KR20010108607A - Wrist phone apparatus and its control method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device and a control method of a wrist phone. When using a conventional cell phone or a mobile phone, when the phone calls to the ear, electromagnetic waves adversely affect the brain, or in the noisy places can not hear the ringing or vibration is often not received, usually used in the telephone ring mode The noise in the public place is serious, especially while driving while holding the mobile phone with one hand while driving, the present invention operates by knocking instead of vibration type or detects the arrival of the received message by blinking the receiving LED, A waterproof mobile phone with integrated clock and phone functions. It can be used anytime and anywhere. Using the infrared (IrDA) or Bluetooth wireless interface technology, the wrist phone is used as a base station. The earpiece or necklace type wireless earphone can be separated and received. The phone will be worn on the wrist unit and a control method wherein even usable underwater speakerphone capability built in or driving during a waterproof followed.

Description

Wrist phone apparatus and its control method {Wrist phone apparatus and its control method}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a wrist phone device and a control method, and more particularly to a wrist phone worn on a wrist instead of a watch. When using a conventional mobile phone or a mobile phone to your ear, electromagnetic waves on the brain are harmful, and in many places, the phone cannot receive a call because it cannot detect a ringtone or vibration in a noisy place, and is usually used in a telephone ring mode. The noise is serious, but the present invention operates in knocking mode or detects the arrival of a received message by blinking the receiving LED, and can be used regardless of time and place as a waterproof mobile phone integrated with a clock function and a telephone function. Using a wrist phone as a base station using infrared (IrDA) or Bluetooth wireless interface technology and separated into earrings or necklace-type wireless earphones; Or, it is a technology that improves the effects of electromagnetic waves on the brain of the conventional mobile phone, problems in the noise environment and disadvantages when carrying by using the speaker phone function of the integrated wrist phone, and can be used regardless of time and place. It relates to a wrist phone device and a control method.

The present invention is proposed to solve the above problems of the prior art,

It is an object of the present invention to provide a wrist phone apparatus and a control method, which can be used regardless of time and place. Another object of the present invention is to provide a convenient device and a control method of a wrist phone to a user by wearing a wrist phone instead of wearing a wrist watch by integrating the watch function and the mobile phone function into one wrist phone.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a device and a control method that have no reception bell or vibration noise by using a knocking method that can be worn on the wrist and efficiently detect a reception state while using less power. .

It is still another object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a control method for efficiently enhancing the strength of a transmitted / received signal using one or more annular antennas embedded in a wrist strap without using a separate antenna.

Still another object of the present invention is to eliminate the inconvenience of charging and removing the battery, using a solar cell (Solar Cell) or the wrist can be used for semi-permanent use of the wrist or emergency power generation can be charged and control To provide a way.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a wrist phone device and a control method which can be used in water by using a water-resistant (water resist) wrist-phone improved from a conventional mobile phone that cannot be used in water.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a wrist phone apparatus and a control method capable of transmitting and exchanging information with a wireless earphone or a computer at a short distance by using a wireless input / output interface function.

These and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a wrist phone control method particularly suitable for implementing the wrist phone device.

1 is a basic configuration of a wrist phone device embodiment according to the present invention.

2 is a block diagram of a wrist phone device according to the present invention.

3 is a flowchart of a program operation in a wrist phone;

4 is a flowchart of a program operation in a wrist phone;

* Description of symbols on the main parts of the drawings *

31: antenna 33: control button

35: emergency power spring 37: solar cell

39: LCD display 41: microphone

43: wireless input / output interface 45: speaker

47: Knocker 50: antenna, speaker, earphone, microphone circuit block 52: control button circuit block 54: emergency power circuit block

56: solar cell circuit block 58: wireless transceiver circuit block

60: wireless input / output interface circuit block 62: LCD display circuit block

64: CPU 66: RAM, ROM, Flash Memory Block

68: Knock Circuit Block 70: Key Input Circuit Block

300: wristphone H / W configuration (external)

500: Wrist H / W block diagram (inside)

The present invention to achieve the above object,

Referring to Fig. 1, as shown is a basic schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of a wrist phone, a wrist strap 1 serving as an antenna; An auxiliary antenna 2 which can be used if necessary; A control button 3 capable of inputting power ON / OFF commands, a control button 2 (4) and a control button 3 (5) capable of a plurality of other control commands; A key input interface 7 which is an interface with a key input button for inputting a telephone number and Korean / English; An input button 8 for inputting a telephone number and a key such as Korean / English; An emergency power spring 9 capable of recharging power in an emergency; Solar cell (10; solar cell) for supplying light energy as electrical energy; An LCD display 11 capable of viewing message input / output on a screen; A microphone 12 capable of voice input during a call; A speaker 13 capable of speakerphone function; Outputting wireless earphones or exchanging information with a device such as a computer, the wireless input / output interface 15 of infrared (IrDA) or Bluetooth (Bluetooth) method; LED to acknowledge reception by repeated ON / OFF upon reception; Knocker 17 for knocking on the bottom of the wrist instead of vibrating; Ear-shaped wireless earphones 19 for listening by ear upon reception; It can be configured as a necklace-type wireless earphone 20 that can be worn as a necklace.

Referring to FIG. 2 as a more detailed configuration, an external hardware (H / W) configuration 300 of the wristband base device and an internal hardware (H / W) circuit block 500 of the wristphone base device are included. In detail, each of the antenna 31; Control button 33; Emergency power spring 35; A solar cell 37; LCD display 39; A microphone 41; A wireless input / output interface 43; A speaker 45; An external hardware (H / W) configuration 300 of a wrist phone composed of a knocker 47 and an antenna, a speaker, an earphone, a microphone circuit block 50; Control button circuit block 52; Emergency power generation circuit block 54; Solar cell circuit block 56; A wireless transmit / receive circuit block 58; A wireless input / output interface circuit block 60; LCD display circuit block 62; CPU 64; RAM, ROM, flash memory circuit block 66; A circuit block 68 for knocking; Provided is a wrist strap device, characterized in that it is comprised of an internal hardware (H / W) circuit block 500 of a wrist strap configured with a key input circuit block 70.

In order to achieve the above another object, the present invention provides a method for operating a wrist-phone in a wrist-phone control program embedded in a ROM 66 and a flash memory in a wrist-phone device (base unit); And an operation step of receiving a wrist phone related to a speaker or a wireless input / output interface.

2, the operation according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the configuration of the internal hardware (H / W) circuit block 500 of the wrist-phone (base unit portion).

Signals input and output through the antenna 50 are received from the outside or the internal signal is transmitted to the outside.

Upon reception, the signal inputted above is internally signaled through the wireless transmission / reception circuit 58 and the digitally converted signal is controlled by the CPU 64 using a control program of a ROM or a flash memory 66's wrist-phone. do. If necessary, information input by a command input from a control button or a key input circuit 70 is temporarily stored in the RAM 66 and used. If the reception mode is knocking, the knocking circuit 68 of FIG. 1 is repeatedly driven up and down or left and right using the knocking circuit 68 to inform the receiver of the reception state. The contents to be displayed on the screen are displayed on the LCD display screen 11 of FIG. 1 using the LCD display circuit 62 to display message input / output information.

The received contents are listened to by the speaker 13 of FIG. 1 through the speaker circuit 50 or through the earphone circuit 50 using the wireless input / output interface circuit 60 to the wireless earphone 19 or 20 of FIG. Can be heard

The transmission contents are input through the microphone circuit 50 and transmitted using the wireless transceiver circuit 58 and the antenna 50.

As a special case of the embodiment, such as a wristwatch, the above circuits can all be made of water-proof exterior to be used in water, or can be used in water, or can be miniaturized with a wrist phone to reduce power consumption, charging with a wrist shake or solar. The charging of the cell circuit 56 or the emergency power winding circuit 54 can be used to construct a semi-permanent wrist phone requiring little battery replacement.

3 is an operation flowchart of a reception program of the wrist phone.

The operation step upon reception of the wrist-phone prepares for reception (step S1), checks whether the reception is OK (step S2), and if reception is not OK, repeatedly waits (step S3) to check whether reception is OK. If reception is OK, the reception operation is performed (step S4) to check the reception mode stored in the memory (step S5).

It is checked whether it is the knocking function mode (step S6), and if it is a tapping function mode, the Knock motor repeatedly performs knocking (step S8).

If not in the tapping function mode, the reception LED is repeatedly turned on / off (step S7).

When the user checks whether or not the reception is performed (step S9), when the reception is performed, knocking or the LED is stopped or turned off (step S10) and other reception corresponding operations are performed (step S11).

If the user does not receive, the operation is repeated again from the reception mode check stored in the above-described memory (step S5).

4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a reception program of a wrist phone related to a speaker or a wireless input / output interface.

The operation step of receiving the wristband related to the speaker or the wireless input / output interface prepares a receiving operation (step S12), checks the speaker mode or the wireless input / output mode in the reception mode stored in the memory (step S13) and checks the speaker mode (step S14).

In the speaker mode, the wireless input / output function with the computer or the like is turned off and the speaker is turned on (step S15). If it is not the speaker mode, it is checked whether it is the wireless input / output mode (step S16).

If it is the wireless input / output mode, it is checked whether it is the earphone mode (step S17), and if it is not the wireless input / output mode, other corresponding operation is performed (step S21).

In the step of checking whether the earphone is in the earphone mode (step S17), if the earphone mode, the speaker is turned off, the wireless output is turned on and the transmission corresponding operation is performed using an infrared or Bluetooth interface (step S18).

If not in the earphone mode, check whether the computer input / output (I / O) mode (step S19), if the computer I / O, turn off the speaker, turn on the wireless input / output, perform the corresponding operation using the infrared or Bluetooth interface, (Step S20), if not the computer I / O, other corresponding operation is performed (Step S21).

As described above, it will be appreciated that the wristband device of the present invention provides many features and advantages that were not available in conventional mobile phones or mobile phones. For example, the wristband device provided by the present invention eliminates the effects of electromagnetic waves on the brain of a conventional mobile phone, can always detect vibration even in a noisy place, and knocks with low power consumption instead of vibration. Method, and instead of frequent battery replacement when charging the power, there is no need to separate and charge by shaking the wrist, emergency power spring charging or charging using the solar cell, and the wristband is used as the annular antenna It transmits and receives signals with high sensitivity and uses power efficiently, and there is no need to make an antenna separately (if necessary), and it is easy to make waterproof and can be worn under water (as a speaker phone or wireless earphone). It can be used in any emergency situation.

Although described above with reference to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art will be variously modified and changed within the scope of the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention described in the claims below I can understand that you can.

Claims (11)

A wrist phone device that can be worn on the wrist instead of a cell phone or a mobile phone. The method of claim 1, A wristphone device operatively connected to the wristband device, the wristphone device including a wristband having a wireless transmit / receive antenna. The method of claim 1, And a separate wireless earphone operatively wirelessly connected to the wristband device and used in a wireless manner (infrared or Bluetooth). The method of claim 1, The wristwatch device, A wrist phone base device which is a main part worn on the wrist; A wristband ring operatively connected to the wristband base device, the wristband having a radio transmitting and receiving antenna; And And a separate wireless earphone operatively wirelessly connected to the wristband base device and used in a wireless manner (infrared or Bluetooth). The method of claim 4, wherein A knocking wrist phone device that uses a knocking function instead of a vibration type when received from the wrist phone base device. The method of claim 4, wherein A wrist phone device having a built-in solar cell and a wrist shaking or emergency power generation charging function that do not require external battery charging in the wrist phone base device. The method of claim 4, wherein The wristphone base device Control processing means; Memory means operably connected to the control processing means; Wireless transmitting and receiving means operatively connected to said control processing means, for wireless transmitting and receiving to said antenna; Wireless input / output interface means for operatively connected to said control processing means, for said wireless input / output interface; Tapping means operatively connected to the control processing means for knocking; Key input means operatively connected to said control processing means, for key input; The emergency generating spring charging means; The solar cell charging means; Wrist device comprising the control button circuit means. The wrist base device according to claim 4, An antenna 31; Control button 33; Emergency power spring 35; A solar cell 37; LCD display 39; A microphone 41; A wireless input / output interface 43; A speaker 45; An external hardware (H / W) configuration 300 of a wrist phone composed of a knocker 47 and an antenna, a speaker, an earphone, a microphone circuit block 50; Control button circuit block 52; Emergency generating charging circuit block 54; A solar cell charging circuit block 56; A wireless transmit / receive circuit block 58; A wireless input / output interface circuit block 60; LCD display circuit block 62; CPU 64; RAM, ROM, flash memory circuit block 66; A circuit block 68 for knocking; Wrist device comprising a hardware input (H / W) circuit block (500) of the wrist consisting of a key input circuit block (70). In the phone control program built into the memory in the phone device, Operating upon reception of the wrist phone; And Wrist control method comprising the operation step of receiving a wristband associated with the speaker or wireless input and output interface. The method of claim 9, The operation step when receiving the wrist phone Prepare for reception (S1), check whether the reception is OK (S2), if the reception is not OK, check repeatedly whether the reception is OK while waiting repeatedly (S3), and if the reception is OK, perform the reception operation ( S4) checking the reception mode stored in the memory (S5); Checking whether the knocking function mode (S6), and if the knocking function mode, the knocking motor repeatedly performs knocking (S8); If not in the tapping function mode, repeatedly turning on / off the receiving LED (S7); Check whether the user receives (S9), if the user does not receive, repeat the reception mode check stored in the above-mentioned memory again (S5), when receiving, stops or stops knocking or LED (S10) ), And other receiving corresponding operation (S11) step comprising the wrist control method. The method of claim 9, The operation step of receiving the wristband related to the speaker or the wireless input / output interface may include preparing a reception operation (S12), checking the speaker or the wireless input / output mode in the reception mode stored in the memory (S13), and checking the speaker mode (S14). In the speaker mode, turning off the wireless input / output function with the computer and the like (S15); If it is not the speaker mode, it is checked whether it is a wireless input / output mode (S16), if it is a wireless input / output mode, it is checked whether it is an earphone mode (S17), and if it is not a wireless input / output mode, other corresponding operations are performed (S21), and the earphone mode In the step of checking whether it is in the earphone mode (S17), if the earphone mode, the speaker is turned off, the wireless output is turned on and performing the transmission corresponding operation using the infrared or Bluetooth interface (S18); In the step of checking whether the earphone mode (S17), if not in the earphone mode, check whether the computer input / output (I / O) mode (S19), if not the computer I / O and perform other operations (S21), If the computer I / O, the speaker is turned off, the wireless I / O is turned on and performing the corresponding transmission operation using an infrared or Bluetooth interface (S20) characterized in that the wrist control method.