JP2005108056A - Portable terminal device, method for retrieving information, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a portable terminal device by which a required menu item can be easily searched. <P>SOLUTION: When a user inputs a keyword by using an input device 10, a retrieving device 20 retrieves menu items of the portable terminal device by using the inputted keyword. Since a menu list storage device 31 stores a list of all menu items, the retrieving device 20 detects menu items including the keyword from the list. Detected results are displayed on a display device 40 as a list. When a menu item in the retrieved results is selected, processing corresponding to the menu item is executed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal device, an information search method, and a program, and more particularly to a mobile terminal device, an information search method, and a program that can easily find a desired menu item.

  The functions of portable terminal devices such as cellular phones are diverse and there are many menu items, making it difficult to understand where the menu item desired by the user is in the menu.

  For example, there is a mobile phone described in Patent Document 1 as a technique for easily and quickly searching for a desired menu.

  In this mobile phone, each menu is displayed around the display screen of the display unit, and when the displayed menu is selected by the user using the operation means, the menu related to the menu is displayed around the display screen. Is displayed.

JP 2000-115318 A (page 3-5, FIG. 1)

  However, since the functions of the mobile phone are diverse as described above, the user may not know where the desired menu item belongs. In this case, even with the technique described in Patent Document 1, the desired menu item may not be known. Finding items quickly is difficult.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal device, an information search method, and a program that can easily find a desired menu item.

  A mobile terminal device according to the present invention includes a search means for searching based on an input keyword with a menu item of the mobile terminal device as a search target. In addition, display means for displaying the search result of the search means is included, and processing corresponding to the selected menu item is executed in response to selection of the menu item included in the displayed search result. It is characterized by that.

  The information search method according to the present invention is an information search method for a mobile terminal device, and includes a search step for searching based on an input keyword with the menu item of the mobile terminal device as a search target. . In addition, a display step for displaying the search result of the search step is included, and in response to selection of a menu item included in the displayed search result, processing corresponding to the selected menu item is executed. It is characterized by that.

  A program according to the present invention is a program for causing a computer to execute an information search method for a mobile terminal device, and includes a search step for performing a search based on an input keyword with the menu item of the mobile terminal device as a search target. It is characterized by including.

  According to the present invention, the mobile terminal device is provided with search means for searching for menu items of the mobile terminal device using the input keyword. As described above, since the menu item of the mobile terminal device is a keyword search target, the user can easily find a desired menu item only by inputting the keyword.

  The effect of the present invention is that a desired menu item can be easily found. The reason is that the menu item of the mobile terminal device is the target of keyword search by the search means.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a mobile terminal device according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the mobile terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes an input device 10 for a user to input a keyword for menu search, and a search device for searching a menu item including the keyword from the input keyword. 20, a menu list storage device 31, a search result storage device 32, a display device 40 that displays messages and search results, a control unit 50 that controls these units, and a ROM 60.

  The input device 10 is provided with a menu search button 11 for instructing start / end of menu search. The menu list storage device 31 stores in advance a menu list that is a list of all menu items of the mobile terminal device. The search result storage device 32 stores the search result of the search device 20. The search device 20 searches for a menu item including the input keyword from the menu list of the menu list storage device 31 or the search result of the search result storage device 32.

  The control unit 50 operates according to the operation procedure of the program stored in the ROM 60 to control each unit, and includes a CPU (computer). The operation processing procedure of the present embodiment described below can be controlled by storing it in the ROM 60 as a program in advance.

  Next, the operation of the portable terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 2 and 3 are flowcharts showing the operation of the portable terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. 4A, 4B, and 5A to 5C are diagrams showing examples of display screens of the display device 40 of FIG.

  2 and 3, first, when the menu search button 11 is pressed (step A1), a keyword input screen for search is displayed on the display device 40 (step A2, screen 100 in FIG. 4A). .

  When a keyword (character string) is input from the input device 10 by the user (step A3, screen 200 in FIG. 4B), the input keyword is sent to the search device 20, and the search device 20 uses the keyword. A menu item is searched from the menu list (step A4). That is, the search device 20 searches for all menu items in the menu list of the menu list storage device 31 for a menu item that includes the same character string as the keyword.

  When the keyword search is completed up to the last item in the menu list, the search result is stored in the search result storage device 32 (step A5, step A6) and displayed on the display device 40 (step A7, as shown in FIG. 5A). Screen 300). When there is no search result, that is, when it is determined that there is no menu item including the keyword (Step A5, No), a message such as “N / A” is displayed on the display device 40 (Step A5). A10), the process returns to the keyword input process.

  The keyword search of the menu can be performed any number of times by the user, and when the menu search button 11 is pressed again (step A8, Yes), the process proceeds to step B2 and the keyword input is requested again in the same manner as in step A1, and the search process is started. To do. However, in the second and subsequent searches, the search device 20 performs a keyword search from the previous search result stored in the search result storage device 32 instead of the menu list of the menu list storage device 31.

  That is, when a keyword is input (step B3), the search device 20 searches the search result in the search result storage device 32 for a menu item that includes the same character string as the keyword (step B4). The search result is stored in the search result storage device 32 (step B5, step B6) and displayed on the display device 40 (step B7, screen 400 in FIG. 5B). If there is no menu item including a keyword in the previous search result (step B5, No), a message “not applicable” is displayed as in step A10 (step B9), and the keyword input process is performed. Return.

  In this manner, by performing a keyword search from the previous search result in the second and subsequent search processes, it is possible to perform a narrow search using keywords as illustrated in the screen 400 of FIG. 5B.

  While the search result is displayed (step A7 or B7), the user does not press the menu search button 11 (step A8 or B8, No), and the user displays it as illustrated in the screen 500 of FIG. 5C. By selecting a desired menu item from the search results using the input device 10 (step A9), processing corresponding to the selected menu item is executed under the control of the control unit 50 (step A11). ).

  When the menu search button 11 is pressed in step B8, keyword search is performed again through steps B2 and B3 (step B4). If the search at this time is the third search, in the third search, the search result from the second search is used as a search target. In this case, the search result obtained by the second search is stored by overwriting the search result obtained by the first search in step B6.

  Alternatively, in the third search, the search result by the first search and the search result by the second search may be set as search targets. In this case, the search result by the second search is stored so as to coexist with the search result by the first search in step B6.

  In the search process described above, the search process is terminated when the menu search button 11 is pressed (long press) for a predetermined time.

  As described above, in the first embodiment of the present invention, since the keyword search function of the menu is provided in the portable terminal device, the user can easily find a desired menu item, and therefore the time for searching for the menu can be reduced. Shortening can be achieved.

  In the first embodiment of the present invention, when the menu items of the search results are displayed as a list on the display device 40, the menu items may be rearranged in the descending order of frequency of use. In this case, in the menu list of the menu storage device 31, the use frequency is associated with each menu item and registered, and the control unit 50 refers to the menu list when displaying the search result on the display device 40. The menu items of the search result are rearranged in order of frequency of use and displayed as a list. In this way, the search results are rearranged in descending order of the frequency of use by the user, thereby making it easier to search for a desired menu item.

  Further, when performing a keyword search, the search device 20 may perform a fuzzy search that also targets a character string similar to the input keyword. Thus, a desired menu item can be found even if the menu item name is ambiguously remembered.

  Further, the start / end of the menu search is performed by operating the menu search button 11, but the start / end of the search is instructed by a combination operation of some buttons of the input device 10 instead of the dedicated button. Also good. Alternatively, an icon for starting / ending the search may be displayed on the display device 40, and the start / end of the search may be instructed by selecting the icon using the input device 10.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the menu item that is a keyword search target in this embodiment is a menu name (function name), but is not limited to this, and can be a keyword search target. For example, each setting item of the menu may be a search target.

  Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a configuration of a portable terminal device according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and the same parts as those in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the portable terminal device according to the second embodiment of the present invention is different from the first embodiment in that it includes a voice input device 12 and a voice recognition device 13. The voice input device 12 is a device for a user to input voice. The voice recognition device 13 is assumed to have previously registered voice data for starting and ending menu search by the user, and voice data for starting or ending menu search in which the voice input by the voice input device 12 is registered. To see if it matches.

  That is, in step A1 of FIG. 2, when the voice recognition device 13 determines that the input voice matches the pre-registered menu search start voice data, the menu search process after step A2 of FIG. 2 is started. The Similarly, at the end of the menu search, if it is determined that the input voice matches the voice data of the menu search end registered in advance, the search process is ended.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the portable terminal device by 1st Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the portable terminal device of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the portable terminal device of FIG. (A) And (b) is a figure which shows the example of a display screen of the display apparatus of FIG. 1, respectively. (A)-(c) is a figure which shows the example of a display screen of the display apparatus of FIG. 1, respectively. It is a figure which shows the structure of the portable terminal device by 2nd Example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Input device 11 Menu search button 12 Voice input device 13 Voice recognition device 20 Search device 31 Menu list storage device 32 Search result storage device 40 Display device 50 Control unit 60 ROM

Claims (7)

  A portable terminal device comprising: search means for performing a search based on an input keyword with a menu item of the portable terminal device as a search target.   Display means for displaying a search result of the search means, and in response to selection of a menu item included in the displayed search result, processing corresponding to the selected menu item is executed. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein:   The portable terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the display unit displays a list of menu items included in the search result in descending order of use frequency.   An information search method for a portable terminal device, comprising: a search step for performing a search based on an input keyword with the menu item of the portable terminal device as a search target.   A display step for displaying a search result of the search step, and a process corresponding to the selected menu item is executed in response to selection of the menu item included in the displayed search result. 5. The information retrieval method according to claim 4, wherein   6. The information search method according to claim 5, wherein the display step displays each menu item included in the search result in a list in descending order of use frequency. A program for causing a computer to execute an information search method for a portable terminal device, comprising: a search step for performing a search based on an input keyword with the menu item of the portable terminal device as a search target. program.

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