Portable terminal having display buttons and method of inputting functions using display buttons

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016147265-A1
Application number	US-201615009507-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 28, 2016
Priority date	Apr 1, 2005
Publication date	May 26, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A portable terminal including: a controller receiving signals corresponding to a plurality of input buttons and outputting image data to be displayed on the plurality of input buttons using the received signals; and a plurality of buttons for inputting a key from a user and outputting a signal corresponding to the key pressed, and for receiving the image data from the controller and displaying the received image data. By using the display buttons for displaying variable images corresponding to specific functions as well as an essential function of inputting keys from a user when a specific function is input in the portable terminal, a plurality of functions can be input with only a few buttons, providing speed and convenience to the user for function input.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A portable terminal comprising:
an image capturing unit configured to capture an image; a main display for displaying the captured image; a plurality of displayable inputs respectively configured to display a function related to image photographing or video photographing in response to a signal to capture an image; a memory configured to store the captured image; a controller configured to:
control at least one of the plurality of displayable inputs to display a storage function for storing the captured image after the image capturing unit captures the image; and
control at least one of the plurality of displayable inputs to display a categorizing function for storing the captured image according to at least one category.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Choi Chang-Kyu
• Chang Wook
• Hong Sun-Gi
• Bang Won-Chul
• Shim Jung-Hyun
• Kwon Soon-Joo
• Kim Seong-Woon

Classifications

• G06F1/1671 Primary

  Special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that remain accessible at closed laptop (G06F1/1666 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F1/1686

  the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera · CPC title

• G06F1/165

  the additional display being small, e.g. for presenting status information · CPC title

• G06F1/1626

  with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs] · CPC title

• G06F3/0238 Primary

  Programmable keyboards (key guide holders G06F3/0224) · CPC title