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20080242363 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A communications terminal comprises a display, a first storage for storing data, a second storage unit that stores a first and a second information set, the first information set including a first communications address and a communications recipient's name, and the second information set includes a second communications address and a communications recipient's name, a first display controller displays a text string expressed by data stored in the first storage unit; and a second display controller that identifies a name from the second storage unit included in the text string being displayed. When the name is associated with the first communications address, a screen prompts communications to the first communications address, or when the name is associated with the second communications address, a screen prompts communications to the second communications address. | 10-02-2008 |
20080250001 | Method and System for Providing Information in Virtual Space - In an information providing system | 10-09-2008 |
20080250391 | Communication terminal apparatus - A Java application is started, the started Java application instructs a Flash bridge section | 10-09-2008 |
20080252716 | Communication Control Device and Communication Terminal - A first mobile communication terminal sends position data of an avatar for the terminal and position data of an avatar for a second mobile communication terminal, with which a user of the first terminal wishes to communicate, to a communication control device. The communication control device determines whether a position indicated by each of the two pieces of position data is within a predetermined space. If the communication control device determines that positions indicated by the two pieces of position data are within the predetermined space, the first and second mobile communication terminals start a videophone call using captured images, and otherwise, the mobile communication terminals start a videophone call using avatar images. | 10-16-2008 |
20090083627 | Method and System for Providing Information in Virtual Space - In an information providing system | 03-26-2009 |
20090153489 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device which is capable of suitably switching between hardware buttons and an electrostatic pad such as a touch panel, depending on the operating circumstances of a user. In a cellular phone, judgment is made as to an application, which is an operation target for the user, and, in accordance with the application judged, an input device control section is able to switch between accepting inputs from an electrostatic pad input acceptance section and accepting inputs from a hardware button input acceptance section, depending on the application thus judged by a CPU. | 06-18-2009 |
20090287999 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY INFORMATION EDITING METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device of an aspect of the invention has display means having a display region; operation means, having a contact region, for outputting a position signal indicating the position of a contact operation in the contact region; range decision means for deciding a target range of the display region based on the position signals for two points from the operation means; processing menu display means for causing the display means to display a processing menu at a position corresponding to the target range of the display region; processing decision means for deciding the processing of the processing menu corresponding to the position of the contact operation in the contact region; and processing execution means for executing the processing on the target range of the display region. | 11-19-2009 |
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20080254813 | Control Device, Mobile Communication System, and Communication Terminal - A control device comprises a first memory, a second memory, and a processor. The first memory is configured to store captured image data and alternative image data. The second memory is configured to store positional data in association with a communication terminal. The processor is configured to: retrieve from the second memory first positional data associated with a first communication terminal and second positional data associated with a second communication terminal; calculate a distance between a first position indicated by the first positional data and a second position indicated by the second positional data; and select image data to be sent to the first communication terminal from among captured image data or alternative image data, on the basis of the calculated distance, to allow the first communication terminal to display an image on the basis of the selected image data. | 10-16-2008 |
20080254829 | Control Apparatus, Mobile Communications System, and Communications Terminal - There is provided a control apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that, from one of a first communications terminal and a second communications terminal, each of the communications terminals being capable of sending and receiving images and messages and of displaying messages and images, receives a notification indicating detection of an outside party who is not a communicant with either of the communications terminals; and a control unit that, when the receiving unit does not receive the notification from the first communications terminal, causes the first communications terminal to display a captured image sent by the second communications terminal, and when the receiving unit receives the notification from the first communications terminal, causes the first communications terminal to display a substitute image for display in place of the captured image. | 10-16-2008 |
20080254840 | Control device, mobile communication system, and communication terminal - A control device includes: a word storage unit that stores a plurality of words; an obtaining unit that obtains messages which are transmitted/received together with images between first and second communication terminals; a determination unit that determines whether any of the plurality of words stored in the storage unit is identical or similar to any of words included in the messages obtained by the obtaining unit; and a control unit that causes one or each of the first and second communication terminals to display either a camera image or a substitute image which is transmitted from the other of the first and second communication terminals, depending on a determination result of the determination unit, the substitute image being substitutable for the camera image. | 10-16-2008 |
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20130145013 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND CONTENT UPDATE METHOD - A communication terminal and a content update method in a communication terminal that can update content at the optimum time according to the content type, the communication terminal includes a content storage unit that stores content containing first time information indicating the maximum time unit of information representing a time, a terminal information storage unit that stores terminal information containing second time information indicating a time unit shorter than the maximum time unit and assigned to each communication terminal, a time determination unit that determines whether it has reached a time consisting of the first and the second time information, and a content update unit that updates content when the time determination unit determines that it has reached a time consisting of the first and the second time information, thereby delivering content at the optimum time according to the content type. | 06-06-2013 |
20130268895 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND ICON MANAGEMENT METHOD - A terminal device includes an operating unit which accepts an operation by a user, a display unit which classifies one or a plurality of icons into one or a plurality of groups and displays the classified icons, and a control unit which controls the display unit so as to display a new group when an icon displayed on the display unit is set to a move mode by an operation accepted by the operating unit. | 10-10-2013 |
20150020022 | INFORMATION TERMINAL FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD - An information terminal including: a display configured to display an image; a captured image storage configured to store a captured image showing a state in which one or more objects are displayed; and an image control configured to cause the display to display the captured image in accordance with a scrolling operation by a user. The display displays one or more objects corresponding to a captured image at an end point of the scrolling performed by the user while superimposing the one or more objects on a background image, and, in a case at least one of a period during which or the number of times an image is displayed by the display without change of arrangement of an object displayed while being superimposed on the background image is equal to or greater than a threshold, the image storage stores a captured image corresponding to the image that is displayed. | 01-15-2015 |
20150065163 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND BATTERY SAVING METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile terminal in a mobile communication system is disclosed, the mobile terminal including a location measurement unit configured to obtain location information, an area ID obtaining unit configured to obtain information of an identifier of an area in which the mobile terminal resides, a control unit configured to cause the location measurement unit to obtain the location information in the case where the identifier of the area in which the mobile terminal currently resides is different from the identifier of the area in which the mobile terminal resided in the past, and a reporting unit configured to report the location information obtained by the location measurement unit to a server. | 03-05-2015 |