Terminal and display method for the same

• US 20080082943A1
• Filed: 08/23/2007
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Chung, Stanley, Shim, Jung-hyun, Kim, Chang-su, Lee, Ju-hwan
• Application Number:
  US11/892,528
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082943A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1662 Details related to the integrated keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1671 Special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that remain accessible at closed laptop G06F1/1666 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0219 Special purpose keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0238 Programmable keyboards key guide holders G06F3/0224
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/23 Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof by improving visibility H04M1/22
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device

Abstract

A terminal and a display method for the same are provided. In the terminal and the display method for the same, a first image is displayed on the main display unit. One or more second images matched with the first image are displayed on a plurality of buttons. Accordingly, it is possible to maximize manipulation convenience of the user who manipulates buttons so as to instruct the terminal to perform any operation by minimizing the complicatedness of the manipulations of the buttons caused by alternately watching a screen and the buttons by enabling the user who uses the terminal including the plurality of buttons and the screen to perform the desired button manipulations through the minimized button manipulations.

Claims

1. A terminal comprising:

a main display unit displaying a first image; and

a plurality of buttons displaying one or more second images matched with the first image.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the second images are updated whenever the first image is updated.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the plurality of buttons display the second images which are previously designated so as to be able to be selected by a user who recognizes the first image.

4. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the first image is updated in correspondence with the manipulation result of the buttons.

5. A display method to be performed in a terminal including a main display unit and a plurality of buttons, the display method comprising:

(a) displaying a first image on the main display unit; and

(b) displaying one or more second images matched with the first image on the plurality of buttons.

6. The display method of claim 5, wherein the second images are updated whenever the first image is updated.

7. The display method of claim 5, wherein in (b), the second images, which are previously designated so as to be able to be selected by a user who recognizes the first image, are displayed on the plurality of buttons.

8. The display method of claim 5, wherein the first image is updated in correspondence with the manipulation result of the buttons.

9. A computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing the method of any one of claims 5 through 8.