KR100605886B1 - Method And Apparatus For Displaying Alphanumeric Messages In Mobile Device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of displaying a text message on a display device in a mobile terminal, the method comprising storing special symbol characters in a memory of the mobile terminal corresponding to additional effects including visual effects and sound effects; Checking whether a word includes the special symbol characters among the characters constituting the text message, and reading the visual effects and sound effects corresponding to the special symbol characters from the memory, and displaying the visual message in the text message. The present invention provides a method comprising the steps of adding effects and sound effects to display on a display device.

Short message, side effects, symbols

Description

Method and device for displaying text message of mobile terminal {Method And Apparatus For Displaying Alphanumeric Messages In Mobile Device}             

1 is a block diagram of a typical mobile terminal

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying an additive effect in addition to a short message according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for displaying a text message in a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for displaying a text message on a display device of a mobile terminal by adding a visual effect or a sound effect to the text message.

The mobile terminal may perform various additional functions such as a short message service (SMS) in addition to basic functions such as voice communication and data transmission and reception through wireless communication. Short message service is a service that can transfer a relatively short text text message between the mobile terminal or between the computer and the mobile terminal. The short message service has been widely used since commercialization in 1997 because it can transmit a desired message irrespective of the call state of the counterpart terminal and is relatively inexpensive compared to a voice call.

Recently, multimedia messaging service (MMS) has emerged as a new next generation messaging service in order to meet the needs of consumers who want to process and send message contents in various forms. The multimedia messaging service is expected to replace the short message service in the future as a service that can transmit multimedia messages such as text, text, photo, video, animation, and video messages.

In text messaging as well as the short messaging service, text text messaging has been used as an important means for simple communication and will continue to be used. However, the text text message is simple and boring because it consists of a simple list of characters. Therefore, young people make and use emoticons and icons using special characters. However, the special characters are simply displayed fixedly on a display device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD), and thus there is a problem in that they are insufficient to satisfy a user's desire for more various changes. Accordingly, there is a need for a method of processing a text text message into various forms and displaying the same on a display device.

 Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for processing a text message in various forms in a mobile terminal and displaying the same on a display device.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for adding various additional effects when displaying a text message on a display device in a mobile terminal.

In order to achieve the above objects, the present invention stores special symbol characters in the memory of the mobile terminal in correspondence with additional effects including visual effects and sound effects, wherein the mobile verb is composed of the text messages. Checks whether special symbol characters are included, reads the visual effects and sound effects corresponding to the special symbol characters from the memory, and adds the visual effects and sound effects to the text message and displays them on the display device. It provides a method characterized by consisting of a process.

The present invention also provides a memory for storing special symbol characters corresponding to additional effects including visual effects and sound effects for displaying a text message on a display screen in a mobile terminal, and a text message in a text message. Checks whether the special symbol characters are included, reads the visual effects and sound effects corresponding to the special symbol characters from the memory, and adds the visual effects and sound effects to the text message to the display device. A text message processing apparatus of a mobile terminal is characterized by consisting of a control unit for displaying.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the same elements among the drawings are denoted by the same reference numerals and symbols as much as possible even though they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the present invention, if 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.

First of all, in the specification of the present invention, it is assumed that a mobile terminal receives a text message through a short message service and displays the received text message on a display device. However, it should be noted that the present invention described in the present specification and claims can be applied not only to a short message service but also to a text message or an e-mail received by a multimedia messaging service, or any text message that can be expressed in a mobile terminal. do. In addition, it should be noted that the present invention described in the present specification and claims can be applied not only to a mobile terminal but also to displaying a text message on a display device in a personal digital assistant (PDA) or a computer.

1 is a block diagram of a typical mobile terminal. Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 1, the controller 100 controls the overall operation of the mobile terminal. Particularly, in the present invention, the control unit 100 of the mobile terminal determines whether a special symbol character exists in the received short message, and adds an additional effect corresponding to the special symbol character to the symbol character according to the determination result. Mark on.

The key input unit 110 includes a plurality of numeric / character keys and function keys (*, #, etc.) for performing various functions, and controls the electrical signal of key data corresponding to the key input by the user. Will output In particular, in the present invention, the transmitting-side mobile terminal is used to compose a message using the key input unit 110 to transmit a short message, and to input a special symbol character to set up an additional effect function in the message creation.

The display unit 120 may be configured as a display device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a light emitting diode (LED). The display unit 120 displays a status or a short message of the mobile communication terminal under the control of the controller 100.

A radio frequency part 130 converts a signal received from the antenna 160 into an intermediate frequency signal and outputs the signal, and converts a signal to be transmitted from an intermediate frequency signal into a radio signal to the antenna 160. Will output The voice processing unit 140 receives and demodulates a wireless signal received through the antenna from the wireless processing unit 130, outputs a voice signal by a speaker SPK, modulates a voice signal input to a microphone MIC, and The transmission is performed by the antenna via the radio processing unit 130.

The memory unit 150 temporarily stores a program for the operation of the controller 100 and data processed during the operation. In particular, in the present invention, the special symbol characters and the corresponding additional effects are stored in the memory unit 150 in advance. Table 1 is a table showing special symbol characters and corresponding additional effects stored in the memory unit 150 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

group Character Side effects Sound effects group ☎ Simple ringtones ⊙ drum ♬ Simple melody Visual effects group ※ Change wallpaper ☆ Backlight on ◐ flicker Vibration group ♨ vibration

In the present specification, as shown in Table 1, it is assumed that special symbol characters and corresponding additional effects are divided into three groups for convenience of description. However, it should be noted that it is also possible to group the additional effects without or in other ways. In addition, it should be noted that in addition to the additional effects, other additional effects may be provided or all of the additional effects may not be provided, and emoticons or icons which are currently widely used may be included in the special symbol text.

The vibration motor driver 170 drives the vibration motor 180 under the control of the controller 100. In particular, in the present invention, when the vibration motor driving unit 170 is determined by the controller 100 to include a special symbol character corresponding to the vibration effect in the short message, for example, "♨" of <Table 1>. When the special symbol character corresponding to the vibration effect is displayed on the display unit 120, the vibration motor 180 is driven.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying an additive effect in addition to a short message according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 1 and 2 will be described in detail the operation of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

In step 210, the mobile terminal receives a short message in a standby state and proceeds to step 220. In step 220, the controller 100 determines whether the first character of the received short message is a special symbol character representing the additional effect as shown in Table 1 above. If it is determined in step 220 that it is a special symbol character, in step 230 the control unit 100 searches for the additional effect corresponding to the special symbol character from the memory unit 150. In step 240, the control unit 100 executes the searched additive effect, and proceeds to step 250 to display the first character on the display unit 120. For example, when the first letter is "☎", a simple ring tone is heard for a predetermined time, and "☎" is displayed on the display unit 120. Meanwhile, in the present specification, the additional effects and the text display are described as being sequentially performed in the steps 240 and 250, but the modifications are made so that the text is displayed first and the additional effects are performed later, or the text display and the additional effects are performed simultaneously. It will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art.

On the other hand, if the first character is not a special symbol character in step 220, the process proceeds directly to step 250, and the controller 100 displays the first character on the display unit 120. In step 260, the controller 100 checks whether a predetermined time has elapsed. The predetermined time means a time when one letter is displayed. That is, the characters constituting the short message are displayed one by one. If it is determined in step 260 that the predetermined time has elapsed, the process proceeds to step 270. In operation 270, it is determined whether the characters of one line are displayed on the display unit 120. If the display of one line is completed, the line is changed to display the characters of the next line in step 280.

In step 290, the control unit 100 checks whether the first character is the last character of the received short message, and if it is the last character, ends the short message displaying operation. However, if it is not the last character, the process proceeds to step 210 again and performs the same operation on the second character. In this way, the controller 100 performs the operation up to the last character of the short message and displays the short message on the display unit 120.

Meanwhile, as described above, instead of continuously displaying a plurality of short messages on the display unit 120, it is also possible to further emphasize additional effects by displaying the short messages in units of lines. For this purpose, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the controller can change the present invention to delete the characters of the completed display line and display the next characters again on the same line without changing the lines in step 280. will be.

So far, a method of adding an additional effect when displaying a short message has been described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. In particular, although FIG. 2 illustrates a case in which an additional effect is always added to a short message and displayed, the user may add a step of setting in advance whether or not to use the additional effect when displaying the short message. Such changes will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the present invention has the advantage of overcoming the monotony of the text message displayed on the display device and adding various visual and sound effects to meet the expectations of the user. In addition, there is an advantage that the sender's communication can be more clearly communicated by including in the text message a special symbol character representing the additional effect desired by the person sending the text message.

Claims (12)

delete In the method for displaying a text message on the display device in a mobile terminal, Storing special symbol characters in a memory of the mobile terminal in response to additional effects including visual effects and sound effects; Checking whether the mobile tag includes the special symbol characters among the characters constituting the text message; And reading out the visual effects and sound effects corresponding to the special symbol characters from the memory, and adding the visual effects and sound effects to the text message and displaying them on a display device. The method of claim 2, And the additional effects further comprise a vibration effect. The method of claim 2, And the text message is displayed on the display screen by one character, and the special symbol text is displayed on the display device together with a corresponding additional effect. The method of claim 4, wherein The text message may further include displaying the text message on a line-by-line basis. The method of claim 2, Determining whether to use the side effects by a user. delete A text message processing apparatus of a mobile terminal for displaying a text message on a display device, A memory for storing special symbol characters corresponding to additional effects including visual effects and sound effects; Checks whether a text message includes the special symbol characters, reads the visual effects and sound effects corresponding to the special symbol characters from the memory, and adds the visual effects and sound effects to the text message. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a control unit for displaying on a display device. The method of claim 8, When the text message includes a special symbol character corresponding to the vibration effect, the apparatus further comprises a vibration motor driving unit for performing the vibration effect. The method of claim 8, And the control unit displays the text message one by one on the display screen, and the special symbol text is displayed on the display device together with a corresponding additional effect. The method of claim 10, The controller may display the text message on the display device in line units. The method of claim 8, The control unit, characterized in that for setting the user whether to use the additional effects.

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