KR20020087666A - Method for inputting a data in personal digital assistant - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for inputting the data of a PDA is provided to input data by automatically activating a relating character or number item if a user touches a character pad or a number pad for inputting an address book. CONSTITUTION: A data input screen including a plurality of input items is displayed at a request for the data input(S11). At the time for inputting data through an input window, a style of the data input window is confirmed(S21). According to the confirmed style, the predetermined item among many input items is activated(S22). The confirmed character or number is displayed on the screen by confirming the character or number corresponding to the data inputted through the input window and linking the confirmed character or number with the relating input item. The confirmed character or number is stored in a DB by linking with the relating input item(S23).

Description

Method for inputting a data in personal digital assistant

The present invention relates to a data input method of a portable information terminal that allows a user to simply input an address book through a touch pad provided in a portable information terminal such as a PDA.

Mobile communication can be viewed as a form of adding mobility to existing communication services. The type of mobility includes terminal mobility in which a terminal can be freely moved by being released from a subscriber line, and a user moves to an arbitrary terminal. There are user mobility that can communicate, and service mobility that can accommodate not only voice but also data and video by widening a wireless channel by increasing the use frequency band.

With the development of technology, the miniaturization and lightening of mobile phone terminals are rapidly spreading to personal mobile phones (cellular phones, PCS phones; mobile phones).

The emergence of mobile phones has led to the emergence of various types of portable devices that perform similar functions. Among them, portable information terminals capable of text recognition called PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) are in the spotlight.

In general, PDA is equipped with various software and peripherals based on the CPU, memory, OS, and OS that are the basis of the computer, and can perform information collection, storage, creation, retrieval, and communication functions. ) You can easily interface with the pen.

In general, a PDA refers to a small computer that is input using a pen, but is also used in various terms. For example, Palm Computing's Palm and other similar types of personal digital devices are called PDAs, and Microsoft's Windows CE operating system does not have a keyboard. Pen-based devices use the same Windows CE operating system as Palm-Sizes PC (PPC), but keyboard-based products are called HPC (Handheld PC). Currently, the term "PDA" is used to encompass all of these concepts.

Information terminals such as PDAs provide an address book function that stores a contact number such as a phone number required by the user and a corresponding user name (name), and searches for a name and phone number whenever necessary. A brief description of a user's address book input method is as follows.

First, when a user requests an address book input, the PDA provides an address book input screen. Accordingly, the user inputs data into a desired item (field) on the address book input screen. If you want to input data in the 'item' item, you have to select 'Name' item. If you want to enter data in the 'Phone' item, select 'Phone' item and input the data through the touch pad. do.

However, in the conventional address book input method as described above, in order for the user to input data to the corresponding item of the address book, the user must select the desired item one by one, so that the address book input process is cumbersome and inconvenient due to unnecessary time. there was.

The present invention has been created to solve the above problems, when the user touches the character pad or the number pad to input the address book, the portable information to automatically activate the corresponding text item or numeric item to enable data entry The purpose is to provide a data input method of the terminal.

Figure 1 shows the configuration of a preferred embodiment of a portable information terminal (PDA) in which the data input method of the portable information terminal according to the present invention is implemented,

FIG. 2 illustrates the touch pad of FIG. 1;

3a to 3b show a flow of a preferred embodiment of a data input method of a portable information terminal according to the present invention,

4 shows an example of an address book input screen;

FIG. 5 illustrates an address book input screen when data is input through a character pad in the touch pad of FIG.

FIG. 6 illustrates an address book input screen when data is input through the numeric pad in the touch pad of FIG.

FIG. 7 illustrates an example of registration information of an individual entered through the data input process of FIG. 3.

※ Explanation of code for main part of drawing

10 touch screen 11: touch pad

12: display unit 20: touch signal receiving unit

30 control unit 31 memory

40: character recognition unit 41: character DB

50: address book DB

A data input method of a portable information terminal according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a data input method of a portable information terminal through input means in which a character input window and a numeric input window are divided into regions, when a data input request is made. A first step of outputting a data input screen including an input item of the screen; A second step of confirming a type of the input window into which data is input when data is input through the input window; And according to the identified type, a third step of activating a predetermined corresponding item among the plurality of input items.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of a data input method of a portable information terminal according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a view showing the configuration of a preferred embodiment of a portable information terminal (PDA) in which the data input method of the portable information terminal according to the present invention is implemented, and is composed of a character pad and a numeric pad to input data such as an address book of a user. A touch screen 10 including a touch pad 11 for displaying the address book input screen and an input address book; A touch signal receiver 20 which receives an output coordinate value and a stroke number (analog signal) of the touch screen 10 and converts it into digital data when the text is input through the touch screen 10; A memory 31 that stores information on a corresponding text item to be activated when a user touches the character pad of the touch pad 11 and a corresponding number item to be activated when the numeric pad of the touch pad 11 is touched. ); A character recognition unit 40 outputting a character recognition signal corresponding to the set of coordinate values based on a touch signal of the corresponding character when the character input through the touch pad 11 is a character input by a keyboard touch; A character database (DB) 41 in which unique coordinate data and stroke data corresponding to each character and scanning data obtained by scanning each standardized character into data are registered; An address book database (DB) 50 for storing a plurality of name data and address book information such as a telephone number and an address associated with each name data; And a control unit 30 storing and managing the address book information input by the user in the address book DB 50, and searching and displaying the address book information on the touch screen 10 when the user requests the address book DB 50. It is configured to include, the characteristic data of each of the characters stored in the character DB (41) are the data determined by the experimental value.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, the touch pad 11 includes a character pad and a number pad. The touch screen 10 in which the touch pad 11 and the display unit 12 are located can input text data. As the device, a resistance plate method for outputting a coordinate value signal and a stroke value signal in accordance with a change in the resistance value is used, or a capacitor plate method for outputting a coordinate value signal and a stroke value signal in accordance with a change in the charge amount value of the capacitor is used.

In addition, the touch screen 10 recognizes characters input from a user as pressing points according to pressure, and outputs an X / Y coordinate value signal and a stroke value signal representing a stroke number. The coordinate value and the stroke value signal may include the coordinate data according to the change of the X-axis and Y-axis coordinate values of the movement state and pressure state of the pressure point generated when the user inputs text through the touch screen 10; It is a resource of status data to know what characters are input based on how many times a continuous pressure occurs.

The character DB 41 registers unique coordinate data and stroke data corresponding to each character (Hangul, numeral, English, etc.) and scanning data obtained by scanning and characterizing each of standardized Korean, numeral, English, and the like. .

3A to 3B show a flow of a preferred embodiment of a data input method of a portable information terminal according to the present invention. Hereinafter, FIGS. 3A to 3B according to the present invention in parallel with the operation of the information terminal of FIG. The data input method will be described in detail.

First, the memory 31 stores text items to be activated when a user touches a character pad for inputting an address book, and information on numeric items to be activated when a user uses a numeric pad touch. As shown on the screen, when there are many text items (name, address, job title, etc.) and number items (cell phone, telephone, fax), the user can specify double representative text items and representative numeric items. In this case, the controller 30 stores the information on the item designated as the representative in the memory 31 and uses the address book input request of the user later.

If the user does not specify the representative item, the controller 30 designates the first item (name item) and the first item (cell phone item) among the numeric items on the address book input screen as representative items. Information about this is stored and used in the memory 31.

Meanwhile, the address book DB 50 is divided into a name storage area and an information storage area. Name data is stored in the name storage area, and a home address and a phone number associated with each name data in a one-to-one manner. , Email addresses, etc. are stored as data.

In this state, when a new address book input is requested through the touch screen 10 (S10), the controller 30 displays the address book input screen as shown in FIG. 4 through the display unit 12 of the touch screen 10. When outputting is displayed (S11), when the user tries to input data into a text item in the address book input screen as shown in FIG. 5, when the user inputs data into the character pad of the touch pad 11 using a touch fan. In operation S20, the controller 30 checks the text item to be activated from the memory 31 (S21) and activates the checked text item, for example, a name item (S22). That is, place the cursor on the 'name' item.

Subsequently, the controller 30 transmits a coordinate value received from the touch signal receiving unit 20 to the character recognition unit 40 according to a user's name data input through the character pad, so that the corresponding character is not displayed. The character recognition unit 40 checks the character by searching the character DB 41, and thus, the controller 30 associates the identified character with a corresponding item of 'name'. The displayed text is displayed on the address book input screen, and the checked text, namely, is stored in the name storage area of the address book DB 50 (S23). In this case, the controller 30 is subsequently input. Data associated with the name data (home address, telephone number, email address, etc.) is stored in the information storage area of the address book DB 50, wherein the controller 30 stores the input data with the corresponding item. The system is stored. That is, when a telephone number is input while the 'telephone' item is selected, the controller 30 stores the input telephone number in the information storage area in association with the 'telephone' item.

If the user wants to input data to a numeric item on the screen output address book input screen as shown in FIG. 6, when the user inputs data to the numeric pad of the touch pad 11 using a touch fan (S30), The controller 30 checks the numerical item to be activated from the memory 31 (S31) and then activates the identified numeric item, for example, a 'cell phone' item (S32). That is, the cursor is moved to the 'cell phone' item.

Subsequently, the controller 30 checks a mobile phone number (mobile phone number) inputted by the user through the numeric pad, displays it on the screen output address book input screen in association with the corresponding 'cell phone' item. In addition, the input mobile phone number is stored in the information storage area of the address book DB 50 in association with the 'cell phone' item (S33), wherein the controller 30 stores the data stored in the information storage area. By storing the data in association with the name data stored in the name storage area of the address book DB 50, the user's registration information is displayed on the screen as shown in FIG.

As mentioned above, preferred embodiments of the present invention are disclosed for the purpose of illustration, and those skilled in the art can improve and change various other embodiments within the spirit and technical scope of the present invention disclosed in the appended claims below. , Replacement or addition would be possible.

In the data input method of the portable information terminal according to the present invention operating as described above, when the user inputs data through a character pad for inputting an address book, a predetermined character item is input, and a predetermined numeric item is input when data is input through the numeric pad. This automatically activated state becomes a state that can input data, the user inputs the address book more simply and quickly without the hassle and waste of time for the user to select the input items for address book input, the inventors provide convenience to the user will be.

Claims (9)

In the data input method of the portable information terminal through the input means in which the character input window and the numeric input window are divided into areas, A first step of outputting a data input screen including a plurality of input items upon request for data input; A second step of confirming a type of the input window into which data is input when data is input through the input window; And And a third step of activating a predetermined corresponding item among the plurality of input items according to the identified type. The method of claim 1, And a fourth step of checking letters or numbers corresponding to the data input through the input window and outputting the identified letters or numbers on the screen in association with the corresponding input items. Data input method of portable information terminal. The method of claim 2, The fourth step, the data input method of the portable information terminal, characterized in that further comprising the step of storing in the database in association with the corresponding input item. The method of claim 1, The plurality of input items, the data input method of a portable information terminal, characterized in that it comprises an item consisting of letters and items consisting of numbers. The method of claim 1, In the third step, when the identified type is a numeric input window, a data input method of a portable information terminal, characterized in that for activating a telephone number input item. The method of claim 1, The third step is a data input method of a portable information terminal, characterized in that to activate the name input item when the identified type is a text input window. The method of claim 1, In the third step, when there are a plurality of text input items or numeric input items, a portable information terminal activating an item displayed on the first screen among text items or numeric items corresponding to the text input window or the number input window. How to enter data. The method of claim 1, In the third step, when the checked type is a text input window, the user inputs a predetermined text input item, and when the checked type is a numeric input window, the user activates a number input item previously selected by a user. A data input method of a portable information terminal characterized in that. The method of claim 1, Wherein the first to third step, the data input method of a portable information terminal, characterized in that when the new address book input.