KR101342016B1 - Terminal apparatus for composing user intereface using image of address book and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is a contact image that makes it easy for anyone to familiarize and use a smartphone by configuring the screen with a friendly face picture and a convenient method of using the small letters on the screen and the unfamiliarity of the touch-based approach that are factors of rejection for using a smartphone. Provides a terminal and a method for configuring a screen interface using. According to the present invention, as the spread of the touch-type smartphone is expanded along with the forced termination of the 2G terminal, there is an effect of providing a user interface that enables simpler functions and convenient operation, especially for elderly users regardless of the smartphone age group. .

Description

A terminal and a method of configuring a screen interface using a contact image {TERMINAL APPARATUS FOR COMPOSING USER INTEREFACE USING IMAGE OF ADDRESS BOOK AND METHOD THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a device and a method for configuring a screen interface of a smartphone, and more particularly, a method of using a friendly picture and a convenient function that is unfamiliar with the small letters and the touch-based approach within the screen, which is a rejection factor for using a smartphone. The present invention relates to a terminal and a method for configuring a screen interface by using a contact image that allows anyone to easily understand and use a smartphone by configuring a screen.

Recently, as the transmission technology of mobile phones has evolved from 3G to 4G, services such as video, email, and high-speed Internet through mobile terminals have been strengthened, and in terms of content, various mobile applications have been increased through online application stores. This environmental change is rapidly spreading the spread of smartphones, and the recent smartphone market is growing more than 50% annually.

The advantage of such a smartphone is that the user can install a desired application to use a variety of content.

Therefore, the recent analysis of the use of smart phones has increased the use of applications that can provide a variety of content than the use of voice calls.

However, in general, a smart phone uses a designated background screen and a menu screen under an operating system provided by an operator, and thus, a smart phone cannot provide a user interface (UI) suitable for personal preferences and preferences.

In order to solve this disadvantage, a launcher application that can modify a user interface (UI), an icon, a theme, and the like according to a user's preference is provided.

However, even though the launcher application is still applied, the smart phone has a problem in that it is difficult to use the silver age group or the children's class by an approach using a touch method rather than a small letter on the screen and a decompression method.

The present invention was devised to solve the above problems, and the smart phone is designed for the use of friendly face pictures and convenient functions to make the screen unfamiliar with the small letters on the screen and the touch-based approach, which are factors of rejection for using a smartphone. It is an object of the present invention to provide a terminal and a method of configuring a screen interface using a contact image that allows a user to easily understand and use a phone.

To this end, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the terminal of the present invention, the input unit for receiving an operation signal including the execution of the silver application, the selection of the image or menu from the user; A storage unit including information regarding the silver application, contact information including an image of each contact, and text message information to be transmitted to a specific contact; And a contact image screen in which only the images included in the contact information are extracted and arranged as an initial screen when the silver application is executed in the background, and if there is a selection for any one specific image on the contact image screen, It characterized in that it comprises a screen view providing unit for providing a screen for displaying a call menu and a text menu for.

The screen view providing unit may include an image display area in which one or more images are arranged on the contact image screen, and a function window display area for displaying a shortcut icon in order to execute another function away from the silver application. It is characterized by providing.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a method of configuring a screen interface using a contact image of a terminal of the present invention includes: executing a silver application on the terminal in the background; Providing a contact image screen in which only an image included in contact information is extracted and arranged as an initial screen; Checking which one of a specific image is input on the contact image screen; Displaying a call menu and a text menu capable of a call function and a text function together with the selected image when a selection of the specific image is inputted; And providing a screen for performing a corresponding operation according to the selection of the call menu or text menu.

According to the present invention, with the end of compulsory use of the 2G terminal, the spread of the touch-type smart phone has been expanded, thereby providing a user interface that enables simpler functions and convenient operation, especially for elderly users, regardless of smartphone use age group. .

Furthermore, the present invention applies an intuitive image such as a portrait picture or graphic to a contact and displays it on a large screen arrangement, and by using only a drag and tap method, a smartphone of an elderly person or a bad user who is not familiar with a touch type smartphone It has the effect of improving the user interface for use.

In addition, there is an opportunity to resolve complaints about forced movement from 2G to 3G, to provide smartphone applications for the elderly population among 2G users, and to install widget-installed applications on current smartphones without developing a separate smartphone. By installing, the service can be easily and positively performed in various operating systems.

In addition, it can be used as a marketing to convert the understanding of the changing paradigm for smartphones from negative to positive.

1 is a block diagram of a terminal constituting a screen interface using a contact image of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of configuring a screen interface using the terminal of FIG. 1.
3 and 4 are detailed views of FIG. 2.
5 is a view showing an initial lock screen of the present invention.
6A and 6B are diagrams illustrating a screen displaying a contact image of the present invention.
7 illustrates another example of a screen displaying a contact image of the present invention.
8 is a diagram illustrating a screen displaying a call or text menu for a specific image.
9A and 9B illustrate screens for displaying a stored character list according to the present invention.
10A and 10B illustrate an example of using a function button display area in the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The configuration of the present invention and the operation and effect thereof will be clearly understood through the following detailed description. Before describing the present invention in detail, the same components are denoted by the same reference symbols as possible even if they are displayed on different drawings. In the case where it is judged that the gist of the present invention may be blurred to a known configuration, do.

1 is a block diagram of a terminal constituting a screen interface using a contact image of the present invention.

The terminal 100 according to the present invention includes an input unit 110, an application execution unit 120, a screen view providing unit 130, a display unit 140, and a storage unit 150 as illustrated.

The input unit 110 receives a user's manipulation signal such as executing an application, selecting an image or a menu, or moving the user.

The application execution unit 120 and the screen view providing unit 130 correspond to a control unit for controlling the installed silver application of the present invention.

The dual application execution unit 120 loads application information previously stored in the storage unit 150 according to the reception of the input unit 110 and executes the silver application.

When the silver application is executed in the background, the screen view providing unit 130 provides a screen view determined on the display unit 140 after a predetermined event occurs or is executed.

That is, the screen view providing unit 130 provides a contact image screen displaying the image stored in the contact information in association with the contact information to the display unit 140 as an initial screen, and displays a specific image on the contact image screen. If there is a selection, a screen for displaying a call menu and a text menu for a specific image is provided to the display unit 140. When the call menu is selected, the call connection screen is provided to the display unit 140, and when the text menu is selected, the screen for sending the stored text information is provided to the display unit 140.

In this case, the screen view providing unit 130 may variously express the position, size, and number of data to be displayed on each screen by the predetermined screen configuration information. This will be described in detail in the following drawings.

The storage unit 150 stores information 151 related to the installed silver application of the present invention, contact information 152 including a picture and an image (hereinafter, referred to as an image) of a contact, and text information 153 to be transmitted to a specific contact. Save including.

The contact information 152 includes an image reminiscent of each contact along with the contacts such as the big son, the little son, the daughter-in-law, the grandchildren. At this time, the image may include a portrait picture, a graphic, an animation, etc., and a priority may be designated for each contact. Therefore, when displaying a contact on the screen, it is also possible to arrange and display each person photo other than the contact, and to arrange the pictures according to the priority when the priority is designated.

The text information 153 may store only one call message, such as 'Contact Us' or 'Contact Us', or may store various messages such as 'It is time to go to school' and 'It is time to wake up'.

Therefore, when only one call message is stored when sending a text to a contact selected from a contact, the same call message may be sent, and when several messages are stored, one message may be selected and transmitted. Alternatively, text messages to be sent to specific contacts may be set, and texts may be sent according to the set information. For example, the older son sends a text message, 'It's time to go to school', and the smaller son sends a text message 'It's time to wake up'.

The screen configuration operation of the terminal configured as described above is as follows.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of configuring a screen interface using the terminal of FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are detailed views of FIG. 2. For reference, FIGS. 5 to 10B illustrate screens displayed at respective stages and will be described in connection with this.

First, referring to FIG. 2, in the first step S100, when there is no user's manipulation, the terminal displays and guides the initial lock screen as shown in FIG. 5.

Thereafter, in step S200, when the user's operation signal for releasing the initial lock screen is input to the terminal, the lock is released.

Thereafter, in step S300, the screen view providing unit of the terminal outputs the contact image screen to the display unit and displays the initial screen.

In this case, the screen view providing unit retrieves the contact information previously stored in the storage unit and extracts and displays only the image stored in the contact. If a contact number (priority number) is designated for each contact in the contact information, images may be displayed according to the order. The image is based on each contact's portrait, but you can capture and use graphics, animations, etc. as needed.

This process assumes that the silver application is running in the background beforehand. For example, it may include a setting process of installing the installable silver application of the present invention and driving it as a basic app.

The contact image screen may be displayed as shown in FIGS. 6A to 7. FIG. 6A illustrates a most basic configuration, and FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a screen in which the number of images is modified.

As shown in FIG. 6A, the contact image screen 600 basically includes an image display area 610 for displaying an image stored in a contact, and a function window display area 620 for executing other functions away from the silver application. ).

The function window display area 620 includes a shortcut icon such as a widget function to directly enter the corresponding function out of the silver application. For example, in FIG. 6A, only the call icon 621, the main icon 622, and the picture icon 623 are illustrated, but other shortcut icons (text, Twitter, Facebook, calendar, calendar, clock, etc.) required by the user are shown. Can be added and deleted.

The call icon 621 drives a dial screen to present a screen for the user to directly enter a contact, the main icon 622 moves out of the silver application to the initial screen, and the picture icon 623 displays a photo program. Drive to present a screen that can take a picture.

The function window display area 620 determines the number of icons that can be displayed on one screen. When the number of icons added to the function window display area 620 is larger than the determined number, the function window display area 620 is illustrated in FIGS. 10A and 10B. As described above, it may be implemented to allow left and right scrolling.

10A illustrates the function window display area 620 displayed in the portrait mode, and FIG. 10B illustrates a screen displayed in the landscape mode. This is selectively displayed according to the mode to be displayed, but is automatically changed and displayed whenever the user changes to the portrait or landscape mode.

Referring back to FIG. 6A, the image display area 610 of the present invention retrieves an image stored in a contact and displays the image according to a predetermined size and arrangement. In FIG. 6A, a screen configuration in which four tiles are arranged on one screen is shown. When the number of images registered in a contact is larger than the number of images (four) that can be displayed on one screen, as shown in FIG. 6B. Scroll left and right to view multiple images.

In addition, the image display area 610 displays [1 * n], [2 * n], and [6 * n] scrolls left and right according to the size of the image as shown in FIG. can do. Here, n is the number of scroll screens shown through left and right scrolling.

Thereafter, in step S400, the terminal checks whether a desired image is selected from the user on the contact image screen.

If there is no selection of the image as a result of the check, the previously displayed contact image screen is displayed as it is, and if there is an image selection, the next step S500 is performed.

That is, in step S500, the terminal displays a screen including a call menu and a text menu together with the image selected on the display unit. The screen including the call menu and the text menu is as shown in FIG. 8.

8 illustrates an example in which the user selects the second image image2 in the image display area 610. When the desired image image2 is selected on the contact image screen 600 as described above, the terminal enlarges and displays the selected image image2 as the entire image on the image display area 630 of the screen and displays the call menu 632 thereon. And the text menu 633 are superimposed. Here, the call menu 632 is a function menu for connecting a call to a contact matching the selected image, and the text menu 633 is a function menu for transmitting a text message to the contact matching the selected image. The call menu 632 and the text menu 433 are implemented to be selectively selectable.

Therefore, in step S600, the terminal performs an operation on the selected menu of the call menu or the text menu displayed on the screen. A detailed operation process will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

Referring to FIG. 3, the terminal checks whether a menu selected by the user from the call menu and the text menu displayed on the screen is the call menu (S610).

If the menu selected by the user is a call menu, the terminal extracts a contact corresponding to the selected image from previously stored contact information and directly connects the call to the extracted contact (S620 and S630).

On the contrary, if the menu selected by the user is not the call menu, it is checked whether the text menu (S640).

If the check result is a text menu, the terminal extracts a contact corresponding to the selected image from previously stored contact information and sends the stored text message to the extracted contact information (S650 and S660).

If not as a result of the text menu, the terminal displays the screen including the call menu and the text menu as it is and maintains the current operation (S670).

4 is a flowchart for explaining another operation of a text menu. That is, an operation process for storing a plurality of text messages to be sent to the storage unit in the terminal.

If the text menu is selected in step S650, the terminal displays a list of stored text messages (S700). Based on a method of displaying one text message on one screen, a plurality of text messages are displayed by left and right scrolling or up and down scrolling. For example, FIG. 9A illustrates an example of a screen displaying a plurality of text messages by scrolling left and right, and FIG. 9B illustrates an example of a screen displaying a plurality of text messages by scrolling up and down.

Thereafter, the terminal checks whether a desired text message is selected from the user in the displayed text message list (S710).

Thereafter, the terminal sends the selected text message to a contact matched with the image (S720).

Through this process, the present invention can input a brief delivery message in advance so that a desired character can be delivered by simply selecting without inputting a keyboard.

In addition, when the image of the contact is selected through the tap method, the present invention can directly proceed to the next step of the call mode or the text mode with a single touch, thereby improving convenience of use.

In addition, since the present invention generally uses only a drag and tap method, it is possible to reduce confusion due to double tap or vertical scrolling even if the silver generation is used.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the present invention, and various modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention. That is, the description and drawings of the present invention illustrate that the terminal is applied as a smart phone, but it is applicable to any terminal capable of a telephone function and a text sending function through wired / wireless call connection such as a landline phone or a tablet PC.

Accordingly, the embodiments disclosed in the specification of the present invention are not intended to limit the present invention. The scope of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all the techniques within the scope of equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

100: terminal 110: input unit
120: application execution unit 130: screen view providing unit
140: display unit 150: storage unit
151: information about the application 152: contact information
153: character information

Claims (14)

An input unit configured to receive an operation signal including execution of a silver application, selection of an image, or a menu from a user;
A storage unit including information regarding the silver application, contact information including an image of each contact, and text message information to be transmitted to a specific contact; And
When the silver application is executed in the background, a contact image screen provided by extracting and arranging only images included in the contact information as an initial screen is provided, and if there is a selection for any one specific image on the contact image screen, And a screen view providing unit which provides a screen displaying a call menu and a text menu for
The screen view providing unit is characterized in that for displaying the image according to the priority information set in the contact information.
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Executing a silver application on the terminal in the background;
Providing a contact image screen in which only an image included in contact information is extracted and arranged as an initial screen;
Checking which one of a specific image is input on the contact image screen;
Displaying a call menu and a text menu capable of a call function and a text function together with the selected image when a selection of the specific image is inputted; And
Providing a screen for performing a corresponding operation according to the call menu or text menu selection;
The providing of the contact image screen may include displaying the image according to the priority information when the contact information includes the priority information. delete delete delete delete delete delete

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