JP2011035726A - Communication terminal, control method and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To report information regarding a source in notification modes different according to situations when there is an incoming call without requiring a complicated operation of a user. <P>SOLUTION: In a notification mode storage part 152 of a communication terminal 10, a table is stored in which data showing at least one of a position, posture, a motion state and a mode of incoming call of the communication terminal 10 is associated with data showing a notification mode. A control part 20 of the communication terminal 10 detects at least any one of the position, the posture and the motion state and the mode of incoming call of a self-device as a terminal state based on signals to be output from each of an acceleration sensor 21, a contact sensor 22, a position detection part 23, and a gyro sensor 24 when receiving the incoming call from other communication terminal 10. The control part 20 of the communication terminal 10 specifies the notification mode corresponding to the detected terminal state by referring to the storage content of the notification mode storage part 152 and performs control so as to perform notification in the specified notification mode. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication terminal, a control method, and a program.

  With recent mobile phones, information such as user's friends, acquaintances, and family members can be registered in the phone book. Further, for the other party registered in the phone book, a part of the phone book registration information is displayed on the screen of the mobile phone when a call or e-mail is received. For this reason, the user can know who the phone or e-mail is from by looking at the screen of the mobile phone before receiving a call or looking at the contents of the e-mail. However, the information of the communication partner of the telephone or e-mail displayed on the screen of the mobile phone is personal information, which is seen by people around the user and there is a risk that personal information may be leaked. In addition, when registering contents in the telephone directory so that the relationship between the user such as friends and family can be understood, it is assumed that the relationship between the user and the communication partner is leaked.

  Therefore, in order to prevent the leakage of the personal information of the user, techniques relating to security at the time of outgoing and incoming calls are disclosed. Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for changing the display content of information on a destination before and after password authentication. According to this technique, for example, when making a call, only the telephone number is displayed before password authentication, and the name and telephone number of the call destination are displayed after password authentication.

  Patent Document 2 discloses a technique for hiding a destination telephone number with the intention of the sender. If you set a command to hide the phone number at the caller and make a call, the caller's name and phone number are registered in the callee's communication terminal, but only the name from the callee user. Not confirmed.

  Patent Document 3 discloses a technique for blinking or lighting a second LED when a caller number included in an incoming call signal is not stored in a telephone directory in a mobile radio telephone. Patent Document 4 discloses a technique for controlling address book information related to a communication target person who is set to non-display in a communication terminal device so that it is not displayed. Patent Document 5 discloses registration of a caller's telephone directory as a mobile communication terminal that quickly notifies the user of the types and number of incoming services without visually recognizing the screen of the mobile communication terminal. A technique for performing notification using audio data having a plurality of different timbres depending on the presence or absence is disclosed.

JP 2009-38715 A JP 2009-21746 A JP-A-11-103334 JP 2007-295471 A JP 2006-094351 A

  However, Patent Document 1 is a technique for making a call, and the user has to perform a complicated operation of inputting a password in order to display detailed information on the call destination. Further, although Patent Document 2 can prevent the user's telephone number from leaking to the third party from the user at the transmission destination, a complicated operation for hiding the number is necessary when making a call. Also, in Patent Documents 3 to 5, it is difficult to prevent leakage of personal information of a user when receiving a call or receiving an e-mail.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to notify information about a caller in a different notification mode depending on the situation when an incoming call is received without requiring a complicated operation by a user.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the present invention provides a notification indicating a state of notification of terminal state data indicating at least one of the position, posture and motion state of the terminal itself and the state of the incoming call and information on the transmission source Storage means for storing mode data in association with each other, incoming call reception means for receiving an incoming call from another communication terminal, and notification means for notifying the user of the information when the incoming call reception means receives the incoming call Detecting means for detecting the terminal state of the terminal, and a notification mode corresponding to the terminal state detected by the detection unit with reference to the storage content of the storage unit, and the information in the specified notification mode And a notification control means for controlling the notification means so as to notify the communication terminal.

  In a preferred aspect of the present invention, from a server device connected via a communication network, using a receiving unit that receives schedule information indicating a schedule of a user of the terminal itself, and using the schedule information received by the receiving unit, And updating means for updating at least a part of the terminal state data stored in the storage means according to a predetermined algorithm.

  Moreover, in another preferable aspect of the present invention, the detection means detects the movement state of the terminal, and whether the terminal is stationary for a predetermined time or longer according to the detection result. The terminal state data may include data indicating whether or not the terminal is stationary for a predetermined time or more.

  Further, in another preferred aspect of the present invention, the detecting means detects the position of the own terminal, detects whether the own terminal is located within a predetermined range according to the detection result, The terminal status data may include data indicating whether or not the own terminal is located within a predetermined range.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, a user's complicated operation is not required, but when there exists an incoming call, the information regarding a transmission origin can be alert | reported by a different alerting | reporting aspect according to a condition.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of a structure of a communication system. It is a block diagram which shows an example of a structure of a communication terminal. It is a figure which shows an example of the memory content of the telephone directory data storage part. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of storage contents of a notification mode storage unit 152. FIG. It is a block diagram which shows an example of a functional structure of a communication terminal. It is a figure which shows the specific example of an alerting | reporting aspect. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process of a communication terminal.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the common part in each figure.
1. Configuration 1-1. Configuration of Communication System FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram illustrating the configuration of a communication system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The communication system 100 includes a plurality of communication terminals 10-1 and 10-2 and a communication network 30. The communication terminals 10-1 and 10-2 may be wired to the communication network 30 or may be wirelessly connected. In the example illustrated in FIG. 1, two communication terminals 10-1 and 10-2 are illustrated, but the number of communication terminals is not limited to this, and may be more or less. In the following description, when it is not necessary to distinguish between the communication terminals 10-1 and 10-2 for convenience of description, these will be referred to as “communication terminal 10”.

1-2. Configuration of Communication Terminal FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of the communication terminal 10. The communication terminal 10 is a computer device such as a mobile phone or a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). As illustrated in FIG. 2, the communication terminal 10 includes a communication unit 11, an operation input unit 12, a voice processing unit 13, a notification unit 14, a storage unit 15, a control unit 20, an acceleration sensor 21, a contact sensor 22, and a position detection unit 23. , A gyro sensor 24 and a timer 25 are provided. These units are connected via a bus 19. In the figure, the control unit 20 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), and the like, and stores a computer program stored in the ROM or the storage unit 15 using the RAM as a work area. By executing this, the communication terminal 10 is controlled. The storage unit 15 is a storage unit such as an EEPROM or a hard disk, and stores various programs such as a program related to control of the communication terminal 10.

  The communication unit 11 is a communication unit for performing communication with another communication terminal 10 via the communication network 30. For example, when data such as e-mail is received, the data received by the communication unit 11 is decrypted. When transmitting data, the communication unit 11 transmits the data after performing encryption processing. The operation input unit 12 includes various keys and outputs a signal corresponding to the operation content of the user. For example, a microphone (not shown) or a speaker (not shown) is connected to the voice processing unit 13. Processing of voice data input from the microphone, processing of an incoming melody, etc., and output to the speaker are performed. I do. The notification unit 14 is a notification unit that notifies the user under the control of the control unit 20. Here, the notification unit 14 includes an LED (not shown), a speaker (not shown), and a liquid crystal display unit (not shown). The liquid crystal display unit displays input information from the operation input unit 12 and information in the storage unit 15 read by the user based on a command from the control unit 20. A communication terminal that is generally used generally displays information of a caller on a liquid crystal display unit when an incoming call is received.

  The acceleration sensor 21, the contact sensor 22, the position detection unit 23, and the gyro sensor 24 function as a detection unit that detects at least one of the position, posture, and motion state of the communication terminal 10 (own device) as the terminal state. Specifically, the acceleration sensor 21 is a sensor that detects acceleration applied to the communication terminal 10. The contact sensor 22 is a sensor that detects the presence or absence of contact between the communication terminal 10 and another object. The position detection unit 23 detects the position of the communication terminal 10 by, for example, GPS (Global Positioning System). Note that the position detection unit 23 is not limited to detecting the position of the communication terminal 10 by GPS, but may be configured to detect the position by position registration or the like, as long as the position of the communication terminal 10 is detected. Any thing is acceptable. The gyro sensor 24 detects the angle and angular velocity of the communication terminal 10. The time measuring unit 25 is a time measuring unit that performs time measurement. In addition to the configuration shown in FIG. 2, the communication terminal 10 may have other configurations such as an input unit to which a storage device such as an external flexible disk driver or a hard disk is connected.

  In addition to various programs executed by the control unit 20, the storage unit 15 of the communication terminal 10 stores data such as images taken by the user. In addition, the storage unit 15 includes a telephone directory data storage unit 151 that stores information of a caller, and a notification mode storage unit 152 that stores a notification mode of the notification unit 14. The telephone book data storage unit 151 stores a plurality of pieces of identification information for identifying other communication terminals 10. More specifically, identification information (for example, a telephone number, an e-mail address, etc.) for identifying the other communication terminal 10 is stored in the telephone directory data storage unit 151, and the name of the user of the other communication terminal 10 is stored. The information is stored in association with information indicating the relationship with the user. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the contents stored in the telephone directory data storage unit 151. In the example shown in FIG. 3, items of “phone number”, “e-mail address”, “name”, and “attribute” are stored in the telephone directory data storage unit 151 in association with each other. Among these items, information indicating the telephone number of another communication terminal 10 is stored in the item “telephone number”. In the item “e-mail address”, information indicating an e-mail address of another communication terminal 10 is stored. In the “name” item, information indicating the names of users of other communication terminals 10 is stored. In the “attribute” item, information indicating the relationship between the user of another communication terminal 10 and the user of the communication terminal 10 is stored. In the example illustrated in FIG. 3, the example in which the items “phone number”, “e-mail address”, “name”, and “attribute” are stored in the phone book data storage unit 151 has been described. The stored contents of the telephone directory data storage unit 151 are not limited to these, and for example, only the telephone number may be registered. For example, items other than the items shown in FIG. Image data, text data representing an address, etc.) may be registered. In short, the telephone directory data storage unit 151 only needs to store a plurality of pieces of identification information for identifying other communication terminals 10.

  The notification mode storage unit 152 includes data indicating at least one of the terminal state of the communication terminal 10 (own device), the posture and the motion state, and the incoming mode, and data indicating the notification mode of information related to the transmission source. Is stored in the table. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of the stored contents of the notification mode storage unit 152. In the example illustrated in FIG. 4, the notification mode storage unit 152 stores “attribute”, “position”, “three-dimensional movement and duration”, “slope”, “calling time length”, and “time”. Each item of “incoming call interval” and “notification mode” is stored in association with each other. Among these items, the “attribute” item stores data (hereinafter referred to as “attribute data”) indicating the relationship between the user of the communication terminal 10 and the user of the source communication terminal 10. In the “position” item, data indicating the position of the communication terminal 10 is stored. In the example illustrated in FIG. 4, data indicating whether the communication terminal 10 is located within a predetermined range is stored in the “position” item. The item “three-dimensional movement and duration” indicates the movement of the communication terminal 10 (the movement amount in the x-axis direction, the movement amount in the y-axis direction, the movement amount in the z-axis direction, etc.) and the duration thereof. Data is stored. In the example illustrated in FIG. 4, data indicating whether or not the time during which the communication terminal 10 is stationary continues for a predetermined time or longer is stored in the item “three-dimensional movement and duration”. The Next, in the item “tilt”, data representing the tilt (posture) of the communication terminal 10 with respect to the vertical direction is stored. In the item “length of call time”, data representing the call time length in an incoming call operation (including a voice incoming call operation and an e-mail reception operation) is stored. In the “time” item, data representing a time zone during the incoming call operation is stored. The item “incoming call interval” stores data indicating the time interval and frequency of the incoming call operation. In the item “notification mode”, data indicating a notification mode at the time of an incoming call (hereinafter referred to as “notification mode data”) is stored.

  In the following explanation, for convenience of explanation, the “position”, “three-dimensional movement and duration”, “tilt”, “length of ringing time”, “time”, “incoming interval” shown in FIG. When there is no need to distinguish the data stored in each item, these will be described as “terminal state data”. That is, in the present embodiment, the terminal state data is data indicating the position, posture and motion state of the communication terminal 10 and the manner of incoming calls. Moreover, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the notification mode storage unit 152 stores a plurality of terminal state data and notification mode data in association with each other. In the following description, for convenience of explanation, the terminal state data and the attribute data will be referred to as “condition data”. That is, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, a plurality of condition data and notification mode data are stored in association with each other.

  Next, an example of a functional configuration of the communication terminal 10 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the communication terminal 10. In the figure, an incoming call reception unit 201, a terminal state detection unit 202, and a notification control unit 203 are realized by the control unit 20 reading and executing a computer program stored in the ROM or the storage unit 15. The arrows in the figure schematically show the flow of data. The incoming call reception unit 201 receives an incoming call (including an incoming call in voice communication and reception of an e-mail) from another communication terminal 10. The incoming call reception unit 201 receives the identification information of the caller communication terminal 10 when receiving an incoming call from another communication terminal 10. In the following description, for convenience of description, identification information (telephone number, e-mail address, etc.) received from another communication terminal 10 will be referred to as “source information”.

  The terminal state detection unit 202 is based on signals output from the acceleration sensor 21, the contact sensor 22, the position detection unit 23, the gyro sensor 24, and the time measuring unit 25, and the position, posture and motion state of the communication terminal 10 and the incoming call. At least one of the above aspects is detected as a terminal state. More specifically, in this embodiment, the terminal state detection unit 202 detects the position of the communication terminal 10 according to the signal output from the position detection unit 23. Here, the terminal state detection unit 202 detects the position of the communication terminal 10 according to the signal output from the position detection unit 23, and is the communication terminal 10 positioned within a predetermined range according to the detection result? Detect whether or not. In addition, the terminal state detection unit 202 detects the movement and duration of the communication terminal 10 in the three-dimensional direction according to signals output from the acceleration sensor 21 and the gyro sensor 24. Here, the terminal state detection unit 202 detects the movement state of the communication terminal 10 according to the signals output from the acceleration sensor 21 and the gyro sensor 24, and the communication terminal 10 is stationary according to the detection result. Is detected for a predetermined time or more. In addition, the terminal state detection unit 202 detects the inclination (posture) of the communication terminal 10 with respect to the vertical direction according to the signal output from the gyro sensor 24.

  Further, the terminal state detection unit 202 measures the elapsed time (calling time length) from when the incoming call reception unit 201 receives an incoming call, according to the signal output from the time measuring unit 25. Further, the terminal state detection unit 202 detects the time when the incoming call reception unit 201 has received an incoming call in accordance with the signal output from the time measuring unit 25. Further, the terminal state detection unit 202 measures an incoming call interval from the same transmission source according to a signal output from the time measuring unit 25. The terminal state detection unit 202 supplies data indicating the detection result to the notification control unit 203. In this embodiment, the terminal state detection unit 202 detects the position of the communication terminal 10, the movement and duration in the three-dimensional direction, the inclination, the length of the ringing time, the incoming time, and the incoming call interval. The terminal state detected by the unit 202 is not limited to these, and may be at least one of them. For example, the terminal state detection unit 202 may detect only the position of the communication terminal 10, or may detect the position and inclination of the communication terminal 10, for example.

  The notification control unit 203 specifies a notification mode corresponding to the terminal state detected by the terminal state detection unit 202 with reference to the stored content of the notification mode storage unit 152, and notifies information related to the transmission source in the specified notification mode. Thus, the notification unit 14 is controlled. Here, the notification control unit 203 converts the attribute data corresponding to the identification information received by the incoming call reception unit 201 and each of the plurality of terminal states detected by the terminal state detection unit 202 into the condition data registered in FIG. Controls the notification unit 14 so as to perform notification in the notification mode indicated by the notification mode data stored in association with the selected condition data, by selecting the condition data having the highest degree of coincidence in comparison with each included data To do.

  Here, a specific example of the process performed by the notification control unit 203 will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 4, “-” represents the meaning of do n’t care. That is, data for which “-” is set is not subject to collation, and collation processing is performed using other data. The condition is based on the AND condition, and the condition data having the highest degree of coincidence is selected. For example, when the caller is not registered in the phone book, the “attribute” item is subjected to collation processing, and “condition 1” and “condition 2” are selected as candidate condition data. When the position of the terminal 10 is in the building A, the condition data of “condition 2” is selected by performing the matching process on the item of “position”. As a result, “notification mode 1” is selected as the notification mode. Selected. On the other hand, when the position of the communication terminal 10 is not in the building A, the condition data of “condition 1” is selected by performing the collation process on the item “position”. “Normal notification” is selected.

  Here, the normal notification mode is a mode in which the name, telephone number, and e-mail address of the caller are displayed on the liquid crystal display unit as in the prior art. FIG. 6 is a table showing a list of notification modes. In the example shown in FIG. 6, the data indicating the modes of “ringing sound”, “lamp”, and “caller display” is displayed for each type of notification mode (“notification mode 1”, “notification mode 2”,...). It is registered. As illustrated in FIG. 6, a plurality of notification mode data registered in the notification mode storage unit 152 includes information about a transmission source (the telephone number, the e-mail address, the user's name, the user of the communication terminal 10 that is the transmission source). In addition to notification mode data indicating a mode of not displaying information on the transmission source. That is, the control unit 20 performs control to switch whether or not to display information related to the transmission source based on the stored contents of the notification mode storage unit 152.

2. Operation Next, an example of the operation of the present embodiment will be described.
2-1. Registration of notification mode The user himself / herself or another third party performs an operation of registering the notification mode for each of a plurality of conditions. When a third party registers, for example, before delivery to the user (when the communication terminal 10 is shipped, etc.), the notification mode is registered at the manufacturer or the dealer of the communication terminal 10. In this case, after giving it to the user, the user himself / herself or a third party may be able to change the registered content. In this embodiment, the phone book data is classified into several groups (for example, friends, family, etc.) and registered in the phone book data including the classification information, and a notification mode is set for each group (attribute). sign up.

2-2. Registration of Phone Book Data The user operates the operation input unit 12 to register data such as names and phone numbers of friends and family in the phone book data storage unit 151. Further, it may be connected to an external device (not shown) and registered using the external device. When registering each individual's phone book data, the data of each individual may be registered in association with the notification mode notified by the notification method of the present embodiment, if necessary.

2-3. Operation when there is an incoming call from another communication terminal 10 Next, an operation when there is an incoming call from another communication terminal 10 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. When there is an incoming call, first, the control unit 20 detects the terminal state of the communication terminal 10 (step S101), and specifies the notification mode corresponding to the detected terminal state with reference to the stored content of the notification mode storage unit 152. (Step S102), it is determined whether or not the specified notification mode is normal notification (Step S103). When it determines with it being normal alerting | reporting, the control part 20 controls the alerting | reporting part 14 to alert | report in a normal alerting | reporting aspect (step S104). On the other hand, when it determines with it not being normal alerting | reporting, the control part 20 alert | reports to the alerting | reporting part 14 so that it alert | reports as it registers in the alerting | reporting mode memory | storage part 152 (namely, alert | reports by the alerting | reporting aspect specified by step S102). When instructed (step S105), the operation of the control unit 20 ends.

  The notification unit 14 that has received an instruction from the control unit 20 notifies the user as instructed. That is, the notification unit 14 notifies the user of information regarding the caller when the control unit 20 receives an incoming call. For example, when the notification unit 14 is a lamp, whether or not it is stored in the telephone directory data storage unit 151 by lighting or blinking the lamp or a combination thereof, and an incoming call from a caller belonging to the group of family is received from a certain lamp The user may be able to determine the attributes of the sender, such as lighting, blinking and combinations thereof, and incoming calls from senders belonging to a group of friends, such as lighting or blinking of different lamps and combinations thereof. In addition, the lamps that are issued in a plurality of colors may be identified by colors. Further, the user may be able to discriminate by a combination of color, lighting and blinking. As an example of a combination of color, lighting, and blinking, it flashes green when an incoming call is received from a caller stored in the telephone directory data storage unit 151 and lights blue when an incoming call is received from a person who is not stored. And the like. In addition, since this is an example, you may make it use the combination of another color, blinking, and lighting.

  When the notification unit 14 is a liquid crystal screen, a specific figure or symbol may be displayed depending on whether an incoming call is received from a person stored in the phone book data. As an example, “○” is displayed when an incoming call is received from a caller stored in the telephone directory data storage unit 151, and “■” is displayed when an incoming call is received from an unstored caller. You may do it.

  When the notification unit 14 is a speaker, it may be possible to change the sound or music depending on whether or not the caller is stored in the telephone directory data storage unit 151. In addition, you may alert | report combining a some alerting | reporting part and alerting | reporting aspects, such as a lamp | ramp, a liquid crystal screen, and a speaker.

  As a result, the user can instantly determine whether or not the caller is registered in the telephone directory data storage unit 151, only by the information obtained from the notification unit 14, without being aware of the surrounding people. If the communication terminal includes a liquid crystal display, and the shape is such that the liquid crystal display is not visible to the surrounding people, such as a folded shape, the name and telephone number of the caller are displayed on the liquid crystal display. However, when the liquid crystal display unit is in a position where it can be easily seen by the surrounding people (for example, a bar shape), it is desirable not to display the sender information on the liquid crystal display unit when an incoming call is received. In short, in the communication terminal 10 having a structure that can take the first shape in which the liquid crystal display unit is exposed and the second shape in which the liquid crystal display unit is hidden by other portions and is not exposed, the shape of the communication terminal 10 is The control unit 20 may determine whether the shape is the first shape or the second shape, and may change the notification mode according to the detection result. More specifically, when it is determined that the shape is the first shape, the control unit 20 performs control so as not to display the transmission source information on the liquid crystal display unit, while it is determined that the shape is the second shape. In this case, control may be performed so that the information of the caller is displayed on the liquid crystal display unit. Further, the communication terminal 10 has a configuration in which an optical sensor is provided on the surface on which the liquid crystal display unit is provided, and whether or not the optical sensor detects light (that is, whether the liquid crystal display unit is easily seen in the surroundings). The notification mode may be varied depending on whether or not. In the case where the sender information is not displayed on the liquid crystal display unit, a message indicating that the incoming call is being received may be displayed.

3. Operation Example Next, a specific operation example of this embodiment will be described.
3-1. Scene 1
First, as an operation example, it is assumed that the communication terminal 10 is placed on a desk during a meeting or at home. If there is an incoming call in such a case, there is a possibility that information of the caller can be seen from the surrounding people. More specifically, for example, when the caller is a friend and the communication terminal 10 is in the building A and there is no movement in the three-dimensional direction for more than 1 minute, and an incoming call is received at 15:00. Consider the case. In this case, among the condition data registered in the table of FIG. 4, the condition data having the highest degree of coincidence with the terminal state of the terminal 10 is the “condition 5” condition data. In this case, since the communication terminal 10 is in a stationary state, it is assumed that there is a possibility that the display screen of the communication terminal 10 may be visible in the surroundings, such as during desk work or a meeting. In such a situation (condition 5), the notification mode 3 is notified as the notification mode. Referring to FIG. 6, in the notification mode 3, there is no ringing sound, but the lamp blinks to notify the user that the incoming call is being received. Further, since the sender display is not displayed, even if there is a person around, no specific sender information (name, etc.) is displayed. Of course, under the situation, if the caller is not registered in the phone book, the condition 2 in FIG. 4 is followed. In other words, the notification is made in the notification mode 1, and specifically, there is no ringing sound and the lamp does not light or flash, but since it is an unregistered sender, it is considered to be a sender with a low relationship with the user. Therefore, the caller's information (such as a telephone number display for a number notification call) is displayed as an incoming call display. In summary, in situations where you do not want to display incoming calls that clearly show the relationship with the user, you can see that you are receiving a call from a source that has a relationship with the user registered in the phone book. Since the original information can be hidden and the caller information can be displayed when an incoming call is received from a caller that is not related to the user, whether or not the caller information is displayed in view of the situation. Appropriate judgment can be made and notified.

  That is, in this operation example, the terminal state detection unit 202 detects a state in which the communication terminal 10 is placed on the desk for a certain period of time and performs notification in a specific notification mode, thereby It is possible for the user to determine the sender while preventing the person from knowing the sender.

3-2. Scene 2
Consider a scene that meets other conditions. For example, consider a case where the caller is a family, the communication terminal 10 is in the building A, and there is no movement in the three-dimensional direction for 1 minute or more, and there is an incoming call at 17:00. At the time of the first incoming call, the condition 5 in FIG. 4 is the most prioritized condition (condition data having the highest degree of coincidence with the terminal state of the communication terminal 10), and is notified in the notification mode 3. Further, consider the case where an incoming call is received from the same family again at 17:01 (when the first incoming call and the second incoming call, the calling time is 5 seconds or more). In this case, the most prioritized condition (condition data having the highest degree of coincidence with the terminal state of the communication terminal 10) is the condition 7. As for the assumed scene, it is assumed that the scene should be kept away from private telephones while not wanting to know the sender information explicitly around the office, such as during work hours and during a desk work. However, considering the situation where there are frequent incoming calls from the same family, there is a possibility that it is a situation where it is desired to convey an emergency situation. In that case, a ringing sound is clearly emitted to inform the user that the call is being received, and even if the display shows the relationship between the user and the caller, Since it is desirable to display, sender information is displayed (notification mode 4).

3-3. Scene 3
Consider a scene that meets other conditions. For example, consider a case where the caller is a friend and the communication terminal 10 is at home, and the vertical tilt of the communication terminal is 60 degrees. In this case, condition 8 in FIG. 4 is the highest priority condition and is notified in the notification mode 5. As an assumed scene, you are at home, charging while standing up against a charger in the living room, but if you receive an incoming call from a friend in such a case, your family will know the name of the friend explicitly It is assumed that the scene is not desired. In this case, a ringing sound is emitted and the lamp is blinked to notify the user that the incoming call is being received, and since the sender information is not displayed, the sender information is not specifically known to the family. In addition, as described below, a notification source (type of ringing sound, blinking interval and color of the sound, etc. is not given to a specific friend, instead of notifying the sender having a friend attribute uniformly in the same notification mode. , By displaying a specific symbol on the LCD screen), it can be set as one source per notification mode, so only the user himself / herself can instantly identify the source without being known explicitly. Can be recognized.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, for example, when there is an incoming call at a place where there are many people, such as during a meeting, the user can see the personal information of the sender without seeing the personal information of the sender. It is possible to distinguish whether or not the call is from a person registered in the phone book. It is possible to instantly determine whether to answer a call or whether to respond to an e-mail.

4). Modifications The embodiment described above can be modified as follows. These modifications may be combined as appropriate.
(1) In the above-described embodiment, the content stored in the notification mode storage unit 152 may be updated using an external scheduler database. Specifically, consider a case where working hours and working places are managed by an external scheduler database. In this case, the communication terminal 10 receives schedule information indicating a user's schedule from a server device connected via a communication network, and the terminal stored in the notification mode storage unit 152 using the received schedule information. What is necessary is just to update at least one part of status data according to a predetermined algorithm.

  Here, a specific operation example of this aspect will be described. For example, normally, it is assumed that 12:00 to 13:00 is a break time, but for a certain working day, information is registered in the scheduler database if the break time is from 13:00 to 14:00. At this time, the communication terminal 10 acquires the information from the scheduler database, and rewrites the conditions of the table holding one or more conditions in FIG. Specifically, the control unit 20 of the communication terminal 10 rewrites the time condition of condition 5 from 9:00 to 13:00, and 14:00 to 18:00, and the time condition of condition 6 from 13:00 to 14: Rewrite as 00. At this time, if an incoming call is received from a friend at 13:30, Condition 5 is not applicable and Condition 6 is the most prioritized condition. That is, it is assumed that it is normally during working hours, but since it is assumed that 13:30 is during break time only on that day, it is notified by normal notification. This is because it is during a break and there is little risk of knowing the relationship between the user and the caller in the surrounding area, and it is considered that there is no problem even if it receives a private telephone.

  Next, another operation example will be described. For example, it is assumed that information is registered in the scheduler database for a work day, but for a certain work day, a business trip to B building. At this time, the communication terminal acquires the information from the scheduler database, and rewrites the conditions of the table holding one or more conditions in FIG. In this case, when you are in Building B, according to conditions such as conditions 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7, according to the attributes of the sender, movement in the three-dimensional direction, duration, etc. Notification is performed in the notification mode.

(2) In the above-described embodiment, the contents illustrated in FIG. 4 are used as the stored contents of the notification mode storage unit 152. However, the conditions illustrated in FIG. 4 are examples, and there may be combinations of various conditions. . Further, the notification mode of FIG. 6 is an example, and modes (for example, display with symbols in the liquid crystal display, vibration pattern of the vibrator, and the like) that the communication terminal notifies the user in an external form may be variously combined. .

(3) In the above-described embodiment, the notification unit 14 includes an LED, a speaker, and a liquid crystal display unit, and notifies the user of an incoming call by a ringing sound, a lamp, and a caller display. Not limited to. For example, the notification unit 14 may not include the liquid crystal display unit. In this case, for example, the notification may be performed only by turning on the LED, or the notification may be performed only by the incoming melody. In addition, for example, a configuration may be provided that includes a vibrator that vibrates the own device, and the notification may be performed by vibrating the own device. In short, the control unit 20 specifies the notification mode corresponding to the detected terminal state with reference to the stored content of the notification mode storage unit 152, and controls the notification unit 14 to perform notification in the specified notification mode. Anything is acceptable.

(4) In the above-described embodiment, the case where the notification mode is registered in the notification mode storage unit 152 has been described. However, the configuration is not limited thereto, and the configuration may be such that the notification mode is registered in the telephone directory data storage unit 151.

(5) In the above-described embodiment, the position, posture, and motion state of the communication terminal are detected by the acceleration sensor 21, the contact sensor 22, the position detection unit 23, and the gyro sensor 24. Not limited to, for example, the position and orientation of the communication terminal using other position acquisition means and sensors, such as D-GPS that combines the GPS information of the terminal itself and the GPS information included in the broadcast wave from the reference station, or a geomagnetic sensor, An exercise state or the like may be detected, or a plurality of sensors may be used in combination.

(6) In the above-described embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, data indicating “attribute (group) is registered in the notification mode storage unit 152, but the items of the table stored in the notification mode storage unit 152. Is not limited to that illustrated in Fig. 4. For example, it may include other items such as "phone number", "e-mail address", and "name". Further, for example, not all of the items shown in FIG. 4 may be included, and only one of the items shown in FIG. 4 may be included.

(7) A program executed by the CPU of the communication terminal 10 in the above-described embodiment is a computer such as a magnetic recording medium (magnetic tape, magnetic disk, etc.), an optical recording medium (optical disk, etc.), a magneto-optical recording medium, or a semiconductor memory. Can be provided in a state stored in a readable recording medium. It is also possible to download to the communication terminal 10 via a network such as the Internet. Various devices other than the CPU can be applied as the control means for performing such control. For example, a dedicated processor may be used. That is, not only software execution in the CPU but also hardware implementation such as wired logic in a dedicated processor may be implemented as the control means, or these cooperative operations may be performed.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Communication system, 10 ... Communication terminal, 11 ... Communication part, 12 ... Operation input part, 13 ... Audio | voice processing part, 14 ... Notification part, 15 ... Memory | storage part, 19 ... Bus, 20 ... Control part, 21 ... Acceleration sensor , 22 ... contact sensor, 23 ... position detection unit, 24 ... gyro sensor, 30 ... communication network, 151 ... phone book data storage unit, 152 ... notification mode storage unit.

Claims (7)

Storage means for storing terminal state data indicating at least one terminal state of the position, posture and movement state of the terminal itself, and a state of incoming call, and notification mode data indicating a mode of notification of information on a transmission source in association with each other; ,
An incoming call reception means for receiving incoming calls from other communication terminals;
A notification means for notifying the user of the information when the incoming call reception means receives the incoming call;
Detecting means for detecting the terminal status of the terminal;
A notification control unit that specifies a notification mode corresponding to the terminal state detected by the detection unit with reference to the storage content of the storage unit, and controls the notification unit so as to notify the information in the specified notification mode; A communication terminal comprising: Receiving means for receiving schedule information indicating a schedule of a user of the terminal from a server device connected via a communication network;
2. An update means for updating at least a part of the terminal state data stored in the storage means according to a predetermined algorithm using the schedule information received by the receiving means. The communication terminal described in 1. The detection means detects the motion state of the terminal, detects whether the time during which the terminal is stationary continues for a predetermined time or more according to the detection result,
The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the terminal state data includes data indicating whether or not a time during which the terminal is stationary continues for a predetermined time or longer. The detection means detects the position of the own terminal, detects whether the own terminal is located within a predetermined range according to the detection result,
The communication terminal according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the terminal status data includes data indicating whether or not the terminal is located within a predetermined range. Storage means for storing terminal state data indicating at least one terminal state of a communication terminal position, posture, motion state, and incoming call state, and notification mode data indicating a notification mode of information about a transmission source in association with each other; A control method performed by a communication terminal comprising a notification means for notifying a user and a control means,
The control means accepting an incoming call from another communication terminal;
The control means detecting the terminal state of the communication terminal;
The control means specifying a notification mode corresponding to the detected terminal state with reference to the stored contents of the storage unit, and controlling the notification unit to notify the information in the specified notification mode; A control method comprising: The control means receiving schedule information indicating a schedule of a user of the communication terminal from a server device connected via a communication network;
The control means comprises the step of using the received schedule information to update at least a part of the terminal state data stored in the storage means according to a predetermined algorithm. The control method described in 1. Storage means for storing terminal state data indicating at least one terminal state of a communication terminal position, posture, motion state, and incoming call state, and notification mode data indicating a notification mode of information about a transmission source in association with each other; In a computer comprising notification means for notifying a user and control means,
The control means accepting an incoming call from another communication terminal;
The control means detecting the terminal state of the communication terminal;
The control means specifying a notification mode corresponding to the detected terminal state with reference to the stored contents of the storage unit, and controlling the notification unit to notify the information in the specified notification mode; A program to be executed.

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