Mobile Communication Device

• US 20080032670A1
• Filed: 11/26/2004
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Taneya, Yuichi, Wada, Takaaki, Koizumi, Kuniyasu, Sato, Takahiro
• Application Number:
  US10/580,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20080032670A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/00 Image enhancement or restoration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/576 associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files

Abstract

The present invention aims at offering a mobile communication device allowing the user to identify the sender when the user selects or opens a mail in a mail list by outputting an image and music that have been registered to the address book. Accordingly, when a mail is selected in the mail list of the mail box 401, or when a mail is opened and the mail message is displayed, the received mail display control unit 140 searches a mail address of the sender of the received mail in the address book 301. If the image/music data ID information 303(?) that has been registered in association with the sender of the mail address is present in the address book 301, the received mail display control unit 140 reads image data or music data from the image/music information 302 of the information storage unit 100 based on the image-music data ID information 303. After the brightness of the image is raised so that the image has enhanced contrast, the image is displayed on the display unit 120 as a background image of a mail list or a mail message while the music is output by the audio processing unit 104.

Claims

1. A mobile communication device comprising:

a storage unit operable to store therein image data;

an address book storage unit operable to store therein communication party information, which indicates a party for mail communication, the communication party information being associated with the image data; and

an output control unit operable to display, when the communication party information is specified, the associated image data together with the specified communication party information.

8. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein

the output control unit includes:

an image synthesizing subunit operable to form a synthesized image for a mail list display by synthesizing a mail list and the associated image data when the mail is selected in the mail list; and

a synthesized image display subunit operable to display the synthesized image.

2. A mobile communication device comprising:

a storage unit operable to store therein image data;

an address book storage unit operable to store therein communication party information, which indicates a communication party of a mail, the communication party information being associated with the image data; and

an output control unit operable to display, when the mail is specified, the associated image data together with a message of the specified mail.

3. The mobile communication device of claim 2, wherein

the output control unit includes:

an image synthesizing subunit operable to form a synthesized image by synthesizing the associated image data and the message; and

a synthesized image display subunit operable to display the synthesized image.

4. The mobile communication device of claim 3, wherein

the image synthesizing subunit forms an image by performing, on the associated image data, brightness enhancement in which brightness of each pixel of the associated image data is brought close to maximum brightness, and forms the synthesized image by using the formed image as a background image, on top of which the message in black text is laid.

5. The mobile communication device of claim 4, wherein

in the brightness enhancement, a brightness scale of each pixel of the associated image data is changed to a value calculated from (m+n)/2, where m is a maximum brightness scale and n is the brightness scale of the pixel.

6. The mobile communication device of claim 3, wherein

the image synthesizing subunit forms an image by performing, on the associated image data, brightness reduction in which brightness of each pixel of the associated image data is brought close to minimum brightness, and forms the synthesized image by using the formed image as a background image, on top of which the message in white text is laid.

7. The mobile communication device of claim 2, wherein

the storage unit includes a music data storage subunit operable to store therein music data,

the communication party information stored in the address book storage unit is associated with the music data, and

the output control unit includes a music output subunit operable to output, when the message of the specified mail is displayed, the associated music data.

9. The mobile communication device of claim 2, wherein

the communication party information includes a mail address of the communication party, and

the output control unit displays the image data associated with the communication party information including the mail address together with the message of the specified mail.

10. A control method of a mobile communication device including a storage unit operable to store therein image data and an address book storage unit operable to store therein communication party information, which indicates a party for mail communication, the communication party information being associated with the image data, the control method comprising the steps of:

when the communication party information is specified, reading from the storage unit the associated image data; and

displaying the read image data together with the specified communication party information.

11. A control method of a mobile communication device including a storage unit operable to store therein image data and an address book storage unit operable to store therein communication party information, which indicates a communication party of a mail, the communication party information being associated with the image data, the control method comprising the steps of:

when the mail is specified, reading from the storage unit the associated image data; and

displaying the read image data together with a message of the specified mail.