JP2007110394A - Mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile phone capable of informing people who participate in the same event of useful information about the holding of the event in advance by using weather forecast information. <P>SOLUTION: The mobile phone receives the weather forecast information, discriminates whether or not the event can be held on the basis of the received weather forecast information, and transmits electronic mail showing that the event cannot be held to a mail address of a participant in the event. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile phone having a schedule function and an electronic mail function.

Conventionally, weather information can be obtained by accessing a weather information site disclosed on the Internet.
According to Patent Document 1, an object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device that is very convenient in daily life by displaying the latest weather forecast information corresponding to the date and time of the calendar display of the information processing device that performs schedule management. Display means for displaying a calendar for schedule management, weather prediction means for detecting weather conditions and predicting weather, and the corresponding date and time of the calendar displayed on the display means based on a signal from the weather prediction means An information processing apparatus including data conversion means for displaying weather information at a predetermined place is disclosed.
JP-A-9-128441

According to the above prior art, weather information is displayed corresponding to the date and time, and thus the user of the information processing apparatus can control his / her behavior using the displayed weather information. However, there is a problem in that events other than the user may be related to the event of the day described in the calendar, and the behavior of these other people cannot be controlled.
For example, if an event that tennis is played outdoors by multiple people is listed on the calendar, and the weather information on the date of tennis indicates that it is raining, the user will see the weather displayed on the calendar. You can look at the information, choose an action not to play tennis, and schedule another event that is not affected by the weather, but others can take this action without knowing the weather information. Therefore, even if it rains on the day, it will go to tennis, or even if it does not go to tennis after seeing the weather of the day, it cannot plan to participate in other events beforehand.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a mobile phone capable of notifying other parties related to the same event of useful information regarding the event in advance using weather information. For the purpose.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a mobile phone that stores reception means for receiving weather information, event holding schedule information, and e-mail addresses of participants who plan to participate in the event. A means for judging whether or not the event determined by the schedule information is possible based on the received weather information, and an email stored in the storage means if it is judged that the event is impossible And a transmission means for transmitting an e-mail message indicating that an event cannot be held to the address.

According to this configuration, when it is determined that the event cannot be held, an email to that effect is sent to the event participants, so that the participants can know the event and hold the event. There is an excellent effect that the behavior of the day can be controlled in advance.
Here, the transmission means may further transmit the weather information together with the electronic mail.

According to this configuration, since the weather information is further transmitted, the participant can know the reason why the event is determined to be impossible based on the transmitted weather information.
Here, the transmission means may transmit an icon indicating the weather as the weather information.
According to this configuration, since the icon indicating the weather is transmitted, the participant can easily know the weather visually by the icon.

Here, when it is determined that the event can be held, the transmission means may further transmit an e-mail to that effect to the e-mail address.
According to this configuration, since an e-mail indicating that an event can be held is transmitted, the participant can reliably control the behavior on the day of the event.
Here, the mobile phone may further include a generating unit that generates a standby screen that displays the received weather information, and a display unit that displays the generated standby screen.

According to this configuration, since the standby screen for displaying the weather information is displayed, the user can always know the weather information.
Here, the generation unit may generate an icon image, a pictogram image, or a pop-up image indicating the received weather information, and generate a standby screen including the generated icon image, pictogram image or pop-up image.

According to this configuration, since an icon image, a pictogram image, or a pop-up image indicating weather information is displayed, the user can easily know the weather information visually.
Here, the transmission means further includes an e-mail including a message indicating that the e-mail has been transmitted to itself, an event change being held, each e-mail address, and the extracted weather information. May be sent.

According to this configuration, since the above-described e-mail is transmitted to the user himself / herself, the user can know what e-mail is transmitted to which participant.
Further, the present invention is a mobile phone, the receiving means for receiving weather information about a plurality of days prior to the current day, event information indicating an event, scheduled date of event, and the event information Possibility information indicating the possibility of change and condition information indicating the weather conditions for determining the change of the event are stored in association with each other when the possibility information indicates that there is a possibility of change. Received when the possibility information indicates that there is a possibility of change in the holding of the event, and the address storage means that stores the e-mail address of the prospective participant in the event. Extracting means for extracting weather information about the same day as the scheduled date, and the extracted weather information satisfies a weather condition indicated by the condition information. A determination means for determining whether or not the event is to be met, and if it is determined that the weather condition is satisfied, an e-mail indicating that the event will be changed is sent to the e-mail address stored in the address storage means And transmitting means for performing the processing.

According to this configuration, when the extracted weather information satisfies the weather conditions indicated by the condition information, an email indicating that the event will be changed is sent to the event participants. It is possible to know that fact, and there is an excellent effect that the behavior on the day of the event can be controlled in advance.
Here, when the mobile phone further indicates from the user that the event information, the scheduled date of the event, the possibility information, and the possibility information may change, the condition information The schedule receiving means for receiving the input, the event information that has received the input, the scheduled date, the possibility information, and the condition information when there is a possibility of change, the schedule Writing means for writing to the storage means.

According to this configuration, the mobile phone can be controlled based on event information, scheduled date, possibility information, and condition information determined by the user.
Here, the writing unit may further write the extracted weather information in the schedule storage unit in association with the event information.
According to this configuration, the received weather information is stored in correspondence with the event information, so that the weather information can be used effectively.

Here, the mobile phone further includes schedule generation means for generating a schedule display screen for each month including the event information, the scheduled date and the weather information stored in the schedule storage means, and generation And schedule display means for displaying the schedule display screen.
According to this configuration, since the received weather information is displayed on the schedule display screen, the user can easily know the weather information.

A weather information notification system 1 as one embodiment according to the present invention will be described.
1. Configuration of Weather Information Notification System 1 The weather information notification system 1 includes a mobile phone 100, mobile phones 201, 202, and 203 and a weather information server device 300 as shown in FIG. The mobile phone 100 and the mobile phones 201, 202, and 203 are connected via the mobile phone network 10, and the mobile phone 100 is connected to the weather via the radio base station 11, the mobile phone network 10, and the Internet 20. It is connected to the information server device 300.

  The weather information server device 300 stores a plurality of weather information. Here, the weather information includes forecast weather information for a certain day in a certain region, weekly forecast weather information for a certain region in a certain week, monthly predicted weather information for a certain region in a certain month, and the like. , Predicted temperature, predicted humidity, predicted atmospheric pressure, predicted precipitation probability, predicted washing index, predicted UV light amount, predicted flowering information, predicted autumn leaf information, various warning information, various warning information, tsunami warning, typhoon predicted course information, flood Includes prediction information, earthquake information, volcano information, weather maps, photos taken by meteorological satellites, etc.

The mobile phone 100 periodically requests weather information from the weather information server device 300 via the radio base station 11, the mobile phone network 10, and the Internet 20.
When the mobile phone 100 receives a request for weather information from the weather information server device 300, the weather information server device 300 reads the weather information stored therein, and uses the read weather information as the Internet 20 and the mobile phone. The data is transmitted to the mobile phone 100 via the network 10 and the wireless base station 11.

  The mobile phone 100 stores schedule book data indicating a user's schedule in advance. The schedule book data stores the event date, day of the week, event name, event icon, event holding area, weather-related category, condition information, predicted weather information, and weather icon in association with the event that the user participates in. It has the area. These items will be described later.

  The mobile phone 100 receives the weather information, determines whether or not the event can be held based on the received weather information and the information related to the event registered in the schedule book data, and determines that the event cannot be held. When it is, an e-mail to that effect is transmitted to the other participants participating in the event together with the received weather information. Here, an icon image indicating weather information may be transmitted. When it is determined that the event can be held, an electronic mail to that effect is transmitted to other participants participating in the event together with the received weather information.

Further, the mobile phone 100 writes the received weather information in the schedule book data in association with the event.
In addition, the mobile phone 100 displays an icon image, a pictographic image, or a pop-up image corresponding to the received weather information. These images are displayed on the standby screen.
In addition, the mobile phone 100 includes an e-mail indicating that the e-mail has been transmitted to the mobile phone 100, that the event has been changed, the e-mail address of each participant, and the extracted weather information. Send.

In addition, the mobile phone 100 generates and displays a monthly schedule display screen including information related to the event and the weather information.
The mobile phones 201, 202, and 203 receive the e-mail from the mobile phone 100 via the radio base station 11, the mobile phone network 10, and each radio base station, and display the received e-mail.

2. Mobile phone 100
As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile phone 100 includes an antenna 101, a wireless communication unit 102, a communication control unit 103, a speaker 104, a DA conversion unit 105, a microphone 106, an AD conversion unit 107, a control unit 108, a storage unit 109, a display The unit 110 and the input unit 111 are included.
Specifically, the cellular phone 100 is a computer system that includes a general-purpose microprocessor, a signal processor, a ROM, a RAM, a liquid crystal display unit, a numeric keypad, and the like. A computer program is stored in the RAM. The cellular phone 100 achieves a part of its functions by the microprocessor and the signal processor operating according to the computer program.

(1) Storage unit 109
The storage unit 109 includes an address book (not shown), the schedule book data 420 shown in FIG. 2, the event participant list 400 shown in FIG. 3, and an area for storing other data.
(Address book)
The address book is composed of a plurality of address data, and each of the plurality of address data corresponds to a plurality of communication partners of the user. The address data is composed of the name of the communication partner, the telephone number of the mobile phone, the telephone number of the fixed telephone, the mail address, and other information related to the communication partner.

(Schedule book data 420)
As an example, the schedule book data 420 includes an area for storing a plurality of schedule data, as shown in FIG. Each schedule data corresponds to the daily schedule of the user.
Each schedule data includes a date, a day of the week, an event name, an event icon, an event holding area, a weather related category, condition information, predicted weather information, and a weather icon.

The date and day of the week are the date and day of the day corresponding to the schedule data, respectively.
The event name is a name indicating an event that the user plans to participate on the day corresponding to the schedule data. If there are no events scheduled to participate on that day, this item has a blank (or null value). Examples of event names are “tennis”, “drive”, “golf”, “yoga”, and the like.

The event icon is image data that expresses the event that the user plans to participate on the day on the day corresponding to the schedule data in a visually easy-to-understand manner. A total of 3600 pixels are formed side by side.
The event holding area is information indicating an area where the event is held on the day corresponding to the schedule data. An example of an event holding area is “Osaka city”, “Kyoto city”, or the like.

  The weather-related category indicates whether or not the event is affected by the weather on the day corresponding to the schedule data. The weather related category has data of “Yes” or “No”. When the weather-related category is “present”, the event is affected by the weather. When the weather-related category is “none”, the event is not affected by the weather. For example, outdoor sports such as tennis and golf are affected by the weather. Even if the event is an outdoor event, for example, driving is less affected by the weather, and events held indoors are affected by the weather. Less is. However, even if the event is held in a drive or indoors, the event is naturally affected by the weather if the host area is on the predicted course of a typhoon, for example.

The condition information is information indicating a condition for determining whether to stop or postpone the event on the day corresponding to the schedule data when the weather-related classification is “Yes”. Examples of the condition information include “precipitation probability of 50% or more”, “wind speed of 10 m / second or more”, and the like.
Here, as an example, when the condition information is “precipitation probability of 50% or more”, if the predicted precipitation probability is 20%, the event is held, and if the predicted precipitation probability is 75%, the event Will be canceled or postponed.

The condition information has a blank (or a Null value) when the weather-related category is “none”.
The predicted weather information is predicted weather information on the day corresponding to the schedule data.
The weather icon is image data that expresses the predicted weather information for the day corresponding to the schedule data in a visually easy-to-understand manner. The weather icon is 60 pixels vertically and 60 pixels horizontally, for a total of 3600 pixels. Is formed.

As shown in FIG. 2, as an example, the schedule book data 420 includes schedule data 430. The schedule data 430 includes date 421, day 422, event name 423, event icon 424, event holding area 425, weather related A section 426, condition information 427, predicted weather information 428, and a weather icon 428 are included.
Here, the date 421 and the day 422 are “200 × 1017” and “day”, respectively. The event name 423 is “tennis”, and the event icon 424 is image data representing a racket and a ball, and indicates that the event is tennis. The event holding area 425 is “Osaka city”. Since the weather related section 426 is “present”, it indicates that the holding of “tennis” is affected by the weather. The condition information 427 is “precipitation probability of 50% or more”. For example, if the predicted precipitation probability is less than 50%, “tennis” is held as scheduled, and if the predicted precipitation probability is 50% or more, the holding of “tennis” is canceled or postponed. The predicted weather information 428 is “100% precipitation probability”. Here, since the condition information 427 is “precipitation probability 50% or more”, in this case, “tennis” is canceled or postponed. The weather icon 429 is image data representing an umbrella and indicates that the predicted weather is rain.

(Event Participant List 400)
As an example, the event participant list 400 includes a plurality of participant data as shown in FIG. Each participant data corresponds to a participant who participates in one or more events.
Participant data is composed of a name, an e-mail address, an event name, an event date, and an event area.

The name is the name of the participant corresponding to the participant data.
The email address is the email address of the participant corresponding to the participant data. The event name is the name indicating the event that the participant corresponding to the participant data is scheduled to participate in.
The date of the event is the date on which the event scheduled to be attended by the participant corresponding to the participant data is held.

The host area indicates an area where an event scheduled to be attended by a participant corresponding to the participant data is held.
(2) Communication control unit 103, wireless communication unit 102, and antenna 101
The wireless communication unit 102 amplifies a radio frequency signal received by the antenna 101, converts an output signal into an IF signal, amplifies the IF signal, demodulates the amplified IF signal into a baseband signal, The high frequency signal is modulated by the signal, the output is converted to a radio frequency, the radio frequency is amplified and output to the antenna 101. The communication control unit 103 generates a baseband signal and outputs it to the wireless communication unit 102, and receives a baseband signal from the wireless communication unit 102.

In this way, the communication control unit 103, the wireless communication unit 102, and the antenna 101 transmit and receive information to and from the weather information server device 300 connected via the wireless base station 11, the mobile phone network 10, and the Internet 20. .
(3) Speaker 104, DA converter 105, microphone 106, and AD converter 107
The microphone 106 converts the user's voice into an analog voice electric signal, and the AD conversion unit 107 converts the analog voice electric signal into digital voice information, and outputs the generated voice information to the communication control unit 103. .

The DA conversion unit 105 receives digital audio information from the communication control unit 103, converts the received audio information into an analog audio electrical signal, and the speaker 104 outputs the audio electrical signal as sound.
(5) Input unit 111 and display unit 110
The input unit 111 includes a numeric keypad, a power button, an up movement key, a down movement key, a left movement key, a right movement key, an enter key, and other keys, and these keys are operated by a user. When these keys are operated by the user, the input unit 111 outputs instruction information corresponding to the keys to the control unit 108.

A specific example of the instruction information is update instruction information for instructing update of the schedule book, and is a display instruction for instructing display of the schedule book.
Specifically, the display unit 110 includes a liquid crystal display unit, and displays various data under the control of the control unit 108.
As an example of the screen displayed by the display unit 110, standby screens 500, 510, 520, 530, 540, and 550 are shown in FIGS. 4 to 9, respectively, and schedule screens 560 and 570 are shown in FIGS. 11 and a list display screen 590 is shown in FIG.

  Any one of the standby screens 500, 510, 520, 530, 540, and 550 is displayed depending on the setting of the user. Further, any one of the schedule screens 560 and 570 is displayed depending on the setting of the user. If any date on the schedule screen is selected in a state where any of the schedule screens 560 and 570 is displayed, a list display screen 590 related to the selected date is displayed.

  The standby screen 500 shown in FIG. 4 includes a weather icon 501. As described above, the weather icon 501 is image data that expresses predicted weather information in a visually easy-to-understand manner. The weather icon 501 is displayed by switching the predicted weather information according to user settings. For example, it can be set to display the predicted weather information for the current day, or can be set to display the predicted weather information for the date of the most recent event on the current day. In these cases, information indicating that the current day or the date of the event is displayed may be displayed in the vicinity of the weather icon 501 in the standby screen 500.

  The standby screen 510 illustrated in FIG. 5 includes a weather picture 511. Like the weather icon 501, the weather pict 511 is image data that expresses predicted weather information in a visually easy-to-understand manner, and is arranged in a matrix of 30 pixels vertically and 30 pixels horizontally, for a total of 900 pixels. Is formed. The difference from the weather icon 501 is the size and the position where it is displayed. Each size is as described above. The weather pict 511 is displayed in the upper area of the standby screen 510. In this area, in addition to the weather pictogram 511, a pictogram 512 indicating the radio wave reception status from the radio base station 11 of the mobile phone 100 and a pictogram 513 indicating the remaining battery level of the mobile phone 100 are displayed.

  The standby screen 520 shown in FIG. 6 includes a weather icon 521. The weather icon 521 is image data that expresses both the predicted weather information and the fact that an e-mail indicating the cancellation or postponement of the event has been transmitted visually and in an easily understandable manner. The weather icon 521 represents an umbrella and an envelope as shown in FIG. Similarly to the weather icon 501, the weather icon 521 is also displayed by switching the predicted weather information according to user settings. The standby screen 520 is displayed when an e-mail notifying the user of the event cancellation or postponement is automatically transmitted regardless of the user's operation.

The standby screen 530 illustrated in FIG. 7 includes a pop-up 531. The pop-up 531 includes an icon 532 composed of an umbrella and an envelope similar to the icon 521, and a text message 533 “You need to send mail”. The standby screen 530 is displayed when manual transmission of an electronic mail by a user operation is set.
When the standby screen 530 is displayed and the input unit 111 receives selection and pressing of the icon 532 by the user, the control unit 108 controls the display unit 110 to attach the predicted weather information and Display the email creation screen that tells you to cancel or postpone. Next, when the input unit 111 receives an instruction to transmit the electronic mail by a user operation, the control unit 108 transmits the electronic mail so that the communication control unit 103, the wireless communication unit 102, and the like are transmitted. The antenna 101 is controlled.

  The standby screens 540 and 550 shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 include weather images 541 and 551 made up of illustrations, weather maps, satellite images, and the like that can visually recognize weather information as wallpaper. These illustrations, weather maps, satellite images, and the like are included in the weather information received from the weather information server device 300. When the mobile phone 100 newly receives these weather images due to changes in weather, the display unit 110 displays a standby screen including the received weather images instead of the standby screen 540.

  A schedule screen 560 shown in FIG. 10 shows a calendar of “October 200X” and includes a schedule display unit 561. The schedule display unit 561 includes 42 date frames arranged in a matrix of 6 rows × 7 columns, and the 42 date frames indicate dates from left to right and from top to bottom. Numbers “1”, “2”, “3”,..., “30”, “31” are displayed. In addition, an event icon is displayed in the date frame corresponding to the date on which the event is scheduled, and a weather icon is displayed in the corresponding date frame.

  For example, an event icon 563 indicating a drive is displayed in a date frame in which a number 562 “9” indicating a date is displayed, and “cloudy after” is displayed in a date frame in which a number “16” indicating a date is displayed. A weather icon 564 indicating “sunny” is displayed, and a weather icon indicating “rain” and an event icon 565 indicating “tennis” are displayed in the date frame where the numeral “17” indicating the date is displayed. Yes.

  Similar to the schedule screen 560, the schedule screen 570 shown in FIG. 11 shows a calendar of “October 200X”, and includes a schedule display unit 571, an event display unit 573, and a weather information display unit 581. Yes. The schedule display unit 571 is the same as the schedule display unit 561. In the schedule display portion 571, a focus 572 indicating the selection of the date frame is displayed on the date frame in which the number “17” indicating the date is displayed.

The event display unit 573 displays information regarding each event on the date corresponding to the date frame on which the focus 572 is displayed on the schedule screen 570, and includes an event icon 574 indicating “tennis” and a character 575 “tennis”. And the event start time 576.
The weather information display unit 581 displays weather information on a date corresponding to the date frame on which the focus 572 is displayed on the schedule screen 570, and includes a weather icon 582 that visually represents the weather of the day, A washing index icon 583 that visually represents the washing index and a flowering information icon 584 that visually represents the flowering information of the day are included.

  List display screen 590 shows an event schedule, weather information, index information, and flowering information on a date corresponding to the date frame on which focus 572 is displayed on schedule screen 570. In the list display screen 590, the item 591 indicates the date, the item 592 indicates the start time and end time of the event on the date, the name of the event, and the event hosting area, and the item 593 indicates the weather on the date, The maximum temperature, the minimum temperature, and the probability of precipitation are shown. An item 594 shows a washing index on the date, and an item 595 shows flowering information on the date. As described above, the list display screen 590 displays detailed information that cannot be displayed on the schedule screen 570.

(6) Control unit 108
(Generation of event participant list 400)
The event participant list 400 is generated as described below under the control of the control unit 108.
The user enters the event name, event date and event area of an event, and the address data included in the address book includes the names of participants who participate in the event. select. The input unit 111 receives the event name, the date of the event, and the host area, receives the selection, and the control unit 108 extracts the name and e-mail address from the selected address data, and extracts the extracted name (name) and e-mail The address, the accepted event name, the date of the event, and the host area are written into the event participant list 400 as participant data.

(Display schedule book)
The control unit 108 receives from the input unit 111 display instruction information for instructing display of the schedule book and designation of the year and month to be displayed. When the display instruction information and the designation of year and month are received, all schedule data including the designated year and month is read from the schedule book data 420, and the read schedule data is used as an example as shown in FIG. The schedule screen 560 is generated, and the display unit 110 is controlled to display the generated schedule screen 560.

(Registration in schedule book data 420)
The control unit 108 receives update instruction information for instructing update of the schedule book from the input unit 111. When the update instruction information is received, a date designation, an event name, and an event icon selection are further received, and a weather related category is further received. Here, if the received weather-related category is “Yes”, further condition information is received. If the received weather related category is “none”, the condition information is not received. Next, schedule the specified date, the received event name, the selected event icon, the received weather related category, and the condition information received when the received weather related category is “Yes” as schedule data. Write to the book data 420. In the above description, the event icon is selected by a user's designation from among a plurality of icons stored in the mobile phone 100 in advance.

(Acquisition of weather information)
The control unit 108 performs weather for the communication control unit 103, the wireless communication unit 102, and the antenna 101 via the wireless base station 11, the mobile phone network 10, and the Internet 20 in accordance with a repetition unit preset by the user. Control is performed so that a weather information request for requesting transmission of weather information is transmitted to the information server device 300.

Here, an example of the repetition unit is every hour, every 3 hours, every 12 hours, every day, every week, and the like. These repeating units are set by user operation. The setting is updated by a user operation.
For example, when the repetition unit is every hour, the control unit 108 controls to transmit the weather information request every hour, that is, every hour 00 minutes 00 seconds.

Further, the control unit 108 receives weather information from the weather information server device 300 via the Internet 20, the mobile phone network 10, the wireless base station 11, the antenna 101, the wireless communication unit 102, and the communication control unit 103. The weather information includes, for example, a predicted area such as a predicted date and a predicted precipitation probability.
(Weather information display)
In addition, the control unit 108 selects one weather icon from among a plurality of icons stored in the mobile phone 100 in advance using the predicted precipitation probability included in the received weather information. Here, for example, when the predicted precipitation probability is 30% or more, a weather icon representing an umbrella is selected. Next, a standby screen 500 (shown in FIG. 4) including the selected weather icon is generated, and control is performed to display the generated standby screen 500 on the display unit 110. Instead of the standby screen 500, the standby screens 510, 540, and 550 shown in FIGS. 5, 8, and 9 may be displayed.

(Update of schedule book data 420)
Further, the control unit 108 extracts schedule data including the same date as the predicted date included in the received weather information from the schedule book data 420, and the event holding region included in the extracted schedule data, It is determined whether or not the predicted area included in the received weather information matches, and if it matches, the received predicted precipitation probability or the like is written in the schedule data as the predicted weather information. Further, a weather icon corresponding to the predicted precipitation probability or the like is selected from a plurality of icons stored in the mobile phone 100, and the selected icon is written as a weather icon. In this way, the item related to the weather in the schedule data corresponding to the received weather information is updated.

(E-mail creation)
In addition, the control unit 108 tries to extract schedule data including the weather-related division that includes the date after the current date and “Yes” from the schedule book data 420. If the schedule data is not extracted, the subsequent e-mail creation process is not performed.
When one or more pieces of schedule data are extracted, an e-mail is created for each schedule data as described below and transmitted to the corresponding e-mail address.

(I) Using the condition information included in the extracted schedule data and the predicted weather information, it is determined whether to create an e-mail.
Specifically, if the condition information is “precipitation probability of 50% or more” and the predicted weather information is “precipitation probability of 20%”, no e-mail is created. If the condition information is “precipitation probability of 50% or more” and the predicted weather information is “precipitation probability of 60%”, an e-mail is created. That is, if the predicted weather information satisfies the condition indicated by the condition information, an e-mail is created, and if not, the e-mail is not created.

(Ii) E-mail is created as follows.
The control unit 108 stores the following text in advance. In other words, “DD scheduled for BB day CC on year AA has been cancelled.”
Next, the control unit 108 extracts the date and event name from the extracted schedule data, and the extracted year, month, day, and event name in the AA, BB, CC, and DD portions of the text. Embed.

For example, if the date of the event and the event name are “200X1017” and “tennis”, respectively, the sentence is “Tennis scheduled to be held on October 17th, 200X has been canceled”. Become.
In this way, the fixed phrases are stored in advance in the mobile phone 100, the fixed phrases are edited according to the requirements, and the contents of the email to be transmitted are created. For example, a schedule name is assigned to each schedule data in the schedule book data, and the control unit 108 may use the schedule name as the subject of the e-mail.

In addition, the control unit 108 inserts an e-mail sender name, sender mail address, and outgoing date into the sentence. The forecast weather information is attached to an e-mail.
Next, the control unit 108 extracts, from the event participant list 400, participant data that includes the same date and event name as the extracted date and event name, and is included in the extracted participant data. Extract email address.

Next, the control unit 108 controls the communication control unit 103, the wireless communication unit 102, and the antenna 101 so that the created text is transmitted to each extracted mail address as an e-mail.
Thus, the generated e-mail is transmitted to another mobile phone via the radio base station 11 and the mobile phone network 10.

3. Operation of Weather Information Notification System 1 The operation of the weather information notification system 1 will be described.
(1) Operation of Registration in Schedule Book Data The operation of registration in the schedule book data in the mobile phone 100 will be described using the flowchart shown in FIG.

Upon receiving update instruction information for instructing update of the schedule book from the input unit 111, the control unit 108 performs registration in the schedule book data as described below.
Upon receiving the update instruction information, the control unit 108 receives designation of the date from the input unit 111 (step S201), receives an event name (step S202), receives selection of an event icon (step S203), and weather. A related category is received (step S204). Here, when the received weather-related category is “Yes” (step S205), further condition information is received (step S206).

Next, the control unit 108 displays the condition information received when the specified date, received event name, selected event icon, received weather related category, and received weather related category is “Yes”. The schedule data is written into the schedule book data 420 (step S207).
(2) Weather Information Acquisition and E-mail Creation, Transmission, and Reception Operations Weather information acquisition and e-mail creation, transmission, and reception operations in the weather information notification system 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. To do.

The control unit 108 requests the weather information server device 300 to transmit weather information via the communication control unit 103, the wireless communication unit 102, the antenna 101, the wireless base station 11, the mobile phone network 10, and the Internet 20. A weather information request is transmitted (steps S101 to S103).
When the weather information request is received, the weather information server device reads the weather information that matches the received weather information request from the inside (step S104), and the read weather information is read from the Internet 20, the mobile phone network 10, and the wireless base station. 11 to the mobile phone 100 (steps S105 to S107).

The display unit 110 displays a standby screen 500 generated based on the received weather information (step S108), and the control unit 108 updates the schedule book data 420 using the received weather information (step S109). ).
Next, for the schedule data that includes the date after the current date and includes the weather-related category “Yes” (step S110), the control unit 108 satisfies the condition indicated by the condition information. If it does not satisfy the condition (NO in step S111), no e-mail is created. When it is satisfied (match in step S111), the control unit 108 extracts a corresponding mail address from the event participant list 400 (step S112), generates a text of the email (step S113), and generates the generated electronic The mail is transmitted to another mobile phone via the communication control unit 103, the wireless communication unit 102, the antenna 101, the wireless base station 11, and the mobile phone network 10 (steps S114 to S115).

The other mobile phone receives the e-mail (step S114 to step S115) and displays the received e-mail (step S116).
4). Other Modifications Although the present invention has been described based on the above-described embodiment, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. The following cases are also included in the present invention.

(1) In the above embodiment, the mobile phone 100 acquires weather information from the weather information server device 300 via the Internet 20, the mobile phone network 10, and the wireless base station 11, but this example It is not limited to.
For example, instead of the weather information server device 300, a weather information broadcasting device broadcasts weather information on digital terrestrial broadcasting, and the mobile phone 100 receives the broadcast wave, and receives the weather information from the received broadcast wave. It may be separated and extracted.

(2) When the control unit 108 transmits an e-mail notifying the postponement or cancellation of the event to the event participants, the control unit 108 confirms with the user whether or not the e-mail can be transmitted, and the user's confirmation is obtained. The electronic mail may be transmitted.
(3) When the control unit 108 transmits an e-mail notifying the postponement or cancellation of the event to the event participants, the control unit 108 indicates that the e-mail has been transmitted, the e-mail content, The name and mail address of the other party to whom the e-mail is transmitted may be transmitted to the mail address of the user of the mobile phone 100.

  (4) The control unit 108 may accept an update of the schedule book data 420 from the user. For example, the update date of the event from “October 17, 200X” to “October 19, 200 X” is accepted. At this time, the control unit 108 receives the predicted weather information “October 19, 200X” from the weather information server device 300, and uses the received predicted weather information to schedule data “October 19, 200X”. And a message informing the participant of the event of the change of the date of the event and the predicted weather information of “October 19th, 200X” newly received from the weather information server device 300, It may be sent as an e-mail.

Here, when the control unit 108 transmits the e-mail indicating the change of the schedule to the event participant, the control unit 108 confirms with the user whether or not the e-mail can be transmitted, and the user's confirmation is obtained. The electronic mail may be transmitted.
Here, the control unit 108, when transmitting the e-mail indicating the schedule change to the event participants, indicates that the e-mail has been transmitted, the e-mail content, and the e-mail. The name and mail address of the other party who sends the mail may be sent to the mail address of the user of the mobile phone 100.

(5) When the control unit 108 transmits an e-mail notifying the postponement or cancellation of the event to the event participant, the control unit 108 selects a weather icon corresponding to the predicted weather information from the plurality of icons stored in the mobile phone 100. The selected weather icon may be transmitted together with the predicted weather information.
In addition, the mobile phone 100 stores a plurality of pictograms, and the control unit 108 transmits pictograms corresponding to the predicted weather information when transmitting an e-mail notifying the postponement or cancellation of the event to the event participants. The selected pictogram may be selected from the plurality of pictograms and transmitted together with the predicted weather information. An example of an emoji is a representation of a person's crying face. When the predicted weather information is raining, an emoticon representing the crying side is transmitted.

  (6) The mobile phone that has received the predicted weather information together with the e-mail that notifies the postponement or cancellation of the event or the e-mail that notifies the change of the event uses the received predicted weather information to The item may be updated. The mobile phone may display an updated schedule book based on the updated schedule book data.

Thus, when the cellular phone displays the schedule book after receiving the e-mail, the predicted weather information is included and displayed.
(7) The display unit 110 displays any one of the standby screens 500, 510, 520, 530, 540, and 550 described above.
The control unit 108 periodically updates these standby screens using the forecast weather information received periodically. For example, an expected course map of typhoon is displayed on the standby screen 540 shown in FIG. The control unit 108 periodically receives the expected course map of the typhoon, and updates the standby screen 540 using the received expected course map.

(8) The display unit 110 displays icons, pictograms, and pop-ups representing the predicted weather information on the standby screens 500, 510, 520, and 530 described above.
In addition, when the display unit 110 displays icons, pictograms, and pop-ups representing predicted weather information on the above-described standby screens 500, 510, 520, and 530, the date and time at which the event is held and the event venue Detailed weather information may be displayed.

For example, the display unit 110 may display the flowering status in the vicinity of the park on the day when a cherry-blossom viewing event one week later is scheduled.
The display unit 110 may set specific conditions and display specific information when the conditions are satisfied. For example, information indicating rain may be displayed only when a rain condition is set and the predicted weather information satisfies the rain condition.

The display unit 110 may display the weather information only when the typhoon information is included in the predicted weather information.
The display unit 110 may display the typhoon information without fail when the typhoon information is included in the predicted weather information.
The display unit 110 may set a time zone for displaying weather information in conjunction with the alarm function. For example, a weather icon represented by an umbrella may be displayed only from 6:00 am to 8:00 am.

  (9) When the weather unit is displayed on the standby screen by the display unit 110, when the input unit 111 receives the selection of the weather icon from the user, the display unit 110 displays the weather icon shown in FIGS. A schedule screen 560 or 570 including the same weather icon as the weather icon may be displayed. When the selection is accepted, a list display screen 590 shown in FIG. 12 may be displayed at this time.

(10) Since the predicted weather information is often expressed by an index, the numerical values may be classified into a plurality of stages, and a mark representing each stage may be displayed when icons and wallpaper are displayed.
For example, when the washing index is 0 to 30, a “x” figure is displayed, when 31 to 69, a “▲” figure is displayed, and when the washing index is 70 to 100, “●” is displayed. May be displayed.

(11) When receiving the predicted weather information, the control unit 108 may acquire only the predicted weather information including the area information regarding the specific area. By setting a travel destination, a business trip destination, or the like as the specific area, the weather of the destination is displayed on that day (travel day, business trip day) in the schedule book.
Further, the control unit 108 may acquire not only the predicted weather information in one specific area but also a plurality of predicted weather information in a plurality of specific areas.

(12) As described below, the cumulative number of transmissions of an e-mail that informs cancellation or postponement of an event may be limited.
Each schedule data of the schedule book data further includes the cumulative number of transmissions and the maximum number of transmissions of e-mails that notify the suspension or postponement of the event. At this time, the initial value of the cumulative number of transmissions is “0”. The maximum number of transmissions indicates the maximum number of transmissions permitted by the user, and “1” is set as an initial value, and the maximum number of transmissions is updated by the user. The control unit 108 compares the cumulative number of transmissions with the maximum number of transmissions before transmitting an e-mail notifying the suspension or postponement of the event. If the cumulative number of transmissions is equal to the maximum number of transmissions, the control unit 108 does not transmit the electronic mail. If the cumulative number of transmissions is smaller than the maximum number of transmissions, the control unit 108 adds “1” to the cumulative number of transmissions, and then transmits an e-mail notifying the suspension or postponement of the event to each corresponding mail address.

(13) The control unit 108 may limit the e-mail transmission time limit as described below.
Each schedule data of the schedule book data further includes an e-mail transmission possible period informing the cancellation or postponement of the event. The transmission possible period is, for example, “from one week before to the previous day” of the date of the event. The control unit 108 may limit the transmission of the e-mail that notifies the suspension or postponement of the event to the transmission-enabled period, and may not transmit the e-mail outside this period.

This is because, for example, the predictive weather information one month before the date of the event is less reliable.
Further, for example, one month before the date of the event, an e-mail notifying that the event may be canceled or postponed may be transmitted using the predicted weather information at this time. . In this case, for example, during the period from one week before the date of the event to the previous day, using the forecast weather information for this period, an e-mail that informs that the event will be canceled or postponed is An e-mail indicating that the event will be held as scheduled may be sent.

(14) As described above, according to the above-described embodiment and its modification, a schedule is prepared by automatically linking weather information such as Web contents and a schedule book on a mobile phone. There is an effect that it becomes easy.
In addition, when the schedule changes, the received weather information is transmitted by e-mail, so that all the participants can share the weather information on the scheduled date of the event.

Further, the weather information is periodically received and the weather information in the schedule book is constantly updated, so that the possibility of change can be known and adjusted early.
(15) Each of the above devices is specifically a computer system including a microprocessor, a ROM, a RAM, and the like. A computer program is stored in the RAM or the hard disk unit. Each device achieves its functions by the microprocessor operating according to the computer program. Here, the computer program is configured by combining a plurality of instruction codes indicating instructions for the computer in order to achieve a predetermined function.

(16) The present invention may be the method described above. Further, the present invention may be a computer program that realizes these methods by a computer, or may be a digital signal composed of the computer program.
The present invention also provides a computer-readable recording medium such as a flexible disk, hard disk, CD-ROM, MO, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, BD (Blu-ray Disc). ), Recorded in a semiconductor memory or the like. Further, the present invention may be the computer program or the digital signal recorded on these recording media.

Further, the present invention may transmit the computer program or the digital signal via an electric communication line, a wireless or wired communication line, a network represented by the Internet, a data broadcast, or the like.
The present invention may be a computer system including a microprocessor and a memory, wherein the memory stores the computer program, and the microprocessor operates according to the computer program.

In addition, the program or the digital signal is recorded on the recording medium and transferred, or the program or the digital signal is transferred via the network or the like, and is executed by another independent computer system. It is good.
(17) The above embodiment and the above modifications may be combined.

  Each device constituting the present invention can be manufactured and sold in the electric appliance manufacturing industry in a management manner, continuously and repeatedly.

1 is a configuration diagram showing a configuration of a weather information notification system 1. FIG. An example of the data structure of the schedule book data 420 is shown. An example of the data structure of the event participant list 400 is shown. A standby screen 500 displayed by the display unit 110 is shown. A standby screen 510 displayed by the display unit 110 is shown. A standby screen 520 displayed by the display unit 110 is shown. The standby screen 530 displayed by the display unit 110 is shown. A standby screen 540 displayed by the display unit 110 is shown. A standby screen 550 displayed by the display unit 110 is shown. A schedule screen 560 displayed by the display unit 110 is shown. A schedule screen 570 displayed by the display unit 110 is shown. A list display screen 590 displayed by the display unit 110 is shown. 5 is a flowchart showing an operation of registration in schedule book data in the mobile phone 100. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement of acquisition of a weather information, creation of an email, transmission, and reception in the weather information notification system 1.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Weather information notification system 10 Mobile telephone network 11 Wireless base station 20 Internet 100 Mobile phone 101 Antenna 102 Wireless communication part 103 Communication control part 104 Speaker 105 DA conversion part 106 Microphone 107 AD conversion part 108 Control part 109 Storage part 110 Display part 111 Input unit 201-203 Mobile phone 300 Weather information server device

Claims (11)

Receiving means for receiving weather information;
Storage means for storing event schedule information and e-mail addresses of prospective participants;
A judging means for judging whether or not the event determined by the schedule information is possible based on the received weather information;
And a transmission means for sending an e-mail to the effect that the event cannot be held to the mail address stored in the storage means when it is determined that the event cannot be held. Phone. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the transmission unit further transmits the weather information together with the electronic mail. The mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein the transmission unit transmits an icon indicating the weather as the weather information. 2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein, when it is determined that an event can be held, the transmission unit further transmits an e-mail to that effect to the e-mail address. The mobile phone further includes generating means for generating a standby screen for displaying the received weather information;
The mobile phone according to claim 1, further comprising display means for displaying the generated standby screen. The said production | generation means produces | generates the icon image which shows the received weather information, a pictogram image, or a pop-up image, and produces | generates the standby screen containing the produced | generated icon image, pictogram image, or pop-up image. Mobile phone. The transmission means further transmits an e-mail addressed to itself indicating that the e-mail has been transmitted, that the event has been changed, each e-mail address, and the extracted weather information. The mobile phone according to claim 1. Receiving means for receiving weather information for a plurality of days prior to the day;
When the event information indicating the event, the scheduled date of the event, the possibility information indicating whether or not the event may be changed due to weather information, and the possibility information indicate that there is a possibility of change, Schedule storage means for storing the condition information indicating the weather conditions for determining the change of the holding in association with each other;
Address storage means for storing an email address of a person who plans to participate in the event;
An extraction means for extracting weather information about the same day as the scheduled date, from the received plurality of weather information, when the possibility information indicates that there is a possibility of change of holding of the event;
Determining means for determining whether or not the extracted weather information satisfies a weather condition indicated by the condition information;
A transmission means for transmitting an e-mail indicating that the event will be changed to an e-mail address stored in the address storage means when it is determined that the weather condition is satisfied, Mobile phone. The mobile phone further includes:
Schedule receiving means for receiving input of the event information, the scheduled date of the event, the possibility information, and the condition information when the possibility information indicates that there is a possibility of change;
Writing means for writing the event information that has received an input, the scheduled date, the possibility information, and the condition information when there is a possibility of change, into the schedule storage means; The mobile phone according to claim 8. The mobile phone according to claim 8, wherein the writing unit further writes the extracted weather information in the schedule storage unit in association with the event information. The mobile phone further includes:
Schedule generation means for generating a schedule display screen for each month including the event information, the scheduled date and the weather information stored in the schedule storage means;
The mobile phone according to claim 10, comprising: schedule display means for displaying the generated schedule display screen.

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