KR101177772B1 - Method and Mobile Communucation Terminal for Displaying State of Agent - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for displaying an agent status and a mobile communication terminal.

The present invention includes the steps of (a) receiving a signal generated according to the usage state of the mobile communication terminal; And (b) reading the pre-stored data matched with the signal to change the agent state and displaying the data on an external display.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is not necessary to start the main display unit to check the state of the agent, thereby preventing battery waste, waste of time due to incidental operations performed to start the main display unit, or shortening the life of the display unit. Provide the effect.

Agent, use status, external display, color, shape

Description

Method and Mobile Communucation Terminal for Displaying State of Agent

1 is a block diagram schematically showing an internal configuration of a mobile communication terminal displaying an agent status according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a diagram illustrating a table including a usage state of a mobile communication terminal and an agent state matching the same according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a diagram illustrating a matching table listing data matching agent status according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart schematically showing a process of displaying an agent status on an external display according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5A to 5C illustrate an external display unit in which a shape is displayed among data matched with an agent state according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6A and 6B are exemplary diagrams of a mobile communication terminal showing an embodiment of the present invention;

7A and 7B are exemplary diagrams of a mobile communication terminal showing another embodiment of the present invention.

Description of the Related Art

102: memory 104: key input unit

106: control unit 108: main display unit

110: external display unit 112: wireless circuit unit

114: audio converter

The present invention relates to a method for displaying an agent status and a mobile communication terminal. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for displaying a state of an agent corresponding to a usage state of a mobile communication terminal to an external display unit so that the user can see from the outside, and a mobile communication terminal.

With the recent development of communication technology, various kinds of mobile communication terminals having communication functions and image display functions such as mobile phones, Internet phones, IMT-2000 terminals, PDA phones, etc. are widely used. It is being expanded into various functions such as functions, camera and camcorder functions, or entertainment functions including electronic organizers, electronic dictionary functions, and entertainment.

In particular, the mobile communication terminal has shown an explosive increase in subscription due to the ease of use and the advantage that can be used between mobiles, and is now widely used to match the number of wired telephones using a telephone line. In addition, the mobile communication terminal has developed into a kind of companion concept while being established as a necessity for daily living with the user. Accordingly, a character including an avatar may be stored in a mobile communication terminal to appear on the display to explain a manual, or may store an agent function or a cyber pet or a cyber character on behalf of oneself to breed or exchange messages in a cyber space. It extends to the function that there is.

However, according to such a function, the current state of the agent or the cyber character is curious and checks the display from time to time, which causes problems of wasting time and wasting battery.

In order to solve the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for displaying the state of the agent corresponding to the use state of the mobile communication terminal to the external display unit so that it can be seen from the outside.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a mobile communication terminal for displaying the state of the agent corresponding to the use state of the mobile communication terminal to the external display unit so that it can be seen from the outside.

In order to achieve this object, the present invention comprises the steps of (a) receiving a signal generated according to the use state of the mobile communication terminal; And (b) reading the pre-stored data matched with the signal to change the agent state and displaying the data on an external display.

The present invention also provides an agent driving program, an agent state data matching the use state of the mobile communication terminal, and a memory unit for storing data matching the agent state; An external display unit displaying the data; And a control unit which receives a signal generated according to the usage state of the mobile communication terminal, reads pre-stored data matching the signal, and displays the data on an external display while changing an agent state. It is a feature of the present invention to provide a mobile communication terminal displaying the status.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to designate the same or similar components throughout the drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing an internal configuration of a mobile communication terminal displaying an agent status according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile communication terminal includes a memory 102, a key input unit 104, a control unit 106, a main display unit 108, an external display unit 110, a wireless circuit unit 112, and an audio conversion unit. (114) and the like.

The memory 102 stores a predetermined program for controlling the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal, and stores data input and output when the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal is performed by the controller 106 in a predetermined area. .

In the memory 102 according to an embodiment of the present invention, a matching table including an agent driving program driven in correspondence with a use state of a mobile communication terminal and data matching with the state of an agent is stored.

A table consisting of the usage state of the mobile communication terminal and the agent state data corresponding thereto is illustrated in FIG. 2. As shown in FIG. 2, the state of use of the mobile communication terminal includes a case in which an idle state of the mobile communication terminal is maintained for a predetermined time when the battery voltage level becomes 0 and is discharged. May be set by the user or stored as a default. In addition, the use state may include a case in which the mode of the mobile communication terminal is converted to the sleep mode due to the continuous use of the mobile communication terminal, a case in which a message is received, or a call signal is received. . In addition, the use state may include a case of performing various functions set in the mobile communication terminal such as when the user arrives at a wake-up call or an alarm time or when the user arrives at the time set in the schedule.

Also, color and shape data matching the agent state is illustrated in FIG. 3. For example, when the battery voltage of the mobile communication terminal is 0, the agent state may be in a state of hungry and hungry. If the data is color, the final data displayed on the external display unit 110 is red. Becomes As another example, when the use state of the mobile communication terminal receives a call signal, the state of the agent is in a different operation, and when the shape is changed, the phone is final data displayed on the external display unit 110. . In addition to the data shown in FIG. 3, the data stored in the memory 102 includes an outline of the state of the agent displayed on the main display unit 108 of the mobile communication terminal, and the display shown on the main display unit 108 of the mobile communication terminal. A sound that is output at the same time as one or more of a state, a color or a shape of an agent is changed, a highlight that the external display 110 blinks and displays, or a character (for example, a jump) that matches the state of the agent And the like. The matching table as shown in FIG. 3 may be set by the user or may be defaulted.

The key input unit 104 includes a plurality of key buttons for inputting a number such as a telephone number. When the user presses a predetermined key, the key input unit 104 generates corresponding key data and outputs the corresponding key data to the control unit 106. In addition, the key input unit 104 may be configured as a keypad, a jog shuttle, a point stick or a touch screen.

The main display unit 108 includes a liquid crystal display for displaying a variety of information, and is a part for informing the user by displaying the current state of the terminal to allow the user to perform appropriate control. The LCD screen displays various information such as power supply status, radio wave reception strength, date and time, current mode status, and other user information. By transmitting this information to the user, the user can check and control the state of the current mobile communication terminal.

The main display unit 108 according to an embodiment of the present invention may be an internal display unit when the mobile communication terminal is a folding type, or may be a main display unit externally mounted when the mobile communication terminal is a slide type. In addition, the main display unit 108 may display the changed agent when the state of the agent changes in response to the use state of the mobile communication terminal. This may be displayed on the entire screen or may be part of the background screen.

The external display unit 110 may display the data corresponding to the agent state when the controller reads the data from the memory 102 and transmits the data. In this case, the display may be displayed only by changing the color or shape, and the matching color or shape may be simultaneously displayed.

In addition, the external display unit 110 may be configured of any one of a liquid crystal display (LCD), a light emitting diode (LED), and an organic light emitting diode (OLED). Here, when the external display unit 110 is configured as an LCD, the entire screen may be divided into at least two areas to display data in any one area. In addition, the external display unit 110 may be any one side of the display unit consisting of a double-sided LCD. In addition, since the external display unit 110 may be configured as a transparent LCD, the display unit may display data that is matched only when it is necessary to display the state of the agent while maintaining the transparent state as usual.

The radio circuit unit 112 is a circuit for transmitting and receiving voice and control information with a base station wirelessly. A signal transmitted from an external terminal or a base station is received through an antenna and transmitted to the controller 106 or data stored in the memory 102 is output through the antenna.

The audio converting unit 114 converts a digital signal into a voice and outputs it to a speaker (not shown) or converts a voice received through a microphone (not shown) into a digital signal.

The audio converter 114 according to an embodiment of the present invention receives a sound signal matching the current agent state and converts it to an analog voice when a sound including an effect sound or a voice matching the state of the agent is set. Can output to the speaker.

The controller 106 is the most essential part of the terminal and controls the overall operation of the terminal. The controller 106 includes an arithmetic logic operator, a register, a program counter, a command decoder, a control circuit, and all operations of the terminal are properly performed. To control.

The control unit 106 according to an embodiment of the present invention receives a signal generated according to the use state of the mobile communication terminal through the wireless circuit unit 112, and reads the data stored in the memory 102 matching the received signal The data is displayed on the external display unit 110 while changing the agent state. For example, when the control unit 106 receives the call signal through the wireless circuit unit 112, the agent state data matching the operation signal running from the matching table stored in the memory 102 illustrated in FIG. The purple is extracted from the matching table stored in the memory 102 illustrated in FIG. 2, and the current agent state is changed to a running operation, and the external display 110 is controlled to display purple.

In addition, when a sound matching the state of the agent is set, the controller 106 may transmit a sound signal read from the memory 102 to the audio converter 114 to output a corresponding sound.

The controller 106 may change the state of the agent matching the use state of the mobile communication terminal to be displayed on the main display unit 108 by the agent driving program and the table stored in the memory 102.

In addition, the controller 106 may control the external display 110 to display a color or shape that matches the state of the agent in the matching table stored in the memory 102.

In addition, the control unit 106 may simultaneously display the color and shape matching the state of the agent according to the setting. By applying the matching table illustrated in FIG. 3, for example, when the agent is in a happy state of jumping, the external display 110 displays an envelope shape and colors are displayed in blue. Alternatively, the shape may be set so that a certain shape is set regardless of the state of the agent and only the color is changed to match the state of the agent. For example, as the dog shape is displayed, only the color changes to match the state of the agent, so when the agent's state is hungry, the color changes to red.

Alternatively, when the data matching the state of the agent is the same as the state of the changed agent corresponding to the use state, the controller 106 may control the external display 110 to display the changed state of the agent. Alternatively, when the data is the outline of the agent state displayed on the main display unit 108, the controller 106 displays the same shape as the outline of the agent state displayed on the main display unit 108 on the external display unit 110. Can be controlled. In addition, the external display 110 may be periodically blinked and highlighted according to data stored in the memory 102.

4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a process of displaying an agent status on an external display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

First, the use state of the mobile communication terminal occurs (S402). In this case, when the battery voltage level is discharged when the battery voltage level is 0 (battery voltage level), the idle state of the mobile communication terminal is maintained for a predetermined time set or defaulted by the user. When the mode of the mobile communication terminal is not converted to the sleep mode (Sleep Mode) because it is not continuously used, it may include a case in which a message is received or a call signal is received. In addition, the use state includes various functions set in the mobile communication terminal such as a wake-up call or an alarm when the wake-up call or an alarm is activated, or a notification function is activated to notify the user when the wake-up call or the alarm is reached. Can include

A signal is generated according to the usage state generated in step S402 (S404). For example, when a mobile communication terminal receives a message, a signal corresponding thereto is generated and transmitted to the controller 106.

Upon receiving the signal generated in operation S404, the controller 106 reads data matching the received signal from a table stored in the memory 102 (S406). For example, referring to the matching table of the agent states illustrated in FIG. 2, when the control unit receives a call signal through the wireless circuit unit 112, the control unit may be configured as a state of the agent from the matching table stored in the memory 102. Read motion data. In addition, referring to the matching table of the data displayed on the external display unit changed according to the agent state illustrated in FIG. 3, for example, when only the color is set to be displayed, the color of the agent may be different. Read purple as data. Alternatively, when both the shape and the color are set to be displayed, the shape is a telephone and the color is read as purple.

The agent state is displayed on the external display while changing the agent state based on the data read in step S406 (S408).

In this case, the controller 106 may control to display the state in which the agent runs according to the state of the selected agent on the main display unit 108 according to the agent driving program. For example, with reference to the data matching table of the agent state illustrated in FIG. Based on the reading, the running agent may be controlled to be displayed on the main display unit 108. According to the matching table illustrated in FIG. 3, for example, when the read data is purple, purple is displayed on the external display 110. In this case, when it is set to be highlighted, the external display 110 may change to purple and may periodically blink.

Alternatively, if the read data has a color of purple and a shape is set to be simultaneously displayed on the phone, the color of the phone may be changed to purple while the shape of the phone is displayed on the external display unit 110.

In addition, when the characters matching the status of the agent are displayed while the color and the shape are displayed at the same time, the purple phone may be displayed and may be displayed as 'running' at the bottom. If the read data indicates the outline of the agent status displayed on the main display unit 108, only the outline of the running agent is displayed, and if the running figure is displayed as a video, the outline displayed on the external display unit 110 is also displayed. It will be a dynamic shape moving accordingly.

In addition, when data is set to simultaneously display colors and shapes on the external display 110 and output sound, the sound may be output. For example, when only the color of the mobile communication terminal is switched to the sleep mode and the sound is set to be output, according to the matching table illustrated in FIG. 3, the status of the agent is green in the sleeping state. This is displayed on the external display 110, if the sound in this case is set to snore sound, the snore sound to the speaker will be output.

5A to 5C are diagrams illustrating an external display unit in which a shape is displayed among data matched with an agent state according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5A, in the case of a folder type terminal having an LCD display unit mounted outside the folder unit, an external display unit 502 capable of displaying data matching the agent status may be separately mounted outside the folder unit.

As illustrated in FIG. 5B, in the case of a folder type terminal in which no separate display unit is mounted on the outside, an external display unit 504 displaying data matching the agent status may be separately mounted on the outside of the folder unit.

As illustrated in FIG. 5C, the external display unit 506 may be separately mounted so as to be distinguished from the main display unit mounted outside.

However, the position in which the external display unit is mounted may vary depending on the case and is not limited to the position shown in FIGS. 5A to 5C.

5A to 5C, the shape of the dog is already set, and only the color is changed so that the user can check the state of the agent from the outside by the changed color, and finally the mobile communication terminal by checking the state of the agent. You can grasp the state of use.

6A and 6B are exemplary diagrams of a mobile communication terminal showing an embodiment of the present invention.

6A is a screen in which the state of the agent is changed to a state where the changed state of the agent is displayed on the main display unit 108 when the state of use of the mobile communication terminal receives a call signal. FIG. 6B illustrates a screen in which the phone shape, which is data corresponding to the change of the agent state, is displayed on the external display unit 110.

7A and 7B are exemplary diagrams of a mobile communication terminal showing another embodiment of the present invention.

7A is a screen in which the state of the agent is changed to a state where the changed state of the agent is displayed on the main display unit 108 when the state of use of the mobile communication terminal receives a call signal. 7B is a screen in which only the outline of the running agent state is displayed on the external display unit 110.

The above description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various modifications and changes without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the technical idea of the present invention but to describe the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The protection scope of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope equivalent thereto should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is not necessary to start the main display unit to check the state of the agent, thereby preventing battery waste, waste of time due to incidental operations performed to start the main display unit, or shortening the life of the display unit. Provide the effect.

In addition, the state of the agent is displayed in color, shape, or sound to provide an effect that is interesting or fun to the user visually and audiologically.

Claims (20)

(a) receiving a signal generated according to a usage state of a mobile communication terminal; (b) reading prestored data matching the signal; The data includes agent state data matching the signal, color data changed according to the state of the agent, or shape data changed according to the state of the agent, and (c) displaying one of the color data according to the changed agent state or the shape data according to the changed agent state on an external display while changing the agent state according to the agent state data; How to display the agent status, including. The method of claim 1, In the step (a), the usage state is any one of a battery voltage level of the mobile communication terminal, maintaining an idle state for a predetermined time, changing to a sleep mode, receiving a message, and receiving a call signal. Method for displaying the agent status comprising a. The method of claim 1, (d) displaying the changed agent status on a main display. delete The method of claim 1, And wherein the shape comprises a dynamic shape. The method of claim 1, And in step (c), the data includes an outline of the agent state being changed. The method of claim 1, And in step (c), the data includes the same status as the changed agent status. The method of claim 1, And outputting a sound matching the agent state changed in the step (c). The method of claim 1, And displaying the character matching the agent status changed in the step (c) on an external display. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3 or 5 to 9, And displaying the external display unit in step (c) by highlighting. The method of claim 1, And the external display unit is one side of a double-sided liquid crystal display (LCD). The method of claim 1, And the external display unit is divided into at least two areas, and displays the data in any one of the divided areas. The method of claim 1, And the external display unit comprises one of a liquid crystal display (LCD), a light emitting diode (LED), and an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The method of claim 1, And the external display unit comprises a transparent liquid crystal display (LCD). A memory unit configured to store an agent driving program, agent state data corresponding to a use state of a mobile communication terminal, and store color data changed according to the state of the agent or shape data changed according to the state of the agent; An external display unit displaying the color data or shape data; And Receiving a signal generated according to the usage state of the mobile communication terminal, reading pre-stored data matching the signal, changing the agent state according to the agent state data, the color data according to the changed agent state or Control unit for controlling to display any one of the shape data according to the changed agent state on the external display unit Mobile communication terminal to display the agent status comprising a. 16. The method of claim 15, An audio converter configured to receive an audio signal from the controller and output analog sound through a speaker; And the control unit transmits a sound signal matching the state of the agent to the audio converter to output the sound. 16. The method of claim 15, And the external display unit is one side of a double-sided liquid crystal display (LCD). 16. The method of claim 15, And the external display unit is divided into at least two areas, and displays the data in any one of the divided areas. 16. The method of claim 15, And the external display unit comprises one of a liquid crystal display (LCD), a light emitting diode (LED), and an organic light emitting diode (OLED). 16. The method of claim 15, The external display unit is a mobile communication terminal for displaying the agent status of the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that consisting of a transparent LCD (Liquid Crystal Display).

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