Patent ID: 7359688
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: A63F,G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for displaying a status of a portable terminal, the apparatus comprising: an emotion value memory for storing emotion variance values allocated to events occurring in a portable terminal; a character memory for storing character images which express a plurality of emotional states associated with operational states of the portable terminal; a controller for confirming an event variance value corresponding to an event when the event occurs in the portable terminal affecting at least one of the operational state of the portable terminal, changing an emotion value associated with the at least one of the operational states of the portable terminal by using the event variance value, confirming an emotional state corresponding to the emotion value, and selecting a character image corresponding to the confirmed emotional state from the character memory; and a display unit for displaying the selected character image as the emotional state indicative of the at least one operational state of the portable terminal.