JP2001077884A - Portable telephone set with calling melody composing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and accurately input and register an arbitrary termination melody by inputting a melody for portable telephone set termination previously in the form of at least one of voice information and musical score information using an image, recording these pieces of information in the form of note data, and reproducing the note data as an actual sound at the time of termination. SOLUTION: A sound control part 1 sends a control signal out from a control part 13 and a sound recording part 2 is placed in operation when a calling melody is inputted with a sound signal. The melody to be inputted is played on a signal musical instrument or by singing, etc., collected through a microphone 16, amplified by the sound recording part 2, and then converted by an internal AD converter from analog to digital signals. The input sound signal converted to a digital signal is inputted to a sound conversion part 3 and the pitch and rhythm are detected to convert the signal to the form of the corresponding musical score. The calling melody is recorded in a sound memory 4 in the form of this musical score.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone, and more particularly to a composition function of a ring tone melody in a portable telephone.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional telephone, a ring tone or a melody is selected by a user from among sounds or melodies previously registered in a mobile phone, or the user of the mobile phone refers to a book or a score. A method of inputting one note at a time and adding a melody has been used. In the former method, if the favorite melody of the user of the mobile phone is not recorded in advance, the user has to select and register from the already registered melody unsatisfactorily. Also, in such a method, since the type of melody is limited, it is not possible to make a unique ringing tone, and the same ringing melody may start ringing in the vicinity of the user, and the recipient is confused There was also.

In the latter case, since the input operation is performed while checking the correspondence with the musical score one note at a time, even a simple melody is troublesome and cumbersome. If the melody is not mastered, it is difficult to create and record a desired melody.

[0004]

As described above, in the conventional melody input method, it has been difficult to easily and quickly input an incoming melody requested by a portable telephone user. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a means for easily and accurately inputting an arbitrary incoming melody into a mobile phone and registering the melody desired by the mobile phone user.

[0005]

To achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a melody at the time of receiving an incoming call from a portable telephone is formed in advance in the form of at least one of voice information and musical score information by image. The present invention discloses a basic configuration of a portable telephone which records the above information in the form of note data and reproduces the note data as a real sound when receiving an incoming call.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the mobile phone according to the first aspect, wherein the mobile phone has a function of converting data input as voice information through a microphone into musical note data. According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable telephone having a function of inputting note data as image information using an image scanner and recording the input note data in the voice memory.

A fourth aspect is characterized in that a plurality of note information input using the note data recording function according to the second and third aspects can be edited by a keypad.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a ring tone recording / reproducing system used in a portable telephone. In FIG. 1, a call signal arriving at an antenna 18 is detected by an incoming detection unit 9 and then reaches a control unit 13. The control unit 13 displays an incoming call on a display unit 10 and simultaneously sets the telephone circuit unit 11 to an operating state. Control signal to be transmitted and received. At the same time, the control unit 13 sends a control signal to the voice control unit 1, generates a ring tone signal, and emits a ring tone melody from the speaker 15. After the call starts, the voice of the speaker is input to the speaker 15 via the telephone circuit unit 11. At the time of transmission, the transmitter inputs a dial number to the keypad 14, and the control unit 13 detects an output signal of the keypad 14 and sends a control signal to the dial signal generation unit 12, and the telephone circuit unit 11 is set to the transmission state. Here, the melody data serving as a ring tone is recorded in the voice control unit 1, and the melody can be arbitrarily recorded by the mobile phone user. In the present invention, as the input means, it is possible to input with a real sound via the microphone 16 or with note information via the image scanner 17.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the incoming melody input system. As shown in FIG. 2, the ring tone melody input system of the present invention includes a voice control unit 1 having a microphone 16 and a speaker 15, and an image control unit 6 to which an image scanner 17 is connected. When the image input by the image scanner is not performed, the image control unit 6 and the image scanner 17 may be omitted.

When the incoming melody is input, either one of these voice and image control units is used. Therefore, the input device may be configured to have one of them.

In the voice control unit 1 shown in FIG. 2, when the incoming melody is input by a voice signal, the control unit 13
Sends a control signal to the voice recording unit 2 to set it in an operating state. The melody to be input is played with a single musical instrument or a human singing voice, picked up by the microphone 16, amplified by the voice recording unit 2, and then converted from analog to digital by the built-in A / D converter. The input audio signal converted into the digital amount is input to the audio conversion unit 3, where the pitch and the rhythm are detected and converted into a corresponding musical score. The incoming melody is recorded in the voice memory 4 in the form of this musical score. The voice conversion unit 3 generates a note from the input melody information, digitizes the note, and records it as digital information in the voice memory 4. FIG. 3 shows the above-described processing at the time of voice input. That is, the input speech information is divided into pitch and rhythm components (speech division), and the note information corresponding to these components is compared with the contents of a library of previously recorded patterns to form a musical score. Convert (voice comparison). The score information thus obtained is recorded in the audio memory 4.

On the other hand, when an incoming melody is recorded as image information, a control signal is sent from the control unit 13 to put the image recording unit 7 into an operating state. Next, the incoming melody composed and recorded by the user of the mobile phone as a musical score is read by the image scanner 17, and the musical score is temporarily recorded in the image recording section 7 in the form of an image. The read image information is reprinted in the music notation by the image conversion unit 8 so that the read image information can be compared with the contents of the library of pre-recorded music score patterns. The rewritten musical score image information is rewritten so as to be consistent with the musical score information in the case of voice input, and is recorded in the voice memory 4 as note data. FIG. 4 shows a process of inputting an image as described above. That is, it is necessary to ensure the consistency of the image information read by the image scanner with the note data in the case of voice input on the voice memory. For this reason, if necessary, operations such as transposition and time signature rewriting are performed ( Image shaping), and then compare it with the above-mentioned musical score library (image comparison) and write it to the sound memory as final note data.

When the portable telephone detects an incoming call, the control unit 13 sends a ringing tone melody sounding signal to the voice reproducing unit 5, which converts the note data from the voice memory 4 into a real sound, Make them pronounce. Note that the sound reproducing unit 5 prepares filters in advance, and the user of the mobile phone can select the sound quality of the ringing melody by selecting and registering a favorite one from the filters. In this case, when note data is recorded in the voice memory, filter information or a mark indicating sound quality may be added as a flag at the beginning.

In the above-mentioned melody input operation, a keypad 14 is connected to the control unit 13 as shown in FIG. 1, and the above-described switching control between voice input and image input can be executed by the keypad 14. . Furthermore, by setting an identification flag at the beginning of a plurality of melodies, data in the audio memory 4 can be edited.

In the above description of the embodiment, the data processing circuit portion for inputting voice information or image information has been described as being built in the mobile phone. However, in practice, the ringing melody is composed first. This is a part that becomes unnecessary until the next time the melody is changed. Therefore, the incoming melody composition / input device of the present invention
In some cases, it is preferable to use an external configuration of the mobile phone and collect the data in an adapter format. In this case, a terminal for inputting a ringtone melody is required in the mobile phone, but the function can be improved without increasing the circuit configuration in the mobile phone.

[0017]

According to the present invention, since a function of converting input voice information into note data and recording the same is provided, it is also possible to record by inputting in the form of a musical score using an image scanner. Music composition and input processing can be performed easily.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system diagram of a mobile phone to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a system diagram of melody information input in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an input procedure in the case of voice input.

FIG. 4 is an input procedure flowchart in the case of image input.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: Voice control unit 2: Voice recording unit 3: Voice conversion unit 4: Voice memory 5: Voice playback unit 6: Image control unit 7: Image recording unit 8: Image conversion unit 9: Incoming detection unit 10: Display unit 11: Telephone circuit unit 12: Dial signal generation unit 13: Control unit 14: Keypad 15: Speaker 16: Microphone 17: Image scanner 18: Antenna

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A portable telephone which sounds a melody at the time of an incoming call. The incoming melody is input in advance in the form of at least one of voice information and musical score information by image and recorded in the form of musical note data. A mobile phone characterized by reproducing data with real sound. 2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, further comprising a function of converting data input as voice information via a microphone into musical note data. 3. The mobile phone according to claim 1, further comprising a function of inputting note data as image information using an image scanner and recording the input note data in the voice memory. 4. A portable telephone characterized in that note information input using the note data recording function according to claim 2 and 3 can be edited by a keypad.