JP2001320448A - Mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile phone that allows a user to easily recognize that a specific day comes when the specific day such as a birthday registered in advance by a user of the mobile phone comes. SOLUTION: The mobile phone is provided with an EEPROM 4 that registers a name of the specific day and a specific incoming tone corresponding to the specific day, an operation section 6 that registers the specific day, a speaker 7 that sounds the specific incoming tone when a phone call arrives at the specific day, a display section 5 that displays the name of the specific day on its screen when the specific day comes, and a control section 2 or the like that conducts entire processing control.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile phone, and more particularly to a mobile phone having a function of registering a birthday, a wedding anniversary, and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional portable telephone, a user puts on a portable telephone a birthday, a wedding anniversary, a dentist's reservation date,
Register the date you want to check privately or for business, such as the date of a meeting (hereinafter referred to as a specific day), and when that specific day comes (that is, at midnight on that specific day), Some mobile phones have a function of displaying the name of the specific day on the display screen of the mobile phone. Thus, when the user looks at the screen of the mobile phone on the specific day, the user can recognize that the day is the specific day, which is convenient.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing specific day registration data in a conventional portable telephone having such a function.

In a conventional portable telephone, as shown in FIG. 4, a user of a portable telephone registers month and day data of a specific day and name data in a memory.

[0005]

In the above-mentioned conventional portable telephone, when a specific date registered in advance by a user is reached, only the name of the specific day is displayed on the screen of the portable telephone. Therefore, unless the user looks at the screen of the mobile phone, the user cannot recognize whether today is a specific day, and the special day registration function becomes meaningless. there were. In particular, it is difficult for a user who does not usually watch the screen of the mobile phone to recognize a specific day.

An object of the present invention is to provide a portable telephone which allows a user to easily recognize that a specific date has been registered when the specific date is registered in advance.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a portable telephone according to the present invention comprises: means for registering a specific ring tone (specific ringing tone) corresponding to a specific date; Means for sounding the specific ring tone when an incoming call is received.

[0008] Further, it is preferable that, on a specific day, not only a specific ring tone be sounded when a call is received, but also the name of the specific day be displayed on the screen of the portable telephone. In addition,
In this case, it is preferable that it is possible to select a normal ring tone without a specific ring tone when a call is received on a specific day, and to display only the name of the specific day on the screen. In other words, when registering a specific date and a specific ringtone, it is preferable that a setting can be made so that a normal ringtone sounds without specifying the specific ringtone.

In the portable telephone of the present invention, a specific ring tone sounds when a call arrives on a specific day registered by the user in advance, so that the user can change the normal ring tone to the specific ring tone. In addition, it is possible to easily recognize that it is a specific day without looking at the screen of the mobile phone. Alternatively, the user who has noticed the change from the normal ringtone to the specific ringtone can easily recognize what specific day is today by looking at the display of the specific day name on the screen.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. In the drawings described below, those having the same functions are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the repeated description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing specific day registration data in the mobile phone according to the embodiment of the present invention.

In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the user of the portable telephone sets a specific date and time data, name data, and ring tone data in a memory (see FIG. 1 in the EEPROM 4).

As the ring tone data, one is selected from several ring tone data registered in advance, designated, and registered. As the ringtone, for example, a birthday melody can be selected for a birthday, and a Christmas song melody can be selected for Christmas. If no specific ring tone is specified, for example, as in the case of the ring tone data for “marriage anniversary” shown in FIG. 2, it is registered as “no change”. In this case, the normal ring tone registered in this mobile phone is used. Is to sound. Of course, a normal ring tone may be selected from a plurality of registered ring tones.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the mobile phone according to the present embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile phone according to the present embodiment has a radio unit 1 for transmitting and receiving, a control unit (CPU) 2 for controlling the processing of the entire mobile phone, and a ROM (ROM) for storing programs and the like. Read Only Memory 3 and an EEPROM (Erectronic Erasable) for storing registered data
Programmable Read Only Memory (LCD) 4 and LCD (Li) for displaying various information such as characters such as the name of a specific day and telephone numbers.
a display unit 5 including a quid crystal display and an operation unit (input unit) 6 for registering a specific date and performing various operations.
And a speaker 7 as an output unit for voice and ringtone, and a receiver 8 and the like as an audio input unit.

In the control section 2, a work memory 21 is provided.
Is provided, and programs and information necessary for processing are
M3 and EEPROM 4 are read and stored, and their programs and information are used for processing of the control unit 2.

That is, the mobile phone according to the present embodiment
A means for registering a specific ringtone corresponding to a specific day (in FIG. 1, the operation unit 6, the control unit 2, the EEPROM 4), and a unit for sounding a specific ringtone when a telephone call arrives on the specific day (the wireless unit 1, A control unit 2 and a speaker 7).

In the portable telephone of this embodiment, the EEPR
The OM 4 stores the date data, the name data, and the ringtone data of the specific day shown in FIG. 2 in association with each other.
That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the user inputs the date data of the specific day while selecting the name data and the ringtone data while viewing the screen of the display unit 5, and registers the data. The name data may be selected from those registered in advance, or may be additionally input by a predetermined key operation of the operation unit 6.

In the present embodiment, when registering a specific day, the user specifies a specific ringtone in addition to the date and name of the specific day, and a telephone call is received on the specific day. The specified ring tone sounds when the call is made, so that the user can easily change from the normal ring tone to the specific ring tone without having to look at the screen of the display unit 5 of the mobile phone. Can be recognized. Alternatively, the user who has noticed the change from the normal ringtone to the specific ringtone can easily recognize what specific day is today by looking at the display of the specific day name on the screen. Therefore, it is possible to prevent a trouble caused by forgetting a day when the user wants to check private or business.

FIGS. 3 (a), 3 (b) and 3 (c) are diagrams for explaining an incoming call state on a specific day of the portable telephone according to the present embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 3, on a specific day, for example, Christmas on December 25 (ie, at midnight on December 25), (b) based on the registration data 30 shown in FIG. As shown in ()), the date “December 25” of the specific day and its name “Christmas” and the like are displayed on the screen 31 of the mobile phone. Then, when a call arrives at the mobile phone, as shown in (c), the display of the sender (telephone number etc.) is displayed on the screen 31 and a melody suitable for Christmas specified in advance by the user is specified. Ringtone sounds.

At the time of a meeting, concert, driving a car, etc.
Ability to prevent normal or specific ringtones (including "turn off"), or to vibrate the phone instead of ringing when it is desirable to prevent ringing (Vibration function).

Although the present invention has been specifically described based on the embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and it is needless to say that various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention. It is.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A specific date such as a birthday that the user wants to check can be easily recognized by the specific ring tone, and trouble caused by forgetting the specific date can be prevented beforehand.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing specific day registration data in the mobile phone according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an incoming call state on a specific day of the mobile phone according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing specific day registration data in a conventional mobile phone.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Radio | wireless part, 2 ... Control part (CPU), 3 ... ROM, 4 ...
EEPROM, 5 ... display unit, 6 ... operation unit (input unit), 7
... Speaker, 8 ... Receiver, 21 ... Work memory, 30
... Registration data, 31 ... Screen.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A portable telephone comprising: means for registering a specific ringtone corresponding to a specific day; and means for sounding the specific ringtone when a call arrives on the specific day.