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Electronic device with screen comprising a menu which can be customized by a user
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Inventors: Charron, Didier;
Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation (New York, NY)
Primary Examiner: Vo; Nguyen
Assistant Examiner: Mehrpour; N.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Halajian; Dicran
A telephone is disclosed having a memory which stores a full menu and a customization unit which customizes the full menu to form a custom menu. The customization unit includes a masking device which masks selected items of the full menu to form the custom menu. A screen displays the custom menu. A keyboard has a key which manually controls the masking device. Further, a counter counts the number of times items of the full menu are accessed by a user to determine the selected items. In particular, the selected items are the least frequently accessed elements of the menu by the user. The counter controls the masking device to mask the selected items. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of the present invention to largely remedy these drawbacks and provide an electronic device with screen comprising a menu system which allows of being configured according to the user's needs which is economic in terms of memory space and of which the handling is simple and fast.
Therefore, an apparatus of the type defined in the opening paragraph is characterized in that said customization unit comprises: a locking/unlocking device for locking/unlocking parameters of the menu elements, a display/masking device cooperating with the locking/unlocking device for selectively displaying (masking, respectively) the menu elements whose parameters are unlocked (locked, respectively).
According to a highly interesting characteristic feature of the invention, an apparatus of the type defined above, moreover comprising a keyboard with a set of keys, is characterized in that a first mode of use of said apparatus is provided, called manual mode, in which the locking/unlocking device is controlled by at least one key of said keyboard.
In this manual mode, the user himself configures the standard menu according to his own needs with the aid of the keyboard of his apparatus.
According to another highly interesting characteristic feature of the invention, an apparatus of the type already mentioned is characterized in that a second mode of use of said apparatus is provided, called automatic mode, in which a statistical counter device of the user rate of the elements of the menu cooperates with the locking/unlocking device to unlock (lock, respectively) automatically the parameters of said menu elements which are used the most (the least, respectively) frequently.
In this automatic mode, said menu is automatically configured as a function of the frequency of use of each menu element.
This counter device may advantageously comprise computation means which use fuzzy logic as described in French patent filed by the applicants under No.
9602813 on Mar.
6, 1996.
Thus, an apparatus of the type mentioned above is characterized in that the statistical counter device comprises: modeling means for modeling the behavior of the user when he passes through the menu, adaptation means for adapting said menu for taking said behavior into account
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