Portable cellular phone, method and program for displaying image data in portable cellular phone and storage medium storing same program

• US 6,832,105 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2001
• Issued: 12/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Okawa, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): RAMPURIA, SHARAD K
• Application Number:
  US09/771,643
• Publication Number:
  US 20010011031A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,414 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566, 455/412.2, 455/412.1, 455/575.1, 345/636, 345/418, 345/581, 345/619, 345/672, 345/681
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging

Abstract

A portable cellular phone and a method for displaying image data which enables simplified control on displaying data on a screen of the portable cellular phone. The portable cellular phone is so configured as to use information packaged data constructed by combining data to be displayed with appended data used to provide instructions for displaying data and so that its main control section performs specified displaying operations in response to instructions contained in the appended data and a display section displays the data.

Claims

1. A portable cellular phone comprising:

a main control means for, by using information packaged data comprising display data and appended data for providing instructions for displaying said display data by designating at least one dot unit, performing specified displaying operations in accordance with said appended data; and

a displaying means for displaying said display data.

2. The portable cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein said appended data comprises:

operation commands which designate processing operations by command numbers;

information about sound designation to designate displaying methods by sounds;

information about numbers of times of repetition to designate numbers of times of repetition of processing to be carried out in accordance with said information packaged data; and

information about amounts of said appended data to designate amounts of said appended data providing instructions for processing of displaying said display data.

3. The portable cellular phone according to claim 2, wherein said appended data comprises:

information about positions for displaying said display data on a screen of said portable cellular phone corresponding to amounts of said appended data;

information about displaying timing showing a period of displaying said display data corresponding to amounts of said appended data; and

information about displaying contents of said display data corresponding to amounts of said appended data.

4. The portable cellular phone according to claim 2, further comprising a memory means comprising a fixed-type memory or a rewritable memory to store said information packaged data for each of said operation commands, and wherein said main control means is constructed so as to read said information packaged data by said command numbers and to be able to use said information packaged data for processing of said display data.

5. The portable cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein said information packaged data is able to be fetched from other devices and/or phones using radio signals.

6. The portable cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein said information packaged data is able to be sent and/or received through external data input/output means.

7. The portable cellular phone according to claim 6, wherein said external data input/output means comprises a wireless-type data sending and receiving device.

8. A method for displaying image data in a portable cellular phone comprising:

performing, by using information packaged data comprising display data and appended data for providing instructions for displaying said display data by designating at least one dot unit, specified displaying operations in accordance with said appended data; and

displaying said display data.

9. A program for causing a central processing unit to carry out display operations of the portable cellular phone, said program comprising:

instructions for performing, by using said information packaged data comprising display data and appended data for providing instructions for displaying said display data by designating at least one dot unit, specified displaying operations in accordance with said appended data; and

instructions for displaying said display data.

10. A storage medium storing a program for causing a central processing unit to carry out display operations of the portable cellular phone, said program comprising:

instructions for performing, by using said information packaged data comprising display data with appended data for providing instructions for displaying said display data by designating at least one dot unit, specified displaying operations in accordance with said appended data; and

instructions for displaying said display data.

11. A portable cellular phone comprising:

a main controller for, by using information packaged data comprising display data and appended data for providing instructions for displaying said display data by designating at least one dot unit, performing specified displaying operations in accordance with said appended data; and

a displaying section for displaying said display data.

12. The portable cellular phone according to claim 11, wherein said appended data comprises:

operation commands which designate processing operations by command numbers;

information about sound designation to designate displaying methods by sounds;

information about numbers of times of repetition to designate numbers of times of repetition of processing to be carried out in accordance with said information packaged data; and

information about amounts of said appended data to designate amounts of said appended data providing instructions for displaying said display data.

13. The portable cellular phone according to claim 12, wherein said appended data comprises:

information about positions for displaying said display data on a screen of said portable cellular phone corresponding to amounts of said appended data;

information about displaying timing showing a period of displaying said display data corresponding to amounts of said appended data; and

information about displaying showing contents of said display data corresponding to amounts of said appended data.

14. The portable cellular phone according to claim 12, further comprising a fixed-type memory or a rewritable memory to store said information packaged data for each of said operation commands, and wherein said main controller is constructed so as to read said information packaged data by said command numbers and to be able to use said information packaged data for processing of said display data.

15. A portable cellular phone comprising:

a controller that performs display operations based upon appended data from an information package data that comprises display data and the appended data to provide display specifications, wherein the appended data provides instructions for displaying the display data by designating at least one dot unit; and

a display that displays the display data in accordance with the display specifications.

16. The phone of claim 15, wherein the appended data comprises a command number that designates a display operation.

17. The phone of claim 15, wherein the appended data comprises position information for displaying the display data at a position on the display.

18. The phone of claim 15, wherein the appended data comprises timing data that designates an amount of time to display the display data.

19. The phone of claim 15, wherein the appended data comprises a sound designator to designate a sound.

20. The phone of claim 15, wherein the appended data comprises repetition times that designate the number of times the appended data is to be processed based upon the amount of appended data.