Mobile terminal and terminal operation program

• US 10,001,854 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2015
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Asano, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, JUSTIN YE
• Application Number:
  US14/961,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20160085354A1
• Time in Patent Office: 925 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/56 including a user help function
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to quickly and surely acquire icon information without passing through a plurality of hierarchies.

A mobile terminal 110 according to the present invention includes a display unit 214, a touch detection unit 218 that receives a user input onto a surface of the display unit, an operation unit 216 including a plurality of movable operation keys, and a guidance display unit that enters a guidance display mode upon detection of a depression of a predetermined movable operation key of the operation unit 216, and in the guidance display mode, upon detection of a user input onto an icon displayed on the display unit by the touch detection unit 218, displays on the display unit a predetermined guidance screen related to the icon.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal having a first application program and a first icon corresponding to the first application program, the mobile terminal comprising:

a display;

an input detector that detects input by a user;

history storage that stores, as a first screen, a screen related to the first application program, after the screen has been displayed on the display;

processor communicatively coupled to the display, input detector, and history storage, the processor configured to control the display to display, when a first input is detected while the display is displaying a second screen, which is different from the first screen and contains the first icon, the second screen and a third screen, the third screen containing information related to the first application program and the first icon only if the first screen is stored by the history storage after the screen has been displayed on the display, so that the display displays the first icon displayed on the second screen and the first icon displayed on the third screen, the second and third screens being simultaneously viewable, and to display the first screen when a second input for selecting the first application program is detected while the display is displaying the third screen.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the input detector includes a touch detector that detects a touch operation by the user, and

wherein the first input is a first touch operation made to the input detector.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the processor controls the display to display, when the first input is detected while the display is displaying the second screen, the first icon displayed on the third screen and the first icon displayed on the second screen to be not overlapped with one another.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the input detector includes a touch detector that detects a touch operation by the user, and

wherein the second input is a second touch operation made to the input detector.

5. A method for operating a mobile terminal that includes a display and an input detector that detects an input by a user, the mobile terminal having a first application program and a first icon corresponding to the first application program, the method comprising:

storing, as a first screen, a screen related to the first application program after the screen has been displayed on the display;

displaying a second screen that is different from the first screen on the display and contains the first icon;

displaying, when a first input is detected while the display is displaying the second screen, the second screen and a third screen on the display, the third screen containing information related to the first application program and the first icon only if the first screen is stored after the screen has been displayed on the display, so that the display displays the first icon displayed on the second screen and the first icon displayed on the third screen, the second and third screens being simultaneously viewable; and

displaying the first screen on the display when a second input for selecting the first application program is detected while the display is displaying the third screen.

6. The method according to claim 5,

wherein the input detector includes a touch detector that detects a touch operation by the user, and

wherein the first input is a first touch operation made to the input detector.

7. The method according to claim 5,

wherein the input detector includes a touch detector that detects a touch operation by the user, and

wherein the second input is a second touch operation made to the input detector.