Portable television with recognizably different low/high hierarchy displays
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorFukuharu Sudo
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Abstract
A portable communication apparatus provides a display on which the user is able to easily find out the object item at the time of displaying a list of the plural items. In the case where the functional items are separated into some groups and formed into hierarchical structure, the display layout is changed for each hierarchy at the time of displaying the list of the items. Therefore, by viewing the differences among the display layouts, the user can know which hierarchy is currently being displayed and can easily find out the object item.
Claims11
A portable communication terminal comprising:
- a display for displaying a desired item selected out of a plurality of selection items which are hierarchically arranged;
- a pointer for indicating said desired item out of said plurality of selection items displayed on said display, said pointer includes a rotatable disc-like member which partly sticks out from a main body of the portable communication terminal;
- an instruction switch for causing an item of low hierarchy corresponding to an item indicated by said pointer to be displayed on said display;
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- a data processor for changing a display layout at a time of switching by said pointer and switch to change from a display listing selection items of high hierarchy in a first format to a display listing selection items of low hierarchy in a second format, said first and second formats being recognizably different.
A portable communication terminal comprising:
- a display for displaying a desired item selected out of a plurality of selection items which are hierarchically arranged;
- a pointer for indicating said desired item out of said plurality of selection items displayed on said display;
- an instruction switch for causing an item of low hierarchy corresponding to an item indicated by said pointer to be displayed on said display;
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- a data processor for changing a display layout at a time of switching by said pointer and switch to change from a display of selection items of high hierarchy to a display of selection items of low hierarchy, wherein
- said pointer for indicating a desired item out of said plurality of selection items displayed on said display includes a rotatable disc-like member which partly sticks out from a main body of the portable communication terminal.
A portable communication terminal comprising:
- a display for displaying a desired item selected out of a plurality of selection items which are hierarchically arranged;
- a pointer for indicating said desired item out of said plurality of selection items displayed on said display;
- an instruction switch for causing an item of low hierarchy corresponding to an item indicated by said pointer to be displayed on said display;
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- a data processor for changing a display layout at a time of switching by said pointer and switch to change from a display of selection items of high hierarchy to a display of selection items of low hierarchy, wherein
- said pointer for indicating a desired item out of said plurality of selection items displayed on said display includes a rotatable disc-like member which partly sticks out from a main body of the portable communication terminal, and said instruction switch for is operated by pushing the disc-like member, which partly sticks out from the main body of the portable communication terminal, in a direction of the main body of portable communication terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.