JP5794763B2 - Communication equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication device having a communication function.

  In recent years, mobile phone devices distributed in the market include a mailer. For example, in Patent Document 1, when additional information (an image file attached to an email or a URL described in an email text) is added to an email viewed by a mailer, the additional information is selected by the user. A mobile phone device that displays an image or a Web site based on a URL when it is displayed is described.

JP 2001-306471 A

  However, in the technique described in Patent Document 1, when the mailer is closed, the attachment file selection operation and the URL selection operation cannot be performed. Will not be able to connect. Therefore, in the prior art, there is a possibility that additional information of mail cannot be provided to the user.

  An object of this invention is to reduce a possibility that additional information cannot be provided to a user by notifying presence of additional information.

  A communication device according to the present invention includes a receiving unit that receives a mail, a display unit, a program execution unit that displays the mail received by the receiving unit on the display unit, and additional information added to the mail. And a display control unit that performs notification display for notifying the display unit of the presence of the additional information when the program execution unit ends.

  More preferably, the communication device according to the present invention is characterized in that the display control unit displays the notification when the mail is an unread mail.

  Further preferably, in the communication device according to the present invention, the display control unit terminates the program execution unit when the additional information is not selected while the program execution unit is executing. Then, a notification display for notifying the presence of the additional information is performed on the display unit.

  More preferably, the communication device according to the present invention is characterized in that the display control unit displays the notification when the display unit displays a standby screen.

  More preferably, the communication device according to the present invention is characterized in that the display control unit pops up the notification display.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, it becomes possible to provide the communication apparatus which can reduce a possibility that additional information cannot be provided to a user by notifying presence of additional information.

It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance of the mobile telephone apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows a mode that the mobile telephone apparatus which concerns on this invention is connected to a network via a wireless base station. It is a functional block diagram which shows the function of the mobile telephone apparatus which concerns on this invention. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of an operation of the mobile phone device according to the present invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the display content and memory | storage content of the mobile telephone apparatus which concern on this invention.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a mobile phone device 1 which is an example of a communication device according to the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile phone device 1 has a display in which an outer surface is formed by an operation unit side body unit 2 whose outer surface is formed by a front case 2a and a rear case 2b, and a front case 3a and a rear case 3b. It comprises the part side housing | casing part 3, and the hinge mechanism 4 which connects the operation part side housing | casing part 2 and the display part side housing | casing part 3. FIG.

  The operation unit side body unit 2 includes an operation button group 11 and a voice input unit 12 that are disposed so as to be exposed on the front surface side of the front case 2a. The operation button group 11 is assigned with function setting operation buttons 13 for operating various functions such as various settings, telephone book functions, mailer functions (mailer programs), and the like, and numbers and letters are assigned. The input operation button 14 is used when inputting characters in the above, and the determination operation button 15 for performing determination and scrolling in various operations.

  Further, an earphone connector cap 16 and a cap 17 that covers an interface (not shown) for communicating with a PC or the like are provided on the side surface of the operation unit side body 2. Furthermore, a cap 18 a that covers a charging connector (not shown) and a pair of charging contact portions 18 b are provided at the lower end of the operation unit side body 2. Note that the voice input unit 12 is used to input a voice uttered by the user of the mobile phone device 1 during a call.

  The display unit side body unit 3 includes a display unit 21 for displaying various types of information and an audio output unit 22 for outputting the voice of the other party on the call. In addition, a communication unit 23 for performing infrared communication with another mobile phone device or the like is provided at the upper end of the display unit side body 3.

  The hinge mechanism 4 connects the operation unit side body 2 and the display unit side body 3 so that they move relatively. The operation unit side body 2 and the display unit side body 3 are connected to each other. Can be switched between a use state (open state) in which the two are open to each other and a storage state (folded state) in which the surface of the operation unit side body 2 and the surface of the display unit side body 3 face each other. It is configured.

  In the present embodiment, as an example of a communication device, a so-called foldable mobile phone device 1 in which the operation unit side body 2 and the display unit side body 3 move relatively via a hinge mechanism 4 is used. Although the present invention is mentioned, the present invention is not a foldable type, and one of the casings is slid in one direction from the state in which the operation unit side casing 2 and the display unit side casing 3 are overlapped. A rotary type in which one casing is rotated around an axis along the overlapping direction, and the operation unit side casing unit 2 and the display unit side casing unit 3 are connected via a biaxial hinge. Furthermore, the present invention can be applied even if the operation unit side body unit 2 and the display unit side body unit 3 are arranged in a single housing (so-called straight type).

  Further, the cellular phone device 1 (1a, 1b) is wirelessly connected so as to communicate with the network 101 via the wireless base station 100 as shown in FIG. For example, when an email is transmitted from the cellular phone device 1b to the cellular phone device 1a by wireless connection, the email is transmitted to the cellular phone device 1a via the network 101 and the wireless base station 100. The

  Here, functions of the mobile phone device 1 will be described. FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing functional blocks of the mobile phone device 1. The cellular phone device 1 includes a receiving unit 31, a transmitting unit 32, the above-described display unit 21, and a control unit 35 including a display control unit 36 and a program execution unit 37 as functional blocks.

  The receiving unit 31 includes an antenna and a radio demodulation circuit, and receives e-mail from the radio base station 100 by the method described above, for example. Contrary to the reception unit 31, the transmission unit 32 transmits the e-mail created in the mobile phone device 1 to another communication device via the radio base station 100 and the network 101. The display unit 21 is a display for displaying an image, and is configured by an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), an organic EL display (Organic Electroluminescence Display), or the like, for example.

  The control unit 35 is a CPU (Central Processing Unit) for comprehensively controlling the reception unit 31, the transmission unit 32, the display unit 21, and the like. The control unit 35 includes, as functions, a display control unit 36 that controls the display unit 21 and a program execution unit 37 that controls execution of various programs such as a mailer program and a browser program.

  The display control unit 36, when an email exists in the mobile phone device 1, when a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is described in the unread email or an attached file exists, It has a function of causing the display unit 21 to perform notification display for notifying the presence of an attached file. For example, pop-up display is performed as an example of notification display. The notification display will be described in detail later.

  The program execution unit 37 is a functional unit that executes various programs provided in the mobile phone device 1 such as a mailer and a browser.

  Next, how the mobile phone device 1 according to the present invention operates will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the operation of the mobile phone device 1 according to the present invention.

<Step S1>
Initially, the mobile phone device 1 starts receiving an e-mail. Specifically, the receiving unit 31 receives a notification from the radio base station 100 that there is an e-mail addressed to the mobile phone device 1. When the notification is received, the receiving unit 31 starts receiving an e-mail from the radio base station 100 (step S1).

<Steps S2, S3>
When the reception unit 31 completes reception of the email from the radio base station 100, the reception unit 31 stores the email in a storage unit (not shown). In addition, when the reception unit 31 completes the reception of the e-mail from the radio base station 100, the reception unit 31 notifies the control unit 35 of the completion (step S2). When the control unit 35 receives from the receiving unit 31 that the reception of the e-mail has been completed, the control unit 35 checks whether or not the pop-up notification display function by the display control unit 36 is turned on (step S3). If the notification display function is turned off, the process ends (step S3 / No), and if the notification display function is turned on, the process proceeds to step S4 (step S3 / Yes).

<Steps S4 and S5>
The control unit 35 checks whether or not the email received by the receiving unit 31 has an attached file (image file). If it is determined that the image file is attached (step S4 / Yes), the control unit 35 stores and saves the image file (step S5). If it is determined that no image file is attached (step S4 / No), the control unit 35 does not perform the process of step S5.

<Steps S6 and S7>
In step S6, the control unit 35 confirms whether or not the connection destination URL is described in the received e-mail. For example, if there is a character string starting with “http: //” in the received email text, the control unit 35 recognizes that the connection destination URL is described in the received email text. When recognizing that there is a description of the connection destination URL in the body of the received email (step S6 / Yes), the control unit 35 extracts the URL and stores it separately (step S7). If it is recognized that the connection destination URL is not described in the body of the received email (step S6 / No), the control unit 35 does not perform the process of step S7.

<Step S8>
After confirming the attachment of the image file and the description of the URL, the control unit 35 determines whether or not the display screen of the display unit 21 is a standby screen. Specifically, the control unit 35 displays the display unit 21 based on whether the mail execution program 37 is being executed by the program execution unit 37 and whether the display based on the mailer program is being displayed on the display unit 21. It is determined whether it is a standby screen. When the mailer program is being executed, that is, when the display on the display unit 21 is not the standby screen, the control unit 35 repeats the determination until the display on the display unit 21 transitions to the standby screen (step S8 / No). When the execution of the mailer program is completed, that is, when the display on the display unit 21 becomes a standby screen (step S8 / Yes), the control unit 35 starts the process of step S9.

<Steps S9 and S10>
In step S9, the control unit 35 checks whether or not the saved image file exists. Specifically, in step S5, the control unit 35 confirms whether or not the image file attached to the received email has been saved. If the image file has been stored in step S5 (step S9 / Yes), the control unit 35 causes the display unit 21 to display a notification indicating the presence of the image file (step S10). If the image file has not been saved in step S5 (step S9 / No), the process of step S11 is started without performing the process of step S10.

<Steps S11 and S12>
In step S11, the control unit 35 confirms whether or not the saved URL exists. Specifically, in step S6, it is determined whether or not the URL described in the received email is stored. If the URL is stored in step S6 (step S11 / Yes), the control unit 35 performs a pop-up display that prompts connection to the website having the URL (step S12). If the URL is not stored in step S6, the process of step S12 is not performed.

<Steps S13 and S14>
In step S13, when the pop-up display for notifying the presence of the image file is performed in step S10, when the pop-up display is selected by the user (step S13 / Yes), the control unit 35 displays the image file. Is displayed on the display unit 21 (step S14).

<Steps S15 and S16>
Further, when the pop-up display for notifying the presence of the image file in step S10 is not performed or when the pop-up display indicating the presence of the image file is not selected by the user, the control unit 35 displays in step S12. It is determined whether or not a pop-up display that prompts connection to the Web site having the URL is selected (step S15). In step S14, when the pop-up display prompting connection to the website having the URL is selected (step S15 / Yes), the control unit 35 causes the receiving unit 31 to receive the website having the URL. To be displayed on the display unit 21. If the pop-up display prompting connection to the website having the URL is not selected (step S15 / No), the control unit 35 repeats the process of step S13 again. In other words, the control unit 35 performs polling detection of the selection operation from the user by circulating the processing of step S13 and step S15.

  As described above, the mobile phone device 1 receives the received e-mail when the image file is attached to the received e-mail or when the URL of the website is described in the text of the received e-mail. When there is additional information, the presence of the additional information can be notified to the user by a pop-up display on the standby screen. Therefore, the user can surely recognize these additional information, and as a result, the cellular phone device 1 can reduce the possibility that the additional information cannot be provided to the user.

  Further, by displaying the notification display in a pop-up, it becomes possible to attract the user's attention, and as a result, the mobile phone device 1 can make the user more surely aware of the presence of the additional information. Become.

  Note that the control unit 35 may perform the pop-up display indicating the presence of the description of the attached file or URL when the email having the description of the attached file or URL is an unread mail. Hereinafter, this embodiment will be specifically described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 5A is a diagram showing the state of the screen displayed on the display unit 21 when the mailer program is being executed. When the mailer program is being executed, the display unit 21 displays a screen based on the mailer program, not the standby screen. FIG. 5A shows a state of the display unit 21 when the received email list is displayed by the mailer program. In this embodiment, as shown in the received email list, the received email from “Taro Yamada” has an attached file in an unread state, and the received email from “Umeko Tanaka” has been read. Assume that the received e-mail from “Shintaro Yamamoto” has an attached file and does not have the attached file in the read state.

  FIG. 5B is a diagram specifically showing the contents of the email from “Taro Yamada”. As described above, the email from “Taro Yamada” has the attached file “Map.gif”, and as shown in FIG. 5B, the email from “Taro Yamada” Is described as a URL "http://xxx.jp".

  For example, when the mailer program is terminated by the user from the state shown in FIG. 5A, the display unit 21 displays a standby screen. At this time, the control program performs the pop-up display as described above, but the e-mail having the additional information that is the target of the pop-up display is an e-mail from “Taro Yamada” which is an unread mail. . FIG. 5C is a diagram showing a state of the display unit 21 that performs a pop-up display for the additional information added to the email from “Taro Yamada”.

  In this way, by performing a pop-up display only for the additional information added to the unread e-mail, the control unit 35 adds only the additional information that the user has never seen to the user. The presence of information can be notified. Therefore, the user can efficiently confirm the presence of the additional information.

  The attached file described above may be, for example, an image file or various files such as a music file.

  In the present embodiment, e-mail is shown as an embodiment of e-mail. However, e-mail is not limited to e-mail, but may be e-mail based on SMS (Short Message Service), for example.

  In the present embodiment, when the answer is Yes in step S9 in FIG. 4, the notification display for notifying the existence of the image file is shown. For example, the image itself based on the image file is displayed. A mode of pop-up display may be used. In this case, in step S14 in FIG. 4, the control unit 35 may perform control to close the image that is pop-up displayed without displaying the image.

  In addition, although the aspect which performs a pop-up display only with respect to the additional information added to the unread e-mail has been described above, other aspects may be used. Specifically, for example, when an image file attached to an e-mail has not been selected such as when the cursor has never been placed or the image of the image file has not been viewed during execution of the mailer program The control unit 35 may display a pop-up display notifying the existence of the image file on the display unit 21.

  Similarly, when a URL is described in the e-mail body, the URL is not selected because the cursor is never placed on the URL while the mailer program is being executed, or a web connection operation based on the selection of the URL is performed by the user. The control unit 35 may display on the display unit 21 a pop-up display that prompts connection to the URL.

  In the above-described embodiment, the URL is exemplified as the additional information described in the mail text, but the embodiment of the additional information is not limited to this. For example, the control unit 35 may perform the same processing for the mail address described in the email text. In this case, the control unit 35 performs a pop-up display that presents to the user whether or not to reply to the mail address.

  Further, as an embodiment of the additional information, for example, the control unit 35 may perform the same processing for a telephone number described in an e-mail text. In this case, the control unit 35 performs a pop-up display that presents to the user whether or not to make a call to the telephone number.

21 Display Unit 31 Reception Unit 32 Transmission Unit 35 Control Unit 36 Display Control Unit 37 Program Execution Unit

Claims (7)

A receiver for receiving mail;
A display unit;
A display control unit that performs notification display for notifying the presence of the URL on the standby screen of the display unit when a URL is described in the body of an email received by the reception unit;
A communication device comprising: A receiver for receiving mail;
A display unit;
When the URL is described in the body of the email received by the receiving unit and the URL has never been selected, a notification display for notifying the presence of the URL is displayed on the standby screen of the display unit. A display control unit;
Communication equipment comprising a. A receiver for receiving mail;
A display unit;
A display control unit for displaying a notification on the standby screen of the display unit when the URL is described in the body of the mail received by the receiving unit and the mail is unread; ,
A communication device comprising:   The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays a website having the URL when the notification display is selected. In the control method of communication equipment,
A control method in which the communication device performs notification display for notifying the presence of the URL on the standby screen when the URL is described in the text of the received mail. In the control method of communication equipment,
A control method in which the communication device performs a notification display for notifying the presence of the URL when the URL is described in the text of the received mail and the URL has never been selected. In the control method of communication equipment,
A control method in which the communication device performs a notification display for notifying the presence of the URL on a standby screen when a URL is described in the text of the received mail and the mail is unread.