Mobile communication terminal and method of storing image thereof

• US 8,655,330 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2007
• Issued: 02/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jong Hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): PHUONG, DAI
• Application Number:
  US11/952,835
• Publication Number:
  US 20080176599A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,265 Days
• Field of Search: 455 41-413, 455/415, 455/466, 4555561-567
• US Class Current: 455/415
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/576 associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264

Abstract

A method of operating a mobile communication terminal, the method including photographing an image and interconnecting the photographed image with an input number such that when the number is input into the mobile communication terminal, the photographed image is automatically displayed on the mobile communication terminal.

Claims

1. A method of operating a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving an input corresponding to an abbreviated number, the abbreviated number being interconnected with a first folder among a plurality of folders;

photographing an image after the input of the abbreviated number;

storing the image into the first folder;

initiating a communication with a third party corresponding to the abbreviated number; and

automatically displaying at least one image stored in the first folder on the mobile communication terminal,

wherein the abbreviated number is further interconnected with contact information of the third party, wherein photographing the image comprises photographing a plurality of images, and

wherein the method further comprises;

storing the plurality of images in the first folder interconnected to the abbreviated number input to the mobile communication terminal; and

displaying one of a default image of the plurality of images, the plurality of images in a sequential manner, and the plurality of images in a random manner, when the abbreviated number is input into the mobile communication terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein photographing the image comprises entering into a photographing preview mode such that the image to be captured can be previewed, and

wherein the method further comprises:

displaying the plurality of folders where the photographed image can be stored; and

storing the image in a second folder from the plurality of folders after the image is photographed, if the second folder is selected from the displayed folders.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the plurality of folders where the photographed image can be stored after the image is photographed; and

storing the image in a second folder from the plurality of folders after the image is photographed, if the second folder is selected from the displayed folders.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

copying, transmitting or moving the photographed image from the first folder to a second folder.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein if an input corresponding to a second abbreviated number interconnected with a second folder among the plurality of folders is received, the photographed image is stored in the second folder.

6. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal;

an input unit configured to receive user input;

a camera unit configured to photograph an image;

a display unit;

a storage unit comprising a plurality of folders; and

a control unit configured to store the photographed image into a first folder among the plurality of folders after an input corresponding to an abbreviated number interconnected with the first folder is received via the input unit, and automatically display at least one image stored in the first folder including the photographed image on the display unit when a communication with a third party corresponding to the abbreviated number is initiated,

wherein the abbreviated number is further interconnected with contact information of the third party,

wherein the control unit is further configured to photograph a plurality of images, wherein the storage unit is further configured to store the plurality of images in the first folder interconnected to the abbreviated number, and

wherein the display unit is further configured to display one of a default image of the plurality of images, the plurality of images in a sequential manner, and the plurality of images in a random manner, when the abbreviated number is input into the mobile communication terminal.

7. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the control unit is further configured to enter the mobile communication terminal into a photographing mode after the abbreviated number is input to the mobile communication terminal.

8. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the control unit is further configured to enter the mobile communication terminal into a photographing preview mode such that the image to be captured can be previewed,

wherein the display unit is further configured to display the plurality of folders where the photographed image can be stored, and

wherein the storage unit is further configured to store the image in a second folder from the plurality of folders, if the image is selected from the displayed folders.

9. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the display unit is further configured to display the plurality of folders where the photographed image can be stored after the image is photographed, and

wherein the storage unit is further configured to store the image in a second folder from the plurality of folders after the image is photographed, if the second folder is selected from the displayed folders.

10. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein if an input corresponding to a second abbreviated number interconnected with a second folder among the plurality of folders is received, the photographed image is stored in the second folder.