Patent
Mobile electronic device
| العنوان: | Mobile electronic device |
|---|---|
| Patent Number: | 8,723,802 |
| تاريخ النشر: | May 13, 2014 |
| Appl. No: | 13/056642 |
| Application Filed: | July 28, 2009 |
| مستخلص: | Provided is a mobile electronic device capable of reflecting a user's intention. While an initial screen for waiting for an incoming-call is being displayed on an LCD display unit, a control unit performs control so that a first type character display area and a second type character display area are displayed on the LCD display unit in place of the initial screen, wherein the first type character display area is an area for, when any of first keys is depressed, displaying a first type character (for example, a number such as “1”, “2”, “3”) assigned to the depressed first key and the second type character display area is an area for displaying a second type character (for example, “a”, “i”, “u”, etc. in Japanese Hiragana letter) assigned to the depressed first key. |
| Inventors: | Watanabe, Kouji (Kanagawa, JP); Wada, Yuuki (Kanagawa, JP); Takei, Michiko (Kanagawa, JP); Ishizuka, Yuka (Kanagawa, JP); Takahashi, Tomoyasu (Kanagawa, JP); Satou, Takafumi (Kanagawa, JP); Inadome, Masao (Kanagawa, JP); Murakami, Hideko (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignees: | Kyocera Corporation (Kyoto, JP) |
| Claim: | 1. A portable electronic device, comprising: a display unit; a key operation unit; and a control unit that performs control of the display unit and the key operation unit, wherein the key operation unit includes: a plurality of first keys that are assigned with a first type character and a second type character; a second key, to which the first type character and the second type character are not assigned, and a plurality of functions are assigned; and a third key to which the first type character and the second type character are not assigned, and to which a function of making an outgoing telephone call based on characters related to the second type characters is assigned, wherein, when any one of the first keys is depressed in a state where an initial screen is displayed on the display unit, the control unit performs control such that the first type character assigned to the first key thus depressed and the second type character assigned to the first key thus depressed and conversion candidates corresponding to the first type character thus entered are displayed together on the display unit, wherein, while the control unit is performing control such that the first type character and the second type character are displayed on the display unit, in a case in which the second key is depressed, the control unit performs first processing for the first type character and performs control to notify what kind of processing is to be performed for the first type character, wherein, while the control unit is performing control such that the first type character and the second type character are displayed on the display unit, in a case in which the third key is depressed, the control unit performs second processing for the second type character and performs control to notify what kind of processing is to be performed for the second type character, wherein the first processing includes selecting a character from among conversion candidates related to the first type character in response to the second key being depressed in response to the second key being depressed, replacing the first type character with the selected character and cancelling displaying of the second type character in response to the second key being depressed, and wherein the second processing includes making an outgoing telephone call using characters related to the second type character as a telephone number in response to the third key being depressed. |
| Claim: | 2. A portable electronic device, comprising: a display unit; a key operation unit; and a control unit that performs control of the display unit and the key operation unit, wherein the key operation unit comprises: a plurality of first keys that are assigned with a first type character and a second type character; a second key, to which the first type character and the second type character are not assigned, and a plurality of functions are assigned; and a third key, to which the first type character and the second type character are not assigned, and a function different from the functions of the second key is assigned, wherein, in a state where an initial screen is displayed on the display unit, in a case in which any one of the first keys is depressed, the control unit performs control such that the first type character and the second type character assigned to the key thus depressed and conversion candidates corresponding to the first type character thus entered are displayed together on the display unit, wherein, while the control unit is performing control such that the first type character and the second type character are displayed together on the display unit, in a case in which the second key is depressed, the control unit performs control to select and determine a specific character from among conversion candidates related to the first type character as first processing for the first type character in response to the second key being depressed, and performs control to cancel displaying of the second type character on the display unit in response to the second key being depressed, and wherein, while the control unit is performing control such that the first type character and the second type character are displayed together on the display unit, in a case in which the third key is depressed, the control unit performs second processing for the second type character, and performs control to cancel displaying of the first type character on the display unit. |
| Claim: | 3. The portable electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein, while the control unit is performing control such that the first type character and the second type character are displayed together on the display unit, in a case in which the second key is depressed, the control unit performs first processing for the first type character, performs control to cancel displaying of the second type character on the display unit, and changes a function assigned to the third key to a function of performing third processing related to the first type character. |
| Claim: | 4. The portable electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein, in a case in which the third key is depressed when the control unit performs control such that first processing is performed for the first type character, and displaying of the second type character on the display unit is-cancelled, the control unit performs control to notify what kind of processing is to be performed for the first type character on which the first processing has been performed. |
| Claim: | 5. The portable electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein a function assigned to the third key is a function of making an outgoing telephone call based on characters related to the second type character, and wherein the second processing includes processing for making an outgoing telephone call using characters related to the second type character as a telephone number. |
| Claim: | 6. A portable electronic device, comprising: a display unit; a key operation unit; and a control unit that performs control of the display unit and the key operation unit, wherein the key operation unit includes: a plurality of first keys that are assigned with a first type character and a second type character; a second key, to which the first type character and the second type character are not assigned, and a plurality of functions are assigned; and a third key to which the first type character and the second type character are not assigned, and to which a function different from the functions of the second key is assigned, wherein, in a state where an initial screen is displayed on the display unit, in a case in which any one of the first keys is depressed, the control unit performs control such that the first type character and the second type character assigned to the key thus depressed and conversion candidates corresponding to the first type character thus entered are displayed together on the display unit, wherein, while the control unit is performing control such that the first type character and the second type character are displayed on the display unit, in a case in which the second key is depressed, the control unit performs first processing for the first type character, wherein, while the control unit is performing control such that the first type character and the second type character are displayed on the display unit, in a case in which the third key is depressed, the control unit performs second processing for the second type character, wherein, in the second processing, in a case in which a character string related to the second type character is a predetermined character string, the control unit performs outgoing call processing using the character string as a telephone number, and in a case in which the character string is not the predetermined character string, the control unit confirms whether outgoing call processing should be performed by using the character string as a telephone number, and performs outgoing call processing after such confirmation, and wherein the predetermined character string is a character string for an emergency call. |
| Claim: | 7. The portable electronic device according to claim 6 , wherein the predetermined character string is a character string that has been registered in advance. |
| Claim: | 8. A portable electronic device, comprising: a display unit; a key operation unit; and a control unit that performs control of the display unit and the key operation unit, wherein the key operation unit is configured by including: a first key group composed of a plurality of keys that are assigned with a first type character and a second type character, and a specific key that is assigned with a function of cancelling the first type character and the second type character that have been input via a key of the first key group, wherein, in a state where an initial screen is displayed on the display unit, in a case in which a key of the first key group is depressed, the control unit performs control such that the first type character assigned to the key thus depressed is displayed on a first type character display area, and the second type character assigned to the key thus depressed and conversion candidates corresponding to the first type character thus entered are displayed together on a second type character display area, wherein, in a case in which the specific key is depressed, the control unit performs control to cancel a character by a number corresponding to a number of times the specific key is depressed, from a character at an end of a string of the first type character, and from a character at an end of a string of the second type character, and wherein, when characters are input on the first type character display area and the second type character display area by depressing a key of the first key group, and a number of the characters that have been input on the first type character display area is different from a number of the characters that have been input on the second type character display area, in a case in which all the characters that have been input on any one display area of the first type character display area or the second type character display area are cancelled in response to the specific key being depressed, the control unit cancels the one display area on which all the characters have been cancelled in response to the specific key being depressed, and displays another display area on which characters still remain and are enlarged on the display unit in response to the specific key being depressed. |
| Current U.S. Class: | 345/169 |
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| Assistant Examiner: | Yang, Nan-Ying |
| Primary Examiner: | Eisen, Alexander |
| Attorney, Agent or Firm: | Hoffmann & Baron, LLP |
| رقم الانضمام: | edspgr.08723802 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | USPTO Patent Grants |
| الوصف غير متاح. |