Mobile communication terminal and information displaying method on the terminal and storing medium of programs of the method

• US 20020025829A1
• Filed: 08/22/2001
• Published: 02/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kitatani, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US09/934,642
• Publication Number:
  US 20020025829A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/22 Illumination; Arrangements for improving the visibility of characters on dials
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/23 Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof by improving visibility H04M1/22

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal and an information displaying method on the terminal and a storing medium of programs of the method, in which the amount of information that can be displayed is increased without making the size of the terminal and the screen of the displaying section (LCD) in the terminal large, are provided. Each of plural input buttons of the mobile communication terminal emits light independently. And emitting light of each of the plural input buttons is controlled so that the combination of light emitted from plural buttons emitted light is made to be specified information by an instruction from each application.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal having plural input buttons, wherein:

light of each of said plural input buttons is emitted and is turned off independently.

2. A mobile communication terminal having plural input buttons in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

a combination of said light emitted from each of said plural input buttons displays specified information.

3. A mobile communication terminal having plural input buttons in accordance with claim 2, wherein:

said specified information is a letter, an Arabic figure, a sign, or a pattern.

4. A mobile communication terminal having plural input buttons in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

each of said plural input buttons emits light by that each of said plural input buttons is pushed.

5. A mobile communication terminal having plural input buttons in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

it is instructed by each application that said light of each of said plural input buttons is emitted and is turned off independently.

6. A mobile communication terminal having plural input buttons in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

plural color light is emitted from each of said plural input buttons.

7. A mobile communication terminal having plural input buttons in accordance with claim 5, wherein:

plural color light is emitted from each of said plural input buttons by said instruction of each application.

8. An information displaying method on a mobile communication terminal having plural input buttons in which light of each of said plural input buttons is emitted and is turned off independently, comprising the steps of:

instructing to make specified information display on said plural input buttons by each application; and

displaying said specified information by a combination of light emitted from each of said plural input buttons.

9. An information displaying method in accordance with claim 8, wherein:

said specified information is a letter, an Arabic figure, a sign, or a pattern.

10. An information displaying method in accordance with claim 8, wherein:

plural color light is emitted from each of said plural input buttons.

11. A storing medium of programs of an information displaying method on a mobile communication terminal having plural input buttons in which light of each of said plural input buttons is emitted and is turned off independently, comprising the steps of:

instructing to make specified information display on said plural input buttons by each application; and

displaying said specified information by a combination of light emitted from each of said plural input buttons.

12. A storing medium of programs of an information displaying method at a mobile communication terminal in accordance with claim 11, wherein:

said specified information is a letter, an Arabic figure, a sign, or a pattern.

13. A storing medium of programs of an information displaying method at a mobile communication terminal in accordance with claim 11, wherein:

plural color light is emitted from each of said plural input buttons.