MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

• US 20090199134A1
• Filed: 05/23/2008
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: MURAYAMA, Hirokazu
• Application Number:
  US12/126,007
• Publication Number:
  US 20090199134A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72472 wherein the items are sorted according to specific criteria, e.g. frequency of use

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a mobile communication apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a menu screen on which a plurality of icons are arranged as cells in a matrix; an input unit configured to operate a cursor for selecting at least one of the icons; a storage unit that stores priority levels of respective cells, the priority levels indicating priority for assigning the icons into the cells; and a control unit that re-assigns the icons to the cells in order of the priority levels according to the number of selecting operations for the respective icons.

Claims

1. A mobile communication apparatus comprising:

a display unit that displays a menu screen on which a plurality of icons are arranged as cells in a matrix;

an input unit configured to operate a cursor for selecting at least one of the icons;

a storage unit that stores priority levels of respective cells, the priority levels indicating priority for assigning the icons into the cells; and

a control unit that re-assigns the icons to the cells in order of the priority levels according to the number of selecting operations for the respective icons.

3. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit automatically set the priority levels of all of the cells by setting a position of a cell having a highest priority level.

4. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control unit set the priority levels of the cells in accordance with times of moving of the cursor from the position of the cell having the highest priority level to icons to be selected.

5. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit set the priority levels of the cells in accordance with times of moving of the cursor from an initial position to icons to be selected.

6. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit re-assigns the icons to the cells at certain time intervals.

7. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit re-assigns the icons to the cells when the display unit displays a screen other than the menu screen.

2. A mobile communication apparatus comprising:

a display unit that displays a menu screen on which a plurality of icons are arranged as cells in a matrix;

an input unit configured to operate a cursor for selecting at least one of the icons;

a storage unit that stores priority levels of respective cells, the priority levels indicating priority for assigning each icon and the priority levels allowing an identical priority level to two or more of the cells; and

a control unit configured to sort the icons in order of the number of operations for selecting the icons to re-assign the icons to the cells in accordance with the priority levels of the cells,

wherein the control unit rearranges positions of the icons that are re-assigned to the cells having different priority from the cells previously assigned.

8. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit automatically set the priority levels of all of the cells by setting a position of a cell having a highest priority level.

9. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the control unit set the priority levels of the cells in accordance with times of moving of the cursor from the position of the cell having the highest priority level to icons to be selected.

10. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit set the priority levels of the cells in accordance with times of moving of the cursor from an initial position to icons to be selected.

11. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit re-assigns the icons to the cells at certain time intervals.

12. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit re-assigns the icons to the cells when the display unit displays a screen other than the menu screen.