JP2006318210A - Portable terminal apparatus and display method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display method in a portable terminal apparatus capable of conspicuously displaying which position in the whole page is a practical display area. <P>SOLUTION: In the case of displaying information of each page including characters, symbols and/or images on the screen of the portable terminal apparatus, a part of the information of each page which occupies the page is displayed on the screen as a display area 30, a display area position displaying pattern plotting the position of a display area 42 is displayed in the page 41 in a superposed state, and the position of the display area 42 plotted in the display area position displaying pattern is moved in accordance with scrolling of the display area 30. According to the display area position displaying pattern, a user can easily understand which position in the whole page corresponds to the practical display area 30. Since the display area position displaying pattern is displayed so as to be superposed to characters, patterns or the like in the display area 30, the display area on the screen for displaying the page is not substantially narrowed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal device that displays a Web page and the like and a display method thereof, and particularly enables easy-to-see display.

  A recent mobile phone can display not only a mobile phone dedicated home page edited vertically but also a personal computer page. However, since the display screen of the mobile phone is small, for example, when the entire Web page is represented in FIG. 13A, the entire Web page 10 is displayed on the display screen of the mobile phone as shown in FIG. When displayed, characters and figures become small and difficult to see. Therefore, a method has been adopted in which a display area 11 desired to be displayed is selected from the page 10 and enlarged as shown in FIG. 13C, and the display area 11 is browsed while scrolling on the screen. Yes.

  However, with this method, it is difficult to determine which side of the page the currently displayed display area is.

  In order to eliminate such inconvenience in Patent Document 1 below, as shown in FIG. 14, a left and right scroll bar 12 and an up and down scroll bar 14 are displayed on a display screen of a mobile phone, and scroll boxes 13 and 15 on the bar are displayed. Has proposed a method for indicating a display area in a page. The length of the left / right scroll bar 12 indicates the total length in the left / right direction of the page, and the length of the scroll box 13 indicates the relative length in the left / right direction of the display area 11 with respect to the total length in the left / right direction of the page. ing. Similarly, the length of the vertical scroll bar 14 indicates the total length in the vertical direction of the page, and the length of the scroll box 15 indicates the relative length in the vertical direction of the display area 11 with respect to the total length in the vertical direction of the page. ing.

  When the display area 11 is moved by operating the direction key or the numeric keypad of the mobile phone, the scroll boxes 13 and 15 move on the left and right scroll bars 12 and the upper and lower scroll bars 14 according to the movement of the display area 11.

JP 2004-258990 A

  However, in the conventional method of displaying the display area using the scroll bar, the display area of the scroll bar must be secured on the narrow display screen of the mobile phone, so the screen area that can be used for displaying the Web page is further narrowed. .

  Further, since the user has to assume the display area by combining the positions of both scroll boxes 13 and 15, it is difficult to accurately recognize the position of the display area in the page.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and provides a portable terminal device capable of easily displaying where the actual display area is located on the entire page, and also provides a display method thereof. The purpose is that.

  The portable terminal device of the present invention includes a storage unit that stores information in units of pages, a display unit that displays a part of the information in units of pages in a page as a display area, and the display area displayed on the display unit An operation unit that operates the movement of the display unit, a display area of a movement destination according to the operation of the operation unit, and a display area position display body that indicates a position of the display area of the movement destination in the page. And a control unit that displays the images in a superimposed manner.

  In this device, a display (display area position display) indicating the relative position of the display area in the page is displayed so as to overlap the characters and images in the display area.

  In the mobile terminal device of the present invention, when an operation for hiding the display area position display body is performed from the operation section, the control section causes the display section to stop displaying the display area position display body.

  In this apparatus, display / non-display of the display area position indicator can be switched.

  In the mobile terminal device of the present invention, the operation unit includes a direction key and a numeric keypad, and the control unit moves the movement range between when the direction key is operated and when the numeric key is operated with respect to the display unit. The display area is instructed to move in the wrong direction.

  For example, continuous scrolling of the display area is performed by operating the direction keys, and scrolling for one screen of the display area is performed by operating the numeric keys.

  Further, in the mobile terminal device of the present invention, when the display area is located at the right end of the page, the control unit moves the display area to the left end of the page in response to the operation of moving the operation unit in the right direction. To the display.

  Therefore, the display area moves directly from the right end of the page to the left end.

  In the mobile terminal device of the present invention, after the display area is moved, the control unit causes the display unit to display a mark indicating the position of the display area before the movement for a certain time on the display area after the movement.

  This mark tells you how far you have read.

  The display method of the present invention is a display method for displaying information in units of pages on the screen of the mobile terminal device, and a step of displaying a part of the page of information in units of pages on the screen as a display area. And displaying a display area position indicator indicating the position of the display area in the page over the display area, and moving the display area up to the display area in accordance with the movement of the display area in the page. Moving the position of the display area table itself shown in FIG.

  With this display area position indicator, the relative position of the display area in the page can be known.

  In the display method of the present invention, the display area moves directly from the right end of the page to the left end.

  Since this is similar to the movement of following a line break in a horizontally written document, it is convenient when reading a horizontally written document while scrolling.

  In the display method of the present invention, after the display area is moved, a mark indicating the position of the display area before the movement is displayed for a certain period of time in the display area after the movement.

  This mark tells you how far you have read before scrolling.

  In the portable terminal device and the display method of the present invention, it can be easily understood from the display area position display body where the actual display area is located on the entire page. Moreover, since this display area position display body is displayed so as to be superimposed on the characters and figures in the display area, the display area on the screen for displaying the Web page is not substantially reduced.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention, and a perspective view of the mobile phone.

  The device stores a communication unit 23, a ringing unit 24, a display unit 22, an operation unit 21 including a direction key unit 211 and a numeric keypad unit 212, a control unit 25 that controls the operation of the mobile phone, and information. And an information storage unit 20. The communication unit 23 includes an antenna and a wireless circuit that perform wireless communication with an external base station. The ringing unit 24 includes a buzzer that emits a ringing tone, a vibrator that notifies an incoming call by vibration, and the like. The display unit 22 is generally composed of a liquid crystal display and displays characters and images. The operation unit 21 includes a direction key unit 211, a numeric keypad unit 212, and the like, and a user of the mobile phone inputs a desired operation. The control unit 25 and the information storage unit 20 are configured by predetermined semiconductor processors such as a CPU, a ROM, and a RAM.

  The information storage unit 20 includes a software memory unit 203, a screen information storage unit 202, and an operation function setting storage unit 201.

  The software memory unit 203 stores various software such as a call function, a mail function, a browser function for browsing a homepage on the Internet, and is used for calculation of “relative position display of a display area in a page” described later. An arithmetic program to be stored is stored.

  The screen information storage unit 202 stores information on Web pages acquired through the communication unit 23.

  In addition, the operation function setting storage unit 201 stores a table for assigning commands corresponding to various types of software to the direction keys of the direction key unit 211 and the numeric keys of the numeric keypad unit 212.

  FIG. 2 shows a table in which commands assigned to direction keys and numeric keys are described when the browser is activated. This table is stored in the operation function setting storage unit 201. FIG. 3 shows the correspondence between the operation of the direction key or the numeric keypad and the command on the display page 10. The display area 30 corresponding to the current display position in the display page 10 moves in accordance with the operation of the direction key or numeric keypad and the corresponding command in the table.

  For example, when the upper side of the direction key is pressed, “scroll up the display area” is selected in the table command. Then, as shown in FIG. 3, while the direction key is being pressed, a command for continuously moving the display area 30 in the upward direction of the page 10 (in a normal scroll operation unit) is issued. When the numeric keypad 2 is pressed, a command for moving the display area 30 upward by the size of the display area 30 (one-screen scroll) is issued.

  Also, when “*” on the numeric keypad is pressed, “display of relative position of display area occupying page” is displayed on the screen, and when pressed again, it is switched to non-display.

  FIG. 4 shows “relative position display of the display area occupying the page” (hereinafter referred to as “display area position display”) displayed on the display screen of the mobile phone. This display area position display is a display area position display that indicates the relative position of a dotted frame line (page shape frame line) 41 indicating the reduced shape of the entire page and the current display area 30 occupying the page. It is composed of dotted frame lines (display area frame lines) 42, and is displayed so as to be superimposed on the display area 30 for displaying a part of the Web page in an enlarged manner. Therefore, the ratio of the size of the page shape frame line 41 and the display area frame line 42 is equal to the ratio of the actual size of the entire page and the size of the current display area. The display area frame line 42 corresponds to the outline of the current display area 30, and as shown in FIG. 5, when the display area is scrolled, the display area frame line 42 moves in the page shape frame line 41 accordingly.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the page shape frame line 41 is displayed vertically on the mobile phone screen when the Web page is vertically long (FIG. 6A), and when the Web page is horizontally long, the screen of the mobile phone is displayed. It is displayed horizontally long on the top (FIG. 6B).

  When the numeric key “#” is pressed, a scroll and display area position setting screen shown in FIG. 7 is displayed. From this setting screen, it is possible to set whether to operate the continuous scroll or the single screen scroll with the direction key or the numeric keypad. In the example shown in the figure, as described above, by selecting the “directional key normal” setting, continuous scrolling using the direction key becomes possible, and by selecting the “numeric keypad one screen” setting, using the numeric keypad Screen scrolling is possible. Further, the display magnification and display position of the page shape frame line in the display area position display can be set.

  FIG. 8A shows the display area position display when the display magnification of the page shape frame line 41 is set to 100% and the display position is set to the upper left, and FIG. 8B shows the page shape frame. The display area position display when the display magnification of the line 41 is set to 50% and the display position is set to the lower right is shown.

  Next, the operation of this mobile phone will be described.

  The user performs a predetermined operation from the operation unit 21 when browsing a homepage on the Internet with this mobile phone. The web page received through the communication unit 23 is stored in the screen information storage unit 202, and the control unit 25 activates the browser stored in the software memory unit 203 and causes the display unit 22 to display the received web page.

  At this time, the control unit 25 sets a predetermined area (for example, the upper left portion) of the Web page as the display area, and instructs the display unit 22 to enlarge and display the page portion of the display area. At the same time, an instruction is given to display the page shape frame line 41 and the display area frame line 42 calculated by the calculation program in an overlapped manner at a preset display position at a preset display position.

  When the user presses “#” of the numeric keypad 211 to display the setting screen of FIG. 7 and update the setting of the display magnification and display position of the page shape frame line, the control unit 25 displays the updated page shape frame line 41 and The position of the display area frame line 42 is calculated by the calculation program, and the page shape frame line 41 and the display area frame line 42 are displayed on the display unit 22 at new positions.

  When the user presses the numeric keypad 211 or the direction key 212 of 0 to 9, the control unit 25 reads a command corresponding to the operation key from the table of FIG. 2 and outputs it to the display unit 22, and the display unit 22 The display area is continuously scrolled or scrolled one screen in the specified direction according to the command. Moreover, the control part 25 calculates the position change of the display area frame line 42 accompanying the scroll with a calculation program, and makes the display part 22 display the display area frame line 42 in a new position based on the calculation result.

  When the user presses “*” on the numeric keypad 211 and selects not to display the display area position, the control unit 25 stops displaying the page shape frame line 41 and the display area frame line 42 on the display unit 22. Let

  In this manner, in this mobile phone, the display area position display directly displays the positional relationship between the Web page and the display area occupied by the page, so that the user can locate where the current display area is in the entire page. Can be easily understood.

  Further, since the display area position display is displayed so as to be superimposed on the characters and graphics in the display area, the display area of the Web page is not substantially reduced.

  In addition, although the case where the page shape frame line and the display area frame line are displayed with dotted lines has been described here, the display area position display may not be difficult to read characters and figures in the display area. Each frame line may be colored with a different light color.

  Further, here, the case where the scroll direction of FIG. 3 is defined with the table of FIG. 2 has been described. However, as shown in FIG. 9, as a table used when the display area 30 reaches the right end of the page 10, A table defining direct movement to the left end of 10 may be provided.

  In this case, when the right side of the direction key is pressed while the display area 30 has reached the right end of the page 10, the display area 30 moves to the left end of the page 10 without changing the vertical position, and from there to the right Start continuous scrolling toward. When the numeric keypad 6 is pressed, the screen is scrolled one screen to the left end of the page 10 without changing the vertical position. When the lower right side of the directional key is pressed, the display area 30 moves to the left end of the page 10 that is moved down by one size in the vertical direction, and starts continuous scrolling from there to the lower right direction. To do. Further, when the numeric keypad 9 is pressed, the screen is scrolled one screen to the left end of the page 10 that is lowered by one step in the vertical direction by the size of the display area 30.

  Therefore, the user can easily move the display area 30 from the left end of the page 10 to the right end. Such a large movement of the display area 30 may confuse the user if the destination of the movement is not known, but the mobile phone of this embodiment displays the current position of the display area 30 in an easy-to-understand manner by the display area position display. Therefore, the user is not confused.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 10, when the display area 30 reaches the right end of the page 10, the table may be defined so as to allow only the direct movement to the left end of the page 10 that has moved down by one step in the vertical direction. In this case, when the right side of the direction key is pressed in a state where the display area 30 has reached the right end of the page 10, the display area 30 moves down to the left end of the page 10 which is one step down in the vertical direction. From there, start a continuous scroll in the right direction. Further, when the numeric keypad 6 is pressed, the screen is scrolled one screen to the left end of the page 10 that is lowered by one step in the vertical direction by the size of the display area 30.

  FIG. 11 shows the movement destination on the page 10 of the display area 30 in this case. Since the movement of the display area 30 is a movement to follow the line feed destination of the horizontally written document, it is convenient when reading the horizontally written document while scrolling.

  Further, if the displayed text is read while scrolling the display area, the user may forget how much the text has been read when the display area is moved. In order to prevent such a situation, as shown in FIG. 12, when the display area 42 is moved from the position of FIG. 12 (a) to the position of FIG. 12 (b), the position of the display area 42 before the movement is displayed on the screen information storage unit. The mark 43 representing the display position before scrolling may be displayed for several seconds as shown in FIG.

  Although various embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the matters shown in the above-described embodiments, and those skilled in the art can make modifications and applications based on the description and well-known techniques. This is also the scope of the present invention, and is included in the scope of seeking protection.

  The present invention can enhance convenience when browsing information on a small screen, and can be widely applied to mobile terminal devices such as mobile phones and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants).

The block diagram and perspective view which show the structure of the mobile telephone in embodiment of this invention Table held by a mobile phone in an embodiment of the present invention The figure which shows the relationship between the direction key and numeric keypad of a mobile telephone, and the scroll direction of a display area in embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the 1st display screen of the mobile telephone in embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the 2nd display screen of the mobile telephone in embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the position of the display area position display of the mobile telephone in embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the setting screen of the mobile telephone in embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the case where the setting of the display position of the display area position display of the mobile phone in the embodiment of the present invention is changed (a) and the case where the setting of the display magnification is changed (b) The figure which shows the relationship between the direction key and ten key when the display area of the mobile telephone in embodiment of this invention is located in the right end of a page, and the scroll direction of a display area. The figure which shows the relationship between the directional key and numeric keypad when the display area of the mobile telephone in embodiment of this invention is located in the right end of a page, and the scroll direction which the display area limited. The figure which shows the movement destination of the display area of a mobile telephone in embodiment of this invention Explanatory drawing of the mark which shows the position before the scroll of the mobile telephone in embodiment of this invention The figure explaining the display on the display screen of the conventional mobile phone The figure explaining the relative position display method of the display area with the conventional mobile phone

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10 page 11 display area 12 left and right scroll bar 13 scroll box 14 up and down scroll bar 15 scroll box 20 information storage unit 21 operation unit 22 display unit 23 communication unit 24 ringing unit 25 control unit 30 display area 41 page shape frame line 42 display area frame Line 43 Position display mark 201 before scrolling Operation function setting storage unit 202 Screen information storage unit 203 Software memory unit 211 Direction key unit 212 Ten key unit

Claims (9)

A storage unit for storing information in page units;
A display unit that displays a part of the page information in the page as a display area;
An operation unit for operating movement of the display area displayed on the display unit;
A control unit that causes the display unit to display a destination display area corresponding to the operation of the operation unit and a display area position display body that indicates a position of the display area of the destination in the page; A mobile terminal device provided. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1,
The portable terminal device in which the control unit causes the display unit to stop displaying the display area position display when an operation for hiding the display area position display is performed from the operation unit. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 or 2,
The operation unit includes a direction key and a numeric keypad, and the control unit displays the display unit with different movement widths when the direction key is operated and when the numeric key is operated. A mobile terminal device that instructs movement of an area. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 or 2,
When the display area is located at the right end of the page, the control unit moves the display area to the left end of the page in response to a rightward movement operation of the operation unit. A portable terminal device instructing to. The mobile terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The mobile terminal device, wherein after the movement of the display area, the control unit causes the display unit to display a mark indicating the position of the display area before the movement for a certain period of time on the display area after the movement. The mobile terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
The display area position indicator includes a display area frame line indicating an outline of the display area. A display method for displaying information in units of pages on a screen of a mobile terminal device,
Displaying a part of the page-based information in the screen as a display area on the screen;
Displaying a display area position indicator that indicates the position of the display area in the page, overlaid on the display area;
Moving the position of the display area table itself shown above to the display area in accordance with the movement of the display area in the page. The display method according to claim 7,
A display method for displaying the display area so as to directly move from the right end to the left end of the page. The display method according to claim 7 or 8, wherein
A display method of displaying a mark indicating the position of the display area before the movement for a certain time after the movement of the display area in the display area after the movement.

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