MOBILE TELEPHONE AND ITS DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

• US 20130210495A1
• Filed: 09/22/2011
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukasawa, Kazunori, Higashibeppu, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US13/878,508
• Publication Number:
  US 20130210495A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

If proximity sensor 50 detects that a human body is in close proximity to proximity sensor 50, while software keys appear on display section 10, software keys are caused to disappear on display section 10.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone that has a display section on which information and operation means appear and that performs an operation as said operation means is touched, comprising:

control means that causes said operation means to appear on said display section and controls an operation of said mobile telephone as said operation means is touched; and

a proximity sensor that detects whether or not a human body is in close proximity to said proximity sensor,

wherein if said proximity sensor detects that said human body is in close proximity to said proximity sensor while said operation means appears on said display section, said control means causes said operation means to disappear on said display section.

2. The mobile telephone as set forth in claim 1,

wherein if said proximity sensor does not detect that the human body is in close proximity to said proximity sensor while said operation means disappears on said display section, said control means causes said operation means to appear on said display section.

3. The mobile telephone as set forth in claim 1,

wherein said proximity sensor is located opposite to said human body when a telephone call is made on said mobile telephone.

4. A display control method of a mobile telephone that has a display section on which information and operation means appear and that performs an operation as said operation means is touched, comprising:

causing said operation means to disappear on said display section if a human body is in close proximity to a predetermined region of said display section while said operation means appears on said display section.

5. The display control method of the mobile telephone as set forth in claim 4, further comprising:

causing said operation means to appear on said display section if said human body is not in close proximity to said predetermined region while said operation means disappears on said display section.

6. The display control method of the mobile telephone as set forth in claim 4, further comprising:

causing said operation means to disappear on said display section if the human body is in close proximity to a surface opposite to said human body and a telephone call is made while said operation means appears on said display section.