Menu displaying method and communication apparatus

• US 20050071771A1
• Filed: 03/25/2004
• Published: 03/31/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Segawa, Kana, Nagasawa, Kazuyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/808,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20050071771A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

A communication apparatus, for instance a cellular phone, has menu, a memory for storing a picture and a display for displaying alphanumeric and a picture. If a user selects the picture stored in the memory, the selected picture is displayed on the display as wallpaper. When the picture is set as wallpaper and menu comprised of icons is displayed by operation, the icons are displayed in the form of a function name and outline.

Claims

1. Menu displaying method, comprising:

displaying first icon made of symbol image;

selecting a picture to be displayed as wallpaper;

changing the first icon to second icon made of a function name and outline;

displaying the second icon with the selected picture;

2. The menu displaying method according to claim 1, further comprising capturing picture from camera to be used as wallpaper.

3. The menu displaying method according to claim 1, further comprising storing a function name and a geometrical pattern, and changing the first icon to third icon made of a function name and a geometrical pattern.

4. The menu displaying method according to claim 1, further comprising storing a function name, first geometrical pattern and second geometrical pattern, and changing the first icon to first geometrical pattern when the icon is in non-selectable state.

5. The menu displaying method according to claim 4, further changing first icon to second geometrical pattern when the icon is in selectable state.

6. A communication apparatus, comprising:

a display configured to display alphanumeric and a picture;

a key input unit with keys configured to input alphanumeric and selection information;

a memory configured to store a picture; and

a display controller configured to display menu which comprises the first icon, and to change the first icon to the second icon when the picture is displayed as wallpaper.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a camera module for capturing a picture.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the memory further stores a function name and a geometrical pattern, and the display controller changes the first icon to the third icon.

9. The communication apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the memory further stores a function name, first geometrical pattern and second geometrical pattern, and the display controller changes the first icon to the icon made of a function name and first geometrical pattern when the icon is in non-selectable state.

10. The communication apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the memory controller further changes first icon to the icon made of a function name and second geometrical pattern when the icon is in selectable state.

11. A communication apparatus, comprising:

a key input unit with keys configured to input alphanumeric and selection information;

a camera module configured to capture a picture;

a display configured to display a symbol image indicating an icon, alphanumeric, a picture, and guidance information corresponding to a specific key of the key input unit;

a memory configured to store a picture, a name of an icon and a geometrical pattern;

a display controller configured to control the display and the display menu comprised of icons.

12. A communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the display controller changes the first icon to the second icon when the picture is selected as wallpaper.

13. The communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the display controller changes the first icon to the third icon when the picture is selected as wallpaper.