KR100734636B1 - Mobile phones capable of creating and sending messages containing pictures - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a portable telephone, and in order to enable more improved wireless mobile communication, a graphic unit for enabling a user to create a message including a picture on the LCD screen of the telephone through a keyboard composed of a plurality of buttons of the portable telephone; The present invention provides a message device including a database unit for storing data of a message created by a graphic unit and a signal converter for converting such message data into a transmittable electrical signal, thereby enabling the preparation and transmission of a message including a picture. .

In addition, it selects two or more message data stored in the database, and further includes a moving picture unit in the message device to combine them sequentially in one data packet and deliver them to the signal conversion unit to enable the creation and transmission of messages that appear as moving pictures. .

Description

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1 is a schematic diagram showing a general wireless mobile communication system

2 is a perspective view showing a portable telephone which is a general wireless mobile communication terminal

Figure 3 is a block diagram showing a message device according to the present invention in blocks

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of creating a message and transmitting the same using a message device according to the present invention.

5A, 5B, and 5C are diagrams illustrating shapes that appear on the LCD screen when composing a message through the message device according to the present invention, respectively.

Figure 6 is a block diagram showing a message device further comprising a video unit according to the present invention as a block

7A and 7B are diagrams illustrating a message stored in a sender's database for implementing a video according to the present invention, and a video on a LCD screen of a receiver receiving the message.

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50: message device 52: graphics unit

54: database 56: signal conversion unit

The present invention relates to a mobile phone, and more particularly, to a mobile phone capable of creating and transmitting a message including a picture.

In the recent information age, many people have paid attention to information processing and sharing methods thereof, and accordingly, the field of communication has been remarkably developed.

Communication (correspondence) refers to an activity of exchanging information with a counterpart through a medium medium between devices that are geographically far apart, and transmits a code, text, voice, or video by an electronic method such as wired or wireless. , The activity being received, and the devices and devices required to perform this activity. For example, all of the tasks such as exchanging information through communication media between geographically separated systems may be examples of communication. Among them, wireless communication is used to exchange information using wireless communication terminals that are separated from each other.

In particular, wireless mobile communication, which has been rapidly spread and used by many people in recent years, is a communication system that is capable of mutual communication at a remote mobile point, and is usually a mobile phone, a mobile phone, or a personal communication service (PCS). A portable telephone called by the name is used as a terminal.

Briefly describing a wireless mobile communication system using the portable telephone, the first and second portable telephones 2 and 4 capable of communication as shown in FIG. A plurality of repeaters (6, 8) to improve the quality, and a switch (SC: Switching Center) (10) to be located in the center of the wireless mobile communication system to connect and connect the public public telephone network and mobile communication network And a service provider (SP) 12 that provides various services available to the user through the portable telephone.

In this case, since the service provided by the service provider may include a wireless communication service and other additional services, the above-described service provider 12 may be generally composed of a plurality of service providers that provide different services. As a result, the communication type through the mobile phone is also very diverse, for example, one-to-one communication as well as one-to-many communication service.

In order for each user to use this wireless mobile communication service, each user must have a portable telephone, which has the configuration as shown in FIG. The appearance of the mobile phone 15 may be variously modified according to the company or type of the mobile phone 15 provided. However, the input unit 18 for inputting data for using a service provided through each mobile phone is usually provided to the user. Main body 20 comprising various devices for processing and transmitting the data input by the user and processing the service data received from the outside, and an output unit for displaying the processed data to the user by sound or preference. And (22).

At this time, the input unit 18 is composed of a keyboard (23) consisting of a plurality of buttons each displaying a unique number or symbol, or performs a given function, and a microphone (30) for inputting voice, such as a telephone transmitter. The output unit 22 includes a speaker 32 that provides processed data as a voice, such as a telephone receiver, and an LCD screen 34 using a liquid crystal, which is visually displayed using numbers or letters. . Each of these portable telephones is given a portable telephone number consisting of a set of different unique numbers to enable communication between target terminals.

The use of various services provided to the user by using the portable telephone is generally possible through the keyboard, and the plurality of buttons included in the keyboard are provided to the symbol keyboard 24 for inputting symbols such as numbers or letters, respectively, and the portable telephone. The function button 25 which can list and confirm the kind of services to be used, the up and down, left and right movement buttons 26 for selecting such a function, and instructs the selection of a function or the operation of the terminal internal device. , A setting button 27 corresponding to the enter button of the computer keyboard, a storage button 28 for storing various data created by the user, and a transmission button 29 for transmitting data.

On the other hand, the typical wireless mobile communication services provided to the user through the above-mentioned portable telephone include a telephone service through voice and a text message service through text. The dual phone service converts a voice transmitted by the user into a frequency form and transmits it. And, by receiving the terminal is converted back to the voice is a service that enables communication through the voice between users.

In addition, a text message service is a short message service that allows a short message to be exchanged between subscribers of a mobile phone. When a user who subscribes to a text message service transmits a short sentence written using a letter or the like, a public telephone network or a data communication network is used. Or it is a kind of value-added service that other subscribers can receive through the Internet.

The above-mentioned telephone service and text message service are the most widely used communication services. In particular, the text message service is widely used because it has a characteristic of a method of delivering a message using text, not a general telephone method. However, such a text message service can use only a short short message written using a limited symbol such as letters or numbers, and has a limitation in conveying the exact meaning that the user wants to convey.

In order to compensate for the shortcomings of the text message, a method of transmitting a pre-stored picture in a text message has been introduced. However, such a method also includes a limited picture which is prepared in advance and stored in the terminal. Accordingly, there is a problem in that it is impossible to accurately express various messages having different contents.

The present invention is to solve this problem, so that the user can more accurately express the content to be delivered, according to the user's intention to create a message or a message using a picture or pictures and text that can be freely created and edited to another terminal It is an object to provide a portable telephone which makes it possible to transmit.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a plurality of keyboards for inputting data, an LCD screen for outputting received data and information input by the keyboard, and externally transmitting the input data. A portable telephone capable of mutual wireless communication, comprising: a main body having a main body having a control unit for displaying data received from the LCD screen, the menu being embedded in the main body of the portable telephone and having a cursor and a plurality of submenus on the LCD screen. A graphics unit for displaying a message including a picture on the LCD screen by moving the cursor and selecting the submenu by manipulating the plurality of keyboards; A database comprising a plurality of tables each storing data information of a message created by the graphic unit, each having a tag capable of recording a short text through the keyboard; It is equipped with a message device including a signal conversion unit for converting the data of the message drawn by the graphic unit to transmit the electrical signal to transmit, to create a message consisting of a picture or a picture and a text, to store it and transmit it to the outside Provide a telephone.

Particularly, the message device selects two or more message data stored in the database and combines them so as to be sequentially implemented in one data message, and transfers the combined data to the signal conversion unit on the LCD screen of the receiver's portable telephone. It characterized in that it further comprises a video unit to be implemented as a video that sequentially changes the message.

The message device is also characterized in that it is embedded in software in a portable telephone.

Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

The portable telephone according to the present invention includes a message device capable of creating and transmitting a message including a picture in the main body, and the message device is installed in software.

Accordingly, the portable telephone according to the present invention has an input unit 18 including a keyboard 23 having a plurality of buttons, a microphone 30, and the like, and a main body 20, as shown in FIG. And an output unit 22 formed of a speaker 32 and an LCD screen 34 using liquid crystal. In this case, the input unit 18 is a portion where the user creates various types of service data. The control unit converts the data created through the input unit into a transferable form and transmits the data to the service provider, receives the data returned from the service provider, and processes the data in a form that can be displayed to the user. The output unit 22 includes: It is the part that displays the data input through the keyboard and the received data by voice or text to the user.

In this case, the main body 20 includes a message device that enables the creation and transmission of a message including a picture according to the present invention. As described above, the message device includes a graphic unit 52 and a database as shown in FIG. 3. A unit 54 and a signal converter 56 are provided.

The graphic unit 52 is a part for allowing a user to compose a message including a picture on the LCD screen 34 using the input unit of the portable telephone (18 in FIG. 2), in particular, the keyboard 23. As described above, the message created by the graphic unit 52 is converted into data and stored in the database unit 54. At this time, preferably, the database unit 54 is composed of a plurality of tables (table) each of which the message data is stored, each table is given a tag (tag) distinguished by numbers or symbols, etc. to store the data and It facilitates the identification of the data.

In addition, the signal conversion unit 56 converts the message created by the graphic unit 52 and the data stored in the database unit 54 into a form that can be transmitted and transmits it to another terminal, which is a signal according to the present invention. The converting unit 56 may share the same device if there is a device in the common portable telephone.

An example of message creation including a picture according to the present invention through the message device 50 is shown in FIG. 3, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the sequence in order. In this case, a screen displayed on the output unit of the portable telephone, in particular, the LCD screen. This will be described with reference to Figures 5a, 5b, 5c schematically.                     

The following description is merely one embodiment of the present invention, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. will be.

First, the user selects a function according to the present invention for creating a message including a picture, which is the same as selecting a general other function, that is, selecting one of various functions built in a mobile phone. Press (25), the list of available services is possible by the operation of the movement button 26 and the setting button 27 in the state listed on the LCD screen 34, or one that can immediately select the message device according to the present invention It is also possible to install a separate button of (see Figure 2).

As such, when the message creation function including the picture according to the present invention is selected, the cursor 60 and the menu window 62 appear on the LCD screen 34 of the portable telephone as shown in FIG. 5A, where the cursor 60 ) Has a size of 2 × 2, corresponding to four pixels on the LCD screen, and the menu window 62 has a plurality of submenus 62a, 62b, 62c, 62d, and 62e respectively performing different functions. , 62f, 62g, 62h).

Each of these submenus is, for example, a basic figure 62a, a special figure 62b, a special character 62c, an edit 62d, an erase 62e, a character 62f, and a load 62g. ), And each of the submenus 62a to 62h performs a function corresponding to each name. In particular, the recall item 62g, the erase item 62e, and other submenus except the text item 62f, that is, the basic shape item 62a, the special shape item 62b, and the special character item ( 62c) and the edit item 62d have tables 63a, 63b, 63c, and 63d listing the appropriate sub-items. When these sub-menu items are selected, a table listing the sub-items assigned thereto is displayed. Will appear.

For example, the subitems listed in each table may be a straight line, a curve, a circle, a triangle, a square, a semicircle, etc. in the case of the table of the basic figure 62a, and a general figure in the case of the special figure 62b. It may be an undefined figure, that is, a cylinder, a star, a heart, or the like. In the case of the special character 62c, it may be made of special symbols that cannot be displayed by a symbol keyboard. In addition, in the case of the table included in the edit item 62d, there may be movement, size, direction, rotation, and the like. When one of the sub-items configured in the table of each sub-item is selected, each function is performed. In this case, the configuration of the menu window and the function of the item may be variously modified according to the purpose.

Hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, a method of creating a message including a picture as shown in FIG. 5B by the user using the cursor 60 and the menu window 62 by operating a plurality of buttons on the keyboard will be briefly described.

First, in order to compose a message, a user selects a function according to the present invention by selecting an appropriate button as described above, and at this time, loads a stored message in the initial screen shown in FIG. Whether to write or to create a new message is selected (S1 in FIG. 4).

For convenience of explanation, a method of creating a message by searching a stored message (S6 of FIG. 4) and selecting one of them (S8 of FIG. 4) and modifying the selected data will be described later. The method of making (S3 of FIG. 4) is demonstrated.

In this way, the user draws a picture in the initial screen state where the cursor 60 and the menu window 62 appear on the LCD screen 34. First, the sub-table in the basic figure item 62a of the menu window 62 has a picture. You will be asked to select a class member. At this time, a semicircle 70 appears on the LCD screen (refer to FIG. 5C), and then the edit item 62d of the menu window is selected to display a table of the edit item on the screen. Since this table contains sub-items such as move, size, direction, and rotation, the user can select the required items. After selecting one of these sub-items, adjust the move button appropriately to display the shape of the semicircle shown on the first screen. Free to deform

In other words, if you select the size sub-item and select the up or right direction key, the size of the figure increases. If you select the down or left direction key, the size becomes smaller. Deformation into a desired shape can be made possible by using a method such that the figure protrudes in the direction of. At this time, the movement subitem enables the change of the position where the figure is located on the LCD screen, and the rotating subitem enables the rotation of the figure.

After the half of the heart shape (70a) is completed, select the semi-circle sub-item of the basic figure again and complete the other half (70b) by the appropriate operation of the sub-item and the move button of the edit item to move and combine the two You will complete the picture.

At this time, if the shape desired by the user is in the subitem of the special shape, it is possible to complete it more simply by selecting it (S4 of FIG. 4).

When the picture is completed as described above, it is possible to attach text to the picture. For this purpose, the user can select a submenu having the text item 62f of the menu window 62 and press the symbol keyboard to create the desired sentence 82. have. Such a sentence can be adjusted in size, direction or position or shape by manipulation of the above-described edit item 62d and the movement button (S5 of FIG. 4).

If some modification is required in the middle of the process, selecting the erase item 62e to appropriately adjust the move button may allow modification of some or all of the written message according to the movement of the cursor.

By appropriate operation of such a button, a user writes a desired message using a menu window and a cursor, and then transmits a message. This is possible through a transmission button of a portable telephone. That is, when the user who completes the message presses the transmission button (29 in FIG. 2), a space for inputting the number of the mobile phone to be transmitted appears on the LCD screen 34, and enters the number of the mobile phone of the receiver in this space. After pressing the transmission button 29 again, the created message data is transmitted to the signal conversion unit 56 and transmitted. At this time, the portable telephone to be transmitted, that is, the receivers, may be multiple (S11 in FIG. 4).

At this time, the signal conversion unit 56 included in the message device 50 according to the present invention transmits data by a transmission instruction of the user, and the signal conversion unit 56 converts the message data into a transmittable electrical signal for this purpose. Will be sent. At this time, the form of the electrical signal may be a dot method or a frame method, the signal conversion unit 56 is to share the existing transmission device installed inside the portable phone for data transmission in a general text message or other functions. It is possible.

In addition, the message device 50 according to the present invention includes a database unit 54 for storing a message written by the user, so that the message can be stored. After pressing 28 of FIG. 2, a simple name or number is written in a space appearing on the LCD screen to form a database table having a tag, and the data of the corresponding message is stored therein. S9)

These stored messages can then be recalled and used again, i.e. by selecting the load item 62g in the menu window 62 of the initial screen (see 5a), the tags assigned to each table stored in the database are written. The contents are listed on the LCD screen, and when one desired is selected, the stored message, the cursor, and the menu window appear on the LCD screen as shown in FIG. 5B. After this, it is possible to modify or transmit or store the above-described method. It is preferable that such a storage function be possible at any stage of the above-described message creation step, which is inconvenient to write again from the beginning even after the author stops the message creation function according to the present invention without completing the creation of the message. (S6 and S8 in Fig. 4).

In addition, the portable phone including the message device according to the present invention, by including a moving picture unit in the message device built into the main body to deliver a video message that seems to move the shape of the picture or text on the LCD screen of the receiver's portable phone This is possible by further including the moving picture unit 55 in the message device 50 including the graphic unit 52, the database unit 54, and the signal conversion unit 56 as shown in FIG.

The video unit 55 combines two or more selected messages among a plurality of message data stored in the database unit 54 to be implemented with a time difference, and delivers them to the signal conversion unit 56. The combined message data is converted into an electrical signal in the signal converter and transmitted to the portable telephone to be transmitted.

When such an electrical signal is received by the receiver's portable telephone, it is sequentially converted into continuous message data and displayed on the LCD screen, so that the receiver sees a moving image of the message.

For example, when the three message data are selected as shown in FIG. 7A and delivered to the video unit 55 included in the message device 50 according to the present invention, the video unit 55 includes one of them. The data is combined with the data and transmitted to the signal converter 56 (see FIG. 6).

The signal converter 56 converts the data into an electrical signal and transmits the data to the receiving portable phone, which is displayed as a moving image on the LCD screen 100 of the receiver as shown in FIG. 7B. In this case, the plurality of message data that can be combined in the video unit is preferably two or more, and in order to use the video function, the user selects a video item 62h included as a sub item of the menu window of the initial screen (FIG. 5A). .                     

As such, when the video item 62h is selected, the contents of the tabs of the message data stored in the database unit are listed on the LCD screen, and the user selects two or more pieces of data by rank. When the data selection is completed as described above, the plurality of selected data are combined into one data which is implemented with a time difference in the moving picture unit, and the moving picture is transmitted to the receiver's portable phone by the user's transmission button.

At this time, the data in the database may be a message created and stored by the user, or may be data stored by receiving data transmitted from the outside.

After completing the creation and transmission of the message according to the present invention, the user selects the end button to terminate the function according to the present invention.

The present invention provides a portable telephone terminal further including a message device capable of creating and transmitting a message including a picture according to the present invention, thereby enabling a user to create and transmit a message more improved.

In particular, by creating such a message, the terminal user can also transmit a message that delivers his or her contents more precisely than in the case of a message transmission service using a conventional text message, and can also help develop creativity. This makes it possible to transmit such a method of moving pictures, thereby making it possible to compose and transmit more improved messages.                     

In particular, the device for creating a message including a picture according to the present invention further has the advantage that it can be easily installed in the existing mobile phone software, and the data stored in the database also receives the data transmitted from the outside to add the software It is possible to upgrade and thereby improve the wireless mobile communication.

Claims (3)

delete A portable telephone comprising an input unit and an output unit for visually displaying information input through the input unit or data received externally, A graphic unit for displaying a menu window having a cursor and a plurality of submenus on the output unit, and allowing the user to create a message including a picture on the output unit by moving the cursor or selecting the submenu through the input unit. ; A database for storing data of the message created by the graphic unit; A signal converting unit converting data of the message created by the graphic unit into an electrical signal that can be transmitted; A video unit for selecting two or more message data stored in the database, sequentially combining the two or more message data into one message data, and transferring the combined message data to the signal conversion unit; Is equipped with a message device including a portable telephone capable of creating and storing a message consisting of a picture or text or transmit the created or stored message to the outside The method of claim 2, The database includes a plurality of tables each having a tag for identification input through the input unit.

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