Portable apparatus having simple and detailed menus

• US 7,561,900 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2005
• Issued: 07/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Arikawa, Yukinobu, Shinagawa, Kenichi, Hattori, Takanobu, Ishii, Yoshitomo, Watanabe, Yoshikazu, Hayashida, Ken
• Primary Examiner(s): Jackson; Blane J
• Application Number:
  US11/184,818
• Publication Number:
  US 20050250549A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,455 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566, 455/567, 455/569.1, 455/158.4, 455/158.5, 455/550.1, 379/88.01, 379/88.02, 379/88.03, 379/88.04, 379/88.11, 379/88.12, 379/88.13, 379/88.14, 379/88.16, 379/88.18, 379/88.19
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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

A portable terminal is disclosed and which is adapted to display thereon a plurality of functions as a menu for allowing a desired one of the plurality of functions to be selected and executed, comprising: a detailed menu encompassing various functions of the overall portable terminal; a simplified menu including highly frequently used functions which are extracted from those of the detailed menu and having a hierarchy structure different from that of the detailed menu; and display switching means for switching between said first menu and said second menu to be displayed exclusively from each other. The portable terminal thus constructed is excellent in its operability in particular for users who are aged or unfamiliar with the portable terminal by the provision of the simplified and detailed for execution of readily menu manipulation.

Claims

1. A portable apparatus adapted to display thereon a plurality of functions as a menu for allowing a desired one of the plurality of functions to be selected and executed, comprising:

said menu including an uncustomized first menu, a customized first menu, an uncustomized second menu and a customized second menu, each having a hierarchy structure having a plurality of functions, respectively;

said uncustomized second menu having a menu for supporting functions of said portable apparatus;

said uncustomized first menu and said customized first menu being comprising one or more functions extracted from those of said uncustomized second menu and said customized second menu, respectively, and the hierarchic position of at least one of said extracted function(s) in said hierarchy structure of said uncustomized first menu and said customized first menu being a higher hierarchical position than that of said uncustomized second menu and said customized second menu, respectively; and

display switching section that switches among said uncustomized first menu, said customized first menu, said uncustomized second menu and said customized second menu to be displayed,

wherein said customized first menu is a modification of said uncustomized first menu and said customized second menu is a modification of said uncustomized second menu.

2. The portable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein switching from said customized first menu to said uncustomized second menu is prohibited.

3. The portable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein switching from said customized second menu to said uncustomized first menu is prohibited.

4. The portable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein switching from said customized first menu to said uncustomized second menu is prohibited and switching from said customized second menu to said uncustomized first menu is prohibited.

5. The portable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said customized first menu differs from said uncustomized first menu by at least one of:

deletion of one or more menu items, rearrangement of menu items and modification of the hierarchical structure.

6. The portable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said customized second menu differs from said uncustomized second menu by at least one of:

deletion of one or more menu items, rearrangement of menu items and modification of the hierarchical structure.

7. The portable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said uncustomized first menu is display upon power up of said portable apparatus.

8. The portable apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, in the same function, the expression of at least one of said functions of said uncustomized first menu and said customized first menu differs from that of said uncustomized second menu and said customized second menu.

9. The portable apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the expression of said functions is a name of said function and said name of said function of said uncustomized first menu and said customized first menu differs from that of said uncustomized second menu and said customized second menu.

10. The portable apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the expression of said functions of said uncustomized first menu and said customized first menu displayed is larger than that of said uncustomized second menu and said customized second menu.

11. The portable apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the expression of said functions is a name of a function and the letters of said name of said function of said uncustomized first menu and said customized first menu displayed are larger than those of said uncustomized second menu and said customized second menu.

12. The portable apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said uncustomized first menu and said customized first menu are stored in different memory regions than memory regions where said uncustomized second menu and said customized second menu are stored.