JPH104576A - Portable terminal equipment for tele-terminal system and its destination id registration method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the opportunity of erroneous entry of a destination ID and to attain quick entry in the case of registration of a communication destination in the portable terminal equipment of a tele-terminal system employing a touch panel. SOLUTION: Setting of a software key board being a virtual key board is attained on a liquid crystal touch panel 1 of a portable terminal equipment based on software information. As the software information, 1st key board information consisting of all character information required for the information entry and 2nd key board information consisting of only character information required for the entry of a destination ID are stored in a storage section 2. A control circuit 3 discriminates kinds of the information to be entered and when the information is the destination ID, the 2nd key board information is read from the storage section 2 and set on the liquid crystal touch panel 1 as a software key board exclusive for the destination ID. Thus, entry characters are limited and mis-entry is reduced and the entered character retrieval time is reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable terminal device of a teleterminal system and a method of registering a destination ID thereof.
In particular, a keyboard includes a touch panel having a plurality of touch areas divided corresponding to characters including numbers and symbols, and inputting corresponding character information by touching an arbitrary touch area, and the touch panel for transmitting information for communication. A mobile terminal device of a teleterminal system input from the
The present invention relates to a destination ID registration method when inputting the destination ID of the communication partner.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional portable terminal device of a teleterminal system has a touch area (key) configuration on which a variety of English characters, numbers, symbols, and the like are displayed on a touch panel as shown in FIG. A wear-type or software-type keyboard is provided, and when inputting information for communication, the corresponding character information is input by touching and pressing a touch area (key) corresponding to the character to be input. This keyboard is also used as it is when registering the destination ID (identification number) of the communication partner.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional portable terminal device of the teleterminal system and its destination ID registration method, even when registering the destination ID of the communication partner, characters other than the characters used as the destination ID are not used. Since the displayed keyboard is used (that is, there are keys that are not required for input), characters that should not be input as the destination ID of the other party may be input and registered incorrectly. For example, a hexadecimal number (“0” to
Even if only "9", "A" to "F") can be registered,
There is a possibility that an input such as "0123JKL" may be made. Also, it takes time to search for the character to be input.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal of a teleterminal system using a touch panel capable of reducing an input error of a destination ID and quickly inputting the destination ID when registering a destination ID of a communication partner, and a method of registering the destination ID. Is to provide.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A portable terminal device of a teleterminal system according to the present invention has a plurality of touch areas which are divided into characters corresponding to characters including numbers and symbols as a keyboard, and touches an arbitrary touch area. In a portable terminal device of a tele terminal system for inputting information for communication from the touch panel, the touch panel displays characters and performs the touch based on software information. It consists of a liquid crystal touch panel that can be set as a software keyboard that is a virtual keyboard in which the corresponding characters for each area are arbitrarily changed, and as the software information for the liquid crystal touch panel, all necessary for inputting the information for communication. First composed of character information
And a second keyboard information storing only the character information necessary for inputting the destination ID of the communication partner among the information for communication, and a storage unit for storing the information for communication. The type is determined at the time of input, and if it is other than the destination ID, the first keyboard information, the destination I
If D, the second keyboard information is read from the storage unit, and is set as the software keyboard on the liquid crystal touch panel based on the read first or second keyboard information, and is displayed on the set software keyboard. And a control unit for receiving input of only character information corresponding to the selected character.

According to the destination ID registration method of the present invention, there is provided a touch panel having a plurality of touch areas divided corresponding to characters including numbers and symbols as a keyboard and inputting corresponding character information by touching an arbitrary touch area. With
In a destination ID registration method for inputting a destination ID of a communication partner from the touch panel in a mobile terminal device of a teleterminal system for inputting information for communication from the touch panel, characters are displayed as the touch panel and software information is displayed. Prepare a liquid crystal touch panel capable of setting a software keyboard, which is a virtual keyboard in which the corresponding character for each touch area is arbitrarily changed based on the above, and when inputting information other than the destination ID, the A software keyboard composed of all character information necessary for inputting information is set on the liquid crystal touch panel, and when inputting the destination ID, among all character information necessary for inputting information for communication, Enter destination ID consisting only of character information used for destination ID By limiting the character information dedicated software keyboard may input and set on the liquid crystal touch panel, reducing the error in the destination ID registration, a step of rapidly perform the registration.

That is, according to the present invention, a destination I different from a software keyboard for inputting normal information is used.
The software keyboard dedicated to D input displays only the characters necessary for inputting the destination ID, so that it is possible to reduce errors in inputting destination information such as touching an incorrect key. Also, since there is no unnecessary key for inputting the destination ID, the time for searching for the key to be input is reduced,
Input can be performed quickly.

[0008]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a portable terminal device of a teleterminal system, and shows only parts related to the present invention. In FIG. 1, the mobile terminal device has a plurality of touch areas (keys) divided into characters corresponding to characters including numbers, symbols, and the like as a keyboard.
By applying pressure (touch), it is possible to input the corresponding character information, display the characters, and arbitrarily change the corresponding characters for each touch area based on the software information. A liquid crystal touch panel 1 that can be set, and a ROM 21 and a RAM 22 storing software (programs and data) for performing various control processes as a portable terminal device
And a control circuit (CPU) 3 for controlling the entire apparatus by software in the storage circuit 2
And a radio base station of a teleterminal system (not shown)
Wireless circuit 4 for wirelessly transmitting and receiving various information to and from
And The storage circuit 2 includes a liquid crystal touch panel 1
First keyboard information composed of all character information necessary for inputting various information for communication as software information for setting a software keyboard on the top,
Among these information, second keyboard information composed of only character information necessary for inputting the destination ID of the communication partner is stored. Further, the control circuit 3 determines the type of the information when inputting the information from the liquid crystal touch panel 1, and reads out the first keyboard information from the storage circuit 2 if it is other than the destination ID, and reads out the second keyboard information if it is the destination ID. A software keyboard is set on the liquid crystal touch panel based on the first or second keyboard information, and input of only character information corresponding to characters displayed on the set software keyboard is accepted.

The screen display of the software keyboard based on the first keyboard information at the time of normal information input other than the destination ID is the same as the conventional one as shown in FIG. 4, and is similar to the general hardware keyboard. It is arranged. As information for communication, reading of destination name and destination,
When inputting a transmission message or the like, the keyboard having this normal arrangement is used.

On the other hand, when inputting the destination ID, a software keyboard dedicated to inputting the destination ID based on the second keyboard information is displayed as shown in FIG. In this software keyboard exclusively for inputting the destination ID, the character information that can be input is only hexadecimal numbers (numbers: “0” to “9”, English characters: “A” to “F”), and other control information is “ There are “retreat” and “fixed”.

Next, the operation of registering the destination ID according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

The control circuit 3 first determines the type of information to be input (steps S1 and S2 in FIG. 2). Destination ID
Otherwise, the first keyboard information is read from the storage circuit 2 (step S3). If it is the destination ID, the second keyboard information is read from the storage circuit 2 (step S4). next,
LCD touch panel 1 based on the read keyboard information
Set as a software keyboard above (step S
5) The input of only the character information corresponding to the character displayed on the set software keyboard is received and registered in the storage unit 2 (step S6). The information is transmitted to the wireless base station via the wireless circuit 4 according to the information thus registered.

The operation at the time of inputting the destination ID will be described in more detail. When the destination ID is input, the ID keyboard shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the screen of the liquid crystal touch panel 1. At this time, the basic functions of the ID editor operating in the control circuit 3 are as follows. (1) The cursor can be moved by touching the ID input area. (2) The determination is an error if the ID is not entered in eight digits. (3) It is not possible to transition to another screen until the confirmation becomes valid. (4) When the backward key is pressed, one character immediately before the cursor is deleted, and the characters after the cursor are moved one character at a time. Using such a function, the hexadecimal number (number: "0"-
"9", English characters: "A" to "F") Enter an 8-digit destination ID and touch "Confirm" to move to the next information input screen.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention, as a touch panel, characters are displayed and a virtual keyboard in which the corresponding characters for each touch area (key) are arbitrarily changed based on software information. A liquid crystal touch panel capable of setting a certain software keyboard is used. At the time of inputting the destination ID, keys unnecessary for input are eliminated (except for necessary keys), and a dedicated software keyboard for inputting the destination ID is set and used. Therefore, the input error of the destination ID is reduced, and the time for searching for the character to be input is shortened, and the input time of the destination ID is shortened.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of registering a destination ID according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a keyboard display screen when a destination ID is input in the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a keyboard display screen at the time of inputting information other than the destination ID according to the present invention and at the time of inputting all information including the destination ID in the related art.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 LCD touch panel 2 Storage circuit 3 Control circuit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A communication system comprising: a keyboard having a plurality of touch areas divided corresponding to characters including numbers and symbols, and a touch panel for inputting corresponding character information by touching an arbitrary touch area; A mobile terminal device of a teleterminal system for inputting information from the touch panel, wherein the touch panel is a virtual keyboard that displays characters and arbitrarily changes corresponding characters for each touch area based on software information. A software keyboard that can be set with a liquid crystal touch panel, wherein the software information for the liquid crystal touch panel includes first keyboard information including all character information necessary for inputting information for communication, and Required to enter the destination ID of the communication partner A storage unit for storing second keyboard information composed only of character information; and determining the type of the information for communication when inputting the information for communication. Then, the second keyboard information is read from the storage unit, and is set as the software keyboard on the liquid crystal touch panel based on the read first or second keyboard information, and is displayed on the set software keyboard. And a control unit for receiving an input of only character information corresponding to the written character. 2. A touch panel for inputting corresponding character information by touching an arbitrary touch area as a keyboard having a plurality of touch areas divided corresponding to characters including numbers, symbols, etc. In a destination ID registration method of inputting destination ID of a communication partner in the mobile terminal device of the teleterminal system that inputs information from the touch panel, the destination touch panel displays characters as the touch panel.
Prepare a liquid crystal touch panel capable of setting a software keyboard, which is a virtual keyboard in which the corresponding character for each touch area is arbitrarily changed based on software information. When inputting information other than the destination ID, A software keyboard composed of all the character information necessary for inputting information for setting is set on the liquid crystal touch panel, and when inputting the destination ID, all the character information necessary for inputting the information for communication are input. This destination ID
A software keyboard exclusively used for inputting the destination ID composed of only the character information used for the user is set on the liquid crystal touch panel to limit the character information that can be input. A destination ID registration method.