KR100661573B1 - Mobile communication terminal having a curser move managing function using a multi-key and controlling method therefore - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, when the SMS message creation function is set in the mobile communication terminal, an SMS message creation step of creating an SMS message using a multi-key in the terminal, and a modification command is input during the SMS message creation step, and pressing of a multi-key currently being input. In the multi-key input confirmation step for checking whether the input is short and the multi-key input confirmation step, if the pressing of the currently input multi-key is a short input, the cursor on the LCD screen moves only one space from the current sentence position. As a result of checking during the multi-key input checking step, if the pressing of the current multi-key is not a short input but a long input, the multi-key consists of an input cursor long moving step for moving the cursor on the LCD screen by the set space at the current sentence position. Providing a mobile communication terminal equipped with a cursor movement management function using a key and a control method thereof .

As described above, the present invention is divided into two stages of short pressing and long pressing of the text input multi key, and by setting the cursor to move more than a predetermined space for longer pressing, the multi-key is inputted to the mobile communication terminal. Characters can be easily edited and edited by separate push operation.

Character Entry, Multi-Key, Short Press, Long Press, Cursor, Edit Edit

Description

Mobile communication terminal having a curser move managing function using a multi-key and controlling method therefore}

1 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a mobile communication terminal equipped with a conventional sentence writing function.

2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a mobile communication terminal equipped with a cursor movement management function of the present invention.

3 is an explanatory diagram for explaining an example of a multikey applied to a terminal of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of the present invention.

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1: Mobile communication terminal 2: Multi key

3: key panel portion 4: LCD panel portion

5: MSM unit 6: handset

7 codec section 8 memory section

9: base station 10: terminal

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal equipped with a cursor movement management function using a multi-key, and a control method thereof. In particular, the pressing function of the character input multi-key is divided into two stages of short press and long press. The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal equipped with a cursor movement management function using a multi-key which sets a cursor to move more than a predetermined space, and a control method thereof.

In general, wireless data communication refers to a communication function of wirelessly transmitting and receiving various data such as letters, numbers, and images through a base station system using a portable terminal capable of wireless transmission and reception. For example, it is a mobile communication system for exchanging or searching data in both directions while moving by using various terminals such as a cellular phone, a portable computer, a facsimile, and a credit card inquiry machine.

Such a mobile communication system is rapidly growing due to the first commercialization of a cellular-phone that uses the same frequency channel repeatedly in a cell geographically separated from North America and implements a radio channel switching function between cells according to a subscriber's movement. It became. In recent years, however, the universal mobile telecommunication system is capable of transmitting "third generation", broadband packet-based text, digitized voice or video, and multimedia data at a high speed of 2 Mbps or higher, regardless of where the mobile or computer users are anywhere in the world. Networks are developed to provide consistent services.

Then, referring to the conventional mobile communication system, for example, a mobile phone with reference to FIG. 1, the base station 71 for wirelessly processing function signals, for example, call signals or SMS messages, transmitted from a plurality of terminals 70 and 76. And an MSC 72 for processing a call signal input via the base station 71.

Here, a part of the body of the terminal 70 is provided with an LCD panel 73 for displaying a function operated in the terminal 70 to the outside or an information search function set by the user while waiting, for example, a photo album screen. do

On the other hand, referring to the operation of the conventional mobile communication system as described above, when the user of the terminal 70, for example, wants to send an SMS message, the user of the terminal 70 is the keypad 74 and the keypad of the terminal 70 Using the multi-key (77) located on the upper side of the (74), the menu is selected by using the multi-key (77), and the necessary characters are entered. At this time, the cursor placed on the LCD panel 73 is modified to correct the input characters. If you press the multi-key (77) to move, the cursor moves one space at a time to edit.

When the character input is completed through the above process, the user of the terminal 70 selects a destination telephone number to be transmitted from a list of phone books stored therein and presses the transmit button. Then, the terminal 70 transmits the text data input by the user in the SMS message to the base station 71. Accordingly, the SMS message signal of the terminal 70 is input to and stored in the SMS message center 75 via the base station 71 and the MSC 72. Then, the SMS message center 75 checks the destination phone number of the input SMS message and transmits it to the MSC 72. Then, the MSC 72 transmits the SMS message signal transmitted from the SMS message center 75 to the counterpart mobile phone 76. The counterpart terminal 76 analyzes the received SMS message signal and displays the signal on the display.

On the other hand, when the user of the terminal 70 wants to search for specific information stored therein, for example, photo album information, the user of the terminal 70 selects a corresponding menu using a button of the keypad 74. . Then, the terminal 70 displays the album information screen set by the user on the LCD panel 73. At this time, the user of the terminal 70 uses the direction information of the keypad 74 on the album information screen displayed on the LCD panel 73 to search for the desired information and use it as necessary information.

However, in the conventional mobile communication terminal as described above, the cursor is set to move only one space on the LCD screen every time the multi-key is pressed, so that when the terminal user incorrectly inputs a character, the user wants to correct the position on the LCD screen. Since it is necessary to operate the multikey repeatedly until the cursor moves to, there was a considerable difficulty in editing the characters. Also, if the position to be modified is the end of a sentence on the LCD screen, the multikey is operated to move the cursor to the end of the sentence. In this case, since it takes a considerable time, there is a problem in that the user convenience of the terminal is considerably reduced.

Accordingly, the present invention has been invented to solve the conventional problems as described above, and the character input of the mobile communication terminal can be easily modified and edited by the depressed pressing operation of the multi-key when the character is input to the mobile communication terminal. The object of the present invention is to provide a mobile communication terminal equipped with a cursor movement management function using a multi-key which significantly improves the editing characteristics and a control method thereof.

In addition, another object of the present invention is that the terminal user can be modified by moving the cursor to the desired position with one multi-key click without the need to repeatedly operate the cursor to modify the input sentence, accordingly the use of a mobile communication terminal The present invention provides a mobile communication terminal equipped with a cursor movement management function using a multi-key which greatly improves convenience and a control method thereof.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a mobile communication terminal performing a call processing function, is provided on the outer body of the mobile communication terminal is provided with a multi-key having a two-step pressing function through a plurality of key buttons Cursor movement management using a multi-key comprising a key panel unit for inputting a function setting signal of a user, and a control unit for recognizing the separated pressing operation of the multi-key and moving the position of the cursor on the display unit in accordance with the corresponding function. It provides a mobile communication terminal with a function.

Another feature of the present invention is an SMS message creation step of creating an SMS message using a multi-key in the terminal when the SMS message creation function is set in the mobile communication terminal, and a modification command is input and currently input during the SMS message creation step. In the multi-key input confirmation step of checking whether the multi-key press is a short input and the multi-key input check step as a result of checking during the multi-key input check step, the cursor on the LCD screen moves only one space from the current sentence position. The input cursor to move the cursor on the LCD screen by the set space at the current sentence position when the input key is short and not long is input. Control room of mobile communication terminal equipped with cursor movement management function using multi-key It provides.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The apparatus of the present invention is provided with a multi-key (2) divided into two stages, that is, a long press and a short press, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and a key panel unit 3 for inputting a user's function setting signal. Recognizing the separated pressing operation of the multi-key (2) and moving the position of the cursor located on the LCD panel 4 in accordance with the corresponding function to control the overall function of the mobile communication terminal (1) A mobile station modem (5) and an analog voice signal input through the handset 6 according to the call connection control signal of the MSM unit 5, or convert the digital voice signal into an analog signal. And a codec unit 7 for outputting the converted code.

One end of the MSM unit 5 is connected to a memory unit 8 that stores various types of information of the mobile communication terminal 1.

Next, the operation and effects of the present invention as described above will be described.

In the method of the present invention, first, as shown in FIG. 4, the terminal initialization step (S1) proceeds to the SMS message creation function setting confirmation step (S2) to check whether the SMS message creation function is set in the current terminal. At this time, if it is confirmed by the SMS message creation function setting confirmation step (S2) that the SMS message creation function is not set in the current terminal, proceed to the general call processing execution step (S3) to execute the normal terminal call processing action. do.

That is, when power is applied to the terminal 1 of the present invention, the MSM unit 5 of the terminal 1 proceeds to an initial picture state, forms necessary information from the internal memory unit 8, and reads each parameter. In addition, the MSM unit 5 of the terminal 1 executes an initialization process and receives information necessary for the system including time information through a pilot channel and a sync channel transmitted from the base station 9, and proceeds to a standby state. do.

At this time, the MSM unit 5 of the terminal 1 recognizes when the user inputs a telephone number through the key panel unit 3 and presses a call button, and the user inputs the telephone number to the memory unit 8. In addition to the storage, the system accesses the base station 9 through the access channel and transmits an outgoing signal to the corresponding telephone number. Then, the base station 9 processes the outgoing signal transmitted from the terminal 1 and transmits an incoming signal to the counterpart terminal 10 to form a call. That is, when a user of the terminal 1 inputs a voice signal through the handset 6, the codec unit 7 of the terminal 1 performs a signal processing on the voice signal input through the handset 6 and performs an MSM unit. Enter (5). The MSM unit 5 of the terminal 1 wirelessly processes the voice signal input through the codec unit 7 and transmits the voice signal to the counterpart terminal 10 via the base station 9 to make a normal call. .

By the way, when the SMS message creation function is set in the current terminal by the SMS message creation function setting check step (S2), the process proceeds to the SMS message creation step (S4) to create an SMS message using the multi-key in the terminal. Then, after the SMS message creation step (S4) and proceeds to the correction command input confirmation step (S5) to check whether the correction command is input to the current terminal. Here, if the correct command is not input to the terminal as a result of checking during the correct command input checking step (S5), the process returns to the SMS message creating step (S4) and repeats the loop.

However, if the modification command is input to the terminal as a result of checking during the correction command input confirmation step (S5), it proceeds to the multi-key input confirmation step (S6) to confirm whether the pressing of the currently-input multi-key is a short input. At this time, when the multi-key input check step (S6) confirms that the current input of the multi-key press is a short input, the input cursor moves to the short moving step (S7) and the cursor on the LCD screen moves only one space from the current sentence position. However, as a result of checking during the multi-key input checking step (S6), if the current input of the multi-key is not a short input but a long input, the input cursor goes to the long moving step (S8) to set the cursor on the LCD screen at the current sentence position. Move it by the space.

That is, when the SMS message creation function is set in the mobile communication terminal 1 of the present invention, the MSM unit 5 of the terminal 1 calls up the SMS message creation menu stored in the memory unit 8 to display the LCD panel unit ( 4) Mark it on. Then, the user of the mobile communication terminal 1 prepares his or her desired SMS message on the SMS message creation menu displayed on the LCD panel 4 using the keys of the key panel unit 3 and the multi-key 2. do.

At this time, when the user of the terminal 1 wants to correct the sentence or text during the SMS message preparation, the cursor must be moved on the LCD panel 3, in which case, the user uses the multi-key 2.

For example, when the position of a sentence or a character of the SMS message to be modified is to move the cursor only one space, the user presses the multi key 2 briefly. Then, the MSM unit 5 of the terminal 1 recognizes this and moves the cursor of the LCD panel 4 only one space (1 space of the PC) on the screen. Modify the letter or sentence accordingly. However, when the position of the sentence or text of the SMS message to be modified is to move the cursor a lot, the user presses the multi key 2 for a long time.

Then, the MSM unit 5 of the terminal 1 recognizes this and whenever the user presses the multi key 2 long time, the cursor key on the LCD panel 4 is set by the number of spaces set on the screen, for example, the tab key of the PC. Move 5 spaces like this, and if the user's correction command is input, the character or sentence is modified according to the command.

In this case, when the position to be modified is considerably far from the position of the current cursor, the multi key 2 may be pressed for a long time.

As described above, the present invention divides the pressing function of the character input multi-key into two stages of short press and long press, and sets the cursor to move more than a predetermined space for longer presses. Character input can be easily edited and edited by the separate pressing operation of the multi-key, which has the advantage of significantly improving the character editing characteristics of the mobile communication terminal.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the terminal user can move the cursor to a desired position with a single multi-key click without modifying the cursor repeatedly to correct the input sentence, the convenience of use of the mobile communication terminal accordingly. There is also a significant improvement.

Claims (3)

In the mobile communication terminal performing a call processing function, A key panel unit installed on an outer body of the mobile communication terminal and having a multi-key having a two-step pressing function, and inputting a user's function setting signal through a plurality of key buttons, and the separated pressing operation of the multi-key; And a control unit for recognizing and shifting the position of the cursor on the display unit in accordance with the corresponding function. When the SMS message creation function is set in the mobile communication terminal, an SMS message creation step of creating an SMS message using the multi-key in the terminal, and a modification command is input during the SMS message creation step, and pressing operation of the multi-key currently input is performed. When the multi-key input confirmation step of checking whether the preset key is within a predetermined short time and the multi-key input confirmation step as a result of the pressing operation of the currently-input multi-key are a preset short time input, the cursor on the display screen is at the current sentence position. As a result of the short moving step of the input cursor moving only one space and the checking operation of the multi-key input checking step, if the pressing operation of the currently-input multi-key is a long time input that is longer than a preset short time, the cursor on the display screen is moved by the space set at the current sentence position. Characterized in that the input cursor made of a long moving step to move Control method of a mobile communication terminal equipped with a cursor movement management function using a multi-key. The control of a mobile communication terminal equipped with a cursor movement management function using a multi-key according to claim 2, wherein the set number of cursor movement spaces during the input cursor long movement step is set to a space such as a tab of a PC. Way.

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