JP2001217904A - Portable telephone provided with lighting function - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable telephone provided with a lighting function that utilizes an operation key section of a main body, which is lighted or flickered in various different modes or colors, as a display means. SOLUTION: The portable telephone has a telephone main body 1 and the operation key section 4 consisting of phone operation keys provided in the telephone main body 1. The keys of the operation key section 4 are made of transparent materials, a multi-color lighting section 5 is provided on a bottom side of the keys respectively and a plurality of the multi-color lighting sections 5 are simultaneously or individually lighted in two or more different colors in response to the telephone operation to light or flicker the keys of the operation key section 4.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a portable telephone, a PHS
The present invention relates to a mobile phone used as a portable communication terminal, and more particularly to a mobile phone with a lighting function provided with a light emitting means for lighting and blinking operation keys of the main body in various different modes and colors in accordance with the operation of the phone. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, when a portable telephone such as a portable telephone or a PHS receives a signal from the outside, a melody sound for notifying the incoming call sounds and an incoming call display for notifying the incoming call is displayed on a display unit of the telephone body. Also, in a mobile phone capable of transmitting and receiving mails by text, even when a mail by text is received from the outside, an incoming call display notifying the incoming mail by texts is displayed on the display unit.

Recently, at the same time as such an incoming call display, a light source such as a backlight of a display unit is turned on, and a display unit and a predetermined lamp are turned on to notify an incoming call from the outside by turning on the light. Mobile phones have also been proposed. As a mobile phone having a function of notifying the arrival of a signal by turning on such a display unit or the like, a "wireless telephone" disclosed in JP-A-6-37715 and a "telephone device" disclosed in JP-A-11-136319 are disclosed. There is.

[0004]

In recent portable telephones, there is a demand for a reduction in the size of the telephone body and an increase in the area of the display section. However, in order to secure a large area for the display section, other parts are required. In particular, it is necessary to reduce the number of key operation units of the telephone body as much as possible except for the minimum required keys such as numeric keys. On the other hand, recent mobile phones have become multifunctional, and it is difficult to reduce the number and types of operation keys to perform multifunctional operations.

For this reason, in the portable telephones proposed so far, even with a portable telephone having a lighting function of notifying an incoming call by lighting the display unit, the size of the telephone body has been rapidly increasing in recent years, and the area of the display unit has been increased. It has not been possible to respond to both the demands for mobile phones and the multifunctionality of telephone functions.

The present invention has been proposed in order to solve the problems of the prior art, and illuminates an operation key section of a main body in various different modes and colors in accordance with a telephone operation of a mobile telephone. By blinking, the operation key part can be used as a notifying means and display means that are not available in the past, and it supports multiple functions of the telephone function without hindering downsizing of the telephone body and enlargement of the display area It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile phone with a lighting function that can perform lighting.

In order to achieve the above object, a portable telephone with a lighting function according to a first aspect of the present invention comprises: a telephone main body; an operation key portion provided on the telephone main body and comprising a plurality of telephone operation keys; A plurality of keys of the operation key unit are made of a light-transmitting member, and a plurality of light emitting units are respectively provided on the bottom side of the plurality of keys. However, according to the operation of the telephone, a plurality of keys of the operation key unit are lit or blinked simultaneously or individually to emit light.

[0008] In particular, in the second aspect, each of the plurality of light emitting units is constituted by a multicolor light emitting unit capable of emitting two or more different colors.

More specifically, according to the third aspect, when the telephone main body includes a notifying unit for notifying the arrival of a signal by a melody sound, the plurality of light emitting units are configured to output the melody sound of the notifying unit. It is configured to emit light individually according to the musical scale.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the plurality of light emitting units emit light in different colors according to the type of the melody sound of the notifying unit.

Furthermore, in the present invention, the plurality of light emitting units emit light in different colors according to the scale of the melody sound of the notification means.

[0012] According to the mobile phone with the lighting function having the above-described configuration, the light emitting section can emit light in accordance with the melody sound emitted by the notifying means to light or blink the operation key section. By confirming the lighting mode, it is possible to clearly grasp the scale and music of the melody sound by the lighting mode and the lighting color. Also, by setting the melody sound and the called party in advance in association with each other, depending on the lighting color and lighting mode of the operation key section,
It is also possible to determine who made the call.

As described above, according to the portable telephone with a lighting function of the present invention, it is possible to realize a notification function and a display function utilizing an operation key unit which are not provided in a conventional portable telephone, and to reduce the size of the telephone main body. Thus, it is possible to cope with multi-functional telephone functions without hindering an increase in the display area.

On the other hand, according to claim 6, the telephone body includes:
In the case of receiving text mail, the plurality of light emitting units emit light individually according to the number of mails received by text.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, the plurality of light emitting units emit light in different colors in accordance with the number of incoming mails by characters.

Further, according to the present invention, when the telephone body receives a mail in characters, the operation key unit having the same number as the number of incoming mails in characters emits light.

According to the mobile phone with the lighting function of the present invention having such a configuration, the number of incoming mails can be checked at a glance by seeing the operation key section lit by the light emission of the light emitting section. Even in a dark place, it is possible to easily and accurately recognize the number of incoming mails. Then, by making it possible to display the contents of the mail simply by pressing the lit key, it is possible to realize the operability of the mobile phone which is easier to use and understand.
As a result, a display function and an operation function not available in the conventional mobile phone can be realized, and without increasing the size and complexity of the operation key section, it is possible to cope with the multi-function of the telephone function and improve the operability and convenience. be able to.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a portable telephone with a lighting function according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First Embodiment First, a first embodiment of a mobile phone with a lighting function of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is an external configuration diagram illustrating a mobile phone with a lighting function according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the same.

As shown in FIG. 1, a mobile phone with a lighting function according to the present embodiment is a telephone having an antenna 2, a display unit 3, an operation key unit 4 and the like in a telephone body 1, and is different from a normal mobile telephone. It has almost the same configuration. Display 3
Is a display means for displaying a telephone number and various functions input by the operation key unit 4, displaying a reception of a signal, displaying an e-mail in text, and the like. I have.

As shown in FIG. 1, the operation key unit 4 includes a dial number key 4a, a signal transmission / reception key, an end key 4b,
It is composed of a plurality of keys such as a mail key 4c and various setting keys, and serves as an input operation means for a control unit 7 in the telephone body described later. In the mobile phone of the present embodiment, the operation key unit 4 is made of a translucent member, and the light emitting unit 5 corresponding to the operation key unit 4 is located on the bottom side of each of the keys. It is arranged in a state built in. The operation key portion 4 may be made of any material as long as it is a member having optical transparency, and may be formed of, for example, a transparent or translucent synthetic resin material.

The light-emitting section 5 may be any means capable of emitting light. In general, a light-emitting diode, an EL element or the like can be used. The unit is constituted by a multicolor light emitting unit including a multicolor LED capable of emitting two or more different colors. Then, the plurality of multicolor light emitting units 5 emit light in an arbitrary manner according to the operation of the telephone under the control of the control unit 7 in the telephone main body described later, and the plurality of keys of the operation key unit 4 are lit according to the operation of the telephone. Or it flashes.

Here, the light emitting section 5 of the present embodiment can be kept emitting light for a certain time when driven, or can be made to emit and extinguish light for a predetermined time. Thus, the operation key unit 4 can arbitrarily select and display different modes of lighting or blinking. From the viewpoint of reducing the current consumption of the mobile phone, it is preferable that the lighting and blinking of the light emitting unit 5 can be arbitrarily selected and switched.

As shown in FIG. 2, a radio circuit unit 6 and a control unit 7 for controlling the whole telephone are provided inside the telephone body 1.
Are connected to the antenna 2, the display unit 3, the operation key unit 4, and the multicolor light emitting unit 5. A receiver 8a and a transmitter 8b are connected to the wireless circuit section 6, so that a call operation can be performed.

The control unit 7 includes a melody sound generation unit 9
Is connected, and when a signal is received from the outside via the antenna 2 and the wireless circuit unit 6, the melody sound generation unit 9 generates a melody sound under the control of the control unit 7 so as to notify the arrival of the signal. It has become. The melody sound generator 9
A plurality of types of incoming call notification sounds are prepared in advance, and an arbitrary incoming call notification sound can be set and changed by a setting operation on the control unit 7.

The light emission mode of the multicolor light emitting section 5 is controlled by the control section 7 in the telephone body, and the multicolor light emitting section 5 emits light in accordance with various operations of the telephone. Here, the control mode of the multicolor light emitting section 5 by the control section 7 can be set to an arbitrary mode by an input operation from the operation key section 4. More specifically, in the present embodiment, when a melody sound for notifying the arrival of a signal is emitted from the melody sound generation unit 9 when the telephone body receives a signal from the outside, a multi-colored sound is generated according to the melody sound. The light emitting section 5 emits light.

For example, as shown in FIG. 1, a musical scale is allocated in advance to a plurality of multicolor light emitting units 5 and corresponding keys (in FIG. 1, "D" is assigned to "1" of dial number key 4a). "," 2 "as" Re "," 3 "as" Mi ",
“4” is “FA”, “5” is “SO”, “6” is “LA”,
The multicolor light-emitting units 5 corresponding to the scale of the melody sound generated by the melody sound generation unit 9 can be individually lit according to “7” and “8”.

In the case where an arbitrary melody sound can be selected from a plurality of melody sounds and set for the melody sound generation section 9, the multicolor light emitting section 5 can be selected according to the type of the melody sound.
Can be emitted in different colors. For example, the emission color may be set to be different for each type of melody sound, such as red for a certain melody sound and green for a certain melody sound. In this case, all of the plurality of multicolor light-emitting units 5 can emit light at the same time, or only a specific multicolor light-emitting unit 5 can emit light individually.

Further, it is possible to set the multicolor light emitting section 5 to emit light in different colors according to the scale of the melody sound emitted from the melody sound generating section 9. For example, it can be set so that different colors are emitted according to the musical scale, such as red when the musical scale is "do" and green when the musical scale is "re".

According to the above-described portable telephone with a lighting function according to the present embodiment, the multicolor light emitting unit 5 set in an arbitrary manner allows the multicolor light emitting unit 5 to respond to the melody sound generated by the melody sound generating unit 9. 5 emits light and the operation key unit 4 is lit (or blinks). By confirming the lighting mode of the operation key unit 4, the scale and music of the melody sound can be clearly grasped by the lighting mode and the lighting color. it can.

Further, by setting the melody sound and the called party in advance in correspondence with each other, it is possible to determine who made the call based on the lighting color and lighting mode of the operation key unit 4. . As a result, a notification function utilizing the operation key unit 4 which is not provided in the conventional mobile phone,
The display function can be realized, and the size of the telephone body can be reduced.
It is possible to cope with multi-functional telephone functions without hindering an increase in the display area.

[Second Embodiment] Next, a second embodiment of a portable telephone with a lighting function according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the mobile phone with a lighting function according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

The mobile phone with a lighting function according to the present embodiment comprises:
The specific configuration is the same as that of the first embodiment described above. In the present embodiment, the control mode of the multicolor light emitting unit 5 by the control unit 7 is different from that of the first embodiment. Therefore, the components of the mobile phone are described with the same reference numerals as in the first embodiment.

More specifically, in the present embodiment, the telephone body 1 is capable of receiving an e-mail in characters from the outside via the antenna 2 and the radio circuit section 6, and the number of received e-mails is large depending on the number of received e-mails. The color light emitting section 5 emits light. That is, the control unit 7 is set so that the multicolor light-emitting units 5 corresponding to the number keys indicating the number of incoming calls individually emit light in accordance with the number of incoming mails by characters of the telephone body 1. As a result, the number of received mails becomes “1”.
"1" of the dial number key 4a in the case of "case", and "2" in the case of the number of incoming mails of "2".

Also, in this embodiment, by pressing the dial number key 4a illuminated by the incoming mail,
The control unit 7 causes the display unit 3 to display the contents of the incoming mail. Thus, instead of the mail key 4c shown in FIG. 1, the contents of the mail can be displayed by the lit dial number key 4a. Further, in a state where a number key is turned on after receiving an e-mail, for example, when making a telephone call outside, it is necessary to use the dial number key 4a.
As the light release key, for example, the end key 4b shown in FIG. 1 is set as the light release key, and by pressing the end key 4b, the light of the dial number key 4a for displaying the incoming mail can be released. .

Hereinafter, a specific operation procedure will be described with reference to FIG. First, when a mail consisting of two characters arrives at the telephone body 1 (step 1), the corresponding multicolor light-emitting unit 5 emits light, and the dial number key 4a of the operation key unit 4 is set to "2".
Lights up (step 2).

To display the contents of the incoming mail (step 3), the user presses the lit "2" dial number key 4a (step 4). Then, the contents of one of the two mails are displayed on the display unit 3 of the telephone body 1. After that, the number of incoming mail is "1"
, The corresponding multicolor light-emitting unit 5 emits light, and "1" of the dial number key 4a is turned on (step 5).

Similarly, when the content of the remaining one mail is to be displayed (step 6), the lit dial number key 4a of "1" is pressed (step 7). As a result, the remaining one mail content is displayed, and the lighting of the dial number key 4a is turned off (step 8).

On the other hand, in step 3 or step 6, if it is necessary to make a call to make a call to the other party before displaying the mail content while the mail is in the receiving state (step 9 or step 10), the lighting is released. When the end key 4b is pressed as a key, the dial number key 4a
Is turned off. Thus, a normal dial number can be input.

As described above, according to the portable telephone with the lighting function according to the present embodiment, the dial number key 4a indicating the arrival of the mail is illuminated by the light emission of the multicolor light emitting section 5, so that the illuminated key is At a glance, the number of incoming e-mails can be checked at a glance, and the number of incoming e-mails can be easily and accurately recognized even in a dark place. Further, since the contents of the mail can be displayed only by pressing the lit key, the operability of the mobile phone which is easier to use and understand can be realized.

In addition to displaying the number of incoming mails, the corresponding number of the dial number key 4a is turned on as described above, and the multicolor light emitting unit 5 is displayed in a different color according to the number of incoming mails. Light can be emitted. For example, it is possible to set “red” when the number of incoming mails is “one” and “green” when the number is two. In this way, the number of incoming mails can be checked at a glance by looking at the operation key section 4.

As described above, the mobile phone with the lighting function of the present embodiment can realize a display function not existing in the conventional mobile phone without increasing the size and complexity of the operation key section. It is possible to cope with multi-functional telephone functions.

The mobile phone with a lighting function according to the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment.
It goes without saying that various modifications can be made within the scope of the present invention. For example, by illuminating the corresponding light emitting unit and lighting any dial number key,
It is also possible to display not only the number of incoming mails but also the number of incoming calls and the number of answering machines.

[0043]

As described above, according to the portable telephone with the lighting function of the present invention, the operation key section of the main body is illuminated in various different modes and colors according to the telephone operation of the portable telephone.
By blinking, the operation key unit can be used as a notifying unit and a display unit that are not provided in the related art. As a result, it is possible to cope with multifunctional telephone functions without hindering the miniaturization of the telephone main body and the enlargement of the display area, and it is possible to sufficiently cope with various needs of recent mobile telephones. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external configuration diagram illustrating a mobile phone with a lighting function according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a mobile phone with a lighting function according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the mobile phone with a lighting function according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Telephone body 2 Antenna 3 Display part 4 Operation key part 4a Dial number key 4b End key 4c Mail key 5 Multicolor light emitting part 6 Wireless circuit part 7 Control part 9 Melody sound generation part

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Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A telephone body, and an operation key unit including a plurality of keys for telephone operation provided on the telephone body;
A plurality of keys of the operation key unit are made of a light-transmitting member, and a plurality of light emitting units are provided on a bottom side of the plurality of keys, respectively. However, according to the operation of the telephone, a plurality of keys of the operation key unit are illuminated or blinked simultaneously or individually to light or blink, and a cellular phone with a lighting function. 2. The mobile phone with a lighting function according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of light-emitting units comprises a multicolor light-emitting unit capable of emitting two or more different colors. 3. The phone according to claim 1, wherein the telephone body includes a notifying unit that notifies the reception of a signal by a melody sound, wherein the plurality of light emitting units individually emit light according to a scale of the melody sound of the notifying unit. 3. The mobile phone with a lighting function according to 1 or 2. 4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said telephone main body includes a notifying unit for notifying a signal arrival by a melody sound, wherein said plurality of light emitting units emit light in different colors according to a type of the melody sound of said notifying unit. Item 4. A mobile phone with a lighting function according to item 2 or 3. 5. A method according to claim 1, wherein said telephone main body includes a notifying unit for notifying the incoming of a signal by a melody sound, wherein said plurality of light emitting units emit light in different colors according to a scale of the melody sound of said notifying unit. Item 4. The mobile phone with a lighting function according to item 2, 3 or 4. 6. The telephone set according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of light emitting units individually emit light in accordance with the number of incoming mails by text when said telephone body receives mails by text. Mobile phone with lighting function as described. 7. The method according to claim 2, wherein, when the telephone body receives the text mail, the plurality of light-emitting units emit light in different colors according to the number of mails received by text. 6. The mobile phone with a lighting function according to 6. 8. The portable telephone with a lighting function according to claim 6, wherein, when the telephone main body receives a character-based mail, an operation key unit having the same number as the number of incoming mails by character emits light.