JP2001186282A - Mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile communication terminal which can confirm and reproduce various messages with a smaller number of key operations. SOLUTION: An absent history type is retrieved from the chain information (203) and it is confirmed whether the coincident retrieval is detected or not (205). When no coincident retrieval is detected, the processing is over (211). When the coincident retrieval is detected, a message is reproduced (207). Then it is decided whether the next message is also reproduced or not in response to a user's instruction (209).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a mobile communication terminal capable of reading a message with fewer key operations.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A mobile communication terminal has received a call history of a voice call,
All of the incoming mail history such as text mail and the answering machine history are stored as incoming history. These three incoming histories have different types, and are stored in the history information as incoming types (voice / mail / answerphone). In a conventional mobile communication terminal, an incoming call type mark assigned to each incoming call type is displayed while the incoming call history is displayed, and when a predetermined key is pressed, a mail (character message) linked to the incoming call history or the like is displayed. I was able to refer to the contents of the answering machine (voice / image message).

FIG. 6 is a processing flowchart showing the above processing sequence together with a display example displayed on an LCD.
Screen 601 is an LCD display example when the incoming call history is displayed according to a predetermined procedure. On the first line, a character string “History 1” and an incoming call type mark indicating that the message is a text message are displayed on the second line.
ENWOOD ”and the third line contains the caller ID“ 07
0111122222 "is displayed. When the [▼] key is pressed in the state of the screen 601, the screen transitions in the order of the screen 603 → the screen 605. In the screen 603, the character string" History 2 "is displayed on the first line. And an incoming call type mark indicating that the message is a voice message, the name of the caller “AAAAAAA” is displayed on the second line, and the caller number “09012345678” is displayed on the third line.
05, a character string “History 3” on the first line, an incoming call type mark indicating a voice message, a caller name “BBBBBBBB” on the second line, and a caller name on the third line The number “0450000000” is displayed.

When the user returns to the screen 601 and presses the [SET] key, the state transits to the state of the screen 607 and the contents of the message can be referred to. In the first line, the character string "Mail history 1" and the incoming call type mark indicating that it is a text message are sent in the second line, "Email contents!"
! "And the third line indicates the caller ID" 07011111 "
2222 "is displayed. When the [Return] key is pressed in the state of the screen 607, the screen returns to the screen 601. On the other hand, when the [SET] key is pressed in the state of the screen 603, the screen 60
9 and the message can be reproduced. On the first line, a character string “Reproducing 2” and an incoming call type mark indicating that the message is a voice message, on the second line, the name of the caller “AAAAAAA”, and on the third line, the caller number “ 09012345678 "is displayed. When the [Return] key is pressed in the state of the screen 609, the screen returns to the screen 603.

[0005]

However, the screen 6
In 01, 603, and 605, an incoming call history of a voice call, an incoming mail history such as a text mail, and an answering machine history are mixed. Therefore, it was impossible to extract and confirm only the text mail or only the answering machine. For this reason, several key inputs are required before a desired character mail (answering message) is referred to. An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile communication terminal that can refer to various messages with fewer key operations in view of such a problem of the related art.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides an input means for designating a message type, and a search for retrieving a message of the message type specified by the input means from a message storage area. Means, a display means for displaying an incoming call history of a message that matches the search, and a means for reproducing / displaying the message that matches the search, and when a plurality of messages that match the search exist, a predetermined key assigned in advance A mobile communication terminal characterized by comprising control means for controlling the reproduction and display of messages in order by pressing. Further, the present invention provides an input means for designating a caller number, a search means for searching a message storage area for a message from the caller number specified by the input means, and displaying an incoming call history of the matched message. And a means for reproducing / displaying a message that matches the search. When there are a plurality of messages that match the search, pressing a predetermined key assigned in advance causes the message to be reproduced / displayed. A mobile communication terminal characterized by comprising control means for performing control in order.

Further, according to the present invention, an input means for designating a sender, and a search means for searching a message storage area for a message from the sender specified by the input means, display an incoming call history of a message matched with the search. And a means for reproducing / displaying a message that matches the search. When there are a plurality of messages that match the search, pressing a predetermined key assigned in advance causes the message to be reproduced / displayed. A mobile communication terminal characterized by comprising control means for performing control in order. Further, the present invention provides an input unit for designating a date, a retrieval unit for retrieving a message recorded on a date designated by the input unit from a message storage area, and a display for displaying an incoming call history of a message matched with the retrieval. Means, and means for reproducing / displaying a message that matches the search. When there are a plurality of messages that match the search, pressing a predetermined key assigned in advance causes the reproduction / display of the message to be performed in order. A mobile communication terminal characterized by comprising control means for controlling the mobile communication terminal.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention. 2 and 3 show the first embodiment of the present invention.
4 and 5 illustrate a second embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention has a CP
In addition to the U101, the ROM 107, the RAM 109, the baseband 105, the RF unit 103, and the antenna 125, a codec 115, an MIC (microphone) 117, an SP (speaker) 119, a display unit 111, and a key 113 are provided.
The control of the entire mobile communication terminal is performed by the CPU 101. The RF unit 103 transmits an audio signal, a data signal (including message information), a control signal, and the like from the antenna 125, and receives an audio signal, a data signal, a control signal, and the like from the antenna 125. The baseband unit 105 modulates and demodulates the transmission and reception signals, and the codec 115 performs A / D conversion (analog-digital conversion) and D / A conversion (digital-analog conversion). The MIC 117 corresponds to a voice input unit, and the SP 119 corresponds to a voice output unit.

The display unit 111 displays functions and setting items provided in the main body, in addition to various information provided to the main body. The keys 113 include dial buttons for inputting the telephone number of the called telephone, off-hook keys for calling or answering, and function keys for setting various functions. The CPU 101 also operates the key 113 and the baseband 1 according to the program described in the ROM 107.
It operates according to the control signal from 05 and executes each function of the main body. The ROM 107 also stores system data such as terminal information. The CPU 101 also has a RAM 1
09, the history data of the messages sent and received (call history and message information sent and received),
The data or the like registered or set by the telephone directory function is stored. Here, the table format of the telephone directory data stored in the RAM 109 is shown in Table 1, the table format of the incoming call history data is shown in Table 2, and the chain used to display the incoming call history on the display unit 111 is shown. Table 3 shows the table format of the information data.

[0010]

[Table 1] "Phone number 1" and "Phone number" for registering the other party's "name", "reading" of the name, and two phone numbers (home phone and mobile phone, etc.) in order from the top of Table 1 "2", "telephone number category 1 / telephone number category 2" which is data for realizing the telephone directory transfer function, "group" belonging to a plurality of grouped telephone directory registration data, character mail, etc. The transmission addresses are “address 1” and “address 2”.

Next, Table 2 which is a table format of the incoming call history data is shown.

[Table 2] In order from the top of Table 2, the "name" of the caller, the "phone number" of the caller, the "date" of the call, and the storage area "reservation" provided for appropriate use according to the additional function. Has become.

Next, Table 3 which is a table format of the chain information data is shown.

[Table 3] “Unread / read” indicating whether the message is unread or read, “history type” indicating which of the message types, voice, text, image, etc., and the message, in order from the top of Table 3 "Saved / unsaved" to indicate whether the message is saved or not saved, and information such as the mail or absence that is linked to the incoming call history in the mail or absence history "Mail link information" indicating whether or not the data is received, and "data storage block number" indicating the block number in the ROM 107 in which the incoming call history data (Table 1) to be read is stored.

Next, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. The mobile communication terminal of the present invention can extract a message whose message type is voice (history type = absent in FIG. 2) from the incoming call history and reproduce it based on the data in Tables 1 to 3 above. . The processing flow at that time will be described with reference to FIG. After the incoming call history is displayed, the process is started when it is instructed to reproduce only those whose history type is "absent" (step 201). First,
A search is made of the absence of the history type from the chain information (Table 3) (step 203). Next, it is checked whether or not there is a search match (step 205), and if there is no match, the process ends (step 211). If there is a match, the message is played back (step 2
07). After playing the message, the system waits for an instruction from the user as to whether or not to play the next message (step 209). If there is an instruction to play the next message, step 2
03, and repeats the search and message playback processing. If there is no instruction to reproduce the next message, the process ends (step 211).

FIG. 3 shows the processing sequence of FIG.
11 is a screen transition diagram described together with a display example to 11. FIG. Screen 301 is an example of an LCD display when an incoming call history is displayed according to a predetermined procedure. On the first line, a character string “History 1” and an incoming call type mark indicating a voice message are displayed, and on the second line, the name of the sender “KENW”
OOD "and the third line is the caller ID" 07011 "
112222 ″ is displayed. When the [▼] key is pressed in the state of the screen 301, the screen 303 → the screen 305
It changes in the order of. In the screen 303, the character string “History 2” and the incoming call type mark indicating a text message are displayed on the first line, and the name of the sender “AAAAA” is displayed on the second line.
AAA ”and the third line is the caller ID“ 09012 ”
345678 "is displayed. On the screen 305, the character string" History 3 "and the incoming call type mark indicating that the message is a voice message are displayed on the first line, the sender's name" BBBBBBBBB "is displayed on the second line, and The caller number “0450000000” is displayed on the third line.Screen 3
When the user returns to 01 and presses the [stay] key, the state transits to the state of the screen 306 and the message can be reproduced. 1
On the line, the character string “Reproducing 1” and the incoming call type mark indicating that the message is a voice message, on the second line, the name of the sender “KENWOOD”, and on the third line, the caller number “07011112222” Is displayed.

[0015] In the state of the screen 306, press the [▼] key,
Alternatively, when the reproduction is completed, the state transits to the state of the screen 308 and the next message is reproduced. On the screen 306, the character string “Reproducing 2” on the first line and the incoming call type mark indicating that the message is a voice message are displayed on the second line.
BBBBBBB ", and the third line contains the caller ID" 04
50000000 ”is displayed.
When the [Mail] key is pressed in the state of 03, the screen 307 is displayed.
, And the incoming history of the text message can be confirmed. On the first line, a character string “mail history 1” and an incoming call type mark indicating that the message is a text message, on the second line, the name of the sender “AAAAAAA”, and on the third line, the sender number “ 09012345678 "is displayed. When the [▼] key is pressed in the state of the screen 307, the state transits to the state of the screen 309, and the next incoming call history is displayed. On the screen 309, the first line “Mail history 2”
And the incoming call type mark indicating that the message is a text message, the name of the sender “BBBBBBB” on the second line.
B ”and the third line is the caller ID“ 0450000 ”
0000 "is displayed here. The history 3 on the screen 305 and the message reproduced on the screen 308 are the same.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. The mobile communication terminal of the present invention can extract a message from the caller number specified by the user from the incoming call history and display the message based on the data in Tables 1 to 3 described above. The processing flow at that time will be described with reference to FIG. After the incoming call history is displayed, the process starts when the user specifies a caller number to be displayed (step 401). First, a telephone number storage block is obtained from the data storage block number of the chain information corresponding to the first incoming call history (step 40).
3). Here, one set of chain information (Table 3) is assigned to one incoming call history. Next, the storage block acquired in step 403 is accessed to confirm the telephone number (step 405). Next, it is determined whether the telephone number confirmed in step 405 matches the caller number specified by the user (step 407). If they do not match, the process proceeds to a process of confirming whether there is data of the second incoming call history (step 411). If they match, the first incoming call history is stored so as to be added to the history list (step 409), and it is confirmed whether there is data of the second incoming call history (step 411). If there is data of the second incoming call history, the process returns to step 403 and the same processing as the first case is repeated. As described above, the processing from step 403 to step 411 is performed on all incoming call history data. Then, a history list in which only the incoming call history is listed is displayed on the display unit 111 (step 413), and the process is terminated (step 41).
5).

FIG. 5 is a screen transition diagram when the incoming call history extracted in FIG. 4 is displayed on the display unit 111. Screen 501
Is an LCD display example when an incoming call history is displayed according to a predetermined procedure. In the first line, the character string “History 1” is displayed, in the second line, the name of the sender “AAA”, and in the third line, the caller number “07011112222” is displayed. When the [▼] key is pressed in the state of the screen 501, the state transits to the state of the screen 503. Character string "History 3" on the first line, name of the sender "AAA" on the second line
, And in the third line, the caller number “070111122”
22 ”is displayed. In the state of the screen 503, [▼]
When the key is pressed, the state transits to the state of the screen 505. Screen 5
05, the character string “History 5” is displayed on the first line, the name of the sender “AAA” is displayed on the second line, and the caller number “07011112222” is displayed on the third line. When the [▼] key is pressed in the state of the screen 505, the state transits to the state of the screen 507. On screen 507, “History 6” is on the first line
In the second line, the caller's name “AAA” is written in the second line, and in the third line, the caller number “07011112222” is written.
Is displayed. When the [▼] key is pressed in the state of the screen 507, the state transits to the state of the screen 509. On the screen 509, the character string “History 8” is on the first line, the name of the caller “AAA” is on the second line, and the caller number “0” is on the third line.
7011112222 "is displayed. Screen 509
In this state, when the [▼] key is pressed, the state returns to the screen 501. The incoming call history displayed in this manner can be referred to by a predetermined key input.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to the embodiment described with reference to FIGS. Alternatively, it is also possible to specify the incoming call date and display the incoming call history of only that date. Then, the received call history displayed in this manner can be referred to by a predetermined key input. Further, in a mobile communication terminal (such as a portable videophone) capable of recording an image message, "image" can be added to the message type. Therefore, it is also possible to extract and refer to only the image message from the incoming call history.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a mobile communication terminal capable of referring to various messages with fewer key operations.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a processing flowchart according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an exemplary view for explaining the processing sequence of FIG. 2 using screen transition of a display unit;

FIG. 4 is a processing flowchart according to a second embodiment of the present invention. .

FIG. 5 is a screen transition diagram when the incoming call history extracted in FIG. 4 is displayed on a display unit.

FIG. 6 is a screen transition diagram of a conventional mobile communication terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 CPU 103 ROM 105 RAM 111 Display 113 Key

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A mobile communication terminal having a message recording function capable of recording at least two types of messages among a plurality of types of messages, such as voice, text, and image, and a message storage area. Input means for searching for a message of the message type designated by the input means from a message storage area, display means for displaying a received call history of a message matched with the search, and reproduction / display of the matched message. When there are a plurality of messages that match the search, by pressing a predetermined key assigned in advance, control means for controlling the reproduction / display of the messages in order is provided. A mobile communication terminal, characterized in that: 2. A mobile communication terminal having a message recording function and a message storage area, an input means for designating a caller number, and a message from the caller number specified by the input means. Search means, a display means for displaying the received call history of the matched message, and a means for reproducing / displaying the matched message. If there are a plurality of matched messages, the message is allocated in advance. A mobile communication terminal, comprising: control means for controlling the reproduction / display of the message in order by pressing a given key. 3. A mobile communication terminal having a message recording function and a message storage area, input means for designating a caller, and searching for a message from the caller specified by the input means from the message storage area. Search means, a display means for displaying the received call history of the matched message, and a means for reproducing / displaying the matched message. If there are a plurality of matched messages, the message is assigned in advance. A mobile communication terminal comprising control means for controlling the reproduction / display of the message in order by pressing a predetermined key. 4. A mobile communication terminal having a message recording function and a message storage area, input means for designating a date, and searching for a message recorded on the date specified by the input means from the message storage area. Search means, a display means for displaying the received call history of the matched message, and a means for reproducing / displaying the matched message. If there are a plurality of matched messages, the message is assigned in advance. A mobile communication terminal comprising control means for controlling the reproduction / display of the message in order by pressing a predetermined key.