JP2002171309A - Portable terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide portable terminal equipment, with which an individual incoming sound registering function and a sounding function for incoming sounds can be utilized by more simplified operation. SOLUTION: This equipment has a DSP 4 for mutually analog/digital converting a prescribed sound signal, a ROM 1 storing prescribed chord data and a processing program, a RAM 2 for temporarily holding the data of the sound signal, an EEPROM 6 for storing and holding melody data as an incoming sound and a main control part (MCPU) 3 for controlling the operation of the relevant portable terminal equipment. Thus, the prescribed chord data are added to the prescribed sound signal on the basis of the program stored on the ROM 1, the melody data added with these chord data are recorded onto the EEPROM 6 and the original melody data can be prepared as an incoming sound. When the registered incoming sound is selected and sounded in the case of call incoming, identification from the incoming sound of the other person is facilitated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable terminal device, and more particularly, to a portable terminal device having a ringing melody setting function. More specifically, the present invention relates to a portable terminal device that facilitates identification of which portable terminal device has received a call and registration of a melody setting as a ringtone.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a portable terminal device is generally provided with a function capable of setting a ring tone. In particular, recent portable terminal devices have a function of setting a favorite melody as a ringtone.

[0003] In the portable terminal system, there are ringtones that are currently incorporated by the manufacturer for each model, and models that can create ringtones on their own. This is to cope with the problem that the spread of portable terminals is remarkable, and when a ringtone of another person's telephone rings near the user, the terminal is mistaken as an incoming call to his / her own telephone. However, it is difficult for oneself to set a unique ringtone, and it is difficult to operate because the scale is constant.

Recently, as a solution to this problem,
Many models have an original ringtone registration function. Also, a book that describes an operation for registering an original ringtone is commercially available.

[0005] Example 1 of the prior application similar to the present invention in the technical field
There is JP-A-2000-83081. In the first prior invention example 1, the user of the mobile phone can arbitrarily set the melody and rhythm of the ring tone, and has a function of sounding an arbitrary ring tone set by the user when an incoming signal is received. . Thus, an original ring tone can be sounded in addition to the ring tone preset by the manufacturer. For this reason, it is described that differentiation from the ring tone of other mobile phones can be achieved.

Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-3076 of Invention Example 2 of the prior application.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 07-2007, "Cellular Phone and Calling Method Thereof" discloses means for generating a ringing tone by key input means, means for storing the generated ringing tone, and means for reading out the stored ringing tone and outputting it to a sounder. Are provided. According to this configuration, the ringing tone of the melody created uniquely can perform the ringing operation accurately and distinctively.

[0007] Further, there is a "portable terminal device" disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-261672 as Invention Example 3 by the same inventor as the present invention. The prior invention example 3 proposes a portable terminal device capable of recording a plurality of audio signals with an identification name from an external device, and using the identification name among the audio signals as a ring tone. ing.

[0008]

However, the above-mentioned prior art portable radio terminal has the following problems since the portable radio terminal has been widely used in recent years.

The first problem is that the original ring tone can be registered as described above, but the operation differs depending on the model, and the registration operation is not simple, complicated and difficult. There is a point. In addition, some models are capable of registering original ringtones of chords, and the operation tends to be more difficult.

[0010] It is an object of the present invention to provide a portable terminal device which can use an individual ring tone registration function and a ring tone ringing function with simpler operations.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, a portable terminal device of the present invention stores a DSP for mutually converting a predetermined sound signal between analog and digital, and a predetermined chord data and a processing program. ROM, a RAM for temporarily storing sound signal data, an EEPROM for storing and holding melody data as a ring tone, and a main control unit for controlling the operation of the portable terminal device. It is possible to add predetermined chord data to a predetermined sound signal based on a program stored in the ROM, record the melody data with the chord data added to the EEPROM, and create original melody data as a ringtone. It is characterized by doing.

The predetermined sound signal to which the chord data is added is either a reproduction signal of a signal stored in the ROM in advance or a signal externally input to the portable terminal device. A plurality of predetermined sound signals to be added are stored in the ROM in advance, and a sound signal selected by a key operation of the portable terminal device may be a reproduction signal.

Further, a plurality of types of unique melody data can be registered, and a selection as a ring tone can be executed from a plurality of types according to a destination, and a microphone and a terminal for inputting a sound signal are connected. Further, it is possible to make a sound signal input by any one of the microphone and the terminal a predetermined sound signal to which predetermined chord data is added, and that the sound signal is a sound signal including voice. Good.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of a portable terminal device according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, an embodiment of the portable terminal device of the present invention is shown.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a portable terminal device having a function of adding chord data to an inputted melody to create original melody data. The mobile terminal device according to the present embodiment includes a ROM 1 serving as a read-only storage unit, a RAM 2 serving as a volatile memory that temporarily holds data, an MCPU 3 serving as a main control unit, and a DSP having a function of digitizing and analogizing a sound signal ( Dig
ital SignalProcessor) 4, FM
FM sound source IC5 that controls the sound source and incorporates a voice recognition circuit,
It comprises an EEPROM 6 as an electrically rewritable storage unit, a power supply IC 7 as a power generation unit, an LCD 8 as a liquid crystal display, a speaker (right) 9, a speaker (left) 10, and a microphone 11.

An operation program of the portable terminal device itself is stored in the ROM 1 of the read-only memory in advance.

In a portable terminal device, a telephone directory, a ring tone, and various setting data are stored in a RAM 2 of a memory for temporarily storing rewritable data.

The MCPU 3 of the main control section is a control section for controlling a melody (or voice) reproduction operation. For example, chord data is created up and down based on the melody data input by key operation, converted into a digital signal, and stored in the RAM 2 as melody data.

The DSP 4 has an audio signal encoding function of converting an audio signal input from the microphone 11 into a digital signal and encoding the digital signal.

The FM sound source IC (with a built-in voice recognition circuit) 5
It has a function of controlling the generation operation of the FM sound source.

The EEPROM 6 is an electrically rewritable nonvolatile storage element. The data stored in the storage unit of the EEPROM 6 is digital data. The digital data is reproduced as analog melody (or audio) data, and is reproduced as stereo audio from left and right speakers 9 and 10.

The power supply IC 7 is an IC circuit having a power supply generation function for generating a drive power supply necessary for driving each unit from a single storage battery provided in the mobile phone. Power supply IC
The power generated in 7 is supplied to each unit.

The LCD 8 is a liquid crystal display. As the display content, for example, a telephone number used as a normal telephone, a telephone function content, a function menu, and the like are displayed. With the generation of chord data to be added to the input melody, the chord data can be displayed as musical note codes.

Stereo music can be reproduced by the two right and left speakers 9 (right) and 10 (left). The microphone 11 converts a speaker's voice into an electric signal.

In each of the above components, when a desired audio signal (instrument sound, music, voice, etc.) is input from outside using the microphone 11 and its identification code is input from a key input unit or the like (not shown), the input is performed. The sound signal thus obtained is stored in the EEPROM 6 together with the identification code under the control of the MCPU 3. This storage is started by displaying the menu of the function on the LCD, then by selecting this menu and instructing to start recording from the key input section, and automatically stopping after a certain period of time.

Based on the input melody, chord data is created with upper and lower limit tones specified by key operations, and the created chord melody is used as melody data. Thereafter, the chord melody is converted into a digital signal, and the main CPU 3 controls the operation of storing the converted chord melody digital signal in the RAM 2.

The chord melody data recorded in the RAM 2 is held permanently unless a rewriting operation or an erasing operation is performed. A plurality of types of the chord melody data can be recorded, and by selecting one of them by a key operation for selecting a ring tone, the sound data is returned to the sound data when there is an incoming call thereafter, and the left and right speakers 9, 10 Sound as a ringtone with stereo sound. By doing so, different ring tones can be used for each individual, and can be distinguished from other people's mobile phones.

(Operation Example) In FIG. 2 showing a flowchart of an operation example of the above operation, first, in step S
1 is used to register the melody. In the chord setting in step S2, chord data is added up and down based on the registered melody data. In step S3, the chord-set data is registered in the RAM. The melody title registration is executed for the registered data in step S4. After the above steps S1 to S4 are completed, the screen returns to the function menu screen.

According to the above embodiment, in addition to the ringtone and melody registered for each model together with the control program, chords are automatically added up and down by key operation using melody data registered by the user as a main line. The melody data added with the chord is recorded in a memory. Therefore, the unique melody and the unique chord create a voice or melody that can be clearly distinguished from other ring tones. This creation operation is configured semi-automatically and is easily executed.

(Other Embodiments) Next, modified examples will be described with reference to the drawings. In the present variation, the main CPU 3 controls an operation of creating chord data based on the input melody data and storing the created chord data in the RAM 2. That is, only the melody data is input by the operator, and the subsequent steps from the creation of the chord data to the registration of the data in the RAM 2 are automatically performed. The melody to be input is not limited to music, but may be any data as long as it is data relating to sound, such as voice, singing of birds and pets, and furthermore, a whistle, a bell and the like.

The main line melody data input to the portable terminal device and chord data automatically set above and below the melody data are automatically registered in the RAM 2. After that, you can use your own ringtone by switching with the ringtone selection function. If the same operation is performed a plurality of times, melody data to which different chord data are added are registered, and the operator can select one of them and reproduce it as a ringtone. Unnecessary data in the melody data registered in the RAM 2 can be freely deleted.

According to the above embodiment, the melody stored in advance in the portable terminal device itself is converted into melody data,
In response to this, a chord is automatically added and stored in a dedicated memory. When the melody data to which a unique chord is added is selected as a ring tone by operation, control is performed to sound as a ring tone based on data recorded at the time of an incoming call.

Further, the melody input from the outside is converted into melody data using the external terminal of the portable terminal device, a chord is added and edited, and the melody is selected and set as a ringtone. The melody data with the chord edited at the time of the incoming call is used as the ring tone.

The first effect obtained as described above is that, since melody data to which a unique chord is added is registered by operation, incoming calls can be easily identified. The reason for this is that the registered melody is not a simple selection from the existing ones, and there is basically no other identical melody created in principle.

The second effect is that the ringing activation of the melody created independently is effective even when the incoming signal or the like specified by the memory is set. For example, the registered telephone number of the incoming caller and the melody corresponding to this telephone number are mutually associated and selectively set. Thus, only by listening to the melody, it is possible not only to identify the receiving terminal, but also to easily identify the caller before responding to the incoming call.

As a third effect, unique functions are added, characteristics and performance are improved, miniaturization and weight reduction, high speed, low power consumption, high integration, circuit / device configuration simplification, transmission efficiency improvement, security are improved. It is possible to obtain a portable terminal that improves reliability, operability, productivity, maintainability, reusability of resources, and the like in addition to the improvement of operability.

The above embodiment is an example of a preferred embodiment of the present invention. However, it is not limited to this.
Various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

[0038]

As is apparent from the above description, the portable terminal device of the present invention converts a predetermined sound signal between analog and digital signals, stores predetermined chord data and a processing program, and stores a ring tone. The melody data is stored and held, and a predetermined chord data is added to a predetermined sound signal based on the stored program, and the melody data with the chord data added is recorded. Creation is possible.

Accordingly, since the melody data to which the unique chord is added is registered by each person, the incoming call can be easily identified. Further, the ringing activation of the melody created independently is effective even with the setting of the incoming signal or the like designated by the memory. Thus, only by listening to the melody, it is possible not only to identify the receiving terminal but also to easily identify the caller before responding to the incoming call.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a portable terminal device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a setting procedure by a key operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 ROM 2 RAM 3 MCPU 4 DSP 5 FM sound source IC (built-in voice recognition circuit) 6 EEPROM 7 power supply IC 8 LCD 9 Speaker (right) 10 Speaker (left) 11 Microphone

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A DSP for mutually converting a predetermined sound signal between analog and digital, and an R storing predetermined chord data and a processing program.
OM, RAM for temporarily storing sound signal data, and EEPR for storing and holding melody data as a ringtone
OM and a main control unit for controlling the operation of the portable terminal device. The predetermined chord data is added to the predetermined sound signal based on a program stored in the ROM. A portable terminal device, wherein the melody data to which data is added is recorded in the EEPROM, and unique melody data can be created as the ring tone. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined sound signal to which the chord data is added is either a reproduction signal of a signal stored in the ROM in advance or a signal externally input to the portable terminal device. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein 3. A plurality of predetermined sound signals to which the chord data is added are stored in advance in the ROM, and a sound signal selected by a key operation of the portable terminal device becomes the reproduction signal. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2. 4. A plurality of types of said unique melody data can be registered, and a selection as said ring tone can be executed from said plurality of types in correspondence with a destination. 4. The mobile terminal device according to any one of 1 to 3. 5. A microphone further comprising a microphone for inputting a sound signal and a terminal, wherein a sound signal input from any of the microphone and the terminal is the predetermined sound signal to which the predetermined chord data is added. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein
5. The mobile terminal device according to any one of items 1 to 4. 6. The portable terminal device according to claim 5, wherein the sound signal is a sound signal including a voice.