Portable telephone

• US 20050037816A1
• Filed: 06/07/2004
• Published: 02/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Morita, Kugo, Timms, Donald R.
• Granted Patent: US 7,353,046 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones

Abstract

A portable telephone has a phone-book capability of storing and searching plural pieces of receiver information including character information and image information and comprises phone-book memory means for registering plural pieces of receiver information including character information and image information associated with each other; decoding means for decoding the image information stored in the phone-book memory means; display means for displaying the character information and the image information stored in the phone-book memory means; operation means for outputting a select signal in accordance with an external operation; and control means for controlling the phone-book memory means, the decoding means, the display means, and the operation means. The control means performs such control that when a plurality of select signals for selecting different pieces of receiver information from that receiver information which is currently displayed on the display means are output from the operation means continuously or over a given period of time, those character information which are included in the selected pieces of receiver information are sequentially displayed on the display means in accordance with the select signals and only that image information which corresponds to a last select signal output is decoded by the decoding means and is displayed on the display means.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device having a capability of retrieving character information associated with decoding-intensive information from a data repository structure and displaying the character information and the associated decoding-intensive information in accordance with key operation,

wherein character information only is displayed during a continuous search operation based on the key operation, and wherein decoding-intensive information corresponding to a currently-displayed character information is displayed only when the continuous search operation has stopped.

2. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a static image data file.

3. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a motion video data file.

4. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises an audio file.

5. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data repository structure is a phone book.

6. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data repository structure is a messaging in-box.

7. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the continuous search operation is activated by continuous depression of a key.

8. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the continuous search operation is activated by repetitive depression of a key.

9. A method for searching character information and decoding-intensive information stored in a data repository structure of a portable telephone comprising:

receiving input commands for searching the data repository structure;

measuring time intervals between the input commands; and

decoding the decoding-intensive information in accordance with the measured time intervals.

10. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a static image file.

11. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a motion video file.

12. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises an audio file.

13. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the data repository structure is a phone book.

14. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the data repository structure is a messaging in-box.

15. A computer-readable storage medium containing a set of instructions to perform a method for searching character information and decoding-intensive information stored in a data repository structure of a portable telephone, the method including:

receiving input commands for searching the data repository structure;

measuring time intervals between the input commands; and

decoding the decoding-intensive information in accordance with the measured time intervals.

16. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a static image data file.

17. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a motion video data file.

18. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises an audio file.

19. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the data repository structure is a phone book.

20. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the data repository structure is a messaging in-box.