KR20080046828A - Method for displaying a list in mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for displaying a list of a mobile terminal is provided to address the problem that when pre-set items are sequentially arranged to be displayed in displaying a list, a user should search and select a frequently used item through a direction key each time if it is positioned at a lower end portion of the entire items. A menu display request is inputted in a mobile terminal in a standby state(S51). A controller checks whether the entire items of the camera menu is five or more. If the entire items exceeds five items, the controller performs an item extracting process(S54). If a user selects one item(S58), the controller updates an item DB by using execution information of the selected item(S59). The controller performs a command corresponding to the item selected by the user(S60).

Description

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

2 is a diagram schematically showing an item DB database structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A is a flowchart illustrating a process of setting an item extraction method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3B is a diagram showing an item extraction method setting screen of FIG. 3A; FIG.

4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a menu display method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating an item extraction process of FIG. 4.

6 is a diagram illustrating an item display screen displayed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a list display method of a mobile communication terminal that can display and preferentially display only an item desired by a user when displaying a list.

Recently, mobile communication terminals have various functions such as video call, electronic organizer, voice or video storage function, internet function, entertainment function and content playback function from the initial simple voice call and short message transmission function. Was done.

Such mobile communication terminals list and display menus or contents in a list form while using various functions provided therein. Therefore, when the user wants to select a specific item (menu or content), the user first scrolls the screen with the up and down arrow keys and moves the cursor to the desired item.

However, in the conventional mobile communication terminal, when a list (eg, a menu, etc.) is displayed at the request of a user, the items are listed and displayed in a predetermined order. That is, if there are 10 items constituting the list and 4 items can be displayed on one screen, the conventional mobile communication terminal always displays the 4 items located at the top whenever the menu is displayed, and the remaining 6 items are Not displayed. Accordingly, when an item frequently used by the user is located at the bottom of the entire items, the user has a inconvenience in finding and selecting the corresponding item by using a direction key each time.

In addition, this conventional list display method is a situation where the user is rather hindered from quickly selecting the desired item when an item that is rarely used by the user is always displayed among the items displayed.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and to provide a list display method of a mobile communication terminal that can first extract and display items desired by a user when displaying a list. Is in.

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for displaying a list of a mobile communication terminal, the process for checking the number of items for checking whether all items of the list can be displayed on one screen from the list display request, and the total number of items An item extraction process of extracting the items from the total items to a number that can be displayed on the one screen or less, and an item display process of displaying the items extracted by the item extraction process; It is characteristic.

Meanwhile, in the present embodiment, a list display method according to the present invention will be described using the camera menu of the mobile communication terminal as an example. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and a plurality of items are sequentially listed and displayed according to a user's request, such as a call history list in which a call history is displayed or a play list in which a plurality of contents are displayed. A list is included.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that in the following description, only parts necessary for understanding the operation according to the present invention will be described, and descriptions of other parts will be omitted so as not to distract from the gist of the present invention. In addition, the various elements and regions in the drawings are schematically drawn. Accordingly, the present invention is not limited by the relative size or spacing drawn in the accompanying drawings.

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

Referring to FIG. 1, the mobile communication terminal 100 according to the present embodiment includes a wireless communication unit 130, an audio processing unit 140, a key input unit 160, a display unit 150, a storage unit 170, and a controller ( 190).

The wireless communication unit 130 performs a function of transmitting and receiving corresponding data for wireless communication of the mobile communication terminal 100. The wireless communication unit 130 may include an RF transmitter for upconverting and amplifying a frequency of a transmitted signal, and an RF receiver for low noise amplifying and downconverting a received signal. In addition, the wireless communication unit 130 may receive data through a wireless channel, output the data to the controller 190, and transmit data output from the controller 190 through a wireless channel.

The audio processor 140 may be configured as a coder (Coder / Decoder), and the codec may include a data codec for processing packet data and an audio codec for processing an audio signal such as voice. Therefore, the audio processor 140 converts the digital audio data received by the control unit 190 through the wireless communication unit 120 into an analog audio signal through an audio codec and reproduces the audio signal through a speaker, and vice versa. The audio signal is converted into digital audio data through an audio codec and provided to the controller 190.

The key input unit 160 receives a user's operation signal for controlling the mobile communication terminal 100 and transmits it to the controller 190. To this end, the key input unit 160 includes control keys (not shown) for operation control of the mobile communication terminal 100 and a plurality of numeric keys (not shown) for inputting numbers and letters. In addition, the key input unit 160 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a menu extension key 162.

The menu extension key 162 is used to preferentially extract and display the displayed items as full items as conventionally. In this embodiment, the menu extension key 166 is implemented by software. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and various applications are possible, such as using one of control keys in hardware.

The display unit 150 displays image data output from the camera module 180 on the screen. Herein, the liquid crystal display (LCD) may be applied to the display unit 150. In this case, the display unit 150 may include an LCD controller, a memory capable of storing data, and an LCD display device. In this case, when the LCD is implemented using the touch screen method, the screen of the display unit 150 may be operated as an input unit.

The storage unit 170 includes a program memory and data memories. The program memory stores programs for controlling general operations of the mobile communication terminal 100. Data generated during the execution of programs is stored in the data memory. In addition, the storage unit 170 according to the present embodiment stores an item database (hereinafter, referred to as an item DB) 172 storing execution information according to execution of an item of a user.

2 is a view schematically showing an item DB structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the item DB includes a menu type field, an item name field, an execution frequency field, a recent execution time field, and a fixed display item field. The total number of records of the item DB is basically equal to the number of all items displayed on the mobile communication terminal 100.

The menu type field is a field in which the types of all menus are stored. Therefore, the data stored in the menu type field stores the name of each menu according to the menu tree structure. In the present embodiment, a camera menu among various menus in the mobile communication terminal 150 will be described as an example.

The item name field stores the name of each item. That is, the menu type field and the item name field can be used to determine what the corresponding item is.

The execution frequency field stores the number of times an item is selected and executed by the user. Therefore, data of the execution frequency field is added and stored by 1 each time the corresponding item is executed.

The Recent Execution Time field stores the time when the item was most recently executed. For example, the shooting item in the camera menu contains the data 06.10.05 / 15:00:06 in the Last Run Time field. This shows that the item was last executed at 15: 6 seconds on October 5, 2006.

The fixed display item field is set by the user and used to designate the item as a fixedly displayed item. That is, when the user sets the corresponding item to Yes and sets the item extraction method described later to the fixed item extraction method, the item is always displayed whenever the camera menu is displayed on the screen. This will be described in more detail in the list display method to be described later.

The controller 190 performs an overall control operation of the mobile communication terminal 100. In addition, the controller 90 according to the present invention preferentially extracts and displays specific items through a method preset by a user when a menu display request is input.

Next, a list display method of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the following embodiments. The configuration of the above-described mobile communication terminal will also be clearer from the following description of the list display method.

3A is a flowchart illustrating a process of setting an item extraction method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3B is a diagram illustrating an item extraction method setting screen of FIG. 3A.

Referring to Figures 1 to 3B it will be described the item extraction method setting process according to the present invention. In step S11, a request for setting an item extraction method is input from the user in step S12. In operation S13, the controller 190 displays a list (eg, a main menu, a camera menu, an environment setting menu) of all menus in the mobile communication terminal 100 through the display unit 150.

In step S14, when the user selects one menu that the user wants to set, in step S15, the controller 190 displays an item extraction method setting screen for the selected menu. The item extraction method setting screen according to the present embodiment is displayed as shown in FIG. 3B. The item extraction method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a fixed item extraction method, a maximum frequency item extraction method, and a recently executed item extraction method.

The fixed item extraction method is a method of extracting an item preset as a fixed display item by a user. That is, items stored as Yes in the fixed display item field of the item DB 172 are extracted.

The maximum frequency item extraction method is a method of extracting the item most executed by the user. That is, items with the largest value stored in the execution frequency field of the item DB 172 are sequentially extracted.

The recently executed item extraction method is a method of extracting the item most recently executed by the user. That is, the items having the most recent time stored in the latest execution time field of the item DB 172 are sequentially extracted.

If the user selects one of these item extraction methods in step S16, the controller 190 sets the item extraction method in the method selected by the user in step S17.

Subsequently, in step S18, the controller 190 determines whether the item selected in step S16 is a fixed item extraction method. When a method other than the fixed item extraction method is selected, the controller 190 ends the item extraction method setting process. However, when the fixed item extraction method is selected, the controller 190 displays a fixed item selection screen for selecting an item to be fixedly displayed in step S19.

The fixed item selection screen displays all the items of the menu, that is, the camera menu, along with a check box to select whether to select a fixed item. Therefore, the user checks a check box of a desired item in step S20 and sets whether or not to display the item fixedly. Here, the user may set only n items as fixed items. Here, n refers to the number of items that can be simultaneously displayed on one screen through the display unit 150. In the present embodiment, five cases will be described as an example. Therefore, in this embodiment, the user can set only five items as fixed items.

When all fixed items are set by the user, the controller 190 stores information about the fixed items set in step S21 in the item DB 172. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the items set by the user for the fixed display item field of the item DB 172 are set to Yes and the remaining items are set to No.

Next, a list display method according to the present invention will be described.

4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a menu display method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an item extraction process of FIG. 4. 6 is a diagram illustrating an item display screen displayed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The list display method according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6 as follows. In operation S52, a menu display request is input from the user to the mobile communication terminal 100 in the standby state. Hereinafter, a case in which the menu requested by the user is a camera menu will be described as an example. However, it is not limited thereto.

When a camera menu display request is input from the user, the controller 190 checks whether all items of the camera menu are n or more (hereinafter, 5 or less) in step S53.

As a result of the check, if the total items are five or less, the controller 190 enters the process S57 and displays all the items through the display unit 150. In this case, the same process as the conventional menu display method is performed.

On the other hand, when the result of the check in step S53 more than five total items, the controller 190 performs an item extraction process in step S54. As shown in FIG. 2, the camera menu according to the present embodiment includes a total of eight items. Therefore, since there are more than five items, the controller 190 performs steps S541 to S543 of FIG. 5, which extract and display five items from all eight items in step S54.

Referring to FIG. 5, in step S541, the controller 190 determines whether the item extraction method set in the aforementioned item extraction method setting process is a fixed item extraction method.

If the item extraction method is set to the fixed item extraction method, the controller 190 proceeds to step S542 and extracts five fixed display items from the item DB 172. In the item DB 172 of FIG. 2, the fixed display item fields of five items of shooting, album viewing, photo studio, photo printing, and photo upload are set to Yes. Therefore, the controller 190 extracts the above five items.

On the other hand, if the fixed item extraction method is not set as the item extraction method in step S541, the controller 190 enters the process S5411 and checks whether the maximum frequency item extraction method is set as the item extraction method.

Thus, if the maximum frequency item extraction method is set, the controller 190 proceeds to step S5412 and extracts the five highest frequency items from the item DB 172. Referring to the item DB 172 of FIG. 2, the five items having the highest frequency of execution are the recording item 107, the album viewing item 143, the photo upload item 60, the photo studio item 55, and the Internet album. It can be seen that the view item 20. Therefore, the controller 190 extracts the above five items.

Similarly, when the maximum frequency item extraction method is not set as the item extraction method in step S5411, the controller 190 recognizes that the latest execution item extraction method is set as the item extraction method.

Accordingly, the controller 190 proceeds to step S5413 and extracts the five items most recently executed in the item DB 172. Referring to the item DB (172), the five most recently executed items are the photo upload item (06.10.05 / 15:05:53), the album view item (06.10.05 / 15:00:20), You can see that it is a shooting item (06.10.05 / 15:00:06), a video upload item (06.10.01 / 17:54:25), and an Internet album viewing item (06.10.01 / 10:25:35). . Therefore, the controller 190 extracts the above five items.

When five items are extracted through the above method, the controller 190 preferentially displays the five items extracted through the display unit 150 in step S543.

6 illustrates an example in which items extracted according to the maximum frequency item extraction method are displayed. Since the list display method according to the present invention does not display all the items, a scroll bar which is generally displayed in the related art is not displayed. Instead, a menu extension key 162 for expanding an item is displayed at the bottom of the displayed items.

Next, in step S55, the user selects a desired item from among five items displayed on the display unit 150 first. In this case, when the item that the user wants to select is not included in the five items which are preferentially extracted, the user inputs the menu extension key by inputting the menu extension key 162 in step S56.

When a menu extension request is input, the controller 190 displays all the items of the corresponding menu, that is, all eight items of the camera menu, in step S57. Since the state in which all the items are displayed is the same as the menu display state according to the related art, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Five or all items which are extracted first through the above process are displayed, and when the user selects one specific item in step S55 or S58, the controller 190 executes the selected item in step S59. The item DB 172 is updated using the information. That is, for example, when the Internet album view item is selected by the user, the controller 190 adds 1 to the execution frequency field of the internet album view item. Therefore, 21 is stored in the execution frequency field. In addition, the latest execution time field stores the time at which the user selected the Internet album view item.

When the update of the item DB 172 is completed, the controller 190 proceeds to step S60 to perform a command corresponding to the item selected by the user. Here, the S60 process may be performed before the S59 process or may be performed simultaneously.

According to the present invention performed through the above process, when displaying the list, the items according to the user's setting can be preferentially extracted and displayed, so that the user can select the desired item more quickly and easily.

On the other hand, the list display method of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention is not limited to the embodiment, various modifications are possible by those skilled in the art within the technical idea of the present invention. For example, the present embodiment has described a method of displaying a menu by using a camera menu as an example, but is not limited thereto. A plurality of items are listed and displayed, such as a content list (for example, a play list) or a phone book. The list can be applied in various ways.

In addition, the present embodiment illustrates a menu display method performed in the mobile communication terminal. However, in addition to this, the display unit and the key input unit may be variously applied to any electronic device that can list and display a plurality of items through the display unit.

As described above, the list display method of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention may preferentially extract and display specific items according to an item extraction method preset by a user when displaying a list, so that the user can quickly and easily You can select an item.

Claims (11)

In the list display method of the mobile communication terminal, An item number checking step of checking whether all items of the list can be displayed on one screen from the list display request; An item extraction process of extracting the items from the total items to a number less than or equal to the number that can be displayed on the one screen; And an item display step of displaying the items extracted in the item extraction process. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracting the item comprises: The method of displaying a list of mobile communication terminals, characterized in that the process of extracting a predetermined item as a fixed display item. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracting the item comprises: And extracting the items in the order of high frequency of execution of the all items. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracting the item comprises: And extracting the items in the most recently executed order from all of the items. The method of claim 1, wherein before the item number checking process is performed, And an item extracting method setting step of setting a method of extracting the items below the number that can be displayed on the one screen among all the items. The method of claim 5, wherein the setting of the item extraction method comprises: A list selection process of displaying all lists from the item extraction method setting request and selecting one of the displayed all lists; and And an extraction method setting step of setting an item extraction method corresponding to the selected list. The method of claim 6, wherein the item extraction method is A fixed item extraction method for extracting preset items as a fixed display item; A maximum frequency item extracting method for extracting the items in order of high frequency of execution of the whole items; And a method for extracting a recently executed item that extracts the items in the most recently executed order among all the items. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracting the item comprises: And extracting the items using an item database in which execution information of all the items is stored. The method of claim 8, wherein the item database, A list type field indicating a type of the list; An item name field indicating a name of the item, An execution frequency field in which the number of times the item is executed is accumulated and stored; A recent execution time field in which the latest execution time of the item is stored, and And a fixed display item field storing whether or not the item is a fixed display item. The method of claim 8, wherein after the item display process is performed, And updating an execution information of the selected item in the item database when selecting one item among the displayed items. According to claim 1, After the item display process is performed, And displaying the entire item when the entire item display request is made.

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