Menu item selecting device and method

• US 20040237048A1
• Filed: 06/28/2004
• Published: 11/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited, NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited, NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Sudo, Takuma, Tojo, Jun
• Application Number:
  US10/876,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20040237048A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/745
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

As menu items configuring a menu page displayed in a display device of a cellular phone, facial portraits of persons with whom a predetermined function is executed can be registered.

Claims

1. A device for selecting a desired item from a menu comprising a predetermined plurality of items, comprising:

a means by which information representing a specific person is registered as each item of said plurality of items.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the specific person comprises one with whom communication operation is performed.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the specific person comprises one for whom information transmission operation is performed.

4. A method for selecting a desired item from a menu comprising a predetermined plurality of items, comprising the step of:

registering, as each item of said plurality of items, information representing a specific person.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

the specific person comprises one with whom communication operation is performed.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

the specific persons comprises one for whom information transmission operation is performed.