Mobile device having display button and method and medium of displaying using the display button

• US 20080108381A1
• Filed: 10/18/2007
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Seong-Woon, Lee, Hyun-Jeong, Bae, Soo-Hyun, Hong, Young-Jin
• Application Number:
  US11/907,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20080108381A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0202 Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the input device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0235 using chord techniques G06F3/0234 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0238 Programmable keyboards key guide holders G06F3/0224
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 13/84 characterised by ergonomic functions, e.g. for miniature keyboards; characterised by operational sensory functions, e.g. sound feedback legends H01H13/83
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2217/032 Feedback about selected symbol, e.g. display
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2217/036 Plural multifunctional miniature keys for one symbol
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function

Abstract

Provided is a mobile device having buttons having a display function and a display method for the mobile device. The mobile device includes a plurality of buttons, which display a plurality of characters in response to a control signal, and a controller generating the control signal for commanding the plurality of buttons to display characters indicated by character data corresponding to an operation result of the button from among prepared (predetermined) character data.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

a plurality of buttons, which display a plurality of characters in response to a control signal; and

a controller which generates the control signal for commanding the plurality of buttons to display characters indicated by character data corresponding to an operation result of at least one button from among predetermined character data.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of buttons display a plurality of Korean consonants or vowels.

3. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein if one of the plurality of buttons on which the plurality of Korean consonants are displayed is operated, the plurality of buttons display the plurality of Korean vowels, and if one of the plurality of buttons on which the plurality of Korean vowels are displayed is operated, the plurality of buttons display the plurality of Korean consonants.

4. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein if a predetermined button is operated when the plurality of buttons display the plurality of Korean consonants, the plurality of buttons display the plurality of Korean vowels, and if the predetermined button is operated when the plurality of buttons display the plurality of Korean vowels, the plurality of buttons display the plurality of Korean consonants.

5. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein when a button on which a basic Korean consonant is displayed is operated for more than a predetermined time, a character input to the mobile device is a fortis consonant.

6. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein when a predetermined button is operated after operating a button on which a basic Korean consonant is displayed, a character input to the mobile device is an aspiration consonant.

7. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein when two of buttons on which Korean consonants are displayed are simultaneously pressed, a character input to the mobile device is a digraph.

8. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein when two of buttons on which Korean vowels are displayed are simultaneously pressed, a character input to the mobile device is a diphthong.

9. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein the plurality of Korean consonants comprise and , and the plurality of Korean vowels comprise and .

10. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of characters comprise a plurality of Korean consonants, and , and if one of the buttons on which the Korean consonants are displayed is operated again within a predetermined time, a character input to the mobile device is changed among more than one Korean consonant, and if the button on which is displayed is operated again within the predetermined time, the number of strokes of a Korean vowel input to the mobile device is changed.

11. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the plurality of characters comprise and , and a character input to the mobile device is changed among and if a button on which and are displayed is operated again within a predetermined time, a character input to the mobile device is changed among and if a button on which and are displayed is operated again within the predetermined time, a character input to the mobile device is changed among and if a button on which and are displayed is operated again within the predetermined time, a character input to the mobile device is changed among , and if a button on which and are displayed is operated again within the predetermined time, a character input to the mobile device is changed among and if a button on which and are displayed is operated again within the predetermined time, a character input to the mobile device is changed among and if a button on which and are displayed is operated again within the predetermined time, and a character input to the mobile device is changed among and if a button on which and are displayed is operated again within the predetermined time.

12. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of characters comprise a plurality of Korean consonants and a plurality of Korean vowels, and if a predetermined button is operated after operating one of the buttons on which the plurality of Korean consonants are displayed, a character input to the mobile device is changed among more than one Korean consonant, and if the predetermined button is operated after operating one of the buttons on which the plurality of Korean vowels are displayed, a character input to the mobile device is changed among more than one Korean vowel.

13. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein the plurality of characters comprise , , and , and the plurality of buttons comprise a first predetermined button and a second predetermined button, and a character input to the mobile device is changed among and if the first predetermined button is operated after operating a button on which is displayed, a character input to the mobile device is changed among , and if the first predetermined button is operated after operating a button on which is displayed, a character input to the mobile device is changed among , and if the first predetermined button is operated after operating a button on which is displayed, a character input to the mobile device is changed among , and if the first predetermined button is operated after operating a button on which is displayed, a character input to the mobile device is changed among and if the first predetermined button is operated after operating a button on which is displayed, the number of strokes of a character input to the mobile device is changed if the first predetermined button is operated after operating a button on which and or and are displayed, and if the second predetermined button is operated after operating a button on which a basic Korean consonant is displayed, a letter input to the mobile device is changed to a fortis consonant.

14. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of buttons display a plurality of alphabet letters corresponding to an operation result of the button.

15. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of buttons display a plurality of numerals corresponding to an operation result of the button.

16. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the predetermined character data is stored in the mobile device or outside of the mobile device.

17. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of buttons is operated by pressing or touching.

18. A display method performed in a mobile device having a plurality of buttons, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of characters on the plurality of buttons;

operating at least one button and updating the plurality of characters according to the operation result; and

displaying the plurality of updated characters on the plurality of buttons.

20. The display method of claim 18, wherein the characters are a plurality of English letters.

21. The display method of claim 18, wherein the characters are Korean consonants, Korean vowels, or Korean consonants and Korean vowels.

22. The display method of claim 18, wherein the characters are a numbers.

19. At least one computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions to implement a display method performed in a mobile device having a plurality of buttons, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of characters on the plurality of buttons;

operating at least one button and updating the plurality of characters according to the operation result; and

displaying the plurality of updated characters on the plurality of buttons.

23. At least one computer readable medium as recited in claim 19, wherein the characters are a plurality of English letters.

24. At least one computer readable medium as recited in claim 19, wherein the characters are a plurality of Korean consonants, Korean vowels, or Korean consonants and Korean vowels.

25. At least one computer readable medium as recited in claim 19, wherein the characters are numbers.