KR100560908B1 - Method for displaying information in mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

A method of displaying information in a mobile communication terminal is provided. When the user selects a menu of the mobile communication terminal, the corresponding menu list is displayed. When the cursor is moved to a specific menu in the menu list, information corresponding to the specific menu is displayed instead of the specific menu after a certain time. The information corresponding to the specific menu is displayed, and after a predetermined time, the specific menu is displayed instead of the information corresponding to the specific menu. The specific menu and information corresponding to the specific menu are alternately displayed at regular time intervals. According to the present invention, since unnecessary key press operation can be reduced, there is an effect that contributes to user's convenience.

Information, display, phone book, control panel, name, display, mobile terminal.

Description

How to display information on mobile terminal {Method for displaying information in mobile phone}             

1 is an internal configuration diagram showing an internal structure of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying information in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying information in a mobile communication terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4A to 6B are screen examples when displaying information in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7A to 8B are screen examples when displaying information in a mobile communication terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

110: input unit 120: display unit

130: memory 140: control unit

150: wireless circuit unit 160: analog voice processing unit

The present invention relates to a method for displaying information in a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, by displaying upper and lower information alternately at regular time intervals, information display that can reduce the inconvenience of moving from the upper menu to the lower menu. It is about a method.

The mobile communication terminal has a variety of functions in addition to the basic call function, there is a lot of information accordingly. For example, the phone book function or control panel function and the corresponding information.

The phone book may store various information such as an e-mail address, a birthday, a picture, etc. in addition to an individual phone number. However, in order to know the detailed information of the individual, it is necessary to enter the lower menu from the upper menu. In order to check a phone number of a conventional mobile communication terminal user, a user has to enter a submenu displaying a lot of information including a phone number. In this case, there was a problem of going through the unnecessary and complicated process once more.

The same applies to the control panel. For example, if you want to know the talk time in the menu of the conventional control panel, you had to find and click the talk time menu to access the talk time information. This was a problem that inconveniences the user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such a point, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method of checking information in an upper menu without entering a lower menu by alternately displaying a menu and corresponding information in a mobile communication terminal.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a first step of displaying a menu list when a user selects a menu of a mobile communication terminal, and moves the cursor to a specific menu in the menu list, instead of the specific menu after a predetermined time. Step 2 of displaying information corresponding to the specific menu at a second step; displaying a specific menu instead of information corresponding to the specific menu after a predetermined time after the information corresponding to the specific menu is displayed; And a fourth step of alternately displaying a specific menu and information corresponding to the specific menu at predetermined time intervals.

The specific menu may be a name searched in the phone book, and the information corresponding to the specific menu may be a phone number corresponding to the name searched in the phone book.

Alternatively, the specific menu may be a talk time, and the information corresponding to the specific menu may be a talk time using a mobile communication terminal.

Alternatively, the specific menu may be an automatic response setting, and the information corresponding to the specific menu may be information on whether an automatic response function is set.

In another embodiment of the present invention, when the user selects a menu of the mobile communication terminal, the first step of displaying a corresponding menu list, and after a predetermined time corresponds to each of the specific menus constituting the menu list instead of the menu list. A second step of displaying all of the information; a third step of displaying the menu list instead of the information corresponding to each of the specific menus after all information corresponding to each of the specific menus is displayed; And a fourth step of alternately displaying information corresponding to each of the specific menus at predetermined time intervals.

The menu list may be a search result of a phone book, a specific menu constituting the menu list may be a searched name constituting the search result, and information corresponding to each of the specific menus may be a phone number corresponding to the searched name. .

Alternatively, the menu list is a control panel, the specific menu constituting the menu list is a setting menu of a mobile communication terminal constituting the control panel, and information corresponding to each of the specific menus is a setting corresponding to a setting menu of the mobile communication terminal. It may be information.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First of all, in adding reference numerals to the components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same reference numerals have the same reference numerals as much as possible even if displayed on different drawings. In describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 is an internal configuration diagram showing an internal structure of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. The mobile communication terminal includes an input unit 110, a display unit 120, a memory 130, a controller 140, a wireless circuit unit 150, an analog voice processor 160, and the like.

The input unit 110 may use various devices such as a keypad, a jog shuttle, a point stick, and a touch screen, and is used when a user selects a desired function or inputs information.

The display unit 120 is for showing various information to the user, and an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is mainly used.

The memory 130 stores programs and data necessary for the mobile communication terminal to operate, and various devices such as erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM), static random access memory (SRAM), and flash memory may be used.

The controller 140 controls the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal. The controller 140 may be a microprocessor or a digital signal processor (DSP). The control unit 140 also includes a baseband signal processing circuit for processing the baseband signal from the radio circuit unit 150.

The radio circuit unit 150 is a circuit for transmitting and receiving voice and control information with a base station wirelessly. Receives a call signal sent by an external mobile communication terminal through an antenna and transmits it to the control unit 140, or transmits the data stored in the memory 130 to the caller's mobile communication terminal through the antenna. .

The analog voice processor 160 converts and amplifies a digital voice signal into an analog voice signal and outputs the amplified voice signal to the speaker SP or amplifies the voice signal from the microphone MIC and converts the digital voice signal into a digital signal.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying information in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The user selects a menu in the mobile communication terminal (S210). Then, the mobile communication terminal displays a menu list of the menu selected by the user (S220). For example, when a user selects the phone book menu, a list of person names stored in the phone book is displayed. An example of the screen of the mobile communication terminal at this time is shown in FIG. 4A. In another embodiment, the user may select a control panel menu. In this case, as shown in FIG. 5A, a control panel menu list is displayed on the screen of the mobile communication terminal.

Next, the user moves the cursor to a specific menu in the menu list (S230). The mobile communication terminal displays information corresponding to the specific menu instead of the specific menu after a predetermined time while the cursor is moved (S240). This will be described with reference to the embodiment of FIGS. 4A and 4B. The embodiment of FIG. 4A is an example in which the user moves the cursor to "Lee Mun-se" in the person name list. When a certain time passes while the cursor is moved, the telephone number "011-295-5896" corresponding to "Lee Moon-se" is displayed. An example of the screen at this time is shown in FIG. 4B. 5A to 6B are examples of the control panel. 5A illustrates an example in which the cursor is moved to "talk time" in the list of the control panel. As in the embodiment of FIG. 4A, when a certain time passes while the cursor is moved, information “used 435 minutes in total” corresponding to “talk time” is displayed. An example of the screen at this time is shown in FIG. 5B. 6A is an example in which the cursor is moved to "Auto Answer" in the list of the control panel. When the Auto Answer function is set, the information "Auto Answer" is set as information on whether or not to set "Auto Answer" after a certain time. Is displayed. 6B is a screen example at this time.

As such, after a certain time has passed since the information on the specific menu is displayed, the specific menu is displayed again (S250). That is, after a certain time with "011-295-5896" displayed in Figure 4b, the telephone number "011-295-5896" is back to the name "Lee Moon-se" as shown in Figure 4a. Likewise, in FIG. 5B, the information "used 435 minutes in total" returns to a control panel setting list called "talk time" as shown in FIG. 5A after a predetermined time. 6B also displays a setting list of the control panel “Auto Answer” of FIG. 6A instead of the information “Auto Answer Setting” after a certain time.

In this way, information corresponding to a specific menu and a specific menu is alternately displayed at predetermined time intervals (S260). For example, a specific menu and information corresponding to the specific menu may be alternately displayed at intervals of 1-2 seconds. 4A and 4B, "Lee Moon-se" and "011-295-5896" where the cursor is located are alternately displayed at regular time intervals. 5a and 5b alternately display "talk time" and "used 435 minutes" at which the cursor is located at regular time intervals. Similarly, in the embodiment of Figs. 6A and 6B, " Auto Response " and " Auto Response Setting " are displayed alternately at regular time intervals.

As another embodiment of the present invention, a method of displaying all information of each menu constituting the menu list, rather than displaying information corresponding to the menu where the cursor is located, will be described with reference to the drawings.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying information in a mobile communication terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The user selects a menu in the mobile communication terminal (S310). Then, the mobile terminal displays the menu list of the menu selected by the user (S320). For example, when a user selects the phone book menu, a list of person names stored in the phone book is displayed. An example of the mobile communication terminal screen at this time is shown in FIG. 7A. In another embodiment, the user may select a control panel menu. In this case, as shown in FIG. 8A, a control panel menu list is displayed on the screen of the mobile communication terminal.

Next, when a menu list is displayed and a predetermined time elapses, all information corresponding to each specific menu constituting the menu list is displayed instead of the menu list (S330). For example, in the embodiment of FIG. 7A, after a predetermined time elapses, all phone number information corresponding to a name is displayed instead of a name constituting a search result of the phone book. An example of the screen at this time is shown in FIG. 7B. As another example, in the embodiment of FIG. 8A, after a predetermined time, all setting information corresponding to the setting menu is displayed instead of the setting menu of the mobile communication terminal constituting the control panel. An example of the screen at this time is shown in Fig. 8B.

Next, after a predetermined time, the menu list is displayed again instead of information corresponding to each specific menu (S340). That is, in a screen example of the mobile communication terminal, after a predetermined time passes to the state of FIG. 7B, the mobile communication terminal returns to the state of FIG. 7A. Similarly, after a predetermined time passes to the state of FIG. 8B, the state returns to the state of FIG. 8A.

The menu list and information corresponding to each specific menu are alternately displayed at predetermined time intervals (S350). For example, a menu list and information corresponding to each specific menu may be alternately displayed at intervals of 1-2 seconds. 7A and 7B, the name list and the phone number information corresponding to the name are alternately displayed at predetermined time intervals. Similarly, in the embodiments of FIGS. 8A and 8B, the setting menu list of the control panel and the information corresponding to the setting menu are alternately displayed at regular time intervals.

While the invention has been described using some preferred embodiments, these embodiments are illustrative and not restrictive. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention and the scope of the rights set forth in the appended claims.

As described above, according to the present invention, since unnecessary key press operation can be reduced, there is an effect that contributes to user's convenience. In addition, there is an advantage that can display important information on one screen.

Claims (7)

When the user selects a menu of the mobile terminal, the first step of displaying the menu list, Moving the cursor to a specific menu in the menu list, after step 2, displaying information corresponding to the specific menu instead of the specific menu; A third step of displaying the specific menu instead of the information corresponding to the specific menu after a period of time when the information corresponding to the specific menu is displayed; A fourth step of alternately displaying the specific menu and information corresponding to the specific menu at predetermined time intervals; Information display method in a mobile communication terminal having a. The method of claim 1, The specific menu is a name retrieved from the phone book, and the information corresponding to the specific menu is a phone number corresponding to the name retrieved from the phone book. The method of claim 1, The specific menu is a call time, and the information corresponding to the specific menu is the information display method in the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the call time using a mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 1, The specific menu is an automatic response setting, and the information corresponding to the specific menu is information display method in the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the information on the setting of the automatic response function. When the user selects a menu of the mobile terminal, the first step of displaying the menu list, A second step of displaying all information corresponding to each specific menu constituting the menu list instead of the menu list after a predetermined time; A third step of displaying all of the information corresponding to each of the specific menus and displaying the menu list instead of the information corresponding to each of the specific menus after a predetermined time; A fourth step of alternately displaying the menu list and information corresponding to each of the specific menus at predetermined time intervals; Information display method in a mobile communication terminal having a. The method of claim 5, The menu list is a search result of the phone book, the specific menu constituting the menu list is a searched name constituting the search results, the information corresponding to each of the specific menu is a phone number corresponding to the searched name Information display method in the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 5, The menu list is a control panel, the specific menu constituting the menu list is a setting menu of the mobile communication terminal constituting the control panel, and information corresponding to each of the specific menus is setting information corresponding to the setting menu of the mobile communication terminal. Information display method in a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that.

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