Portable information terminal

• US 20030011564A1
• Filed: 12/30/2001
• Published: 01/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Naohiro, Ushino, Tatsuji, Namekawa, Masato
• Application Number:
  US10/030,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20030011564A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2747 Scrolling on a display
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones

Abstract

In the present invention, main information being selected by a display indicator is changed in accordance with selection operations and corresponding detailed information is taken out of a storage means when the selection operations are interrupted and is displayed at a part of a display means, thereby call numbers can be displayed without performing selection and determination operations, so that information can be retrieved with simple operations.

Claims

1. A portable information terminal device, comprising:

display means for listing and displaying plural pieces of main information, as well as an display indicator for selecting at least one piece of information out of the displayed main information;

storage means for storing plural pieces of said main information and plural pieces of detailed information respectively corresponding to said plural pieces of main information;

selecting means for switching said main information being selected by said display indicator, in accordance with selection operations inputted via given operation means; and

display control means for, when said selection operations are not made for a given time while said plural pieces of main information are listed and displayed on said display means, taking out said detailed information corresponding to said main information being selected by said display indicator, from said storage means, and displaying said detailed information at a partial area of said display means.

2. The portable information terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

said display control means performs scroll display of said detailed information in the case where said detailed information taken can not be displayed at the same time at said partial area.

3. The portable information terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

said display control means displays said partial area in a color different from that of the other area of said display means.

4. The portable information terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

said display control means blinks and displays said detailed information.