KR100629868B1 - Help message providing method for mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing help of a mobile communication terminal, and a method of providing a help of a conventional mobile communication terminal is provided so as to receive information through a built-in help information or a communication network, so that the contents can be checked through a separate help menu. In order to see the description of the function desired by the user, it was inconvenient to search through a complicated step through the list of information provided through the Help menu. In addition, since the size of characters or pictures that can be displayed on the display unit of the mobile communication terminal is small, it is difficult for the user with low vision to read. In view of the above problems, the present invention further adds a separate help key, selects a predetermined menu by operating a menu of the mobile communication terminal, and when the help key is pressed, a description of the menu is output and the standby is performed. After pressing the Help key in the state, press the key corresponding to the phonebook shortcut button to display the corresponding phone number information. Optionally, add voice information about the description to consider the user with low vision, You can check the description quickly and easily, and the voice information support not only provides effective information to various user bases, but also makes it possible to check phone number information quickly and non-visually, thereby greatly improving the user's convenience.

Description

How to get help on your mobile device {HELP MESSAGE PROVIDING METHOD FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an operation method of an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

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

10: mobile communication terminal 15: numeric keypad

20: Help key 30: speaker

The present invention relates to a method for providing help of a mobile communication terminal. In particular, a separate help key is arranged in a mobile communication terminal, and a user can provide a desired help by a combination of a standby mode, a menu selection mode, and a help key. It relates to a method for providing help of a mobile communication terminal.

As the performance of the mobile terminal is improved, the tasks that the mobile terminal can process have increased significantly. In particular, many functions that can utilize these functions are small due to various performance improvements such as improvement of screen quality of mobile communication terminal, expansion of memory, increase of processing speed, improvement of communication method, generation and utilization of various multimedia data. All of these are now on mobile terminals.

In addition, each terminal manufacturer adds various setting menus for allowing a user to directly control the performance of the mobile communication terminal, and an option selection menu for setting a basic use environment to meet the needs of advanced users.

Therefore, the recently used manual of the mobile communication terminal has already expanded the functions to be learned for its use so that it can be seen as a book rather than a simple manual. In other words, the method of using a mobile terminal has become complicated so that a user who utilizes all the various functions except for the classic functions of the mobile terminal becomes complicated, and the user uses only the functions that he knows and ignores the functions that he does not know. The utilization of the mobile communication terminal will be lowered.

Therefore, in recent years, a method for providing a description of the function of the mobile terminal on the terminal according to the user's request has been proposed, by creating a help menu and entering the help menu through a predetermined menu or a shortcut key. In this case, the user can search the built-in help information to check the description of the desired function by using text or picture information provided on the display unit, and download the help content from the server on the communication network through the data communication function to provide the information. There are ways.

However, when providing help information embedded in a mobile communication terminal through a separate help menu or downloading the information to a user through a communication network, the user may have to search through various steps for a description of a desired function. In particular, when downloading the help information through the communication network has a problem that burdens the user because the charge is made for the use of data communication.

In addition, due to the characteristics of the display unit of the small sized mobile communication terminal, the size of the displayed characters and pictures must be small, so that it is difficult to accurately identify the contents of the user or the elderly who have low vision.

As described above, the conventional method of providing help of a mobile terminal enables to receive information through a built-in help information or a communication network, and to check such contents through a separate help menu. The inconvenience of having to search through a complex step of the list of information provided through the menu. In addition, since the size of characters or pictures that can be displayed on the display unit of the mobile communication terminal is small, it is difficult for the user with low vision to read.

The present invention in view of the above problems, after adding a separate help key further, selects a predetermined menu by operating a menu of the mobile communication terminal, and when the help key is pressed, a description of the menu is outputted; In addition, when pressing the key corresponding to the phone book shortcut button after pressing the help key in the standby state, the corresponding phone number information is output. Optionally, voice information about the corresponding description is added to the mobile terminal to consider the user with low vision. Its purpose is to provide a way to provide help.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mobile communication terminal having a separate help key, comprising: pressing a help key in a standby mode or a predetermined menu selected by a user; When the help key is pressed in the standby mode, when the number key is pressed, providing phonebook information using the corresponding number key as a shortcut key; When the help key is pressed in a predetermined menu, the method may include providing a description of the corresponding menu among the function descriptions embedded in the mobile communication terminal.

The step of providing a description of the predetermined menu may include at least one of outputting a function description of the menu as a text or a picture on the screen, and outputting pre-stored voice information for the function description. It is characterized by.
The step of providing the phone book information includes the step of outputting the corresponding text information and outputting the stored voice information when the user stores the contents of the phone book while storing the contents together with the user's voice. As a feature

The providing of the phone book information may further include performing a telephone connection to the corresponding phone number when the user presses a call button while the user selects the information.
When the help key is pressed in the standby mode, the method further comprises the step of sequentially providing contents stored as phonebook information when the direction key is pressed.

When described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings of the present invention as described above.

1 is a diagram illustrating a method of operation of an embodiment of the present invention, through which the basic concept of the present invention will be described. The mobile communication terminal 10 to which the present invention is applied has various components including a keypad 15 and a speaker 30, and has a structure in which a help key 20 is further added.

FIG. 1A illustrates an external structure of a mobile communication terminal 10 in which a new 'help key' 20 is newly added to the present invention. As shown in FIG. The basic features of the present invention can be seen in that it further adds a separate help key 20 that can request a description of a particular menu (ie, function) in addition to the function key. That is, the conventional help function is a menu that can be designated through existing keys, and is limited to an independent description providing function. In the present invention, the user may want to explain the corresponding function while using the existing functions. In this case, it is possible to provide an additional description providing function according to a state of the mobile communication terminal, which can check the description of the currently selected function by pressing the help key 20 separately provided.

In order to provide a state-dependent description of the mobile communication terminal, first, the description contents must be stored in the mobile communication terminal, and the storage state is divided into predetermined indexes, and according to the unique index of the menu currently selected by the user. You can use this method to quickly extract the contents you want from the description. Of course, other methods of database retrieval can be used, or fixed storage memory addressing can be used.

1B and 1C illustrate a help function for confirming a description of a predetermined terminal menu using the present invention, and a user selects a predetermined menu and outputs a screen as shown in FIG. 1B. And, to check the function of the 'phone book' corresponding to the first, select the number 1 to call the corresponding function, and then press the help key (20). Then, a description of the corresponding function is output on the screen as shown in FIG. 1C. And, if there is voice information about it by playing the corresponding voice information through the speaker 30 so that the user can see the description of the function in audible, so that users with low vision can recognize the function description smoothly. do.

FIG. 1D is a view for explaining another feature of the present invention, and shows a method in which the help key 20 provided in the present invention can be usefully used even when the mobile communication terminal is in the standby mode.

That is, when the mobile communication terminal is in the standby mode, pressing the help key 20 and pressing the numeric keypad 15 to select a predetermined shortcut button number enables the user to provide phonebook information corresponding to the number. . Through this, the user can check the stored contents of the phone book that he / she wants to search before the call is executed using the shortcut key. If the user records voice information for the representative name (in addition, a phone number) while storing the phone number information in the phone book, the phone number information provided through the above process becomes text information and voice information. This may be useful when the user's eyesight is poor, or when the user wants to perform a search quickly, or when the user wants to search for a desired telephone number non-visually.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the drawing, a method of receiving a description of a phone number by pressing a help key when the mobile communication terminal is in a standby mode, selecting a menu, and then pressing a help key It is divided into how to receive the description of the menu.

First, if there is a menu for which the user wants to check the description, call the menu (ie, a function) by using a menu or a shortcut key, and then press a help key. Then, the description section of the corresponding menu is searched among the description contents stored in the memory of the mobile communication terminal, the contents are output on the screen, and if the voice information is included, the information is output through the speaker. After that, when the user's confirmation is finished, if the user confirms that the explanation is completed by pressing the help key, the user returns to the corresponding menu again.

If the user wants to quickly check or visually check the phonebook stored information, press the help key in the standby mode. Thereafter, by using the numeric keypad, a shortcut key corresponding to the contents of the telephone book to be confirmed is designated or a direction key is operated to search the contents of the consecutive telephone books.

When searching the contents of the phone book by pressing the numeric keypad, the phone number information using the pressed number as a shortcut is displayed on the screen.If the user saves the information while saving the information, the voice information is transmitted through the speaker. Print it out. This allows the user to check the phone number information associated with the shortcut before calling. And if you want to call, you can press the call key to call the displayed phone number.

If you want to visually check the contents of the phone book, or if you want to quickly search the phone number continuously, you can check the phone book information sequentially by pressing the help key and then operating the direction keys. If voice information exists, provide the information together. If the search is completed, press the help key once again to complete the check, and if you want to make a call with the contents, you can press the call key while the selected information is displayed to make the call.

As described above, in the method for providing help of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention, after adding a separate help key, a menu of the mobile communication terminal is selected to select a predetermined menu, and the help key is pressed to describe the menu. In addition to pressing the Help key in the standby state, pressing the key corresponding to the phonebook shortcut button causes the phone number information to be output and optionally adds voice information on the description to consider the users with low vision. By doing so, you can quickly and easily check the description of the menu you want and not only provide effective information to various user bases with voice information support, but also increase the user's convenience by allowing you to check phone number information quickly and non-visually. There is.

Claims (5)

In the mobile communication terminal having a separate help key, Pressing a help key in a standby mode or a predetermined menu selected by a user; When the help key is pressed in the standby mode, when the number key is pressed, providing phonebook information using the corresponding number key as a shortcut key; When a help key is pressed in a predetermined menu, providing a description of a corresponding menu among the descriptions of functions embedded in the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 1, wherein the description of the predetermined menu is provided. And at least one of outputting a function description of a corresponding menu as a text or a picture on the screen, and outputting pre-stored voice information for explaining the function. The method of claim 1, When the help key is pressed in the standby mode, the method of providing help of the mobile communication terminal further comprises the step of sequentially providing the contents stored as the phonebook information when the direction key is pressed. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing of the phone book information is When the user stores the phone book information and the contents are stored together with the user's voice, providing the help of the mobile communication terminal comprising outputting the corresponding text information and outputting the stored voice information. Way. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing of the phone book information is If the user presses the call button in the state of outputting the phone book information, the method of providing a help of the mobile communication terminal further comprising the step of performing a telephone connection to the corresponding phone number.

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