Electronic apparatus

• US 20060142068A1
• Filed: 12/27/2004
• Published: 06/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Reponen, Erika, Hakala, Tero, Salmimaa, Marja, Pesonen, Mika, Aaltonen, Antti, Itaranta, Joonas
• Application Number:
  US11/023,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20060142068A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages

Abstract

An electronic apparatus, a message sender, a message receiver, and a mobile communication apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus and the mobile communication apparatus include an input means arranged to receive instructions from a user, a processor arranged to assign parameters for three-dimensional viewing of items, wherein the parameters depend on the instructions, and a display arranged to view the items according to the parameters. The mobile communication apparatus further includes a message sender and a message receiver. The message sender includes a message editor arranged to generate messages including one or more pictographs according to instructions from a user, and a sending means arranged to send messages generated by the message editor. The message receiver includes a message receiving means arranged to receive a message including one or more three-dimensional pictographs, and a message viewer arranged to view the message.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an input means arranged to receive instructions from a user;

a processor arranged to assign parameters for three-dimensional viewing of items, wherein said parameters depend on said instructions; and

a display arranged to view said items according to said parameters.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a three-dimensional viewpoint for a user among said items is depending on said parameters.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said parameters comprise relation, relative size, orientation or location, or any combination thereof of said items.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said one or more items comprise a menu item, a message, a phone book entry, an icon, or an image, or any combination thereof.

17. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said one or more items comprise a menu item, a message, a phone book entry, an icon, or an image, or any combination thereof.

5. A message sender comprising a message editor arranged to generate messages comprising one. or more three-dimensional pictographs according to instructions from a user, and a sending means arranged to send messages generated by said message editor.

6. The message sender according to claim 5, further comprising a catalogue comprising a plurality of three-dimensional pictographs and connected to said message editor, wherein said message editor is arranged to import pictographs to be comprised in said generated messages from said catalogue.

7. The message sender according to claim 5, further comprising means to access a remote catalogue comprising a plurality of three-dimensional pictographs and connected to said message editor, wherein said message editor is arranged to import pictographs to be comprised in said generated messages from said remote catalogue.

8. The message sender according to claim 5, wherein said message editor is arranged to assign a relation, relative size, orientation and location of each pictograph in said message according to instructions from a user.

9. The message sender according to claim 5, wherein said message sending means is connected to communication means comprising an infrared data association (IrDA), a short range radio connection, a Bluetooth connection, a connection to a wireless local area network (WLAN), or a connection to a telecommunication network, or any combination thereof.

10. A message receiver comprising a message receiving means arranged to receive a message comprising one or more three-dimensional pictographs, and a message viewer arranged to view said message.

11. The message receiver according to claim 10, wherein said message viewer is arranged to view said messages as they were composed in sense of relations, relative sizes, orientations and locations of pictographs comprised in said message.

12. The message receiver according to claim 10, wherein said message viewer is arranged to change a three-dimensional viewpoint of said message according to instructions from a user.

13. The message receiver according to claim 10, wherein said message receiving means is connected to communication means comprising an infrared data association (IrDA), a short range radio connection, a Bluetooth connection, a connection to a wireless local area network (WLAN), or a connection to a telecommunication network, or any combination thereof.

14. A mobile communication apparatus comprising

an input means arranged to receive instructions from a user;

a processor arranged to assign parameters for three-dimensional viewing of items, wherein said parameters depend on said instructions;

a display arranged to view said items according to said parameters;

a message sender comprising a message editor connected to said catalogue and arranged to generate messages comprising one or more pictographs according to instructions through said input means from a user, and a sending means arranged to send messages generated by said message editor; and

a message receiver comprising a message receiving means arranged to receive a message comprising one or more three-dimensional pictographs, and a message viewer arranged to view said message by said display.

15. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 14, wherein a three-dimensional viewpoint for a user among said items is depending on said parameters.

16. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said parameters comprise relation, relative size, orientation or location, or any combination thereof of said items.

18. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising a catalogue comprising a plurality of three-dimensional pictographs and connected to said message editor, wherein said message editor is arranged to import pictographs to be comprised in said generated messages from said catalogue.

19. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising means to access a remote catalogue comprising a plurality of three-dimensional pictographs and connected to said message editor, wherein said message editor is arranged to import pictographs to be comprised in said generated messages from said remote catalogue.

20. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said message editor is arranged to assign a relation, relative size, orientation and location of each pictograph in said message according to instructions from a user.

21. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said message sending means is connected to communication means comprising an infrared data association (IrDA), a short range radio connection, a Bluetooth connection, a connection to a wireless local area network (WLAN), or a connection to a telecommunication network, or any combination thereof.

22. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said message viewer is arranged to view said messages as they were composed in sense of relations, relative sizes, orientations and locations of pictographs comprised in said message.

23. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said message viewer is arranged to change a three-dimensional viewpoint of said message according to instructions from a user.

24. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said message receiving means is connected to communication means comprising an infrared data association (IrDA), a short range radio connection, a Bluetooth connection, a connection to a wireless local area network (WLAN), or a connection to a telecommunication network, or any combination thereof.