JP2008278365A - Portable information terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable information terminal displaying information efficiently in space for a display area. <P>SOLUTION: In an alarm function, five pieces of alarm information are set. On a screen 100 (list screen) for displaying a summary of alarm information, a day of the week for each piece is displayed in any one mode, including less characters, of either in a positive display mode (for displaying the set day of the week) or in a negative display mode (for displaying any day of the week other than the set day of the week). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a portable information terminal, and more particularly to a portable information terminal that stores various setting contents and displays the setting contents.

  Conventionally, portable information terminals equipped with various functions such as a calculator function and an alarm function have been distributed. Various techniques relating to display of information such as a set time have been disclosed for portable information terminals equipped with an alarm function.

  For example, Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-31174) discloses a technique that enables a plurality of alarm times to be set and a list display of the plurality of alarm times in a mobile phone. .

As a conventional technique related to the display of the set time, as shown in Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 2-294728), the input date / time data is the number of characters of information specifying the set time. There is also a technique for reducing the number of characters until the number of characters that can be displayed on the display unit is reduced.
JP 2002-31174 A JP-A-2-294728

  In the conventional portable information terminal, when information set by the user such as a set time for the alarm function is displayed in a list, it is desired to display more information. On the other hand, downsizing of portable information terminals has been promoted in order to ensure portability, and as a result, the display area of the portable telephone is made narrower than information terminals such as personal computers. . Therefore, in such a portable information terminal, there is a great demand for displaying information particularly efficiently.

  The present invention has been conceived in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a portable information terminal capable of displaying information in a space efficiently in a display area.

  The portable information terminal according to the present invention includes a display means, a storage means for storing information designated from the first number of information, and a display for displaying the information stored in the storage means on the display means. Information for displaying the specified information in the first display mode, and information for displaying the specified information in a second display mode different from the first display mode. And the specified information is displayed on the display means in a mode in which the number of characters used for display is smaller in the first display mode and the second display mode. And

  Moreover, in the portable information terminal according to the present invention, the first display mode is a mode of displaying specified information in the first number of information, and the second display mode is It is preferable that information other than the designated information is displayed in the first number of information.

  In the portable information terminal according to the present invention, the display control means is a case where the number of the designated information exceeds a second number smaller than the first number, and the first display When the number of characters in the mode and the second display mode is the same, it is preferable that the designated information is displayed on the display unit in the first mode.

  In the portable information terminal according to the present invention, the information specified from the first number of information is preferably information specifying a day of the week.

  Moreover, in the portable information terminal according to the present invention, the display control means includes a day in which the designated day of the week includes three or more consecutive days in at least one of the first display mode and the second display mode. In particular, it is preferable to display a specific symbol sandwiched between symbols representing both days of the continuous day of the week.

  In the portable information terminal according to the present invention, the storage means stores time information as alarm information together with information designated from the first number of information, and the display control means It is preferable to display information specified from the time information and the first number of information on a screen for displaying a list.

  According to the present invention, when the number of pieces of designated information is large, the manner in which the designated information is displayed can be changed so that the designated information is displayed with as few characters as possible.

  Thereby, in the portable information terminal, information can be efficiently displayed in a space with respect to the display area with respect to display of designated information.

  In addition, according to the present invention, since the same information is displayed with a smaller number of characters, the number of characters to be recognized by the user is small, and thus the same information can be displayed in a manner that is easily recognized by the user.

Hereinafter, a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1A and FIG. 1B are external views of the mobile phone 1. The mobile phone 1 is mainly composed of an upper housing 2 and a lower housing 3. In the mobile phone 1, the upper housing 2 and the lower housing 3 are connected to each other by a slide mechanism (not shown) so as to be opened and closed. 1A shows a state in which the upper housing 2 and the lower housing 3 are closed, and FIG. 1B shows a state in which the upper housing 2 and the lower housing 3 are opened.

The upper housing 2 is provided with a display 11, a mouthpiece 12, and a mouthpiece 13.
Operation keys 21, 22, 23 </ b> A to 23 </ b> D and 24 to 28 are provided on the surface of the lower housing 3 that is covered with the upper housing 2 when the cellular phone 1 is closed. The operation key 21 is used when inputting a telephone number or characters. The operation keys 22 include keys (four-way keys) for moving the cursor in four directions, up, down, left, and right, and keys (decision keys) that are operated when selecting information displayed on the display 11. The operation keys 23A to 23D are keys that are operated when a function given to each key is executed. The operation keys 24, 25, and 26 are the same. The operation keys 27 and 28 are keys operated when inputting “*” and “#”, respectively.

  Side keys 31 to 36 are provided on the side surface of the lower housing 3. As can be understood from FIG. 1A, the side keys 31 to 36 can be operated even when the cellular phone 1 is closed.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically illustrating a hardware configuration of the mobile phone 1.
Referring to FIG. 2, mobile phone 1 and control unit 50 that controls the overall operation of mobile phone 1 are provided. The control unit 50 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit). The mobile phone 1 also includes a RAM (Random Access Memory) 51 that functions as a work area for the control unit 50.

  In the mobile phone 1, transmission / reception of information regarding a call and reception of a television broadcast wave are performed via an antenna 89. Radio waves related to a call are transmitted and received via the communication control unit 80. The television broadcast wave received by the antenna 89 is input to the control unit 50 via the tuner 81, the conversion unit 82, and the encoder 83.

  The mobile phone 1 includes a receiver 56 that outputs sound during a call, a microphone 58 that inputs sound, and a speaker 57 that outputs alarm sound, sound of a television broadcast program, and the like. The mobile phone 1 also includes a camera 52 (not shown) and a state detection unit 59 that detects the open / close state of the upper housing 2 and the lower housing 3 in the mobile phone 1.

  The cellular phone 1 further includes a storage unit 60 that stores various information such as a program executed by the CPU of the control unit 50. The storage unit 60 includes an alarm setting information storage unit 61 that stores information set for an alarm function, which will be described later, and a data storage unit 62 that stores information such as the programs described above.

  In addition, the mobile phone 1 includes an external I / F (interface) 53, and the control unit 50 provides information on an external recording medium such as an SD memory card (Secure Digital memory card) 500 via the external I / F 53. Read and write

  The mobile phone 1 has various functions such as a calendar function for managing schedule information in association with a calendar, an alarm function for executing an operation such as outputting an alarm sound at a preset time, and a calculator function. In the cellular phone 1, a known technique can be adopted as a technique for realizing these functions unless otherwise specified in the present specification, and therefore, a duplicate description will not be given.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displayed on the display 11 for the user to select a function to be input or confirmed from among a plurality of functions of the mobile phone 1.

  Referring to FIG. 3, screen 100 includes a title display section 110 that indicates the title of the screen, a function display section 120 that displays the names of functions given to operation keys 23A and / or operation keys 23C, and the like. Main display 130 for displaying various information.

  The main display unit 130 in FIG. 3 shows a state in which names of functions (calendar, alarm, calculator, schedule list, world clock) of the mobile phone 1 are displayed. Further, a frame 131 is displayed on the main display unit 130 so as to correspond to any one of the displayed menus. In FIG. 3, the frame 131 is displayed so as to correspond to the alarm menu. The display position of the frame 131 can be moved by appropriately operating the four direction keys of the operation keys 22. When the enter key is operated, a screen showing the contents of the menu corresponding to the frame 131 at that time is displayed on the display 11. FIG. 4 shows an example of a screen displayed on the display 11 when the enter key is operated in the state shown in FIG.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen (list screen) for displaying a list of information set for the alarm function.

  In FIG. 4, the screen 100 displays a list of information stored in the alarm setting information storage unit 61. Table 1 shows an example of information stored in the alarm setting information storage unit 61.

  The alarm setting information storage unit 61 stores five pieces of alarm information each identified by setting numbers 1 to 5. Each alarm information includes a time at which the mobile phone 1 executes an alarm operation, a subject of the alarm information, information indicating a condition for repeating the alarm operation based on the alarm information (repeat information), and a mobile phone for the alarm operation. Information for specifying a file to be played back by the telephone 1 and information (ON / OFF) for specifying whether to enable or disable the alarm information are included. Note that the alarm operation in the present embodiment means an alarm operation that is generally executed by a portable information terminal, such as reproduction or vibration operation of a designated audio file or moving image file.

  The alarm information shown in Table 1 is input (set) by the user appropriately operating the operation keys 21, 22, 23A to 23D, 24 to 28, and the like. As for the subject, a combination of the character string “alarm” and each setting number is set by default. Moreover, about ON / OFF, OFF is set by default. Also, as repeat information, information (day, month, fire, water, tree, money and / or Saturday) for specifying which day of the week the alarm action is executed every day, or at the set time of the day Only one of the three types of information (only once) specifying that the alarm action is executed is set. For repeat information, for example, “only once” is set by default.

  As the reproduction file, information specifying an audio file or a moving image file stored in the data storage unit 62 is set.

  In Table 1, as alarm information of setting number 1, at 13:40 on the day (corresponding to setting number 1, the repeat information is “only once” and the time is “13:40”). Alarm information having a subject “conference” for reproducing a file named “alarm 1.mp3” is stored in a valid (ON) state.

  In Table 1, as the alarm information of setting number 2, a file named “Alarm 2.mp3” is reproduced at 14:00 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Alarm information “2” is stored in a valid state.

In Table 1, in the setting numbers 3 to 5, the alarm information is invalid (OFF).
Referring to FIG. 4 again, on the list screen, in the main display unit 130, a list of alarm information whose information is set in the time column among the alarm information specified by setting numbers 1 to 5 in Table 1 Is displayed. Specifically, in FIG. 4, in the main display unit 130, information about alarm information corresponding to the setting number 1 is displayed on the top line, and alarm information corresponding to the setting number 2 is displayed on the next line. Information showing the outline is displayed. This outline shows an image 132 indicating that the alarm information is valid, time, and repeat information in the alarm setting information (Table 1). Note that the cellular phone 1 according to the present embodiment is characterized by the display mode of repeat information on the list screen. Details of this display mode will be described later.

  In the main display unit 130 of FIG. 4, for alarm information for which information for specifying time is not set in the alarm setting information, alarm information display positions (third to fifth lines) of each setting number of the main display unit 130 are displayed. ), Only “-:-” is displayed. That is, on the list screen, for each alarm information of setting numbers 1 to 5 of the alarm setting information, information indicating an outline of the alarm information is displayed for the alarm information for which the time is set, and the alarm information for which the time is not set The information “-:-” is displayed.

  Also in the main display unit 130 of FIG. 4, a frame 131 is displayed at a position corresponding to any of the alarm information. For example, the frame 131 can change the display position of the frame 131 and the alarm information corresponding to the frame 131 by appropriately operating the four-way key. Further, when the screen 100 shown in FIG. 4 is displayed, when the enter key is operated, a screen for displaying all setting items of the alarm information corresponding to the frame 131 at that time is displayed on the display 11. Will be displayed. FIG. 5 shows an example of a screen that displays the setting contents for one piece of alarm information.

  In the screen 100 shown in FIG. 5, the main display unit 130 shows the item names and setting contents of the setting items of the alarm information shown in Table 1. Specifically, in the first line from the top of the main display unit 130, “time input:” corresponding to one of the items in Table 1 (time): time setting content (13:40) in the next line ), “Subject:” corresponding to one of the items in Table 1 (subject) on the next line, subject setting (meeting) on the next line, and one of the items in Table 1 on the next line “Repeat:” corresponding to (repeat information), repeat information setting contents (only once) in the next line, “alarm sound” corresponding to one of the items in Table 1 (playback file) in the next line / Movie: ", and the settings of the playback file (Alarm 1 (file extension is omitted in FIG. 5)) are displayed on the next line. In addition, regarding ON / OFF in Table 1, for example, when the display is returned from the screen shown in FIG. 5 to the screen shown in FIG. This is set by operating the screen.

  Also on the screen 100 shown in FIG. 5, a frame 131 is displayed on the main display unit 130 so as to correspond to one setting item (and its setting content). Specifically, FIG. 5 shows a state in which a frame 131 is displayed at a position corresponding to the subject of Table 1 and its setting content. The displayed position of the frame 131 is changed as appropriate by operating the four-way key. When the enter key is operated, a screen for setting a setting item corresponding to the display position of the frame 131 at that time is displayed on the display 11. FIG. 6 shows an example of a screen displayed on the display 11 when the determination key is operated in a state where the frame 131 is displayed at a position corresponding to “repeat information”.

  Referring to FIG. 6, screen 100 is a screen for setting repeat information in alarm information. On the main display unit 130 of the screen 100, a menu for setting repeat information is shown. Specifically, the main display unit 130 displays three menus of “only once”, “daily”, and “designate day of the week” together with radio buttons corresponding to the menus. In addition, the main display unit 130 displays a frame 131 at a position corresponding to any one of these menus. FIG. 6 shows a state in which a frame 131 is displayed at a position corresponding to the menu “only once”. The display position of the frame 131 is changed by appropriately operating the four-way key. When the determination key of the operation key 22 is operated in a state where the frame 131 is displayed at a position corresponding to the menu “only once” or “daily”, the corresponding setting number in Table 1 is repeated. A corresponding menu is set in the information column, and the screen displayed on the display 11 is changed from the screen shown in FIG. 6 to the screen shown in FIG.

  On the other hand, when the determination key is operated in a state where the frame 131 is displayed at a position corresponding to “specify day of week” in FIG. 6, the display 11 is a screen for specifically specifying the day of the week. 7 is displayed.

  Referring to FIG. 7, on main display unit 130 of screen 100, a character string indicating each day of the week from Sunday to Saturday is displayed together with a check box corresponding to each. The main display unit 130 displays a frame 131 at a position corresponding to any day of the week. The user can change the day of the week corresponding to the display position of the frame 131 by appropriately operating the four-way key of the operation key 22. Further, by operating the determination key of the operation key 22, the user can switch between specifying / not specifying the day of the week at which the display position of the frame 131 corresponds. In the screen 100 shown in FIG. 7, the user can specify a plurality of days of the week. When the user finally performs the operation of determining the content of the day of the week, the control unit 50 displays the information of the day of the week designated at that time in the repeat information column of the corresponding setting number in Table 1. And the screen to be displayed on the display 11 is changed to the screen 100 shown in FIG.

  The control unit 50 displays the screen to be displayed on the display 11 by appropriately operating the operation keys 21, 22, 23A to 23D and 24 to 28 while the screen 100 shown in FIG. 5 is displayed. 4, and the operation keys 21, 22, 23 </ b> A to 23 </ b> D and 24 to 28 are appropriately operated in a state where the screen 100 shown in FIG. 4 is displayed, thereby the display 11. The screen to be displayed is returned to the screen 100 shown in FIG.

  In the mobile phone 1, an alarm operation is executed based on the alarm information set as described above. FIG. 8 shows an example of a screen displayed on the display 11 when the alarm operation is being executed.

  Referring to FIG. 8, main display unit 130 of screen 100 shows a moving image based on a preset image or playback file (in FIG. 8, as an example, an animation representing the operation of the alarm clock ringing is shown). And a character string indicating the subject of the alarm information that is the basis of the alarm action being executed (“meeting” as an example in FIG. 8) and the time when the alarm action was started (the time in the corresponding alarm information) It is displayed.

  As described above, the cellular phone 1 according to the present embodiment is characterized in the display mode of the list screen described with reference to FIG. Specifically, it has a feature in the display mode regarding the repeat information for each alarm information on the list screen.

  Here, a process (list screen display process) executed by the control unit 50 when the list screen is displayed will be described with reference to FIG. 9 which is a flowchart of the process.

  Referring to FIG. 9, in the list screen display process, control unit 50 first sets the value of variable N used in this process to 1 in step S1, and advances the process to step S2.

  In step S2, the control unit 50 determines whether or not “time” of the alarm information of the setting number specified by N in the alarm setting information (Table 1) is set, and if it is determined that it is set, the step The process proceeds to S3, and if it is determined that it has not been performed, the process proceeds to step S5.

  In step S3, the control unit 50 displays “ON / OFF” and “time” of the setting number N of the alarm setting information on the Nth line from the top of the main display unit 130, and proceeds to step S4. . When “ON / OFF” is set to “ON”, the control unit 50 displays the image 132 described with reference to FIG. 4 in the corresponding row, and “OFF” is set. In this case, nothing is displayed at the position where the image 132 is to be displayed, and it is left blank.

  In step S4, the control unit 50 executes a process (designated day / designated information display process) for displaying “repeat information” of the setting number N on the list screen, and advances the process to step S5. Here, the contents of the designated day / designated information display process will be described with reference to FIG. 10 which is a flowchart of the subroutine of the process.

  In the designated day / designated information display process, the control unit 50 firstly sets the information set as the repeat information of the setting number N as “One day only”, “Daily”, or information specifying the day of the week in step S400. If “only 1 day”, the process proceeds to step S402. If “daily”, the process proceeds to step S406. If the information specifies the day of the week, the process proceeds to step S410. Proceed.

  In step S402, the control unit 50 displays the character string “only one day” as the day of the week display of the setting number N on the list screen, and returns the process to step S4 in FIG.

  In step S406, the control unit 50 displays the character string “daily” as the day of the week display, and returns the process to step S4 in FIG. Here, the display may be performed with the character string “Sun-Sat” (the character of “-” is half-width).

  In step S410, the control unit 50 determines whether or not the number of specified days of the week is 4 or less in the repeat information of the setting number N, and if so, advances the process to step S426. If it is not (that is, 5, 6, or 7), the process proceeds to step S412.

  In step S426, the control unit 50 determines whether or not three or more consecutive days are included in the specified day of the week. If it is determined that the day is included, the process proceeds to step S428, and is determined not to be included. Then, the process proceeds to step S427.

  Here, “continuous for 3 days or more” means a sequence of days starting from Sunday and ending on Saturday, that is, 3 days or more in a sequence of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Means that. From this, for example, if Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are selected, it is determined that there are three consecutive days, but if Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are selected, three consecutive days are determined. It is not judged to be.

  In step S427, the control unit 50 displays the characters corresponding to the designated day of the week so as to list them, and returns the process to step S4 in FIG. Specifically, for example, when Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday are designated, the character string “Sunday Wednesday” is displayed at a position corresponding to the day of the week display on the Nth row of the main display unit 130. Is done.

  In step S428, the control unit 50 causes the designated day of the week to be displayed by connecting both ends of the day of the week for three or more consecutive days with-. Specifically, when Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are designated, the character string “Sun-Thu” is displayed at a position corresponding to the day of the week display on the Nth row of the main display unit 130. Is done. Further, when Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Friday are set, a character string “Sun-Tue Fri” is displayed at the location. Again, “-” is displayed in single-byte characters.

  In step S412, it is determined whether or not the number of days of the week specified in the alarm information of setting number N is 5 or 6. If so, the process proceeds to step S416, and if not, it is determined. (In other words, all days of the week are designated), the process proceeds to step S414.

  In step S414, the control unit 50 causes the main display unit 130 to display the character string “daily” as the day of the week display in the Nth row, and returns the process to step S4 in FIG. Here, the display may be performed with the character string “Sun-Sat” (the character of “-” is half-width).

  In step S416, a process of generating information for displaying the repeat information of setting number N in an affirmative form (a mode in which designated information is displayed as it is) (affirmative form generation process) is executed, and the process proceeds to step S418. Proceed. Here, the contents of the affirmative form generation process will be described with reference to FIG. 11 which is a flowchart of the subroutine of the process.

  In the affirmative form generation process, the control unit 50 first determines in step S4160 whether or not the specified day of the week includes three or more consecutive days in the repeat information of the setting number N. If it is determined that it is not included, the process proceeds to step S4164.

  In step S4164, the control unit 50 generates day-of-week display information by enumerating characters specifying the day of the week specified in the repeat information of the setting number N, and returns the process to step S416 in FIG.

  In step S4162, similarly to step S428, the control unit 50 generates day-of-week display information by connecting the days of the week that are consecutive for three days or more with-(half-width hyphen) at both ends, and step S416 in FIG. Return processing to.

  Returning to FIG. 10, after the process of step S <b> 416, the control unit 50 displays information for displaying the repeat information of the setting number N in a negative form (a mode for displaying a day of the week other than the designated day of the week) in step S <b> 418. Is executed (negative form generation process), and the process proceeds to step 420. Here, the contents of the negative form generation processing will be described with reference to FIG. 12 which is a flowchart of the subroutine of the processing.

  In the negative form generation process, the control unit 50 first extracts a day of the week other than the day specified in the repeat information of the setting number N in step S4180, and advances the process to step S4182. Specifically, for example, if Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday are specified in the repeat information, Thursday and Saturday are extracted in step S4180.

  In step S4182, the control unit 50 generates, as the day-of-week display information, a combination of the characters identifying the day of the week extracted in step S4180 and the characters meaning negative (described as “negated words” in FIG. 12). Then, the process returns to step S418 in FIG.

  Returning to FIG. 10, after the processing of step S418, the control unit 50 determines that the number of characters of the positive day-of-week display information generated in step S4164 or step S4162 is the negative day-of-week display generated in step S4182 in step S420. It is determined whether or not the number of characters is less than or equal to the number of characters in the information. If so, the process proceeds to step S422. If not, the number of characters in the negative-type day-of-week display information is more positive. If it is determined that the number is smaller than the number of characters of the display information, the process proceeds to step S424.

  In step S422, the control unit 50 causes the main display unit 130 to display the day-of-week display information generated in step S4164 or step S4162 as information indicating the repeat information of the alarm information having the setting number N, and the step S4 in FIG. Return processing to.

  On the other hand, in step S424, the day-of-week display information generated in step S4182 is displayed as repeat information of the setting number N of the main display unit 130, and the process in step S4 in FIG. 9 is returned.

  Returning to FIG. 9, after the process of step S <b> 4, the control unit 50 determines whether or not the value of N has become 5 in step S <b> 5. If it is determined that it has not reached, N is updated by 1 in step S6, and the process returns to step S2.

  In the present embodiment described above, repeat information of each alarm information in the alarm setting information is displayed on the list screen (see FIG. 4) displayed on the main display unit 130. In addition, the generation mode of the information for displaying the repeat information is a case where information specifying a day of the week is set as repeat information, and whether or not the number of days specified there is 4 or less, Be changed. Specifically, when the specified day of the week exceeds 4, the day of the week display information that displays the specified day of the week in an affirmative form and the day of the week display information that is displayed in a negative form are generated. Information with a small amount is selected as information displayed on the list screen. If the number of characters of the positive day display information and the negative day display information are equal, the positive day display information is displayed in the present embodiment. This is because it is considered that the user can more easily recognize the specified day of the week than the negative day of the week display information.

  In the present embodiment, a “negative word” is used when generating negative-type day-of-week display information. Here, as the “negative word”, for example, the characters “other than”, “excluded”, “excluded”, and “x” can be considered. When generating negative day-of-week display information, instead of using a negative word, the display mode of characters other than the specified day of the week is assumed to be different from the positive-type day-of-week display information. Can also be generated. For example, when the day of the week display information is generated in step S4182, the day of the week display information may be generated by adding a strike-through line or highlighting a character specifying a day of the week other than the designated day of the week. Thereby, the negative day-of-week display information can be configured with fewer character strings.

  In the present embodiment described above, when there are three or more consecutive designated or non-designated days of the week, characters specifying the days of the week are displayed connected by-(half-width hyphen). As the character to be connected, other characters such as “˜” may be used as long as they are single-byte characters.

  In the present embodiment described above, when the number of designated days of the week is 5 or 6, for example, as shown in Table 2, positive-type day-of-week display information and negative-type day-of-week display information are generated. The display mode adopted as the display on the list screen is selected.

  Table 2 is adopted as a display of affirmative day-of-week display information, negative-type day-of-week display information generated when the number of specified days of the week is 5 or 6, and repeat information on the list screen. Five specific examples showing the display mode are shown.

  Example 1 in Table 2 shows an example in which Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are designated. In this example, the specified day of the week does not include three or more consecutive days of the week, so in the positive-type day-of-week display information, characters that specify each specified day of the week are listed without using-. Has been. In Example 1, the days other than the designated day are Tuesday and Thursday. For this reason, in the negative form day-of-week display information, a character specifying these and a negative word (other than) are combined to be “other than fire wood”. In this example, the number of characters in the affirmative or standing day-of-week display information is 5 double-byte characters, while the number of characters in the negative-type day-of-week display information is 4 double-byte characters, so the negative-type day-of-week display information is adopted. .

  Example 2 shows an example in which Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are designated. In this example, since four days from Wednesday to Saturday are continuous, in the positive day-of-week display information, the letters specifying the days of the week are indicated by-in the four days. That is, as shown in Table 2, the affirmative day-of-week display information in Example 2 is “Sunday Wednesday-Saturday”. In this example, the day of the week other than the designated day is Tuesday. Therefore, the negative day-of-week display information in Example 2 is set to “other than fire”. In this example, the number of characters in the affirmative day-of-week display information is four full-width characters and one half-width character, while the number of characters in the negative-type day-of-week display information is three full-width characters. As a result, the negative day-of-week display information is adopted as the information displayed on the list screen.

  Example 3 is an example in which Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are designated. In this example, on the designated day of the week, three days from Sunday to Tuesday are consecutive, and three days from Thursday to Saturday are consecutive. As a result, in the affirmative day-of-week display information of this example, each successive three days are indicated by a character that specifies the day of the week at both ends connected by-. In other words, the positive day-of-week display information is “Sun-Tue-Sat”. In this example, the days other than the designated day are Wednesday. As a result, the negative day display information is set to “other than water”. In this example, the number of characters in the affirmative day-of-week display information is 4 full-width characters and 2 half-width characters, that is, 5 full-width characters, whereas the number of characters in the negative-type day-of-week display information is 3 full-width characters. Therefore, a negative form is adopted as day-of-week display information displayed on the list screen.

  Example 4 is an example in which Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are designated. In this example, since 6 days from Monday to Saturday are continuous, in the affirmative day-of-week display information, it is assumed that the characters specifying the days of the week are connected by-. That is, the affirmative day-of-week display information is “Monday-Saturday”. In this example, the day other than the designated day is Sunday. Thus, the negative day display information is set to “other than day”. In this example, the character string of the affirmative day-of-week display information is two full-width characters and one half-width character, while the negative-number day-of-week display information has three full-width characters. Therefore, a negative form is adopted as day-of-week display information displayed on the list screen.

  Example 5 is an example in which Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are specified. In this example, five days from Monday to Friday are consecutive on the designated day of the week. For this reason, the affirmative day-of-week display information is constituted by connecting the characters specifying the day of the week at both ends with-. That is, the affirmative day-of-week display information is “Monday-Friday”. In this example, the days other than the designated day are Sunday and Saturday. Therefore, the negative day-of-week display information in this example is “other than Sunday”. In this example, the number of characters in the positive day-of-week display information is two full-width characters and one half-width character, whereas the number of characters in the negative-type day-of-week display information is four full-width characters. Therefore, an affirmative form is adopted as day-of-week display information displayed on the list screen.

  And the example of a list screen in case Example 1-Example 5 of Table 2 are set as repeat information of alarm information will become as shown in FIG.

  According to the present embodiment described above, when the day of the week is set as the repeat information of the alarm function, information for displaying the set day of the week in an affirmative form and a negative form is generated, and the number of characters in the information is displayed. It is adopted to display information with a small amount on the list screen. By displaying the contents of the day of the week set in the repeat information in this manner, even in a limited list screen space, for example, a state indicating only that the day of the week has been designated as in the past (for example, “day of the week” In addition to the character string “designated”, it is possible to display the contents of the day of the week that is actually set. That is, in the mobile phone 1, on the screen 100 that displays an overview of the alarm information (list screen in FIG. 4 or 13), the day of the week set for each case displays an affirmative display mode (the day of the week set). A mode) and a negative display mode (a mode for displaying a day other than the set day of the week) are displayed with the smaller number of characters.

  In the present embodiment described above, information specifying the day of the week stored as repeat information in each alarm information of the alarm setting information is exemplified as information specified from a finite number of information. In addition, as another example of such information, the information which designates the time which displays a time signal may be sufficient. That is, in such a case, information designated from 24 pieces of information from 0:00 to 23:00 is stored. For example, when 9 o'clock to 22 o'clock is designated, this is displayed on the list screen as, for example, “9-22”.

  Further, in the present embodiment described above, explanations have been given regarding the alarm function list display in the portable information terminal, but the technology specified by the present invention is not limited to a terminal other than a cellular phone, that is, without a call function. It is applicable to all portable terminals including PDA (personal digital assistance) and portable music players that display specified information from a finite number of information on a list screen etc. It is believed that there is. As for a portable music player, information (for example, song order) for specifying a file designated to be reproduced from files in a predetermined folder defined in the storage device of the player is displayed. It can be applied to technology.

  The embodiment disclosed this time should be considered as illustrative in all points and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is defined by the terms of the claims, rather than the description above, and is intended to include any modifications within the scope and meaning equivalent to the terms of the claims.

1 is a perspective view of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows typically the hardware constitutions of the mobile telephone of FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed when a user selects a function on the display of the mobile phone in FIG. 1. It is a figure which shows an example of the list screen about an alarm function displayed on the display of the mobile telephone of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen which displays the information about the several setting item regarding an alarm function displayed on the display of the mobile telephone of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen for setting the repeat information in the alarm information displayed on the display of the mobile telephone of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen displayed in order to designate a day of the week as repeat information displayed on the display of the mobile telephone of FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed during an alarm operation on the display of the mobile phone in FIG. 1. It is a flowchart of the list screen display process which the control part of the mobile telephone of FIG. 1 performs. 10 is a flowchart of a subroutine of designated day / designated information display processing of FIG. 9. It is a flowchart of the subroutine of the affirmation form production | generation process of FIG. FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a negative form generation process subroutine of FIG. 10. FIG. It is a figure which shows the other example of the list screen about an alarm function displayed on the display of the mobile telephone of FIG.

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  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mobile phone, 2 Upper housing | casing, 3 Lower housing | casing, 11 Display, 12 Mouthpiece, 13 Earpiece, 21, 22, 23A-23D, 24-28 Operation key, 31-36 Side key, 50 Control part, 60 storage unit, 61 alarm setting information storage unit, 62 data storage unit.

Claims (6)

Display means;
Storage means for storing information designated from among the first number of information;
Display control means for displaying the information stored in the storage means on the display means,
Generating information for displaying the specified information in a first display mode, and information for displaying the specified information in a second display mode different from the first display mode,
A portable information terminal that displays the specified information on the display means in a mode in which the number of characters used for display is smaller in the first display mode and the second display mode. The first display mode is a mode of displaying specified information in the first number of information,
The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the second display mode is a mode of displaying information other than the designated information in the first number of information.   The display control means is a case where the number of the designated information exceeds a second number that is smaller than the first number, and the number of characters in the first display mode and the second display mode is equal. In the case, the portable information terminal according to claim 2, wherein the designated information is displayed on the display means in the first mode.   The portable information terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the information specified from the first number of information is information specifying a day of the week.   In at least one of the first display mode and the second display mode, the display control means displays a specific symbol for the continuous day of the week when the specified day of the week includes three or more consecutive days of the week. The portable information terminal according to claim 4, wherein the portable information terminal is displayed by being sandwiched between symbols representing days of the week at both ends. The storage means stores time information as alarm information together with information designated from the first number of information,
6. The portable information according to claim 4, wherein the display control means displays information specified from the time information and the first number of information on a screen for displaying a list of alarm information. Terminal.

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