Portable telephone

• US 7,353,046 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2004
• Issued: 04/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Morita, Kugo, Timms, Donald R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid; Lester G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Figueroa; Marisol
• Application Number:
  US10/862,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20050037816A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,394 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566, 455/550.1, 455/412.1, 345/168, 345/169, 345/156, 379/93.23, 379/93.17, 379/142, 379/354, 348/14.03
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones

Abstract

A portable telephone has a phone-book capability of storing and searching plural pieces of receiver information including character information and image information and comprises phone-book memory means for registering plural pieces of receiver information including character information and image information associated with each other; decoding means for decoding the image information stored in the phone-book memory means; display means for displaying the character information and the image information stored in the phone-book memory means; operation means for outputting a select signal in accordance with an external operation; and control means for controlling the phone-book memory means, the decoding means, the display means, and the operation means. The control means performs such control that when a plurality of select signals for selecting different pieces of receiver information from that receiver information which is currently displayed on the display means are output from the operation means continuously or over a given period of time, those character information which are included in the selected pieces of receiver information are sequentially displayed on the display means in accordance with the select signals and only that image information which corresponds to a last select signal output is decoded by the decoding means and is displayed on the display means.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device comprising:

a control section configured for retrieving character information associated with decoding-intensive information from a data repository structure and displaying the character information and the associated decoding-intensive information only in accordance with key operation, said control section further comprising;

a means for making the delay time up to a beginning of image decoding longer in proportion to a click interval in a fast and continuous search, and a means for making the delay time up to the beginning of image decoding shorter than the search interval in a slow search;

a means for updating said character information alone with regards to long depression and means for outputting a release signal to activate a timer that determines beginning of image decoding; and

a means for determining whether an image is registered in a registered data of a search result referring to phone-book-image registered information and a means for reading information corresponding to a decision result from a phone-book-image information memory section;

a character display section wherein the character information only is displayed during said continuous search operation based on the key operation, and

a decoding-intensive display section that is associated with the decoding-intensive information corresponding to a currently-displayed character, wherein the decoding-intensive information is decoded and displayed only after a predetermined time interval from the a key input elapses without another key input.

2. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a static image data file according to a registered display information or an unregistered display information.

3. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a motion video data file.

4. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises an audio file.

5. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data repository structure is a phone book.

6. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data repository structure is a messaging in-box.

7. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the continuous search operation is activated by continuous depression of a key and a display mode is switched to a scrolling display mode.

8. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the continuous search operation is activated by repetitive depression of a key.

21. A wireless communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the key input comprises another key depression or a continuously depressed key, which makes a display mode switch to a scrolling display mode.

9. A method for searching character information and decoding-intensive information stored in a data repository structure of a portable telephone comprising:

receiving input commands for searching the data repository structure;

displaying character information in response to the input commands on a screen;

measuring time intervals between the input commands;

decoding the decoding-intensive information in accordance with the measured time intervals;

displaying the decoding-intensive information that is associated with the character information after the measured time interval on the screen;

making the delay time up to a beginning of image decoding longer in proportion to a click interval in a fast and continuous search, and making the delay time up to the beginning of image decoding shorter than the search interval in a slow search;

updating said character information alone with regards to Long depression and outputting a release signal to activate a timer that determines beginning of image decoding; and

determining whether an image is registered in a registered data of a search result referring to phone-hook-image registered information and reading information corresponding to a decision result from a phone-book-image information memory section.

10. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a static image file according to a registered display information or an unregistered display information.

11. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a motion video file.

12. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises an audio file.

13. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the data repository structure is a phone book.

14. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the data repository structure is a messaging in-box.

22. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the decoding-intensive information is decoded only if the measured time interval exceeds a predetermined time interval.

15. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with a computer program, containing a set of instructions to perform a method for searching character information and decoding-intensive information stored in a data repository structure of a portable telephone, the method including:

receiving input commands for searching the data repository structure;

displaying character information in response to the input commands on a screen;

measuring time intervals between the input commands;

decoding the decoding-intensive information in accordance with the measured time intervals;

displaying the decoding-intensive information that is associated with the character information after the measured time interval on the screen;

making the delay time up to a beginning of image decoding longer in proportion to a click interval in a fast and continuous search, and making the delay time up to the beginning of image decoding shorter than the search interval in a slow search;

updating said character information alone with regards to long depression and outputting a release signal to activate a timer that determines beginning of image decoding; and

determining whether an image is registered in a registered data of a search result referring to phone-book-image registered information and reading information corresponding to a decision result from a phone-book-image information memory section.

16. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a static image data file according to a registered display information or an unregistered display information.

17. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises a motion video data file.

18. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the decoding-intensive information comprises an audio file.

19. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the data repository structure is a phone book.

20. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the data repository structure is a messaging in-box.

23. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein the decoding-intensive information is decoded only if the measured time interval exceeds a predetermined time interval.