[0055] FIG. 7c shows an example of a display in accordance with a different embodiment of the present invention. In a state that a plurality of thumbnail type images are displayed on the display region of the lower folder formed as the touch panel, a crooked finger that is selecting an arbitrary image is put forth upward in a bouncing manner. Also, in this case, likewise in the case where the stylus pen is used, a thumbnail image of the lower folder is displayed as a magnified image through the display region of the upper folder.
[0056] FIG. 7d shows a case that the lower folder display is implemented in a general computer. That is, the display region of the lower folder is divided into two regions. In the similar manner, data can be moved from the left to the right region of the lower folder, or data of the lower folder can be moved to the upper folder. As a matter of course, the same principle as described above is applied to the movement method in this case.
[0057] Various games can be implemented by using the dragging direction and the movement speed of the pointing device at one region formed as the touch panel among the two display regions according to the concept of the present invention. For example, the user can play a game such that when an arbitrary icon moves at an arbitrary speed on the display region of the upper folder, the pointing device at the lower folder is instantly bounced toward the corresponding icon. Namely, the present invention can be applicable to games for which a movement speed and direction work as an important factor, such as bowling, a soccer game, a pool game or a shooting game.
[0058] FIGS. 7e to 7h show examples of games to which the principle of the present invention is applied.
[0059] First, as shown in FIGS. 7e to 7g, a soccer ball or a bowling ball displayed on the touch panel can be displayed on the display of the upper folder according to an operation of the stylus pen or a movement of fingers as shown in FIGS. 7f to 7h. Not simply displaying the same images, but the soccer ball or the bowling ball are moved from the lower folder to the upper folder and displayed. In this case, it is assumed that the dragging direction of signals inputted through the touch panel or calculation of a speed of movement can be performed by the controller.
[0060] FIGS. 7i and 7j shows examples for explaining an operational principle of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 7i, data 311 is selected and moved as long as `d` by using the stylus pen 230. In this case, the controller checks whether the movement distance (d) satisfies conditions. In order to discriminate it from data movement on the same display, a movement mode or a menu for movement must be first set. Namely, in general, data movement on the touch panel is preferentially considered, but an additional mode or menu can be set to implement the operations of the present invention. The moving data 312 is displayed so long as the stylus pen 230 contacts on the touch panel 220. Namely, when the stylus pen 230 becomes off the touch panel 220 after performing dragging for a certain distance, as shown in FIG. 7j, the data 313 is moved to be displayed on the upper display unit 210.
[0061] FIGS. 8a to 10c show various examples of outputting data on the touch panel through the other display and substantial data movement in accordance with the present invention.
[0062] First, with reference to FIG. 8a, different directory information is displayed on the touch panel 220 of the lower folder 202 and the display unit 210 of the upper folder 201. Arbitrary data 321 on the touch panel 220 is selected by using the stylus pen. In this case, a target directory to which the data 321 is to be moved should be displayed on the display unit 210 of the upper folder 201.
[0063] When the arbitrary data is selected, an arrow mark 411 and a delete mark 412 appear as shown in FIG. 8b. According to circumstances, these marks can be previously displayed. The arrow mark 411 is selected by using the stylus pen 230. Then, the selected data 321 is moved from a `download` directory to a `prelude` directory as shown in FIG. 8c. This movement is displayed through the display unit 90 of the upper folder 201.
[0064] With reference to FIG. 9a, there can be a case where different destinations is should be simultaneously displayed on the display unit 90 of the upper folder 201. Namely, two screens 211 and 212 showing different paths can be displayed on the single display unit 90. The movement target data 321 is selected by using the stylus pen 230. The selected data 321 has a different color from other data. Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 9b, the arrow mark or the delete mark is selected according to a destination for movement. In the present embodiment, the selected data is moved to the directory of `prelude` displayed on the right portion of the screen of the display unit 90. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 9c, a `cavalry` file of the `download` directory has been moved to the directory of `prelude`.
[0065] In the above-described embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIGS. 8a to 9c, the data is moved by using the arrow mark indicating the direction. In this respect, if an additional mode or menu has been set, data can be substantially moved by using an independent condition or collective conditions such as the drag distance, pressure, the number of times, time or speed on the touch panel. In this case, if there are two or more destinations, the direction of dragging should be sensed.
[0066] In a different embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 10a the display unit 90 is formed as a touch panel. Data 321, a target to be moved, is selected from a list of data displayed on the touch panel 220 of the lower folder 202 by using the stylus pen 230. In this case, in order to discriminate the selected data, the data is displayed in a different color from other data.
[0067] Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 10b, a destination is selected from the data list screen displayed in a tree structure on the touch panel 210 of the upper folder 210 by using the stylus pen 230. In this embodiment of the present invention, the data `cavalry` is selected from the `download` directory and then moved to the `prelude` directory. As a result, as shown in FIG. 10c, it can be noted that the data `cavalry` 321 has been moved from the `download` direction to the `prelude` directory. For user's clear recognition, the movement of data on the lower touch panel 220 and the upper touch panel 210 can be displayed as a slow motion in a panorama form as necessary.
[0068] According to circumstances, if the stylus pen includes particular buttons (a functional button and a hot key) for movement and execution as shown in FIG. 11, the selected data can be executed through a different display unit or moved to a destination displayed on the display unit by means of the stylus pen. In this case, the stylus pen must be set in advance to perform wired/wireless communication with the terminal
[0069] Here, a wired interface may be achieved via data connection line, and a wireless interface may be achieved via Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX, Wi-BRO, a wireless broadband connection, or other types of technology that can handle data information communication. Also, said functional button may be mounted on a side of the mobile communication terminal so that the user can push the functional button while holding the terminal with one hand. The input device of foregoing embodiments are explained only with the stylus or user finger, however, the image manipulation illustrated in hereinabove may be executed with other type of audible, visual, and/or tactile input manner.
[0070] If one display region is displayed in a form of a thresh box, data deletion can be easily processed. Namely, a series of general processes of pressing a right button of a mouse to fetch to display a pop-up menu, checking whether to delete particular data, receiving an acknowledge signal, and processing it can be omitted to delete the data.
[0071] Also, during the data processing of the presented invention, automatic pause and save function may be applied to prevent unexpected interruption (e.g. a short message service (SMS), and a multimedia message service (MMS), a graphic message, a voice message . . . etc) from other user.
[0072] Various modifications of the present invention can also be applied based upon the basic concept of the presented invention. Usually, due to the particular characteristics of a mobile communication terminal, various aspects, such as mobility, limited processor capabilities, restricted memory size, restrictions on battery power consumption, a relatively small-sized display screen, etc., need to be considered when implementing the present invention with consideration of a balance of all these aspects mentioned above.
[0073] As to the limited capability of memory in mobile communication terminal, it can be understood that the amount of moved or copied image file size being stored or display attributes [e.g. resolution] representing the moved or copied image may need to be restricted. For example, the image resolution or data file size of the moved or copied image may be reduced (compressed) for storage so that more content can be stored into the memory. Although the image resolution may be degraded somewhat, the user may nonetheless be satisfied that he or she may save more manipulated images into terminal storage and may retrieve a specific image quickly compare to an image having a large file size. It is also required to restrict numbers of thumbnails or image editing functional menus or icons shown in display screen because of the limited size of the display screen in mobile communication terminal. For example, one can not able to recognize the images properly when large number of thumbnails shown in small-sized display screen of mobile communication terminal. Also, due to the limitation of size of the display screen mounted in the mobile terminal, It can be understood that a terminal with a single display screen, which divides the single display screen into more than two portions, could perform equivalent function of the presented invention's dual display mobile communication terminal, as such any arbitrary images, shown in a first portion of a display screen, which are to be moved or be copied could shown in other portion of display screen with modified version of images.
[0074] The various features of the present invention may be further described and explained in the following manner. Note that the element reference numbers have not been specified, but may be clearly understood upon viewing the drawings and this overall disclosure.
[0075] The present invention provides a mobile communication apparatus, comprising: a transceiver to transmit and receive data; a memory to store the data from the transceiver or from an external source; a body with a first display unit and a second display unit, wherein at least one of the first and second display units allows touch sensitive inputting; a display processor to display a first graphical element on the first display unit that allows touch sensitive inputting; a input detector to detect a type of input received via the touch sensitive inputting; a graphical processor to process the first graphical element according to the detected type of input; and the display processor to display a second graphical element on the second display unit according to the processing.
[0076] The body can be opened such that two or more display units are visible, and closed such that only one or no display unit is visible and/or the body can be unfolded such that two or more display units are visible to a user or folded such that neither display unit is visible to the user. Here, the first graphical element may be a still-image obtained via an image capturing device that is attached with the body and/or the first graphical element may be obtained from video data stored in the memory previously or from streaming data transmitted from the external source. As briefly mentioned hereinabove, the first graphical element may be displayed in thumbnail image format, where a total number/size of the thumbnail images allowed to be displayed is based on a display capability (e.g. display attributes, memory size, processor power, battery power . . . etc) of the mobile communication device. The second graphical element may be manipulated versions of the original image that corresponding to a specified graphical icon, folder, menu, and/or file if the first graphical element is displayed in the form of a graphical icon, a menu, a folder and/or a file.
[0077] It can be understood that various image processing functions (not just image moving or image copying) can be applicable to the present invention, such as image manipulation, image modification, image composition, etc. And, such image processing functions may perform semi-automatic with minimal possible user's intervention. Furthermore, not just still image but many different types of image (e.g., still images, video clips, animation or other moving image) can be moved or copied.
[0078] The foregoing embodiments and advantages, which explained with figures, are merely exemplary and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention in one skilled in the ordinary art. The description of the present invention is intended to be illustrative, and not to limit the scope of the claims. Many alternatives, modifications, and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
[0079] As so far described, the mobile communication terminal in accordance with the present invention has the advantage that data can be easily processed by sufficiently using the two display regions.
[0080] To implement the various features described above, the present invention can employ various types of hardware and/or software components (modules). For example, different hardware modules may contain various circuits and components necessary to perform the steps of the above method. Also, different software modules (executed by processors and/or other hardware) may contain various codes and protocols necessary to perform the steps of the present invention method.
[0081] Additionally, even though it would be too numerous to list all the features and variations that can be implemented in mobile communication terminals to accommodate and support the recent trend towards convergence of electronic and/or digital devices, those skilled in the art would easily understand that elements (i.e., hardware, software, or a combination thereof) that are equivalent to the function units and/or modules described above may be implemented in the mobile communication terminal 100 in accordance with the present invention. The foregoing embodiments and advantages are merely exemplary and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention. The present teaching can be readily applied to other types of apparatuses. The description of the present invention is intended to be illustrative, and not to limit the scope of the claims. Many alternatives, modifications, and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art. In the claims, means-plus-function clauses are intended to cover the structure described herein as performing the recited function and not only structural equivalents but also equivalent structures.
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