JP2001045112A - System and method for displaying illustration of portable telephone set and method for using the system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an illustration display system of a portable telephone set capable of improving recreation property in both sound appealing to the sense of hearing and image display appealing to the sense of sight by storing a musical scale constituting a melody in receiving an incoming call and a set of illustrations corresponded to the musical scale and displaying the illustration while rumbling with the musical scale to be rung. SOLUTION: A storing part 11 is provided with a received melody storing part 11A, and the part 11A stores the musical scale of a received melody. The part 11 is also provided with an illustration storing part 11B, and the part 11B stores a set of illustrations to be worked with the musical scale. A controlling part 10 is provided with an operation display controlling part 10A for illustrations, and the part 10A controls display of a displaying part 2 so that the illustration can be moved while worked with the musical scale of the received melody. Then, it is possible to use a portable telephone set that appeals to the senses of hearing and sight and has higher recreation property.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone. In particular, the present invention relates to an illustration display system and method for a mobile phone that performs illustration display in association with a melody of a ringtone, and a method of using the system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Many recent portable telephones have a function of notifying a melody of an incoming call at the time of an incoming call. Further, many mobile phones hold a plurality of ringing melodies, and a user can select a ringing signal melody by operation.

[0003] This is one of the functions for using a mobile phone while having an entertaining property. Further, in a conventional mobile phone, the screen display at the time of an incoming call is performed by displaying a message such as “incoming” or by a preset illustration. There is a selective call receiving apparatus described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-336173 related to the above-mentioned conventional portable telephone. It discloses that a melody is output from a horn at the time of calling and a picture is displayed on a screen at the same time.

[0004]

Therefore, for future mobile phones, not only are ringtones announced by melody and illustrations are displayed on the screen, but also game functions and sensations are required. In addition to the voice call function of the present invention, there is an increasing demand for more entertaining and entertaining.

[0005] Accordingly, the present invention solves the above problem of enhancing the entertainment when using a mobile phone, as described above, by moving an illustration on a screen in conjunction with a ringing melody to produce a sound appealing to the sense of hearing. It is an object of the present invention to provide an illustration display system and method for a mobile phone that can enhance entertainment on both sides of a screen display that appeals to the sight, and a method of using the system.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides an illustration display system for a portable telephone which sounds a melody upon receiving a call and displays an illustration.
A storage unit that stores a scale that constitutes the melody at the time of an incoming call, and stores a set of the illustrations corresponding to the scale;
A control unit for controlling the sound of the musical scale and displaying the illustration in association with the musical scale to be sounded.

[0007] By this means, it is possible to display an illustration in conjunction with the melody at the time of the incoming call, appeal to the sense of hearing and the sense of sight, and enhance the entertainment of the portable telephone. Preferably,
The storage unit stores a plurality of melodies at the time of an incoming call. By this means, it is possible to adapt to the melody preference of the user. Preferably, the storage unit stores a plurality of sets of the illustration. By this means, it becomes possible to adapt to the user's illustration preferences.

Preferably, the portable telephone has a clock which is fast enough to switch the display of the illustration with respect to the fast tempo of the melody at the time of the incoming call. By this means, the switching process is not delayed even for a melody with a high tempo at the time of an incoming call, so that discomfort due to display delay of the illustration can be prevented. Preferably, when the switching of the display of the illustration cannot keep up with the tempo speed of the melody at the time of the incoming call, the illustration is thinned out and displayed on the scale of the melody. By this means, illustrations are thinned out and displayed even on a mobile phone whose processing is slow, so that a sense of incongruity due to delay in display of illustrations is eliminated.

Preferably, when ringing of a melody at the time of an incoming call is not selected, the display of only an illustration is performed in conjunction with the scale of the melody without ringing the melody. By this means, in places where it is not desirable for the melody to ring at the time of an incoming call, the incoming call is appealed to the user's visibility only by displaying an illustration. Preferably, the illustration display system of the portable telephone is used for a wired fixed telephone or a PHS telephone. By this means, a wired fixed telephone, P
HS phones can provide similar benefits.

Further, the present invention relates to an illustration display method for a portable telephone which sounds a melody at the time of an incoming call and displays an illustration, wherein the musical scales constituting the melody at the time of the incoming call are stored, and a set of the musical scales corresponding to the musical scale is stored. A method for displaying an illustration of a mobile phone, comprising: a method of storing an illustration; and a step of performing control of causing the scale to sound and displaying the illustration in conjunction with the sounded scale. By this means, similarly to the above invention, it is possible to display an illustration in conjunction with the melody at the time of the incoming call, appeal to the sense of hearing and sight, and make the mobile phone entertaining.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a mobile phone according to an illustration display system for a mobile phone according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the mobile phone 1 has a display unit 2 for displaying a telephone number and various information, an operation unit 3 for performing a calling operation and various setting operations, a notification unit 4 for sounding a ringtone and a key operation sound, An antenna 5 for transmitting and receiving radio waves to communicate with a base station, a receiver 6 for outputting voice, and a transmitter 7 for inputting voice are provided. The ringing melody of the notification unit 4 is “do”, “re”, “mi”, “fa”, “so”,
It is composed of scales of “la”, “shi” and “rest”.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the mobile phone illustration display system 1 in FIG. As shown in the figure, a radio unit 8 is connected to the antenna 5,
The radio unit 8 outputs a transmission signal to the antenna 7 and
Inputs the received signal from. A modulation / demodulation unit 9 is connected to the radio unit 8, and the modulation / demodulation unit 9 modulates a signal to be output to the radio unit 8 and demodulates a signal received from the radio unit 8.

A control unit 10 is connected to the display unit 2, the operation unit 3, the notification unit 4, the reception unit 6, the transmission unit 7, and the modulation / demodulation unit 9.
Further, a storage unit 11 is connected, and the control unit 10 performs these controls. The storage unit 11 stores a telephone number displayed on the display unit 2, various types of information, a ringtone sounded by the notification unit 4, and the like.

The storage unit 11 is provided with a ring melody storage unit 11A, and the ring melody storage unit 11A stores "do", "re", "mi", "fa", "so", and "la". ,
The scale of the ringtone melody composed of the scales "S" and "rest" is stored. Incoming melody storage section 11A may store a plurality of incoming melodies according to the user's preference. This is to adapt to the user's melody preference. In this case, if the ringtone is fast,
Information on whether it is late is also stored.

The storage unit 11 includes an illustration storage unit 1.
1B is provided, and the illustration storage unit 11B stores a set of illustrations to be linked with the musical scale. The illustration storage unit 11B may store different sets of illustrations according to the user's preference. This is for adapting to the user's preference. Further, the control unit 10 is provided with an illustration operation display control unit 10A, and the illustration operation display control unit 10A controls the display of the display unit 2 so that the illustration moves in conjunction with the scale of the ringtone melody. Do.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an illustration displayed on the display unit 2 for the scale of the notification unit 4. As shown in the figure, the ringing melody “do” notified from the notification unit 4
When the respective sounds are sounding for the scales of "Le", "Mi", "Fa", "So", "La", "Shi", and "Resume", in conjunction with this sounding Display part 2
Will be displayed.

In this case, the operation display control unit 10A of the illustration of the control unit 10 transmits the musical scale "from the incoming melody storage unit 11A of the storage unit 11 to the notification unit 4 when the notification unit 4 sounds a musical scale, for example," do. " ”Is output, and the storage unit 11
Is controlled to output the illustration corresponding to the musical scale “do” from the illustration storage unit 11B of the display unit 2 to the display unit 2. The same applies to other scales.

FIG. 4 is a view showing an example in which an illustration is displayed on the display unit 2 in conjunction with the incoming melody when a ring tone of a pattern showing an example of the incoming melody is sounding from the notification unit 4. Operation display control unit 1 for illustration of control unit 10
0A controls the incoming call melody storage unit 11A, the illustration storage unit 11B, the notification unit 4, and the display unit 2 of the storage unit 11, and as shown in FIG.
"Le", "Mi", "So", "So", "Fa", "Mi",
Make the illustration display move in conjunction with "rest", "la", "shi", "do", "so".

Next, when the tempo of the ringing melody ringing from the notification unit 4 is faster than the display speed of the illustration, the operation display control unit 10A of the illustration of the control unit 10
Cannot keep up with the switching of the illustration to be displayed. In this case, the illustration dynamic display control unit 10A is provided with a clock unit that generates a clock that is fast enough to perform the illustration switching process on the display unit 2, and the timing at which the clock generated by the clock unit counts. Thus, it is possible to display an illustration corresponding to the scale of the ringtone melody.

In FIG. 5, the tempo of the incoming melody is fast.
It is a figure which displays the example of illustration allocated thinly to a ring tone scale when illustration display cannot catch up. As shown in this figure, the melody set as the incoming call notification pattern is “do”, “re”, “mi”, “so”,
Soo, Fa, Mi, Rest, La,
It is assumed that it is composed of "shi", "do", and "so".

At the time of an incoming call, the melody according to the true scale is sounded from the notification unit 4. However, when the processing speed of the illustration operation display control unit 10A cannot keep up with the operation of the display shown in FIG. 4, the processing speed is assigned to the ring tone that rings at the count timing of the clock generated by the illustration operation display control unit 10A. Display the illustration.

In this example, as shown in the figure, the clock timing is "do", "mi", "so", "mi",
Hits every other scale of "La" and "Do", "Le",
The illustrations assigned to the respective scales are displayed on the display unit 2 until “S”, “F”, “rest”, “S”, and “S” are thinned out and the next clock count occurs. Is displayed.

Next, when the user has set not to sound a ring tone, it is also possible to perform only the operation of displaying the above-described illustration without sounding the ring tone. In places where ringing of the melody when receiving a call is not desirable,
This is to make the incoming call appeal to the user's visibility only by displaying the illustration.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining a series of operations of the illustration display system of the portable telephone.
As shown in this figure, the selection information of the incoming melody selected by the user in step S1 and the selection information of the illustration assignment selected by the user in step S2 are stored in the storage unit 11 in advance. In step S3, the control unit 10 waits for an incoming call.

In step S4, the operation display control unit 10A of the illustration of the control unit 10 determines whether the tempo is fast or slow based on the information on the tempo of the selected incoming melody. In step S5, if the tempo is slow based on the tempo information, the illustration operation display control unit 10A starts counting clocks for illustration switching display.

In step S6, based on the selection information of the ringing melody, the control section 10 first sounds one musical scale for the ringing melody selected from the ringing melody storage section 11A of the storage section 11 and simultaneously displays the corresponding illustration. Is displayed.

In step S7, if the incoming call response process is not performed, the process returns to step S6 and the above process is continued. If the incoming call response process is performed, in step S8, an incoming call melody ringing process is performed, and the process proceeds to a call in step S9, where the process ends.

The present invention relates to the display of an incoming call melody and an illustration of a search. However, the present invention relates to a wired fixed telephone, PHS (Personal Ha
ndy Phone System (Personal Handy Phone System) It is also possible to apply to a telephone.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The illustration on the screen moves in conjunction with the ringtone,
The operation of the illustration changes in accordance with the pattern of the ringing melody selected by the user's operation, so that it is possible to use a mobile phone that has higher entertainment and appeals to the sense of hearing and sight.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a mobile phone according to an illustration display system for a mobile phone of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an illustration display system 1 of the mobile phone in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an illustration displayed on a display unit 2 with respect to a musical scale of a notification unit 4;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example in which an illustration is displayed on the display unit in conjunction with the incoming melody when a ringing tone of a pattern showing an example of the incoming melody is sounding from the notifying unit;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display of an illustration that is thinned out and assigned to a ring tone scale when the illustration display cannot keep up because the tempo of the ring tone melody is fast.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a series of operations of the illustration display system of the mobile phone.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Mobile telephone 2 ... Display part 3 ... Operation part 4 ... Notification part 5 ... Antenna 6 ... Receiving part 7 ... Transmission part 8 ... Radio part 9 ... Modulation / demodulation part 10 ... Control part 10A ... Illustration operation display control part 11 ... Storage unit 11A… Incoming melody storage unit 11B… Illustration storage unit

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. An illustration display system for a mobile phone which sounds a melody when an incoming call is received and displays an illustration, wherein a scale constituting the melody at the time of an incoming call is stored, and a set of the illustrations corresponding to the scale are stored. An illustration display system for a mobile phone, comprising: a storage unit; and a control unit that performs control to cause the scale to sound and display the illustration in conjunction with the sounded scale. 2. The illustration display system for a mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said storage unit stores a plurality of melodies at the time of an incoming call. 3. The illustration display system for a mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit stores a plurality of sets of the illustrations. 4. The illustration display of a mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the mobile phone has a clock that is fast enough to switch the display of the illustration with respect to the fast tempo of the melody at the time of the incoming call. system. 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the switching of the display of the illustration cannot keep up with the speed of the tempo of the melody at the time of the incoming call, the illustration of the melody is thinned out and displayed. An illustration display system for a mobile phone according to claim 1. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the ringing of the melody at the time of the incoming call is not selected, the display of only the illustration is performed in conjunction with the scale of the melody without ringing the melody. Item 2. The illustration display system for a mobile phone according to Item 1. 7. A method for using an illustration display system for a mobile phone, wherein the illustration display system for the mobile phone is used for a wired fixed telephone or a PHS telephone. 8. A method of displaying a melody at the time of an incoming call and displaying an illustration of a mobile phone, wherein a scale constituting the melody at the time of an incoming call is stored, and a set of the illustrations corresponding to the scale are stored. A method for displaying an illustration of a mobile phone, comprising: controlling a method of sounding the scale and displaying the illustration in conjunction with the scale to be sounded.