JP2001103556A - Mobile wireless terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile wireless terminal that can enhance the convenience to set or revise various data stored as for a storage function. SOLUTION: A storage section 50 stores data in cross-reference with a URL and a control section 40 converts various data stored in the storage section 50 into data of the HTML form and transmits the converted data with respect to a request from a personal computer connected externally by an external interface 60, and extracts only required data among the data of the HTML form sent from the personal computer and stores only the required data to the storage section 50.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention
(Public Digital Cellar) type mobile phones, PH
The present invention relates to a terminal device of S (Personal Handyphone System), and more particularly to a mobile wireless terminal device having an interface that can be connected to a small computer such as a personal computer by wire.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, portable telephones and P
It is well known that HS-type portable electronic devices are rapidly spreading. By the way, in these mobile communication terminals, a call control serial signal line equivalent to RS-232C is provided at a lower portion of the main body or the like as a connection port with an external terminal.
A wired external interface connector including a communication channel signal line for transferring voice / data over a communication channel is provided, and voice and data communication from an external terminal is enabled.

For example, if a mobile communication terminal is connected to an in-vehicle device having a built-in external antenna or booster amplifier via the above-mentioned external interface, a voice call using the hands-free function of the in-vehicle device can be performed.

[0004] If a mobile communication terminal is connected to a personal computer (hereinafter abbreviated as a personal computer) via the external interface, data communication by the personal computer can be performed. In particular, data communication in mobile communication has recently been applied to so-called "mopil computing", and its application field is expanding.

[0005] On the other hand, the speed of data communication has been increasing, and the communication of several Kbps using a current wired cable is reaching its limit. Other high-speed serial communication interfaces are also being studied.

Recently, personal computer software for editing telephone directory data in a mobile communication terminal has been provided.
This is a system in which telephone book data is created on a personal computer and transferred to the mobile communication terminal because it is complicated to input kanji and the like using limited keys of the mobile communication terminal.

[0007] The transfer of the telephone directory data created by the personal computer to the mobile communication terminal is performed through a connection port with the external terminal. Application software such as telephone directory creation software on the personal computer side must match the procedure and format according to the external interface control software on the mobile communication terminal side.

Although it is convenient to create a telephone directory or the like on a personal computer and transfer it to a mobile communication terminal, a communication terminal user such as a mobile communication terminal must purchase application software for that purpose.

Further, a maker of a mobile communication terminal does not create such software unless it discloses internal information and procedures. In addition, for the user, the labor of installation and the financial burden of purchasing application software are large.

[0010]

In the conventional mobile radio terminal, setting or changing various data relating to its own function is performed by a user through a more complicated operation such as a numeric keypad or through a personal computer. In such a case, there is a problem that the convenience is extremely low, such as the necessity of preparing dedicated application software and the increase in cost.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem, and has as its object to provide a mobile radio terminal device with improved convenience when setting or changing various data to be stored.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a mobile radio terminal device that can read data that cannot be displayed on its own display device from an external device and can be read from the Internet by an external device.

[0013]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention relates to a mobile radio terminal for wirelessly connecting to a base station connectable to a public network and having an interface connectable to an external device by wire. In the device, a storage unit for storing information, an information conversion unit for converting the information stored in the storage unit into a format using a description language corresponding to Internet browser software, and an external device connected through an interface. In the meantime, a communication link based on the Internet protocol is established, and when a request is received from an external device through the communication link, information according to the request is converted by information conversion means, and communication control means for transmitting the information to the external device. It was made to comprise.

In the mobile radio terminal having the above-mentioned configuration, information according to a request from the external device among information stored in the storage means is converted through the communication link established with the external device using the Internet protocol. The data is converted by means and transmitted to an external device.

Therefore, according to the mobile radio terminal having the above configuration, the information stored in the storage means can be browsed or edited by an external device having Internet browser software.

That is, the external device does not require any special software, and utilizes the Internet browser software installed as a standard in a recent personal computer or the like, and uses a simple operation and a familiar man-machine interface to make a telephone call. It is possible to set a book and other information in the communication terminal.

Therefore, according to the mobile radio terminal having the above configuration, there is no need to purchase and install special application software in an external device, and the operation can be performed in the same manner as in ordinary Internet access. The convenience in setting or changing various data to be performed can be improved.

According to the present invention, there is provided an Internet communication means for connecting to the Internet through a public network and obtaining information on the Internet, and storing the information obtained through the Internet communication means in association with information indicating the connection destination. Recording control means for recording on the means.

In the mobile radio terminal having the above configuration, information is obtained from the Internet connected through a public network,
It is stored in the storage means. Therefore, according to the mobile wireless terminal device having the above configuration, even if the information obtained from the Internet is data that cannot be displayed on its own display device, it can be output to an external device and viewed.

[0020]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the configuration, in which CDMA is used.
A mobile communication terminal device using a communication system as a communication system is taken as an example.

A radio frequency signal received by the antenna 1 from a space is input to the antenna duplexer 2. The antenna duplexer 2 includes a reception filter 21 and a transmission filter 22.

Of the radio frequency signals input from the antenna 1, a radio frequency signal in a band transmitted from a base station (not shown) passes through the reception filter 21 and is received by the reception unit (RX).
3 is input. Note that this radio frequency signal is not input to the transmission unit 5 described later by the transmission filter 22.

In the receiving section 3, the radio frequency signal is mixed with the receiving local oscillation signal output from the frequency synthesizer (SYN) 4 and frequency-converted into an intermediate frequency signal. The frequency of the reception local oscillation signal generated from the frequency synthesizer 4 is specified by the control unit 40.

The intermediate frequency signal obtained by the receiving unit 3 is C
After the orthogonal demodulation processing is performed in the DMA signal processing unit 6, despreading processing is performed to convert the data into data of a predetermined format according to the data rate.

The result of the conversion is input to the voice code processing section 7 as received data, and of the received data, the data indicating the data rate is input to the control section 40 as the received data rate.

The voice code processing section 7 subjects the received data obtained by the CDMA signal processing section 6 to a decompression process in accordance with the reception data rate notified from the control section 40. It is input to the code processing unit 8.

The PCM code processing unit 8 includes a speech code processing unit 7
To decode the received data to obtain an analog reception signal. The analog reception signal is amplified by the amplifier 9 and then output from the speaker 10 as a loudspeaker.

On the other hand, the input voice of the speaker is
1 is input as an analog transmission signal through an amplifier 1
After being amplified to an appropriate level in step 2, the PCM code processing section 8
Is subjected to a PCM encoding process, and is output to the speech encoding unit 7 as transmission data.

The voice code processing section 7 includes a PCM code processing section 8
The energy amount of the input voice is detected from the transmission data input from, the data rate is determined based on the detection result, and the control unit 40 is notified. Then, the transmission data is compressed into a burst signal having a format corresponding to the data rate, and is input to the CDMA signal processing unit 6.

The CDMA signal processing unit 6 performs a spreading process on the burst signal compressed by the voice code processing unit 7 using a PN code corresponding to a transmission channel. Then, a quadrature modulation process is performed on the processing result, and the result is input to the transmission unit (TX) 5 as a quadrature modulation signal.

The transmitting section 5 combines the quadrature modulated signal with the transmitting local oscillation signal and converts it into a radio frequency signal.
Based on the transmission data rate notified by (1), only the effective portion of the radio frequency signal is amplified at a high frequency and input to the antenna duplexer 2. The transmission local oscillation signal is generated by the frequency synthesizer 4 and is controlled by the control unit 40.
This is an oscillation signal of a frequency corresponding to the instruction from.

As for the radio frequency signal from the transmitting section 5 input to the antenna duplexer 2, only the radio frequency signal in the transmission band is input to the antenna 1 by the transmission filter 22, and is transmitted to the base station in space. Radiated. Note that the radio frequency signal in this transmission band is not input to the receiving unit 3 by the receiving filter 21.

Reference numeral 31 denotes a power supply circuit which generates a predetermined operating power supply voltage Vcc based on the output of the battery 30 and supplies it to each circuit.

The control unit 40 has a microcomputer as a main control unit, for example, and controls each unit. The storage unit 50 uses a semiconductor memory such as a ROM or a RAM as a storage medium, and stores various data in addition to the control program of the control unit 40 in the storage medium.

The external interface (I / F) 60
An interface connectable to an interface equivalent to RS-232C of a personal computer. The interface includes a chip UART for performing asynchronous serial communication, and inputs and outputs data to and from an external device connected by a cable.

Here, the control unit 40 and the storage unit 50 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. The control unit 40 includes a communication control unit 41 that performs control related to communication in accordance with a control program stored in the storage unit 50, and a display control unit 4 that performs display control of a display of a console unit 70 described later.
2. Key control means 43 for receiving an input operation through a key group of console unit 70, user I / F control means 44, external input / output control means 45, Internet protocol control means 46, HTML (Hyper Text Markup Lang)
uage) The function of the conversion control means 47 is exhibited. In addition, although not shown, the control unit 40 has an audio control function for controlling an audio system such as a DSP and a power supply control function for performing battery saving and the like.

The user I / F control means 44 is a control function for improving operability for the user, and performs control such as making a call with reference to telephone directory data 51 described later.

The external input / output control means 45 controls the input / output of the communication chip UART provided in the external interface 60, and controls the communication protocol 8 as shown in FIG.
Of the layers 0, the layer 1 functions as a driver for a layer 1 L1 (UART) and a layer 2 L2 protocol. L2 is a layer 2 protocol for controlling communication errors with external devices, and is, for example, LAP-B.

The Internet protocol control means 46 and the HTML conversion control means 47 correspond to the user I / F
This is a control function interposed between the control means 44 and the external input / output control means 45.

Internet protocol control means 46
On the layer 2 established by the external input / output control means 45, one layer of the communication protocol 80 as shown in FIG.
et Protocol) Protocol for assigning addresses PPP
(Point-Point Protocol), protocol IP for transmitting and receiving Internet access, TCP (Transmission C)
ontrol Protocol) / UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
l), security protocol SSL (Secure Sockets
Layer), HTTP (Hyper Text Transport Protocol) for controlling the transport layer of the hypertext, and a driver for each protocol of the HTML for decoding the received HTML data.

The HTML conversion control means 47 converts and controls HTML data transmitted and received through the communication link established by the external input / output control means 45 and the Internet protocol control means 46.

The storage unit 50 includes, in addition to the control program of the control unit 40, telephone directory data 51 in which names and telephone numbers are associated with each other, volume data 52 indicating a volume during communication, and sound quality data indicating a sound quality during communication. 53, other various control data 5
4. The incoming melody data 55, which is the data of the melody emitted at the time of the incoming call, is stored.

The console unit (CU) 70 displays a key group such as a dial key, a transmission key, a power key, an end key, a volume control key, and a mode designation key, as well as the telephone number of the communication partner terminal and the operation state of the apparatus. LC to do
A D indicator and an LED lamp indicating a discharge state of the battery 30 (requesting charging of the battery 30) are provided.

Next, the operation of the mobile radio terminal having the above configuration will be described below. An external device such as a personal computer is connected to the mobile wireless terminal device via the external interface 60, and the power of the mobile wireless terminal device and the external device is turned on.

When the operating system of the external device has been started and the Internet browser software has been started, the external device communicates with the mobile radio terminal according to a protocol layer 90 as shown in FIG. A communication link is established according to a protocol from the layer 1 to the upper layer HTTP.

The Internet browser software includes functions such as decoding of HTTP, SSL, and HTML descriptions, display on a display, input and determination from a keyboard, and the like. Further, a TCP / IP protocol driver is used as a driver of the operating system, and the protocols of layers 1 and 2 operate.

After a communication link capable of transmitting and receiving HTML data has been established between the external device and the mobile radio terminal device in this way, a predetermined URL (Uniform Resource L
ocator).

Then, the mobile radio terminal device reads out the data corresponding to the designation from the storage unit 50 and transmits the data as HTML data to the external device. On the other hand, the external device decodes the received HTML data and displays it on the display of the external device.

When the user selects, for example, a telephone service from the sub-frame on the left side of the screen as shown in FIG. 4 from the display on the display of the external device, the display for the service is made on the main frame.

This is because the URL corresponding to the telephone service is notified to the mobile radio terminal device by the selection operation of the telephone service, and the mobile radio terminal device reads out the HTML data corresponding to the notified URL from the storage unit 50 and reads out the external device. By sending it to

Then, for example, when the user selects “download phonebook”, the UR corresponding to this is again selected.
L is notified to the mobile radio terminal, and the mobile radio terminal transmits the telephone directory data stored as the telephone directory data 51 to H.
The HTML data is converted into HTML format by the TML conversion control means 47 and transmitted to an external device. On the other hand, the external device decodes the received HTML directory data and displays it on the display as shown in FIG. I do. Then, when a request for “edit phone book” is received from the user, the processing shifts to processing for editing phone book data.

As shown in FIG. 6, in the display in the telephone directory data editing process, a column for inputting the name of the other party, a column for inputting a plurality of telephone numbers corresponding thereto, and the like are provided. FIG. 7 shows an example of an HTML description corresponding to the editing screen.

After the telephone directory data editing process, when the user requests "phone directory upload", the telephone directory data created by the editing process is transmitted to the mobile radio terminal device in HTML format.

In the mobile radio terminal device which has received the telephone directory data in the HTML format, the HTML conversion control means 47 decodes the received telephone directory data and converts it into telephone directory data in a predetermined format. Data such as a telephone number is extracted and stored in a storage unit 50 as telephone directory data 51.
To record.

As described above, in the mobile radio terminal having the above configuration, the data stored in the storage unit 50 is stored in association with the URL, and is stored in response to a request from a personal computer connected to the outside. Are converted into HTML format data and transmitted. As for the data in the HTML format transmitted from the personal computer, only necessary data is extracted and recorded in the storage unit 50.

Therefore, according to the mobile radio terminal having the above-described configuration, data stored in the mobile radio terminal can be transmitted from an externally connected personal computer through Internet browser software without using dedicated application software. On the other hand, processing such as reading and editing can be performed, so that the convenience is remarkably improved.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the telephone directory data editing process has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, software data for controlling the operation of the mobile wireless terminal device may be used. Good.

Further, for example, various settings that can be set for a normal mobile radio terminal device alone can be made through a screen of an external device. FIG. 8 shows a display example thereof. According to this, it is possible to provide a very efficient man-machine interface as compared with the case where the setting is performed by operating a limited number of keys of the mobile wireless terminal device. Note that the example of FIG. 8 shows an example of a setting screen for setting the ringtone, sound quality, key touch sound, and the like.

Also, for example, as shown in the display example of the external device in FIG. 9, an option is selected as another mode setting, and graphic data such as ringtone melody and animation data created by the external device is uploaded to the mobile radio terminal device. It is also possible.

In this case, in order to set a new song or an original song as a call at the time of an incoming call, the song can be freely created by a personal computer or the like and then uploaded. Moreover, this operation can be performed using an Internet browser. Security such as passwords is required, but software updates at the manufacturer can be performed from an Internet browser.

Another embodiment according to the present invention will be described. Note that the configuration of the mobile wireless terminal device according to this embodiment differs from the mobile wireless terminal device of the above-described embodiment in that a communication history accumulation control unit 48 is added to the control unit 40.
The communication control means 41 includes the line-side protocol control means 4.
11 and Internet protocol control means 412; the user I / F control means 44 comprises Internet browser software;
6 is different only in having an area for storing No. 6, and therefore, the description will be made focusing on this difference. FIG. 10 shows a configuration of the control unit 40 and the storage unit 50 of the mobile wireless terminal device.

In the mobile radio terminal, the line side protocol control means 411 connects to the public network by wireless communication, and the Internet protocol control means 412 connects to the Internet through an Internet connection provider (provider).

When HTML-format data is received from various servers on the Internet, the data is decoded by the Internet browser software of the user I / F control means 44 and displayed on the display of the console unit 70.

Note that H obtained through the Internet
The data in the TML format is mainly data in C-HTML (Compact HTML) which is a format suitable for a small display screen, for example, so that the data can be displayed on the display unit of the console unit 70.

If the data of the received home page or the like is described in the ordinary HTML format, the communication history accumulation control means 48 detects this and records the received data as communication history information as communication history information. Data 56
To accumulate. As this communication history, the accessed UR
Also includes image data described in L and HTML.

After the Internet connection by wireless communication is completed, an external device such as a personal computer is connected through the external interface 60 in the same manner as in the above-described embodiment, and a communication link capable of transmitting and receiving HTML format data is established.

Then, the external device reads, for example, only the URL indicating the connection destination from the communication history information using the Internet browser software. Then, based on the read URL information, the user specifies a desired URL for the mobile radio terminal.

On the other hand, the mobile radio terminal searches the communication history data 56 for communication history information corresponding to the URL specified by the external device, and transmits the detected HTML format data and the like to the external device. .

As described above, in the mobile radio terminal having the above configuration, when data in a format that cannot be displayed on its own display is detected, the data is stored in the storage unit 50 together with the URL, and the data is externally connected. The data is transmitted in response to a request from an external device.

Therefore, according to the mobile radio terminal having the above configuration, it is not possible to display on its own display, for example, HTM
Even data in the L format can be browsed on the large display screen of the external device through the browser software of the connected external device by the same operation as during normal browsing.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. It goes without saying that various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

[0072]

As described above, according to the present invention, of the information stored in the storage means through the communication link established with the external device using the Internet protocol, the information according to the request from the external device. Is converted by an information conversion means and transmitted to an external device.

Therefore, according to the present invention, the information stored in the storage means can be browsed and edited by an external device having Internet browser software, so that special application software is purchased for the external device. Since there is no need to install and the operation can be performed in the same way as ordinary Internet access, a mobile wireless terminal device that can improve the convenience when setting or changing various data to be stored is improved. Can be provided.

According to the present invention, information is obtained from the Internet connected through a public network and stored in the storage means. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a mobile wireless terminal device capable of outputting to an external device for viewing even if the information obtained from the Internet cannot be displayed on its own display device.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a circuit block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile wireless terminal device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a control unit and a storage unit of the mobile wireless terminal device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a view for explaining a protocol used when a communication link is established between the mobile wireless terminal device shown in FIG. 1 and an external device connected thereto.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary view for explaining a display screen of an external device connected to the mobile wireless terminal device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is an exemplary view for explaining a display screen of an external device connected to the mobile wireless terminal device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is an exemplary view for explaining a display screen of an external device connected to the mobile wireless terminal device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is an HTM for displaying the display screen shown in FIG.
The figure which shows the example of L description.

FIG. 8 is a view for explaining a display screen of an external device connected to the mobile wireless terminal device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is an exemplary view for explaining a display screen of an external device connected to the mobile wireless terminal device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining a control unit and a storage unit in another configuration of the mobile wireless terminal device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Antenna 2 ... Antenna duplexer 3 ... Receiving part 4 ... Frequency synthesizer 5 ... Transmitting part 6 ... CDMA signal processing part 7 ... Voice code processing part 8 ... PCM code processing part 40 ... Control part 41 ... Communication control means 411 ... Line Side protocol control means 412 Internet protocol control means 42 Display control means 43 Key control means 44 User I / F control means 45 External input / output control means 46 Internet protocol control means 47 HTML conversion control means 48 Communication History storage control means 50 storage unit 51 telephone directory data 52 volume data 53 sound quality data 54 control data 55 ringtone melody data 56 communication history data 60 external interface (I / F) 70 console unit (CU) )

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A mobile wireless terminal device that wirelessly connects to a base station that can be connected to a public network and has an interface that can be connected to an external device via a wire, comprising: a storage unit for storing information; Information conversion means for converting information into a format using a description language corresponding to Internet browser software, and an external device connected through the interface, to establish a communication link by the Internet protocol, and through this communication link A mobile radio terminal device comprising: a communication control unit that, when requested by the external device, converts information corresponding to the request by the information conversion unit and transmits the information to the external device. 2. An Internet communication means for connecting to the Internet through the public network and acquiring information on the Internet, and information acquired through the Internet communication means.
2. A recording control means for recording in said storage means in association with information indicating the connection destination.
A mobile wireless terminal device according to claim 1. 3. The information conversion unit converts information in a format using a description language corresponding to Internet browser software into a format of information stored in the storage unit. The information conversion unit converts information in a format using a description language corresponding to Internet browser software input from the external device through a communication link into a format of information stored in the storage unit. The mobile radio terminal device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the mobile radio terminal device records the information. 4. The mobile radio terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the information stored in the storage unit is telephone directory data used for communication through the public network. . 5. The mobile radio terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the information stored in the storage unit is various setting data of the mobile radio terminal device. 6. The mobile radio terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the information stored in the storage means is software data related to control of the mobile radio terminal device. . 7. The mobile radio according to claim 1, wherein the information stored in the storage unit is melody data used for an incoming call notification of the mobile radio terminal. Terminal device.