Method and apparatus for providing background effect to message in mobile communication terminal

• US 20070037590A1
• Filed: 08/10/2006
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Lee, Chul-Hwan
• Application Number:
  US11/501,971
• Publication Number:
  US 20070037590A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files

Abstract

Disclosed are a method for providing a background effect to a received message in a mobile communication terminal and an apparatus thereof. The method includes parsing a received message and checking whether a specific character is contained in the received message; and when the specific character is contained in the received message, outputting a background effect, which is set in the specific character, together with the received message. Accordingly, the monotony of simple texts in a message service can be avoided. Also, different background effects can be displayed in the received messages, thus attracting more interest of the users.

Claims

1. A method for providing a background effect to a received message in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

parsing a received message and checking whether a specific character is contained in the received message; and

outputting a background effect, which is set in the specific character, together with the received message when the specific character is contained in the received message.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising outputting a default background effect together with the received message when the specific character is not contained in the received message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific character is a character conveying human emotions.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the background effect includes at least one of a background music and a background image.

5. A method for providing a background effect to a received message in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

parsing a received message and checking whether a preset specific character is contained in the received message; and

when the specific character is contained in the received message, outputting a background effect, which is preset in an emotion category containing the corresponding specific character, together with the received message.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein when words conveying the specific emotion exist in different emotion categories, one of background effects preset in emotion categories containing one of a word conveying a primary specific emotion and a word conveying a final specific emotion is outputted.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein when words conveying the specific emotion exist in different emotion categories, background effects preset in emotion categories are sequentially outputted at regular intervals according to searching orders of characters conveying the specific emotion.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein when words conveying the specific emotion exist in different emotion categories, background effects are outputted according to priority of the emotion category.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the character conveying the specific emotion is one of a word, a sentence, and a special character representing human emotions.

10. A method for providing a background effect to a received message in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

setting a specific character that is contained in the received message; and

setting a background effect corresponding to the specific character.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the specific character is a word conveying human emotions.

12. The method of clam 10, wherein the background effect includes at least one of a background music and a background image.

13. A method for providing a background effect to a received message in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

setting a specific emotion category;

setting at least one character conveying a specific emotion contained in the specific emotion category; and

setting a background effect corresponding to the specific emotion category.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the character conveying the specific emotion is one of a word, a sentence, and a special character representing human emotions.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein a priority is set in the specific emotion category.

16. A mobile telecommunication terminal for providing a background effect to a received message comprising:

a display unit for displaying a received message; and

a controller for checking whether a specific character is contained in the received message, and when the specific character is contained in the received message, outputting a background effect, which is set in the specific character, together with the received message.

17. The mobile communication terminal of claim 16, wherein the controller outputting a default background effect together with the received message when the specific character is not contained in the received message.

18. A mobile communication terminal for providing a background effect to a received message comprising:

a display unit for displaying a received message; and

a controller for identifying whether a preset specific character is contained in the received message, and when the specific character is contained in the received message, outputting a background effect, which is preset in an emotion category containing the corresponding specific character, together with the received message.

19. The mobile communication terminal of claim 18, wherein when words conveying the specific emotion exist in different emotion categories, one of background effects preset in emotion categories containing one of a word conveying a primary specific emotion and a word conveying a final specific emotion is outputted.

20. The mobile communication terminal of claim 18, wherein when words conveying the specific emotion exist in different emotion categories, background effects preset in emotion categories are sequentially outputted at regular intervals according to searching orders of characters conveying the specific emotion.