JPH0322166A - Electronic equipment with storing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To execute function for managing a name card as well when a telephone number is stored as numerical string, for example, by storing the numerical string together with the plural kinds of character strings. CONSTITUTION:In an electronic equipment with function to store the plural numerical strings, means are provided to store the first and second character strings to the respective stored numerical strings. Thus, when the stored telephone number is called, the telephone number can be retrieved with a name or a company name as a key. Since the called telephone number is displayed in a segment part 5b and the name or company name is displayed in a dot part 5a, by pushing a name/company name key 42, the display contents of the dot part 5a can be changed from the name to the company name or reversely.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to an electronic device having a storage function, such as a so-called electronic memo.

(Prior Art) Electronic devices such as electronic memos have a function of storing numeric strings such as telephone numbers and customer codes of many people. In the following, a telephone number will be explained as a typical example of such a number string. In such electronic devices, a large number of combinations of a person's name and that person's telephone number are stored in the storage device. When storing a certain person's telephone number in an electronic memo, the person's name and telephone number are displayed on the display section by key operation, and then they are registered in the memory. If you want to know a person's phone number, you can call up that person's name on the display, and that person's phone number will also be called up on the display. Also, in some cases, a company name may be stored instead of a person's name.

In this way, electronic memos and the like store many combinations of numeric strings such as telephone numbers and character strings such as person names and company names that correspond to the numeric strings, and recall them on the display section as appropriate. Can be done.

When storing data in an electronic memo or the like, a process is usually performed in which the data to be stored is displayed on a display unit by operating a key, and the displayed contents are stored in a storage device. on the other hand,
Portable electronic devices such as electronic memos are limited in size, so the display section cannot be made large.

In order to make the display area as small as possible, it has a two-stage structure consisting of a dot section mainly for displaying character strings and a 7-segment section suitable for displaying numeric strings. In this case, only either the person's name or the company name will be displayed in the dot section, and the telephone number will be displayed in the 7 segment section.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) Therefore, in electronic memos, etc., when storing a number string such as a telephone number, it is only stored as a combination of a person's name and a telephone number, or a combination of a company name and a telephone number. I can't.

Therefore, the data that can be stored together with the telephone number is limited, which is inconvenient.

Furthermore, when calling a telephone number, it is not possible to easily call a desired telephone number because it is only possible to search by either a person's name or a company name.

The present invention has been made in view of the current situation, and its purpose is to provide an electronic device that can combine and store multiple types of character strings for a number string to be stored. .

(Means for Solving the Problems) An electronic device of the present invention has a function of storing a plurality of number strings, and stores a first character string for each of the stored number strings. and means for storing the second character string, thereby achieving the above object.

The electronic device of the present invention further includes a first display means for selectively displaying either the first character string or the second character string, and a second display means for displaying the number string. It is preferable that

The first display means may be a dot display device suitable for displaying a character string, such as a dot matrix display device, and the second display means may be a dot display device suitable for displaying a string of characters, such as a 7-segment display device. Preferably, it comprises a segmented display device suitable for displaying.

After storing the first character string and number string displayed on the first display means and the second display means, respectively,
It is preferable to display a second character string on the display means and to store the displayed second character string in combination with the first character string and the number string.

After displaying the stored first character string and number string on the first display means and second display means, respectively, the display contents of the first display means are displayed on the first character string and the second character string. It is also possible to further provide means for alternately switching between the two.

In the electronic device of the present invention, the character string may include numbers, symbols, etc., or the number string may include characters, symbols, etc.

(Example) The invention will now be described with reference to examples.

FIG. 1 shows the structure of an embodiment of the present invention. This example is
Although the electronic memo can have many functions, in order to simplify the explanation, it will be described below as having only three functions: a schedule function, a telephone directory function, and a calculator function.

Each part of this embodiment shown in FIG. 1 will be explained. The CPUI is a part that controls the entire system, and controls the entire system according to the contents of the processing programmed in the program ROM 2. The work RAM 3 is a RAM used as a work area when the CPUI performs processing. C. G. ROM4 is a ROM that stores character patterns for display.

The display section 6 is constituted by an LCD and is a section for displaying characters and symbols, and in this embodiment has a number of displayed characters of 12 digits x 2 columns. In the upper row of display section 5, each character is 5x7
This is a dot portion 5a of dots, and the lower part is a segment portion 5b having a seven-segment configuration. The LCD driver 6 is a part that converts the character pattern in the display RAM 7 into an electrical signal for driving the display section 5 and provides the electrical signal to the display section 5 . Each 1 bit of the display RAM 7 corresponds to one pixel of the display section 5, and the display R
When a display pattern signal is set in AM7, the praise signal is converted into an LCD drive signal by the LCD driver 6 and sent to the display section 5, causing the LCD of the display section 5 to light up.

The communication section 8 is a section that transmits and receives data to and from other devices. The key part 9 is provided with a large number of keys, and is a part that detects the presence or absence of human keystrokes and transmits the result and the type of key operated to the CPUI. The types of keys in this key portion 9 will be described later. The data RAMIO is a part that mainly stores data registered by the user, and includes a user data storage section 10c that stores user data, and temporarily stores data input by the user and data retrieved from the user data storage section 10c. a data management module 10b that manages data stored in the input/output buffer 10as and the user data storage section 10c;
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FIG. 2 shows details of the data RAMIO. In this embodiment, the user can register two types of data: telephone directory data (hereinafter referred to as TEL data) and schedule data (hereinafter referred to as SCHD data). TEL data consists of three parts: a name part, a company name part, and a number part. The SCHD data consists of six parts: a business part, a year part, a month part, a date part, a time part, and a minute part. The area from the year part to the part part is indicated by reference numeral 105 in FIG. The human output buffer 10a temporarily stores the contents of each of these parts, including a name part 101, a company name part 102, a number part 103, a message part 104, and a year/month/day/hour/minute part. 105. The number of used bytes/number of remaining bytes section 106 of the data management area 10b includes the number of bytes of the area already used by the user in the user data storage section 10c (i.e., the number of bytes of the TEL data section 109 and the number of bytes of the SCHD data section 1, which will be described later).
10), and free area 11 (described later)
Stores the number of 0 bytes. Number of TEL data/SCHD
The data number section 107 stores the number of data registered as TEL data or SCHD data. Reference numeral 108 indicates an area for other data necessary for managing the memory. The user data storage unit 10c is
TEL that stores data registered as TEL data
It has a data section 109 and an SCHD data section 110 that stores data registered as SCHD data. Furthermore, the empty area lll is an unused area. T
Since EL data and SCHD data are data of undefined length, the number of occupied bytes per 1 data is not determined. Therefore, both the TEL data section 109 and the SCHD data section 110 are dynamically allocated and expand and contract as new data is registered and deleted. In those data sections, there is no space between data, and the data is always stored in a left-justified format. Furthermore, regarding the order of registered data, TEL data is
SCHD data is stored in ascending order of year, month, day, hour, and minute.

Some of the keys provided on the key part 9 are shown in FIG. The functions of these keys will be briefly explained.

The function key 31 functions as a so-called r2nd FUNCTIONJ key that gives a second function to other keys, and is a key that is pressed before operating each key as necessary. M
The ODE key 32 operates in a telephone directory mode (hereinafter referred to as TEL mode), a schedule function mode (hereinafter referred to as SCHD mode), and a calculator function for respectively executing the telephone directory function, schedule function and calculator function, which are the main functions of this embodiment. This key is used to select a desired mode from among three modes (hereinafter referred to as CAL mode).

The ON/C button 33 functions as a normal power key when the power is off, and as a key for returning the display state to the initial state when the power is already on. The OFF key 34 is a key for turning off the power of the device. Registration key 3
5 is a key for registering data input by the user in the user data storage section 10c. The call key 36 is a key for calling up data registered in the user data storage section 10c and displaying it on the display section 5. The communication key 37 is a key used when communicating with other sets. The memory check key 38 is a key used when it is desired to display the memory usage status. Delete key 3
9 is a key used to erase input characters, input data memory, etc.

The character input keys 40 are a group of keys for inputting numbers (0 to 9>, katakana, alphabetic characters (A-Z), and symbols (+, first grade), and are used when inputting characters, etc. Name/ The company name 42 is a key used in the TEL mode.This key 42 will be explained in detail later.The RESET key 41 is used to forcibly set the entire system to a certain state (tentatively called a reset state). Unlike other keys, this key 41 is directly connected to the hardware of the CPUI, and can operate the CPUI by interacting with it no matter what state the CPU is in. In other words, the key 41 is directly connected to the CPU hardware. cannot give a signal to the CPU 1 except when the CPU 1 requests input.

FIG. 4 shows a schematic flowchart of the processing in this embodiment. First, in this system, when the user does nothing, A P O (Auto Po
(Wer Off) Waits for the user's key power while counting. If there is no key input for a predetermined period of time, the T4 source is automatically shut off to save power. The APO count is a time count for this purpose. When any key is pressed, the key part 9 sends a signal indicating that the key is manually pressed and a code indicating the type of key pressed. The flow proceeds to key division (step S2), where a process to be performed is selected according to the code of the pressed key. Then, processing of the pressed key is performed in step S3. In the various key processing routines in this STEP S3, the CPU
Work RA is executed according to the contents of program ROM2 by I.
Processing is performed using M3, communication unit 8, data RAM 10, etc., and then the process proceeds to a display routine (step S4).
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In the display routine, in order to display the digits instructed by the various key processing routines, the character pattern of the character to be displayed is taken out from the CGROM 4 and set in the display RAM 7 at the position of the digit to be displayed. The character pattern set in the display RAM 7 is converted by the LCD driver 6 into an electrical signal for driving the LCD, and displayed on the display section 5.

When the display process in step S4 is completed, the flow returns to step St, where the user waits for the next key. ON/C key 3 when the power is off
If 3 is pressed, the flow is forced to step S5
It is now easier to start. At this point, the TEL mode is selected as the main function, and the process proceeds to step S6, the C key process (FIG. 5).

FIG. 6 shows the flow of C key processing. Here, an initial state is set for the currently selected mode, and then a display routine corresponding to the selected mode is selected and control is transferred thereto. The initial state of each mode is shown in FIG.

When the RESET key 41 is pressed, control is transferred to step S7 (FIG. 4) regardless of which state the flow is processing. Here, as shown in FIG. 7, all current states are abandoned and a reset state is set. And step S4
The process moves to the middle RESET display routine. FIG. 8 shows the reset display. The state in FIG. 8 is data RAMI O
Data management area lOb and user data storage unit 10
In this state, the user has the choice of whether or not to initialize by erasing all the user data stored in c.

If you press a predetermined key representing rYESJ (registration key 35 in this embodiment), all user data will be erased. If you press any key other than the predetermined key, the deletion and initialization processing will not be performed. The process moves to the C key process (step S6).

Next, the processing of each key will be explained.

FIG. 10 shows the processing of the OFF key 34. OFF key 3
If 4 is pressed, the display on the display section 5 is erased and the system is turned off. This electronic memo will now stop working.

However, since the data RAMIO is operated by a separate power source, the user data registered in the data RAMIO will not be lost. Also, after turning off the system power, set the program counter in the CPU to POWER-O.
Set it to the address for N processing. This is then ON
This is because when the /C key 33 is pressed, the process starts from the POWER-ON process.

FIG. 11 shows the processing of the function key 31. When the function key 31 is pressed, the function symbol l3 on the left side of the display section 5 is reversed, as shown in FIG.

FIG. 12 shows the processing of the character input keys 40, and FIG. 14 shows an example of character input using the character input keys 40. In this embodiment, approximately 100 types of katakana, alphabets, numbers, and symbols can be input, and for this purpose, 17 keys are provided as character input keys 40. When any of the character input keys 40 is pressed, in step S21), a content code corresponding to the pressed key is generated. Then, the pointer indicating the current cursor position (that is, the position where a character is input) in the work RAMa is taken out, and
Write the internal hood at the position indicated by the pointer in 0a. The pointer used here to indicate the cursor position is initialized when the initial state of the mode is set, and is incremented each time a character is input. Then step S
At step S22, the character code of the human output buffer yloa is changed to C.22, similar to the display routine (step S4). G. The program moves to a routine in which the character pattern is developed using the ROM 4 and written into the display RAM 7. FIG. 14 shows an example of inputting characters from the initial state of the TEL mode, and the IBN on the right side of the figure indicates the character string input in the name field in the human output buffer 110a. FIG. 14(a) is the initial display, and at this time I
BH does not contain anything, that is, it is NULL. If the character "A" is input using the character input key 40, "A" is entered in IBM, and the display becomes as shown in FIG. 14(b). Here, the under par "1" on the right side of the "A" display indicates the cursor position (ie, the position where the next character will be input). If "force" is further input, "force" is added to the IBN, and the display becomes as shown in FIG. 14(c).

FIG. 15 shows the processing when the MODE key 32 is pressed. When the MODE key 32 is pressed, it is first checked whether the function symbol 13 (FIG. 13) is lit (step S31). If the function symbol l3 is not lit, the type of function mode to be set next differs depending on the type of the current function mode (step S32).

That is, if the current function mode is TEL mode, SC
If the HD mode is set (step S33) and the current functional mode is SCHD mode, the CAL mode is set (step S34) and the current functional mode is CAL.
If the MODE key 32 is pressed, the TEL mode is set (step S35). Therefore, each time the MODE key 32 is pressed, the mode changes from TEL mode to
SCHD mode → CAL mode → TEL mode order (
This order is called the forward direction).

If the function symbol 13 is lit, step S3
Proceed to step 6 and if the current function mode is TEL mode,
If the CAL mode is set (step S37) and the current functional mode is the SCHD mode, the TEL mode is set (step 838) and the current functional mode is the CAL mode.
If it is the mode, the SCHD mode is set (step S39). Therefore, each time the MODE key 32 is pressed, the mode changes in the order of TEL mode → CAL mode → SCHD mode → TEL mode (this order is called reverse direction) as shown by arrow B in FIG. can be switched sequentially.

In this way, the MODE key 32 can be pressed without pressing the function key 31.
When operated, the mode is sequentially switched to forward direction A. On the other hand, when the function key 31 is pressed and the MODE key 32 is operated, the mode is sequentially switched in the reverse direction B. Therefore, T.E.
When switching from L mode to CAL mode, SC
You can switch to CAL mode without going through HD mode. In this case, the MODE key 32 only needs to be pressed once.

The processing of the registration key 35 is shown in FIG. FIG. 17 shows an example of a procedure for registering data using the registration key 35 in the TEL mode. In FIG. 17, the left side of the figure shows the character string or number string input by operating the registration key 35 or character input key 40, and the right side of the figure shows the case where the operation or input is performed. The display contents of the display section 5 are shown.

First, when the name "Kobayashi" is input using the character input key 40 in the initial state shown in FIG. )). When the registration key 35 is pressed, the flow goes to step S.
Proceed to step 41. What you are currently inputting is the name part, so
Further, the process advances to step S43, and the input state of the number part is set. After that, the routine moves to display "Bangou?", and "Bangou?" is displayed in the dot section 5a (
Figure 17(C)). Phone number r03-123-4567
4 using the character input key 40. The input telephone number is displayed on the segment section 5b of the display section 5 (
Figure 17(d)).

If you press the registration key 35 again here, the flow will be S41-4.
The process proceeds from S42 to S44 to S45, the company name section is set to the input state, and the process moves to the "Kaisha Mei?" display routine. As shown in Figure 17(e), “(Kaishamei?)
" is displayed on the dot section of the display section 5. The reason why parentheses are used here is to avoid confusing the human resource status of the company name section with the input status of the name section. As the company name
FIG. 17(f) shows a state in which "SHARP" is input.

If you press the registration key 35 in this state, the flow will change from S41 to S.
Proceed to 42 → S44 → S47 and enter "Kobayashi"
, "SHARP" and r03-123-4567J are temporarily stored in the name section 10L, company name section 102 and number section 103 of the input/output buffer 10a, respectively, by the character input key processing routine shown in FIG. In step S47, those data are stored as TEL data in the TEL data section 10 in the user data storage section 10C.
Transferred to 9. At this time, T in the TEL data section 109
In the EL data, the name part is in Aiueo order (i.e., Ern→
The data is rearranged and stored in the following order (A→Z→0→9→symbol order). After the number of used bytes/number of remaining bytes and the number of TEL data items in the data management area 1Ob are updated, the C key is processed and initialized. The human output buffer loa is set to NULL.

When calling a stored telephone number, the user can search using the name or company name as a key. The called telephone number is displayed in the segment section 5b, and the name or company name is displayed in the dot section 5a. In this state, by pressing the name/company name key 42, the displayed content of the dot section 5a can be changed from the name to the company name and vice versa.

Instead of the company name, other data such as birthday or blood type may be stored.

FIG. 18 shows the SCHD data registration procedure.

In this figure as well, as in FIG. 17, the left side of the figure shows the character string or number string input by operating the registration key 35 or the character input key 40, and the right side of the figure shows the operation. Or, it shows the display contents of the display unit 5 when an input is performed. From the initial state shown in FIG. 18(a), the year, month,
The date, hour, minute, and task are entered in this order. All of this data is stored in the input/output buffer loa, and the cursor is automatically advanced each time a character or the like is input. Figure 18 (
1)) shows the state in which rl989J is input as the year, and the same figure (C) shows the state in which rl OJ month "l2" day is entered! 1,
Figure (d) shows a state in which "12" hours and "35" minutes have been input. The year is displayed together with "year" in the dot section 5a. The month, day, hour, and minute are displayed in the segment section 5a. As shown in FIG. 18(d), when the fractional number is input, the data from year to minute is stored in area 1 of the human output buffer 10a.
Temporarily stored in 05. The year display in the dot section 5a is erased, and "Yoken?" is displayed instead. When "party" is input as the business, "party" is displayed in the dot section 5a (FIG. 18(d)).

Here, when the registration key 35 is pressed, the data of this task is stored in the task section 104, and the processing of steps S41 and S46 in FIG. 16 is performed. In step S46, a check is made to see if there is any non-standard data (for example, "13" month, "40" day, "25" hour, "90" minute) in the data from year to minute. If there is non-standard data, the program proceeds to the ``Date and Time Not Right!'' display routine, and ``Date and Time Not Right!'' is displayed in the dot section 5a (FIG. 19).

If there is no problem with the data from year to year, the process advances to step S47, and the same storage process as the above-mentioned TEL data is performed.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, the electronic device of the present invention can store a number string together with a plurality of types of character strings, and thus can store a combination of one number string and a large amount of data. For example, if a telephone number is stored as a numeric string, it can perform not only a telephone directory function but also a business card management function.

Further, in the electronic device of the present invention, a search for a number string can be easily performed.

By selectively displaying the first and second character strings, the display space can be reduced, so the present invention is particularly useful for portable electronic devices such as electronic memos. .

Further, as in the above embodiment, in an electronic device having a display device consisting of a dot part and a segment part, one of the first and second character strings is placed in the dot part and a numeric string is placed in the segment part. can be displayed.

4. Oh no! ■ Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic memo which is an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of the data RAM of the embodiment, Fig. 3 is a diagram showing various keys, Figure 4 is a flowchart of key processing in this embodiment, and Figure 5 is a flowchart of key processing in this embodiment.
A diagram showing the flow of VER-ON processing, FIG. 6 is a flowchart of C key processing, FIG. 7 is a flowchart of reset processing, FIG. 8 is a diagram showing reset display, and FIG. 9 is an explanation showing mode switching. Figure 10 is a diagram showing the flow of function key processing, Figure 11 is a flowchart of OFF key processing, Figure 12 is a flowchart of character input key processing, Figure 13 is a diagram showing function symbols, and Figure 14. is TE
Figure 15 shows an example of character input in L mode.
Flowchart of DE key processing, Fig. 16 is a flowchart of registration key processing, Fig. 17 is an explanatory diagram of the TEL data registration procedure, Fig. 18 is an explanatory diagram of the SCHD data registration procedure, and Fig. 19 is a data error display. It is a figure showing an example.

5... Display section, 5a... Dot section, 5b... Segment section.

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An electronic device having a function of storing a plurality of number strings, comprising means for storing a first character string and means for storing a second character string for each stored number string. Equipped with electronic equipment.