JP2005135402A - Mobile terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

【Task】
To provide a portable terminal device capable of easily and accurately displaying e-mail and telephone exchanges with a partner by specifying the partner in time series.
[Solution]
A storage unit 16 for storing the transmitted e-mail and the received e-mail, and the storage unit 1
The control unit 19 that detects the other party's e-mail designated by the operation unit 6 from the e-mails stored in the display unit 6, and the display unit 1 that displays a list of the other party's e-mails detected by the control unit 19 in time series And provide. This makes it possible to display a list in a time series of a mixture of sent and received e-mails for a specified partner, and it is obvious how the e-mail has been exchanged with the partner.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal device such as a mobile phone having an electronic mail function.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, mobile phones are provided with many functions such as electronic mail and the Internet in addition to telephone functions. These histories are each stored in the storage unit not only when calling, but also when sending e-mail. (For example, see Patent Document 1)

Therefore, these mobile phones can also display the transmitted e-mail, the received e-mail, and the call history of the outgoing / incoming telephone call later for easy confirmation.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-272585

  However, in this type of mobile phone that has been used in the past, the sent email and the received email are displayed separately, and even if the email is for the same party, the sent email and the received email are received. The e-mails cannot be displayed together. This also applies to the outgoing call history and incoming call history, and it is extremely inconvenient when seeing how to call the same party.

  The present invention has been made in view of such a conventional problem. A portable terminal device capable of easily and accurately displaying e-mail and telephone exchanges with a partner in time series by designating the partner. It is to provide.

  The portable terminal device of the present invention includes a storage means for storing the transmitted electronic mail and the received electronic mail, a detection means for detecting the electronic mail of the other party designated by the designation means, the name of the other party, and the other party's electronic A telephone directory section that can store the mail address of the mail in association with the e-mail of the other party detected by the detecting means, the transmitted e-mail and the received e-mail are mixed to each other in time series Display means for displaying the designated e-mail by displaying one part of the contents of the e-mail of the other party and designating one arbitrary e-mail in a state in which the e-mails of the other party are listed. It has the structure provided with.

  With this configuration, since the sent e-mail and the received e-mail for the designated partner can be mixed and displayed in a time-series list, it is clear how the e-mail was sent to that partner.

  Further, in the mobile terminal device of the present invention, the display means searches for a desired partner using all or part of the name or mail address registered in the telephone directory section, and selects the name of the retrieved partner It has the structure which does.

  With this configuration, it is possible to search for a desired partner using all or part of the registered name, e-mail address, etc., and specify the searched partner.

  The present invention can provide a portable terminal device that can easily and accurately display electronic mail and telephone exchanges with a partner by specifying the partner.

  The best mode of the present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 1 is an external view of a mobile terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of the mobile terminal device.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the mobile terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a first housing 2 having a display unit 1, various operations such as a navigation key 3, a function key 4, and a numeric keypad 5. And a second housing 7 having an operation portion 6 composed of keys. The housings 2 and 7 are connected to each other by a hinge portion 8 and can be opened and closed around the hinge portion 8. ing.

  As shown in FIG. 2, in addition to the display unit 1 and the operation unit 6, the casings 2 and 7 have a radio transmission / reception unit 10, a voice input / output unit 11, a voice input / output unit connected to the antenna 9. Microphone 12 connected to unit 11, receiver 13, ringing tone output unit 14, speaker 15 for ringing tone output connected to ringing tone output unit 14, received e-mail, transmitted e-mail, etc. 16, the camera part 17, the telephone directory part 18, and the control part 19 which controls each of these parts are incorporated.

  The microphone 12 and the receiver 13 are provided at positions facing the sound collection through holes 20 formed in the second housing 7 and the sound emission through holes 21 formed in the first housing 2, respectively. Further, although not shown, the speaker 15 is provided at a position facing a sound emitting through hole formed on the back side of the first or second casing. Further, although not shown, the camera constituting the camera unit 17 is provided on the back side of the first housing 2 so that the lens unit can be exposed.

  Next, the operation of the mobile terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

  First, in the mobile terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention, the first and second casings 2 and 7 are formed so as to be openable and closable by the hinge portion 8, respectively. , 7 can be sent, sent, received, and received as appropriate by performing a predetermined operation using the operation unit 6 while being open to each other.

  In other words, when making a call, the other party's telephone number is input using the numeric keypad 5 or a predetermined operation key is operated to retrieve the other party's telephone number from the telephone directory section 18. The telephone number is temporarily displayed on the display unit 1, and the telephone number entered with the numeric keypad 5 and the telephone number extracted from the telephone book unit 18 are respectively displayed on the transmission / reception unit 10 by operating a predetermined outgoing key. Via a telephone base station (not shown).

  When the other party answers the call, a call circuit is automatically formed with the other party. Therefore, the voice input / output unit 11 and the wireless transmission / reception unit 10 are connected using the microphone 12 and the speaker 13. You can make a call with the other party.

  When there is a telephone call from the other party and the call is received by the transmission / reception unit 10, a predetermined call signal is output from the ringing tone output unit 14 to the speaker 15 under the control of the control unit 19, and the predetermined call signal is output from the speaker. Ringing tone is output. Accordingly, if a predetermined key is operated in response thereto, a call can be made with the other party.

  Similarly, in the case of an e-mail, when sending it, the navigation key 3, the function key 4, the numeric keypad 5, etc. are used to create an e-mail and to send the other party's e-mail address from the telephone directory 18. By pulling out or inputting using the numeric keypad 5 or the like, these are temporarily displayed on the display unit 1, and by operating a predetermined key for transmission in this state, An e-mail created using the navigation key 3, the function key 4, the numeric keypad 5 and the like together with the e-mail address extracted from the telephone directory unit 18 is transmitted to an e-mail mail provider (not shown) via the wireless transmission / reception unit 10, Can be sent to the other party.

  Then, the electronic mail from the other party is automatically received by the wireless transmission / reception unit 10 and is automatically stored in the storage unit 16 under the control of the control unit 19. Therefore, these can be displayed on the display unit 1 and easily confirmed by calling from the storage unit 16 using the operation unit 6.

  By the way, in the portable terminal device according to the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, the telephone directory unit 18 has the other party's name and telephone number, the other party's group name, the e-mail address, and the other party's face photo. It is configured to be able to store photo data such as memos, etc., in association with the name of the other party.

  When storing the name, phone number, group name, mail address, photo data, memo, etc. of the other party in the phone book section 18, the portable terminal device is switched to the phone book storage mode using the operation section 6, and the state Thus, any key can be stored using any key on the operation unit 6. In other words, in the present embodiment, all of these data can be manually input using the operation unit 6, and the data at the time of transmission and transmission, and the data sent from the other party at the time of reception and reception are received. Using the received data or the like, necessary data in the data can be arbitrarily stored in the telephone directory section 18. The photo data of the other party's face is a predetermined image obtained by associating the other party's name with the other party's face photograph taken by the camera unit 17 or the other party's face photograph transmitted as an attached file from the other party by e-mail. It is configured so that it can be stored in the area.

  The storage unit 16 has a transmission history table and a reception history table, respectively. In each table, as shown in FIG. 4, the date and time when the electronic mail is exchanged with the other party, and the other party. The e-mail address, e-mail title, contents, etc. can be stored. These data are configured to be automatically stored as a history under the control of the control unit 19 when an electronic mail is exchanged with the other party. Although not shown, the storage unit 16 is also provided with a telephone history table that stores a call origination date and time when a call is made, a call time, a call arrival date and time when a call is received, a call time, and the like. These data are also automatically stored under the control of the control unit 19 when a call is made or a call is received.

  Next, an operation for displaying each history of electronic mail and telephone communication in the mobile terminal device in the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

  First, when displaying an e-mail history, as shown in FIG. 5, a predetermined e-mail history browsing operation is performed using the operation unit 6 (S501). When an operation for browsing the electronic mail history is performed (S501), information on the operation is input to the control unit 19, and the portable terminal device enters the electronic mail history browsing mode under the control of the control unit 19. Then, in this state, a mode for selecting browsing content is entered (S502), which is displayed on the display unit 1.

  On the display unit 1, browsing by e-mail partner, browsing of reception history, and browsing of transmission history are displayed, and a display prompting to select one of them is made.

  According to the display on the display unit 1, if it is now selected to browse by partner using the operation unit 6 (Y in S503), in this state, a display prompting the input of the name of the partner to be browsed is made. . Here, when the name of the other party to be browsed is input using the operation unit 6 (Y in S504), it is input to the control unit 19, and under the control of the control unit 19, a transmission history table in the storage unit 16, Only the input e-mails of the respective counterparts are detected from the reception history table (S505), and are displayed as a list on the display unit 1 in time series regardless of transmission / reception (S506).

  That is, in this case, as shown in FIG. 6, if the inputted name of the other party and the photograph of the other party are stored in the telephone directory unit 18, the photograph of the other party is controlled under the control of the control unit 19. Are read and displayed on the display unit 1, and in addition to the name and photo, the exchange of e-mail with the other party is time-sequential, for example, a right arrow indicating a received mail, an outgoing mail Are displayed on the display unit 1 as far as possible at the beginning of the contents of the e-mail.

  In this state, when one of the e-mails displayed using the operation unit 6 is designated and an operation for displaying the full text is performed (Y in S507), the full text of the previously designated e-mail is displayed. However, as shown in FIG. 7, the screen of the display unit 1 is enlarged and displayed almost fully (S508).

  If one of the displayed e-mails is not specified (N in S507) and the end operation is performed as it is (Y in S509), the e-mail viewing display mode ends at that time, and the end operation is performed. If not performed (N in S509), the process returns to the mode for designating one of the displayed e-mails (S507), and the state is maintained as it is.

  When the designated e-mail is displayed in the full text (S508) and the operation of “return” is performed (S510), the full text display is finished, and the history browsing display shown in FIG. 6 (S506). Return to.

  When browsing history is selected in the browsing content selection mode (S502) (S511), an email is output only from the reception history table in the storage unit 16 (S512), which is displayed. A list is displayed in section 1 (S506). That is, in this case, as shown in FIG. 8, the received history includes the opened state of the email received so far (for example, displayed in the opened / closed state of the mail bag illustration) and the name of the other party of the email. , E-mail addresses, etc. are listed. When one of the displayed e-mails is selected using the operation unit 6, the reception date and time of the selected one e-mail is displayed in a part of the display unit 6 (for example, at the bottom of the list display). (Dedicated part). Further, when the photo of the selected one mail partner is registered in the telephone book unit 18, the photo of the other party is read from the phone book unit 18 under the control of the control unit 19, and the display unit 6 (for example, a dedicated part at the upper right of the display unit).

  When browsing history is selected in the browsing content selection mode (S502) (S513), an email is output only from the transmission history table in the storage unit 16 (S514), which is displayed. A list is displayed in section 1 (S506). That is, in this case, as shown in FIG. 9, the transmission history of the e-mail sent so far (for example, the sent e-mail is an illustration in which a mail bag is opened, an unsent e-mail is sent) Is displayed in a closed illustration), and the name, mail address, etc. of the other party of the mail are listed. When one of the displayed e-mails is selected using the operation unit 6, the transmission date / time or creation date / time of the selected one e-mail is respectively a part of the display unit 6 (for example, a list display). It is displayed on the dedicated part provided at the bottom. Further, when the photo of the selected one mail partner is registered in the phone book 18, the photo of the other party is read from the phone book 18 under the control of the control unit 19. It is displayed on a part of the display unit 6 (for example, a dedicated part on the upper right side of the display unit).

  When any one of the reception history and the transmission history is selected, one is specified from the list displayed history, and an operation is performed to display the full text of the specified one e-mail (in S507). In Y), as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, the designated e-mails are displayed in full text (S508).

  In the browsing content selection mode (S502), when browsing by partner is selected (Y in S503) and the name of the partner is input (S504), in this embodiment, the operation unit 6 is used to directly select the partner. Although the name is entered, the phone book section 18 stores the group name, name, phone number, mail address, etc., as described above. As shown in FIG. 12, first, a group name may be designated, and a partner may be selected from the group name and input. Alternatively, a desired partner may be searched using all or a part of the registered name, telephone number, mail address, etc., and the name of the partner may be entered by specifying the searched partner.

  The operation of browsing the email history has been described above, but in the present embodiment, the phone history is configured to be browsed in the same manner. That is, when an operation for browsing the telephone history is performed using the operation unit 6, the telephone history browsing content selection mode is set as in the case of the e-mail, and the browsing by each party, the incoming history browsing, and the outgoing history are performed. A display prompting selection of browsing is displayed on the display unit 1. According to the display on the display unit 1, when browsing by partner is selected, the mode for entering the name of the other party is entered. If the name of the other party is entered here, the outgoing and incoming call histories with the other party are mixed. In this state, as shown in FIG. 13, they are displayed on the display unit 1 in time series. That is, in this case, in addition to the distinction between outgoing and incoming calls, the date and time of the outgoing call and the incoming call, the call time, etc., the number of outgoing and incoming calls so far is also displayed on the display unit 1 at the same time. .

  When the browsing of the incoming call history and the browsing of the outgoing call history are selected, only the incoming call history or only the outgoing call history is displayed in chronological order as in FIG.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, if browsing by partner is selected, they can be displayed in chronological order regardless of transmission, reception, incoming call, and outgoing call. It is possible to clearly display in what order the e-mails having such contents are sent, and even in the case of a telephone call, the history can be displayed regardless of whether it is transmitted or received.

  The portable terminal device of the present invention has an effect of easily and accurately displaying e-mail and telephone exchanges with a partner by designating the partner, and is useful for a mobile phone or the like.

1 is an external view of a mobile terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a mobile terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The figure which shows the structure of the telephone directory part used for the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the structure of the memory | storage part used for the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the display when the browsing according to other party is selected in the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the display at the time of displaying the full text of the designated electronic mail in the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the display at the time of selecting reception log | history browsing in the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the display at the time of selecting transmission log | history browsing in the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the example of a display when selecting the transmission log | history browsing and instruct | indicating the full text display of the email designated on it in the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the example of a display when selecting the transmission log | history browsing and instruct | indicating the full text display of the email designated on it in the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the example of a display in one method in the case of inputting the other party's name in the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the example of a display in case the display instruction | indication of the log | history according to the other party of a telephone is given in the portable terminal device in one embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Display part 2 1st housing | casing 3 Navigation key 4 Function key 5 Numeric keypad 6 Operation part 7 2nd housing | casing 8 Hinge part 9 Antenna 10 Radio | wireless transmission / reception part 11 Voice input / output part 12 Microphone 13 Receiver 14 Ringing sound output part 15 Speaker 16 Storage unit 17 Camera unit 18 Telephone book unit 19 Control unit 20, 21 Through-hole

Claims (2)

Storage means for storing the transmitted email and the received email;
Detection means for detecting the email of the other party designated by the designation means;
A telephone directory section that can store the name of the other party and the e-mail address of the other party in association with each other;
The other party's e-mail detected by the detecting means is mixed with the transmitted e-mail and the received e-mail, respectively, and displays the first part of the contents of the other party's e-mail in time series, Display means for displaying the designated e-mail by designating one arbitrary e-mail in a state where the e-mail is displayed as a list,
A mobile terminal device.   The detection display means is configured to search for a desired partner using all or part of a name or an e-mail address registered in the telephone directory, and select the name of the searched partner. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1.

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