MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD

• US 20120264487A1
• Filed: 12/13/2010
• Published: 10/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Nomachi, Nayu, Sato, Takayuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,112,987 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/563
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• 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: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72472 wherein the items are sorted according to specific criteria, e.g. frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72484 wherein functions are triggered by incoming communication events
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

According to an aspect, a mobile electronic device, includes a display unit, a detection unit, and a display control unit. The display unit displays a standard screen on which objects are superimposed. The detection unit detects occurrence of a predetermined event. The display control unit changes arrangement of the objects displayed on the display unit in accordance with the predetermined event detected by the detection unit.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic device, comprising:

a display unit for displaying a standard screen on which objects are superimposed;

a detection unit for detecting occurrence of a predetermined event; and

a display control unit for changing arrangement of the objects displayed on the display unit in accordance with the predetermined event detected by the detection unit.

2. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the display control unit moves a non-corresponding object on the standard screen other than a corresponding object which corresponds to the predetermined event among the objects displayed on the display unit based on the predetermined event when the detection unit detects occurrence of the predetermined event.

3. The mobile electronic device according to claim 2, wherein

the display control unit moves the non-corresponding object among the objects which are displayed in an aligned manner at a center side of the display unit toward an end part side of the display unit on the standard screen when the detection unit detects occurrence of the predetermined event.

4. The mobile electronic device according to claim 3, wherein

when a plurality of the non-corresponding objects are moved to the end part side;

the display control unit stacks the plurality of non-corresponding objects moved to the end part side for display.

5. The mobile electronic device according to claim 3, wherein

the display control unit moves the non-corresponding object that has been moved to the end part side toward the corresponding object displayed in an aligned manner at the center side on the standard screen when a predetermined time is passed after the non-corresponding object is moved to the end part side.

6. The mobile electronic device according to claim 5, wherein

the display control unit differentiates alignment order of the objects on the standard screen after the non-corresponding object is moved from the end part side to the center side from alignment order of the objects on the standard screen before the non-corresponding object is moved to the end part side.

7. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit detects occurrence of the predetermined event when being at predetermined time.

8. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising

an input unit for inputting voice from the outside, and

a recognition unit for recognizing voice input from the input unit, wherein

the detection unit detects occurrence of the predetermined event when the recognition unit recognizes voice.

9. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the display control unit shifts a display state of the objects in accordance with the predetermined event detected by the detection unit to any of a first display state in which the objects are displayed in an aligned manner, a second display state in which the objects are not displayed in an aligned manner, and a third display state in which a part of objects among the objects is displayed in an aligned manner and other objects are not displayed in an aligned manner.

10. The mobile electronic device according to claim 9, wherein

the display control unit shifts the display state to the third display state by moving a part of objects among the objects in the second display state after shifting the display state to the second display state by moving all of the objects displayed in the first display state in an aligned manner.

11. The mobile electronic device according to claim 9, wherein

the objects displayed in an aligned manner in the first display state and the third display state are displayed at the center side of the display unit.

12. The mobile electronic device according to claim 10, wherein

the display control unit differentiates alignment order of the objects aligned in the third display state from alignment order of the objects aligned in the first display state.

13. The mobile electronic device according to claim 9, wherein

the display control unit stacks the objects at an end part of the display unit for display in the second display state.

14. The mobile electronic device according to claim 13, wherein

the display control unit continuously displays the other objects at the end part when the display state is shifted from the second display state to the third display state.

15. The mobile electronic device according to claim 9, further comprising

a storage unit for storing information regarding selection frequency for each of the objects, wherein

the display control unit displays an object of which usage frequency is higher than a predetermined value as the part of objects in the third display state and displays an object of which usage frequency is lower than the predetermined value as the other objects.

16. The mobile electronic device according to claim 9, wherein

the detection unit detects occurrence of the predetermined event as inclination of the mobile electronic device being the predetermined event;

and

the display control unit shifts the display state among the first display state, the second display state, and the third display state when the inclination is detected by the detection unit.

17. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the object is a tag which is associated with a specific application and on which at least a character is displayed.

18. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the object is an icon which is associated with a specific application or data of a specific application and with which activation of the associated application or execution of a process using the associated data is performed when being selected.

19. A display controlling method for a mobile electronic device which includes a display unit, the display controlling method comprising:

displaying a standard screen on which objects are superimposed on the display unit;

detecting occurrence of a predetermined event; and

changing arrangement of the objects displayed on the display unit in accordance with the detected predetermined event.