Data retrieval apparatus and data retrieval method

#This application is a National Stage of PCT international application Ser. No. PCT/JP2010/062858 filed on Jul. 29, 2010, and which is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2009-176232, filed on Jul. 29, 2009.

#The present invention relates to a data retrieval apparatus and a data retrieval method for retrieving data.

#A communication device such as a mobile phone is provided with a device for inputting an instruction of an operator. For example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a mobile terminal for detecting an inclined angle of the mobile terminal and a change of its state with an action such as “shaking” and “inclining”, as an input of the instruction. The device described in Patent Literature 1 is configured to control a movement of an icon group representing information contents through the inclined angle of the mobile terminal and to display momentarily moving icons on a display.

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a first embodiment of a mobile communication apparatus of the present invention.

#FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of software of the mobile communication apparatus in FIG. 1.

#FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of an image displayed on a display device.

#The present invention will be explained in detail below with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that the present invention is not limited by the following explanation. In addition, the components in the explanation below include those which are easily thought of by persons skilled in the art, those substantially equivalents, and those in a scope of so-called equivalents. In the following, a mobile communication apparatus as a data retrieval apparatus, more specifically, a mobile phone is used as an example to be explained, however, a target to which the present invention is applied is not limited to the mobile phones The present invention can also be applied to, for example, PHSs (Personal Handyphone Systems), PDAs, portable and car-mounted navigation devices, portable personal computers, and game devices.

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a first embodiment of the data retrieval apparatus according to the present invention. In the present embodiment, the present invention is applied to the mobile communication apparatus. As illustrated in FIG. 1, a mobile communication apparatus 10 basically includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 22, a communication unit 26, a voice processor 30, a display device 32, an input device 34, ROM 36, RAM 38, an internal storage 40, and an external storage interface (I/F) 42. The mobile communication apparatus 10 is connected to an external storage 46 via the external storage I/F 42. The mobile communication apparatus 10 also includes, in addition to the components, various components, which are provided in mobile communication apparatuses, such as an imaging unit and various terminals. An outer shape of the mobile communication apparatus 10 may be any of various shapes such as a foldable shape configured with two members coupled to each other by a hinge, a shape in which two members are slid each other, and a one box shape.

#The CPU 22 is a processor that integrally controls the entire operation of the mobile communication apparatus 10. That is, the CPU 22 controls the operations of the communication unit 26, the display device 32, and the like so as to execute various processes of the mobile communication apparatus 10 in an appropriate procedure according to the operation of the input device 34 and the software stored in the ROM 36 and the internal storage 40 of the mobile communication apparatus 10. The various processes of the mobile communication apparatus 10 are, for example, voice phone conversation over a line switching network, composition and transmission/reception of e-mail, and browsing of Web (World Wide Web) sites on the Internet. The operations of the communication unit 26, the voice processor 30, the display device 32, and the like are, for example, transmission/reception of signals by the communication unit 26, voice input/output by the voice processor 30, and image display by the display device 32.