JP2001119467A - Mobile phone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile phone set that can reliably make dialing to a desired opposite party with a simple operation to a small number of destinations registered in advance. SOLUTION: A magnet 11 is placed on the rear side of a slide cover 5, a speech start key 6a and a speech end key 6b are placed on the outer face of the slide cover 5 to the left and right by one each, three one-touch dial keys 6c are placed under the speech start key 6a and the speech end key 6b in a line, and an automatic telephone answering set key 6d is placed under the keys 6c. In a state of closing the slide cover 5, that is, the magnet 11 is placed upon a reed switch 12 to activate the reed switch 12 and in an electrically closed state of the cover, depressing ten-key buttons or the like on a main body enclosure 1 directly beneath the outer surface of the cover 5 from the outer surface delivers the operation instructions of the speech start, the speech end, one-touch dial and the automatic telephone answering set to a control section.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone or a PHS (Personal Handyphon) having a one-touch dial function.
e System) It relates to a mobile phone device such as a terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional portable telephone device such as a portable telephone or a PHS terminal, a destination telephone number is registered in an electronic telephone directory of a built-in storage device in advance, and a telephone number of a desired destination is entered. A search was made using the scroll keys to make a call.

[0003]

Recently, portable telephones and P
Although mobile phone devices such as HS terminals have become widespread among a wide range of consumers, children in elementary school lower grades have to communicate with their parents for emergency contact or crime prevention.
It is convenient if communication with a small number of specific destinations, such as between a child and a school or between a child and a nearby relative such as a grandparent, can be easily made with a mobile phone device. Also for the elderly,
It is convenient if the contact with a small number of specific destinations can be easily made with a mobile telephone device.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to provide a portable telephone device capable of reliably performing a call operation to a desired destination from a small number of destinations registered in advance by a simple operation.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a one-touch dial key pressed by holding down one of two or more one-touch dial keys for a predetermined time or more. Is called to the destination of the telephone number registered in advance. With this configuration, a call can be made to a previously registered destination by a simple operation.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a one-touch dial key is provided on an outer surface of a cover that can be opened and closed with respect to a housing, and the one-touch dial key is operated when the cover is closed. In this case, a call is made to a destination of a telephone number registered in advance.
With this configuration, it is possible to make a call using the one-touch dial key with the cover closed.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a housing having an openable / closable slide cover, a transmitting means, a receiving means, a wireless communication means, a key input means, a control means,
A storage unit and a cover open / closed state detection unit, and one or more operations to be performed when the openable cover is closed or opened are registered in the storage unit, and the opened cover is The operation registered in the storage means is performed when the cover open / closed state detection means detects that the cover has been closed or the closed cover has been opened. With this configuration, when the openable cover is closed or opened, an operation registered in the storage unit in advance can be performed.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, when the slide cover changes from a closed state to an open state, an operation of reducing the volume of a ringing tone ringing upon receiving a call is performed. It was done. With this configuration, the volume of the ringtone can be reduced by opening the cover.

Further, the invention according to claim 5 is such that the display means is illuminated when the slide cover changes from a closed state to an open state.
With this configuration, the display means can be illuminated by opening the cover.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, when the cover open / closed state detecting means detects that the slide cover has been changed from the open state to the closed state during a call, the call end operation is performed. Is controlled by the control means. With this configuration, the call end operation can be performed by closing the cover.

In the invention described in claim 7, the cover open / closed state detecting means is a combination of a reed switch and a magnet, and when the cover is closed, the magnet is close to the reed switch and the reed switch is turned on or off. It is configured to switch off. With this configuration, it is possible to detect the movement of the open cover closing or the movement of the closed cover opening.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a configuration of a portable telephone device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and includes a slide cover 5 slidable with respect to a main body housing 1. FIG.
(A) is a front view in which the slide cover 5 is closed, and FIG.
Is a front view showing a state where the slide cover 5 is opened.
FIG. 2A is a side view of the mobile phone device according to the embodiment of the present invention with the slide cover 5 opened.
(B) is a sectional view of a side surface in a state where the slide cover 5 is closed.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, the configuration of the portable telephone device will be briefly described. The main body 1 is provided with a key operation unit 2, a reception unit 3, a transmission unit 4 (including a first transmission sound hole 4a and a second transmission sound hole 4b), and a lead switch 12.

On the other hand, the slide cover 5 has a magnet 11
Are provided on the outer surface of the slide cover 5, a call start key 6a and a call end key 6b, one on each side.
In the lower row, three one-touch dial keys 6c are arranged side by side, and below that, an answering machine set key 6d is arranged.

The keys provided on the outer surface of the slide cover 5 are in a state in which the slide cover 5 is closed, that is, the magnet 11 overlaps the reed switch 12 and the reed switch 12
Is turned on, and in a state where the cover is electrically closed, pressing a numeric key button or the like on the main body housing 1 directly below the outer surface of the cover 5 starts a call, ends a call, and touches, respectively. The operation instruction of the dial or the answering machine set is transmitted to the control unit. Note that 6
e is a scroll key.

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a portable telephone device according to the embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 3, the antenna
The radio wave received at 20 is a receiving unit (not shown) of the wireless communication unit 21
The received information is transmitted to the control unit 22. The control unit 22 displays the received information such as the received telephone number on a display 23 such as a liquid crystal display device. The control unit 22 illuminates the display unit 23 with the backlight 24 according to the setting. Further, the control unit 22 converts the received information into voice information and outputs the voice through the speaker 25 of the receiving unit.

A transmitting unit (microphone) 26 receives the voice of the user and transmits the voice to the control unit 22. The transmitting unit (microphone) 26 and the transmitting unit (not shown) of the radio communication unit 21 and the antenna 20 transmit the radio signal to the other party.
The control unit 22 stores information such as a one-touch dial telephone number in the memory 27, or reads out the stored information.

A key operation unit 28 composed of ten keys and scroll keys inputs a signal to the control unit 22 by key operation, and stores one-touch dial telephone number information in the memory 27 via the control unit 22. . The cover open / closed state detector 29 is composed of the lead switch 12 and the magnet 11 shown in FIG.
And detects the open / closed state of the cover,
The detection information is transmitted to the control unit 22.

The memory 27 stores, for example, a one-touch dial display operation, a one-touch dial editing operation,
A control program for performing each operation such as an incoming call response operation, a ringtone reduction operation, and a backlight lighting operation is stored. When the cover is opened or closed, a desired operation is selected in advance, and the selected result is registered in the memory 27 so that a desired operation is performed.

FIG. 4 shows a procedure for setting an operation when the cover is opened. After the power is turned on, when the function setting mode is entered from the normal reception standby mode (step 1), the display 23 displays "Select one-touch dial display operation?" The operator inputs yes or no information from the key operation unit 28 (step 2). If yes,
The operation at the time of opening the cover is registered in the memory 27 (step 3). As a result, in the normal standby state,
When the cover is opened, the registered contents such as the telephone number registered as a one-touch dial on the display 23 are shown in FIG.
It is displayed as shown in (a). If no, go to the next step.

Next, a message "Select one-touch dial editing operation?" Is displayed on the display unit 23, so that the operator inputs yes or no information from the key operation unit 28 as before (step 4). ). If yes, the operation is registered in the memory 27 when the cover is opened (step 5). As described later, when the cover is opened in the normal reception standby state, the telephone number registered as a one-touch dial is displayed on the display 23, and the telephone number registered by successive key input is displayed. You will be able to overwrite and register new numbers. When the answer is YES in step 2 and the answer in step 4 is YES, control is performed such that when the cover is opened, a one-touch dial display operation is performed first, and then a one-touch dial edit operation is performed.

As shown in the flow chart, is the answering operation selected? (Step 6), Select ringtone reduction operation? (Step 8), Select backlight operation?
(Step 10) Enter the information of yes or no as to whether or not to select the operation to be performed when the cover is opened for the various operations presented one after another, and set the operation to be performed when the cover is opened. To go. If yes information is entered for each action, the selected action will be performed when the cover is opened. In addition,
During the setting operation, when the set contents are to be corrected once, the display screen is returned to the original (step 12), and yes or no is input again to make correction. When the setting is completed (Step 1
2), transition to normal reception standby mode. The procedure for registering the operation when the cover is closed is also registered in the above-described procedure. For example, during a call with the cover open, an operation to end the call when the cover is closed is registered in the memory 27.

FIG. 6 shows a case where the one-touch dial editing operation is selected as the operation when the cover is opened.
This will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When the power of the mobile phone device is turned on (step 21), the mobile phone device enters a normal reception standby state (step 22). When the cover is opened in this state (step 23), the telephone mark of TEL. Mark 1, TEL. Mark 2 and TEL. Mark 3 are displayed on the display 23 as shown in FIG. Destination name, for example, "SO
"RA" and the telephone number "01234567890" are displayed (step 24).

Here, suppose TE as a one-touch dial
As an example of the case where the telephone number of L. mark 2 is overwritten and corrected, first, the downward arrow portion of the scroll key (6e in FIG. 1A) of the key operation unit 28 is pressed (step 25), and FIG. , The cursor 30 of the display 23 is shifted over the telephone number of the TEL. Mark 2 as a one-touch dial (step 26). Pressing the right arrow portion of the scroll key, the cursor 30 of the display 23 is positioned over the telephone number of the TEL. Mark 2 as a one-touch dial as shown in FIG. The cursor 30 is moved upward, and as shown in FIG. 5D, the ten key 2 of the key operation unit 28 is pressed to overwrite and input (step 27). The overwritten input number information is sequentially registered in the memory 27 (step 28). If the telephone number is to be overwritten and corrected for another one-touch dial, the display 23 is viewed in the same manner as described above, the cursor 30 is shifted over the one-touch dial to be overwritten, and input is made with the ten keys 2.

When the cover is closed, the lead switch 12, which is the cover open / closed state detecting unit 29, turns on the magnet of the cover 5.
11 detects that the cover is closed, and notifies the control unit 22 of the detection. As a result, the mobile phone device returns to the reception standby state again. With the above operation, the destination name and the telephone number are registered in the one-touch dial or overwritten and corrected.

Next, the flow when the one-touch dial key 6c is pressed to call the other party will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When the mobile phone device is turned on (step 31), it enters a normal reception standby state (step 3).
2). In this state, the one-touch dial 6c (FIG. 1)
When any of (a)) is pressed (step 33), the type of the pressed one-touch dial, that is, the display of one key, 2 key, or 3 key in FIG. The destination name and telephone number registered for the pressed one-touch dial are displayed on the display 23 (step 34).
Then, the control section 22 starts measuring the time of the timer (step 35). If the state in which the one-touch dial is continuously pressed, that is, the so-called long-press state, is interrupted, the display in step 34 is stopped and the process returns to the reception standby state in step 32 (step 36). When a certain period of time elapses in the so-called long press state (step 37), a call is made to the telephone number displayed on the display 23 (step 38). If the other party answers the telephone, the call is made (step 39). End call button 6
When b (FIG. 1 (a)) is pressed (step 40), the call is terminated and the line is closed (step 41).

As described above, in the portable telephone device of the present invention, one of the one-touch dial keys 6c provided on the outer surface of the cover is securely registered in advance by a simple operation of pressing and holding for a predetermined time or more. A calling operation can be performed to a desired destination among a small number of destinations. Opening the cover 5 to display and confirm the registered contents, and confirming and registering / correcting the telephone numbers of the other party can be easily performed by overwriting and inputting from the key operation unit 2. Can be.

For example, when a child in lower grades of elementary school uses the telephone, pressing the TEL. Mark 1 calls the home, pressing the TEL. Mark 2 calls the school, and pressing the TEL. A call is made to a nearby grandparents' house. If the user forgets the registered contents, the user can open the cover and check the destination. In this way, most of the key operation units are covered with the cover, and only the minimum required one-touch dial keys 6c are exposed on the outer surface of the cover, so that the registered contents of the one-touch dial can be confirmed simply by opening the cover. The present invention can provide such a simple and convenient portable telephone device.

Also, if the operation when the cover is opened is set to the operation of only displaying the telephone number registered in the one-touch dial according to the setting of the parent, the child can determine which one-touch dial corresponds to which destination telephone. Even if you forget the correspondence with the number, you can check it just by opening the cover, but there is also a practical effect that children will not accidentally overwrite the registered phone number .

In addition, since such a simple thing is used, as another usage, a child's house which cares for the partner of the TEL. Mark 1, a TEL.
If the TEL. Mark 3 is registered as an emergency center, it can be used as a simple operation type mobile phone device for the elderly.

In the above-described embodiment, a slide cover is shown as an example of the cover that opens and closes.
One-touch dial keys may be provided on the outer surface of the flip-type opening / closing cover, or if there is space to place the one-touch dial on the main unit housing, the one-touch dial may be provided on the main unit housing instead of the outer surface of the cover. The same effect can be obtained by providing the same.

[0033]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the one-touch dial key is kept depressed for a certain period of time or more to make a call to the destination of the telephone number registered in advance. There is an effect that a call can be made to a destination prepared in advance by a simple operation.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a one-touch dial key is provided on an outer surface of an openable / closable cover, and the one-touch dial key is operated when the cover is closed. There is an effect that a call can be made with the one-touch dial key while being closed.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, an operation in which a cover that has been opened or a cover that has been closed is opened is detected to perform an operation registered in advance. There is an effect that a desired operation can be performed only by opening or closing the cover.

Further, the invention according to claim 4 detects the movement of the slide cover from the closed state to the open state, and reduces the volume of the ringing tone. There is an effect that opening the cover can quickly reduce the volume of a ringtone that is unpleasant to surrounding people.

Further, according to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the movement of the slide cover from the closed state to the open state is detected, and the display means is illuminated. Therefore, there is an effect that the display means can be illuminated by opening the cover.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, the end of the call is detected by detecting a movement of the slide cover from an open state to a closed state during a call. The closing operation can be performed by closing.

According to the present invention, the cover open / closed state detecting means is a combination of a reed switch and a magnet, and when the cover is closed, the magnet approaches the reed switch and the reed switch is turned on. With such a configuration, there is an effect that it is possible to detect a movement in which the open cover is closed or a movement in which the closed cover is opened.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view and a side view showing a configuration of a mobile phone device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a side view and a side sectional view of the mobile phone device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a mobile phone device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for registering an operation of the mobile phone device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a transition diagram of display contents of the mobile phone device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the mobile phone device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of the mobile phone device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body case 2 Key operation part 3 Earpiece part 4 Speech part 4a First transmission sound hole 4b Second transmission sound hole 5 Slide cover 6a Call start key 6b Call end key 6c One-touch dial key 6d Answering machine set Key 6e Scroll key 20 Antenna 21 Wireless communication unit 22 Control unit 23 Display 24 Backlight 25 Speaker 26 Microphone 27 Memory 28 Key operation unit 29 Cover open / closed state detection unit

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Mamoru Yoshida 4-3-1 Tsunashima Higashi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture F-term in Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. 5K023 AA07 BB11 DD08 FF07 GG04 HH01 HH06 HH10 5K027 AA11 BB02 FF03 FF16 FF22 FF29 HH30 5K036 AA07 DD12 EE04 JJ07 JJ13 JJ18 KK14

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A device having two or more one-touch dial keys, and pressing one of the one-touch dial keys for a certain period of time to make a call to a destination of a telephone number registered in advance for the pressed one-touch dial key. A mobile phone device for calling. 2. A telephone registered in advance by providing said one-touch dial key on an outer surface of a cover which can be opened and closed with respect to said housing, and operating said one-touch dial key when said cover is closed. The mobile telephone device according to claim 1, wherein a call is made to a destination of the number. 3. A housing having an openable and closable slide cover, a transmitting means, a receiving means, a wireless communication means, a key input means, a control means, a storage means, and a cover open / closed state detecting means. One or more actions to be performed when the openable cover is closed or opened are registered in the storage means, and the open cover is closed or the closed cover is opened. A mobile phone device for performing an operation registered in the storage unit when the cover open / closed state detection unit detects the movement. 4. When the cover open / closed state detecting means detects a movement of the slide cover from a closed state to an open state, an operation of reducing the volume of a ringing tone ringing upon receiving a call is performed. 4. The mobile phone device according to claim 3, wherein the control unit controls the mobile phone. 5. The control device according to claim 1, wherein when the cover open / closed state detection means detects that the slide cover has changed from a closed state to an open state, the display means is illuminated. The mobile phone device according to claim 3, wherein 6. The control means controls an end-of-call operation when the cover open / closed state detecting means detects that the slide cover has changed from an open state to a closed state during a call. 4. The method according to claim 3, wherein
A mobile phone device according to claim 1. 7. The cover open / closed state detecting means is a combination of a reed switch and a magnet, and when the cover is closed, the magnet is close to the reed switch and the reed switch is turned on or off. 7. The mobile phone device according to claim 3, wherein: