Method for operating a mobile terminal, application for a mobile terminal and mobile terminal

专利摘要:
The invention relates to methods for operating a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a capacitive touch screen. Furthermore, the invention relates to applications that are designed to carry out these methods, as well as mobile devices, especially smartphones. The individual subjects of the invention are designed to be senior-friendly and comprise the display of information on the touch screen, the input of information on a touch screen of a mobile terminal, a sleep mode, an emergency call function and the configuration of a mobile terminal. These methods are preferably used in conjunction with a mobile terminal with a pivotable keyboard which is placed on the touchscreen.
公开号:AT517152A2
申请号:T50144/2015
申请日:2015-02-24
公开日:2016-11-15
发明作者:
申请人:Emporia Telecom Gmbh & Co Kg；
IPC主号:

专利说明:

Method for operating a mobile terminal, application for a mobile
Terminal as well as mobile terminal
The invention relates to a method for operating a mobile terminal, an application for a mobile terminal, which is designed to carry out these methods, as well as mobile terminals. In particular, the invention relates to methods for operating a mobile terminal, with which information is displayed on the mobile terminal, or with which information is entered on the mobile terminal or with which a mobile terminal is configured. In particular, the invention relates to methods for operating mobile terminals with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and preferably with a touch screen, in particular a capacitive touch screen.
The mobile terminal is in particular a smartphone and preferably a smartphone with an additional external keyboard with which the smartphone can be operated.
External keyboards for mobile terminals are known, for example, from US 2010/0238119 A1, US Pat. No. 8,325,150 B1, US 2011/0241990 A1, US Pat. No. 8,206,047 B1, US 2011/0181514 A1 and US 2002/054030 A1.
In the not yet published German patent application DE 10 2015 100 344.9 a mobile terminal is described. Such a mobile terminal is in particular a smartphone with a touchscreen and a radio device with which a connection to a telephone network can be made.
The mobile terminal preferably has a keyboard, which can be created on the touch screen, so that inputs can be made on the touch screen by means of the keyboard. For this purpose, the keyboard preferably has an electrically conductive conductive layer and the touchscreen is a capacitive touchscreen, so that the capacitance between the respective control element and the touchscreen is changed by operating the control element formed on the keyboard such that this is detected by the capacitive touchscreen.
Mobile terminals, especially smartphones, have a variety of functions. They can be provided with so-called applications (= apps), which provide the smartphones with various functions, such. For example, phone features, news features, navigation system functions, game features, camera functions, meter functions, etc. This versatility of smartphones is of great benefit to the user. However, this particular older people have problems and there are fears of contact with smartphones, as on the principle of relatively small screen, the large amount of information must be displayed in small font and the operation of a touch screen is often difficult, especially if the fields to be operated are very small ,
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide methods for operating mobile terminals, in particular smartphones, which are also somewhat impaired by elderly persons whose vision is impaired or whose fine coordination is no longer so pronounced that the smallest fields on a touchscreen are reliably selected can be operated.
Another object is to provide corresponding applications and mobile devices that are designed for seniors, so that seniors can easily and reliably operate these applications and mobile devices, especially smartphones.
One or more of the above objects are achieved by the subject-matter specified in the independent claims. Advantageous embodiments are specified in the respective subclaims.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, a method for presenting information on a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a touch screen is provided. This procedure displays multiple items in a list box on the touch screen. The list box has a separate row for each item, and a text box is contained in each row. If this text information is longer than the text field, the text information is automatically scrolled horizontally.
The combination of list box with lines and horizontal scrolling can ensure that the text information can be displayed with a certain minimum font size. It can therefore be ensured that the text information with a font size of z. B. at least 2.5 mm or 3 mm or 4 mm is shown for the capital letters.
Preferably, the list box is scrollable in the vertical direction. It is possible to provide any number of lines in the list box, which can be accessed by vertical scrolling.
According to a preferred embodiment, the plurality of items to be displayed in the list box are automatically sorted by frequency and / or importance, and in a start position of the list box, the most common and / or most important item is displayed at a top or bottom of a list box area. The list box area is the area on the touch screen in which the list box is displayed. By sorting the elements according to their frequency and / or importance, a user has the most frequent and / or most important elements in the start position of the list field without having to scroll the list field in the vertical direction. As a result, the scrolling effort in the vertical direction is kept low.
With the methods according to the first aspect of the present invention, any number of elements in large font with text information can thus be described and displayed on the limited area of the touch screen, whereby a user can easily, quickly and reliably select any element.
Preferably, this method is further developed such that the touch screen is controlled in a list box with a selection function for selecting individual elements of the list box such that almost the entire area of each line is connected touch-sensitive, so that when touched selects the element shown in the line becomes. With almost the entire area of a line is meant the area of a line, as it is shown on the touch screen, whereby only at the edges of this area the touch screen can be switched non-touch-sensitive. However, the area of these edges is not more than 20% of the total area of one row, and preferably not more than 10% of the total area of one row. Such a list box thus allows a simple and reliable selection of the elements of the list box by touching the corresponding line.
According to a further aspect of the present invention, a method for presenting information on a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection or a touch screen is provided. In this method, a plurality of rectangular screen representations are provided. One of the screens can be displayed on the touch screen. These screen shots essentially cover the entire touch screen. You can switch between the screen representations by horizontally swiping the touchscreen to move the displayed screen horizontally. The several screen representations are arranged virtually horizontally next to each other, so that when moving a screen display from the touchscreen, the corresponding adjacent screen image is inserted onto the touchscreen. This is known per se. This method is characterized in that when moving the first and / or last screen display in the direction in which no further screen presentation follows, this rectangular screen image is displayed on a trapezoidal shape with a shorter and a longer orthogonal to the direction of translation, the direction of displacement from the shorter orthogonal side to the longer orthogonal side.
This illustration of the rectangular screen display on a trapezoidal shape has the perspective effect that the screen display tilts a bit backwards. For a user this has the same effect as moving the screen display on the side edge where the longer orthogonal side of the trapezoidal shape is located. A user of the mobile phone intuitively recognizes that the sequence of the screen display can not be moved any further. For this he does not have to read a user manual.
According to a further aspect of the invention, a method for presenting information on a mobile terminal is provided with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a touch screen, wherein text information is displayed on the touch screen in front of a background image. This aspect is characterized in that an average brightness of at least one region of the background image in which the text information is arranged is determined, and the brightness of the font with which the text information is displayed is automatically adjusted as a function of the determined average brightness , With a high average brightness of the background image, the brightness of the font is set low (= dark) and with a lower average brightness of the background image with the brightness of the font high (= bright).
This ensures that regardless of the selected background image, the font used to display text information creates a good contrast to the background image. Preferably, the low brightness font is displayed in black and the high brightness font in white.
According to a development of this aspect, a middle range of the brightness of the background image can be defined, in which the brightness of the font is generally set to low (dark) or generally high (light).
This aspect can furthermore be embodied such that the region of the background image in which the text information is arranged and of which the average brightness is determined comprises at least one letter or the region of a word or the region of a text field. Accordingly, then the brightness of the font of the respective area, that is the letter or the word or the entire text field is set.
According to a further aspect of the invention, a method for inputting information on a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection or a touch screen is provided. The touch screen displays a keyboard that has a key for at least each letter of the Latin alphabet. The keys are sorted alphabetically and arranged in lines. Each line contains a maximum of eight buttons.
Characterized in that the number of keys per line is limited, the individual keys can be made wide. The use of alphabetic sorting allows the user to quickly find the keys.
Preferably, a maximum of seven or a maximum of six keys are arranged per row.
This alphabetic keyboard can also be reliably operated by seniors due to the wide keys.
According to a further aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for operating a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection, wherein communication processes output certain acoustic, optical and / or vibration signals. These aspects are characterized by the fact that these specific acoustic, optical and / or vibration signals are output differently depending on the time of day and in particular in different intensities.
A user may pre-set the appropriate time ranges in which certain communications will output signals of reduced intensity or less disturbing types of signals. For example, an optical signal or a vibration signal may be less disturbing than an acoustic signal. These time periods can include a nocturnal rest as well as time periods in which you want to be disturbed as little as possible by a mobile device, such. B. at a meeting or the like.
This method can be modified to the effect that these particular acoustic, optical and / or vibration signals are also output as a function of the brightness in different ways and in particular in different intensity. In this case, the intensity of the signals is preferably only reduced if a specific time is present and if the detected brightness is below a predetermined threshold value.
According to a further aspect of the present invention, a method for operating a mobile terminal is provided with a radio device for generating a telephone connection, wherein the mobile terminal has an emergency call function, with which an emergency call can be placed. This method is characterized in that when an emergency call is placed, then within a predetermined period of time after the termination of this emergency call incoming calls are automatically accepted. Preferably, a speaker function and / or a speakerphone is turned on.
This ensures that when a person places an emergency call, it can be called by another person without that person having to actively operate the mobile terminal. In particular, by using the speaker function, the caller can then communicate via the mobile terminal directly with the person who has issued the emergency call. If the handsfree function is switched on, then this person can also communicate with the caller without having to operate or pick up the mobile terminal.
According to a further aspect of the present invention, a method for configuring a mobile terminal is provided, comprising the following steps:
Starting an adaptation mode on the mobile terminal Loading an adaptation file on the mobile terminal, which comprises at least one parameter value for setting a parameter on the mobile terminal,
Reading in the parameter value (s) of the adaptation file, whereby the corresponding parameters of the mobile terminal are set, terminating the adaptation mode.
With this method, settings can be made in a simple manner on the mobile terminal, in particular on the smartphone. Preferably, an operator of the mobile terminal must authorize and / or authenticate when starting the adaptation mode. This ensures that changes to a setting of the mobile terminal are not made by an unauthorized person. This also allows for the operation of the mobile terminal fundamentally significant parameters, such. B. to change settings for the communication links, especially telephone and Internet connections.
Furthermore, this method can also be used to change basic parameters such as SIMLOCK or NETLOCK settings and / or settings for remote maintenance functions.
Such settings have been changed in mobile devices by installing a new operating system. By transferring the customization file to the mobile terminal, this can be done much easier and faster.
This adaptation file can also be used to directly influence the operating system of the mobile terminal, for example, the mobile terminal can be reset to its start setting of the operating system. Furthermore, it is possible for the start-up applications to be activated or deactivated in the operating system and for the user-friendly applications to be deactivated or activated. If, for example, a problem arises in operation with the user-friendly applications, the functioning of the mobile terminal can still be ensured by switching to the standard applications. With the customization file, it is also possible to activate test routines held on the mobile terminal so that the mobile terminal can also be tested by means of remote maintenance.
The mobile terminal used in this case preferably has a touch screen with a maximum height of 13 cm or 12 cm or 11 cm or 10 cm. The ma ximum width of the touch screen of the mobile terminal is preferably 7 cm or 6 cm or 5 cm.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of monitoring drug intake by a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:
Entering data describing a drug, such as. Name, abbreviation, manufacturer's name, dosage, active ingredient information, pharmaceutical form, quantity or size of package, date of expiry, warnings, color, shape and / or size,
Input of prescription information with intake dose and / or administration time,
Creating a symbol image from the data describing the medicament or by reading an image of the medicament and / or medicament packaging from a database,
Determine the next intake time and display the symbol image at the time of taking it together with the revenue dose.
With this procedure, older and / or handicapped people, who are instructed to take medication at the correct dosage on time, are informed about the time to take the medication. In addition to the note on taking medication, a symbol image of the respective drug is displayed on the inside, so that even older people suffering from incipient senile dementia can recognize the drug to be taken from the images.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of monitoring drug intake by a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:
Entering data describing a drug, such as. Name, abbreviation, manufacturer's name, dosage, active ingredient information, pharmaceutical form, quantity or size of package, date of expiry, warnings, color, shape and / or size,
Input of prescription information with intake dose and / or administration time,
Determining the next time of administration and displaying the intake dose at the time of administration,
The inputting of the data describing the medicament and / or the input of the prescribing information may be effected by capturing a packaging of the medicament or its machine-readable code as an image, subsequently subjecting the image to image analysis, and displaying the relevant data on the basis of the image analysis results read a database of a doctor's prescription or its machine-readable code, the image is then subjected to an image analysis and the relevant data are read from a database using the results of image analysis and / or that the relevant data from an electronic prescription by means of a corresponding reading device are read out.
Preferably, the method is designed such that information about this is output at a predetermined point in time before the medicament is consumed. As a result, a new pack of medicines can be automatically provided again and / or a doctor's visit can be initiated.
The information before consuming the drug informs the user in a timely manner that the available doses of the corresponding drug are running out. Such information may also be transmitted to a caregiver, a doctor and / or a pharmacy in electronic form, so that a new pack is automatically delivered and / or a doctor's appointment can be arranged if necessary.
Preferably, the indication of the intake dose at the time of administration is terminated only by the acceptance of an acknowledgment. If it is determined in a predetermined period of time that no acknowledgment has taken place, a caregiver and / or a doctor are informed about the non-acknowledgment.
This prompts the user to actively acknowledge his intake of medication. If this acknowledgment does not occur, then further persons are informed, who can then initiate further measures in order to prevent health consequences for the user of the mobile terminal.
According to a further aspect, the present invention relates to a method for operating a mobile terminal with a camera, a navigation device and a location sensor for determining the location of the mobile terminal. In this method, the navigation destination is selected by selecting an image with associated location coordinates. The location coordinates describe the location of the viewpoint, the scene shown on the image. The navigation system then navigates to this location.
The viewpoint is the point from which you can see the scene shown in the picture. When capturing an image with the camera of the mobile terminal, the location coordinates of the mobile terminal are preferably determined and assigned to the image. Such location-coordinate images may also be loaded from external sources onto the mobile terminal and used to select the navigation destination.
Preferably, as a location sensor for determining the location of the mobile terminal, a GPS sensor and / or a geoposition device is used, which by the evaluation of information from wireless networks in range (W-LAN) and / or triangulation of wireless connections, the location of the mobile Terminal determined.
All of the above aspects of the invention, even when using a handy mobile terminal whose area of the touch screen is limited, allow a simple and reliable display of elements displayed on the touch screen by seniors.
The above-explained aspects can be realized independently of each other. However, they can also be realized and applied in any combination.
The invention further relates to an application for a mobile terminal, which is a software unit that can be executed on the mobile terminal. This application is designed to carry out a method according to one of the aspects explained above.
Furthermore, the invention relates to a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection on which such an application is stored and executable.
In the above-described different aspects of the method for operating a mobile terminal, preferably a mobile terminal, in particular a smartphone, is used, as described in the German patent application DE 10 2005 200 344.9. Such a mobile terminal has a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a capacitive touchscreen. An external keyboard for operating the touchscreen is provided, which comprises a plurality of operating elements, which have an operating side for actuation by a user and a delivery side for engagement with a touchscreen and are movable for operating the touchscreen from an initial position and direction toward the touchscreen, wherein the operating elements comprise an electrically conductive conductive layer. This mobile terminal is preferably designed such that it switches automatically between a keyboard mode in which the keyboard rests on the touchscreen and a touchscreen mode in which the keyboard is remote from the touchscreen. An active telephone or data connection is not interrupted by switching between the keyboard mode and the touchscreen mode.
Switching between the keyboard mode and the touchscreen mode is controlled by an application called a launcher. The launcher is preferably designed such that fewer functions and / or fewer applications are active in the keyboard mode than in the touchscreen mode. In the keyboard mode, preferably only a telephone application and a short message application or a message application and associated applications such. B. activated a phone book, which can be triggered by means of the keyboard and a not covered by the keyboard area of the touch screen only actions in these applications. As a result, the mobile terminal in the keyboard mode only a limited range of functions, so that the risk of incorrect operation is very low. A user of the mobile terminal can thus switch by placing the external keyboard on the touch screen, the mobile device in the keyboard mode, whereby only a few, but necessary for telephoning or for exchanging other messages functions available. This ensures that a user of the mobile terminal, regardless of which state the mobile terminal is in, has the possibility of initiating a telephone conversation in a simple manner, as in the case of a conventional telephone which is not a smartphone.
Preferably, in the keyboard mode, touching the touch screen only allows actions for selecting items displayed on the touch panel and moving the screen displayed on the touch screen. Further actions, such. B. Starting a specific function can not be triggered by touching the touch screen. As a result, malfunctions are avoided on the mobile device when the external keyboard rests on the touch screen. In particular, when storing the mobile terminal in a trouser pocket or the like, a malfunction can be safely avoided if the external keyboard rests on the touch screen. It is advantageous if the external keyboard is designed such that its operating elements for actuating the same provide a certain pressure point, which must be overcome in order to carry out an actuation of the operating element.
According to a further aspect, a mobile terminal is provided with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a capacitive touch screen, which has an external keyboard for operating the touch screen, which comprises a plurality of operating elements, which have an operator side for actuation by a user and an executive side for engagement with the touch screen and are movable for operation from a starting position toward the touch screen. The controls have an electrically conductive conductive layer and the mobile terminal is configured to automatically place between a keyboard mode where the external keyboard rests on the touch screen and a touch screen mode where the external keyboard is remote from the touch screen , is switched. For this purpose, the mobile terminal has a keyboard service with which it is detected whether the keyboard rests on the touchscreen. The keyboard has at least one electrically conductive mode area in addition to the operating elements, which can be detected by means of the capacitive touchscreen. The keyboard service is designed such that the capacitive touchscreen detects whether the mode area rests on the touchscreen.
By providing such a mode area on the external keyboard, it is not necessary to use an additional sensor, such as a keyboard. B. to use a Hall sensor that can detect integrated into the external keyboard magnets, or to use a light sensor that can detect the brightness based on whether the external keyboard rests on the touch screen. Such an external keyboard with mode area can be retrofitted to any mobile terminal with a capacitive touch screen, with only the keyboard service to install on the mobile device to reliably detect the presence of the external keyboard on the touch screen can. There are no additional changes to the hardware of the mobile device necessary.
The keyboard may have at least two or more electrically conductive mode regions.
The mode region (s) are preferably electrically conductive adjacent to the run-out side of the keyboard so that the electrically-conductive element of the mode region is located as close as possible to the touch-screen when the external keyboard rests on the touch-screen. This simply allows reliable detection of the mode area.
The keyboard service preferably detects the mode areas at intervals. The detection process requires, for example, a few ms to a few 1/1 Os. Between the individual detection processes there is a detection pause of a few 1/10 s to a few s. During these detection pauses, the touch screen can detect other objects in contact with the touch screen. The number of objects that are detected simultaneously by means of a touch screen is usually limited. This number may include, for example, one item, two items, four or eight items.
The above-explained various aspects of a mobile terminal can be realized individually or in combination. They can also be implemented individually or in combination with the method aspects explained above.
The invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The drawings show in:
1 a-1 f show a smartphone with an external keyboard in plan view from above and from below and four side views, each showing one of the four end faces of the smartphone,
Figure 2a-2d, the external keyboard of the smartphone of Figure 1 a-1 f in the
Top view from above, in the side view, in plan view from below and in cross section along the line A-A in Figure 2a.
3 shows a cross section through the keyboard of Figure 1 a-1 f
FIG. 4 schematically shows the operating system according to the invention and pro gram libraries in a layer model,
FIG. 5 is a schematic block diagram of the application launcher and its screens and applications that can be called up by the launcher application with corresponding screens.
Figure 6 shows a central homescreen of a smartphone in one
Touch screen mode,
FIG. 7 shows a central home screen of a smartphone in a keyboard mode,
FIG. 8 shows a left home screen of a smartphone,
FIG. 9 shows a right-hand home screen of a smartphone,
FIG. 10 shows a screen display of quick settings of a smart phone,
11 shows a 3D effect on a left-hand screen of a smartphone, FIG.
FIG. 12 shows a 3D effect on a right-hand home screen of a smart phone,
FIG. 13 shows a central home screen of a smartphone in one
Touchscreen mode with light font color,
FIG. 14 shows an ABC layout of an on-screen keyboard in a vertical orientation.
Figure 15 is an ABC layout of a screen keyboard in a horizontal
Orientation,
16a-16d a screen display of a list box with a horizontal scrolling at different times,
Figure 17 is a list of parameters of a customization file.
In Fig. 1 a-1 f, an external keyboard 1 for a mobile terminal 3 is shown, which is a smartphone with a touch screen 23 in the present embodiment.
The keyboard 1 comprises a plurality of spaced apart by webs 8, grid-shaped arranged controls 9 in the form of keys. By means of these operating elements 9, which can be operated by a user, the touch screen 23 is operated. Conveniently, the touch screen 23 displays a virtual keyboard corresponding to the keyboard 1 when the keys are transparent. In any case, touch-sensitive areas are activated on the touch screen, the arrangement of the keys or the controls 9 correspond to the keyboard 1. For example, feedback on the user input, for example a text written using the keyboard 1, can be displayed via a visible area of the touchscreen 23 arranged above the keyboard 1. The keyboard 1 can be folded down by means of a hinge-like connecting element 6, so as to expose the entire touch screen for a conventional finger operation of the device. The hinge-like connecting element 6 can also be arranged on the side or on the upper edge of the mobile terminal 3, so that the keyboard 1 can be folded away laterally or upwards.
In Fig. 3 is a cross-section through a keyboard according to the invention 1, which is designed as a membrane keyboard, not shown to scale, comprising three controls 9, which are separated by web-like areas 8. The keyboard 1 has an operating side 10 and a delivery side 11. The operating side 10 faces the user and the delivery side 11 faces the touchscreen 23 to be operated. The topmost layer 12 seen from the operating side is a scratch-resistant layer, for example of hardened polymer, which protects the underlying insulating layer 13 from physical damage. The insulating layer 13 has the task of electrically separating the operating side 10 from the delivery side 11. Below the insulating layer 13 at least one color layer 14 is arranged, which serves the color coding of the individual controls 9 / serve. Below the ink layer (s) 14, the electrically conductive conductive layer 15 is arranged, which is made, for example, by applying an electrically conductive ink. The conductive layer 15 is covered in the direction of the delivery side 11 with a protective layer 16 which, for example, is a transparent UV coating, in order to protect the conductive layer 15. The last layer is the grid layer 17, which has recesses 18 in the area of the operating elements 9. The grid layer 17 is preferably made of a material having adhesive properties, such as. Gum. However, it can also be made of a different material, such. B. be formed of a fleece material. During use, the keyboard 1 rests on the touch screen 23 with the delivery side, i. the grid layer 17 is directly on the touch screen 23. In this state, the touch screen 23 is not operated. The conductive layer 15 forms together with the touch screen, an electrical capacitance similar to a plate capacitor. If now an operation of the touch screen 23 take place, the user presses on the operating page 10 on one or more of the controls 9. Thus, the control element 9 in the direction of actuation 19, which is shown in Figure 2 with an arrow, moved closer to the touch screen introduced. As soon as the electrical coupling of the conductive layer 15 with at least one electrode of the touch screen is strong enough, the capacitance measured at the electrode changes, which is recognized as operation of the touch screen. In this case, it is not necessary for the respective operating element 9 to come into contact with the touchscreen 23. It is sufficient alone the capacitance change, which is caused by the different distance between the conductive layer 15 and the touch screen 23.
Subsequently, the pressure of the user is released to the control element 9, so that the control element 9 moves against the direction of the arrow 19 automatically back to its original position and the electrical coupling of the conductive layer 15 is terminated with the touch screen.
The smartphone 3 has a front side 24, in which the touch screen 23 is provided, which extends substantially over a large part of the front side 24 of the smartphone 3. In this smartphone 3, there are an upper edge 25 and a lower edge 26, which are defined on the one hand by the arrangement of the keyboard 1 and on the other hand by on the touch screen 23 displayable screens that may contain characters that make sense to a user, if the smartphone is aligned with the upper edge 25 upwards. Although it is in principle possible to rotate the screen display, in particular to rotate 90 °, so that the screen displays are displayed in landscape format on the touch screen 23, but in the portrait view of the upper edge 25 and the lower edge 26 are fixed in the present embodiment.
The smartphone 3 has an upper end side 27 (FIG. 1 f), a lower end side 28 (FIG. 1 e), a right longitudinal end side 29 (FIG. 1 d), a left longitudinal end side 30 (FIG. 1 c) and a rear side 31 (FIG. 1 b). on.
On the upper end face 27, an on / off button 32, a multi-function plug 33 and a plug 34 is provided for connecting headphones or speakers. The multi-function plug 33 is formed in the following embodiment as a micro-USB connector and serves both as a connector for connecting a charging cable and a data cable.
On the right longitudinal end face 29, a toggle switch 35 is provided, which is mainly used for adjusting the volume of the smartphone 3. On the left longitudinal end face 30 two pushbuttons 36, 37 are arranged. The upper pushbutton 36 is preferably used to actuate a camera and the lower pushbutton 37 to actuate a light source.
The back 31 is largely covered by a removable cover 38 which extends from the lower edge 26 upwards. In the area above the detachable cover 38, a rigid cover 29 is provided on the back 31. In the area of the rigid cover 39 is a transparent window 40, behind which a light source 41 and a camera 42 are arranged. As the light source 41, a white light emitting diode is used. In the area between the detachable cover 38 and the rigid cover 39, a circular pushbutton 43 is arranged, which can be used as an emergency call button.
In the smartphone 3 are behind the removable cover 3, a rechargeable battery and a slot for a Simcard. By opening the detachable cover 38, both the accumulator and the slot of the SIM card are accessible and it can be used a SIM card and / or the accumulator to be replaced.
In the region of the lower edge 26 are located on the back 31, two electrical contact elements 44, which can be brought into contact with corresponding electrical contacts of a charging station to charge the battery of the smartphone 3. Furthermore, in the region of the lower edge 26, an opening 45 in the housing 46 of the smartphone 3 is formed. In the smartphone 3, a loudspeaker is arranged adjacent to the opening 45, so that the sound waves generated by the loudspeaker can pass unhindered through the opening 45. This opening is therefore also referred to below as the speaker opening 45.
The present embodiment has a single speaker opening 45. Of course, several speaker openings can be provided. The speaker opening 45 is disposed adjacent to the electrical contact elements 44, so that when inserting the smartphone into a charging station, both the electrical contact elements 44 can come into contact with corresponding mating contacts and the speaker opening 45 can open into the cavity of the charging station, so that the charging station acts as a passive sound amplifier. The speaker opening 45 does not have to be arranged directly adjacent to the contact elements 44. For the purposes of the present invention, the adjacent arrangement of the loudspeaker opening 45 and the contact elements 44 means that they are arranged on the same edge region of the mobile terminal, so that when inserting the mobile terminal into a charging station, both the loudspeaker opening 45 and the contact elements 44 with the charging station stay in contact.
On the right longitudinal front side 29, a slot (not shown) is introduced, which is accessible from the inside, when the detachable cover 38 is removed from the smartphone 3. Through this slot, a pin tab 47 can be inserted from the inside out. The pin tab 47 is secured on the inside of the housing 46 with a corresponding latch. The pen tab 47 serves to hold a pen 48 for operating the touch screen 23. A user of the smart phone 3 who does not need a pen to operate the touch screen 43 can easily remove the pen tab 47 by removing the detachable cover 38 from the smartphone 3 and the Pin tab 47 is pulled inward through the slot.
On the front side 24 of the smartphone 3, three pushbuttons 54, 55 and 56 are arranged in the region of the lower edge 26 adjacent to the touchscreen 23. The three pushbuttons 54, 55 and 56 are arranged in a row, with the middle pushbutton 54 being the so-called home key 54, which is provided with a symbol which is a schematic representation of a house. The home button 54 may have multiple functions, wherein in most states of the smartphone, the actuation of the home button 54 causes the display of a home screen, which is also often referred to as a "home screen". The left button 55, which is marked with a green handset as an icon, may also have multiple functions like the right hand button 56, which is marked with a red handset as an icon. The plurality of functions of the left button 55 include "Okay", "Confirmation", "Initiate Phone Call", "Receive Phone Call" while the plural functions of the right button 56 "Cancel", "Cancel Phone Call" and "End Phone Call (Hang Up) "include.
The hinge-like connecting element 6 is welded to the detachable cover 38 and / or glued. As a result, the keyboard 1 on the one hand firmly connected to the smartphone 3 and on the other hand, however, can be removed from the smartphone 3 by replacing the detachable cover 38 with a detachable cover that is not connected to such a keyboard, so that the smartphone is a conventional smartphone without folding keyboard corresponds.
By attaching the keyboard to the removable cover 38 and conventional smartphones 3 can be easily retrofitted with such a folding keyboard.
The keyboard 1 has a plurality of operating elements 9 (FIGS. 1a, 1c) and is provided with a plurality of magnets 21, 21.
The controls 9 are formed in simple and double size. Simple size controls have a width of about 15 mm and a height of about 7 mm. Control elements 9 in double size have a width and a height of about 15 mm. The operating elements preferably have a width of at least 8 mm, preferably at least 10 mm and in particular at least 12 mm. The height of the controls is at least 4 mm, preferably at least 6 mm and in particular at least 8 mm or at least 10 mm.
The keyboard 1 is formed as a membrane keyboard with a multilayer film 49, a grid layer 17 and a frame grid 50 (Figure 1d). The film 49 has the layer structure shown in FIG. 3 comprising the uppermost layer 12, the insulating layer 13, the color layer 14, the conductive layer 15, the protective layer 16. The grid layer 17 is arranged on the output side 11 of the keyboard 1 and covers the entire area of the keyboard except for the area of the operating elements 9. The grid layer 17 surrounds each individual control element 9, equally, whether it is a control element with single or double size. The grid layer 17 is made of an electrically insulating material, such. B. a fleece, rubber or other plastic layer.
The entire layer structure of the keyboard can also be made transparent at least in the region of one or more operating elements. In such an embodiment, the images (icons, numbers, etc.) indicating the meaning of each control are displayed on the touchscreen. Such a keyboard can be flexibly set for different languages and thus different fonts.
The frame grid 50 is located on the operating side 10 of the keyboard 1. The frame grid 50 is made of a rigid material, in particular a fiber-reinforced plastic, such. B. a glass fiber reinforced plastic. The frame grid 50 encloses all controls of double size and encloses each a pair of controls with a simple size (Fig. 1a). The frame grid 50 gives the keyboard 1 its mechanical strength. The frame grid 50 is covered with leather. However, it is also possible to use another material with a nice appearance as a cover.
The individual operating elements 9 are each bounded by a circumferential bead 51, which is formed in the film 49. The bead 51 is a small groove formed in the film 49, which represents the edge of the operating elements 9 and serves to stiffen the operating elements 9. For rigid films 49, it is not necessary to provide a bead.
The frame grid 50 has, in addition to the recesses for the operating elements 9, a further recess 52, which is arranged in the region of the home button 54 of the smartphone 3. However, this recess 52 can with a soft, flexible layer, such. As an artificial leather, so that the Flome button 54 is indeed covered by the keyboard, but by means of this soft layer is operable. This recess, which may be covered with the soft layer, is identified in FIGS. 2a and 2c by reference numeral 52.
The smartphone 3 has on its front side 24 along the right and left longitudinal end side 29, 30 and along the upper edge 25 a slightly above the remaining front side 24 projecting web 53. If the smartphone 3 is placed with the front side 24 on a flat surface, then the smartphone rests with the web 53 on the pad and not with the touch screen on the pad. This will protect the touch screen from damage. Furthermore, the distance of the sections of the web along the longitudinal end faces approximately corresponds to the width of the keyboard 1, so that the mutually spaced-apart web portions 53 are used for positioning and fixing the keyboard 1.
The smartphone 3 has magnets which are arranged on the corresponding to the magnets 21 of the keyboard 1 positions in the smartphone. Using these magnets, the keyboard is fixed on the front side 24 of the smartphone 3. In the smartphone 3, a magnetic field sensor, in particular a Hall sensor, is arranged at the location corresponding to the location of the magnet 22 of the keyboard 1.
The smartphone 3 may also have on the back of 31 magnets that are used to fix the keyboard 1 and with the magnets 21 of the keyboard 1 interaction, when the keyboard 1 is folded on the back 31 of the smartphone 3.
The above-described embodiment of a mobile terminal is a smartphone. In principle, within the scope of the invention, each mobile terminal which has a touch screen is suitable for being provided with the keyboard, with which actions can be triggered on the touch screen.
The individual controls 9 and keys of the keyboard 1 are very large compared to conventional mobile phones. This also allows reliable operation of the controls by older people. Furthermore, the large-scale controls allow appropriate labeling with large letters and numbers that can be easily read. The large-scale controls thus offer significant practical advantages in the application. On the other hand, the large-scale controls with an integrated conductive layer 15 cause a large change in the capacity between the controls and the touch screen, which can be easily and reliably detected. This keyboard thus provides the user with controls 9 which act as a mechanical key and have a fixed pressure point without the keyboard itself being directly coupled to the electrical circuits of the mobile terminal. In addition, the keyboard 1 can be operated with fingers, prostheses, glove-bearing fingers, wet fingers, pins or other objects and is reliable in triggering one of the controls associated action, this being detected by a capacitive measurement by means of the touch screen 23.
Above an embodiment of a mobile terminal is explained, in which the keyboard is pivotally mounted by means of the hinge-like connecting element 6. The keyboard may also be part of a case, which is pushed onto the mobile terminal. The shell may be formed, for example, pocket-shaped, wherein a side surface of the cavity is formed by the keyboard, which rests after the insertion of the smartphone in the case to the touch screen of the smartphone. For mobile devices different operating systems are known, such. Android, BlackBerry OS, Apple iOS. The basic functions and the structure of these operating systems are similar. The invention will be explained below by way of example with reference to the operating system Android. Of course, the invention can also be realized with other operating systems for mobile devices.
Such an operating system can be represented with a layer model, whereby the operating system Android comprises a Linux kernel layer 61, a program library layer 62 based on the Linux kernel layer 61, an application programming frame layer 63 based on the program library layer 62 and an application layer 64 placed thereon (Fig. 4).
The Linux kernel layer 61 includes the drivers and control programs discussed below.
A display driver 65 controls the touch screen 23 so that information is displayed thereon.
A keyboard driver 66 receives from the touch screen 23 by finger touch keyboard input.
A camera driver 67 enables communication with the camera 42. The communication includes capturing camera images and setting camera parameters.
A WiFi driver 68 provides an interface for wireless network communication.
A flash memory driver 69 enables the writing and reading of flash memory components.
Audio drivers 70 enable the output of audio signals to a speaker and the detection of sound pressure changes via a microphone.
A Binder (IPC) driver 71 provides functions for interprocess communication.
A power management 72 controls the power consumption of the mobile terminal 3 in that the power management 72 clocks down a microprocessor that controls the mobile terminal 3 and / or shuts down unnecessary components of the mobile terminal 3. If a higher power of the microprocessor or a switched-off component is needed, then the power management 72 sets a high clock frequency of the microprocessor or activates the switched-off component.
The program library layer 62 includes various program libraries containing executable program code. The program libraries serve to simplify and standardize the programming and provide layers 63 and 64 above the program library layer 62 with executable program routines. The program libraries comprising the program library layer 62 are explained below.
A surface manager 73 provides routines for controlling a user interface (GUI).
An Embedded Systems Open Graphics Library (Open GL ES) 74 provides graphics routines for displaying graphics on the touch screen 23.
A Scalable Graphics Library (SGL) 75 also provides such graphics routines, particularly for scaling graphics for various screen resolutions.
A media programming framework 76 provides routines for outputting various media formats.
A font grid graphic library (Free Type) 77 provides routines for font output on the touch screen 23.
A Secure Sockets Layer Library (SSL) 78 provides routines for encrypted data connections.
An SQL database engine (SQLite) 79 allows you to implement SQL standard SQL (Structured Query Language) databases.
An HTML rendering engine (Webkit) 80 allows the display of hypertext markup languages (HTML) on the touch screen 23.
A C library (libc) 81 provides program libraries in the C programming language.
A part of the program library layer 62 is the Android runtime environment 82, with which code, in particular code programmed in the Java programming language, can be executed at runtime. The Android runtime environment 82 includes the components explained below.
Core program libraries 83 provide program routines for the Android runtime environment 82.
A Dalvik virtual machine 84 represents a virtual execution environment in the form of a so-called register machine for executing code, in particular codes programmed in the Java programming language.
The application programming frame layer 63 comprises the components explained below.
An activity manager 85 manages application components.
A window manager 86 manages user interface windows.
Content Providers 87 provide access to structured data.
A View System 88 provides routines for presenting graphical elements, particularly for UI elements.
A package manager 89 provides routines for collecting information about installed applications.
A telephone manager 90 provides access to information about telephone services of the mobile terminal 3.
A resource manager 91 provides routines for managing and accessing program resources.
A geoposition manager 92 provides the current geoposition of the mobile terminal. He determines the geo position via a navigation device of the mobile terminal, z. As a GPS receiver, and / or by evaluation of information over wireless networks within reach.
A message manager 93 manages inbound and outbound messages.
A settings application 94 is used to access settings of the mobile terminal 3.
The application layer 64 comprises applications stored or executed on the mobile terminal 3, which are explained below.
A home application 95 displays a start screen via which the mobile terminal 3 can be operated.
A contact application 96 manages contacts with associated information such as telephone numbers, e-mail address, address (place of residence), birthday etc.
A telephone application 97 makes it possible to make a telephone call via a data connection.
A browser 98 provides access to the Internet via a data connection.
A navigation application 99 enables navigation or pathfinding from the current location of the mobile terminal 3 to a destination.
Applications 95 through 99 are applications that are standard on the Android operating system.
The following explains components that are not standard on the Android operating system.
The program library layer 62 has a common program library 100 ("Common Program Library") added, which grants the applications explained below, a direct access to the drivers of the Linux kernel and the Linux kernel, to directly control the hardware. The common program library 100 thus replaces essential components of the program library layer of the operating system. It can also replace parts of the application programming frame. With the common program library 100, a uniform user interface (GUI) is provided, which can be used by the applications.
With this shared program library 100, the user interface should be designed such that the elements to be displayed are displayed in a size sufficient for older persons. In conventional mobile devices, such. As mobile telephones, the individual elements are usually represented by icons, under which a designation of the icon is specified with very small font. In contrast to such known user interfaces, the user interface defined by the shared program library 100 is designed as a cell-shaped list field representation or as a list box 157, wherein textual information is provided in a text area 158 that extends over a majority of the width of the touch screen (FIGS. 16a to 16d). ,
The shared program library 100 provides a function of automatically horizontally scrolling textual information that extends in a predetermined large font over a width that is wider than the available text area 158. Here, the text can be scrolled continuously endlessly. This avoids having to display textual information with a font size that older people can not read. In addition, icons 159 can also be displayed in such a line in addition to the text area 158. Figures 16a to 16d show such a horizontal scrolling in the first line of a contact list. While Fig. 16a shows the initial state in displaying the contact list, Figs. 16b to 16d show the text area 158 with the process of scrolling horizontally at different timings.
This line-by-line configuration of the list field representation is preferably combined with a function that can also be implemented in the shared program library 100, with which the objects of the individual lines are automatically sorted by importance and / or frequency, the important and / or frequently used objects after above and the less important and less commonly used items are sorted down. The "importance" of an element of a list box may be determined, for example, by inputs made in advance for a user, such as, for example, B. the selection of the element as a favorite. On the other hand, the importance of an item of the list box representation can be performed from statistical parameters such. As the sales of applications, the frequency of use of the respective applications on all or many mobile devices, the evaluation of the respective applications by third parties etc.
The line-by-line list field representation can comprise more objects or lines than can be displayed on the touch screen 23. The common program library 100 provides a scroll function with which a user of the mobile terminal can scroll the list box display vertically up or down.
In connection with the automatic sorting of the lines by importance and / or frequency, with an initial position of the list field representation always the most important and / or most frequent line at the top of a list box area, is displayed on the touch screen 23, the need to scroll the list box cell display kept low because the important and frequent lines are already displayed in the starting position. The list box area is the area of the touch screen 23 that is available for the list box display. The list box area is delimited at the top by a search bar. The search bar in one area has a search box for entering search terms to look for in the list box, and another area has a back button whose functions are explained in more detail below.
In principle, however, it is also possible to sort the individual lines in reverse, with the most frequent and most important lines being arranged at the bottom, in which case the most frequent and / or most important line at the bottom of the list box area of the user interface is displayed in the starting position.
The uniform user interface (GUI) provided by the shared program library 100 is preferably configured such that keys on the touchscreen 23 have a width of at least 2 cm, and preferably at least 2.5 cm and / or a height of at least 1.5 cm or at least 2 cm. Such large buttons are easy to operate. On the touch screen illustrated font of the uniform user interface has a size of the capital letters of at least 2.5 mm or 3 mm and in particular at least 3.5 mm and preferably at least 4 mm.
Furthermore, components contained in the application programming frame layer 63 of the operating system are changed or extended in order to be able to operate user-friendly applications. The modified components of the application programming frame layer 63 include the window manager 86, the content providers 87, the telephony manager 90, the message manager 93, and the settings application 94.
At the top level, the application layer 64, the user-friendly applications can then be operated. The easy-to-use applications are characterized by the use of the above-mentioned common user interface (GUI) to display information on the touchscreen. These easy-to-use applications include: launcher 101, browser 102, calculator 103, calendar application 104, camera application 105, contact application 106, clock application 107, picture album (gallery) 108, on-screen keyboard 109, e-mail application 110, short message application 111, message application 112 for other non-text messaging services, installation application 113, touch-trainer 114, weather application 115, keyguard application 116, telephone application 117, installation application for Android applications from the Google Play Store® 118 and medication monitor 119.
These listed applications are programs that can be started and stopped by a user, or programs that are loaded and initialized and then executed during a booting process of the smartphone, i. E. These programs run in the background and can be viewed by the user as needed.
In addition, other applications that are not displayable by the user are loaded, initialized and executed when the smartphone is booted. This type of application is called a service. Such services include a keyboard service 121, a weather service 122, a calendar service 123, and an e-mail messaging service 124.
The keyboard service 121 determines whether the external keyboard is present on the touchscreen 23. This information is passed to the launcher 101, which switches the mobile terminal 3 in a keyboard mode when the external keyboard 1 is applied to the touch screen 23, and switches in a touch screen mode when the external keyboard 1 is not present on the touch screen 23. For this purpose, the keyboard service 121 can detect the signals of a magnetic field sensor, in particular a Hall sensor, and / or the signals of a light sensor.
The weather service 122 loads the current weather data from a predetermined server to the mobile terminal 3 and makes it available to the individual applications of the mobile terminal 3. The weather data are preferably determined as a function of a previously detected geoposition.
The calendar service 123 regularly loads the current date and the current time onto the mobile terminal 3 and synchronizes an internal clock of the mobile terminal 3. This too can be done automatically depending on the current geoposition. With the calendar service 123, appointments registered in a calendar provided on the mobile terminal 3 are checked and corresponding notifications are triggered to the user.
The message service for e-mail 124 is used primarily for receiving and sending e-mail messages. These are forwarded by the E-mail message service 124 to the e-mail application or to other message applications. All of the easy-to-use applications 101 through 124 with the common program library 100 together represent a coherent system, i. H. the applications 101 to 124 preferably work together in such a way that when essential components of the user-friendly application 101 to 124, such. B. the launcher 101 should be missing, a feasibility of the other user-friendly applications 102 to 124 is no longer given. This means that the user-friendly applications 101 to 124 are closely interlinked in their functional sequences.
The launcher 101 controls the keyboard mode and the touch screen mode, following the following basic rules: 1. In the keyboard mode, part of the touch screen 23 is covered by the external keyboard 1. If a part of the touch screen 23 is free, then this part is used to display information. This display mode of the keyboard mode allows the display of different user interfaces, in particular a home screen, which is explained below, with predetermined information, such. As time, date, temperature and a pre-stored wallpaper or a predetermined user interface with z. B. a list box representation. A user may select individual items shown in the keypad mode display panel, such as: For example, select a row from a list box view and scroll up or down in list boxes. In keyboard mode, the execution of any other action is blocked by touching. They can only be performed by operating one of the controls on the external keyboard. The launcher 101 is thus designed such that it can accept no actions - except for a selection and a vertical scrolling - by the touchscreen 23 in the keyboard mode. 2. When changing from the keyboard mode to the touch screen mode, each application can be continued, with only the display-influenced by the application on the touch screen 23 can be changed if necessary. When switching from touchscreen mode to keyboard mode, not all applications can be resumed. There are certain operations that continue when switching from touchscreen mode to keyboard mode, which will be referred to as critical operations below, because their continuation is either necessary or of such fundamental importance to the operation of the mobile terminal. that they should not be canceled. Operations are actions that are performed by the applications. Typical examples of critical operations are e.g. As the phone or the output of a triggered alarm. Dialing a telephone number is not necessarily a critical operation. However, it may also make sense to consider dialing a telephone number as a critical operation, so that dialing may continue after a change from keyboard mode to touchscreen mode or vice versa. 3. When changing from keyboard mode to touch screen mode, the user will also be able to view or be available in touch screen mode at least all information and / or all functions displayed or available in keyboard mode. Touchscreen mode can display more information than keyboard mode and provide more functionality than keyboard mode. In touchscreen mode, actions can be triggered by touching. When switching from touchscreen mode to keyboard mode, the displayed information can be limited and the functions provided can be reduced. Preferably, only a few basic functions or basic applications are executable in the keyboard mode, such. As the calling and sending short messages.
Above all, the critical operations discussed above involve telephoning the telephone application 117 or outputting an alarm with the uhle replication 107. In the present embodiment, all operations performed with another application are non-critical operations. This means that if you switch from touchscreen mode to keyboard mode, these applications will pause or stop. When the applications are paused, they are automatically resumed upon a subsequent change from keyboard mode to touchscreen mode. If they are stopped, however, these applications must be restarted in touchscreen mode. When switching from touch screen mode to keyboard mode, the keyboard mode Ho-me screen will automatically display, regardless of which application was active in touch screen mode. This allows a user to bring the mobile terminal at any time to a state in which he can easily make phone calls.
The home screen is a predetermined screen presentation in which a predetermined selection of information relevant to the user is displayed (FIGS. 6 and 7). This relevant information includes time, temperature, date, day, month, year, presence or number of missed calls, received messages, received short messages (SMS or MMS, and received additional short messages from other short message systems (Whatsapp, Viber, etc.). In this case, the relevant information is in part displayed on a background image 154 that is backed up by the information.This provides both a home screen for the touchscreen mode (FIG. 6) and a home screen for the keyboard mode (FIG The background image 154 of the home screen for the touch screen mode may have a different size than the background image 154 of the home screen for the keyboard mode, since the available in the keyboard mode display area of the touch screen 23 by the overlying external keyboard 1 vertically reduced can.
The launcher 101 is designed in such a way that the home screen of the touchscreen mode or the keyboard mode is called up by pressing the home key 54 one or more times.
In touchscreen mode, a back button is displayed at the top of the screen, which returns the display to the previous menu or level. Preferably, the back button is located at the upper right edge. This is especially true when the mobile terminal is set for the operation of the right-handed. In a left-handed setting, the back button may also be located at the top left margin. This back button is only displayed in touch screen mode if the entire screen or touch screen 23 is required by an application, such as a computer. As the picture album for displaying a photo or a game application that requires the entire touch screen 23 for displaying the game, or in the home screen.
FIG. 5 shows the menu structure and the respective applications which can be called up from the menu structure. The central application of the home screen is the launcher 101, which is executed during the operation of the smartphone 3 and executable on this. By means of the launcher 101, the user interface is displayed or made available to the user so that the user can call up the various applications of the smartphone 3 and trigger their functions. The launcher 101 provides in the touch screen mode as a home screen or home screen three different homescreens: A central home screen 125 (Fig. 6), a swirling to the right fading left homescreen 126 (Fig. 8) and through a Swipe movement to the left-hand side right home screen 127 (FIG. 9).
From the central homescreen 125, four different applications can be called directly, which can be executed on the smartphone 3: 1. The telephone application 117 is an application with which calls can be made and received and call options can be set. For this purpose, the telephone application 117 displays a selection option with which it is possible to change to the contact application 106, to a numeric keypad 128 of the on-screen keyboard 109 or to the telephone settings 129. In addition, telephone application 117 displays the last unanswered calls. The contact application 106 is an application in which contacts with their telephone numbers and other information, such as e-mail address and birthday, managed and can be selected from the phone book or the contact list out. The on-screen keyboard 109 provides a numeric keypad 128 for entering and dialing telephone numbers. Phone Settings 129 allows you to set voice call settings and other call-related settings. 2. The short message application 111 manages messages of a short message service (SMS: English: Short Message Service or MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service). In addition, the short message application 111 displays the most recently received and unread short messages and settings for the short message service. By calling a function "new message" in the short message application 111, the user can create a new short message. Here, the user may determine a recipient by selecting a contact from the contact application 106, entering a telephone number via the numeric keypad 128, or by selecting one of the most recent calls. Alternatively, by selecting one of the last unread short messages while reading the short message, the user may initiate a response to the read short message. Furthermore, from the short message application 111 short message settings 130 can be invoked, with which settings for the short message service can be set. 3. The Bilderalbum 108 is an application with which photos and videos can be displayed or played. From the image album 108, the camera application 105 can be called up directly, which is an application with which the camera of the smartphone 3 can be operated and thus photos and videos can be recorded. Camera settings 131 can be used to set camera settings via camera settings 131.
Furthermore, the picture album 108 has a favorites function, wherein photos or videos marked as favorites are displayed first when the picture album 108 is opened. In this case, the favorites identification can be carried out by the user or determined by evaluating via other information, such as, for example, the frequency of the image or video being called up. If the display of the image album 108 scrolls up or down, plus and minus buttons are displayed for a predetermined time on the display, with the display of thumbnails or thumbnails of the photos in the gallery can be increased or decreased. 4. By means of the message application (message center) 112, the reception of messages other than the short messages of the short message application 111 explained above is displayed and managed centrally. In addition, via the message application (message center), 112 message settings 132 can be called up with which the settings for the messages can be set. In order to be able to display messages of various different services, the user can call a corresponding message service application AppN1 133 to AppNY 134 from the message application (message center) 112. Such message service applications are applications which are assigned to the respective message services or are offered by these message services in order to be able to participate in the respective message service and to receive or send via these messages. Examples of such news services are the services Whatsapp, Viber, etc., which are also referred to as instant messengers.
The message application (message center) 112 provides a filter that can be turned on and off. Through the filter, messages received by the message service applications AppN1 133 through AppNY 134 are filtered so that only the receipt as important classified messages is displayed. Messages classified as important here are messages that originate from predetermined communication partners, have been received via predetermined message applications of the message applications AppN1 133 to AppNY 134 and / or are provided with a marking that identifies the message as important.
The message application (message center) 112 thus makes it possible to use a single central application for the administration of different message services. This provides the user with a unified user interface, which greatly simplifies the use of the intelligence services.
On top of the central home screen 125, a status line 145 is additionally arranged in the upper area, via which quick settings 146 can be called, an accumulator information 147 is displayed which provides further information about the battery capacity by clicking, as well as network information 148, which by clicking on further information via a telephone network in which the smartphone 3 is operated and via a wireless connection to a network (WLAN) to which the smartphone 3 is connected (FIGS. 6 and 10). The quick adjustments 146 can be opened by dragging down a quick-setting icon 149 formed as a gear icon, thereby presenting a display in which the user can quickly and efficiently perform the most important adjustments or open other settings can to put more important settings. The most important settings include alarm state 150 (alarms on or off), a night mode setting 151, discussed below, a wireless network connection setting 152 (connected wireless network, wireless network connection turned on or off), and one Setting for a mobile data connection 153 (mobile data connection switched on or off).
Other settings include flight mode (on or off), blue tooth connection (on or off), application location sharing (on or off), audio profiles, network settings, wallpaper, date and time, language and input, display settings, Security settings and system settings.
The accumulator information 147 includes an indication of the accumulator total capacity as well as the current state of charge of the accumulator, which is determined via a state of charge prediction algorithm. If the current charge capacity of the accumulator falls below a threshold which is determined by the state of charge prediction algorithm, the smartphone 3 is put into sleep mode, so that a deep discharge of the accumulator is prevented, which could destroy the accumulator. The threshold value defined by the state of charge prediction algorithm is in this case so high that the accumulator capacity is always sufficient to be able to make at least one emergency call. If a distress call is triggered via a list of emergency numbers 138, which are explained below, or via the pushbutton 43 present on the smartphone 3, then the emergency call is also carried out if the accumulator capacity drops in such a way that the accumulator falls into a state of deep discharge device. Further, the accumulator performance is checked by the state of charge prediction algorithm in an upcoming update of the operating system or individual applications, and such an update is only possible when a predetermined threshold value, such as 30% accumulator charge, is exceeded.
On the left home screen 126 of the launcher 101, contact favorites keys 155, my phone number 136, an answering machine key 155, and an emergency call number key 155 are displayed (FIG. 8). The favorites 135 indicate predetermined favorites that can be set as favorites by the user in the contact applications 106. By tapping the respective favorite or triggering the corresponding button 155 on the left home screen 126, the telephone application 117 is called and the corresponding telephone number of the favorite 135 is selected. The phone number shown in my phone number 136 is your own phone number, d. H. the phone number of the smartphone 3. About the answering machine 137 and triggering the corresponding key 155 this can be queried by the user, wherein the answering service via the telephone application 117 of the answering machine is called. Emergency numbers can be configured via the list of emergency numbers 138, the corresponding emergency numbers can be called via the telephone application 117, and settings for the pushbutton 43 present on the smartphone 3 can be set as an emergency call button.
On the right home screen 127 of the launcher 101, keys 155 for most used applications 139 are displayed and can be called up by triggering the corresponding key 155 (FIG. 9). The most commonly used applications 139 are the applications most frequently invoked by the user in the past. Here are the applications AppF1 140 to AppF7 141, d. H. the seven most frequently viewed applications are displayed. Furthermore, all applications 142 can be called up from the most frequently used applications 139, with all applications present on the smartphone being displayed in a list view, from which the applications can be called. All applications 142 include App1 143 to AppX 144.
All applications App1 143 to AppX 144 include the applications AppN1 143 to AppNY 144 and the applications AppF1 140 to AppF7 141.
Furthermore, the applications listed in the list box of all applications 142 include the user-friendly applications, such as the contact application 106, short message application 111, picture album (gallery) 108, camera application 105 and message application (message center) 112. The all shown in the list box Applications 142 are listed alphabetically. Via the search field shown above in the display of all applications 142, applications can be searched for by entering their name. The search field is located opposite the back button. Furthermore, the user can delete applications, i. H. Uninstall from the smartphone. The deletion of applications takes place here by marking selection fields assigned to the respective application, whereby a marked selection field means that the corresponding application is to be deleted. Here, several applications can be selected simultaneously for a deletion process, which are then sequentially uninstalled after triggering the deletion function or initiating the uninstallation.
When used as intended, the user-friendly applications 101 to 124 can not be deleted. Should nevertheless one of the user-friendly applications 101 to 124 be uninstalled, then the launcher 101 replaces the uninstalled application with the corresponding standard application of the Android operating system, so that the standard application is called up with the corresponding button 155 of the central home screen 125. If the corresponding standard application of the Android operating system is not installed, then the launcher 101 selects another application that can be called up with the corresponding key 155 from the central home screen 125.
As discussed above, the user may operate the launcher 101 via a drag such that the launcher 101 displays various home screens 125, 126, and 127. The number of homescreens here is limited, with the central home screen 125 giving the limiting left home screen 126 and the limiting right home screen 127. If the launcher 101 displays the left home screen 126, then moving the home screen to the left is blocked by the launcher 101 to the right by a swipe movement to the right. If the launcher 101 displays the right home screen 127, then moving the home screen to the right is blocked by a whisker to the left by the whimper 101. The blockage is displayed to the user while wiping or dragging by means of a 3D effect (FIGS. 11 and 12). The wiping direction 156 is characterized by an arrow.
In effecting the 3D effect, the rectangular screen display is tilted in perspective by mapping the edge region from which it is pulled away to a trapezoidal shape, in particular by reducing the edge from which it is pulled away from the edge to which it is drawn. This gives the impression that the screen with the edge from which is pulled away, tilts backwards. This 3D effect simulates an impact at an imaginary boundary defined by the boundary by the respective outer left home screen 126 or right home screen 127.
On the central home screen 125, the user-selectable background image 154 and in the foreground the relevant information is displayed, such as the time, the day of the week, the date with year and the temperature at the location of the smartphone 3 (Figures 6, 7 and 13). This information is displayed with characters such as numbers, letters, and special characters. The character color is adjusted according to the color of the pixels of the background image 154, so that the highest possible contrast and thus improved readability of the characters is achieved. For adjusting the character color, the pixels of the background image 154, which are arranged behind or close to the characters, are detected and combined therefrom a middle pixel color. If the brightness value of the center pixel color is above a predetermined threshold value or equal to the predetermined threshold value, then a dark color is set as the character color, such as a dark gray, as shown in FIG. However, if the brightness value of the center pixel color is below a predetermined threshold, then a bright color is set as the character color, such as white, as shown in Figs. The area of the background, which is evaluated here for determining the mean background color, extends over individual characters or over entire words or expressions, which may have a logical or semantic context.
In the above-mentioned user-friendly applications, it is avoided superfluous information, such as advertising, etc., display, so that the usable area for the display of relevant information and for the operation is completely available.
When entering time or day data, in particular, when setting the date and time of the internal clock of the smartphone 3 with the Uhplplikation 107 or when entering alarm times in the Uhplplikation 107 or when entering appointments in the calendar application 104, the input cursor is controlled in that it is automatically moved from one input field to another. This automatic control is carried out according to the following rules: 1. At a time input with the time representation in 24-hour mode, when inputting a 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 into an hour field, the input cursor becomes moved into a minute field. 2. When entering a time-of-day input with the time display in 12-hour mode, entering a 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 moves the input cursor to the minute field. 3. In a clock input, when entering a 6, 7, 8, 9 in the minute field of the input cursor is moved so that a next object of the display, such. As a button is marked. 4. When entering a date, entering a 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 into a day date field moves the input cursor to a month field. 5. When entering a date, entering a 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 into the month field moves the input cursor to an annual field. 6. For all inputs that are not plausible, such as a 3 followed by a 2 for the current date, the input cursor moves to the next field and the entered digit is written to this next field.
If there is no next input field, then the next object of the display is marked.
The application on-screen keyboard 109 makes it possible to display on screen 23 a screen keyboard for entering characters. In this case, screen keyboards with different arrangement of the keys 155 or with a different layout of the keyboard can be displayed. In addition to the keyboard layouts already known on the market, which correspond to a QWERTY or a QWERTY layout, a screen keyboard having an ABC layout can also be displayed on the touchscreen 23 (FIGS. 14 and 15). The on-screen keyboard with the ABC layout is here designed such that the keys 155 are arranged in alphabetical order from top left to bottom right. FIG. 14 shows a screen keyboard with the ABC layout for a vertically oriented touch screen 23, while FIG. 15 shows a screen keyboard with the ABC layout for a horizontally oriented touch screen 23.
The keys 155 of the ABC keyboard are in each case arranged such that a maximum of eight keys are displayed side by side in the horizontal direction. In FIGS. 14 and 15 there is shown an arrangement with exactly eight keys 155 in the horizontal direction, the letters AH on the keys 155 of an uppermost, first line, the letters lP on the keys 155 of a second line and the letters QX on the keys 155 a third row are arranged. The letters X and Z are punctuation marks such as comma, dot and question mark, and a return key, a shift key and a key to switch to a numeric keyboard on the keys 155 of a fourth line. The bottom fifth row has a send button 155, a delete button 155, and a space input key 155. The send and delete keys 155 may also have other labels or trigger other functions. For example, the send 155 key may also be executed as an OK, Save, or Enter key. The delete key 155 may be executed as a cancel, non-save, or end key, for example. Such an arrangement of a maximum of eight keys in the horizontal direction, the width of the individual keys is increased so that a operatability even for the elderly or persons with disabilities is reliably enabled.
By means of the push-button 43, a user can place an emergency call to the emergency numbers 138 stored in the list of emergency numbers 138 discussed above. Here, the smartphone 3 dials the emergency numbers 138 one after the other in the order of their listing in the list. If, after dialing one of the emergency numbers 138, a pickup of the called party is detected, then the smartphone 3 plays the called party a predetermined voice message, so that the latter can acoustically perceive the message. Additionally or alternatively, a short message can be transmitted with the alarm message. If the respective called emergency number is busy 138 or not reachable, then the next emergency number 138 stored in the list of emergency numbers 138 is dialed. If the smartphone 3 has dialed the last emergency number 138 stored in the list of emergency numbers 138, and could not detect a called party, then the process of dialing emergency number 138 with the first stored emergency number 138 begins again. After triggering such an emergency call, the telephone application 117 switches the smartphone 3 for a predetermined time, which is preferably 1 hour, in a mode that allows the automatic acceptance of an incoming phone 3 on the phone conversation. As a result, in an emergency situation, even if the user is not able to take even the conversations to be accepted, the arrived call automatically. Preferably, after the automatic acceptance of the call, a loudspeaker function is enabled by turning on a loudspeaker installed in the smart phone 3 and allowing a loudspeaker to listen to a call and activating a handsfree function by increasing the sensitivity of a microphone present in the smartphone 3.
The Uhrapplikation 107 reads an internal clock of the smartphone 3 and displays on certain screens, in particular on the central home screen 125, the time in a predetermined format (digital, analog). The Uhrapplikation 107 can also take over other control tasks, such. B. an alarm function, a display of several times different time zones or a timer that counts down a certain period of time before an alarm is issued. The alarm can be output as an acoustic, optical and / or vibration signal.
Furthermore, the earplug 107 may control the manner in which communications by means of acoustic, optical, and / or vibrational signals draw attention to themselves. It is known that incoming telephone calls emit an acoustic signal, the ringtone. There are also corresponding acoustic signals for incoming short messages, e-mails or other messages. The signals can be combined or alternatively output as an optical signal and / or vibration signal.
In this case, there is often the problem that at certain times such signals are generated and can thereby significantly disturb the user. This is especially true for the nocturnal rest period, in which one would like to sleep in the rule and would not be disturbed by such a signal.
The Uhplplikation 107 is therefore designed so that the individual communication processes time ranges are set, within which these signals are not output (intensity 0) or low intensity. It is also possible within these time ranges, the manner of the output of the signal with respect to the remaining time range to be changed. For example, it may be expedient not to emit an acoustic signal during the rest period and to output only an optical and / or vibration signal. The choice of the type of signal can also be combined with a determination of the intensity of the signal.
Furthermore, for the different types of communications, such. As phone calls, short messages, e-mails, other types of messages different time ranges for a quiet area and different types of signals are set, both intensity and type of the signal are controlled time-dependent.
Optionally, it is also possible to combine this time-dependent control of the intensity and / or the type of these signals with a brightness-dependent control. The brightness is detected by means of a light sensor. The light sensor is preference, on one of the end faces 27, 28, 29 arranged so that it is not covered by placing the smartphone 3 with the front 24 or with the back 31 on a planar surface. Alternatively or in combination, a plurality of light sensors, for. B. one on the front 24 and one on the back 31 of the smartphone 3 may be arranged so that at least one of the two sensors can always detect the ambient light. The light sensors are preferably arranged on the smartphone 3 in such a way that they are not covered by the keyboard 1 or by an envelope of the smartphone 3.
A combined time and brightness control of the adjustment of the signals is preferably carried out in such a way that a low-intensity rest area of the signals or a predetermined selection of the type of the signals is determined by the predetermined time range and a brightness below a predetermined threshold value. If the smartphone has multiple light sensors, then the brightness value measured by all the light sensors must be below the predetermined threshold.
A user who has entered a predetermined temporal rest area may thus allow the signaling of predetermined communication operations when the ambient light has a predetermined brightness. If the ambient light is reduced within this temporal rest area, then the intensity of the signaling of the communication operations is automatically reduced or switched to the quiet less disturbing types of signals, in particular optical and / or vibration signals.
Mobile terminals with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection are provided with an operating system after the hardware has been manufactured. For this purpose, a boot loader is usually first loaded onto the mobile terminal, with which then the actual operating system can be loaded.
The operating systems may differ for the regions in which the mobile terminal is to be used. In particular, different settings and parameters for the radio links may be necessary. There are also major customers and wholesalers who want special operating system versions. By doing
Operating system are then z. B. only functions relating to the radio link installed, which are actually present in the network of major customers. As a result, malfunctions are avoided on the mobile device.
Installing such operating systems is also referred to as "flashing." Such flash-specific flashing is common in mobile telephones. The major customers are usually operators of telephone networks.
In order to be able to perform a specific flashing for a large customer, a corresponding image of the operating system must first be produced which has the features desired by the major customer. Creating such an image is expensive. Furthermore, the flashing of the mobile terminal takes considerable time. Often, mobile terminals are flashed with a specific operating system, even though a standard operating system already exists on the mobile terminal. With mobile phones sold in small numbers, flashing is practically impractical due to the considerable technical effort required to produce the specific image. Mobile phone devices for seniors, the special products in a market that is designed for mass production, while some are also flashed with a specific image. However, if not all mobile telephones can be distributed to the desired extent and sold in other markets, then they must be re-provided with a different specified operating system.
According to a further aspect of the invention, the operating system of the mobile terminal 3, in particular of the smartphone 3, can be designed such that it can read an adaptation file in an adaptation mode and can take parameters for setting the operating system from it. FIG. 17 shows a list of the control parameters that can be set with such an adaptation file.
In order for the customization file to be read, the mobile terminal 3 must be switched in an adaptation mode. Since with such an adjustment file, the basic operation of the mobile terminal 3 is adjustable, the
Saved adjustment mode. The adaptation mode can be activated by a specific combination of keys with and without alphanumeric code. However, turning on the adaptation mode may also be done with an electronic key for authorizing the operator who wants to load the customization file to the mobile terminal 3. There may be several alternative ways of turning on the adaptation mode, and depending on the way in which the adaptation mode is switched on, different adaptation possibilities are provided.
In the case of complex, certified authentication, preferably all adaptation options are enabled, that is to say that in this adaptation mode all basic parameters which can be set with the adaptation file can be set. For easy access to customization mode, e.g. B. by a predetermined combination of keys, the adjustment options are preferably limited to such parameters that can not affect the basic function of the mobile terminal 3.
If the mobile terminal 3 is in the adaptation mode, then the adaptation file can be loaded onto the mobile terminal 3. Usually, the adaptation file is loaded onto the mobile terminal 3 via a wired data connection. Alternatively, the customization file can also be accessed via a wireless connection or a memory card, such as a memory card. As an SD card, are brought to the mobile terminal 3.
If the adaptation file is located on the mobile terminal 3, the corresponding parameters are transferred to the operating system and set this. In principle, one or more or all of the parameters listed in FIG. 17 can be set here.
By using the customization file, the production of the mobile terminals 3 can be substantially simplified because immediately after the hardware is manufactured, the mobile terminal 3 is provided with an operating system adapted to receive the customization file. As a result, the mobile terminals 3 can be manufactured in relatively large numbers and each with the same
Operating system are provided and then individually adapted in small quantities.
In particular, it is possible, even after delivery of the mobile devices 3 to a customer to change the settings by the adaptation file is transmitted to the mobile devices 3, the manufacturer via a remote access the adaptation mode and can turn off. This ensures that only the manufacturer can make the appropriate adjustments and no third party can reconfigure the mobile devices 3. The loading of the compared to an operating system very small adjustment file is easily executable via a remote access to the mobile terminal 3, if one has the appropriate key for authorization or authentication. As a result, the mobile terminals 3 can be easily adapted to the individual requirements and wishes of the customers in a timely manner. Customers are not forced to return the mobile devices 3 to the manufacturer as their operating system requirements change to re-flash the operating system.
The design of the mobile terminal 3 with a suitable for the adjustment file operating system is a significant production facilitation, especially for mobile devices 3, which are produced in relatively small numbers.
Often, older people feel safe in their home area, as it represents a familiar environment. On the other hand, elderly people are often insecure about larger distances or outside their familiar surroundings, especially because they have difficulty orienting themselves and finding their way to a destination. This is especially pronounced in seniors who have onset senile dementia. These circumstances can cause seniors to be less active outside the familiar environment, and thus less active and less social connected with other people. These problems can be mitigated with the navigation function of the image album (gallery) 108 explained below.
In the picture album (gallery) 108, images, in particular photos, can be stored, wherein information stored in the stored images, which are also referred to as meta information or metadata, can be stored. The metadata may include geodesics that represent digital information that can be assigned a particular spatial position on the earth's surface or that refer to a specific position on the earth's surface. The process of storing geodesics in file metadata is called geotagging.
The camera application 105 can be configured via its settings such that it performs geotagging when capturing an image. For this purpose, the camera application 105 requests from the geoposition manager 92 the geo-coordinates of the mobile terminal 3 and stores these geo-coordinates in the metadata of the captured image.
Furthermore, the image album (gallery) 108 can also store images which are transmitted via a data connection to the mobile terminal 3 and which are provided with geodesics in their metadata. Via the picture album (gallery) 108, the user can mark various pictures as favorites.
The image album (gallery) 108 first displays the images marked as favorites when starting the image album (gallery) 108 in a list view. From the list display, individual pictures can be selected, which are then displayed enlarged on the touch screen 23. With the enlarged display of a picture further options can be called up, the z. Deleting, setting as a background image, sharing, enlarging, reducing, rotating the image.
For images that contain geodesics in their metadata, an additional navigation option can be displayed. By selecting this option, the image album (gallery) 108 passes the geodesics of the displayed image to the navigation application 99. The navigation application 99 then provides the user with a route calculation from the current position to the coordinates of the geodesics provided. Here, the navigation application 99 can display a thumbnail image of the image provided with the geodesics, so that the user is informed at any time about which geoposition he can navigate.
The navigation application 99 can offer different pathfinding types for navigating, such as: As a Wegfindung on foot, by bicycle, by car or by public transport.
Such a navigation capability, which can be initiated from the image album (gallery) 108, also allows the above-explained seniors to easily and safely select a destination and get there, even without being able to remember the way there , You also do not have to remember any detailed information about the destination. You can recognize a target by the pictures alone. It is much easier to recognize a target based on an image than to remember address information or other location information. This contributes to the fact that seniors with early senile dementia can orient themselves well over greater distances and thus feel safer.
Often, elderly and / or handicapped people are dependent on timely medication at the correct dose. Often people become forgetful at an advanced age.
To monitor a medication intake, the medicament monitor 119 is provided. With the medicament monitor 119, the user or a caregiver can set reminders for taking the medication. This is similar to setting an alarm time in the Uhrapplikation 107 or setting an appointment in the calendar application 104. For the reminder can be entered by the user in the drug monitor 119 for each drug, a time of day to take the drug. Further, when entering the time of day, the user can select whether to remind the intake daily or at intervals of 2 to 20 days. In addition, the name, a short name, Flerstellerbezeichnung and a dosage set, and specify other parameters of the drug. The further parameters here include an active substance information, a dose information, a pack quantity or package size information, a usability date, a color, a dosage form (pill, capsule, drops, etc.), the outer shape (round, oval, angular, capsule-shaped, etc.). , the approximate size (dimensions) and more
Drug descriptive information. It can also be determined whether the medicament monitor 119 is to generate from the entered further information a symbol image of the medicament, which is stored linked to the entry for medicament intake, in order to be displayed when the medication is being used. Alternatively, instead of a symbol image, an image located in the image album (gallery) 108 may also be selected via this and linked to the entry for taking medicaments. Such images of medicaments can be detected via the camera application 105 or transmitted via a data link to the image album (gallery) 108. In particular, images that are stored on the Internet for the corresponding drug can be transferred to the image album (gallery) 108. The images can not only show the drug in its respective dosage form, but it is also possible that such an image reflects the packaging of the corresponding drug.
When a new entry is created in the medicament monitor 119, it determines the current date from the internal clock and sets the date of the next dose based on the income interval. The medicament monitor 119 then stores on the date on which the medicament is to be taken, an alarm time at which an alarm is triggered at the predetermined administration time.
In a preferred embodiment of the medicament monitor 119, the input and definition of the medication is done automatically by the camera application 105 a photo of the packaging of the drug, or a machine-readable code such. As a bar code or a QR code is created. When the medication package is photographed, the image is subjected to image analysis, which may include, for example, an OCR function to analyze the text on the package. On the basis of the information obtained with the photo (image of the packaging, machine-readable code), a corresponding data record is read from a database which contains all the information necessary to stop taking medication. The record may also include additional information that describes the drug in more detail or information about the drug such. For example, warnings included. The database can be provided on the mobile terminal 3. However, it can be stored on an external server, which is queried by means of an Internet connection from the mobile terminal 3. The drug companies can provide such databases and enter on the packaging or in the machine-readable codes the address of the server, which must be called to retrieve the databases.
Furthermore, it is possible to take over information of a recipe with the mobile terminal, in which case all relevant information on medication intake is included as a rule. The prescription information may be read from an electronic prescription stored on an electronic health card (smart card) of the user by means of a smart card reader. Similarly, a printed on an award carrier recipe photographed and either with this image analysis, in particular by means of an OCR function, read or by means of a printed on the recipe machine-readable code such. A bar code or a QR code.
The reading of the recipe information has the advantage that a doctor can set an individual medication intake and the user is monitored by the mobile device 3 accordingly.
Basically, the user has to acknowledge a corresponding medication intake on the mobile terminal. This can be done by pressing a predetermined button on the keyboard or on the touch screen 23. If such an acknowledgment is not within a predetermined tolerance time, then an alarm is triggered and / or a message sent to a carer and / or a doctor. This message can be an e-mail, an SMS or any other type of message.
Furthermore, the medicament monitor 119 may be configured to inform the user, a caregiver, or a physician if the supply of the corresponding medicament should end, to automatically provide a new pack of medicines to prompt the user Go to the doctor and / or the doctor can contact the user to determine the further treatment. 38 cover detachable
REFERENCE SIGNS LIST I External keyboard 3 Mobile terminal 6 Hinge-like connection element 8 Bar 9 Operating element 10 Operating side II Delivery side 12 top layer 13 Insulation layer 14 Color layer 15 Conduction layer 16 Protective layer 17 Screen layer 18 Recess 19 Direction of arrow 21 Magnet 23 Touch screen 24 Front 25 Upper edge 26 Lower edge 27 Upper Front side 28 Lower end side 29 Longitudinal front side right 30 Longitudinal front side left 31 Rear 32 On / Off button 33 Multifunction button 35 Toggle switch 36 Pushbutton 37 Pushbutton 39 Cover rigid 40 transparent window 41 Light source 42 Camera 43 Pushbutton 44 Contact element 45 Opening 46 Housing 47 Pin tab 48 Pin 49 multilayer film 50 frame grid 51 bead 52 recess 53 land 54 home button 55 left button 56 right button 61 Linux kernel layer 62 program library layer 63 application programming frame layer 64 application layer 65 display driver 66 keyboard driver 67 camera driver 68 Wi-Fi Driver 69 Flash Memory Driver 70 Audio Driver 71 Binding (IPC) Driver 98 Browser 72 Power Management 73 Surface Manager 74 Open Graphic Library for Embedded Systems (open GL ES) 75 Scalable Graphics Library (SGL) 76 Media Programming Frame 77 Fonts Grid Graphic Library (Free Type) 78 Secure Sockets Layer Library (SSL 79 SQL Database Engine (SQLite) 80 HTML Rendering Engine (Web Kit) 81 C Library (libc) 82 Android Runtime 83 Core Program Libraries 84 Dalvik Virtual Machine 85 Activity Manager 86 Window Manager 87 Content Providers 88 View System 89 Package Manager 90 Telephony Manager 91 Resource Manager 92 Geopositioning Manager 93 Message Manager 94 Settings Application 95 Home Application 96 Contact Application 97 Telephone Application 99 Navigation Application 100 Common Program Library 101 Launcher 102 Browser 103 Calculator 104 Calendar Application 105 Camera Application 106 Contact App lication 107 Uhapplication 108 Image gallery (gallery) 109 On-screen keyboard 110 E-mail application 111 Short message application 112 Messaging application (messaging center) 113 Installation application 114 Touch Trainer 115 Weather application 116 Keyguard application 117 Phone application 118 Installation application for Android applications from the Google PlayStore ® 119 Medication monitor 121 Keyboard service 122 Weather service 123 Calendar service 124 E-mail message service 125 Central homescreen 126 Left home screen 127 Right home screen 128 Numeric keypad 144 App X (last application) 129 Phone settings 130 Short message settings 131 Camera settings 132 Message settings 133 App N1 (first message application) 134 App NY (latest news application) 135 Favorites 136 My phone number 137 Answering machines 138 Emergency numbers 139 Most used applications 140 App F1 (First most used application) 141 App F7 (Last mostly g used application) 142 All applications 143 App 1 (First application) 145 Status bar 146 Quick settings 147 Accumulator information 148 Network information 149 Quick set icon 150 Alarm setting 151 Night mode setting 152 Wireless network connection setting 153 Mobile data connection setting 154 Background image 155 Key 156 Wipe direction 157 List box 158 Text area 159 Icon

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Claims (31)
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claims
1. A mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a capacitive touch screen (23), wherein it has a keyboard for operating the touch screen (23), which comprises a plurality of operating elements, an operating page for actuation by a user and a Execution page to the touch screen and are movable to operate the touch screen from a starting position toward the touch screen, the controls include an electrically conductive conductive layer (15) and automatically between a keyboard mode with touching the touch screen keyboard and a touch screen mode Switched from the touch screen keyboard is switched, and an active telephone or data connection is not interrupted by switching between the keyboard mode and the touch screen mode.
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2. Mobile terminal according to claim 1, characterized in that in the keyboard mode only less functions and / or applications than in the touchscreen mode are actively switched.
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3. Mobile terminal according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that in the keyboard mode, a few applications are actively connected, at least one telephone application and preferably also a short message application and associated applications, such as a phone book include, by means of Keyboard and a keyboard not covered area of the keyboard can be triggered only in these applications actions.
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4. Mobile terminal according to claim 3, characterized in that only actions for selecting elements displayed on the touch screen and moving the screen display shown on the touch screen are possible by touching the touch screen in the keyboard mode.
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5. Mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a capacitive touch screen (23), in particular according to one of claims 1 to 4, wherein it has a keyboard for operating the touch screen (23), the plurality of operating elements (9) comprising an operating side (10) for operation by a user and a delivery side (11) for abutment with the touch screen (23) and movable to operate the touch screen (23) from a home position towards the touch screen (23), wherein the controls comprise an electrically conductive conductive layer (15) and are automatically switched between a keyboard mode with the touchscreen keyboard and a touchscreen mode with the touchscreen remote keyboard, the mobile terminal (3) having a keyboard service (121) with which is detected, whether the keyboard (1) rests on the touch screen (23) and the keyboard (1) at least one electrically le itenden mode range in addition to the controls and the keyboard service (121) is designed such that it is detected by means of the capacitive touch screen (23), whether the mode area rests on the touch screen (23).
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6. Mobile terminal according to claim 5, characterized in that the keyboard has at least two electrically conductive mode areas.
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7. Mobile terminal according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the Tasturdienst is designed such that the detection of the or the mode areas is carried out with temporal intervals.
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8. A method for operating a mobile terminal (3) with a camera (42), a navigation device (99) and a location sensor for determining the location of the mobile terminal (3), characterized in that a navigation target selected based on an image with associated location coordinates which describes a location of the viewpoint of the scene displayed on the image, and that the navigation device (99) performs navigation to these coordinates.
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9. The method according to claim 8, characterized in that when capturing an image with the camera (42) determines the location coordinates of the mobile terminal and associated with the image.
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10. The method according to claim 8 or 9, characterized in that as a location sensor, a GPS sensor and / or a geolocation device (92) are used, which by the evaluation of information from wireless networks in range (W-LAN) and / or triangulation determined by wireless connections the location of the mobile device.
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11. A method for presenting information on a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a touch screen (23), in particular according to one of claims 8 to 10, wherein a plurality of elements are displayed in a list box on the touch screen, and the list box for each item has a row, and a text box is contained in each row, and that text information that is longer than the text box is automatically scrolled horizontally.
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12. The method according to claim 11, characterized in that the list box is scrollable in the vertical direction.
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13. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of elements to be displayed in the list box are automatically sorted by frequency and / or importance, and in a start position the most common and / or most important element at an upper or lower edge area of a list box area on the touch screen , in which the list box is displayed, is arranged.
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14. A method for presenting information on a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a touch screen (23), in particular according to one of claims 8 to 12, wherein a plurality of rectangular screen representations are provided, and on the touch screen one each the screen display can be displayed, and can be changed between the screen images by horizontally wiping on the touch screen, the respective screen is moved horizontally, so that a series of screen images can be moved horizontally, characterized in that when moving the first and / or Last screen display in the direction in which no further screen presentation follows, this rectangular screen display is displayed on a trapezoidal shape with a shorter and a longer orthogonal to the direction of translation, the Verschi eberichtung from the shorter orthogonal side to the longer orthogonal side shows.
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15. A method for presenting information on a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a touch screen (23), in particular according to one of claims 8 to 14, wherein text information is displayed on the touch screen in front of a background image, characterized an average brightness is determined from at least one region of the background image in which the text information is arranged, and the brightness of the font with which the text information is displayed is automatically adjusted as a function of the determined average brightness, wherein at high average brightness of the Background image, the brightness of the font is low (dark) and at a low average brightness of the background image, the brightness of the font is set high (bright).
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16. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that at a determined brightness of the background image, which is located in a central region, the brightness of the font is set low (dark).
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17. The method according to claim 15 or 16, characterized in that the region of the background image, in which the text information is arranged, and of which an average brightness is determined, at least one letter or the area of a word or the area of a text field comprises ,
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18. A method for entering information on a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection and a touch screen (23), in particular according to one of claims 8 to 17, wherein on the touch screen, a keyboard is shown, which is for at least each Letters of the Latin alphabet has a key, the keys are arranged alphabetically sorted in rows and each line comprises a maximum of eight keys.
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19. A method for operating a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection, said communications output certain acoustic, optical and / or vibration signals, characterized in that these particular acoustic, optical and / or vibration signals in dependence on the time in be issued in different ways and in particular in different intensity.
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20. The method according to claim 19, characterized in that these particular acoustic, optical and / or vibration signals are output in dependence on the brightness in different ways and in particular in different intensity, wherein preferably the intensity of the signals is only reduced if a certain time is present and when the detected brightness is below a predetermined threshold.
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21. A method for operating a mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone connection, in particular according to one of claims 8 to 20, wherein the mobile terminal has an emergency call function, with which an emergency call can be placed, and when an emergency call is placed, then Within a predetermined period of time after discontinuation of this emergency call incoming calls automatically accepted and preferably a speakerphone and / or handsfree on.
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22. A method for configuring a mobile terminal, in particular according to one of claims 8 to 21, comprising the steps - starting an adaptation mode on the mobile terminal, - loading an adaptation file to the mobile terminal, which comprises at least one parameter value for setting a parameter on the mobile terminal , - read in the parameter value of the adaptation file, whereby the corresponding parameters of the mobile terminal are set, - terminate the adaptation mode.
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23. The method according to claim 22, characterized in that for starting the adaptation mode, an operator must authorize and / or authenticate.
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24. The method according to claim 22 or 23, characterized in that the adaptation file at least one parameter for setting the SIMLOCKS or NETLOCKS and / or a parameter for setting the remote maintenance functions.
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25. A method for monitoring a medication intake by means of a mobile terminal, in particular according to one of claims 8 to 24, comprising the steps of - entering data describing a drug, such. Name, abbreviation, manufacturer's name, dosage, active ingredient information, dosage form, pack quantity or size, date of applicability, warnings, color, shape and / or size, - Entering a prescription information with intake dose and / or administration time, - Creating a symbol image of the Drug-describing data or by reading a picture of the drug and / or the drug packaging from a database, - Determine the next time to take and display the icon image at the time of administration together with the revenue dose.
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26. A method for monitoring a medication intake by means of a mobile terminal, in particular according to one of claims 8 to 25, comprising steps - inputting data describing a medicament, such. Name, abbreviation, manufacturer's name, dosage, active substance information, pharmaceutical form, quantity or date of use, date of exposition, warnings, color, shape and / or size, - input of prescription information with dose and / or time of administration, - determination of next dose and indications the intake dose at the time of administration, characterized in that the entering of the data describing the medicament and / or entering the prescription information is effected by: - a package of the drug or its machine-readable code is captured as an image, the image is then subjected to an image analysis and the relevant data are read from a database on the basis of the results of the image analysis, - a doctor's prescription or its machine-readable code is captured as an image, the image is subsequently subjected to image analysis, and the relevant data is read from a database using the results of the image analysis be read and / or - that the relevant data from an electronic doctor's prescription are read out by means of a corresponding reading device.
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27. The method according to claim 25 or 26, characterized in that at a predetermined time before consumption of the drug information in this regard is issued so that automatically provided again a new pack of drugs and / or a doctor's visit is initiated.
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28. The method according to any one of claims 25 to 27, characterized in that the display of the intake dose at the time of administration is terminated only by the acceptance of an acknowledgment, and if it is determined after a predetermined period of time that no acknowledgment has taken place, a caregiver and / or or inform a doctor about not acknowledging.
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29. The method according to any one of claims 8 to 28, characterized in that a mobile terminal is used, the touch screen has a maximum height of 13 cm or 12 cm or 11 cm or 10 cm and / or a maximum width of 7 cm or 6 cm or 5 cm.
[30]
30. Application for a mobile terminal, wherein the application is a software unit, which is executable on the mobile terminal, characterized in that the application for carrying out a method according to one of claims 8 to 29 is formed.
[31]
31. Mobile terminal with a radio device for generating a telephone or data connection, characterized in that on the mobile terminal, an application according to claim 30 is stored and executable.

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