JP2005094684A - Portable telephone and arrive-sound emitting method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remarkably improve usability by surely making a user recognize an arrival. <P>SOLUTION: A CPU 10 for a portable telephone 1 is constituted so that the telephone 1 automatically recognizes the kind of an arrival sound emitted from a peripheral portable telephone 2 at specified time intervals and the arrival sound of a kind different from the kind of the recognized arrival sound is emitted. Accordingly, the user can recognize the arrival sound emitted from its own portable telephone 1 surely without being perplexed by the arrival sound emitted from the peripheral portable telephone 2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile phone and a ringtone sound emission method, and is suitable for application to, for example, a mobile phone configured to emit a ringtone when an incoming call is received.

Conventionally, various types of ring tones are registered in advance in a mobile phone, and a user can freely change the ring tones according to his / her preference (for example, Patent Document 1).
JP 2000-124969 A

  However, such a cellular phone emits a standard ring tone (hereinafter referred to as a standard ring tone) that is initially set in the manufacturing stage if the ring tone is not changed by the user at all. ing.

  Incidentally, such standard ring tones are often similar even if the mobile phone models are different.

  Thus, if a user continues to use a mobile phone that can emit a standard ringtone without changing the ringtone at all, the user will encounter another person using a mobile phone that can emit a similar standard ringtone. There can be many cases.

  When a standard ring tone is emitted from the other person's mobile phone in a state where such another person is in the vicinity, the user can check whether the standard ring tone is emitted from his / her own mobile phone or another person's mobile phone. Since it is difficult to instantly determine whether the call originates from the telephone, there is a high possibility that the call will be mistaken for an incoming call to the mobile phone, and thus cannot be said to be easy to use.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and intends to propose a mobile phone and a ringtone sound emitting method that can dramatically improve the usability by surely recognizing that a user has received an incoming call. It is.

  In order to solve such a problem, in the present invention, in a mobile phone, a recognizing means for recognizing a ringtone emitted by a peripheral mobile phone, and a release sound that emits a ringtone of a type different from the ringtone recognized by the recognizing means when receiving a call. Sound means were provided.

  Further, according to the present invention, in the ringing tone sound emitting method for a mobile phone, a recognition step for recognizing a ring tone emitted by a surrounding mobile phone, and a ring tone that emits a different type of ring tone from the ring tone recognized by the recognition step when receiving a call. A sound step was provided.

  As a result, according to this mobile phone, it is possible to emit a ringtone of a type different from the ringtones of the surrounding mobile phones, so that the user can be surely recognized that the incoming call has arrived.

  According to the present invention, the mobile phone is provided with a recognizing means for recognizing a ring tone emitted from a surrounding mobile phone, and a sound emitting means for emitting a ring tone of a different type from the ring tone recognized by the recognizing means when receiving a call. By doing so, it is possible to emit a ringtone of a type different from the ringtones of the surrounding mobile phones, so that the user can be surely recognized that the call has arrived.

  According to the present invention, in the ringing sound emitting method for a mobile phone, a recognition step for recognizing a ringtone emitted by a peripheral mobile phone, and a ringtone of a type different from the ringtone recognized by the recognition step is emitted when an incoming call is received. Since the sound emission step is provided, it is possible to emit a ringtone of a type different from the ringtones of the surrounding mobile phones, so that the user can be surely recognized that the call has arrived.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a mobile phone, and a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 10 that controls the mobile phone 1 as a whole is controlled via a control path 11 such as a wireless communication circuit 12, a memory 13, and a numeric keypad. An operation unit 14 including keys, a display unit 15 for displaying a telephone number input via the operation unit 14, a short-range wireless communication control unit 16, and a short-range wireless communication circuit 17 are connected. In addition, the wireless communication circuit 12, the memory 13, the microphone 18, the speaker 19 that emits the voice of the other party, the display unit 15, the short-range wireless communication circuit 17, the ringing sound emitting speaker 20 that emits the ringing tone when receiving an incoming call, etc. Are connected to each other via a data path 21.

  In this mobile phone 1, when a communication signal transmitted from a base station (not shown) is received via the antenna 23 during a call with the other party, the radio communication circuit 12 demodulates the received communication signal. An audio signal is sent to the speaker 19 via the data path 21, and thereby the sound based on the audio signal is emitted from the speaker 19, while the user's audio signal input via the microphone 18 is sent to the data path 21. To the wireless communication circuit 12, modulated by the wireless communication circuit 12, and the obtained communication signal is transmitted through the antenna 23.

  The short-range wireless communication module unit 25 including the short-range wireless communication control unit 16, the short-range wireless communication circuit 17, the short-range wireless communication antenna 24, and the like is based on, for example, Bluetooth (Bluetooth®) based on the control of the CPU 10. In accordance with a compliant system, short-range wireless communication is performed with the surrounding mobile phone 2 (FIG. 2).

  To the memory 13, ringtone data for emitting an electronic ringtone (for example, “pippi…”) and a bell-tone (for example, “ringling ...”) are emitted. Ringtone data, ringtone data for releasing buzzer ringtones (eg “Booboo…”), ringtones for releasing siren ringtones (eg “won won…”) A plurality of types of ring tone data such as data are stored in advance.

  In the case of the present embodiment, the cellular phone 1 is configured to allow the user to perform a predetermined ringtone setting operation in advance so as to set a ringtone to be emitted when an incoming call is received. That is, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 displays a ring tone setting screen 30 as shown in FIG. 3 when the ring tone setting operation is started by the user.

  The ring tone setting screen 30 includes a first designation column 31 for designating a ring tone to be emitted with the highest priority, and a second designation column 32 for designating a ring tone to be emitted with the second highest priority. There is provided a third designation field 33 for designating a ring tone to be emitted with the third highest priority. In this case, an electronic ringtone “Pipipipi ...” is input to the first designation column 31, and a bell ringtone “Lingling ...” is input to the second designation column 32. In the third designation field 33, a buzzer ring tone “boo boo ...” is input.

  As a result, according to the contents inputted in the first designation field 31, the second designation field 32, and the third designation field 33, the mobile phone 1 confirms that the ringtone to be emitted with the highest priority is “pipip…”. At the same time, it recognizes that the ringing tone to be emitted with the second highest priority is “Lingling ...”, and recognizes that the ringing tone to be issued with the third highest priority is “boo boo ...”.

  The memory 13 also stores a ring tone switching program for executing ring tone switching processing described later.

  Here, in the mobile phone system 100 as shown in FIG. 2, an incoming call procedure when the mobile phone 1 receives an incoming call will be described. For example, when a call partner who desires to make a call with a user of the mobile phone 1 performs a call operation for inputting the phone number of the mobile phone 1 via a general fixed phone 3, a call with the phone number written therein is made. Information is sent to the first mobile communication control station 5 via the public telephone network 4.

  Next, the first mobile communication control station 5 inquires of the home memory station 6 about the service area in which the mobile phone 1 exists based on the transmission information. Incidentally, the home memory station 6 is adapted to recognize a service area where the mobile phone 1 and other mobile phones are present at any time.

  Eventually, when the first mobile communication control station 5 recognizes that the mobile phone 1 exists in the service area SA1 as a result of making an inquiry to the home memory station 6, the second mobile communication control station that manages the service area SA1. 7 is instructed to call the mobile phone 1.

  Receiving this command, the second mobile communication control station 7 informs the service area SA1 of incoming information to the mobile phone 1 via the base station 8. When the mobile phone 1 existing in the service area SA1 recognizes the incoming call information, the mobile phone 1 notifies the user of the incoming call by emitting a ringtone from the ringtone emission speaker 20 (FIG. 1). Has been made.

  By the way, the mobile phone 1 of the present embodiment is configured to execute a ring tone switching process at a predetermined time interval set in advance. Here, the ring tone switching process will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  That is, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 proceeds from start step SP0 to step SP1, activates the short-range wireless communication module unit 25, and proceeds to step SP2.

  In step SP2, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 controls the activated short-range wireless communication module unit 25 to execute predetermined processing, whereby another mobile phone capable of performing short-range wireless communication conforming to Bluetooth (R) is provided. It is determined whether or not it exists in the vicinity (for example, within a range of 10 [m]).

  If a negative result is obtained in step SP2, this means that there is no mobile phone capable of short-range wireless communication around the mobile phone 1, and at this time, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 performs the end step. The process proceeds to SP6 and the ring tone switching process is terminated.

  On the other hand, if an affirmative result is obtained in step SP2, this means that there is another mobile phone (in this case, the mobile phone 2 shown in FIG. 2) capable of short-range wireless communication around the mobile phone 1. At this time, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 proceeds to the following step SP3.

  In step SP3, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 starts short-range wireless communication with the peripheral mobile phone (hereinafter referred to as a peripheral mobile phone) 2 and acquires ring tone information from the peripheral mobile phone 2. To do. Here, in this ringing tone information, the type name “electronic sound system” of the ringing tone “beep-beep ...” emitted from the peripheral mobile phone 2 when there is an incoming call to the peripheral mobile phone 2 is shown.

  Subsequently, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 proceeds to step SP4, where the ring tone “Phi Phi Phi ...” (that is, the one input to the first designation field 31 in FIG. 3) that is currently recognized as the one that should be emitted with the highest priority. It is determined whether or not the type “electronic sound system” is the same as the type name “electronic sound system” of the ring tone indicated in the acquired ring tone information. Here, since a positive result is obtained, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 at this time determines that the ringtone emitted from the mobile phone 1 is similar to the ringtone emitted from the peripheral mobile phone 2, and proceeds to step SP5. .

  In step SP5, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 emits the ring tone “Rin Rin ...” (ie, the one input in the second designation field 32 of FIG. 3) having the second highest priority, with the highest priority. Re-recognize as a proper ringtone and return to step SP4.

  Then, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 is again indicated in step SP4 by the type “bell sound system” of the ringtone “RinRin…” currently recognized as the most preferentially emitted and the acquired ringtone information. It is determined whether or not the type name “electronic sound system” of the incoming ring tone is the same. Here, since a negative result is obtained, at this time, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 proceeds to the end step SP6 and ends the ringing tone switching process.

  In this way, when the mobile phone 1 is set so as to emit the same type of ring tone as the peripheral mobile phone 2 (in this case, “electronic sound system”), the other type (in this case, “bell sound system”). )) Is automatically switched to the ringtone.

  As a result, the mobile phone 1 can emit a ring tone of a type different from the ring tone emitted from the peripheral mobile phone 2 when an incoming call is received.

  In the above configuration, the CPU 10 of the mobile phone 1 automatically recognizes the type of the ring tone emitted from the peripheral mobile phone 2 at predetermined time intervals, and when there is an incoming call, Make different types of ringtones. Thus, the user can reliably recognize the ring tone emitted from his / her mobile phone 1 without being confused by the ring tone emitted from the peripheral mobile phone 2.

  According to the above configuration, since the mobile phone 1 can emit a ringtone of a different type from the ringtone that the peripheral mobile phone 2 emits, the user of the mobile phone 1 can receive the ringtone that is emitted from the peripheral mobile phone 2. It is possible to reliably recognize a ring tone emitted from the mobile phone 1 without being confused by the user.

  Thus, the cellular telephone device 1 can surely recognize that the user has received an incoming call, and as a result, the usability can be significantly improved as compared with the prior art.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the ring tone switching process shown in FIG. 4 is automatically executed at a predetermined time interval has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. When a predetermined start operation is performed via the operation unit 14, the ring tone switching process may be executed. Further, in step SP5 of the flowchart shown in FIG. 4, before switching to another ring tone, for example, a selection screen 40 as shown in FIG. 5 is displayed, and whether or not to switch the ring tone to the user. May be selected and determined.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the short-range wireless communication module unit 25, the CPU 10, and the like are applied as recognition means for recognizing a ring tone emitted from a peripheral mobile phone (mobile phone 2) has been described. Not limited to this, various other configurations can be applied.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the ringtone sound emission speaker 20 or the like is applied as a sound emission means for emitting a ringtone of a different type from the ringtone recognized by the recognition means at the time of an incoming call has been described. Not limited to this, various other configurations can be applied.

  The present invention can be applied to a mobile phone or the like that emits a ring tone when an incoming call is received.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the mobile telephone in this Embodiment. It is a basic diagram which shows the structure of a mobile telephone system. It is a basic diagram which shows a ringtone setting screen. It is a basic diagram which shows the procedure of a ringtone switching process. It is a basic diagram which shows a selection screen.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Cellular phone, 10 ... CPU, 20 ... Ringtone sound emission speaker, 25 ... Short-range wireless communication module part.

Claims (3)

Recognizing means for recognizing ringtones emitted from nearby mobile phones;
A mobile phone comprising: a sound emitting means that emits a different kind of ring tone from the ring tone recognized by the recognition means when an incoming call is received. The recognition means is
The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the ringing tone emitted by the peripheral mobile phones is automatically recognized at predetermined time intervals. A recognition step for recognizing ringtones emitted by nearby mobile phones;
A ringtone sound emission method for a mobile phone, comprising: a sound emission step of emitting a ringtone of a different type from the ringtone recognized by the recognition step when an incoming call is received.

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