JP2002027037A - Transmitting/receiving system for portable telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transmitting/receiving system for a portable telephone with which personal information can be transmitted between portable telephones. SOLUTION: In a portable telephone A, card data are selected out of its own card folder and these card data are transmitted from an infrared light emitting part while using infrared rays as a medium. In a portable telephone B, when the card data from the portable telephone A are received while using infrared rays as a medium, the card data are stored in a memory and a confirmation signal is transmitted from an infrared light emitting part while using infrared rays as a medium. In the control part of the portable telephone B, the card data are selected from the memo and transmitted from the infrared light emitting part while using infrared rays as a medium. In the control part of the portable telephone A, the card data from the portable telephone B are received through an infrared light receiving part thereof while using infrared rays as a medium and stored into the memory.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone transmitting / receiving system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a portable telephone, as a memory dial function, a name and a telephone number of a destination are stored in a memory, and the telephone number of the destination is called from the memory. In some cases, it is possible to make a call to the other party based on the information.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned portable telephone, in order to store the name and telephone number of the other party in the memory, the telephone number is heard from the other party, and the name and the telephone number are operated one key at a time. It is necessary to perform the input operation of the unit. Therefore, it takes time and effort to store the name and telephone number of the other party in the memory.

[0004] On the other hand, although there is a telephone number that can be obtained and stored in a memory by using a caller ID notification from the other party, in the name of the other party, a key operation unit of the key operation unit is used for each character. Input operation must be performed.

In view of the above, the present invention has been made to reduce the trouble of storing a telephone number and a name in a storage means by transmitting and receiving personal information having a telephone number and a name between portable telephones. It is an object of the present invention to provide a transmission / reception system for mobile phones.

[0006]

According to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a storage means (101) for storing a telephone number and a name is provided. A first mobile phone capable of making a phone call based on the phone number stored in the first mobile phone; and a second mobile phone transmitting a personal information signal having a phone number and a name. Is characterized in that it is possible to store a telephone number and a name in storage means using a personal information signal transmitted from a second mobile phone.
This can reduce the trouble of storing the telephone number and the name in the storage means. Further, according to the second aspect of the present invention, the second mobile phone transmits the personal information signal to the first mobile phone using infrared rays as a medium, so that the personal information signal is transmitted without incurring a communication fee. be able to.

Here, in the third aspect of the present invention, the personal information signal has an image together with the name and the telephone number, and the first portable telephone sets the telephone number and the telephone number according to the transmitted personal information signal. The image may be stored in the storage unit together with the name. In the invention described in claim 4, the first
The mobile phone has an operation unit (20), a display unit (30),
A control unit (110) for controlling the display unit to display the name, the telephone number, and the image based on the operation of the operation unit may be provided.

[0008] Incidentally, the reference numerals in parentheses of each of the above means are examples showing the correspondence relation with specific means described in the embodiment described later.

[0009]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a transmission / reception system for a portable telephone according to the present invention. FIG. 1 is a front view of a mobile phone. The mobile phone shown in the figure includes a case 10, a key operation unit 20, a liquid crystal panel (display unit) 30, and an infrared light receiving unit 4.
0 and an infrared light emitting section 41. The key operation unit 20 is provided on the front case unit 11 of the case 10 and includes a cross key, a power key, a function key,
On-hook key (start key), clear key, and characters
It is composed of numeric keys (numeric keys) and the like. The liquid crystal panel 30 is arranged inside the opening 12 formed in the case 10. The infrared light receiving section 40 includes the infrared light emitting section 4
1 and is disposed on the left side portion 13 of the case 10.

Next, FIG. 2 shows an electric circuit configuration of the mobile phone.
This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electric circuit configuration of the mobile phone. Mobile phone, LCD panel 3
0, an infrared light receiving unit 40, and an infrared light emitting unit 41, a wireless unit 50, an audio circuit 60, a receiver 70, a microphone 80, a transmitting / receiving antenna 90, a memory 100, a control unit (microcomputer) 110, and a secondary battery 120. Have. The radio unit 50 is controlled by the control unit 110 and transmits and receives radio waves to and from the base station through the transmission / reception antenna 90 using radio waves as a medium. The audio circuit 60 outputs the received signal output from the wireless unit 50 via the control unit 110 to the receiver 70, and outputs the audio signal output from the microphone 80 to the wireless unit 50 via the control unit 110 as a transmission signal.

The receiver 70 converts the received signal output from the audio circuit 60 into a received voice, and outputs the received voice.
0 converts the transmission sound emitted from the operator into an audio signal and outputs it to the audio circuit 60. The memory 100 stores various data described later. The secondary battery 120 is connected to each circuit 4
Supply power to 0-110. The control unit 110 is constituted by a microcomputer or the like, and performs outgoing / incoming call processing, e-mail creation / transmission processing, Internet processing, and business card data processing.

Next, prior to the description of the operation of the transmission / reception system of the mobile phone according to the present embodiment, the configuration of the memory 110 will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG. 3, the memory 110 has a received business card folder 101, a self business card folder 102, an item folder 103, and a memory dial 104. Further, the memory dial 104 holds personal information data of the received business card data received in the business card exchange processing described later, together with the personal information data of the user of the mobile phone. Here, as the personal information data, a name, a telephone number, an e-mail address, and a URL (homepage address) are adopted.

The item folder 103 stores the item data of the received business card data received in the business card exchange process in addition to the item data of each business card data (hereinafter referred to as self business card data) of the user of the mobile phone. Hold. Here, the item data includes image data and background data in each of the self business card data and the received business card data. In the item folder 103,
A plurality of types of items such as various image data and background data for editing the business card data are stored in advance.

The self-business card folder 102 holds basic data of each self-business card data. The basic data includes not only identification of the self-business card data itself but also identification of both personal information data and item data constituting the self-business card data. Is shown.
The basic data holds text data and its font data. In addition, the received business card folder 101
Basic data of each received business card data received in the business card exchange process is held, and the basic data is used to identify both the personal information data and the item data constituting the received business card data in addition to the identification of the received business card data itself. Is shown. The basic data holds text data and its font data.

Here, the business card data is displayed on the liquid crystal panel 30 as shown in FIG. The business card data is stored in the memory dial number box 10
1a, URL box 101b, picture box 10
1c, text box 101d, and wallpaper 101e
It is composed of Memory dial number box 10
As shown in FIG. 5, 1a is an area for storing memory dial numbers (telephone numbers and e-mail addresses), and URL box 101b is an area for storing homepage addresses.

The picture box 101c is an area for storing various image data such as a face, and employs data such as JPEG, JPG, GIF, and animated GIF. However, the face image data is data obtained by the digital camera and is transferred from the digital camera to the mobile phone. Also,
The text box 101d is an area for storing text data such as an address indicating a location or a message, and the address or the message is displayed in various fonts. Wallpaper 101e is in each box 101a
The background data is data such as JPEG, JPG, GIF, and animated GIF. The wallpaper 101e
The display of each of the boxes 101a to 101c and 101d other than the boxes may be stopped.

Next, business card data processing according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. Control unit 110
Performs business card data processing in accordance with a flowchart shown in FIG. 6 by a predetermined key operation (for example, pressing F2) of the key operation unit 20. First, a display menu of business card data is displayed on the liquid crystal panel 30 (step 200). That is, the liquid crystal panel 30 displays the content of “business card display function business card exchange function business card edit / delete function item download function”. For example, the key operation unit 20
Is pressed, the business card display function is selected, and the business card display function is started.

When the numeric keypad "2" of the key operation unit 20 is pressed, the business card exchange function is selected and the business card exchange function starts. When the numeric keypad “3” of the key operation unit 20 is pressed, the business card edit / delete function is selected, and the business card data edit / delete process is started. When the numeric keypad “4” of the key operation unit 20 is pressed, an item download function is selected, and an Internet connection process is started with the above-described homepage for publishing item data as a destination. Thereby, the item data is obtained by the download function, and the item data is stored in the memory 100.
In the item folder 103.

In the following, a description will be given of an example in which the mobile phone A and the mobile phone B are used for the business card exchange function and the mobile phone A starts the business card exchange function. However, mobile phone B
Is in a standby state, and the mobile phones A and B are respectively in FIG.
3 shows the same configuration as shown in FIG. First, in the control unit 110 of the mobile phone A of the operator, the connect signal is transmitted in response to the operation of the key operation unit 20 using the infrared light as the medium and the infrared light emitting unit 4.
1 is transmitted (see reference numeral). Then, in response to the reception of the connect signal from the mobile phone A, the control unit 110 of the other party's mobile phone B transmits the connect signal from the infrared light emitting unit 41 using infrared light as a medium (see the reference numeral).

Next, the control unit 110 of the cellular phone A of the operator
Then, when a connect signal from the mobile phone A is received through the infrared light receiving unit 40 using infrared light as a medium, a return signal indicating the reception of the connect signal is transmitted from the infrared light emitting unit 41 using infrared light as a medium (see reference numeral). Further, when the control unit 110 of the mobile phone B of the other party receives the connect signal from the mobile phone B through the infrared light receiving unit 40 using the infrared ray as a medium, the control unit 110 transmits a return signal indicating the reception of the connect signal to the infrared ray using the infrared ray as a medium. Part 4
1 is transmitted (see reference numeral). Thus, the mobile phones A and B are ready to exchange business cards with each other.

Next, the control unit 110 of the cellular phone A of the operator
Then, when the basic data of the self-business card data is selected from the self-business card folder 102 of the memory 100 by operating the key operation unit 20, the selected basic data is called from the self-business card folder 102. Then, self-personal information data corresponding to the basic data is called from the memory dial 104. Further, item data corresponding to the basic data is called from the item folder 103. Accordingly, in addition to the basic data, the personal information data and the item data are transmitted from the infrared light emitting unit 41 as business card data using infrared as a medium. However, transmission identification data (0906) is transmitted at the head of the business card data (see the reference numeral).

Next, the control unit 110 of the portable telephone B of the other party
Then, when the business card data from the mobile phone A is received through the infrared light receiving unit 40 using infrared light as a medium, the memory 1
The basic data from the mobile phone A is stored in the received business card folder 101 of 00. Further, the personal data from the mobile phone A is held in the memory dial 104 as the received personal information data, and the item data is stored in the item folder 103. Thereby, the business card data from the mobile phone A can be stored in the memory 100 of the mobile phone B. After that, a confirmation signal indicating the reception of the business card data is transmitted from the infrared light emitting section 41 using infrared light as a medium (see the reference numeral). However, the identification data (0901) is transmitted prior to the confirmation signal.

The control unit 110 of the portable telephone B of the other party
Then, when the basic data of the self-business card data is selected from the self-business card folder 102 of the memory 100 by operating the key operation unit 20, the self-personal information data corresponding to the basic data is stored in the memory dial as in the case of the mobile phone A. 104
And the item data corresponding to the basic data is called from the item folder 103. Accordingly, the basic data, the personal information data, and the item data are transmitted as business card data from the infrared light emitting unit 41 using infrared as a medium. However, prior to the business card data,
The transmission identification data (0906) is transmitted (see reference numeral). Next, the control unit 110 of the mobile phone A of the operator transmits the mobile phone B through the infrared light receiving unit 40.
When the business card data from the mobile phone B is received using infrared rays as a medium, the received business card folder 101 of the memory 100 holds the basic data from the mobile phone B. Further, the personal dialer 100 causes the memory dial 104 to hold the personal information data from the mobile phone B as the received personal information data, and stores the item data in the item folder 103. Thereby, the business card data from the mobile phone B can be stored in the memory 100 of the mobile phone A. After that, a confirmation signal indicating the reception of the business card data is transmitted from the infrared light emitting section 41 using infrared light as a medium (see the reference numeral). However, the transmission identification data (0901) is transmitted prior to the confirmation signal.

Hereinafter, the business card display function of the business card data processing in the control unit 110 (when the business card display function is selected in step 200 described above) will be described with reference to FIG. First, in step 200 described above, when the numeric keypad “1” of the key operation unit 20 is pressed, the business card display function is selected.

Next, the received business card folder 1 in the memory 110
01, the basic data of each of the predetermined four received business card data is called, and the received personal information data corresponding to each of these basic data is called from the memory dial 104. Further, item data corresponding to each of the basic data is called from the item folder 103. afterwards,
By combining the basic data, the received personal information data and the item data with each of the basic data,
One received business card data (business card 1 to business card 4 in FIG. 6) is generated, and these business card data are displayed on the liquid crystal panel 30 in a grid pattern (step 210). In FIG. 6,
Although omitted, the liquid crystal panel 30 displays a name, a name, and a name as each of four business card data (business card 1 to business card 4 in FIG. 6).
The URL, face image, phone number, e-mail address, and wallpaper are displayed.

Next, in the display on the liquid crystal panel 30, the cursor 31 is moved up, down, left, and right in response to the depression of the cross key of the key operation unit 20. That is, one of the four business card data of the other party is selected by the cursor 31. Then, after the desired business card data is selected by the cursor 31 and the set key “S” of the key operation unit 20 is pressed, the desired business card data is determined, and the determined business card data (hereinafter referred to as “determined”). Only the business card data) is enlarged and displayed on the liquid crystal panel 30 (step 220).

Next, at step 220, the key operation unit 20
When the on-hook key is depressed, a call originating process is started with the telephone number of the confirmed business card data as a destination. That is, a transmission signal using an electromagnetic wave as a medium is transmitted by the radio unit 50 to the base station through the transmission / reception antenna 90. When the clear key of the key operation unit 20 is pressed in step 220, the contents of the confirmed business card data are deleted from the memory 110. Specifically, the basic data of the confirmed business card data is deleted from the received business card folder 101, the personal information data of the confirmed business card data is deleted from the memory dial 104,
Item data of confirmed business card data in item folder 1
Delete from 03.

Next, at step 220, the key operation unit 20
Is pressed, a display menu is displayed on the liquid crystal panel 30 (step 230). That is, the contents of “business card exchange function editing function deletion function dial URL e-mail” are displayed on the liquid crystal panel 30. Here, in the display of the liquid crystal panel 30, the cursor 31 is moved up and down in response to the pressing of the cross key of the key operation unit 20, and any one of the display menus is selected. Operation unit 20
When the set key is pressed, the selected function is started as follows.

That is, when the "business card exchange function" is selected with the cursor 31 and the set key of the key operation unit 20 is pressed, the above-described business card exchange function is started (step 240). When the "edit function" is selected with the cursor 31 and the set key of the key operation unit 20 is pressed, the edit function of the business card data is started (step 241). Thus, the user can edit and create his / her own business card data by inputting and setting the name, URL, image, telephone number, e-mail address, and wallpaper. When the “delete function” is selected with the cursor 31 and the set key of the key operation unit 20 is pressed,
As described above, the determined business card data is deleted from the memory 100 (step 242).

When "dial" is selected with the cursor 31 and the set key of the key operation unit 20 is depressed, a telephone transmission process is started with the telephone number of the confirmed business card data as a destination (step 243). With cursor 31
When "URL" is selected and the set key of the key operation unit 20 is pressed, the Internet connection function processing to the destination of the URL of the confirmed business card data is started (step 2).
44). When "E-mail" is selected with the cursor 31 and the set key "S" of the key operation unit 20 is pressed, an e-mail creation / transmission process (mailer) to the e-mail address of the confirmed business card data is started. (Step 245).

As described above, in the portable telephone, the business card data is called from the received business card folder 101 in the memory 110, and a call is transmitted with the telephone number of the called business card data as a destination. The data telephone numbers, names, URLs, and e-mail addresses are transmitted and received between mobile phones instead of being input on the key operation unit 20 one character at a time. Therefore, the mobile phone stores the telephone number, name, URL, and e-mail address of the business card data in the memory 110.
This saves time and effort for memorizing the information.

In addition to the telephone number, name, URL, and e-mail address, the liquid crystal panel 30 displays an image such as a face and wallpaper. Therefore, in the present embodiment, a novel display can be performed as compared with a case where a name and a telephone number are displayed on the liquid crystal panel 30 as in a conventional memory dial. Further, in the present embodiment, since the business card data is transmitted between the mobile phones using infrared rays as a medium, the communication fee can be reduced in transmitting the business card data.

In the above-described embodiment, an example in which business card data is transmitted and received between portable telephones using an infrared ray as a medium has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is also possible to transmit and receive electromagnetic waves other than infrared rays as a medium. For example, Bluetooth
For example, the business card data may be transmitted and received using such a method. Further, business card data may be transmitted and received using the Internet. Further, a connection unit may be provided between the mobile phones so as to be directly connected to each other, and the business card data may be transmitted and received by wire.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electric circuit configuration of the mobile phone.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a memory shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of business card data.

FIG. 5 is a table for explaining business card data;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a part of the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the remaining operation of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

41: infrared light emitting unit, 110: control unit, 100: memory, 101: received business card folder, 102: self business card folder.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A storage device (101) for storing a telephone number and a name, wherein a first telephone call can be made based on the telephone number stored in the storage device.
And a second mobile phone that transmits a personal information signal having the telephone number and the name, wherein the first mobile phone transmits a personal information signal transmitted from the second mobile phone. Wherein the telephone number and the name can be stored in the storage means by using a mobile phone. 2. The transmission / reception system according to claim 1, wherein the second mobile phone transmits the personal information signal to the first mobile phone using infrared rays as a medium. 3. The personal information signal has an image together with the name and the telephone number, and the first mobile phone, together with the telephone number and the name, responds to the transmitted personal information signal. 3. The transmission / reception system for a mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein an image is stored in the storage unit. 4. The operation unit (20), wherein the first mobile phone is an operation unit (20).
A display unit (30); and a control unit (110) that controls the display unit to display the name, the telephone number, and the image based on an operation of the operation unit. The transmission / reception system for a mobile phone according to claim 3.