JP2001237917A - Portable radio telephone equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable radio telephone equipment which easily reproduces the whole of a musical piece which a user wants others to listen to. SOLUTION: A CPU calculates the reproducing time of an incoming sound on the basis of melody data of this incoming sound which has been generated by the user or has been received by a download service and should be reproduced at the time of incoming or alarm (steps A1 to A9), and the calculated reproducing time is displayed on a display part (step A10). If automatic setting is selected (step S11, 'YES'), the calculated reproducing time is automatically set as the call time for incoming or the alarm reproducing time for alarm (step S12).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable radio which allows a user to create music data to be reproduced at the time of an incoming call or an alarm, or to receive the music data by a download service. Telephone equipment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, portable telephone apparatuses which can reproduce a melody for notification as a ringtone or an alarm sound at the time of an incoming call or an alarm are becoming common.
The melody can be selected from a plurality of songs set in advance in the portable radio telephone device, but the user can program the data himself to create the melody or access a predetermined service. By downloading the data, the user can more freely set the melody such as a ring tone that the user prefers.

[0003]

However, when each user sets a melody such as a ring tone different from that of another person in the portable telephone apparatus, a request to hear the melody to another person arises. Is also conceivable. However, in the conventional mobile phone device, for example, the reproduction time of the ringtone and the reproduction time of the alarm sound when an incoming call occurs are set by the user in advance.

[0004] For this reason, the time set by the user may be too short or too long for the entire melody reproduction time. Therefore, there is a problem in that when trying to hear the melody set in the mobile phone device to another person, the reproduction ends in the middle of the melody, and it is difficult to hear the entire melody.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a portable radio telephone device that can easily reproduce all of the music that a user wants to hear to others. is there.

[0006]

According to the portable radio telephone apparatus of the present invention, the reproduction time calculation means reproduces the time of an incoming call or an alarm generated by the user or received by the download service. Based on the music data, the reproduction time of the music is calculated. Then, the control means causes the display means to display the reproduction time calculated by the reproduction time calculation means. Therefore, if the user inputs and sets the reproduction time of the music displayed on the display means, it is possible to reproduce the entire music at the time of an incoming call or an alarm.

According to the portable radio telephone apparatus of the present invention, the reproduction time setting means sets the reproduction time calculated by the reproduction time calculation means to the calling time, which is the time for reproducing the music when an incoming call occurs. Automatically set to time. Therefore, the ringing time at the time of an incoming call can be made equal to the time during which all of the music can be reproduced, without the user having to make the input setting himself.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, when an incoming call occurs when the answering machine function is enabled, the control unit controls the music by using the playback time calculated by the playback time calculation unit as a unit. Is started once or more, and then the reproduction of the response message is started. Therefore, even if the user does not make the input setting himself, all the songs of the ringtone can be reproduced before the response message is reproduced in the answering machine function.

According to the portable radio telephone apparatus of the present invention, the reproduction time setting means automatically sets the alarm reproduction time, which is the time for reproducing the music at the time of the alarm, to the reproduction time calculated by the reproduction time calculation means. To set. Therefore, as in the case of the second aspect, the alarm playback time can be made to coincide with the time for playing back all the music pieces, without the user having to make the input setting by himself.

According to the portable radio telephone apparatus of the present invention, when the condition for generating the alarm is satisfied and the reproduction of the music is started, the reproduction time setting means sets the reproduction time as long as the user does not perform the alarm canceling operation. The music is repeatedly reproduced in units of the alarm reproduction time. Therefore, the user can repeatedly reproduce all of the music even when an alarm is generated.

According to the portable radio telephone apparatus of the present invention, the reproduction time setting means can set the reproduction time of the music to a predetermined fixed time, so that the setting can be performed in various ways.

According to the portable radio telephone apparatus of the present invention, the control means drives the blinking LED or the vibrator for vibrating the housing in synchronization with the reproduction time of the music as a notification operation to the user. The LED and the vibrator can be operated at the same time as the music played at the time or at the time of the alarm.

According to the portable radio telephone apparatus of the present invention, the control means can enable and disable the blinking of the LED and the driving of the vibrator in synchronization with the reproduction time of the music based on the setting of the user. The LED and the vibrator can be operated as desired by the user.

According to the portable radio telephone apparatus of the ninth aspect, the control means can adjust the drive level of the vibrator in synchronization with the music reproduction time based on the user's setting. Can be adjusted as desired by the user.

[0015]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the mobile phone device. In FIG. 1, a portable telephone device (portable wireless telephone device) 1 mainly includes a CPU (reproduction time calculation means, reproduction time setting means, control means) 2, and includes a call start key, a call end key, and "0".
There are provided a key unit 3 comprising numeric keys of ".about." 9, etc., a microphone 4 for transmitting, a speaker 5 for receiving, and a display section (display means) 6 such as an LCD. CP
An operation signal from the key unit 3 is given to U2, and the CPU 2 controls display on the display unit 6.

The audio signal input to the microphone 4 is applied to the audio processing unit 7 and A / D converted, and then output to the radio unit 8 via the CPU 2. In the radio unit 8, the audio signal is, for example, π / 4 shift DQPSK (Differential Quad).
After being converted to a rature phase shift keying (Rature Phase Shift Keying) signal, the signal is further orthogonally modulated by, for example, an 800 MHz band carrier signal, and transmitted from the antenna 9 to the outside as a radio signal.

When the antenna 9 receives a radio signal, the received signal is demodulated in the radio section 8 and given to the audio processing section 7. Then, in the audio processing unit 7, D
After the A / A conversion, the audio signal is output from the speaker 5.

The CPU 2 controls the audio processing section 7 and the radio section 8. On the other hand, the wireless unit 8
The U2 is provided with information such as detection of an incoming signal and a detected value of a transmission signal or a reception signal level. The CPU 2 has RPM, RAM and EEPROM.
M is connected to the CPU 2
Is designed to write and read data to and from the memory 10 as needed. The melody (song) reproduced at the time of an incoming call or an alarm is stored in the memory 10.
Is also stored.

The CPU 2 also controls the driving of the LED 11 and the vibrator 12 for notifying the user of an incoming call or an alarm. The vibrator 12
For example, the portable telephone device 1 is constituted by a small motor that rotationally drives an unbalanced weight, and generates the generated vibration.
Is transmitted to the housing 13.

The audio processing unit 7 includes an IC for melody reproduction.
The sounder 14 is driven based on the melody data provided by the CPU 2 to output a musical tone. Power supply 15
Is a secondary battery or the like that supplies an operating power supply or the like to each of the above-mentioned electrical components.

The CPU 2 stores the melody data created by the user operating the key switch 3 in the melody creation mode for the ring tone or the like in the memory 10, reads out the data in a predetermined case, and outputs the melody data to the voice processing unit 7. , The melody created by the user can be reproduced. Further, when the user calls a predetermined service special number prepared in advance on the system side and connects the communication line, the CPU 2 can control a plurality of ring tones and the like prepared in the destination server or the like. Any of the data can be selectively downloaded and stored in the memory 10 and read out and reproduced in the same manner.

Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a process in which the CPU 2 calculates a reproduction time for incoming melody data created by a user operating the key switch 3 or downloaded by a service on the system side.

When the CPU 2 first clears the counter TOTAL to zero (step A1), the CPU 2 reads the melody data for one unit (for example, one byte, one word, etc.) from the memory 10 (step A2). Then, it is determined whether or not the read data is data relating to a note or a rest (step A3). If the read data is data indicating a reproduction tempo ("NO"), the data is determined in accordance with the data. The processing is performed (step A5), and the process proceeds to step A8. In step A8, the CPU 2 determines whether or not all the melody data has been processed, and if not all have been processed ("NO"), returns to step A2 and reads the next data.

In step A3, if the read data is data relating to a note or rest ("YES"), the CPU 2 determines whether or not the data relating to the note or rest is accompanied by extension data. I do. Here, the extended data is data related to a tuplet such as a triplet, for example. If the extension data is not attached ("NO"), a count value corresponding to the length indicated by the note or rest is added to the counter TOTAL (step A6). Then, control goes to step A8.

Here, when the length of a note or a rest is, for example, "1" based on a quarter note, the eighth note is "0.5" and the sixteenth note is "0.25". , A dotted quarter note is “1.5”, and a half note is “2”. The same applies to each rest. Further, for example, when the minimum unit of the rhythm used in the ring tone is a sixteenth note, it goes without saying that each of the above numerical values may be multiplied by four and all may be treated as integers.

If the extension data is added in step A4 ("YES"), the CPU 2 modifies the length of the note or rest according to the extension data and adds it to the counter TOTAL (modification). Step A7). Then, control goes to a step A8. For example,
In the case of a triplet or a quintuplet, the representation of a note is an eighth note, but if data indicating each tuplet is attached,
The count values are 1/3 = “0.33” and 1/5 =
Corrected to "0.2".

As described above, when the addition is performed for all the melody data (step A8, “YE
S "), the CPU 2 proceeds to step A9, and calculates the reproduction time of the melody data by the equation (1). (Reproduction time) = (reproduction time of one beat) × (TOTAL) (1) Here, (reproduction time of one beat) is, for example, if the reproduction tempo data is BPM (Beat Per Minute) = 120 ,
The performance time of one beat, that is, a quarter note is 0.5 seconds. Then, for example, if the count value TOTAL = 50, the calculation is performed as (reproduction time) = 0.5 × 50 = 25 (seconds).

After calculating the playback time of the melody data as described above, the CPU 2 displays the calculated playback time on the display unit 6 (step A10). Then, it is determined whether or not the user selects automatic setting for the reproduction time of the ringtone (step A11). If the automatic setting is selected ("YES"), the reproduction time calculated in step A9 is used as it is for the ringtone. The user is allowed to select whether or not to determine the playback time (step A13). When the user performs an operation for confirming ("YES"), a confirming process is performed (step A14), and the process ends. Further, if the user does not perform the confirmation operation (“N
O "), and the process returns to step A11.

On the other hand, if the user does not select the automatic setting in step A11 ("NO"), the CPU 2
Waits for manual setting by the user (step A15, "YES"), and sets the reproduction time of the ringtone as a manual setting value (step A16) and proceeds to step A13.

FIG. 3 shows an example of an operation in the case where the user changes the ringtone and the ringing time (calling time) which is the reproduction time thereof, and shows a change in the display screen of the display unit 6. . First, the user operates a function key or the like of the key unit 3 to call a screen of “F11: Change ringtone” (see FIG. 3A). On the screen, the song name of the currently selected ringtone “song spring, summer, autumn and winter” is displayed, and “1: YES” and “3: NO” are displayed to allow the user to select whether or not to change the ringtone. Is displayed.

The user presses the numeric key "1" of the key unit 3.
Is turned on and "YES" is selected, the screen of the display unit 6 is switched to a ring tone selection screen (see FIG. 3B). On the screen, the title of the ringtone that is currently registered in the mobile phone device 1 and can be an option is displayed. For example, "1: spring, summer, autumn and winter", "2: love", "3: goodbye", "4: heart", "5: sun", and the like.

Here, when the user turns on the numeric key "2" of the key unit 3 and selects "love", the CPU 2
Executes steps A1 to A10 in the flowchart of FIG. Then, as shown in FIG. 3 (c), the playback time is displayed as "(song) love 27 seconds" and "1: YES", "3:
"NO" is displayed.

When the user turns on the numeric key "1" and selects "YES", the screen of the display unit 6 is switched to a screen for setting a ringtone time (see FIG. 3D). Then, the user is prompted to select one of “1: automatic time setting” and “3: manual time setting”. Here, if the user turns on the numeric key "1" and selects "automatic time setting" (step A11, "YES"), the screen of the display unit 6 switches to the automatic ringing time setting screen (FIG. 3
(E)). Then, when the user turns on the start key "S" in order to confirm (step A13, "YE
S "), the automatic time setting is determined.

FIG. 4 shows an example of an operation for changing only the setting of the reproduction time of the ring tone currently selected by the user. The user operates a function key or the like of the key unit 3 to call a screen of “F10: Change ringtone” (see FIG. 4A). On the screen, the song name of the currently selected ringtone “song spring, summer, autumn and winter” and the setting of the playback time “currently automatic 31 seconds” are displayed, and whether or not to change the ringing time is selected. Therefore, "1: YE
S "and" 3: NO "are displayed.

When the user turns on the numeric key "1" and selects "YES", the screen of the display unit 6 is switched to a screen for setting the ringing time (see FIG. 4B). Then, the user is prompted to select one of “1: automatic time setting” and “3: manual time setting”. Here, the user turns on the numeric key “3” to set “manual time setting”.
Is selected (step A11, "NO"), the display unit 6
Is switched to a screen for manually setting the ringtone time (see FIG. 4C). Then, when the user manually sets the reproduction time to, for example, “20 seconds” and turns on the start key “S” to confirm the setting, the manual setting is determined.

Next, FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a case where the CPU 2 reproduces the melody of the ring tone upon receiving an incoming call based on the ring tone reproduction time set as described above. The CPU 2 first waits until an incoming call occurs (step B1), and when an incoming call occurs (“YE”).
S ") The reproduction of the ringtone starts (step B2). That is, the output of the melody data to the melody IC in the audio processing unit 7 is started. At the same time,
The driving of the LED 11 and the vibrator 12 is started (step B2a). Then, the LED 11 starts blinking at a predetermined cycle, and the vibrator 12 causes the housing 13 to vibrate.

Then, it is determined whether the user responds to the incoming call (step B3) or the set reproduction time has been reached (step B4). If both are NO, steps B3 and B4 Keep going around the loop. And
When the user answers the incoming call (step B3, “Y
ES "), at which point the reproduction of the ringtone is stopped (step B
5) At the same time, when the driving of the LED 11 and the vibrator 12 is also stopped (step B5a), normal call processing is performed (step B6).

If the time reaches the ringing tone without user response (step B4, "YES"), the CP
U2 determines whether or not the answering machine function has been set (step B7). If the setting has not been made ("NO"), the process returns to step B2, and the melody of the ringtone is reproduced from the beginning.

On the other hand, if the setting has been made in step B7 ("YES"), the CPU 2 determines whether or not the number of times of ringtone reproduction has reached a predetermined number (for example, two times) (step B8). ), If not reached ("NO")
Returning to step B2, the melody of the ringtone is reproduced from the beginning. Thereafter, when the number of times of reproduction reaches a predetermined number, CP
U2 determines "YES" in step B8 to stop the reproduction of the ringtone (step B9), and also stops driving the LED 11 and the vibrator 12 (step B9a), and then reproduces the response message (step B10). )
Record the message by the sender (step B1)
1). That is, the processing shown in FIG. 5 is the same in appearance as the conventional processing, but the ringtone reproduced during the step B2 → B4 is all data reproduced when the automatic time setting is performed. It is supposed to be.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a case where the CPU 2 reproduces the melody of the alarm sound in the alarm mode. The setting of the alarm sound time (alarm reproduction time) in the alarm mode is basically performed in the same manner as in FIG. In FIG. 6, the CPU 2
First waits until the alarm condition is satisfied (for example, at a set time) (step C1), and when the condition is satisfied (“YES”), starts reproducing the alarm sound (step C2). At the same time, driving of the LED 11 and the vibrator 12 is started (step C2).
a). Thereafter, it is determined whether the user has canceled the alarm (step C3) or whether the set reproduction time has been reached (step C4), and if both are "NO", the loop of steps C3 and C4 is performed. to continue.

When the user cancels the alarm (step C3, "YES"), the reproduction of the alarm sound and the driving of the LED 11 and the vibrator 12 are stopped at that point (steps C5 and C5a), and the process is terminated. If the user reaches the alarm sound reproduction time without releasing the alarm (step C4, “YES”), the CP
U2 proceeds to step C2, and starts reproducing the ringtone again from the beginning. That is, the processing shown in FIG. 6 is also similar in appearance to the conventional processing, but the ring tone reproduced between steps C2 and C4 has all the data repeated when the automatic time setting is performed. It is to be played.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the CPU 2
Calculates the playback time based on the melody data of the ringtone or alarm sound created by the user or received by the download service and played at the time of an incoming call or an alarm, and displays the calculated playback time. Was displayed. Then, the calling time at the time of an incoming call or the alarm playback time at the time of an alarm is automatically set to the calculated playback time. Therefore, the user can make the time for reproducing the ring tone or the like coincide with the time for reproducing all the melody data without making the input setting by himself.

When the condition for generating the alarm is satisfied and the reproduction of the alarm sound is started, the CPU 2 repeatedly reproduces the music in units of the alarm reproduction time unless the user performs the alarm canceling operation. Therefore, the user can repeatedly reproduce all of the melody data as an alarm.

In addition, the CPU 2 starts playing the response message after playing the melody a predetermined number of times in units of the playing time calculated when an incoming call occurs when the answering machine function is enabled, so that the user can input the message by himself / herself. Even if the setting is not performed, the entire melody of the ringtone can be reproduced before the response message is reproduced in the answering machine function.

Further, according to the present embodiment, the CPU 2 drives the vibrator 12 for vibrating the LED 11 and the housing 13 in synchronization with the reproduction time of a ring tone or the like as an operation for notifying the user of an incoming call or an alarm. Therefore, the LED 11 and the vibrator 12 can be operated in conjunction with the reproduction of the ring tone or the like.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above and shown in the drawings, and the following modifications or extensions are possible. The timing at which the reproduction time is calculated is not limited to the above embodiment, and may be stored in the memory 10 immediately after the melody data is completely created by the user or immediately after downloading. The function of automatically setting the playback time may be provided as needed. The user can input and set the playback time of the music displayed on the display means, and when an incoming call or an alarm occurs, the entire music is played. Will be able to

For example, when time data such as 4/4 and reproduced bar number data are attached to the melody data, the reproduction time may be calculated as follows. (Reproduction time) = (time for one beat) × (number of beats in one bar) × (number of bars in playback) (2) The “number of beats in one bar” is, for example, if the beat is 4/4 If it is “4” or 6/8, it becomes “3”. In this case, it is also conceivable that the start of the music does not start from the beginning of the first measure and the end of the music does not coincide with the end of the last measure. The same calculation is performed, and the remainder is calculated by equation (3). (Remaining playback time) = (time for one beat) × (number of beats per bar) × (number of playback bars−2) (3) You may add and calculate. If the beginning of the first measure is a series of rests, or if the end of the last piece of the music is a series of rests, the rest is deducted from the playback time.

It is not always necessary for the user to select whether to set the ringing tone reproduction time automatically or to set it manually, but the automatic setting may be performed uniformly. When the alarm sound is reproduced, it is not always necessary to reproduce the alarm sound repeatedly, and the alarm sound may be reproduced only once. The playback time of the ring tone or the like may be set to a predetermined time (for example, 15 seconds), and the setting may be performed in a variety of ways. The blinking of the LED 11 and the driving of the vibrator 12 synchronized with the ringing tone reproduction time may be enabled or disabled based on the user's setting. With such a configuration, the LED 11 or the vibrator 12 may be operated by the user. It can be operated as desired. Further, the drive level of the vibrator 12 may be configured to be adjustable based on the setting of the user. With such a configuration, the magnitude of the vibration of the housing 13 by the vibrator 12 may be adjusted as desired by the user. Can be adjusted. The portable wireless telephone device is not limited to the portable telephone device 1, but may be a PHS (Personal Handyphone System) or the like.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an embodiment of the present invention, and is a functional block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a mobile phone device.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a process in which a CPU calculates a reproduction time for incoming melody data.

FIG. 3 is an operation example when a user changes a ringtone and its reproduction time, and is a diagram showing a change in a display screen of a display unit.

FIG. 4 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 3 showing an operation example when only the setting of the reproduction time of the ring tone currently selected by the user is changed.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a case where the CPU reproduces a ring tone in the answering machine mode;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a case where the CPU reproduces an alarm sound in the alarm mode.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 is a mobile phone device (portable wireless phone device), 2 is a CPU
(Reproduction time calculation means, reproduction time setting means, control means),
Reference numeral 6 denotes a display unit (display means), 11 denotes an LED, and 12 denotes a vibrator.

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Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A portable radio telephone configured so that a user can create data of a music to be reproduced at the time of an incoming call, an alarm, or the like, or can receive the data of the music by a download service. The apparatus, comprising: a playback time calculation unit that calculates a playback time of the music piece based on the music piece data; and a control unit that controls the display time to display the playback time calculated by the playback time calculation means. A portable wireless telephone device, comprising: 2. A reproduction time setting means for automatically setting a ringing time, which is a time for reproducing the music when an incoming call is received, to the reproduction time calculated by the reproduction time calculation means. The portable wireless telephone device according to claim 1, wherein 3. The control means, when an incoming call occurs while the answering machine function is enabled, when the music is played by one unit of the reproduction time calculated by the reproduction time calculation means.
3. The portable wireless telephone device according to claim 2, wherein control is performed such that reproduction of the response message is started after reproduction has been performed at least twice. 4. A reproduction time setting means for automatically setting an alarm reproduction time, which is a time for reproducing the music at the time of an alarm, to the reproduction time calculated by the reproduction time calculation means. The portable wireless telephone device according to claim 1. 5. The portable wireless telephone device according to claim 4, wherein the reproduction time setting means repeatedly reproduces the music in units of the alarm reproduction time until the alarm is released. 6. The portable wireless device according to claim 2, wherein said reproduction time setting means can set the reproduction time of said music to a predetermined fixed time. Telephone equipment. 7. An LED that flashes as a notification operation to the user, and a vibrator that vibrates a housing as the notification operation, wherein the control unit flashes and / or flashes the LED in synchronization with the music playback time. 7. The portable wireless telephone device according to claim 2, wherein driving of the vibrator is controlled. 8. The control means is configured to enable or disable the blinking of the LED and / or the driving of the vibrator in synchronization with the playback time of the music based on a user setting. The portable wireless telephone device according to claim 7, wherein: 9. The control unit according to claim 7, wherein the control unit is configured to adjust a drive level of the vibrator synchronized with a reproduction time of the music based on a user setting. Portable wireless telephone device.