KR100819916B1 - Apparatus and method for changing a screen color of a mobile device by using changeable color jacket - Google Patents

Abstract

A device for changing a screen color of a terminal by using an exchangeable color jacket and a method are provided to change theme and a color of a terminal screen according to a color of the terminal jacket, thereby increasing a user's satisfaction for expressing various personalities. A sensing unit(110) senses contact caused by combination with a terminal jacket. A color decider(120) decides on a color corresponding to the sensed contact of the terminal jacket. A display unit(130) changes at least one of a screen color and screen theme into the decided color, and displays the changed color. The terminal jacket has plural projections corresponding to colors of the terminal jacket on a surface contacted with a terminal.

Description

Apparatus and method for changing a screen color of a mobile device by using changeable color jacket}

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an apparatus for changing a screen color of a terminal using a replaceable color jacket according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2A illustrates a terminal and a terminal jacket according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2B illustrates a terminal and a terminal jacket according to another embodiment of the present invention.

2c to 2d are views illustrating contact between the protrusion and the groove according to the embodiment of the present invention.

2E to 2G illustrate contact between the protrusion and the groove according to another embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of changing a screen color of a terminal using a replaceable color jacket according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols on main parts of the drawings>

110: detector

120: color discriminating unit

130: display unit

140: theme storage unit

150: control unit

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for changing the screen color of a terminal using a replaceable color jacket, and more particularly, to the screen color of the terminal and the screen theme of the terminal in combination with the terminal jacket having a predetermined color. An apparatus and a method for changing the same.

In recent years, jackets for protecting portable terminals such as mobile phones, PDAs, PMPs and MP3 players from external shocks and daily scratches have been widely used.

These jackets are made of various materials such as vinyl, plastic and leather, and plastic jackets are mainly used for mobile phones, and plastic jackets have an advantage of simply combining and detaching the jackets on the front and back of the mobile phones.

Previously, the plastic jacket mainly used in mobile phones was a transparent plastic jacket, but in recent years, mobile phone is also a part of fashion and efforts to highlight one's own personality have spread to various color 'color plastic jackets (hereinafter referred to as color jackets). ) 'Appeared.

Unlike traditional transparent jackets, color jackets have the same effect as having a variety of mobile phones in one cell phone, but this is only a change of color in appearance.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to change the screen color of the terminal and the screen theme of the terminal according to the combination with the terminal jacket having a predetermined color through an apparatus and a method for changing the screen color of the terminal using a replaceable color jacket. There is this.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects that are not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, the apparatus for changing the screen color of the terminal using a replaceable color jacket according to an embodiment of the present invention is a terminal that changes the color of the screen in accordance with the combination of the terminal jacket having a predetermined color The display device may further include a detector configured to detect a contact by coupling with a terminal jacket, a color determiner configured to determine a color corresponding to the detected contact of the terminal jacket, and a display configured to change a color of the screen to the determined color and display the same. do.

In order to achieve the above object, a method of changing the screen color of the terminal using a replaceable color jacket according to an embodiment of the present invention is a method of changing the screen color of the terminal in combination with the terminal jacket having a predetermined color A detection step of detecting a contact by coupling with the terminal jacket, a color determination step of determining a color corresponding to the detected contact of the terminal jacket, and a display step of changing the color of the screen to the determined color to display It includes.

Specific details of other embodiments are included in the detailed description and the drawings.

Advantages and features of the present invention and methods for achieving them will be apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail with the accompanying drawings.

However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but can be implemented in various different forms, and only the embodiments make the disclosure of the present invention complete, and the general knowledge in the art to which the present invention belongs. It is provided to fully inform the person having the scope of the invention, which is defined only by the scope of the claims.

Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings of a block diagram or a process flow diagram for explaining an apparatus and a method for changing a screen color of a terminal using a replaceable color jacket according to embodiments of the present invention.

At this point, it will be appreciated that each configuration of the process flow diagrams and combinations of flow chart figures may be performed by computer program instructions.

Since these computer program instructions may be mounted on a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing equipment, those instructions executed through the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing equipment may be described in the flowchart configuration (s). You will create a means to perform the functions.

These computer program instructions may be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory that can be directed to a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to implement functionality in a particular manner, and thus the computer usable or computer readable memory. It is also possible for the instructions stored in to produce an article of manufacture containing instruction means for performing the functions described in the flowchart configuration (s).

Computer program instructions It can also be mounted on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment, so a series of operating steps are performed on the computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer-implemented process to be performed on the computer or other programmable data processing equipment. It is also possible to provide steps for executing the functions described in the flowchart configuration (s) via the instructions that are provided.

In addition, each arrangement may represent a module, segment, or portion of code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing a specified logical function (s).

It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the configurations may occur out of order.

For example, the two configurations shown in succession may in fact be performed substantially simultaneously or the configurations may sometimes be performed in the reverse order, depending on the function in question.

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

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an apparatus for changing a screen color of a terminal using a replaceable color jacket according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Device 100 for changing the screen color of the terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is a terminal in which the color of the screen is changed according to the combination with the terminal jacket having a predetermined color, the contact by the combination with the terminal jacket The color of the screen is changed to the color determined by the detection unit 110 to detect, the color determination unit 120, the color determination unit 120 to determine the color corresponding to the contact of the terminal jacket detected by the detection unit 110 And a theme storage unit 140 for storing a theme corresponding to the color of the terminal jacket determined by the color determination unit 120, and a controller 150 for controlling each unit.

For reference, 'terminal' used in the embodiment of the present invention is meant to include a portable terminal such as a mobile phone, PDA, PMP and MP3 player, the present invention will be described in the embodiment of the mobile phone for convenience of description.

In addition, the 'terminal jacket' may protect the above-described portable terminal from external shocks or life scratches, and the material may include at least one of vinyl, plastic, and leather, and may have various colors.

In the present invention, for convenience of description, the plastic terminal jacket will be described as an embodiment.

The components shown in FIG. 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention mean software components or hardware components such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and perform certain roles.

However, the components are not meant to be limited to software or hardware, and each component may be configured to be in an addressable storage medium or may be configured to be played through one or more processors.

Thus, as an example, a component may include components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components, and task components, and processes, functions, properties, procedures, and subs. Routines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuits, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables.

Components and the functionality provided within them may be combined into a smaller number of components or further separated into additional components.

For reference, the device 100 shown in FIG. 1 may be included in a terminal whose color of the screen is changed according to the combination with the terminal jacket having a predetermined color.

The sensing unit 110 of the device 100 shown in FIG. 1 detects a contact by coupling with the terminal jacket.

Here, 'coupling' means that the jacket of the terminal is not affected by external forces such as accidental shock or force, but rather by the impact or force that the user exerts on either the terminal or the terminal jacket to separate the terminal and the terminal jacket. Means that the terminals are in contact with each other without being disconnected (or in the terminal jacket).

To this end, the terminal jacket may include at least one coupling part (not shown) so as not to be separated from the terminal even by external actions such as an accidental predetermined impact or force, which is described above through the coupling part (not shown). It can keep the bond.

2A illustrates a terminal and a terminal jacket according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The terminal jackets 210A and 210B shown in FIG. 2A have a predetermined color and include projections 211a, 211c, 211d or 211a, 211d corresponding to the corresponding color, and the terminal jackets 210A and 210B. The terminal 220 coupled with includes a predetermined groove (221a ~ 221d).

For reference, it is assumed that the number of grooves according to the embodiment of the present invention is four, and the number of protrusions is at most four, and the number of grooves is not limited.

The above-described protrusions 211a, 211c, 211d or 211a, 211d and the grooves 221a to 221d are respectively located at positions corresponding to each other, and the protrusions 211a, 211c, 211d or 211a, and 211d are terminal jackets 210A and 210B. When present at a predetermined position of the grooves 221a to 221d may exist at a predetermined position of the terminal 220.

In another embodiment, the protrusion may exist at a predetermined position of the terminal 220, and the groove may exist at a predetermined position of the terminal jackets 210a and 210b. In this case, referring to FIGS. This will be explained in detail.

First, in FIG. 2A, the grooves 221a to 221d of the terminal 220 and the protrusions 211a, 211c, 211d or 211a, 211d of the terminal jackets 210A and 210B are connected to the terminal 220 and the terminal jackets 210A and 210B. Located in a line in the center of the, the projections (211a, 211c, 211d or 211a, 211d) of the terminal jacket (210A, 210B), the number and position order is determined corresponding to the color.

In FIG. 2A, two color terminal jackets are shown, and it can be seen that the number and location order of the protrusions vary depending on the color.

When the color of the terminal jacket 210A is referred to as the first color and the color of the terminal jacket 210B is referred to as the second color, the terminal jacket 210A having the first color includes three projections, that is, 211a, 211c, and 211d. The terminal jacket 210B having the second color is composed of a total of two protrusions, that is, 211a and 211d.

For reference, 211b of the terminal jacket 210A and 211b and 211c of the terminal jacket 210B indicate that no protrusion exists.

Therefore, when the terminal 220 and the terminal jackets 210A and 210B are coupled, the protrusions 211a, 211c, 211d or 211a, 211d of the terminal jackets 210A and 210B are grooves 221a to 221d of the terminal 220. And contact with each other and the detection unit 110 detects this.

2B is a view illustrating a terminal and a terminal jacket according to another embodiment of the present invention, the positions of the grooves 221a to 221d of the terminal 220 and the projections 211a, 211c, and 211d of the terminal jackets 210A and 210B. Or 211a, 211d) may be present in various positions.

The number and position order of the projections corresponding to the colors of the terminal jackets 210A and 210B will be described in detail with reference to the color discriminating unit 120.

2c to 2d are views showing the contact between the projection and the groove according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, for convenience of description, a case in which the terminal jacket 210A and the terminal 220 are combined will be described.

First, FIG. 2C illustrates a case where protrusions 211a, 211c, and 211d are present in the terminal jacket 210A, and grooves 221a to 221d are present in the terminal 220. The terminal jacket 210A and the terminal 220 are present. Is combined, the projections 211a, 211c, and 211d of the terminal jacket 210A contact the grooves 221a, 221c, and 221d of the terminal 220.

The projections 211a, 211c, and 211d of the terminal jacket 210A apply pressure to the grooves 221a, 221c, and 221d of the terminal 220, so that the sensing unit 110 is applied to the grooves 221a, 221c, and 221d. It detects that the projections 211a, 211c, and 211d of the terminal jacket 210A are in contact.

Therefore, in the present invention, the meaning of contact is preferably understood to include the generation of pressure in the grooves 221a, 221c, and 221d of the terminal 220, but the meaning of the contact is not limited only to the generation of pressure. Do not.

FIG. 2D illustrates a terminal 220 corresponding to a corresponding position 211b where no projection is present when the terminal jacket 210A and the terminal 220 are coupled when the projection is not present in the terminal jacket 210A (211b). The groove 221b of) is not affected, and the detector 110 determines that the protrusion does not contact the groove 221b.

2e to 2g are views showing the contact between the projection and the groove according to another embodiment of the present invention.

This time, a groove exists in the terminal jacket 210A, and a protrusion exists in the terminal 220.

For reference, a plurality of protrusions may exist in the terminal 220, and grooves may exist in the terminal jacket 210A in correspondence thereto, but for convenience of description, one groove 211 and one protrusion 221 may be formed. This will be described as an example.

First, in FIG. 2E, when the groove 211 does not exist in the terminal jacket 210A, when the terminal 220 and the terminal jacket 210A are coupled, the terminal 220 is brought into contact with the terminal jacket 210A. The protrusion 221 generates a pressure, and the detection unit 110 detects this.

This is the same as the case where the projections 211a, 211c, and 211d are present in the terminal jacket 210A as described with reference to FIG. 2C.

2F illustrates a case in which the protrusion 221 is present in the terminal 220 and the groove 211 is present in the terminal jacket 210A. When the terminal 220 and the terminal jacket 210A are combined, the terminal jacket ( The protrusion 221 of the terminal 220 is not affected by the groove 211 of the 210A, and the sensing unit 110 contacts the terminal jacket 210A to the protrusion 221 at the corresponding position. I do not think it is.

FIG. 2G illustrates that a hole may exist instead of the groove of the terminal jacket, and the protrusion 221 of the terminal 220 is not affected even when the terminal 220 and the terminal jacket 210A are coupled to each other. It is shown.

At this time, the detection unit 110 determines that the terminal jacket 210A is not in contact with the protrusion 221 at the corresponding position.

For reference, when combining the terminal and the terminal jacket, it is obvious that there can be a variety of methods for detecting the contact of the projection and the groove, it is not limited only to the embodiment of the present invention.

Meanwhile, the color determiner 120 determines a color corresponding to the contact of the terminal jacket detected by the detector 110.

As described with reference to FIGS. 2A to 2G, the terminal jacket may have at least one protrusion, and the terminal may have at least one groove at a position corresponding to the protrusion of the terminal jacket. The order of the number, the position of the projections and the position of the projections are related to the color of the terminal jacket.

For example, assuming that four projections are arranged in a row in a black terminal jacket and four grooves exist at a corresponding position in the terminal, the terminal jacket is combined with a black terminal jacket. Four consecutive projections of the contact with the four grooves of the terminal.

Subsequently, when the detection unit 110 detects that all four grooves are in contact with the projections and transmits them to the color determination unit 120, the color determination unit 120 determines that all four grooves are in black. will be.

In this way, as shown in Fig. 2a to 2b, there is one projection in a row in the terminal jacket of the red color, then two projections do not exist in succession (the projection in place where the projection should be Assuming that there is one projection, then when the terminal and the red terminal jacket are combined, one projection of the terminal jacket and the other projection are in contact with the two grooves of the terminal.

Herein, the case where the projection of the terminal jacket and the groove of the terminal are in contact with each other is expressed as '1', and the projection of the terminal jacket and the groove of the terminal is not in contact with '0'. It may be expressed as '1001'.

Afterwards, in the case of FIG. 2A, when the detector 110 detects that the protrusion is in contact with one groove of the first position and one groove of the last position, the detector 110 transmits it to the color discriminator 120. Denotes a case in which two consecutive grooves and another groove contact each other, that is, the case of '1001' as red.

2b, the direction in which the sensing unit 110 detects contact between the groove and the protrusion is important.

That is, when detecting the contact between the groove and the protrusion in the clockwise direction, and when detecting the contact between the groove and the protrusion in the counterclockwise direction, the contact positions and the order are changed.

In the embodiment of the present invention, assuming that the sensing unit 110 detects contact between the groove and the protrusion in the clockwise direction, as shown in FIG. 2B, the combination of the terminal jacket of the red color and the terminal is the same as that of FIG. 2A. Can be expressed as'

이 된다.As described above, the case where the projection of the terminal jacket and the groove of the terminal are contacted is expressed as '1', and the case where the projection of the terminal jacket and the groove of the terminal does not contact is expressed as '0' (hereinafter referred to as color discrimination method), When the maximum number of protrusions of the terminal jacket is 'n', the number of colors that can be determined by the color discriminating unit 120 is

Becomes

= 16 이다.If there are up to four protrusions on the terminal jacket, the number of colors that can be determined by the color discriminating unit 120 is

= 16.

In addition, even if the number of protrusions of the terminal jacket is three, the color can be expressed differently according to the position of the protrusions. If this is expressed by the color discrimination method, it becomes '1110', '1101', '1011', and '0111'. By varying the number of protrusions only, different colors can be expressed.

Therefore, when there are up to four protrusions in the terminal jacket, the color discriminating unit 120 may determine colors according to the 'color discrimination method' as shown in Table 1.

Table 1

0000 Transparency 0001 Orange 0010 gold 0011 green 0100 blue 0101 Purple 0110 White 1000 Black background 1001 Red 1010 silver 1011 yellow . . . . . . 1111 black

On the other hand, the display unit 130 changes the color of the screen to the color determined by the color determination unit 120 to display.

For example, when a blue terminal jacket is coupled to the terminal, the display unit 130 receives the color information of the terminal jacket determined from the color determination unit 120 and changes the color of the terminal screen to blue.

For reference, the color of the screen changed by the display unit 130 does not necessarily have to match the color determined by the color determination unit 120, and changes the color of the terminal jacket color to the color of the screen to the color of the screen. As such, the color of the terminal screen changed by the display 130 is not limited to the color of the terminal jacket as in the embodiment of the present invention.

In addition, the display 130 may display a theme according to the color of the terminal jacket on the screen of the terminal.

Here, 'theme' means a color and design of at least one of a background, a frame, and a menu displayed on the terminal screen, and the above-described colors and designs of the background, frame, and menu may exist as respective themes. The wallpaper and the frame may be configured as one theme, or the colors of the wallpaper and the menu or the design of the wallpaper and the menu may be configured as one theme.

In this case, the color and theme of the terminal jacket may correspond to one-to-one, and the color and one theme of the plurality of terminal jackets may correspond to N to one.

For example, if the color of the terminal jacket is blue, the display unit 130 changes the color of the terminal screen to blue, change the background screen displayed on the terminal screen to the theme related to the sea according to the color of the terminal jacket Not only the color of the terminal screen but also various themes related thereto are displayed on the screen of the terminal.

To this end, the device 100 shown in FIG. 1 may include a theme storage unit 140 that stores a theme corresponding to the color of the terminal jacket, and the theme storage unit 140 may be connected to the display unit 130. .

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of changing a screen color of a terminal using a replaceable color jacket according to an embodiment of the present invention.

For convenience of description, it is assumed that a terminal jacket including a projection having a predetermined color and corresponding to a predetermined color and a terminal including a groove are coupled to each other at a position corresponding to the projection of the terminal jacket.

Referring to the apparatus 100 illustrated in FIG. 1, first, the sensing unit 110 detects a contact by coupling with a terminal jacket (S301).

In this case, the detector 110 transmits the number of the grooves where the contact is detected and the position of the grooves to the color determiner 120.

After S301, the color determiner 120 determines the color according to the number of the detected grooves and the position of the grooves, and transmits the determined color information to the display 130 (S302).

After S302, the display 130 changes the screen color of the terminal to the color determined by the color discriminator 120 (S303).

In this case, the display 130 may change the screen color of the terminal to a color having a complementary color relationship with the color determined by the color discriminator 120.

After S303, the display unit 130 refers to the theme corresponding to the color of the terminal jacket determined by the color determination unit 120 in the theme storage unit 140, changes the existing theme, and changes the changed theme to the terminal screen. Display (S304).

Although embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may implement the present invention in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. You will understand that. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are exemplary in all respects and not restrictive.

According to the apparatus and method for changing the screen color of the terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention as described above has one or more of the following effects.

According to the color of the terminal jacket has the advantage of changing the color of the terminal screen and the theme of the terminal screen.

In addition, there is an advantage that can increase the user's satisfaction to express a variety of personality.

Claims (9)

In a terminal that changes the color of the screen according to the combination with the terminal jacket having a predetermined color, A sensing unit for sensing a contact by coupling with the terminal jacket; A color discrimination unit configured to determine a color corresponding to the detected contact of the terminal jacket; And And a display unit for changing and displaying at least one of a color of a screen and a theme of the screen with the determined color. The method of claim 1, The terminal jacket is a device for changing the screen color of the terminal comprising a number of projections corresponding to the color of the terminal jacket on the surface in contact with the terminal. The method of claim 2, The sensing unit changes the screen color of the terminal including a plurality of grooves corresponding to the projection of the terminal jacket. The method of claim 1, The sensing unit changes the screen color of the terminal including a plurality of projections for determining the color of the terminal jacket. The method of claim 4, wherein The terminal jacket changes the screen color of the terminal including a number of grooves corresponding to the color of the terminal jacket on the surface in contact with the terminal. The method according to claim 2 or 4, If the maximum number of the projection is n, the color discriminating unit

Device for changing the screen color of the terminal to determine the two colors. The method of claim 1, The display unit is a device for changing the screen color of the terminal to change the color of the complementary color and the complementary color to the screen color of the terminal. The method of claim 1, Device for changing the screen color of the terminal corresponding to the at least one of the determined color and the one-to-one correspondence and one-to-n correspondence to the screen theme In the method of changing the screen color of the terminal according to the combination with the terminal jacket having a predetermined color, A sensing step of sensing contact by engagement with the terminal jacket; A color discrimination step of determining a color corresponding to the detected contact of the terminal jacket; And And changing the color of the screen to the determined color and displaying the screen.

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