JP2002027034A - Communication system and portable wireless communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To vary processing in a call incoming side terminal in response to the will of a caller concerning a communication terminal such as portable telephone set. SOLUTION: In the case of performing communications between a first terminal 1 and a second terminal 5 through a prescribed transmission line, the first terminal is provided with an additional information providing means for instructing a call incoming reporting operation and a transmitting means for sending additional information obtained from the additional information providing means by adding it to transmitting information, and a second terminal is provided with a call incoming reporting means for reporting call incoming, an additional information extracting means for extracting the additional information contained in a signal received by the receiving means, and incoming reporting operation control means for controlling the operation of the incoming reporting means on the basis of the additional information extracted by the additional information extracting means.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable radio communication terminal suitable for application to a telephone device such as a portable telephone terminal and a communication system constituted by the communication terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a telephone such as a portable telephone terminal sounds a ringing tone upon receiving a call. As the ringing tone, a short melody of a few seconds to about 10 seconds may be emitted as an electronic sound in addition to an electronic sound that simply sounds “pip”. If the device has a built-in vibrator function, set a mode in which the terminal vibrates using the vibrator function to notify the person who has the terminal of an incoming call instead of ringing. Is also possible.

[0003] These incoming call notifications only inform that there is an incoming call, and the ringing tone that sounds at the time of the incoming call is an electronic sound or the like set by the owner of the terminal.

[0004] In telephone communication, a service called calling number notification is provided. When an incoming call arrives at a telephone set subscribed to the service, a call is displayed on a display unit attached to the terminal. The telephone number of the person is displayed.

[0005]

However, in the conventional calling number notification, only the telephone number is displayed.
Depending on the type of terminal, if the correspondence between the phone number and name is stored in the terminal in advance, the terminal may display the name instead of displaying the calling number when receiving an incoming call. The registered process is performed based on the telephone number notified in the terminal on the receiving side, and no further service is provided.

In particular, the calling party can only select whether or not to notify the calling number, and it is conventional to make the receiving terminal change the incoming call processing more aggressively. It is difficult with a terminal.

[0007] It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication terminal device of this type that allows a caller's intention to change the incoming call processing at the called terminal.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, when communication between a first terminal and a second terminal is performed via a predetermined transmission path, an incoming call notification operation is performed as the first terminal. Information providing means for instructing reception, and transmitting means for adding the additional information obtained from the additional information providing means to the transmission information and transmitting the information. As a second terminal, a receiving means and an incoming call for notifying an incoming call are provided. Notifying means, additional information extracting means for extracting additional information included in the signal received by the receiving means, and incoming notification operation controlling means for controlling the operation of the incoming notification means based on the additional information extracted by the additional information extracting means; It is provided with.

[0009] By doing so, the incoming call notification process specified by the calling terminal is performed by the receiving terminal.

[0010]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the present embodiment, for example, the present invention is applied to a communication system using a wireless telephone device (portable telephone terminal) for making a telephone call and data communication by wirelessly transmitting a signal converted into digital data to and from a base station. is there.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of the system of this embodiment. In this example, a calling terminal 1 and a receiving terminal 5 are prepared as wireless telephone terminals, and the calling terminal 1 is prepared.
However, wireless communication is performed with the base station 2 near the terminal 1, and the terminal 5 on the receiving side wirelessly communicates with the base station 4 near the terminal 5. The base station 2 and the base station 4 are connected by a predetermined communication network 3. The communication network 3 is connected to a center (not shown) that controls communication in the wireless telephone system, and the center registers the position of the terminal.

In this state, when the user operates the terminal 1 of the present example and performs a call operation to the telephone number of the terminal 5, the terminal 5 performs a calling process, and the base station 2 transmits the call to the communication network. When a signal for calling the terminal 5 is transmitted to the base station 4 via the base station 3 and the calling signal is wirelessly transmitted from the base station 4 and the terminal 5 receives the corresponding signal, an incoming call process is performed.

Here, in the case of the present example, by performing a predetermined operation on the transmitting terminal 1 side, the receiving processing state on the receiving side can be designated. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, when a light emitting pattern of a light emitting diode and a voice input are performed at a transmitting terminal 1, a light emitting pattern of a light emitting diode attached to the terminal 5 is changed at a receiving terminal 5 side at an incoming call. In addition to the corresponding pattern, the voice input on the terminal 1 side is output, and the incoming call is notified. Then, when an operation of receiving the incoming call (herein, referred to as an off-hook operation) is performed on the receiving terminal 5 side, the process of notifying the incoming call stops, and the communication line between the calling terminal 1 and the receiving terminal 5 is set. , Voice and other two-way communication becomes possible.

Next, the configuration of the terminals 1 and 5 that realize such an incoming call processing will be described with reference to FIG. The transmitting terminal 1 and the receiving terminal 5 basically have a common configuration, and the terminal configuration shown in FIG. 2 is applicable to any of the terminals 1 and 5.

First, the configuration of the receiving system will be described. The antenna 101 is connected to a low noise amplifier (LNA) 110 via an antenna duplexer 102, and supplies the received signal amplified by the amplifier 110 to a mixer 111. . The mixer 111 mixes the frequency signal output from the synthesizer 103 with the reception signal, and converts a signal of a predetermined reception channel into an intermediate frequency signal (IF signal). The converted intermediate frequency signal is supplied to the quadrature mixer 113 via the intermediate frequency amplifier 112, and the received signal is quadrature demodulated based on the signal supplied from the synthesizer 103.

The output of the quadrature mixer 113 is supplied to an analog / digital converter 114 for sampling, the sampled output is supplied to a demodulator 115 for demodulation, and the demodulated output is supplied to a channel decoder 116 for transmission channel Extracts various data arranged in. The audio data extracted by the channel decoder 116 is supplied to an audio decoder 117, where the audio data is decoded, and the decoded audio data is converted into a digital signal.
The audio signal is supplied to an analog converter 118 to be converted into an analog audio signal, and the audio signal is supplied to a speaker 120 for communication via an amplifier 119 and output. The various control data extracted by the channel decode 116 are as follows.
Central control unit (CPU) that controls the operation of this terminal
150. Even when data on an incoming call notification described later is received, the data is extracted by the channel decode 116 and supplied to the CPU 150. The amplifier 119 has a function as a switch for controlling the audio output.
This switch function is controlled by the CPU 150.

The transmission system has a microphone 13
After the audio signal picked up and output by 0 is amplified by the amplifier 131, it is converted into digital data by the analog / digital converter 132, and the digital data is supplied to the audio decoder 133 to perform a decoding process suitable for the audio data. The decoded audio data is transmitted to the channel encoder 13
4 for processing the channel configuration for the wireless telephone system. At this time, various control data that needs to be transmitted from this terminal is supplied from the CPU 150. When transmitting data relating to an incoming call notification to be described later, the CPU 150
4 for transmission processing.

The data of the transmission channel generated by the channel encoder 134 is supplied to a modulator 135 and converted into data. The data is converted by a digital / analog converter 136, and then the data is converted by a quadrature mixer 137 to the synthesizer 103. , And supplies the orthogonally modulated signal to a mixer 139 via an intermediate frequency amplifier 138. The output of the synthesizer 103 is mixed to form a signal of a predetermined transmission channel. Is supplied to the antenna 101 via the power amplifier 140 and the antenna duplexer 102 to be transmitted wirelessly.

The CPU 150 includes an EEPROM 151,
A RAM 152 and a ROM 153 are connected as memories. Further, operation information of the key 154 is supplied to the CPU 150. In addition, liquid crystal display panels (LC
D) Display at 155 and light emitting diode (LED) 15
The light emission at 6 can be controlled by the CPU 150. The light emitting diode 156 of this example is used as one of means for notifying an incoming call.

A rechargeable battery 161 such as a lithium ion battery is built in as a power supply means of the terminal. Power from the battery 161 is taken out by a power supply circuit 162 and supplied to each circuit in the terminal. The configuration is as follows. In this case, the voltage of the battery 161 is converted into data by the analog / digital converter 163, and the voltage data is converted into data by the CPU.
The determination can be made at 150.

The terminal has a built-in vibrator 164 as one of means for notifying an incoming call. By driving the vibrator 164 under the control of the CPU 150, the terminal can be vibrated. is there.

Here, in the case of the terminal of the present example,
The other party's terminal (that is, the terminal on the receiving side) gives an instruction regarding the incoming call notification process, and the CPU 150 determines how to perform the incoming notification at that time based on the designation of the key 154 or the like. I can do it. Specifically, as an incoming call notification process specified by the calling terminal, a mode in which an incoming call is notified by voice sent from the calling side,
A mode in which an incoming call is notified with music (melody) instructed from the calling side, a mode in which an incoming call is notified with characters or images sent from the calling side, a mode in which an incoming call is notified with a vibration pattern of a vibrator instructed from the calling side, A mode is provided in which an incoming call is notified based on a light emitting pattern (light emitting interval, light emitting rhythm, combination of light emitting colors, etc.) of the light emitting diodes instructed from the transmitting side. Then, when making a call, when setting to instruct an incoming call notification is set, one of the above-described modes is selected, and data corresponding to the selected mode is transmitted at the time of making a call. The details of the transmitted data will be described later. It is also possible to set a combination of the above-described modes.

The details of the setting in each mode can be set by operating the key 154 or inputting externally to the terminal. For example, in the case of a mode in which an incoming call is notified by voice transmitted from the calling side, data of voice input by the microphone 130 is used. In the case of a mode in which an incoming call is notified using characters or images sent from the calling side, data obtained by inputting characters by key operation or image data captured by an image input device (not shown) connected to the terminal is displayed. use. When an incoming call is notified using music (melody), a vibration pattern of a vibrator, or a light emitting pattern of a light emitting diode, data set by key operation is used.

The setting items in each of these modes may be registered in advance in the memories 151 and 152 connected to the CPU 150, and the registered data may be read and used at the time of calling.

When a call arrives at this terminal,
The CPU 150 determines the incoming call notification information included in the data transmitted from the base station, and allows the CPU 150 to set the notification process specified by the incoming call notification information. In this case, in advance which notification means or available, it may be allowed to register in a memory connected to the CPU 150. That is, the notification means corresponding to all the modes described above may be set to be usable, or may be set so as not to be notified by any of the notification means.

Next, the configuration of data transmitted to the base station when a call is transmitted using the terminal of the present embodiment will be described. When a transmission operation is performed by operating the key 154 attached to the terminal, a transmission request message packet shown in FIG. 3 is wirelessly transmitted from the terminal to the base station. The transmission request message packet includes a protocol ID 11 as a call control protocol, a call number 12 as a call ID, a message name 13 indicating a transmission request, a voice,
Communication capability 14 indicating the type of communication means such as packet data
A communication quality 15 indicating a communication speed and a communication quality; a calling number 16 indicating a telephone number of the own (source); a called number 17 indicating a telephone number of the other party; , And incoming notification information 19, which is setting information relating to a calling method. Incoming call notification information 19 in this outgoing call request message packet
Corresponds to the information for setting the incoming call notification process in this example.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the details of the incoming call notification information in the outgoing call request message packet of this embodiment. In this example, the incoming call notification additional information 21 is arranged at the head portion, and this additional information indicates the presence or absence of the incoming call notification information. That is, when the additional information 21 indicates that there is incoming notification information, specific outgoing notification information is transmitted from the transmitting side.
The notifying means combination information 22 arranged after the incoming call notification additional information 21 indicates which incoming notifying means is used. Here, there is an example in which the voice information and the light emitting pattern information of the light emitting diode are transmitted and used as an incoming call notification. Following the notifying means combination information 22, the voice information header 23, the voice information 24, and the light emitting pattern information header 25 And the light emission pattern 26 are arranged, and details regarding the respective incoming notification processes are shown.
Each header indicates the start position and length of data following the header.

The incoming notification information shown in FIG. 4 is transmitted as an incoming signal to the other terminal as it is when the other terminal is a terminal corresponding to the corresponding notification operation.
A wireless telephone line on the network side is configured.

Although the example of FIG. 4 shows an example of the data structure in which the incoming call notification by voice and the incoming call notification by light emission of the light emitting diode are combined, when performing the incoming communication in other modes, the combination of the notifying means is used. The information 22 indicates that the corresponding mode is used, and the information following the information 22 indicates details.

Next, an example of the incoming call notification process executed by transmitting the incoming call notification information configured as described above will be described. First, the process at the time of outgoing call in the calling terminal will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 5. When a process of designating an incoming call notification operation is first performed (step S11), the designated incoming call notification operation is performed. Is stored in the memory connected to the CPU in the terminal as the additional information of the incoming call notification (step S12). Then, when there is a call operation to a predetermined telephone number (step S13), the packet shown in FIG. 3 to which the additional information stored in step S12 is added is wirelessly transmitted to the base station (step S14). With this transmission, an incoming call notification operation is performed in the terminal on the other end. Thereafter, the other party performs an off-hook operation to answer the call and determines whether or not there is a call line setting (step S15). When the call line has been set, the process proceeds to a call (step S16).

Next, the processing in the terminal on the receiving side will be described with reference to the flowchart in FIG. C in the called terminal
The PU determines whether there is an incoming call to the own station based on a signal from the base station (step S21). If there is an incoming call, the PU transmits, to the signal transmitted from the base station at that time, additional information on the incoming call notifying means. Is determined (step S2).
2). Here, when it is determined that there is no corresponding additional information, a predetermined incoming call notification process is performed on this terminal (step S23), and the terminal owner is notified of the incoming call.

When it is determined in step S22 that there is additional information relating to the incoming call notifying means, it is determined whether the notifying means indicated by the additional information is a notifying means permitted to be used in this terminal. (Step S24), and if the notification means is not permitted to be used, step S24 is executed.
Then, the process proceeds to step S23, where an incoming call notification process preset for this terminal is performed.

If it is determined in step S24 that the notification means is permitted to be used in this terminal, the CPU in the terminal sets an incoming notification process based on the received additional information regarding the incoming notification. (Step S25).

Here, the flow from the transmission to the reception notification at the receiving terminal, which is performed by performing such processing at the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal, will be described with reference to FIG. First, the caller who operates the calling terminal performs an input operation a for selecting the incoming call notifying means on the calling terminal. In addition, the receiver operating the receiving terminal sets in advance the setting b of the usable incoming notification means for the receiving terminal, and stores the information set for the terminal.

In this state, by performing a calling operation on the calling terminal side, calling information c to which information relating to the incoming call notification is added.
Is sent to the communication network. When this call is made, the incoming call information d to which information about the incoming call notification is added is transmitted from the communication network to the receiving terminal. When the receiving terminal determines the incoming call information d including the additional information, the use state of the incoming notification means is determined, and the determined incoming notification means operates in the instructed mode to notify the receiver of the incoming call e. Is performed.

As described above, the incoming call notification state can be selected by the calling terminal, so that the receiving terminal is notified of the incoming call in the state intended by the caller, and the user can easily recognize the incoming call. Become. Also, for example, by setting a mode for notifying the incoming call by voice, the user of the receiving terminal can easily recognize the caller. Furthermore, it is also possible to communicate the intention of the caller to the other party to some extent simply by making a call notification.

In the above-described embodiment, the mobile phone terminal uses a wireless telephone line as the communication terminal.
The present invention can also be applied to communication terminals for other communication systems that perform similar incoming call processing when receiving a call signal from a station.

[0039]

According to the communication system of the present invention, the incoming call notification process designated by the terminal on the transmitting side is performed by the terminal on the receiving side. It becomes possible.

In this case, the additional information sent from the transmitting side to the receiving side is a voice information signal, a music information signal, a character information signal, an image information signal, a light emitting display element control signal or a vibration element drive control signal. The type of additional information is specified by the additional information providing means of the terminal, and the incoming communication means of the second terminal executes the operation of the incoming notification means corresponding to the specified type of additional information, so that the incoming terminal The state of voice, music, characters, images, light emission or vibration at the time of an incoming call can be controlled by the caller's intention.

Further, according to the portable radio communication terminal of the present invention, the incoming call notification process instructed by the calling side is executed, and the intention of the caller can be recognized in the incoming call notification state of the terminal. become.

In this case, the additional information reaching the terminal includes a voice information signal, a music information signal, a character information signal, an image information signal,
By being a light emitting display element control signal or a vibration element drive control signal, the state of voice, music, characters, images, light emission or vibration at the time of an incoming call can be controlled by the sender's intention.

[0043] Further, the terminal is provided with a transmitting means for adding the additional information to the transmission signal and transmitting the signal, and has a function of transmitting the additional information, so that the additional information is added to the signal transmitted from the terminal. Thus, when making a call from this terminal, it is possible to specify the incoming call notification state at the terminal of the other party.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a configuration of a transmission system according to an embodiment of the present invention in a transmission state.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration example of a transmission request message packet according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of incoming call notification additional information shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a processing example in a calling terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of processing at a receiving terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a flow between a calling terminal and a called terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Sending terminal, 2, 4 ... Base station, 3 ... Communication network, 5 ... Receiving terminal, 150 ... Central control unit (CPU), 155 ...
Liquid crystal display panel, 156: light emitting diode, 164: vibrator

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[Submission date] July 31, 2000 (2007.3.
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As described above, the incoming call notification state can be selected by the calling terminal, so that the receiving terminal is notified of the incoming call in the state intended by the caller, and the user can easily recognize the incoming call. Become. Further, by setting a mode for notifying the incoming call by voice, for example, the user of the receiving terminal can easily recognize the caller. Furthermore, it is also possible to communicate the intention of the caller to the other party to some extent simply by making a call notification.

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Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A communication system in which communication between a first terminal and a second terminal is performed via a predetermined transmission path, wherein additional information providing an instruction for an incoming call notification operation is provided as the first terminal. Means, and transmission means for adding the additional information obtained from the additional information providing means to the transmission information and transmitting the transmission information to the transmission path, wherein the second terminal is transmitted via the transmission path. Receiving means for receiving a signal, incoming call notifying means for notifying an incoming call, additional information extracting means for extracting additional information included in the signal received by the receiving means, and based on the additional information extracted by the additional information extracting means And a communication control means for controlling the operation of the incoming notification means. 2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the additional information is a voice information signal, a music information signal, a character information signal, an image information signal, a light emitting display element control signal, or a vibration element drive control signal. The type of additional information is specified by the additional information providing means of the first terminal, and the incoming communication means of the second terminal is configured to execute the operation of the incoming notification means corresponding to the specified type of additional information. system. 3. An incoming call notifying means, an incoming call notifying operation control means for controlling an operation of the incoming notifying means, and an additional information providing means for providing predetermined additional information to the incoming notifying means. A portable wireless communication terminal having a function of causing the incoming call notifying means to perform an incoming call notification operation based on the additional information provided from the additional information providing means. 4. The portable wireless terminal according to claim 3, wherein the additional information is a voice information signal, a music information signal, a character information signal, an image information signal, a light emitting display element control signal, or a vibration element drive control signal. A portable wireless communication terminal characterized by the above-mentioned. 5. The portable wireless terminal according to claim 3, further comprising: transmitting means for adding the additional information to a transmission signal and transmitting the transmission signal, and having a function of transmitting the additional information. Communication terminal.