KR100617756B1 - Method for displaying status information in wireless terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

A method of displaying a state of a mobile terminal having a character memory for storing character information indicating events generated is to analyze a type of the generated event when an event occurs, and if the generated event is a pop-up window notification event, the character memory. Accessing a pop-up window in which a character is displayed in the step of displaying notification information of the generated event on the pop-up window; and if the generated event is an operation event of a mobile terminal, a character corresponding to the generated event in the character memory. After accessing and characterized in that the process consisting of displaying with the generated event information.

Character, Avatar, Event, Handset

Description

How to Display Status Information of a Mobile Device {METHOD FOR DISPLAYING STATUS INFORMATION IN WIRELESS TERMINAL}             

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a mobile terminal displaying an avatar event according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of displaying an event generated in a mobile terminal as an avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of setting an avatar notification function in FIG.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of processing an event generated when an event occurs in FIG. 2 as an avatar event.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of analyzing the contents of a text message when displaying a text message and displaying the text message together with the avatar in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of analyzing and displaying an alarm / schedule event together with an avatar when an alarm / schedule event occurs in FIG. 4.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of displaying an event generated when an pop-up window event occurs in the avatar pop-up window in FIG. 4.

8A to 8E are diagrams illustrating an example of displaying a processing result for each event with an avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

9A and 9E illustrate examples of displaying a text message together with an avatar according to the contents of the text message during text message processing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

10A to 10E illustrate an example of a screen displaying an alarm / schedule event together with an avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

11A and 11C illustrate examples of displaying a notification event on a popup window in which an avatar is displayed when an event occurs.

12A and 12B illustrate an example of a screen displayed when a user requests setting of an avatar notification function for events of a mobile terminal.

The present invention relates to a method of displaying status information of a portable terminal, and more particularly, to a method of displaying an event of a portable terminal together with a character image.

Currently, portable terminals have been added with various functions in addition to telephone functions. Therefore, the events that can be processed in the portable terminal is also becoming more and more diverse. The events of the mobile terminal may include events related to communication, events related to system notifications, events related to messages, events related to processing multimedia data, events according to a user's setting, and events not checked by a user. It has a function to display. For example, the communication related events may be call events related to an incoming and outgoing call. The system notification events are events related to the state of the mobile terminal, and may be events indicating a result guide due to a low battery, an inaccessible area, system setting, and the like.

In the event of displaying such an event of the portable terminal, the events are currently displayed on the display unit by text or the result is informed through a speaker and a display element. However, current terminals can display the events in various ways. That is, the occurrence of the event of the portable terminal can be effectively informed to the user through the display unit and the voice conversion unit. Among the display methods described above, using the method of displaying the event occurrence of the portable terminal as an avatar animation, the display effect of the portable terminal can be further increased.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for displaying a result of processing an event generated when an event occurs in a mobile terminal together with a character.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method that includes characters according to events and displays a character corresponding to the generated event together with an event processing result when the event occurs in the mobile terminal.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a method for displaying a pop-up window including a character when a notification event occurs in a mobile terminal and displaying event information on the pop-up window.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION A detailed description of preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the same components in the figures represent the same numerals wherever possible.

In the following description, specific details of the event type of the mobile terminal and thus the avatar responses expressed are presented to provide a more general understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention may be readily practiced without these specific details and also by their modifications.

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, which may be a configuration of a mobile telephone.

Referring to FIG. 1, the RF unit 123 performs a wireless communication function of the portable telephone. The RF unit 123 includes an RF transmitter for upconverting and amplifying a frequency of a transmitted signal, and an RF receiver for low noise amplifying and downconverting a received signal. The data processor 120 includes a transmitter for encoding and modulating the transmitted signal and a receiver for demodulating and decoding the received signal. That is, the data processor 120 may include a modem and a codec. The voice processor 125 converts the text data output from the controller 110 into a voice signal.                     

The key input unit 141 includes keys for inputting numeric and character information and function keys for setting various functions.

The memory 130 may be composed of a program memory and a data memory. The program memory stores programs for processing call processing and the like of the portable telephone and programs for controlling the reaction of the avatar according to events generated according to an embodiment of the present invention. The data memory temporarily stores data generated while executing the programs. In addition, the data memory has a character memory for displaying a character according to each event according to an embodiment of the present invention. The character memory may operate as a file system, and may have an index of a memory (or file system) for each character. In addition, the character memory may be configured in various forms that can perform operations, facial expressions, and object expressions, which are detailed character elements. That is, the character information stored in the character memory may be stored for each type capable of performing a character reaction. In an embodiment of the present invention, it is assumed that the character is an avatar. In the following description, the character is referred to as an avatar.

The controller 110 controls a general operation of the mobile terminal. In addition, the controller 110 may include the data processor 20. That is, in the case of a mobile phone, the controller 110, the data processor 123 and the voice processor 125 may be an MSM chip integrated into one chip. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the controller 110 controls an operation of displaying a corresponding avatar image together with an event processing result in the avatar memory of the memory 130 according to an event generated in the portable terminal.

The display unit 143 displays the state of the mobile terminal under the control of the controller 110. The display unit 160 may use an LCD. In this case, the display unit 143 may include an LCD controller, a memory capable of storing display data, an LCD display device, and the like. In this case, when the LCD is implemented using a touch screen method, the LCD may operate as an input unit.

Referring to FIG. 1, when power is supplied to the portable terminal, the controller 110 displays the corresponding event on the display unit 143 whenever an event occurs while controlling the operation of the portable terminal. At this time, the event is power on / off of the mobile terminal, notification of the pop-up window. Incoming and outgoing, text message incoming and outgoing, alarm can be set and released. When the event occurs as described above, the controller 110 processes the corresponding event and displays the result on the display unit 143 using the avatar corresponding to the corresponding event. In an embodiment of the present invention, the avatar expression may be displayed as an avatar animation or an avatar still image when the event occurs.

Among the events of the mobile terminal, the operation according to the outgoing and incoming call service and the text message incoming and outgoing event will be described.

First, when a user makes an outgoing call, the control unit 110 detects that the outgoing call and accesses the avatar corresponding to the outgoing call event in the avatar memory of the memory 130 to display on the display unit 143. Then, when the user performs a dialing operation through the key input unit 141, the control unit 110 detects this, processes the dial information received through the data processing unit 120, and converts the RF signal into an RF signal through the RF unit 123. When the other subscriber responds, the RF unit 123 and the data processor 120 detect this. Then, the control unit 110 forms a communication path composed of the RF unit 123 and the data processing unit 120 to perform a communication function. In addition, when an incoming call occurs, the controller 10 detects an incoming request through the data processor 120, and also accesses the avatar image according to the incoming call from the avatar memory of the memory 130 and displays the displayed call on the display unit 143 to alert the incoming call. . When the call key is pressed while the incoming call is generated, the controller 110 services the incoming call.

In addition, when the transmitting function of the text message is selected in the mobile terminal of the transmitting side, the controller 110 generates the input data as a text message, and when the user requests transmission, the generated text message is a data processor 120 and an RF unit 123. Send it through. In this case, in the method of transmitting the text message, if the dialing number or email ID of the receiving subscriber is dialed after the text message is written, the controller 110 detects this and controls the transmission of the written message.

In addition, when an incoming text message is generated, the controller 110 analyzes the received text message and displays an avatar image according to the content of the text message. That is, when the text message is received, the controller 110 analyzes a word or special characters representing emotions included in the received text message, and accesses an avatar image representing a corresponding emotion based on the analysis result to receive the received text message. Display with message. In an embodiment of the present invention, the text message includes a short message service (SMS), a multi-mail service (MMS), and an e-mail message service (EMS). In addition, the text message will be described as including all messages that can be expressed using the text in the mobile terminal.

In addition, the text data for controlling the response of the avatar using the text message according to an embodiment of the present invention may be words that can perform the reaction of the avatar and the emoticons that are promised special symbol characters. The emoticons and words which are text data for controlling the avatar reaction should be registered in advance in the avatar memory of the memory 130. That is, the avatar memory of the memory 130 may operate as a file system, and may have an index of a memory (or file system) for each avatar. In addition, the avatar memory may be configured in various forms that can perform actions, facial expressions, and object expressions, which are avatar detailed components, according to each event. That is, avatar information stored in the avatar memory may be stored for each type capable of performing an avatar reaction. The avatar memory should register emoticons and emotion words that can express the avatar emotion by analyzing the text data constituting the text message. Character data that can express emotions using the avatar in the text message may be configured as shown in Table 1 below.                     

A detailed operation of displaying an avatar according to each event in a mobile terminal having the above configuration will be described.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of expressing state information of a mobile terminal as an avatar for each event in the mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for performing an avatar notification function, wherein the avatar notification refers to a function of informing the avatar of various events occurring on the mobile terminal. The avatar event notification function is performed by an avatar image or an avatar animation corresponding to each event, and the avatar image or avatar animation according to each event is stored in the avatar memory of the memory 130.

8A and 8E illustrate examples of displaying an occurrence of each event with an avatar in the mobile terminal, and FIG. 8A illustrates an example of displaying an event displayed when the mobile terminal is turned on / off with the avatar. FIG. 8B illustrates an example of displaying a text message incoming event with an avatar, and FIG. 8C illustrates an example of displaying a morning call, alarm, and schedule event together with the avatar. 8D illustrates an example of displaying a call incoming and outgoing event together with an avatar, and FIG. 8E illustrates an example of displaying a popup window notification event of a mobile terminal together with an avatar.

9A to 9E are diagrams illustrating an example of displaying an avatar representing an emotion according to an analysis result along with a text message after analyzing text data representing emotions included in the text message upon receiving the text message. FIG. 9A illustrates an example of an avatar text message when the text message is happy, and FIG. 9B illustrates an example of an avatar text message when the text message is shameful. 9C shows an example of an avatar text message when the text message indicates sadness, FIG. 9D shows an example of an avatar text message when the text message indicates embarrassment, and FIG. 9E An example of an avatar text message is shown when the text message is content indicating that the text message is angry.

8A and 8E illustrate examples of displaying an occurrence of each event together with an avatar in the mobile terminal, and FIG. 8A illustrates an example of displaying an event displayed when the mobile terminal is turned on and off together with the avatar. FIG. 8B illustrates an example of displaying a text message incoming event with an avatar, and FIG. 8C illustrates an example of displaying a morning call, alarm, and schedule event together with the avatar. 8D illustrates an example of displaying a call incoming and outgoing event together with an avatar, and FIG. 8E illustrates an example of displaying a popup window notification event of a mobile terminal together with an avatar.

9A to 9E are diagrams illustrating an example of displaying an avatar representing an emotion according to an analysis result along with a text message after analyzing text data representing emotions included in the text message upon receiving the text message. FIG. 9A illustrates an example of an avatar text message when the text message is happy, and FIG. 9B illustrates an example of an avatar text message when the text message is shameful. 9C shows an example of an avatar text message when the text message indicates sadness, FIG. 9D shows an example of an avatar text message when the text message indicates embarrassment, and FIG. 9E An example of an avatar text message is shown when the text message is content indicating that the text message is angry.

10A to 10E illustrate an example of displaying an alarm / schedule event together with an avatar. 10A is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying an avatar alarm, FIG. 10B is a diagram for displaying an avatar morning call event with an avatar, and FIGS. 10C to 10E are diagrams for displaying an anniversary event together with an avatar.

11A and 11C illustrate examples of displaying a notification event on a popup window in which an avatar is displayed when an event occurs.

Referring to FIG. 2, when the user turns on the mobile terminal, the controller 110 detects a power-on state in step 211, and checks whether an avatar notification function for the power-on event is set in step 213. Here, the avatar notification function refers to a function of displaying an event generated when an event of the portable terminal is generated together with the avatar, and may set an avatar notification function in a menu setting process. The display of the avatar notification function may simultaneously display the behavior of the avatar and the state information of the corresponding event.

In this case, when the avatar notification function is not set, each event service of the mobile terminal is performed by the existing method.

However, if it is detected in step 213 that the avatar notification function is set, the control unit 110 detects this in step 213, and in step 215 accesses the avatar image according to the power-on event in the avatar memory of the memory 130 as shown in FIG. 8A. The power-on event is displayed on the display unit 143 together with the avatar.

After that, the controller 110 performs a standby state in step 217. Here, the standby state means a state in which the portable terminal does not perform any event. If an event occurs in the standby state as described above, the controller 110 detects it in step 219 and processes the event generated in step 221. In this case, if the generated event is an event for which the avatar notification function is set, the event processing result is displayed on the display unit 143 together with the avatar. If the avatar notification function is not set, the event is processed in a conventional manner. Here, the event is automatically received from the system according to incoming / outgoing calls, sending and receiving text messages, checking the status required by the user (eg, missed calls, incoming calls, etc.), set alarm operation, and mobile terminal status. This can be a notification system notification event. In addition, when an event, that is, a notification event, is generated among the events in the standby state, that is, a notification event occurs, the controller 110 checks this in step 221 and displays the corresponding avatar action along with the status information of the corresponding event. Mark at 143.

If a power-off command is generated by the user while the operation of displaying an event is generated by the avatar notification function, the controller 110 detects this in step 227 and checks whether the avatar notification function is set in step 225. If the avatar notification function is set, the control unit 110 accesses the avatar information as shown in FIG. 8A in step 231, and then displays the avatar action as shown in FIG. 8A together with the power-off state information on the display unit 143. The power of the portable terminal is turned off.

In addition, when the user requests setting of the avatar notification function in the standby state, the controller 110 detects this in step 223 and sets an avatar notification function for events of the mobile terminal selected by the user in step 225. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of setting an avatar notification function for events of a mobile terminal in step 225 of FIG. 2. 12A and 12B illustrate examples of screens displayed when a user requests setting of an avatar notification function for events of a mobile terminal.

Referring to FIG. 3, when the user selects an environment setting on a menu as shown in FIG. 12A, the controller 110 detects this as a request for setting an avatar notification function, and displays events that can be set in the avatar notification function in step 311. It is displayed as 12b. In the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 12B, it is assumed that the events capable of the avatar notification function are text message notification, alarm / schedule notification, incoming / outgoing call notification, power on / off notification, and pop-up window notification events. In addition, the user may select the avatar notification function for each event by collectively selecting or individually selecting the screens as shown in FIG. 12B. In this case, when the batch selection is made, the controller 110 selects the avatar notification function for all events while performing steps 313 to 331 of FIG. 3, and sets the avatar notification function for the selected event in case of individual selection. do.

When the text message notification function is selected, the control unit 110 detects this in step 313 and sets the text message incoming notification function and the avatar text message function in step 315. In this case, when the text message is received, the text incoming event is displayed with the avatar, and the text message is displayed with the avatar according to the analyzed content by analyzing the contents of the text message.

In addition, if an alarm / schedule notification function is selected, the controller 110 detects this in step 317 and sets an alarm / schedule function in step 319. Here, the alarm / schedule function includes an alarm, a wake-up call, a schedule, and an anniversary event. The alarm is a function of setting at least one alarm to sound at a specific time. The alarm setting sets an alarm time, an alarm interval, and alarm bells / melody. Morning call (morning call) is a function to set the morning call to ring every morning or weekday morning, the alarm sounds at the set time even if the manner function or the ringtone is set to vibrate and silent. The wake-up call setting sets an alarm time, an alarm interval, and alarm bells / melody. Schedule is a function that displays the schedule information registered with the alarm when the time of the specified date comes. The schedule setting sets date and time, schedule information, and alarm bells / melody.

Anniversary event is a function for displaying an avatar and a text message corresponding to the anniversary registered in the mobile terminal. The anniversary event may be registered when the portable terminal is manufactured, or may be registered in the schedule event. The procedure for registering an anniversary event in the schedule event will be described. In general, anniversaries are common holidays around the world (for example, January 1, workers' day, Christmas, etc.), national holidays and national holidays set for each country (in Korea, 3 Days, Constitution Day, Liberation Day, National Day, Children's Day). , Memorial days, etc.) and personal anniversaries (family birthdays, wedding anniversary, etc.). At this time, the anniversary can be registered as an anniversary when the schedule event registration. In this case, the portable terminal may store avatar images and texts for the memorials in the memory 130 and select the desired avatar images and texts in the schedule event registration process and register them as the memorial days. In addition, in the process of registering the schedule event, the avatar image may be selected, and then text may be registered as an anniversary.

When the call alert notification function is selected, the controller 110 detects this at step 321 and sets the call alert notification function at step 323. The incoming / outgoing call notification function displays the incoming / outgoing information together with the avatar on the display unit 143 when making or receiving a call.

When the power on / off notification function is selected, the controller 110 detects this in step 325 and sets the power on / off notification function in step 327. As described above, the power on / off notification function displays a power on / off state together with the avatar when the mobile terminal is powered on or powered off.

In addition, when the pop-up window notification function is selected, the controller 110 detects it in step 329 and sets the pop-up window notification function in step 331. The pop-up window notification function displays a pop-up window in which the avatar is displayed when the system notification function of the mobile terminal or the user requests help, on the display unit 143, and displays the text related to the notification event or the avatar in the pop-up window. The system notification function may be a low battery alarm, a call break, a function of setting or releasing a function of a mobile terminal. Also, the help function is an avatar or system related help function, such as avatar system, avatar system on / off, avatar text message, avatar change, avatar emotion, avatar house setting, avatar house decorating, detail function setting, gifting an avatar with IrDA, etc. Have relevant tips. The help list is displayed on a menu, and when a specific help list is selected on the menu, the controller 110 displays a popup window displaying an avatar and displays the help of the selected list inside the popup window.                     

As described above, the user may set the avatar notification function while using the mobile terminal, and may individually or globally select the avatar notification function.

When the avatar notification function is selected as described above, when the event occurs, the mobile terminal detects the event at step 219 and processes the generated event as shown in FIG. 4 at step 221. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an event processing procedure of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the embodiment of the present invention will be described on the assumption that the event to service the avatar notification function is a text message reception, alarm / schedule event, communication event, pop-up window notification event, in addition to these events other events such as missed call event The avatar notification service may also be performed.

Referring to FIG. 4, first, when the incoming text message is generated, the controller 110 detects the incoming of the text message in step 411 and processes the text message received in step 413 and simultaneously displays a display command included in the text message. (Ie words or special characters expressing emotions) are analyzed, and the corresponding avatar image is displayed along with the text message according to the analysis result. In an embodiment of the present invention, the text message includes a short message service (SMS), an e-mail message service (EMS), and a multi-mail service (MMS) as described above. In addition, the text message will be described as including all messages that can be expressed using the text in the mobile terminal.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the display command in the text message (that is, the text data expressing emotions using the avatar) may be words capable of performing the response of the avatars and the avatars, which are special symbol characters promised. have. Avatar images for controlling the avatar response are stored in advance in the avatar memory of the memory 130, and the display command words (emoticons and words) are also displayed in the memory 130 as shown in <Table 1>. It must be registered in memory beforehand. That is, the avatar memory and the display command memory of the memory 130 may operate as a file system, and may have an index of a memory (or file system) for each avatar. In addition, the avatar memory may be configured in various forms that can perform actions, facial expressions, and object expressions, which are avatar detailed components, according to each event. That is, avatar information stored in the avatar memory may be stored for each type capable of performing an avatar reaction. The avatar memory should register emoticons and emotion words that can express the avatar emotion by analyzing the text data constituting the text message. Display commands for expressing emotions using the avatar in the text message may be configured as shown in Table 1 below.

In the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in Table 1, a plurality of types of emotions for expressing emotions for text messages are defined and used. In general, the expression of emotion can be expressed as hee, no, love and rock. In the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in Table 1, the type of emotion that can be expressed through the text message is assumed to be pleasure, shyness, anger, embarrassment, and sadness. 9A and 9E are examples of avatar images corresponding to display commands of emotion expressions as shown in Table 1, and are stored in the avatar memory of the memory 130. In addition, the avatar images as shown in FIGS. 9A to 9E may be displayed as an image or a plurality of avatar images. In addition, the display commands as shown in Table 1 are stored in the display command memory of the memory 130 as described above, and operate as a command for determining selection of avatar images as shown in FIGS. 9A to 9E.

Therefore, in the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is assumed that the five emotional expressions of the text message are as described above, and if the display instructions for displaying the five emotional expressions are set in advance as shown in Table 1, the mobile terminal may display the text message. Emotional expression can be displayed efficiently. That is, it is possible to simplify the avatar images and display commands that can express the emotion, it is possible to efficiently express the emotional message of the text message in the mobile terminal. In addition, emotion expression and display commands as shown in Table 1 may be added or deleted as necessary.

A detailed operation of displaying an avatar image along with a text message according to a display command included in a text message received by the portable terminal having the above configuration will be described. 5, when the controller 110 receives a text message from the mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention in step 413, the controller 110 analyzes a display command included in the text message and displays an avatar image against the display command along with the text message. It is a figure explaining the procedure to make.

Referring to FIG. 5, when a text message is received, the controller 110 checks whether an avatar notification function is set in step 511. If the avatar notification function is not set, the received text message in a general manner in step 521. Is displayed on the display unit 143.

However, when the avatar notification function is set, the controller 110 detects this in step 511, parses the character string of the text message in step 515, and analyzes and displays data included in the text message in step 515. Check for the presence of a command. In this case, the controller 110 first checks the format of the text data in the parsed text string. At this time, the format of the text data may be classified into general characters, avatar display characters, and emoticons. The avatar display character and the emoticon may be display commands indicating an emotional expression as shown in Table 7 stored in the avatar memory of the memory 130. Accordingly, the control unit 110 parses the received text message string, and compares the parsed characters with words (character data) representing the emoticons or emotion expressions of the <Table 7>, and displays an expression command for expressing emotions. Determine whether or not. In this case, when it is determined that the character data does not express the emotion (that is, when the character data is character data not registered in the <Table 7>), the controller 110 displays the character data determined as the general character on the display unit 143. Process to be displayed as a character in.

However, if it is determined that the display command indicating the emotional expression, the control unit 110 determines the emotional expression of the display command. Here, as the emotional expression of the avatar according to the text data, in the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in Table 7, happy, shy, angry, embarrassed, sad ( sad), and the avatar's response, that is, the emotional expression, can be expanded as necessary.

In addition, when determining the content of the text message according to the emotional expression text data included in the text message, it can be expressed in various ways. The first method is to determine the content of the text message from the display instruction word determined by the first emotional expression word or emoticon present in the text message. The second method is to determine the content of the text message from the display instruction word determined by the emotional expression word or the emoticon of the last position present in the text message. Third, a method of determining the content of the text message as a display command of the emotional expression that includes the most among the words and emoticons of the emotional expression included in the text message. The fourth method is to determine the content of the text message from the emotional expression determined by the emoticon included in the text message. The fourth method above can be used when only one emoticon is used for the text message. Fifth, it is a method of determining the content of a text message using all of the words and emoticons of the emotional expression included in the text message. Sixth, a method of determining priority of emotional expressions, analyzing text data included in the text message, and then determining emotional expressions having high priority as contents of the text message.

In the above method, the first and second methods can be effectively used in the case of a promise. In other words, when a user of the calling mobile terminal sends a text message, the user expresses the text message in front of the message and inputs a display command at the beginning of the text message or inputs a display command at the end of the text message. Then, the mobile terminal user of the called party can check the emotional state of the calling user by looking at the avatar image displayed when the text message is received. In the third method, the controller 110 of the called mobile terminal checks all the display commands included in the text message, and then checks the largest number of display commands included in the text message, and the avatar image corresponding to the identified display commands. Can be accessed from the avatar memory and displayed in the text message.

The content of the text message may be determined according to the words and emoticons of the emotion expression included in the text message using one of the avatar emotion display methods. Therefore, the control unit 100 analyzes the content of the text message in the same manner as described above in step 515, and then checks whether there is a display command for expressing emotion in step 517, and if the display command exists, the six judgments as described above in step 519. After the content of the text message is determined by one of the methods, the avatar image corresponding to the determined display command is accessed from the avatar memory of the memory 130 and displayed together with the text message. In this case, the emotion expression of the avatar image corresponding to the display command is as shown in FIGS. 9A to 9E, and the control unit 110 corresponds to the avatar image corresponding to the display command to express the emotion as the avatar image in the display command included in the text message. Is displayed on the display unit 143.

Secondly, when an alarm / schedule event occurs, the controller 110 detects it in step 415 of FIG. 4 and processes the generated alarm / schedule event in step 417. FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an alarm / scheduled event processing procedure of step 417 of FIG. 4.

Referring to FIG. 6, when the time for setting the alarm / schedule event is reached, the controller 110 detects this in step 611, analyzes the set alarm / schedule event, and alarms it. The alarm / schedule event may include an event such as an alarm, a wake-up call, a schedule, and an anniversary. In the alarm schedule event as described above, an alarm and a wake-up call may be an event requiring a periodic alarm, and the schedule and anniversary event may be an event where an alarm is generated at a specific time of a specific day. The procedure of registering the alarm / scheduling event is as described in FIG. 3, and the anniversary event can be set at the time of manufacture of the portable terminal, and a desired anniversary can be registered if necessary.

First, when the set time is reached, the controller 110 detects this in step 611 and checks the registered alarm / schedule event. First, if it is an alarm event, the controller 110 detects it in step 613 and analyzes the alarm event registered in step 615 to determine the registered bell / melody and avatar image, and then outputs the avatar and bell / melody determined in step 617 to output the alarm event. To process At this time, the alarm event displayed on the display unit 143 is the same as FIG. 10A. In the second wake-up call event, the control unit 110 detects this in step 619 and analyzes the wake-up call event registered in step 621. After determining the registered bell / melody and avatar image, the controller 110 outputs the avatar and bell / melody determined in step 623. Process this event. In this case, the morning call event displayed on the display unit 143 is as shown in FIG. 10B. Thirdly, if it is a schedule event, the control unit 110 detects it in step 625 and analyzes the registered schedule event in step 627 to determine the registered text data, bell / melody and avatar image, and then in step 629, the determined avatar and text data. And outputs a bell / melody to process the wake-up call event. In this case, the schedule text data may be text information such as an appointment date, time, place, and purpose. If it is the fourth anniversary event, the controller 110 detects this in step 631, analyzes the anniversary in step 633, determines the avatar image and the text data, and processes the anniversary event in step 635 by displaying the avatar and the anniversary information. At this time, the anniversary event displayed on the display unit 143 is the same as FIG. 10C to FIG. 10E. 10C illustrates an example of a New Year (January 1) anniversary event, FIG. 10D illustrates an employee's day anniversary event, and FIG. 10E illustrates an example of a Christmas anniversary event.

However, if the avatar notification function is not set when the alarm / schedule event occurs, the controller 110 detects this in step 641 and processes the generated alarm / schedule event in the existing method in step 643. In this case, the avatar image is not displayed when the alarm / schedule event is processed.

When the alarm / schedule event occurs as described above, the controller 110 checks the alarm / schedule event set at the corresponding time, and then displays the avatar image or avatar animation according to the checked alarm / schedule event in the avatar memory of the memory 130. And status information indicating the occurrence of the alarm / scheduling event together with the avatar on the display unit 143.

Third, when a communication event occurs, the controller 110 detects this in step 419 of FIG. 4 and checks whether an avatar notification function is set in step 421. In this case, if the avatar notification function is not set, the controller 110 proceeds to step 425 to perform a communication service function by an existing method. However, when the avatar notification function is set, the control unit 110 detects this in step 421 and displays the avatar and communication information set for the communication event generated as shown in FIG. 8D in step 423, and the generated communication event in step 425. To process

That is, when the communication event occurs, the controller 110 detects this in step 419 and if the avatar notification function is set, in step 423 accesses the communication event avatar image or avatar animation in the avatar memory of the memory 130, and accesses the access event. The avatar image and the state information of the communication event are displayed on the display unit 143 that the communication event has occurred. In this case, after the incoming call alert sounds through the speaker when the incoming call is received, the avatar image and the status information according to the incoming event are displayed on the display unit 143 when the user opens the folder. That is, when the communication event occurs, the controller 110 accesses the avatar image or the avatar animation as shown in FIG. 8D from the avatar memory of the memory 130 and displays it on the display unit 143 together with status information indicating the occurrence of the communication event. do.

Fourth, when the pop-up window event occurs, the controller 110 detects it in step 427 of FIG. 4 and processes the pop-up window event generated in step 429. In an embodiment of the present invention, the pop-up window notification event refers to a system notification event and a help event. The system notification event is an event that is generated by the portable terminal itself, an event that the portable terminal analyzes the state of the system to perform the notification function by itself or an arbitrary function of the system and displays the result on the display unit 143. I mean. Examples of the system notification event may be an event of alerting that the battery is low, or of an incommunication state when the mobile terminal enters an uncommunicable area. In addition, the help event refers to an event generated when a user selects help on a function of the mobile terminal. When the user selects a function description of a system on a menu, the help event refers to events that display a description of the corresponding function. . When the avatar notification function is selected, the system notification function is displayed by using a popup window in which an avatar is displayed, which will be referred to as a popup window event. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a pop-up window event processing procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, when a pop-up window event occurs, the controller 110 determines whether an avatar notification function is set in step 707. In this case, when the avatar notification function is not set, the controller 110 proceeds to step 709 to process the system notification event by the existing method. However, if the avatar notification function is set, it detects it in step 707 and services the generated pop-up window event. If the pop-up window service is a help event, the controller 110 detects this in step 711, analyzes the selected help function in step 713, and displays a pop-up window of the selected function in step 715. Here, the popup window includes a set avatar. In step 717, the control unit 110 displays the selected help data in the pop-up window. Here, the help function may provide help of functions such as an avatar system, an avatar text message, a character change, an avatar emotion, an avatar house setting, an avatar house decorating, and a gift. FIG. 11C illustrates an example of displaying a help for an avatar system in a pop-up window event in the help function.

In addition, if the pop-up window service is a system notification event, the controller 110 detects it in step 719, analyzes the generated event in step 721, and displays a pop-up window for notifying the generated event in step 723. Here again, the popup window includes a set avatar. In operation 725, the controller 110 displays data of the generated system notification event in the pop-up window. In this case, the system notification event may be an event for a state of a mobile terminal (eg, low battery, a call failure state, a text message reception, etc.) and an event for displaying a result after performing a function of the mobile terminal (program and data of Download, register data in the phonebook, select the avatar in the avatar system, and the like. FIG. 11A illustrates an example of a pop-up window event in which a user displays a result after checking a received message, and FIG. 11B illustrates an example of a pop-up window event in which a result is displayed after a user selects an avatar from a mobile terminal. In this case, the avatar displayed on the popup window when the popup window event is processed may include two types of popup windows, a positive avatar and a negative avatar. That is, when the system event is generated as a negative result, a popup window including an avatar having a negative emotional expression is displayed as shown in FIG. 11A, and when the system event is generated as a positive result, an avatar having a positive emotional expression as shown in FIG. 11B is displayed. You can display a pop-up window that includes.

In addition, specific events among specific system events among the pop-up window events may be displayed in a different form from the pop-up window. For example, an event that checks for an incoming call This refers to an event for checking incoming call information when the user is not available or cannot answer the call. The missed call confirmation event may be applied to an incoming text message not confirmed other than the missed call. When the user issues a missed call confirmation request command, the controller 110 detects that a missed call confirmation event has occurred and checks the number of missed incoming calls in the memory 130. Thereafter, the controller 110 accesses an avatar image or an animation according to the missed incoming call event in the avatar memory of the memory 130, and displays state information including the number of missed incoming calls along with the accessed avatar information on the display unit 143. That is, when the missed confirmation call event occurs, the controller 110 checks the number of missed calls, accesses avatar information from the avatar memory, and displays the missed calls on the display unit 143 together with the number of missed calls.

In addition, when other events occur in addition to the above events, the control unit 110 detects them in step 351 and accesses the avatar image or animation according to the corresponding notification event in step 361 to display the display unit together with the status information of the corresponding event. Mark on. In this case, when the notification event occurs in step 351, when an event that cannot be represented by the avatar image or the avatar animation occurs, the occurrence of the corresponding event is indicated by the existing event display method.

As described above, when the notification event occurs in the mobile terminal, the corresponding avatar image or avatar animation registered in the avatar memory may be displayed together with the event status information. In the above process, the description has been focused on the operation of the mobile terminal, but the avatar image or the avatar animation can be expressed in the same way for the multimedia operation currently processed in the mobile terminal. That is, in the case of a mobile terminal having a camera, the operation modes thereof may be displayed together with an image or animation of an avatar while performing a camera photographing mode, a playback mode, a transmission mode, and a storage mode. In addition, in the case of a mobile terminal having a satellite broadcast receiver, each operation mode may be displayed together with an avatar animation or an avatar image in a channel tuning mode, a playback mode, a recording mode, and the like.

In addition, in the case of a mobile terminal having the multimedia function, when storing or transmitting multimedia data, the avatar image or animation data may be overlaid and stored or transmitted.

As described above, an avatar memory for storing avatar image or animation data corresponding to each event of the portable terminal, and when the event occurs in the portable terminal, access the avatar image or animation data corresponding to the status information of the generated event. Can be displayed together. In addition, by expressing the event occurrence as an avatar as described above, the event occurrence of the portable terminal can be variously represented visually, and thus, there is an advantage in that the event display operation of the portable terminal can be efficiently performed.

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Claims [1] A status display method of a portable terminal having a character memory for storing character information indicating events generated. Analyzing the type of the generated event when an event occurs; If the generated event is a notification event, accessing a pop-up window displaying a character in the character memory, and displaying notification information of the generated event on the pop-up window; And if the generated event is an operation event of the mobile terminal, accessing a character corresponding to the generated event in the character memory and displaying the generated event information together with the generated event information. The method of claim 1, wherein the character is an avatar, and the character memory is an avatar memory that stores avatar images corresponding to the events. The process of claim 2, wherein the processing of the pop-up window notification event comprises: Analyzing the generated pop-up window notification event; Accessing a pop-up window displaying an avatar from the avatar memory; And displaying the analyzed notification event in a pop-up window in which the avatar is displayed. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the pop-up window notification event is a system notification event related to a state of a mobile terminal. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the pop-up window notification event is the help display event generated when a help function request of the mobile terminal is requested. The method of claim 3, wherein displaying the operation event comprises: Analyzing the emotion display command of the received text message if the generated event is a text message, accessing the avatar image corresponding to the analyzed display command from the avatar memory, and displaying the text message together with the text message; If the generated event is an alarm / schedule event, analyzing the generated alarm / schedule, accessing the avatar image according to the analyzed alarm / schedule in the avatar memory, and displaying the generated alarm / schedule information together with the alarm / schedule information; If the generated event is a communication event, analyzing the generated communication event and accessing the avatar image according to the analyzed communication event in the avatar memory to display the occurrence of the communication event together with the avatar image. The method characterized in that. The method of claim 6, wherein the processing of the reception event of the text message comprises: Comparing and analyzing the character strings of the received text message with the display commands in the display command memory storing display commands for determining emotion expressions of the characters; Selecting a display command included in the text message in the analyzing process; Accessing an avatar image performing an emotion expression corresponding to the selected display command word in the avatar memory storing avatars each having an emotion expression corresponding to the type of display command word and displaying the avatar image together with the received text message; Said method characterized by the above. The method of claim 7, wherein And said display command is an emoticon. The method of claim 8, wherein the selecting of the display instruction word comprises: The emoticon positioned at the end of the text message as a display command. The method of claim 9, The display command is divided into five groups of commands for displaying happiness, sadness, anger, embarrassment, and shame, and is stored in the display command word, and the avatar images are stored in the avatar memory in a number corresponding to the five emotion expressions. Saved, The displaying of the text message may include selecting and displaying an avatar image corresponding to the emotion of the selected display command. The method of claim 10, wherein displaying the text message comprises: And displaying the selected avatar image as an animation and displaying the text message as a balloon of the avatar image. The method of claim 10, wherein displaying the text message comprises: The text message is displayed as a balloon together with the avatar image. The method of claim 6, wherein processing the alarm / schedule event comprises: Analyzing alarm / scheduled events that occur at a set time; If the generated alarm / schedule event is an alarm event, accessing the avatar image corresponding to the alarm event from the avatar memory and displaying the alarm message together with an alarm message, and generating a preset alarm alarm sound; If the generated alarm / schedule event is a wake-up call event, accessing the avatar image corresponding to the wake-up call event from the avatar memory and displaying the wake-up call message, and generating a preset wake-up alert sound; If the generated alarm / schedule event is a schedule event, accessing the avatar image corresponding to the schedule event from the avatar memory and displaying the same with the schedule message, and generating an alarm sound set in the schedule event; If the generated alarm / schedule event is an anniversary event, the avatar image corresponding to the anniversary event is accessed from the avatar memory and displayed together with the anniversary message, and the alarm sound set in the anniversary event is generated. Said method. In the status display method of a mobile terminal having a character memory for storing characters for displaying the generated events, When a power on event occurs, accessing a character corresponding to the power on event in the character memory and displaying the same with a power on event, and then transitioning to a standby state; If the setting of the character notification function is required in the standby state, displaying the settable event list, and when the event list is selected, setting a character selected from the character memory as the selected event display character to set a character notification function; and, Analyzing the generated event when the event occurs in the standby state and accessing a character set in the character memory and displaying the generated event when the character notification function is set; And when a power off event occurs in the standby state, accessing a character corresponding to the power off event in the character memory, displaying the power off event together with the power off event, and then transitioning to an end state. 15. The method of claim 14, wherein the character is an avatar, and the character memory is an avatar memory that stores avatar images corresponding to the events. The method of claim 15, wherein the setting of the avatar notification function comprises: The text message receiving event, the alarm / schedule event, the communication event, the pop-up window notification events, characterized in that for setting the avatar notification function. The method of claim 16, wherein the processing of the event comprises: If the generated event is a pop-up window notification event, accessing a pop-up window in which a character is displayed in the character memory, and displaying notification information of the generated event on the pop-up window; Analyzing the emotion display command of the received text message if the generated event is a text message, accessing the avatar image corresponding to the analyzed display command from the avatar memory, and displaying the text message together with the text message; If the generated event is an alarm / schedule event, analyzing the generated alarm / schedule, accessing the avatar image according to the analyzed alarm / schedule in the avatar memory, and displaying the generated alarm / schedule information together with the alarm / schedule information; If the generated event is a communication event, analyzing the generated communication event and accessing the avatar image according to the analyzed communication event in the avatar memory to display the occurrence of the communication event together with the avatar image. Said method characterized by the above. A method of processing an alarm / schedule event in a portable terminal having a character memory for storing characters indicative of events that occur. Setting a character selected from the character memory as a character of the alarm / schedule event to be set when setting an alarm / schedule event, and setting a setting time, a message, and alarm sound data of the alarm / schedule event together with the character image; , And analyzing the generated event when the alarm / schedule event occurs in the standby state, and accessing the preset character from the character memory to display the generated alarm / schedule event along with a message and an alarm sound. The method. The method of claim 18, wherein processing the alarm / schedule event comprises: Analyzing alarm / scheduled events that occur at a set time; If the generated alarm / schedule event is an alarm event, accessing the avatar image corresponding to the alarm event from the avatar memory and displaying the alarm message together with an alarm message, and generating a preset alarm alarm sound; If the generated alarm / schedule event is a wake-up call event, accessing the avatar image corresponding to the wake-up call event from the avatar memory and displaying the wake-up call message, and generating a preset wake-up alert sound; If the generated alarm / schedule event is a schedule event, accessing the avatar image corresponding to the schedule event from the avatar memory and displaying the same with the schedule message, and generating an alarm sound set in the schedule event; And if the generated alarm / schedule event is an anniversary event, accessing the avatar image corresponding to the anniversary event from the avatar memory to display the anniversary message and playing the music set in the anniversary event. The method.

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