JP4115290B2 - Mobile phone terminal for data search and data search method - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
[Technical field to which the invention belongs]
The present invention relates to a data search device or search method for searching data in a database, and more specifically, a small terminal device such as a mobile phone terminal that performs data search for narrowing display target data, or such data search. Regarding the method.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, with the improvement of the storage density of a storage device, a large amount of data can be stored even in a small mobile terminal device such as a mobile phone terminal. On the other hand, in these terminal devices where portability is regarded as important, there are severe restrictions on the size of the display screen and the number of operation buttons or keys that can be installed. Therefore, when the user tries to refer to desired data from a large amount of data, the scrolling operation must be repeated until the desired data is displayed on the screen.
[0003]
Therefore, for the convenience of the user, when displaying data, it is necessary to narrow the display target data to some extent. For example, consider the case of subtracting the person's telephone number from the person's name in the electronic telephone directory of the mobile phone terminal.
In this case, the user instructs the mobile phone terminal to start the electronic phone book search by some operation. Then, the telephone enters the phone book search mode, recognizes the operation performed by the user from here as a search condition, and displays data corresponding to this condition on the screen. A numeric keypad is usually used to specify search conditions. Each numeric keypad button is assigned to one of the 50 sound “rows” (for example, “1” numeric keypad is “a” row, “2” numeric keypad is “ka” row), and the user has a button. When (for example, “No. 2”) is pressed, only the phone number data whose first character of the sound of the name of the person is the “line” sound corresponding to the button is displayed. For example, when the second button is pressed, a person whose first character is a sound (ka, ki, k, ke, ko) included in the “ka” line (for example, “Daisuke Kato”) , “Junji Koizumi”) is displayed.
[0004]
As an operation to put the phone into the phonebook search mode, it is common to select the “phonebook search” item from the menu screen, but “If the button press time exceeds the specified length, There is also a technique in which the user does not have to perform the operation of setting the phone book search mode by adopting a method of “considering the button operation as an input condition for phone book search” (see Patent Document 1).
[0005]
[Patent Document 1]
JP 11-163999 A
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, considering that the amount of data that can be held by mobile devices will continue to increase in the future, with the above-mentioned rough narrowing, the number of data items to be displayed is still very large, and it is necessary to repeat scrolling operations. Arise. For example, in a business electronic phone book, even if it is narrowed down by “row” as described above, it is possible that several tens of data can be displayed, and there are only a few data that can be displayed on one screen. Then, about 10 scroll operations are required before the lower data of the display target data is displayed on the screen. In addition, if the user does not check the screen display contents every time the user scrolls, the user may pass through the desired data.
[0007]
In addition, when the search mode is entered, a search screen in which search conditions can be specified is displayed, and detailed conditions (for example, “row” and “column” of the first characters of the name) are accepted from there, and the display target data is strictly There is also a method of narrowing down to. In this case, the number of scrolls can be reduced, but the number of operations increases from the operation for setting the telephone to the search mode to the button operation required for condition input, input confirmation notification, etc., and takes time. Compared with the case where scrolling is repeated for displaying all cases, the user's effort is not much different or increases the burden.
[0008]
In view of the above problems, the present invention is a terminal device in which the number of data items that can be displayed on one screen is small, and desired data can be quickly displayed on the screen only by executing a simple operation using buttons or the like a small number of times. An object of the present invention is to provide a terminal device (particularly a mobile phone terminal) that can narrow down (search) display target data in the form of, and a search method.
[0009]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, the data search method of the present invention responds to a user operation when displaying data in a database provided in the mobile phone terminal on the display screen of the mobile phone terminal provided with a plurality of buttons. A data search method for narrowing down the display target data, wherein the user operation is received in the form of one or more pressings of any one of the buttons, and the final pressing in the receiving step When the time length of the button exceeds a predetermined time length, a determination step of determining one or more pressings of the one button as a data search instruction, and one of the buttons determined as a data search instruction in the determination step A search condition generation step for generating a search condition based on the type of the push button and the number of times of pressing in the case of pressing more than once, and the search condition generation step Depending on the generated search condition in-up, to have a search step of extracting a portion of the data for display from the data in the database, characterized by. According to this method, the data to be displayed on the screen can be narrowed down only by pressing a single button once or more (only the last press is pressed longer than a predetermined time). There is a high possibility that desired data is displayed on the screen only by narrowing down by such a search instruction. Even if the desired data is not displayed on the screen and the scroll operation becomes necessary, the number of data to be displayed is narrowed down, so the number of operations required to display the desired data on the screen is far more than before. Less time is required and the time required for display is shortened.
[0010]
Further, when displaying data in a database provided in the mobile phone terminal on a display screen of the mobile phone terminal provided with a plurality of buttons, the data search method narrows down the data to be displayed according to a user operation, An accepting step for accepting a user operation in the form of two or more button presses, and a data search instruction for the two or more button presses when the time length of the last button press exceeds a predetermined time length in the accepting step A search condition generation step for generating a search condition based on a button pressed at each of two or more button presses determined as a data search instruction in the determination step; and the search condition generation step Extract some data from the data in the database as display objects according to the search conditions generated in Data search method characterized in that it comprises a cord step, a, and can be. According to this method, data can be narrowed down only by pressing the button twice. By making only the narrowed-down data to be displayed on the screen, the number of operations required to display the desired data on the screen is much smaller than in the prior art, and the time required for display is shortened.
[0011]
The above object can also be achieved by a mobile phone terminal that executes a search by the method described above.
[0012]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments relating to a mobile phone terminal that performs data search and a search method thereof according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
In the present embodiment, the search target data is telephone number data in an electronic telephone directory database arranged according to Japanese 50 sounds, so that the telephone number data desired by the user can be promptly displayed on the screen. The process of narrowing down (searching) the display target data is performed.
[0013]
(Constitution)
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an appearance of a mobile phone terminal 1 in the present embodiment. The mobile phone terminal 1 holds a database in the form of an electronic phone book, for example, and retrieves data from the database and displays it on the screen in accordance with a user operation. The electronic telephone book stores a large number of sets of names of individuals and corporations and corresponding telephone numbers. The data search executed by the mobile phone terminal 1 in the present embodiment is performed using the data of the name portion as a search key.
[0014]
In the configuration of the cellular phone terminal 1 shown in FIG. 1, those related to data search and display are a display unit 11 (actually a display device) for displaying data, and a narrowing (search) designation of data to be displayed by the user. This is a numeric keypad group 12 for accepting.
As shown in the figure, the numeric keypad group 12 includes twelve buttons, and each of the buttons corresponding to the numbers (0 to 9) includes 50 sound lines ("a" line, "ka" line ... , “Ra” line, “wa” line).
[0015]
In the present embodiment, the user simply presses one of the numeric keypad buttons corresponding to the numbers (0 to 9) at least once on the mobile phone terminal 1 in the standby state, and the line of the first character of the name (“ In addition to the unit of “A” row, “K” row…, “R” row, “Wa” row), the columns (“A” column, “I” column, “U” column, “E” column “ Data refinement conditions (search conditions) can be specified in units of “O” columns). Furthermore, by making the pressing time length of the last pressing longer than a predetermined time (here, 1.5 seconds), it is possible to confirm that the one or more pressing is a phone book data search designation and completion of input of search conditions. The mobile phone terminal 1 can be recognized. In other words, buttons other than the numeric keypad were used, such as operations that specify the phone book search (search mode setting operation) and operations that make the phone recognize the completion of input of search conditions using the “Enter” button, etc. The operation also serves as a search condition designation operation using a numeric keypad. Also, because the search condition designation operation is distinguished from other operations by the presence or absence of a long press, the telephone number input using the numeric keypad is correctly processed as the telephone number input and is confused with the search condition designation. do not do.
[0016]
More specifically, the user selects the numeric keypad corresponding to the “line” to which the first character of the name of the person who wants to know the telephone number belongs, among the buttons corresponding to the numbers, as a pressing target. Then, the number of times of pressing is determined by the number of the column in the row corresponding to the first character. For example, in order to obtain the telephone number “Junji Koizumi” from the database, the “2” numeric keypad button corresponding to the “ka” line to which the first character “ko” belongs is pressed. Since “ko” is the character in the fifth column (“o” column) of the “ka” row, the number of times of pressing is “5 times”. Then, only the last pressing is made longer (more than 1.5 seconds) (hereinafter, pressing more than 1.5 seconds is referred to as “long pressing”).
[0017]
In this way, when the “2” numeric keypad button is pressed five times (“2” “2” “2” “2” + “2” (long press)), the first character is “ko” on the display unit 11. Only the seven data corresponding to the person who is is displayed, and the user can immediately know the desired phone number of “Junji Koizumi”. However, if the number of data after narrowing down is too large to be displayed on one screen and the desired data is at the end of these data, a scroll operation is still required to display the desired data. . However, even in that case, the number of scroll operations can be reduced as the data is narrowed down compared to the conventional method.
[0018]
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of the cellular phone terminal 1, and is a block diagram showing a configuration for realizing data search in particular.
As shown in the figure, the cellular phone terminal 1 includes a database 13 storing electronic phone book data, an input receiving unit 14 that receives a user designation using the numeric keypad group 12, and a search received by the input receiving unit 14. A determination unit 15 that determines the content of the related button designation and generates a search condition for specifying data to be displayed on the screen, and a DB management unit that reads data to be displayed according to the search condition generated by the determination unit 15 from the database 13 16, a display management unit 17 that displays data read by the DB management unit 16 on the display unit 11 is included.
[0019]
FIG. 3 is an image diagram showing an example of the configuration and contents of the database 13 in a table format. Each of the data held in the database 13 includes a name part 310 that is the name of a person, a number part 320 that is a telephone number corresponding to the person, and an index part 330 that stores an index that is referred to when searching. The name part 310 further includes a notation part 311 which is a notation for displaying on the screen and a sound expression part 312 indicating the reading (sound) of the name. The data is sorted in the order of 50 sounds by the sound of the first character of the sound expression unit 312 in the name part data 310. For example, there are seven cases of data corresponding to “ko” of 50 tones from “Koike ramen” 301 to “Taichi Koda” 307.
[0020]
The index unit 330 stores index data corresponding to each sound. The index has a structure of “(first character“ row ”) − (first character“ column ”number)”, and the above-mentioned data having the first character “ko” has “ka-5” (= “ka”). An index of (sound in the fifth column of the row) is stored.
For the operation performed by the user using the numeric keypad group 12, the determination unit 15 first determines whether the operation is a search specification for phone book data. Only when it is determined that the search is designated, the designated content is converted into search condition data corresponding to the data format of the index and sent to the DB management unit 16.
[0021]
The procedure in which the determination unit 15 analyzes the content specified by the user will be described below.
First, when the user presses any button in the numeric keypad group 12, information indicating the type (number) of the pressed button and information on the pressed time length are sent from the input receiving unit 14 to the determining unit 15. Come. The determination unit 15 converts the button type information into information indicating a “row” of 50 sounds corresponding to the button. For this purpose, the determination unit 15 holds information indicating the correspondence between the button number and “row” in advance.
[0022]
In addition, the determination unit 15 counts the number of times of pressing and checks the time length of each pressing. Specifically, first, the counter is set to “0”, and the first press notification from the input receiving unit 14 is waited for. When the first press notification is received, information indicating the type of the pressed button is set in the first half (“row” data) of the search condition data to be passed to the DB management unit 16. Then, after the counter is incremented by 1, the length of the pressing time is checked.
[0023]
If the pressing time length is less than the predetermined time, the next pressing notification is waited. If the pressing time length is equal to or longer than the predetermined time, it is determined that this button operation is a phone book data search designation, and the condition designation by the user is completed, and in the latter half of the search condition data ("column" data), The counter value at that time is set and passed to the DB management unit 16.
It should be noted that the continuous acceptance of pressing is up to 5 times, and when the pressing continues for 6 times or more and less than a predetermined time (when the value of the counter becomes 6 or more), the button operation is not specified as a search condition. Judgment is made and processing is stopped (counter and search condition data are cleared). Also, when a button other than the first keypad or a keypad button other than the first keypad is pressed after the second press, it is determined that the button operation was not a search condition specification, and the process is stopped. Also, if the elapsed time from one press to the next press exceeds a predetermined time length, it is determined that the button operation was not a search condition designation. However, even if the determination unit 15 stops the process, this does not mean that the button operation is ignored in the mobile phone terminal 1. The operation is recognized as an operation other than the search condition designation, and another corresponding component (not shown) performs processing corresponding to the operation. For example, when a key other than the numeric keypad is pressed, an operation corresponding to the key (menu specification using a function menu key) is performed. When only the numeric keypad is pressed but no long press is performed, a telephone number is input. The process is performed.
[0024]
The DB management unit 16 reads data corresponding to the search condition data received from the determination unit 15 from the database 13, outputs the data to the display management unit 17, and causes the display unit 11 to display the data. The DB management unit 16 reads, as a display target, data whose search unit data matches the value of the index unit 330.
(Operation)
Hereinafter, a flow of data search and display processing in the mobile phone terminal 1 of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.
[0025]
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the cellular phone terminal 1 during the data search / display process.
In the case of the search process in the present embodiment, it is not necessary to set the “search mode” in advance by some operation.
For example, when the mobile phone terminal 1 is turned on, the determination unit 15 sets a value “0” to a built-in push counter as an initial setting (S401). When the user presses one of the numeric keypads, the input receiving unit 14 notifies the determination unit 15 of the content of the numeric keypad button pressing operation by the user (number information of the pressed button and the button pressing time length) (S402).
[0026]
When this is the first press (when “counter = 0”) (S403: Yes), the determination unit 15 first increments the counter by “1” (S404). Next, information indicating the “row” of 50 sounds corresponding to the pressed button number is set in the first half (“row” data) of the search condition data (S405). In addition, information on the number of the pressed button is stored as reference information for determining whether or not the button operation is a search condition designation (S406).
[0027]
When the button press in step S402 is the second or subsequent button press (when “counter ≧ 1”) (S403: No), the determination unit 15 also increments the counter by “1” (S407). Next, it is determined whether or not the button operation is a search condition designation.
First, the determination unit 15 checks the number of presses. If the number of continuous presses is 6 times or more (counter ≧ 6) (S408: Yes), the determination unit 15 determines that the button operation is not a search condition specification, stops the process, and sets the value of the press count counter to “ It returns to “0” (S413). Then, the button operation is recognized as an operation other than the search condition designation (for example, the telephone number designation of the call destination), and another corresponding component (not shown) performs processing corresponding to the operation. Become.
[0028]
In addition, when the second or subsequent pressing is performed and a button other than the first keypad or a button other than the numeric keypad is pressed, that is, the number of the first pressing button saved in step S406 and the input receiving unit 14 newly sends. Even if the number of the pressed button does not match (S409: Yes), the determination unit 15 determines that the button operation is not a search condition designation, stops the processing, and sets the value of the number of times of pressing to “0”. (S413).
[0029]
When the above processing is completed and there is still a possibility that the button operation is a search condition designation, the determination unit 15 checks the button pressing time length (whether or not the button is pressed long).
If the length of time of pressing is less than the predetermined time (S410: No), the process returns to step S402 and the determination unit 15 waits for the next pressing notification. If the pressing time length is equal to or longer than the predetermined time (S410: Yes), it is determined that the button operation is the search condition designation, and the condition designation is completed, and the determination unit 15 determines the latter half (“column”) of the search condition data. The value of the number-of-presses counter is set in (Part) to complete the search condition data and pass it to the DB management unit 16 (S411).
[0030]
The DB management unit 16 reads out data having an index value that matches the search condition data from the data in the database 13 and displays the data on the display unit 12 (S412).
(Summary)
As described above, in the data search in the present embodiment, the user simply presses one type of numeric keypad five times from the standby state at most five times and makes the last one press long press. The data to be displayed on the screen can be narrowed down and desired data can be quickly displayed on the screen. The operation includes an operation for notifying that the operation content is the specification of the data search condition, an operation for notifying the completion of the input of the search condition, the first search condition designation based on the type of the push button, and the number of presses. There are four types of designations: second search condition designation based on The user's operation is only pressing the single numeric keypad repeatedly. Using a key other than the numeric keypad, an operation for predeclaring “to enter a search designation” (setting a search mode) and other than numeric keypad An operation for declaring “completion of search designation input” using a key (such as pressing the “decision” button) is unnecessary, and two types of search conditions can be designated. Further, there is no need to perform an operation while confirming the display content of the screen as in the case of displaying desired data by scrolling. Therefore, it can be said that the desired data can be displayed in a short time compared to the conventional method with a simple operation.
[0031]
Note that the database 13 can be searched for other than the method described above. The determination unit generates the search condition as a specific one of 50 sounds instead of the index value (for example, “ka-5” → “ko”), and in performing the search, the DB management unit sets the condition value and the sound expression unit. A method of searching for data that matches the sound of the first character of the value 312 is also conceivable. In the case of this method, the index unit 330 may be omitted from the database 13.
(Modification)
In the search shown in the above embodiment, first, narrowing based on the “line” of the 50-sound corresponding to the first character of the data is performed according to the type of the ten-key button pressed, and the correspondence of the first character of the data is further determined according to the number of pressings The search is performed based on a 50-line “line”, and the condition search is performed by a simple button operation, and the data search condition is specified by the last long press and the input of the search condition is notified. Is the basic idea. Therefore, within the scope of this basic idea, a modified example different from the above embodiment can be considered. Such modifications are shown below.
[0032]
(Modification 1)
In the above embodiment, when the same button is pressed one or more times, first, the first character “line” of the 50 sounds is specified by the button type, and further, the “column” is further narrowed down by the number of times the button is pressed. It was that. In this case, the search can be executed by operating a single button, while the number of times of pressing reaches a maximum of five times. Therefore, in this modification, a method that can be realized up to narrowing down by two pressing operations is shown.
[0033]
In the case of this modification, the user designates “row” of the first character of the display target data by pressing the button for the first time, and designates “column” by pressing the button for the second time (long press). For example, if you want to know the telephone number of “Akio Wada”, press the “0” numeric keypad button corresponding to the “Wa” line to which the first character “Wa” belongs, and then the first character “Wa” will be the “Wa” line. No. 1 numeric keypad is pressed for a long time ("0" + "1" (long press)). Then, only the telephone number data of the person whose head character is “WA” is displayed on the display unit 11.
[0034]
A component having different processing contents between the present modification and the embodiment is a determination unit. Hereinafter, the determination unit in the present modification will be described as “determination unit 15 ′”, and the processing content will be described. First, when the user presses any button of the numeric keypad group 12, information indicating the number of the pressed button is sent from the input receiving unit 14 to the determination unit 15 ′.
[0035]
The determination unit 15 ′ sets the first half (“row” data) of the search condition data to be passed to the DB management unit 16 according to the number of the pressed button in the first press notification (the determination unit 15 in the embodiment). Same as). Then, when the second press notification is received, it is determined whether or not the button operation is a search condition designation based on whether or not this is a long press. If it is determined that the search condition is specified, the value of the number of the ten key button pressed for the second time is set in the second half (“column” data) of the search condition data and is passed to the DB management unit 16.
[0036]
The processing of each component other than the above is the same as that in the first embodiment.
The reason for narrowing down by pressing twice is that the data is classified in two levels, “row” → “column”. The number of times may be increased. That is, if classified in three levels (for example, “group” → “child group” → “grandchild group”), the user presses the numeric keypad three times (the third time is long-pressed), and in each level A specific “group”, “child group”, and “grandchild group” are designated.
(Modification 2)
The search method in the above embodiment and Modification 1 is based on the premise that data is grouped in two stages (group → small group). That is, the result of division based on the “row” of the first character is “group”, and the data belonging to each row is further divided into “columns” of the first character to form a small group. The search method is such that a group is designated by the type of the first press button and is narrowed down to a small group by the number of presses or the second press button type.
[0037]
However, the present invention does not assume that the data in the search target database is classified in two stages. A search in a form that narrows down in two stages without assuming grouping is also conceivable.
For example, “line” is designated in the first numeric keypad operation, and the order of data to be displayed is designated in the plurality of data corresponding to the “line” designated by the first character in the second operation. Specifically, if the “2” numeric key button that designates the “ka” line is pressed for the first time, and the “9” numeric key button is pressed and held for the second time, the determination unit displays “the first character is It is determined that the designation is that “the 9th and subsequent data from the top of the entire data belonging to the“ ka ”line is to be displayed”.
[0038]
Alternatively, the following method is also conceivable. For example, when the “5” numeric keypad for designating the “na” line is pressed first and the “2” numeric keypad is pressed for a long time by the second numeric keypad operation, the determination unit displays “the first character is It is determined that the specification is such that “a plurality of data belonging to the“ na ”row is divided into two groups and the latter half data group divided into two is to be displayed”. Alternatively, the “2” numeric keypad for designating the “ka” line is pressed for the first time, the “3” numeric keypad button is pressed for the second time, and the “2” numeric keypad is pressed for the third time. In this case, it is determined that the designation is such that “the first character is“ ka ”line data is divided into three groups, and data belonging to the second data group of the three divisions is to be displayed”.
[0039]
The above method can also be used for data retrieval when the data is not sorted according to a rule such as 50 sounds. The user registers the approximate position of the desired data and presses the numeric keypad twice (the last press is a long press), and designates “all data divided into m and the first data of the nth group” as the display start position. To do. Although it is unlikely that the desired data will be displayed on the screen simply by this designation, the number of button operations will be much less than when all data is scrolled from the beginning, even if scrolling is required from there. .
[0040]
Note that it is also conceivable to combine the method of the second modification with the method of the embodiment or the first modification. In other words, after narrowing down the data by “row” and “column” of 50 sounds, the narrowed-down data is further narrowed down by the technique shown in the second modification. For example, the user presses the numeric keypad three times (the third press for a long time), and the determination unit specifies the first press button type as “row”, the second button type specifies “column”, and narrows down the third time It is determined that the display head position is designated (nth) in the subsequent data group.
(Remarks)
In the above description of the embodiment and the modification, the target data for data search includes Japanese character data, and the search criterion is 50 sounds of the first character of the Japanese character data. The search criteria are not limited to 50 Japanese sounds. For example, alphabet data is also targeted. As shown in FIG. 1, each of “2” to “9” numeric key buttons is associated with 3 or 4 alphabetic characters. Therefore, data search can be performed based on the alphabet of the first character of the data by the same operation as in the embodiment and the modification. For example, if the “5” numeric keypad is pressed twice (the second is a long press), “K”, which is the second of the three alphabetic characters (J, K, L) assigned to the “5” numeric keypad. Data with “” as the first character is the target of screen display. In the method of the first modification, the same result can be obtained by long-pressing the “2” numeric keypad after the “5” numeric keypad button.
[0041]
In the embodiment and the modification described above, as a combination of the button press pattern specified by the user and the corresponding search condition, “type of press button, number of presses”, “line” of the first 50 sounds, 50 sounds Only the combination with “column” is shown, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, when the phone book data includes an item (for example, “work relationship” or “friend, family”) indicating the relationship between the other person and oneself, this “relation” is designated by the number of times of pressing (for example, It is also possible to specify “work” for one time, “friend” for two times), and “line” of the first 50 characters of the name as the type of the push button. In this case, if the “2” numeric keypad is pressed twice (long press for the second time), only the data of the person whose first character of the name is included in the “ka” line among the “friends” is displayed on the screen.
[0042]
Alternatively, the button operation may be used for designation other than the search condition. For example, the search result display order (ascending order / descending order) is specified. The condition is specified by pressing the same type of button multiple times, the type of the pressed button is a search condition for specifying the “line” to which the first 50 characters of the data belong, and the number of times of pressing is specified for the display order of the search result data. That's it. In this case, if you want to refer to the data of the person name whose first character is in the lower part of the "line" (for example, "O" column), specify "descending order", if you want to refer to the person name data in the upper part By specifying “ascending order”, the user can quickly refer to desired data.
[0043]
It can be considered that the user defines or selects which button operation is associated with what search condition designation or data display mode designation. In this case, a setting receiving unit is provided that receives an arbitrary association setting from the user and saves the setting content in a format that can be referred to in the determination process and the search condition generation process by the determination unit.
[0044]
In the embodiment and the modification described above, the search condition designation is accepted from the standby state. However, in the non-standby state, basically, in a state where key input is possible (for example, a state of “calling”). The above operation can be accepted as a search condition specification.
[0045]
【The invention's effect】
As is clear from the above description, the data search method of the present invention responds to a user operation when displaying data in a database provided in the mobile phone terminal on the display screen of the mobile phone terminal provided with a plurality of buttons. A data search method for narrowing down data to be displayed, wherein the user operation is received in the form of one or more pressings of any one of the buttons, and the final pressing in the receiving step When the time length of the button exceeds a predetermined time length, a determination step of determining one or more pressings of the one button as a data search instruction, and one of the buttons determined as a data search instruction in the determination step A search condition generation step for generating a search condition based on the type of the push button and the number of times of pressing in the case of pressing more than once, and generation of the search condition Depending on the generated search condition in step, to have a search step of extracting a portion of the data for display from the data in the database, characterized by.
[0046]
According to this, simply pressing one type of button notifies the device that the operation is an input of a search condition and the completion of the condition input, and also specifies the search condition based on the type of the pressed button and the number of times of pressing. It is possible to specify search conditions based on. That is, an operation for setting the apparatus to the search mode before inputting the search condition by the mode setting operation and an operation such as pressing the enter key for notifying the completion of the condition input are not required. This can be done with a simple operation of pressing a button. Therefore, the desired data can be displayed on the screen in a short time. Furthermore, since the search condition designation and other operations can be distinguished by the presence or absence of the long press, there is no inconvenience such as misidentifying the key operation performed as the telephone number input as the search condition designation.
[0047]
In addition, the same effect is obtained when the data in the database provided in the mobile phone terminal is displayed on the display screen of the mobile phone terminal provided with a plurality of buttons. A reception step for receiving the user operation in the form of two or more button presses in a state where a search mode is not set, and a time length of the last button press in the reception step exceeds a predetermined time length. A determination step that determines that the button is pressed twice or more as a data search instruction, and a search is performed based on the button pressed at each of the two or more button presses determined as the data search instruction in the determination step. A search condition generating step for generating a condition, and the database according to the search condition generated in the search condition generating step A searching step of extracting a portion of the data for display from the data, also obtained by the data retrieval method with.
[0048]
Specifically, the data in the database is Japanese character data, and each of the plurality of buttons is associated with one of 50 sound lines, and is pressed in the search condition generation step. A first search condition for designating a line of 50 sounds associated with a single button and a second search condition for designating an nth column of 50 sounds specified by the number of times of pressing n, and generating the search In the step, data in which the first character matches one sound specified by the first search condition and the second search condition is extracted from the data in the database, or the data in the database is Japanese character data, wherein each of the plurality of buttons is associated with at least one of a line of 50 sounds and an integer value n of 1 to 5 In the search condition generation step, the first search condition for designating a line of 50 sounds associated with the button pressed for the first time and the adjustment for the button pressed for the second time. A second search condition designating the nth column indicated by the numerical value is generated, and in the search step, one sound specified by the first search condition and the second search condition is determined from the data in the database. It is assumed that data whose head character matches is extracted. In this case, the user can specify the “row” and “column” of the 50 sounds to which the sound of the first character of the desired data belongs with a simple button operation, and the first character is a specific one of the 50 sounds. The display target can be narrowed down to certain data.
[0049]
The various effects described above can also be obtained by a mobile phone terminal that implements the data search method as described above.
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FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the appearance of a mobile phone terminal that implements a method that is an embodiment of a data search method according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of a mobile phone terminal according to the embodiment.
FIG. 3 is an image diagram showing an example of the configuration and contents of a database in the form of a table in the embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation at the time of data search / display processing of the mobile phone terminal according to the embodiment;
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Mobile phone terminal
11 Display
12 Numeric key buttons
13 Database
14 Input reception part
15 judgment part
16 DB management department
17 Display Management Department

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  A data search method for narrowing down data to be displayed in response to a user operation when displaying data in a database provided in the mobile phone terminal on a display screen of a mobile phone terminal having a plurality of buttons,
  Accepting the user operation in the form of two button presses;
  A determination step of determining the two button presses as data search instructions when the last button press time length exceeds a predetermined time length in the accepting step;
  A search condition generation step for generating a search condition based on the button pressed at each of the two button presses determined as the data search instruction in the determination step;
  According to the search condition generated in the search condition generation step, a search step of extracting a part of data from the data in the database as a display target,
  The data in the database is Japanese character data,
  Each of the plurality of buttons is associated with at least one of a row of 50 sounds and an integer value n,
  In the search condition generation step, a first search condition that specifies a line of 50 sounds associated with the button pressed first time and an integer value n associated with the button pressed second time are divided. A second search condition for the number of groups is generated,
  In the search step, data corresponding to the first character in the line specified by the first search condition is first selected from the data in the database, and then divided into n groups, of which the nth group That data belonging to is extracted for display,
A data search method characterized by   A data search method for narrowing down data to be displayed in response to a user operation when displaying data in a database provided in the mobile phone terminal on a display screen of a mobile phone terminal having a plurality of buttons,
  Accepting the user operation in the form of three button presses;
  A determination step of determining that the three button presses are data search instructions when the time length of the last button press exceeds a predetermined time length in the receiving step;
  A search condition generation step for generating a search condition based on the button pressed at each of the three button presses determined as the data search instruction in the determination step;
  According to the search condition generated in the search condition generation step, a search step of extracting a part of data from the data in the database as a display target,
  The data in the database is Japanese character data,
  Each of the plurality of buttons is associated with at least one of a row of 50 sounds and an integer value,
  In the search condition generation step, a first search condition that specifies a line of 50 sounds associated with the button pressed first time and an integer value n associated with the button pressed second time are divided. A second search condition that sets the number of groups and a third search condition that uses the integer value m associated with the button pressed for the third time as the selected group number are generated.
  In the search step, first, data corresponding to the first character in the line specified by the first search condition is selected from the data in the database, and then divided into n groups, of which the mth group That data belonging to is extracted for display,
A data search method characterized by   A data search method for narrowing down data to be displayed in response to a user operation when displaying data in a database provided in the mobile phone terminal on a display screen of a mobile phone terminal having a plurality of buttons,
  Accepting the user operation in the form of two button presses;
  If the time length of the last button press exceeds the predetermined time length in the reception step, A determination step of determining two button presses as a data search instruction;
  A search condition generation step for generating a search condition based on the button pressed at each of the two button presses determined as the data search instruction in the determination step;
  According to the search condition generated in the search condition generation step, a search step of extracting a part of data from the data in the database as a display target,
  Each of the plurality of buttons is associated with an integer value,
  In the search condition generation step, a first search condition having an integer value n associated with the first pressed button as the number of divided groups and an integer value m associated with the second pressed button And a second search condition having a selected group number as
  In the search step, first, data in the database is divided into n groups, of which data belonging to the mth group is extracted as a display target.
A data search method characterized by   A mobile phone terminal provided with a plurality of buttons, wherein when displaying data in a database provided in the mobile phone terminal on a display screen, the mobile phone terminal narrows down data to be displayed according to a user operation,
  Accepting means for accepting the user operation in the form of two button presses;
  A determination unit that determines that the two button presses are data search instructions when the time length of the last button press received by the receiving unit exceeds a predetermined time length;
  Search condition generation means for generating a search condition based on a button pressed at each time of two button presses determined as a data search instruction by the determination means;
  In accordance with the search condition generated by the search condition generation means, the search means for extracting a part of the data from the data in the database as a display target,
  The data in the database is Japanese character data,
  Each of the plurality of buttons is associated with at least one of a row of 50 sounds and an integer value n,
  The search condition generation means divides the first search condition for designating a line of 50 sounds associated with the button pressed first time and the integer value n associated with the button pressed second time. A second search condition for the number of groups is generated,
  The search means first selects from the data in the database the data whose head character corresponds to the line specified by the first search condition, and then divides the data into n groups, and belongs to the nth group. Extracting data for display,
A mobile phone terminal characterized by.   A mobile phone terminal provided with a plurality of buttons, wherein when displaying data in a database provided in the mobile phone terminal on a display screen, the mobile phone terminal narrows down data to be displayed according to a user operation,
  Accepting means for accepting the user operation in the form of three button presses;
  A determination unit that determines that the three button presses are data search instructions when the time length of the last button press received by the receiving unit exceeds a predetermined time length;
  Search condition generation means for generating a search condition based on the button pressed at each of the three button presses determined as the data search instruction by the determination means;
  In accordance with the search condition generated by the search condition generation means, the search means for extracting a part of the data from the data in the database as a display target,
  The data in the database is Japanese character data,
  Each of the plurality of buttons is associated with at least one of a row of 50 sounds and an integer value,
  The search condition generation means divides the first search condition for designating a line of 50 sounds associated with the button pressed first time and the integer value n associated with the button pressed second time. Integer associated with the second search condition for the number of groups and the button pressed for the third time A third search condition having a value m as the selected group number is generated;
  The search means first selects from the data in the database the data whose head character corresponds to the line specified by the first search condition, and divides it into n groups, of which the m belongs to the mth group. Extracting data for display,
A mobile phone terminal characterized by.   A mobile phone terminal provided with a plurality of buttons, wherein when displaying data in a database provided in the mobile phone terminal on a display screen, the mobile phone terminal narrows down data to be displayed according to a user operation,
  Accepting means for accepting the user operation in the form of two button presses;
  A determination unit that determines that the two button presses are data search instructions when the time length of the last button press received by the receiving unit exceeds a predetermined time length;
  Search condition generation means for generating a search condition based on a button pressed at each time of two button presses determined as a data search instruction by the determination means;
  In accordance with the search condition generated by the search condition generation means, the search means for extracting a part of the data from the data in the database as a display target,
  Each of the plurality of buttons is associated with an integer value,
  In the search condition generation means, a first search condition having an integer value n associated with the button pressed first time as the number of divided groups and an integer value m associated with the button pressed second time. And a second search condition having a selected group number as
  The search means first divides the data in the database into n groups, of which data belonging to the mth group is extracted as a display target,
A mobile phone terminal characterized by.

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