Mobile terminal and terminal operation program

• US 9,237,222 B2
• Filed: 04/11/2014
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Asano, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, JUSTIN YE
• Application Number:
  US14/251,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20140220956A1
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566, 455/418
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• 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 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/56 including a user help function
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to quickly and surely acquire icon information without passing through a plurality of hierarchies.

A mobile terminal 110 according to the present invention includes a display unit 214, a touch detection unit 218 that receives a user input onto a surface of the display unit, an operation unit 216 including a plurality of movable operation keys, and a guidance display unit that enters a guidance display mode upon detection of a depression of a predetermined movable operation key of the operation unit 216, and in the guidance display mode, upon detection of a user input onto an icon displayed on the display unit by the touch detection unit 218, displays on the display unit a predetermined guidance screen related to the icon.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal having at least a first application program, a first icon corresponding to the first application program, a second application program and a second icon corresponding to the second application program, the mobile terminal comprising:

a display unit;

an input detection unit that detects a user input;

a history storage unit that stores a screen which relates to the first application program and is displayed on the display unit, as a first screen, and that stores a screen which relates to the second application program and is displayed on the display unit, as a second screen; and

a control unit that when a first input is detected in a state where a third screen, which includes the first icon and is different from the first screen and the second screen, is displayed on the display unit, displays on the display unit a fourth screen including information on the first application program, the first icon, information on the second application program and the second icon, and that when a second input selecting the first application program from among a plurality of application programs in a state where the fourth screen is displayed, displays the first screen on the display unit identical to the first screen stored in the history storage unit and displayed on the display unit.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the third screen includes the first icon, and

wherein when the first input is detected in the state where the third screen including the first icon is displayed, the control unit displays on the display unit the first icon displayed on the third screen and the first icon displayed on the fourth screen.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the third screen includes the first icon, and

wherein when the first input is detected in the state where the third screen including the first icon is displayed, the control unit displays the first icon displayed on the fourth screen so as not to be overlapped with the first icon displayed in the third screen.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the input detection unit includes a touch panel that detects a touch by a user and an operation key which is different from the touch panel.