see the delimiter display area 3 indicated by the double-dashed line.
In a state where the mail creation area 310 is displayed by scrolling 50 to the top of the screen, a predetermined key input is performed to input and send a mail into the mail creation area 310.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the operation of a conventional portable communication terminal when receiving an information service from an information service center. For example, if you send an e-mail to the information service center to receive the service,
On the other hand, a mail indicating the contents of the service that can be currently provided by the center arrives as shown in FIG. This mail is displayed in mail display area 300. The e-mail from this information service center is displayed as a menu, and each number corresponds to each menu.

[Table 1] Are assigned as shown. At the end of the received mail, there is provided a delimiter display area indicated by a double chain line as shown in FIG. The user who receives the mail from the information service center checks the menu of the mail and selects a menu number corresponding to the desired service.

[0006] For example, assume that amusement is selected as a menu of information required by the user. Here, in order to further receive information corresponding to the amusement menu from the information service center, FIG.
The mail screen of the received mail as shown in (a) is scrolled up by a desired key operation so that the double-dashed display area displayed at the end of the menu screen is at the top of the screen. I do. In this state, the mail display screen is switched to the mail creation screen, and a mail creation screen as shown in FIG. 5B appears below the double-dashed line segment display area.
For example, when "6" is input and a transmission operation is performed, transmission is performed to the information service center. Then, information corresponding to the menu is sent from the information service center as shown in FIG. 5C and displayed on the mail display screen.
The necessary information can be obtained by further narrowing down the menu in the screen state as shown in FIG. 5C, selecting the required menu, and performing the same operation as described above. In this way, the user can obtain desired information by repeating selection based on information sent from the information service center.

[0007]

As described above, in the conventional portable communication terminal, when receiving a mail from the other party and transmitting a reply mail to the other party, all the received mail is always browsed and then the mail creation screen is displayed. It was necessary to create a reply mail. In particular, when the received mail is a long text, there is a problem that it takes a considerable time to browse the received mail to the end by a scroll operation due to the limitation of the screen size of the display unit.

[0008] For example, on the reception display screen as shown in FIG. 5A, even after it is determined that the information desired by the user is an amusement, the user further follows the information.

[Table 2] After scrolling up and checking all the menus,
Unless the down key for instructing the transition to the mail creation mode is pressed, the mail creation screen as shown in FIG. 5B is not displayed. Therefore, the conventional mobile communication terminal has a drawback that, after selecting the information that the user wants to view, the user has to view unnecessary information, which is wasteful.

In addition, there is a disadvantage that extra time is required to scroll the mail display screen in order to see useless information, and the time is charged for this time, so that costs are wasted. Further, there is a problem that the CPU must perform processing for displaying the received mail, and the amount of calculation for this display burdens the CPU. Further, in the case of a received mail in which a menu is selected, a message indicating that the menu is not selected is usually listed last. For example, in the case shown in FIG.
"0" is an end display. Therefore, if the user wants to stop the selection after receiving the received mail, the received mail is scrolled and displayed to the end, and then the mail creation screen is displayed and "20" is input.

[0010] Since it is troublesome to scroll the received mail to the end, it is often the case that the call is disconnected without performing such an operation. In this case, since the center determines that the abnormal processing has been performed, a routine for processing the abnormal processing must be started, and the processing load becomes heavy. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and has as its object to provide a mobile communication terminal capable of jumping from a mail display screen to a mail creation screen and moving to a mail creation screen. .

[0011]

According to the present invention, there is provided a portable communication terminal having a display section for scrollably displaying a mail display area and a mail work area, wherein the display section displays the mail display area. At this time, there is provided switching means for switching the mail creation area to be displayed on the display unit without scrolling in response to a predetermined key input. The present invention also provides a mobile communication terminal that has a mail display screen and a mail creation screen, and that transmits a mail by selecting a menu on the mail display screen and inputting the menu to the mail creation screen. Switching means for switching the mail display screen to the mail creation screen in response to a predetermined key input indicating selection is provided. Further, the present invention provides a portable communication terminal which has a mail display mode and a mail creation mode, and shifts to the mail creation mode after completion of the mail display mode to transmit a mail. , The mail display mode is ended, and the mode shifts to the mail creation mode.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the present invention, after a mail is received, the mail is displayed in a mail display area, and during confirmation, when a predetermined key input is performed, a jump is made to immediately display the mail creation area. It is configured to be able to. FIG.
Is a view for explaining the first embodiment of the present invention, and describes an operation for accessing an information service center to receive information, selecting a predetermined menu from the received information menu and returning a reply. Things.

When access to the information service center 1 is started by a predetermined key operation, the information service center 1 is connected to the center,
A screen 101 as shown in FIG. 1 is displayed. Next, a screen 102 for requesting the information service center to transmit the information service to the mobile communication terminal is displayed. Then
The display is switched to the display during reception shown on the screen 103. This screen 1
Subsequent to 03, a service menu as shown in screens 104 and 105 is displayed in the mail display area. Switching to the screens 104 and 105 allows a necessary menu to be viewed at any time by scrolling up or down by a predetermined key operation.

At this point, scroll-up is further continued, the bottom line of the received mail is displayed, and further down key operation 10
Is performed, a screen 106 is displayed. This screen 106 is called an e-mail creation screen. Since a cursor appears below a delimiter indicated by a double-dashed line, the character input key operation 11 allows a necessary reply mail or key input for a selected menu. Can be. Screen 107 is
It is a screen showing creation of a reply mail. Here, in the present invention, when the display unit as shown in the screen 104 or 105 is displaying the mail display area, the character input key operation 12 is performed to jump to the screen 107 at a stretch without scrolling. I have to. Here, the character input operation keys 12 are usually performed by inputting numeric keys.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the present invention. First, the operation starts when a received mail is received (step 401). Then
It is determined whether the information currently displayed on the display unit is a mail display screen in the mail display mode (step 402). If it is not a mail display screen, the process ends (step 405). If the display mode is the mail display mode or the mail display screen, it is subsequently determined whether or not a key input has been made (step 403). If there is no key input, the process returns to step 402. If there is a key input such as pressing a numeric key (step 403), the mode is switched from the mail display mode to the mail creation mode, and a mail creation screen is displayed on the display unit (step 404). Thereafter, the process ends (step 40).
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The flowchart shown in FIG. 4 is executed by the CPU in the communication portable terminal (not shown) monitoring the display state of the display unit. That is, in the present invention,
The CPU monitors the display state of the display unit and detects a predetermined key input when in the mail display mode,
The e-mail display mode is immediately switched to the e-mail creation mode, and a switching operation is performed so that the e-mail creation screen is displayed on the display unit. Therefore, it is not necessary to perform the conventional scrolling to shift from the mail display screen to the mail creation screen.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a second embodiment of the present invention. In the second embodiment, a state is shown in which a process called so-called chat mail is performed, in which the mobile communication terminals exchange mail with each other while maintaining communication between the mobile communication terminals, instead of receiving information from the information service center. ing. First, on the transmission side, the screen 201
Is displayed, a predetermined key 21 is depressed to display a screen 202 for prompting input of a destination. Here, it is possible to input a telephone number by pressing a key 22 for searching a telephone directory, redialing or calling history, etc. The screen 203 is displayed by inputting with the key 23. Then, the user presses the key 24 to send the mail created in advance as a chat mail to the other party. This state is the screen 204. When the transmission is completed, the reception of the mail from the partner is awaited. When the mail is received from the partner, the screen 205 is displayed. The transmission from the other party is completed (reception completed), and the content is displayed as shown on screen 206. Here, by performing a predetermined ten-key input 25, the screen jumps from the mail display mode to the mail creation mode, and the screen 207 is displayed. Since this screen 207 is an editing screen, a cursor is displayed. If a predetermined character input is performed according to the cursor, a reply mail is completed as shown on a screen 208.

Next, a key 26 for performing predetermined mail transmission
By pressing, a reply mail is sent to the other party. After the reply mail is transmitted, the screen becomes the state of the screen 204, and the mutual communication is continued. When the key operation 27 indicating disconnection of the call is performed in the state of the screen 207, the call is completed, a screen 209 indicating the talk time is displayed, and then the standby screen 210 is set. On the receiving side, the standby screen 231
When a mail transmission is received from the transmission side in the state of, a ring tone sounds as shown on a screen 232, indicating that a chat mail has arrived. If a response operation is performed here, a screen 233 indicating that chat mail is being received is displayed. When transmission from the other party is completed (reception is completed), the mail sent from the other party is displayed as shown on screens 234 and 235. Switching between the screens 234 and 235 is performed by scrolling. Here, if a reply mail is to be sent to the other party, a predetermined numeric keypad input 28 is performed and the mail display mode is ended in the same manner as described on the transmission side,
The mode is changed to the mail creation mode, and the mail creation screen 236 is displayed. If a character is input here, the screen is displayed as a screen 237. Then, when the call start key 29 is pressed, a reply mail is transmitted to the other party and displayed on the other party's terminal as shown on the screen 205.

When the key operation 30 indicating the end of the call is performed in the state of the screen 235, a screen 238 displaying the talk time appears, and then the screen returns to the standby screen 239. Note that, on the side where the chat mail is activated, all the chat histories are stored as one mail in the mail transmission history. On the receiving side, all chat histories are stored as one mail in the mail reception history. By activating the history display function, the contents can be confirmed.
However, if the storage area becomes full during communication, as shown on the screen 240, "memory is full" and "delete and continue / disconnect" are displayed and the user can select. ing. If "continue erasing" is selected and communication is continued, and the storage area becomes full again, data can be erased and communication can be continued again.

As described above, according to the present invention, when the cursor moves to the bottom of the mail display area due to the scroll operation, or when a predetermined key input such as a character or a number is input on the mail display screen, the mail is displayed. The display mode ends, and the creation area of the mail creation screen is displayed at a stretch, and a state where characters can be input is set. Even in the editing state where the character input state is possible, if the actual character input has not been performed, the user can return to the mail display area by pressing the up key. Then, the user can scroll the mail display area to see the chat history. In the above-described embodiment, the destination of the e-mail is the information service center or the other party's communication terminal. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, even if the other party of communication is a personal computer having a communication function, good. In the above-described embodiment, the case where the predetermined key input is a key input from the display input unit has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the predetermined key input may be a touch panel, a pen input, voice recognition, or the like. Can be used as a key input.

[0021]

As described above in detail based on the embodiment, according to the present invention, when there is a key input in the mail display mode, the mode immediately shifts to the mail creation mode, and the reply mail can be created. There is an advantage that you can reply immediately after confirming the e-mail and necessary information. In addition, since the reply operation after reception is simplified, call time and call charge are reduced. Further, since an unnecessary scroll operation is not required, there is an advantage that the number of key presses is reduced, and the calculation load of the CPU is reduced. Also, if the content you want to reply to has already been determined regardless of the content of the received mail,
There is an advantage that the operation can be shifted to a reply immediately after reception. If there is a mail creation area below the display area of the received mail, the end of the mail can be quickly confirmed by creating the reply mail once and then returning to the display of the received mail.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a display unit in a mobile communication terminal having a mail transmission / reception function.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the operation of a conventional portable communication terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

 300 mail display area 310 mail creation area 330 break display area 350 break display area

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A portable communication terminal comprising a display unit for scrollably displaying a mail display area and a mail creation area, wherein the display unit displays the mail display area.
A mobile communication terminal, comprising: switching means for switching the mail creation area to be displayed on the display unit without scrolling in response to a predetermined key input. 2. A portable communication terminal that has a mail display screen and a mail creation screen, and transmits a mail by selecting a menu on the mail display screen and inputting the menu on the mail creation screen. In response to a predetermined keystroke indicating
A portable communication terminal, further comprising a switching unit for switching the mail display screen to the mail creation screen. 3. A portable communication terminal having an e-mail display mode and an e-mail creation mode, wherein the e-mail display mode is switched to the e-mail creation mode after the end of the e-mail display mode to transmit an e-mail. pls respond,
The mobile communication terminal, wherein the mail display mode is terminated and the mode shifts to the mail creation mode.