KR20060020421A - Mobile communication terminal having a background picture auto-changing function and controlling method therefore - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, when the automatic change of the wallpaper is set in the mobile communication terminal, a change cycle input storage step of receiving a background change cycle from a user and storing it in a memory unit and starting checking of the change cycle, and the change cycle input storage After the step, the change cycle progress check step of checking whether the current time has reached the change time set by the user, and if the current time reaches the change time set by the user during the change cycle progress check step, the current wallpaper The present invention provides a mobile communication terminal and a control method provided with an automatic wallpaper change function, which is configured to automatically change the background to the next stored wallpaper and checks the next change cycle.

As described above, the present invention sets a change period of the background screen, and the mobile communication terminal changes the stored background screens according to the set period, so that the user does not need to manually operate the key to change the background screen of the terminal. Therefore, the convenience of the terminal can be maximized accordingly, and the background images stored in the terminal are automatically changed sequentially according to the time set by the user so as to conform to the user's preference, thereby greatly improving the functionality of the terminal.

LCD panel, MSM, background, change cycle, automatic change, next sequence

Description

Mobile communication terminal having a background picture auto-changing function and controlling method therefore}

1 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a conventional mobile communication terminal.

2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart of the present invention.

4 (a) to 4 (c) are explanatory diagrams illustrating an example of a background screen automatic change process applied to the present invention.

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1: Mobile communication terminal 2: LCD panel

3: MSM 4: Memory

5: handset 6: codec unit

7: Key panel unit 8: Base station system unit

9: terminal

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal equipped with an automatic wallpaper change function and a control method thereof, and more particularly, to set a change cycle of a wallpaper and change the stored wallpapers according to the set cycle. The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal equipped with an automatic change function and a control method thereof.

In general, in the early 1980s, mobile communication system divided service area into hexagonal cells of several km to several ten kilometers in diameter in North America, and then repeatedly used the same frequency channel in geographically separated cells, Cellular phones (cellular-phones), which have implemented wireless channel switching, have grown rapidly in the first commercialization. In addition, such a mobile phone provides various service menus on the terminal for the convenience of the user. For example, a short message service (SMS), an e-mail transmission, and an Internet connection are provided.

Then, referring to the conventional mobile communication system as described above with reference to FIG. 1, a base station 71 for wirelessly processing function signals transmitted from a plurality of terminals 70, for example, a call signal or an SMS message, and the base station An MSC 72 for controlling a call signal or SMS message transmission function input via 71 and an SMS message center 73 connected to the MSC 72 to provide an SMS message to the terminal 70; Include.

On the other hand, looking at the operation of the conventional mobile communication system as described above, for example, when the user of the terminal 70 wants to transmit the information desired by the other terminal to the other terminal to the other terminal, the user of the terminal 70 is the terminal 70 Select the menu through the keypad 75 of the) and then enter the required character. When the text input is completed through the above process, the user of the terminal 70 presses a transmission button together with the destination telephone number. Then, the terminal 70 transmits the text data input by the current user in an SMS message. Then, the SMS message signal of the terminal 70 is input to and stored in the SMS message center 73 via the base station 71 and the MSC 72. Then, the SMS message center 73 checks the destination phone number of the input SMS message and transmits it to the MSC 72. Then, the MSC 72 transmits the SMS message signal transmitted from the SMS server 73 to the counterpart mobile phone 74. The counterpart terminal 74 analyzes the received SMS message signal and displays the signal on the display.

In this case, the conventional mobile communication terminal 70 as described above sets the desired wallpaper on the LCD panel 76 while performing the above functions. It can be saved or downloaded from an external Internet site or other device. In this case, if the user of the terminal 70 wants to change the background screen displayed on the LCD panel 76, the user opens the background screen changing menu through the keypad 75 and resets to the desired background screen. 70) changes to the background screen reset by the user on the LCD panel 76. FIG.

However, the conventional method of changing the background screen of the mobile communication system as described above, if the terminal user wants to change the background screen displayed on his LCD screen, one of the desired background wallpaper among the background memory memorized through several key operations Since it is changed only by selecting and resetting, the user has to operate the key every time he or she wants to change the wallpaper. Therefore, there is a problem that it is very inconvenient to use the wallpaper change function accordingly.

Therefore, the present invention was invented to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and the user does not need to manually operate the key to change the background screen of the terminal, thereby automatically maximizing the convenience of using the terminal accordingly. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile communication terminal with a change function and a control method thereof.

Another object of the present invention is a mobile communication terminal equipped with an automatic wallpaper change function that significantly improves the functionality of the terminal according to the user's preferences to automatically change the wallpaper stored in the terminal sequentially every time set by the user And a control method thereof.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an LCD for displaying a background screen set by a user in a set time period during a standby state of a mobile communication terminal or a menu screen in a mobile communication terminal equipped with a background screen display function. An MSM unit for controlling an automatic change of a background screen to receive a panel, a change period of a background screen displayed on the LCD panel from a user, and a background displayed on the LCD panel according to a storage control signal of the MSM unit. Provided is a mobile communication terminal equipped with an automatic background screen change function including a memory unit for storing the screens with their change cycle information.

Another feature of the present invention is a change cycle input and storing step of receiving a wallpaper change cycle from a user and storing it in the memory unit and starting checking of the change cycle when the automatic change of wallpaper is set in the mobile communication terminal; After the change cycle input storage step, the change cycle progress check step of checking whether the current time has reached the change time set by the user, and confirming that the current time has reached the change time set by the user during the change cycle progress check step. If so, the present invention provides a control method of a mobile communication terminal equipped with a wallpaper automatic change function, which is configured to change the current wallpaper to the next sequence of wallpaper and check the next change cycle.

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

As shown in FIG. 2, the terminal of the present invention is installed in a part of the body of the mobile communication terminal 1 to display various information signals therein, and to set a background screen set by the user while the terminal is waiting or executing the menu screen. Controls the LCD panel 2 to display sequentially in cycles, and the automatic change of the background screen to receive and change the change cycle of the background screen displayed on the LCD panel 2 from the user and the function of the terminal 1 Also, the MSM unit 3 controls the overall information of the mobile communication terminal 1 in accordance with a storage control signal of the MSM unit 3 and is displayed on the LCD panel 2. Memory unit 4 for storing the background images together with the change period information, and the analog voice signal input through the handset 5 in accordance with the call connection control signal of the MSM unit 3 is converted into a digital signal or digital voice God The codec includes a unit (6) which converts an analog signal.

One end of the MSM unit 3 is connected to a key panel unit 7 for inputting a function setting signal of the user to the MSM unit 3.                     

Next, a control method applied to the terminal of the present invention as described above will be described.

As shown in FIG. 3, the method of the present invention proceeds to the setting of the background screen automatic change function setting step S2 in the initial state S1 to check whether the background screen automatic change function is set in the terminal. At this time, if the background screen automatic change function is not set in the current terminal as a result of checking during the background automatic change function setting check step (S2), the process proceeds to the general call processing function execution step (S3) to execute the general call processing function. .

That is, when power is applied to the terminal 1 of the present invention, the MSM unit 3 of the terminal 1 proceeds to an initialization state, forms necessary information from the internal memory unit 4, executes an initialization process, and then waits. Proceed to state.

At this time, the MSM unit 3 of the terminal 1 recognizes when the user inputs a telephone number through the key panel unit 7 and presses a call button, and the user inputs the telephone number to the memory unit 4. In addition to the storage, the system accesses the base station system unit 8 through the access channel, and then transmits an outgoing signal to the corresponding telephone number. Then, the base station system unit 8 processes the outgoing signal sent from the terminal 1 and transmits an incoming call to the counterpart terminal 9 to form a call. That is, when the user of the terminal 1 inputs the voice signal through the handset 5, the codec unit 6 of the terminal 1 signals the voice signal input through the handset 5 to the MSM unit. Enter (3). In addition, the MSM unit 3 of the terminal 1 wirelessly processes the voice signal input through the codec unit 5 and transmits the voice signal to the counterpart terminal 9 via the base station system unit 8 so that a normal call can be made. Is achieved.

However, if the automatic wallpaper change function is currently set in the terminal as a result of checking during the automatic wallpaper change function setting checking step (S2), proceed to the change cycle input storage step (S4) to input the background change cycle from the user. Receive it, store it in the memory, and start checking the corresponding change cycle. On the other hand, after the change cycle input storage step (S4) proceeds to the change cycle progress check step (S5) to check whether the current time has reached the change time set by the user. At this time, if the current time does not reach the change time set by the user as a result of checking during the change cycle progress checking step S5, the process returns to the previous step S4 and repeats the loop.

However, if the current time reaches the change time set by the user as a result of checking during the change cycle progress checking step (S5), the current wallpaper is stored in the next automatic wallpaper change step (S6) and then changed to the next wallpaper. And check the next change cycle.

That is, when the user of the mobile communication terminal 1 wants to sequentially display the background screens currently stored in the memory unit 4 on the LCD panel 2, as shown in (a)-(c) of FIG. As described above, the background screen automatic change menu can be pressed through the key panel unit 7. At this time, when the user of the terminal 1 presses the automatic background screen change menu, the internal MSM unit 3 recognizes this and displays a screen requesting to set the change cycle through the LCD panel 2. Then, the user of the terminal 1 sets the desired background screen change screen period on the LCD panel 2, for example, to select an item such as 1 hour or 24 hours.

       On the other hand, when the user of the terminal 1 sets the change period of the background screen in the above manner, the MSM unit 3 drives an internal timer (not shown) to check the change period. The MSM unit 3 recalls a background image corresponding to the current sequence among the background images stored in the memory unit 4 when the current time reaches a change time set by the user, for example, 24 hours during the checking process. Changes the background screen displayed on the current LCD panel (2). Then, the MSM unit 3 changes the background screen as described above and executes the change time checking process again, and when the corresponding time is reached, the MSM unit 3 changes the background screen of the LCD panel 2 to the next consecutive background screen.

As described above, the present invention sets a change period of the background screen, and the mobile communication terminal changes the stored background screens according to the set period, so that the user can manually operate the key to change the background screen of the terminal. Therefore, there is no need to maximize the convenience of using the terminal accordingly.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the background screens stored in the terminal are automatically changed in sequence every time set by the user to match the user's preference, there is also an effect of significantly improving the functionality of the terminal.

Claims (2)

In the mobile communication terminal equipped with a background display function, An LCD panel that sequentially displays a background screen set by a user during a standby state of the mobile communication terminal or a menu screen at a set time period, and a background that receives and changes a change cycle of the background screen displayed on the LCD panel. MSM unit for controlling the automatic screen change function, and a memory for storing the background screen displayed on the LCD panel with the change cycle information according to the storage control signal of the MSM unit automatic change of the background screen, characterized in that The provided mobile communication terminal. If the automatic change of wallpaper is set in the mobile communication terminal, a change cycle input storage step of receiving a wallpaper change cycle from the user and storing it in the memory unit and starting checking of the change cycle, and the current state after the change cycle input storage step After the change cycle progress check step to check whether the time has reached the change time set by the user, and when the current time reaches the change time set by the user during the change cycle progress check step, the current wallpaper is stored. A control method of a mobile communication terminal equipped with an automatic wallpaper change function, characterized in that the automatic change of the background screen setting step to change the setting of the background wallpaper and check the next change cycle.

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