KR20060022448A - World time display method for mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for displaying world time of a mobile communication terminal. The present invention provides a user interface for displaying a world map, and provides a user interface for displaying a world map. Since it only indicates the major cities of the world and provides the name and local time of the city, it may not be able to provide information about the city that the user wants to search other than the fixed cities, so that the location of the specific city and the local time of the city can be checked. There was a problem that the user to feel uncomfortable. In view of the above problems, the present invention implements an interface for adding a new city to the world time display function provided by a mobile communication terminal, and precisely moves a leader line indicating latitude and longitude by a user's key input. After indicating the desired area, you can enter the city name and time difference corresponding to the intersection of the corresponding leader line, add a new city, set the location and local time of the city, and check it whenever necessary. The effect is to increase the convenience of.

Description

WORLD TIME DISPLAY METHOD FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

1 is a conventional world time display screen.

2 is a screen procedure showing a process of an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method for displaying the world time of a mobile communication terminal, and in particular, a mobile communication terminal for continuously checking the time difference information of a desired city by adding a new city to the world time display screen provided by the mobile communication terminal. It is about how to display world time.

As the use of mobile communication terminals has become very widespread, they have many user bases, and many of them have free use of various capabilities of mobile communication terminals.

These mobile communication terminals are rapidly developing to use more excellent controllers, colorful displays, and vast amounts of memory, and various functions for using them are continuously added.                         

Among these functions, one of the functions that can be usefully used in real life is the world time display function. This is a function that displays the world map on the screen and displays the name and local time of the city while sequentially designating the major cities of the world while moving the intersection lines when the user operates the direction keys.

This is an essential function for many users who need to know the foreign time, and it is also used to know the geographical location of a given city.

1 is a view illustrating a world time display screen provided by a conventional mobile communication terminal. As shown in FIG. 1, an intersecting leader line indicating latitude and longitude moves in units of cities previously set by a mobile terminal developer according to a user's key operation. Display the location, name, and local time of the world's major cities. This allows the user to know the local time of the city he wants to check, as well as the geographical location.

However, the current world time provided by the mobile communication terminal selects only fixed cities so that local time of the corresponding city can be checked, and thus, the user may not be able to select a city that the user wants to check. That is, the local time and geographical location information of a few cities arbitrarily determined by the manufacturer can be known, but since the information on other cities cannot be obtained at all, the user cannot obtain information on the desired city, and thus other adjacent cities. Inconvenient to check indirectly using the information of the.

As described above, the world time display function provided by the conventional mobile communication terminal provides a user interface on which a world map is displayed, and the name of the corresponding city while a predetermined indicator indicates the world major cities determined by the manufacturer by a user's key operation. Because it provides only and local time, information about the city you want to search other than the fixed cities may not be provided, so users who want to check the location of a specific city and the local time of the city may feel uncomfortable. There was a problem.

In view of the above problems, the present invention implements an interface for adding a new city to the world time display function provided by a mobile communication terminal, and precisely moves a leader line indicating latitude and longitude by a user's key input. After indicating the desired area, you can input the city name and time difference corresponding to the intersection of the corresponding leader line, and add a new city so that the location and local time of the city can be known. The purpose is to provide.

The present invention for achieving the above object further comprises the step of including a menu for adding a new city on the world time display screen; When the user selects a menu that allows the user to add the new city, moving the intersection point of the support line to a desired city position while moving a leader line indicating latitude and longitude according to a user's key input; Moving the leader line to a desired location and selecting a menu for inputting new city information, providing a interface for setting a city name and a local time to add a new city with a city name and a local time input by the user; And selecting a city added as described above through the user's key input on the world time display screen to check the local time.

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

2 is a screen flowchart illustrating a process of adding a new city to the world time display screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, as shown in FIG. 2A, the menu “Add”, which is a menu for adding a new city, is further displayed on the existing world time display screen interface. When the user selects the "Add" menu, a screen for adding a new city as shown in FIG. 2B is provided.

The screen as shown in FIG. 2B allows the intuitive configuration of the existing world time interface to be used as it is. The position of the city that the user wants to add by allowing the user's key operation to move the leader lines indicating latitude and longitude finely. Can be moved to indicate. This method can be used to select the approximate location of the corresponding city on the screen displayed in the form of a map.However, in order to select a city more accurately, the latitude and longitude are displayed according to the movement of the leader line to directly check the nearest latitude and longitude. You can also configure to select a city. In addition, the latitude and longitude may be directly input, but because it is displayed on a fine map, it does not mean much. This interface can be implemented easily by moving the latitude and longitude guide line provided for the world time display function by the user's key input, and the degree of movement of the latitude and longitude to be moved by one key input is determined by the city selection. It should be as precise as possible.

After moving the latitude and longitude leader lines by the user's key operation as described above, the leader lines intersect at a desired city position, and then press “input” menu displayed as shown in FIG. 2B to add city information to the selected position. You can enter

FIG. 2C illustrates a user interface for city information input provided by an embodiment of the present invention, and the configuration may be various, and is not limited to the illustrated screen configuration. In the illustrated interface, the name of the city to be added and the local time of the city can be input as the time difference between the reference city 'Seoul'. It is also possible to calculate or check the current time directly, but as shown in the drawing, it is also easy to input a time difference with respect to a reference time at which the mobile terminal is currently located (in the case of a domestic terminal, "Seoul" time). This is because it is easy to calculate the time at the initial input.

The city added in the above manner is then added to the basic city selection on the world time display screen and added to the existing city selection list so that the user can check the local time of the city at any time if desired.

As described above, a new city can be added to the world time display function that can display only the location and local time information of a fixed city. After that, you will be able to use the world time display with the desired city.

As described above, the world time display method of the mobile communication terminal implements an interface for adding a new city to the world time display function provided by the mobile communication terminal, and indicates a latitude and longitude by a user's key input. Move the pointer to the desired area, then enter the city name and time difference corresponding to the intersection of the leader, add a new city, set the location and local time of the city, and By checking each time there is an effect that can increase the user's convenience.

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And further including a menu for adding a new city to the world time display screen; When the user selects a menu that allows the user to add the new city, moving the intersection point of the support line to a desired city position while moving a leader line indicating latitude and longitude according to a user's key input; Moving the leader line to a desired location and selecting a menu for inputting new city information, providing a interface for setting a city name and a local time to add a new city with a city name and a local time input by the user; And selecting the added city as described above through the user's key input on the world time display screen to check the local time. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying latitude and longitude information when the leader line indicating latitude and longitude is moved according to a key input of the user. The method of claim 1, further comprising: inputting a local time according to the new city name as a time difference with respect to a reference local time.

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