JP2002259026A - Mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile communication terminal which moves a cursor to the start/end of display data with few key operation and shortens the time of message generation and display data perusal. SOLUTION: The screen state set at the time of selecting 'jump to the start' from menu items is shown by a picture 205. When a mode set key 309 is depressed to settle this state, the head of a message is moved to the upper left end part of a display part 22, and a cursor for editing is moved to the first character of the message (screen 207). Consequently, a user can edit the message from the head of the data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a mobile communication terminal having a function of transmitting and receiving character data and image data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, mobile phones have been able to receive various services other than voice, such as a mail service, a web service for accessing the Internet and browsing home pages, and a message delivery service from a network. .

[0003]

However, in recent years, all of these mail services, web services and message services have become so large that the amount of data cannot be displayed on the display of a portable telephone at one time. In a conventional mobile phone, when trying to view all the data of each of the above services, an operation such as continuous scrolling is performed by continuously pressing the up / down key or by long pressing for about one second. That is, there has been no portable telephone that can move the cursor to the end or the head of the display data in a small number of operations and in a short time. The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and enables a cursor to be moved to the beginning / end of display data with a few key operations, thereby shortening the time for creating a message and browsing display data. It is intended to provide a communication terminal.

[0004]

Means for Solving the Problems To solve the above problems, the first invention of the present application provides a mobile communication terminal having a function of displaying various data when a predetermined key operation is performed on the mobile communication terminal.
A means for moving the end of the data being displayed to a predetermined position on the display unit is provided. Further, the second invention of the present application provides a mobile communication terminal having a function of editing various data, a means for moving an editing cursor to an end of the data being edited when a predetermined key operation is performed. Means for moving the end of the data to a predetermined position on the display unit.

In the first or second invention of the present application,
The terminus of the data is preferably the beginning or end of the data. Further, in the first or second invention of the present application, the predetermined position is preferably an upper end or a lower end. Further, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, it is preferable that the data is character data and / or image data received from a partner terminal. Further, in the first or second invention of the present application, it is preferable that the data is character data and / or image data to be transmitted to a partner terminal.
Further, in the first or second invention of the present application, it is preferable that the data is note data for creating a ringing sound.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.
Here, FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a mobile phone as an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 and 4 are screen transition diagrams for explaining the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the key operation unit.

Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a functional block diagram showing an embodiment in which a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention is applied to a portable telephone. In FIG. 1, a transmission / reception circuit unit 10 to which an antenna is connected is a circuit that performs transmission / reception processing in a mobile communication terminal under the control of a control unit 12 having a built-in CPU. That is, the transmitting and receiving circuit unit 10
Modulates a voice message, a text message, various kinds of information, a control signal, and the like and sends it out from the antenna, or demodulates a voice message, a text message, various kinds of information, a control signal, and the like received from the antenna and outputs it to the control unit 12.

The control unit 12 includes, for example, the flash memory 1
In accordance with the programs and data stored in 4, the operation is performed by control signals from the key operation unit 24 and the transmission / reception circuit unit 10 to control the transmission / reception circuit unit 10, the display unit driver 18, and the audio processing unit 26. In addition, the control unit 12
6, and uses the RAM 16 as a work area when executing a program stored in the flash memory 14. The flash memory 14 stores font information such as character messages and character patterns (including English and numeric characters) / icons (graphics) received from the message center, and is also used as a telephone directory memory. And so on.

The display driver 18 drives the display 22 under the control of the controller 12 to display the display. That is, the display driver 18 reads a character pattern (including English and numeric characters) and an icon (figure) pattern corresponding to the control signal from the controller 12 from the flash memory 14 and displays the same on the display 22. The audio processing unit 26 is connected to the speaker 28 and the microphone 30, amplifies the audio signal input from the control unit 12, and outputs the amplified audio signal through the speaker 28,
A process of amplifying the audio signal input by the microphone 30 and outputting the amplified signal to the control unit 12 is performed.

The lighting 32 is controlled to be turned on and off by the control unit 12 when a key is pressed or an incoming call is received, and when turned on, the key operation unit 24 and the display unit 22 are brightly illuminated. The vibrator 34 is connected to the control unit 12, and vibrates at the time of an incoming call or the like to notify it. The ringer or speaker 36 is controlled by the control unit 12 and sounds at the time of an incoming call or the like to notify it.
The incoming LED (incoming light emitting diode) 38 is connected to the control unit 12 and, under the control of the control unit 12, blinks at the time of an incoming call or the like to notify it.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the key operation unit 24 of the mobile phone. A check key 301 is a function key that is pressed when a list menu is displayed on the display unit 22, for example.
The business service key 303 is a function key for shifting to a predetermined operation screen by continuously pressing the numeric keypad 311. A mode set (MODE / SET) key 309 is used when selecting or confirming each item. Are multi-directional operation keys used for The on-hook key 305 is a key to be pressed when hanging up the telephone, and the off-hook key 307 is a key to be pressed when receiving a telephone call or starting communication with the information service center. In addition, the ten keys 311 are keys to be pressed when inputting a telephone number of a destination or inputting a transmission message. Less than,
In the description of the embodiment, the key names and symbols used in FIG. 3 will be referred to.

<First Embodiment> The text message service supported by the mobile phone shown in FIG. 1 is provided by interposing a mail center, which is a store-and-forward data transfer system, between user terminals. It goes without saying that this service is also applicable to various data transfers including image data, animation data (including moving images), sound data (such as ringtone melody), voice data, and the like, in addition to character data.

Next, as specific examples of the text message service, sky mail, coordinator (broadcast transmission with reply), relay mail (circulation message transmission), hot line (message transmission / reception using pseudo line), greeting ( The explanation of polling is described below. Skymail (trademark registration number 4382573, J-Phone East Japan Co., Ltd.) is a service that allows text messages to be transmitted and received between a telephone compatible with this service and a personal computer connected to the Internet. With a coordinator (Trademark No. 4382571, J-Phone East Japan Co., Ltd.), you can send a message to multiple parties (for example, up to seven people) at the same time with one operation, and receive a reply from the partner after sending It is a service that can be done. Relay mail (trademark registration number 4382572, J-Phone East Japan Co., Ltd.) is a service that circulates messages in the order in which the sender has previously registered as members (for example, up to seven). The service allows senders to receive circulated messages and see members' replies and comments. The hotline (Business Application Hei 11-011972, J-Phone East Japan Co., Ltd.) is a service that enables continuous transmission and reception of messages to and from a specific partner. In the case of this service, there is no need to input a destination for each message, so that messages can be exchanged in a real-time sense. Greeting (Japanese Patent Application No. 11-011973, J-Phone East Japan Co., Ltd.) is a service that allows a message to be displayed on a partner terminal at the date and time specified by the sender. Polling is a service that allows a user to register a message created by the user on a bulletin board or to view a message registered by another person.

When confirming or editing various data to be transmitted and received using the above services, there are cases where the data cannot be displayed on the display unit 22 at one time. In such a case, when a predetermined operation is performed by the key operation unit 24 in such a case, the end of the display data is set to a predetermined position (upper end, lower end, etc.) of the display unit 22 in such a case. , And display it.

Next, with reference to a screen transition diagram of the display unit 22 shown in FIG. 2, an operation example when editing a text message to be transmitted to a partner terminal by using any of the above text message services will be described. explain. In the message editing screen 201, the display part 22 of all the message contents "Emergency contact. (Omitted) Tomorrow will be horizontal stripes."
The part that fits in ("Emergency contact.... Uniform is hi") is displayed. When a check key 301 is pressed on the screen 201 for a predetermined time, a text menu screen 203 is displayed. Text menu screen 2
In the first line of 03, the text "text menu" is displayed, and in the second and subsequent lines, menu items (copy, cut, paste, web memo, position information paste, head jump, tail jump) are displayed. Text menu screen 20
When the operator service key 303 is pressed in step 3, the screen returns to the message editing screen 201.

A screen 205 is a view showing a screen state when "head jump" is selected from the menu item. When the mode set key 309 is depressed in this state and confirmed, the editing cursor moves to the first character of the message (in this case, "T") (screen 207). Therefore,
The user can edit from the beginning of the sentence. A screen 209 is a view showing a screen state when “tail jump” is selected from the menu item on the screen 203. When the mode set key 309 is pressed and confirmed in this state, the end of the message moves to the lower right end of the display unit 22, and the editing cursor also moves to the last character of the message (in this case, the punctuation mark "."). (Screen 211). Therefore, the user can edit from the end of the sentence. In the present embodiment, the operation example when editing the text message to be transmitted to the partner terminal has been described, but when confirming the character message received from the partner terminal, the user can also jump to the beginning or end of the message in the same manner. Is possible.

<Second Embodiment> Next, with reference to a screen transition diagram of the display unit 22 shown in FIG. 4, an operation for editing note data for creating a ringing sound (hereinafter referred to as a melody). An example will be described. In FIG. 4, when the melody is edited (40
When the check key 301 is pressed in 1), if it is a normal melody edit, the melody menu screen 407a
Is displayed. On the first line of the melody menu screen 407a, the word "melody menu" is displayed, and on the second and subsequent lines, the menu items (part tone, part volume, copy,
(Cut, paste, top jump, end jump) are displayed. Further, when the same screen is scrolled using the key operation unit 24 in this state, the melody menu screen 4 is displayed.
07b is displayed, and the remaining menu items (all parts preview, melody creation completed) are displayed below the menu item “tail jump” (the sixth and subsequent lines of the melody menu screen 407b).

When the check key 301 is depressed at the time of editing the melody (401) in FIG. 4, a melody menu screen 407c is displayed if the editing is an SMD file. The SMD file refers to a ringing melody data file that can be attached to an e-mail by J-Sky Service (Japanese Patent Application No. 11-110223, J-phone East Japan, Inc.). Melody menu screen 407c
In the first line, the word "Melody menu" is displayed,
The menu items (part tone, part volume,
All parts audition, melody creation completed) is displayed.

When the check key 301 is depressed at the time of editing the melody (401) in FIG. 4, a melody menu screen 407d is displayed in the case of editing a mail attached sound. On the first line of the melody menu screen 407d, the word "melody menu" is displayed, and on the second and subsequent lines, menu items (copy, cut, paste, first jump, last jump, audition of all parts, completion of melody creation)
Is displayed. The melody menu screen 407e is a view showing a screen state when “melody creation end” is selected from the menu items.

From the melody menu item on the melody menu screen (any one of screens 407a to 407e) surrounded by a dotted line 407, "End melody creation"
Is selected and the mode set key 309 is depressed to confirm, and the screen shifts to a melody storage confirmation screen (not shown) (40).
3). Select one of “copy”, “cut”, and “paste” from the melody menu items on the melody menu screen (any of screens 407 a to 407 e) surrounded by a dotted line 407, and press the mode set key 309. Then, editing (copy, cut, paste) of the range is started (405).

A screen 411 is selected by selecting “head jump” from the melody menu items of the melody menu screen (any one of the screens 407 a to 407 e) surrounded by a dotted line 407 and pressing the mode set key 309. It is a figure showing the screen state at the time of doing. The beginning of the melody being edited moves to the left end of the middle of the display unit 22, and the editing cursor also moves to the beginning of the melody 409. Therefore, the user can edit from the beginning of the melody.

A screen 413 is selected by selecting “end jump” from the melody menu items of the melody menu screen (any of screens 407 a to 407 e) surrounded by a dotted line 407, and pressing the mode set key 309 to confirm. It is a figure showing the screen state at the time of doing. The end of the melody being edited moves to the middle left end of the display unit 22, and the editing cursor also moves to the end of the melody 409. Therefore, the user can edit from the end of the melody.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the present invention is not limited to the above description. For example, in the first embodiment, a case where the partner terminal is a mobile communication terminal or a personal computer is taken as an example. However, it is clear that the partner terminal may be a web server. In this case, when the website image being viewed on the Internet-compatible mobile phone cannot be displayed at once on the display unit 22, it is possible to jump to the beginning or end of the website image by a predetermined key operation.

When various data are uploaded to a web server in an Internet-compatible mobile phone, if the data cannot be displayed all at once on the display unit 22, the data is jumped to the beginning or end of the data by a predetermined key operation. It is also possible. It should be noted that the text message service (Sky Mail to Polling) used in the present embodiment is only a specific example, and it is obvious that other data transfer services provided by interposing a mail center between user terminals may be used. is there. Also, the SMD file used in the present embodiment is only a specific example, and it is clear that another ringing melody data file may be used.

[0025]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, the cursor can be moved to the beginning / end of the display data with a few key operations, and the time required to compose a message and browse the display data can be reduced. It is possible to provide a mobile communication terminal that can be achieved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a screen transition diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a key operation unit of the mobile phone according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a screen transition diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 12 control unit 14 flash memory 16 RAM 22 display unit 24 key operation unit

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A mobile communication terminal having a function of displaying various data, comprising: means for moving an end of data being displayed to a predetermined position on a display unit when a predetermined key operation is performed. Characteristic mobile communication terminal. 2. A mobile communication terminal having a function of editing various data, means for moving an editing cursor to an end of the data being edited when a predetermined key operation is performed, and an end of the data being edited. Means for moving to a predetermined position on the display unit. 3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the end of the data is a head or an end of the data. 4. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined position is an upper end or a lower end. 5. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the data is character data and / or image data received from a partner terminal. 6. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the data is character data and / or image data to be transmitted to a partner terminal. 7. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the data is musical note data for generating a ringing sound.