JP2001177625A - Portable telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply output a sentence prepared by a portable telephone set to external devices. SOLUTION: When a phone directory is displayed in order to allow a printer being one of the external devices to print a sentence (a) prepared by the portable telephone set, device names of the printer and a PC are also displayed since the device names are also registered in this phone directory in addition to a normal phone directory function (b). When the printer being an output destination is selected from this displayed data, printing is performed by the printer (c). When the printer is not connected, a message that the printer cannot be used is displayed (d).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone in which a user interface for controlling peripheral devices is linked with the operation of a telephone directory function provided conventionally.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-304040 discloses a method of controlling peripheral devices from a portable telephone by supplying modulated information data from an external terminal to a demodulating means of the telephone and demodulating the data. Is stored in the storage means associated with the telephone, so that telephone number data such as a telephone number for abbreviated dialing, a telephone number for one-touch dialing, a telephone number for electronic telephone directory registration, and control data for controlling an external device, etc. It is disclosed to provide a method of storing information data for a telephone that can be stored easily and in a short time in a memory associated with the telephone.

[0003]

As described above, the conventional portable telephone controls telephone number data such as a telephone number for abbreviated dialing, a telephone number for one-touch dialing, a telephone number for registering an electronic telephone directory, and external devices. Control data, etc.
Providing a method for easily and quickly storing data in a memory associated with a telephone makes it possible to improve operability, secure remote control, and secure security. In this case, the operability when making a call from the peripheral device to the telephone is described, but the operability when accessing the peripheral device from the telephone is not described at all. In a mobile phone, the size of a display area, input means, and the like are limited in order to emphasize portability. In order to realize various functions in such a limited space, there is a problem that the operation becomes complicated.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve these problems, and displays a name of a destination registered in a telephone directory and a telephone number corresponding to the name on a display unit. In a mobile phone that performs call processing by selecting a desired destination from the displayed destination name, device names of peripheral devices connectable to the mobile phone, such as a personal computer and a printer, are additionally registered in the telephone directory. To provide a mobile phone.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone and a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a first embodiment of the mobile phone of the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 4 shows a third embodiment of the mobile phone according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, a mobile telephone 10 is provided with an antenna 11 for receiving voice or data from a base station 30, and a radio processing unit 12 for modulating and demodulating voice or data received by the antenna 11 is provided. Is provided. Further, an information processing unit 13 for processing data input from the input unit 15, data stored in the database 19, or modulated voice or data.
Is provided, and a display unit 14 for displaying processed data is provided. Further, a speaker 17 for outputting sound and a microphone 16 for inputting sound are provided. For example, an external interface unit 18 for controlling external devices such as a printer 21 and a personal computer (PC) 22 is provided.

The operation will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 shows a search screen of a telephone directory used in the mobile phone 10. In the telephone directory, in addition to ordinary telephone directory data, device names of peripheral devices such as a printer 52 and a PC 53 that can be connected to a mobile phone are displayed. The user can select a desired destination from the telephone directory when making a call to the destination, and can easily access these devices by selecting the printer 52 or the PC 53 with the cursor from the display screen. Can be.

Next, a procedure for printing a message created by the mobile phone 10 on the printer 21 based on FIG. 3 will be described. First, print data is created as shown in FIG. When the telephone directory is opened after the print data is created, the device name of the printer is displayed in the telephone directory as shown in FIG. Then, when this device name is selected, a display indicating that printing is to be performed is displayed as shown in FIG. If it is not connected to the printer 21, a display as shown in (d) is performed.

[0009] Similarly, FIG. 5 illustrates an operation procedure when outputting a text created by the mobile phone 10 to the PC 22.

[0010]

As described above, according to the present invention, a telephone is used by additionally registering the device name of a peripheral device such as a printer or a PC which can be connected to the mobile phone in a telephone directory normally used for the mobile phone. Transmission of information from the mobile phone, such as printing, printing, and output, can be aggregated into a series of operations of “selection of destination (call partner, printer, PC, etc.) + Action selection (transmission, printing, output, etc.)”. It is possible to provide a simple and easy-to-understand operation environment with limited input means and display means.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone and a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a first embodiment of the mobile phone of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a second embodiment of the mobile phone of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a third embodiment of the mobile phone of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 mobile phone 11 antenna 12 wireless processing unit 13 information processing unit 14 display unit 15 input unit 16 microphone 17 speaker 18 external interface unit 21 printer 22 personal computer (PC)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A destination name registered in a telephone directory, a telephone number corresponding to the name, and the like are displayed on a display unit, and a desired destination is selected from the displayed destination name to perform a call processing. Wherein the device names of peripheral devices such as personal computers and printers that can be connected to the mobile phone are additionally registered in the telephone directory.