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- the present invention is an invention relating to a personal digital assistant which stores therein registration information including e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and the like and which allows the registration information to be called up and used as appropriate and, more particularly, to a cellular telephone.
- cellular telephones which have exhibited a rapid proliferation in recent years have not only a function merely as mobile or portable telephones but also a function as mobile terminal devices. Specifically, it is possible to connect to the Internet through a cellular telephone, and there is a widespread proliferation of sending and receiving pieces of e-mail by using a cellular telephone (See Patent Document 1 as an example). Cellular telephones themselves become more sophisticated in functionality, and various settings of cellular telephones can be made to suit the preferences of users.
- a piece of e-mail For sending a piece of e-mail, for example, from a cellular telephone, it is conventionally common practice to select a desired e-mail address from among a multiplicity of e-mail addresses registered in an address book, thereby determining the selected e-mail address as a destination to which the piece of e-mail is to be sent.
- To specify the destination of a piece of e-mail such a process has been widely adopted that a user performs a predetermined manipulation by using dial keys to open an address book, and selects the destination from a list thereof via the dial keys.
- dial keys For function settings of the cellular telephone, such a process has been prevailing that the user performs a predetermined manipulation by using the dial keys to follow a menu screen, selects a necessary item from a menu, and performs a setting manipulation.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-257711
- the manipulations of calling up registration information (registered mail addresses and functions) to make a selection are very often performed on the cellular telephone.
- the number of dial keys that can be arranged on the cellular telephone is limited to approximately twenty at most because of size limitations, and the user manipulates the approximately twenty keys to make a selection from among various pieces of registration information and to set the various pieces of registration information.
- the operability of cellular telephones is much inferior than that of personal computers and the like each having a keyboard and a mouse, and there has been a problem such that the more sophisticated the functionality of cellular telephones becomes, the more cumbersome the operability for calling up the registration information inevitably becomes.
- the present invention is intended for a cellular telephone allowing registration information to be called up and used.
- the cellular telephone comprises: a storage means for storing a database in which numeric data and a piece of registration information are associated with each other, the numeric data being obtained by numerical conversion of a keyword related to the piece of registration information in accordance with the assignment relationship; an acceptance means for accepting a numeric string entered by using the dial keys as a call request for a predetermined piece of registration information; an extraction means for searching the database to extract a piece of registration information associated with numeric data containing the numeric string; and a display means for displaying the piece of registration information extracted by the extraction means.
- a user can easily call up a desired piece of registration information only by entering a relatively short numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword related to the desired piece of registration information in accordance with the assignment relationship.
- the cellular telephone comprises: a storage means for storing a database in which a keyword related to a piece of registration information and the piece of registration information are associated with each other; an acceptance means for accepting a numeric string entered by using the dial keys as a call request for a predetermined piece of registration information; an extraction means for searching the database to extract a piece of registration information associated with a keyword containing a character string obtained by character conversion of the numeric string in accordance with the assignment relationship; and a display means for displaying the piece of registration information extracted by the extraction means.
- a user can easily call up a desired piece of registration information only by entering a relatively short numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword related to the desired piece of registration information in accordance with the assignment relationship.
- the present invention is also intended for a personal digital assistant including numerical keys, the personal digital assistant allowing registration information to be called up and used.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a construction of a cellular telephone according to the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing an operational procedure in the cellular telephone of FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 3 is a view showing display transitions on a display of the cellular telephone in response to the progress of the processing procedure of FIG. 2 ;
- FIG. 4 is a view illustrating a typical arrangement of dial keys of the cellular telephone
- FIG. 5 is a chart showing an assignment relationship between numerical keys and characters
- FIG. 6 is a chart showing an example of a database
- FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing an operational procedure according to a second preferred embodiment
- FIG. 8 is a view showing display transitions on the display of the cellular telephone in response to the progress of a processing procedure according to a third preferred embodiment.
- FIG. 9 is a view showing display transitions on the display of the cellular telephone when displaying a registration information type menu.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional construction of a cellular telephone according to the present invention.
- the cellular telephone 1 includes a display 10 , dial keys 20 , a processing part 30 , a storage part 40 and a communication part 50 .
- the display 10 is a liquid crystal display, and displays various pieces of information and content.
- the dial keys 20 are input keys for a user to perform a manipulation on the cellular telephone 1 .
- the dial keys 20 include numerical keys and function keys.
- the processing part 30 is constructed using a CPU for performing a computation process, and executes various processes in accordance with a predetermined program.
- the storage part 40 is constructed using a memory for storing data therein.
- a database 45 to be described later is stored in this storage part 40 .
- the communication part 50 is constructed using a telecommunication circuit, and establishes communication with a base station.
- the display 10 , the dial keys 20 , the processing part 30 and the storage part 40 perform predetermined operations under the control of the processing part 30 .
- the cellular telephone 1 is further provided with an antenna, a microphone, a speaker, a battery, a CCD and the like in addition to the above.
- FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing an operational procedure in the cellular telephone 1 .
- FIG. 3 is a view showing display transitions on the display 10 of the cellular telephone 1 in response to the progress of the processing procedure of FIG. 2 .
- a procedure for calling up an e-mail address of a destination when a user sends a piece of e-mail by using the cellular telephone 1 is taken herein as an example for description.
- the user enters a numeric string by using the dial keys 20 of the cellular telephone 1 (in Step S 1 ), the numeric string being obtained by numerical conversion of a keyword related to a piece of registration information (in this example, a destination e-mail address).
- the user directly enters the numeric string on a standby screen of the cellular telephone 1 .
- the numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword of the destination e-mail address is that obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword of the destination address under the following rules.
- the dial keys 20 for most cellular telephones include numerical keys (a so-called ten-digit keypad) and function keys (for example, a “*” key and a key).
- FIG. 4 is a view illustrating a typical arrangement of the dial keys of the cellular telephone 1 .
- the dial keys 20 of the cellular telephone 1 in this preferred embodiment include ten numerical keys 22 , and function keys 23 including the “*” key, the “#” key and an E-mail key 24 .
- each of the numerical keys 22 is labeled with not only a corresponding numerical character but also alphabetical characters. This is intended to allow the entry of letters in the cellular telephone 1 on which only a limited number of keys can be arranged, as is well known.
- the user To enter the letter “K” as an example, the user usually places the cellular telephone 1 into a letter entry mode and presses the “5” key twice.
- an assignment relationship as shown in FIG. 5 is established between each of the ten numerical keys 22 , and a numerical character of a corresponding numerical key and/or a plurality of single alphabetical characters. Specifically, a numerical character and single alphabetical characters on each numerical key are assigned to each of the ten numerical keys 22 .
- the “7” key as an example is labelled with the numerical character “7” and the alphabetical characters “PQRS.” The numerical character “7” and the alphabetical characters “P, Q, R, S” are assigned to the “7” key.
- the “1” key is labeled with only the numerical character “1.” Only the numerical character “1” is assigned to the “1” key.
- a hyphen (-) as well as the numerical character “0” is assigned to the “0” key.
- the user enters a numeric string on the standby screen of the cellular telephone 1 by using the dial keys 20 , the numeric string being obtained by the numerical conversion of a keyword of a desired destination e-mail address in accordance with the above-mentioned assignment relationship shown in FIG. 5 .
- the numeric string being obtained by the numerical conversion of a keyword of a desired destination e-mail address in accordance with the above-mentioned assignment relationship shown in FIG. 5 .
- a user who desires to send a piece of e-mail to “Taro Yamada” enters “8276” which is obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword “Taro” in accordance with the above-mentioned assignment relationship.
- a user who desires to send a piece of e-mail to “Kin Siziki” enters “546” which is obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword “Kin.” It should be noted that a numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of a full name as a keyword in accordance with the above-mentioned assignment relationship, e.g. “8276926232” obtained by the numerical conversion of “Taro Yamada,” may be adapted to be entered.
- Step S 2 the procedure proceeds to Step S 2 in which the user who has directly entered the numeric string on the standby screen of the cellular telephone 1 presses a predetermined function key, e.g. the E-mail key 24 (See FIG. 4 ).
- a predetermined function key e.g. the E-mail key 24 (See FIG. 4 ).
- the processing part 30 judges that this indicates a call request for an e-mail address using the numeric string as a search key.
- the processing part 30 searches the database 45 held in the storage part 40 by using the numeric string as a search key to retrieve or extract a piece of registration information (in this case, an e-mail address) associated with numeric data containing the numeric string (in Step S 3 ).
- the numeric data in this preferred embodiment is that obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword related to the destination e-mail address in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 .
- numeric data obtained by the numerical conversion of the full name of each destination to which a piece of e-mail is to be sent in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 is stored in association with an e-mail address of each destination in the database 45 held in the storage part 40 .
- FIG. 6 is a chart showing an example of the database 45 .
- the database 45 serves as a so-called address book database.
- a full name and numeric data for each destination are associated with an e-mail address.
- the numeric data used herein is that obtained by the numerical conversion of the full name as the keyword related to registration information in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 .
- the full name “Taro Yamada,” the numeric data “8276926232” obtained by the numerical conversion thereof in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG.
- the database 45 is created in such a manner that when the user registers a new e-mail address, the processing part 30 automatically creates the numeric data from a full name in accordance with the above-mentioned assignment relationship, and registers the full name, the numeric data and the e-mail address in association with each other in the database 45 . That is, when accepting a new piece of registration information (in this example, an e-mail address), the processing part 30 registers the numeric data obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword (in this example, a full name) related to the piece of registration information in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 , and the piece of registration information in association with each other in the database 45 .
- a new piece of registration information in this example, an e-mail address
- the processing part 30 searches the database 45 as shown in FIG. 6 to retrieve or extract an e-mail address associated with the numeric data containing the numeric string. For example, when the user inputs “Kin” as a keyword, that is, enters the numeric string “546” on the standby screen and then presses the E-mail key 24 , the processing part 30 searches a numeric data field of the database 45 to retrieve or extract an e-mail address associated with the numeric data containing “546.” In this case, the e-mail addresses of “Kin Suzuki” and “Jin Kato” associated with the numeric data containing “546” are extracted in the instance of FIG. 6 . These e-mail addresses are candidates for a destination desired by the user.
- partial match retrieval is performed in this preferred embodiment, but exact match retrieval may be performed.
- exact match retrieval when the user enters the numeric string “546789854” on the standby screen and presses the E-mail key 24 , only the e-mail address of “Kin Suzuki” associated with the numeric data exactly matching the numeric string is extracted. Whether to perform the partial match retrieval or the exact match retrieval may be determined previously as a search operation detail in the processing part 30 or be made suitably changeable by settings.
- Step S 4 the processing part 30 displays the extracted piece of registration information on the display 10 .
- the processing part 30 displays the extracted piece of registration information on the display 10 .
- the e-mail addresses of “Kin Suzuki” and “Jin Kato” are extracted, and the full names or the e-mail addresses thereof are displayed as candidates for the e-mail destination on the display 10 (See FIG. 3 ).
- the procedure proceeds to Step S 5 in which the user who has viewed the displayed candidates for the destination selects a desired piece of registration information to determine the selection as the destination. As a result, the e-mail address of the destination is selected and called up.
- the user can retrieve a desired destination from the address book only by entering a numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of a keyword related to a destination address in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 on the standby screen of the cellular telephone 1 and then pressing the E-mail key 24 , and can specify the destination of a piece of e-mail easily by selecting a destination address from among the candidates for the destination.
- the numeric data obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword related to each piece of registration information in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 is previously registered in the database 45 , and the database 45 is searched using the numeric string entered on the standby screen as the direct search key whereby the candidates for the destination are extracted.
- the second preferred embodiment is adapted to search a typical address book database by using as a search key a character string inferred from a numeric string entered on the standby screen to extract destination candidates.
- FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing an operational procedure according to the second preferred embodiment.
- the user enters a numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of a keyword of a destination e-mail address by using the dial keys 20 of the cellular telephone 1 (in Step S 11 ), and presses a predetermined function key, e.g. the E-mail key 24 (in Step S 12 ).
- the user enters the numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword of a desired destination e-mail address in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 on the standby screen of the cellular telephone 1 .
- the processing part 30 judges that this indicates a call request for an e-mail address using the numeric string as a search key. Then, the processing part 30 infers a character string obtained by the character conversion of the numeric string in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 (in Step S 13 ).
- the processing part 30 includes an inference engine for converting a numeric string into a character string in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 , and a dictionary for extraction of words which are candidates for conversion.
- the processing part 30 makes an inference by converting the numeric string into characters in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 and then extracting a character string stored in the dictionary from among the characters. At this time, there is a possibility that a plurality of character strings are extracted. In general, the smaller the number of characters included in the numeric string, the higher the possibility that the number of character string candidates increases.
- the processing part 30 searches the database 45 held in the storage part 40 by using the above-mentioned inferred character string as a search key to retrieve or extract a piece of registration information (in this case, an e-mail address) associated with a keyword containing the character string (in Step S 14 ).
- the database 45 according to the second preferred embodiment is required only to include at least a keyword related to each piece of registration information in association with each piece of registration information.
- the database 45 according to the second preferred embodiment may be similar to that shown in FIG. 6 as in the first preferred embodiment, or may be similar to a conventional typical address book database.
- the processing part 30 When the user inputs “kin” as a keyword, that is, enters the numeric string “546” on the standby screen and presses the E-mail key 24 , the processing part 30 infers the character string “Kin” from the numeric string “546,” and searches a full name field of the database 45 to retrieve or extract an e-mail address associated with the keyword containing “Kin.” At this time, whether to count the information exactly matching the character string or the information partially matching the character string as a hit may be previously determined as a search operation detail in the processing part 30 or be made suitably changeable by settings.
- Step S 15 the processing part 30 displays the extracted pieces of registration information on the display 10 .
- Step S 16 the user who has viewed the displayed candidates for the destination selects a desired piece of registration information to determine the selection as the destination. As a result, the e-mail address of the destination is selected and called up.
- the user can retrieve a desired destination from the address book only by entering a numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of a keyword related to a destination address in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 on the standby screen of the cellular telephone 1 and then pressing the E-mail key 24 , and can specify the destination of a piece of e-mail easily by selecting a destination address from among the candidates for the destination.
- the user presses the predetermined function key after the user enters a full numerical string obtained by the numerical conversion of a keyword.
- the third preferred embodiment is adapted to narrow down the candidates for a keyword each time the user enters a single numeric of the numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword, so that the user presses a predetermined function key when the user confirms the keyword.
- FIG. 8 is a view showing display transitions on the display 10 of the cellular telephone 1 in response to the progress of a processing procedure according to the third preferred embodiment.
- the user enters a string of numerics in order by using the dial keys 20 of the cellular telephone 1 , the string of numerics being obtained by the numerical conversion of a keyword of a destination telephone number.
- the user enters the string of numerics in order which is obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword of a desired destination telephone number in accordance with the assignment relationship shown in FIG. 5 on the standby screen of the cellular telephone 1 .
- a user who desires to call “Kin Suzuki” enters the string of numerics “546789854” in order which is obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword “Kin Suzuki” related to the telephone number thereof in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 .
- the processing part 30 narrows down the keyword candidates based on a string of previously entered numerics (i.e. part of the full numeric string which the user is intended to enter on the standby screen) each time the user enters a single numeric on the standby screen, to display the keyword candidates on the display 10 .
- the processing part 30 makes a prefix search of the numeric data field of the database 45 by using the part of the full numeric string as a search key to extract and display keywords containing a character string obtained by the character conversion of the part of the full numeric string in accordance with the assignment relationship shown in FIG. 5 .
- the processing part 30 may make a prefix search of the database by using as a search key a character string inferred from the part of the full numeric string to extract and display keywords, as in the second preferred embodiment.
- the third preferred embodiment takes as an example a telephone number called up as a piece of registration information, in which case telephone numbers are registered in place of or in addition to the e-mail addresses in the database 45 of FIG. 6 .
- the keywords “Kin Suzuki” and “Jin Kato” containing character strings obtained by the character conversion of “546” in accordance with the above-mentioned assignment relationship are extracted as keyword candidates and displayed on the display 10 .
- the user further proceeds with the numeric entry.
- the keyword “Kin Suzuki” containing a character string obtained by the character conversion of “5467” in accordance with the above-mentioned assignment relationship is extracted as a keyword candidate and displayed on the display 10 .
- “Kiyo Sato,” “Jin Kato” and the like are no longer the keyword candidates, and the keyword candidates are finally narrowed down to the single keyword.
- the processing part 30 When the user presses a predetermined function key, e.g. a talk key, after the candidates are narrowed down to the single keyword, the processing part 30 originates a call to a telephone number associated with the keyword. Thus, the user can make an outgoing call to a desired telephone number.
- a predetermined function key e.g. a talk key
- the user need not enter the full numeric string obtained by the numeric conversion of a keyword related to a telephone number, but the keywords are narrowed down in the course of the entry thereof, whereby further improvements in convenience is achieved.
- the processing of the third preferred embodiment is preferably carried out after two or more numerics are entered. Further, it is not always necessary to continue the entry of the numeric string until the keyword candidates are narrowed down to the single keyword.
- the user may be allowed to make a selection from among the certain number of keyword candidates.
- the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned specific embodiments.
- the user directly enters the numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword related to the destination address in accordance with the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 on the standby screen of the cellular telephone 1 .
- the user may enter the numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of the keyword related to the destination address in accordance with the above-mentioned assignment relationship in a destination specification field of the e-mail creation screen, and then press a predetermined function key.
- the details of processing executed by the processing part 30 at this time are identical with those of the above-mentioned preferred embodiments.
- the assignment relationship between the numerical keys and the characters is not necessarily limited to the corresponding relationship shown in FIG. 5 , but may be arbitrarily established. In consideration for the convenience for the user, it is however preferred to adopt the assignment relationship of FIG. 5 conforming to the alphabetical characters already on the numerical keys of typical cellular telephones.
- the character string candidates inferred by the processing part 30 may be displayed once on the display 10 , and the user who has viewed the candidates may select a suitable keyword from among the candidates. Then, the processing part 30 may search the database 45 using the selected keyword as the search key. In this manner, the e-mail addresses extracted by the processing part 30 are narrowed to only an e-mail address desired by the user.
- the registration information is a destination e-mail address in the above-mentioned first and second preferred embodiments, but is not limited thereto.
- the registration information may be a telephone number registered in the cellular telephone 1 , as in the third preferred embodiment.
- a keyword e.g., full name
- the processing part 30 performs a search process similar to that of the above-mentioned preferred embodiments to retrieve or extract the telephone numbers of connection destination candidates, and then displays the telephone numbers on the display 10 .
- a destination e-mail address may, of course, be used as the registration information in the third preferred embodiment.
- the registration information may be a telephone number serving as a destination of short message service (SMS) and registered in the cellular telephone 1 .
- SMS short message service
- the telephone number is typically used as the destination of the short message service.
- the processing part 30 performs a search process similar to that of the above-mentioned preferred embodiments to retrieve or extract the destination telephone numbers of destination candidates, and then displays the destination telephone numbers on the display 10 .
- the registration information may be various functions registered in the cellular telephone 1 .
- Such functions include, for example, date setting, standby screen setting, ringtone setting, answerphone setting, silent mode setting, and other etceteras.
- a keyword e.g., answerphone
- the processing part 30 performs a search process similar to that of the above-mentioned preferred embodiments to retrieve or extract the function candidates, and then displays the function candidates on the display 10 .
- the user selects a desired one of the displayed functions, whereby the selected function is executed in the cellular telephone 1 .
- the registration information may be the address (URL) of a favorite site registered in the cellular telephone 1 .
- a predetermined function key e.g. Internet connection key
- the processing part 30 performs a search process similar to that of the above-mentioned preferred embodiments to retrieve or extract bookmarked connection destination site candidates, and then displays the candidates on the display 10 .
- the user selects a desired site from among the displayed candidates, whereby the cellular telephone 1 is connected to the selected site.
- the user enters a numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of a keyword, and thereafter presses a function key (e.g., the E-mail key 24 and the address book key) depending on the type of the registration information.
- a function key e.g., the E-mail key 24 and the address book key
- the processing part 30 may display a registration information type menu on the display 10 .
- FIG. 9 is a view showing display transitions on the display 10 of the cellular telephone 1 when displaying the registration information type menu.
- the user enters a numeric string obtained by the numerical conversion of a keyword of a piece of registration information by using the dial keys 20 of the cellular telephone 1 , and enters a predetermined key included among the function keys 23 .
- the processing part 30 displays the registration information type menu on the display 10 .
- the user selects a desired one of the types of registration information displayed in the menu.
- a process similar to that performed when the predetermined function key is pressed in the first preferred embodiment is carried out. For example, when “E-mail Address” is selected, a process similar to that performed when the E-mail key 24 is pressed after the numeric string is entered is carried out.
- the display of the types of registration information in the form of a menu for selection eliminates the need to provide the function keys the number of which is equal to the number of types of registration information. This reduces the number of function keys 23 to simplify the construction of the cellular telephone 1 .
- the above-mentioned preferred embodiments describe the instance in which the registration information in the cellular telephone 1 is called up.
- the present invention is not limited to such an instance.
- the present invention as described above is applicable to a personal digital assistant including at least numerical keys.
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