Screen image presentation apparatus and method for mobile phone

Abstract

An idle mode screen image presentation apparatus and method is provided for a mobile phone. A screen image presentation apparatus for a mobile phone according to the present invention includes a memory storing a character house including a background and function items for executing functions of the mobile phone; a controller presenting the character house in an idle mode of the mobile phone and providing information, when one of the function items is selected, on a function associated with the selected function item; and a display displaying the character house under the control of the controller.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(a) of Korean Patent Application filed in the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Dec. 6, 2005 and assigned Serial No. 2006-0118428, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The present invention relates to portable phone. More particularly, the present invention relates to an idle mode screen image presentation apparatus and method for a mobile phone. [0004] 2. Description of the Related Art [0005] A portable terminal is typically a cordless electronic device such as a mobile phone. Recent mobile phones are implemented with various functions in addition to basic voice communication. Such phones include a camera phone equipped with a camera module, a digital TV phone equipped with a Digital Multimedia Broadcast (DMB) or Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) module, and an MP3 phone equipped wit...

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Benefits of technology

[0009] It is another object of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention to provide a screen image presentation apparatus and method for a mobile phone that are capable of improving usability of mobile phone by using a character as an artificial intelligent agent.

[0024] According to another object of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a screen image presentation apparatus and method for a mobile phone is provided. The screen image presentation apparatus and method facilitates a user's ability to select a partitioned sectors of a character house to see the selected sector in an enlarged form such that the user can perform a fine adjustment of a position of an item located in the selected sector. The character house consists of a background, character, and items, and is used for a screen image for a specific operation mode of the mobile terminal.

Problems solved by technology

However, conventional mobile phones limit designs to screen images to be presented on the display by themselves.

Although there has been a screen image design method in which the screen image is designed with a background image, text, and clock selected by a user, most of the conventional screen image design techniques do not facilitate the design of a dynamic screen image with various character images.

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