JP2013030888A - Mobile terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent occurrence of a trouble of looking for an application program to a user.SOLUTION: The mobile terminal device receives an input of first time and first information, and associates the first information with at least one or more application programs among two or more application programs. When current time reaches the first time, the mobile terminal device displays information about the application program which is associated with the first information on a display part thereof.

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal device having a schedule function.

  A portable terminal device having a touch panel is known (Patent Document 1). In recent years, portable terminal devices can execute various functions that are incomparable to a personal computer or the like, and store a larger number of application programs. The user selects and executes a specific application program from among a large number of application programs according to a function to be executed by the mobile terminal device. In addition, an information device having a GUI function that can improve a user's operating environment in a limited display area is known.

JP 2006-31224 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-186591

  However, in the mobile terminal device as described above, since the user needs to select an application program according to the function to be executed, it is troublesome to search for the application program as the number of application programs stored in the mobile terminal device increases. May occur.

  For example, when a user thinks about a business trip to a specific place, the user has a plurality of applications such as an application program for searching for a route for arriving at a specific place, an application program for checking the weather at a specific place, etc. It is assumed that a program is used. In this case, the user must search and execute each application program one by one. For this reason, the user has to search for an application program.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object thereof is to provide a portable terminal device that facilitates execution of an application program that is highly likely to be used in accordance with user convenience.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention includes a timekeeping unit that measures the current time, a storage unit that stores a plurality of application programs, a display unit that displays information on at least one or more application programs, A receiving unit that receives input of the first time and the first information; an association unit that associates the first information with at least one application program among the plurality of application programs; and the current time is the first information A determination unit that determines whether or not the time has reached 1; and when the current time becomes the first time, the display unit displays information related to the application program that is associated with the first information by the association unit And a display control unit to be displayed on the unit.

By providing the above configuration, the mobile terminal device can easily execute an application program that is highly likely to be used according to the convenience of the user.

1 is an external perspective view of a mobile phone 100. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a mobile phone 100. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 111 of the mobile phone 100. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data table stored in a storage unit 108. FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating the transition of the registration process of an application program. FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining a transition of control processing of the mobile phone 100. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 111 of the mobile phone 100. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 111 of the mobile phone 100. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 111 of the mobile phone 100. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data table stored in a storage unit 108. FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining the transition of operation processing in the mobile phone 100. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 111 of the mobile phone 100. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 111 of the mobile phone 100. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 111 of the mobile phone 100. FIG.

Hereinafter, a mobile phone 100 as an embodiment of a mobile terminal device according to the present invention will be described.
〔appearance〕
FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of the mobile phone 100. Hereinafter, a mobile phone 100 as an embodiment of a mobile terminal device according to the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of the mobile phone 100. A cellular phone 100 is provided with a housing 101, a speaker 102, a microphone 103, and a touch panel 104. The touch panel 104 displays key groups such as cursor keys and numeric keys, icons, and the like based on instructions from the user, and the user can perform various operations by touching them with a finger or the like.
〔Constitution〕
FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of the mobile phone 100. The mobile phone 100 includes a wireless unit 105, a microphone 103, a speaker 102, a signal processing unit 107, a touch panel 104, a storage unit 108, a time measuring unit 109, and a control unit 110.

  The radio unit 105 modulates / demodulates a signal transmitted / received via the antenna 106.

  The signal processing unit 107 performs processing for transmitting an audio signal input from the microphone 103 via the wireless unit 105 and processing for outputting an audio signal received from the antenna 106 via the wireless unit 105 to the speaker 102. I do. In addition, the signal processing unit 107 receives data such as an electronic mail via the wireless unit 105 and outputs the data to the control unit 110.

  The microphone 103 outputs the input sound to the signal processing unit 107 as an audio signal.

  The speaker 102 outputs the audio signal processed by the signal processing unit 107 or the audio data received from the control unit 110 as audio.

  The touch panel 104 includes a display unit 111 and an input unit 112.

  The display unit 111 includes an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), and has a function of displaying images such as characters and icons on the LCD based on instructions from the control unit 110.

  The input unit 112 detects a touch by the user, and outputs the coordinate value of the touched position to the control unit 110 every unit time (for example, 1/60 seconds) during detection. The input unit 112 may be realized by any method such as a resistance film method, an optical method, and a capacitive coupling method that are used in a general touch panel.

  The storage unit 108 includes a ROM, RAM, EEPROM, nonvolatile RAM, flash memory, HDD, and the like, and stores a plurality of application programs processed by the control unit 110.

  The storage unit 108 can store a user's schedule. The schedule input and storage will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 shows an example of a schedule input screen displayed on the touch panel 104. The touch panel 104 includes a region 200 for displaying a calendar and a region 201 for inputting information regarding events. In area 200, a calendar is displayed. In the area 201, items for inputting details of an event, a button 202, and a button 203 are displayed. The items for inputting the details of the event are, for example, “event name”, “date / time”, “location”, “classification”, and the like. In FIG. 3, for example, “baseball game” as “event name”, “7/3 15:00:00 to 19:00” as “date and time”, “A stadium” as “location”, and “baseball game” as “classification”. Have been entered. A button 202 is a button for storing the contents described in each item in the storage unit 108. The button 203 is a button for canceling the contents described in each item. The storage unit 108 stores the contents described in each item when the button 202 is touched by the user. FIG. 4 is an example of a schedule stored in the storage unit 108. The storage unit 108 stores information related to the event name, date / time, location, and classification in association with the date. Further, the user can input the start time and end time of the event. For example, in FIG. 3, “15:00” is the start time of the event, and “19:00” is the end time of the event.

  Further, the storage unit 108 can store the information described in the classification and at least some of the plurality of applications in association with each other. This operation will be described later.

  The time measuring unit 109 has a function of measuring the current time. The timing unit 109 outputs the current time measured to the control unit 110.

  The control unit 110 includes a time determination unit 113, an application registration unit 114, and a display control unit 115, and controls the overall operation of the mobile phone 100. The control unit 110 is a processing unit such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit).

  The time determination unit 113 determines whether the time measured by the time measuring unit 109 is the same as the start time or end time of the event stored in the storage unit 108. The time determination unit 113 outputs the determined result to the display control unit 115 described later.

The application registration unit 114 has a function of registering the event classification stored in the storage unit 108 in association with the application program. The operation of the application registration unit 114 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 5 to 10. In FIG. 3, when the user touches the button 202 (S21), the application registration unit 114 confirms the application program associated with the event classification in the storage unit 108 (S22). When there is an application program associated with the event classification in the storage unit 108 (Yes in S23), the application registration unit 114 displays information related to the associated application program as shown in FIG. 6 (S24). ). When the user instructs to change the associated application program, the application registration unit 114 transitions to S30. The application registration unit 114 ends the process when the user does not instruct the change of the associated application program (S25). In FIG. 6, an application program associated with the event classification is displayed in area 212. The user can select whether or not to change the associated application program by looking at the contents displayed in the area 212.

  If there is no application associated with the event classification (No in S23), the application registration unit 114 determines whether to associate the event classification with the application program, for example, as shown in FIG. Display to make an inquiry. If the button 206 is touched by the user (No in S30), the application registration unit 114 ends without performing association between the event classification and the application program.

  When the user touches the button 205 (Yes in S30), the application registration unit 114 displays a list of application programs stored in the storage unit 108, for example, as illustrated in FIG. 8 (S31). The user selects an application program to be associated with the event classification from the displayed application programs (S32). One program may be selected or a plurality of programs may be selected.

  In FIG. 8, when the button 208 is touched (Yes in S33), the application registration unit 114 associates the application program selected by the user with the event classification and stores the association in the storage unit 108 (S34). The storage unit 108 stores the application program selected by the user and the event classification in association with each other as shown in FIG. 10, for example. In FIG. 10, “transfer guide”, “baseball directory”, and “meal navigation” are associated with “watching baseball”, and “mail” and “IC recorder” are associated with “work”. ing. For example, “Transfer Information” is an application program that searches for a traffic route from the current location to the destination, “Baseball Directory” is an application program that searches a baseball player's profile, and “Meal Navi” is a destination. It is an application program for searching for nearby shops, “Mail” is an application program for sending and receiving mail, and “IC Recorder” is an application program for recording voice. If the button 208 has not been touched (No in S33), if the button 209 has been touched (Yes in S35), the process ends without associating the event classification with the application program.

  When the button 210 in FIG. 6 is touched (No in S25), when displaying the list of application programs in S31, for example, as shown in FIG. May be. For example, in FIG. 9, the user has three application programs “Transfer Guidance”, “Baseball Directory”, and “Meal Navi” checked, so there are already three application programs for the event classification name “watching baseball”. You can know that you are registered.

The display control unit 115 has a function of controlling the display of the display unit 111 in accordance with the determination result from the time determination unit 113. When the current time is the start time of the event, the display control unit 115 causes the display unit 111 to display information regarding the application program associated with the event classification. When the current time is the end time of the event, the display control unit 115 ends the display related to the application program associated with the event classification.
[Description of operation]
Next, the operation of the mobile phone 100 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, the display control unit 115 causes the display unit 111 to display a preset standby screen (hereinafter also referred to as a first screen, for example) as shown in FIG. 12 (S41). In FIG. 12, on the first screen, an icon 400 related to an application program that executes a telephone function, an icon 401 related to an application program that executes a browser function, and an icon 402 related to an application program that executes a calendar function are displayed. . The user can execute an application program corresponding to the touched icon by touching these icons. When an application program for executing a calendar function is executed, the screen may be changed to an event input screen as shown in FIG.

  The time determination unit 113 determines whether or not the current time is the start time of the event based on the output from the time measuring unit 109 (S42). When the time output from the time measuring unit 109 is determined to be the same as the event start time (Yes in S42), the time determination unit 113 outputs the result to the display control unit 115.

  When the time determination unit 113 determines that the current time is the same as the event start time, the display control unit 115 checks the application program associated with the event classification (S43).

  If the display control unit 115 determines that there is no application program associated with the event classification (No in S44), the display control unit 115 continues to display the first screen (S51) and ends.

  If the display control unit 115 determines that there is an application program associated with the event classification (Yes in S44), the display control unit 115 acquires information on the application program associated with the event classification from the storage unit 108 (S45). . Then, the display control unit 115 adds and displays an icon related to the application program associated with the event classification on the first screen (S46). In addition, the screen which added the icon regarding the application program linked | related with the classification | category of the event to the 1st screen may be called a 2nd screen.

  The processing of S45 and S46 will be described using the event name “baseball watching” in FIG. 3. The display control unit 115 stores information on application programs associated with “baseball watching” which is a classification of “baseball watching”. Obtained from the unit 108. As a result, the display control unit 115 determines that the classification of “baseball watching” is associated with three application programs of “transfer guidance”, “baseball directory”, and “meal navigation”. Next, for example, as shown in FIG. 13, the display control unit 115 displays icons on the display unit 111 for executing three application programs of “transfer guidance”, “baseball directory”, and “meal navigation”. To display. In FIG. 13, an icon 403 is an icon related to the “transfer guide” application program, an icon 404 is an icon related to the “baseball directory” application program, and an icon 405 is an icon related to the “meal navigation” application program. .

Next, the time determination unit 113 determines whether or not the current time is the end time of the event based on the output from the time measuring unit 109 (S47). When the time determination unit 113 determines that the time output from the time measuring unit 109 is the same as the end time of the event (Yes in S47),
The result is output to the display control unit 115.

  When the time determination unit 113 determines that the current time and the end time are the same, the display control unit 115 changes the display of the standby screen to the display of the standby screen displayed before the event start time ( S48). That is, the display control unit 115 changes the standby screen from the second screen to the first screen. For example, when the current time is the start time of the event and the standby screen of FIG. 12 is changed to the standby screen of FIG. 13, the display control unit 115 waits when the current time is the end time of the event. The screen is changed from FIG. 13 to FIG.

  When the display control unit 115 changes the standby screen to the standby screen before the start of the event, the operation ends.

By performing the above operation, an icon for executing an application program related to the event is displayed on the display unit 111 according to the occurrence of the event, so that the user can use it according to the occurrence of the event. It is possible to easily execute an application program with high performance.
[Other Embodiments]
(1) Although this embodiment has been described by inputting the end time of an event when inputting information related to the event, the end time does not necessarily have to be input. In this case, when the end time of the event is not stored, the time determination unit 113 may determine whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed from the start time of the event. The display control unit 115 may change the standby screen from the second screen to the first screen when the time determination unit 113 determines that the current time has elapsed from the start time of the event. Thereby, even when the standby screen is changed due to the start of the event, the standby screen can be automatically restored.
(2) In the present embodiment, icons related to application programs associated with event classification are displayed on the standby screen from the start time to the end time of the event. However, the present invention is not necessarily limited to this case. Display control part 115 may change from the 2nd screen to the 1st screen, if the 1st operation is received from a user. The first operation from the user may be, for example, an operation in which the user shakes the mobile phone 100 when the mobile phone 100 includes a vibration detection unit such as an acceleration sensor. A specific operation performed by the user on the touch panel 104 may be the first operation.

  Moreover, although it described by displaying a 2nd screen from the start time of an event to an end time, you may display a 2nd screen even before the start time of an event. For example, when the first screen is displayed before the start time of the event and the first screen is displayed, the display control unit 115 may change from the first screen to the second screen when detecting the second operation. .

  Further, when displaying the second screen, a predetermined mark may be given so as to be distinguished from the first screen. As a result, the user can know whether the standby screen currently displayed is the first screen or the second screen by the presence or absence of the predetermined mark. Note that the second operation may be the first operation described above, or may be a predetermined input to the input unit.

Further, in the case where the second screen is displayed, the event has been described as changing to the first screen at the end time of the event. However, the event may be changed to the third screen instead of the first screen. The third screen is a standby screen in which the display of some of the icons of the application program newly displayed on the second screen is deleted. For example, in FIG. 13, information regarding three application programs “transfer guidance”, “baseball directory”, and “meal navigation” is displayed during the event occurrence period. As shown in FIG. 14, when the event end time is reached, the display control unit 115 deletes the icons related to “transfer guidance” from the information related to the three application programs, and the icons related to “baseball directory” and “meal navigation”. May be displayed as it is. The standby screen shown in FIG. 14 is the third screen.
(3) In this embodiment, the standby screen is returned to the original time when the current time reaches the end time of the event. However, the present invention is not necessarily limited to this case. For example, regardless of the end time of the event, the standby screen may be restored when the current time has passed a predetermined time from the start time of the event.
(4) In the present embodiment, the second screen is displayed when the current time becomes the start time. However, the present invention is not necessarily limited to this case. The display control unit may display the second screen from when the current time is a predetermined time before the start time. The predetermined time is, for example, a time such as 10 minutes or 30 minutes.
(5) In the present embodiment, the touch panel 104 is used to detect the user's input, but this is not necessarily the case. It is good also as providing the operation part comprised by the operation key etc. and receiving a user's input via an operation part. In this case, an input from the user may be received using both the operation unit and the touch panel 104, or only one of them may be provided.
(6) In the present embodiment, the event classification is associated with the application program, but the event classification is not necessarily required. An application program may be associated with a tag by assigning a predetermined tag to the event.
(7) Although this embodiment has been described using a straight-type mobile phone, the present invention is not necessarily limited to this case. The present invention can also be applied to a foldable mobile phone and a slide-type mobile phone.

  In addition, the embodiment can be variously modified as appropriate within the scope of the technical idea shown in the claims.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Mobile phone 102 Speaker 103 Microphone 104 Touch panel 105 Radio | wireless part 106 Antenna 107 Signal processing part 108 Memory | storage part 109 Time measuring part 110 Control part 111 Display part 112 Input part 113 Time determination part 114 Application registration part 115 Display control part

Claims (8)

A timekeeping section that measures the current time,
A storage unit storing a plurality of application programs;
A display for displaying information on at least one or more application programs;
A reception unit that receives input of the first time and the first information;
An association unit associating the first information with at least one application program among the plurality of application programs;
A determination unit that determines whether or not the current time is the first time;
A display control unit for displaying, on the display unit, information related to the application program associated with the first information by the association unit when the current time is the first time;
A mobile terminal device. A timekeeping section that measures the current time,
A storage unit storing a plurality of application programs;
A display for displaying information on at least one or more application programs;
A reception unit that receives input of the first time and the first information;
An association unit associating the first information with at least one application program among the plurality of application programs;
A determination unit that determines whether or not the current time is a third time that is a second time before the first time;
A display control unit that causes the display unit to display information on the application program associated with the first information by the association unit when the current time is the third time;
A mobile terminal device. The reception unit receives an input of a fourth time which is a time later than the first time;
The time measuring unit determines whether the current time is the fourth time;
The display control unit, when the current time is the fourth time, causing the display unit to stop displaying information on the application program associated with the first information;
The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal device is a mobile terminal device. An operation detection unit that detects an operation by a user;
When the operation detection unit detects a user operation when the current time is not the first time, the display control unit displays information related to the application program associated with the first information on the display unit. Displaying,
The portable terminal device according to claim 1 or 3, wherein An operation detection unit that detects an operation by a user;
When the operation detection unit detects a user operation when the current time is not the third time, the display control unit displays information related to the application program associated with the first information on the display unit. Displaying,
The portable terminal device according to claim 2 or 3, wherein The display control unit, when displaying information related to the application program associated with the first information on the display unit, displaying a predetermined mark together on the display unit;
The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein: The display control unit is associated with the first information on the display unit when a fifth time has elapsed since the display unit displays information related to the application program associated with the first information. Stop displaying information about application programs,
The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal device is a mobile terminal device. When the display control unit causes the display unit to stop displaying information related to the application program associated with the first information, a part of the application program associated with the first information is included. Discontinuing only the display related to application programs,
The portable terminal device according to claim 3 or 7, characterized by the above.