Patent ID: 6690395
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: G06F,G09G,H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
A progressively rolling display method of animation graphics on a cellular phone which offers a dynamic and interesting way of displaying the contents of a cellular phone, and has a selection pending area presented by means of a large graphic animation provided in a center of a display on the cellular phone and accompanied to right and left thereof by multiple icons indicating previous and next options, so that when a user is browsing and selecting options from a list of main functions, the icons are in progressive rolling sequence and enter either from right to left or left to right into a central area to become an option pending selection to exit and then an existing option is reduced and quits the central area and becomes an icon of a previous option; wherein production process of the icons comprising steps of:a. plotting basic graphics and associated icons by compromising a background plotted depending on resolution of an LCD on the cellular phone; b. placing icons representing previous and next options plotted according to the basic graphics put into background and stored in BMP formal based on the list of main functions as defined; c. counting number of pixels to be displaced in course of progressively rolling display for each icon and saving in BMP formal; d. converting BMP hexadecimal graphic file using text definition conversion programs into a text definition format used by the cellular phone; e. opening a man-machine interface source graphic file to copy text definitions of each graphic to corresponding items in ICON.H file; f. completing copying of all text definitions, saving the ICON.H file, and running all source codes of the cellular phone to translate the source codes into firmware programs of the cellular phone; and g. downloading the firmware programs to the cellular phone.