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Portable communication terminal with multiple displays
Assignee: Fujifilm Holdings Corp
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Filing: 2001-03-12
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Granted: 2006-03-28
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Expires: 2021-03-12
Abstract
Abstract A cellular phone has a black-and-white LCD that displays characters and communication information and a color LCD that displays an image. The image and the characters are displayed on the separate LCDs. Thus, the characters are not superimposed on the image, and they are easy to see. When the image is not needed (the user is not using the phone or the user is talking on the phone), only the black-and-white LCD displays the characters and the color LCD is turned off to save energy.
Inventors
- 👤 Hiroshi Ohmura
- 👤 Ko Aosaki
- 👤 Hiroyuki Uchiyama
- 👤 Seiji Takada
- 👤 Hiroshi Soma
- 👤 Chiaki Fujii
- 👤 Seimei Ushiro
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 19:43
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04M; H04M1/00; H04M1/02; H04M1/21; H04M1/0202; H04M1/0254; H04M1/22; H04M1/72; H04M1/724; H04M1/72403; H04M1/72409; H04W; H04W52/00; H04W52/02; H04W52/0209; H04W52/0261; H04W52/0267; H04W52/027; H04M1/72412; H04M2250/00; H04M2250/16; Y; Y02; Y02D; Y02D30/00; Y02D30/70
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 28
Claim 1
Independent Claim
175 words
A portable communication terminal, comprising: a communicating device that transmits and receives still image data and character data corresponding to the still image data; an imaging device that is capable of capturing a still image; a character inputting device that is capable of inputting a character; a storage device that stores still image data and character data received by the communicating device; an image displaying device that displays a still image according to the still image data stored in the storage device and a still image captured by the imaging device; a character displaying device that displays a character according to the character data stored in the storage device and a character inputted by the character inputting device; a display control device that controls the displays of the image displaying device and the character displaying device, wherein the display control device controls the image displaying device and the character displaying device to simultaneously display the still image on the image displaying device and the character corresponding to the still image on the character displaying device.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
175 words
A portable communication terminal, comprising: a communicating device that transmits and receives still image data and character data corresponding to the still image data; an imaging device that is capable of capturing a still image; a character inputting device that is capable of inputting a character; a storage device that stores still image data and character data received by the communicating device; an image displaying device that displays a still image according to the still image data stored in the storage device and a still image captured by the imaging device; a character displaying device that displays a character according to the character data stored in the storage device and a character inputted by the character inputting device; a display control device that controls the displays of the image displaying device and the character displaying device, wherein the display control device controls the image displaying device and the character displaying device to simultaneously display the still image on the image displaying device and the character corresponding to the still image on the character displaying device.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the image displaying device is color and the character displaying device is black-and-white.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
28 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a resolution of the character displaying device is lower than that of the image displaying device.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
49 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the display control device makes both the image displaying device and the character displaying device work or makes one of them work and turns off the other one according to a state of the portable communication terminal.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
34 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 4 , wherein the display control device operably outputs an image to the image displaying device simultaneously with a character to the character displaying device.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
20 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the portable communication terminal has a telephone function.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
66 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 6 , wherein the imaging device is capable of capturing a moving image; and the portable communication terminal has a Video phone function that displays a moving image on the image displaying device according to moving image data received through the communication device and transmits moving image data captured by the imaging device through the communication device.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
36 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 6 , wherein the portable communication terminal has an electronic camera function that stores the still image data captured by the imaging device in the storage device.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
57 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising: a first connecting device connected to a printer; and an outputting device that outputs the still image data of the still image displayed on the image displaying device to the printer through the first connecting device and a second connecting device of the printer.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
26 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 9 , wherein the first connecting device is mechanically and directly connected to the second connecting device.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
27 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 9 , wherein the first connecting device is connected to the second connecting device through a communication cable.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
27 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 9 , wherein the first connecting device is connected to the second connecting device through short-distance wireless communication.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
154 words
A portable communication terminal 9 , comprising: a communicating device that transmits and receives still image data and character data; an imaging device that is capable of capturing a still image; a character inputting device that is capable of inputting a character; a storage device that stores still image data and character data received by the communicating device; an image displaying device that displays a still image according to the still image data stored in the storage device and a still image captured by the imaging device; a character displaying device that displays a character according to the character data stored in the storage device and a character inputted by the character inputting device; a display control device that controls the displays of the image displaying device and the character displaying device; and a print control device to vary characteristics of a still image to be printed as displayed on the image displaying device.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
154 words
A portable communication terminal 9 , comprising: a communicating device that transmits and receives still image data and character data; an imaging device that is capable of capturing a still image; a character inputting device that is capable of inputting a character; a storage device that stores still image data and character data received by the communicating device; an image displaying device that displays a still image according to the still image data stored in the storage device and a still image captured by the imaging device; a character displaying device that displays a character according to the character data stored in the storage device and a character inputted by the character inputting device; a display control device that controls the displays of the image displaying device and the character displaying device; and a print control device to vary characteristics of a still image to be printed as displayed on the image displaying device.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
33 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 13 , wherein the print control device controls at least one of: a number of prints to be printed, zooming, trimming, brightness and chromaticity.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
47 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 9 , wherein the outputting device outputs the still image data and the character data to the printer in accordance with the still image and the character displayed on the image displaying device and the character displaying device.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
48 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 15 , further comprising: a designating device that designates a print-position of the character on a display of the image displaying device, wherein the outputting device outputs data on the print-position designated by the designated device to the printer.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
64 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 9 , further comprising: a superimposing device that produces image data by superimposing the character on the still image in accordance with the still image and the character displayed on the image displaying device and the character displaying device, wherein the outputting device outputs the image data produced by the superimposing device to the printer.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
50 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 17 , further comprising: a designating device that designates a print-position of the character on a display of the image displaying device, wherein the superimposing device superimposes the character on the still image at the print-position designated by the designating device.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
29 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising: a display adjustment device to vary characteristics of an image displayed on the image displaying device.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
27 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 19 , wherein the display adjustment device varies characteristics of at least one of: zooming, brightness and chromaticity.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
75 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising: a first connecting device connected to a printer; and an outputting device that outputs the still image data to the printer through the first connecting device so as to print the still image within a print area displayed on the image displaying device, wherein the display control device controls the image displaying device to display the print area of the still image.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
44 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 21 , wherein the display control device includes a zooming device, and the display control device changes a size of the print area in accordance with an instruction of zooming given by the zooming device.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
48 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 21 , wherein the display control device includes a trimming device, and the display control device moves the print area within a display of the image displaying device in accordance with an instruction of trimming given the trimming device.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
35 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 21 , wherein the outputting device outputs image data of an original image stored in the storage device and a command for designating the print area.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
40 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 21 , wherein the outputting device abstracts image data for the print area of an original image stored in the storage device, and outputs the abstracted image data to the printer.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
51 words
The portable communication terminal as set forth in claim 21 , wherein the outputting device abstracts image data for the print area of an original image stored in the storage device, resizes the abstracted image data to be suitable for the printer, and outputs the resized image data to the printer.
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