JP2005109958A - Mobile terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a portable terminal device rings in a place where a user has gone even if alarm notification is not necessary unless the user does not turn an alarm notification function off, in such a case that the user arrives at a predetermined place earlier than a set time as a meeting time at the predetermined place as schedule management, in the cellular phone having the alarm function. <P>SOLUTION: An alarm set time and the position of a meeting room are registered in advance (steps ST10, ST11). When the alarm set time comes (step ST12), a built-in GPS positioning unit and a built-in GPS control unit grasp the present position (step ST13). The present position is compared with the registered position (step ST14), and if they match in almost all respects, it is determined that the user has already in the meeting room and the unnecessary notification alarm sound is not output (step ST15), and if they does not match, it is determined that the user must have potentially forgotten the meeting and the alarm notification sound is output (step ST16). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal device having an alarm notification function for performing alarm notification at a specified time.

In mobile terminal devices such as mobile phones and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), devices that have an alarm notification function that performs alarm notification at a user-set time are generally known. May be used for schedule management.
However, in this type of alarm notification function, it may happen that the alarm is not notified when the alarm should be originally notified.
For example, if the manner mode that does not sound the notification sound at the time set by the user is set to remain silent, alarm notification is necessary, but the vibrator is activated and no alarm notification is issued. May happen.
On the other hand, after setting the alarm notification function, before the notification time set by the user, the user confirms whether or not to generate an alarm sound, and in the confirmation result that the alarm sound is generated, the manner mode However, a portable terminal device that generates an alarm sound has been proposed (Patent Document 1 below).
JP 2002-350578 A

By the way, in the portable terminal device of the above-mentioned patent document 1, before the alarm notification is set, the user can select whether or not the alarm notification is necessary according to the schedule. For example, when the user arrives at a place earlier than the time set as the set time at the predetermined place in the schedule management, the alarm notification is unnecessary. In spite of becoming a problem, there is a problem that the user rings if he / she does not cancel the alarm notification function.
In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal device that can reliably notify an alarm only when necessary for schedule management.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a portable terminal device having a notification function for performing alarm notification at an arbitrary time, a notification means for sounding a notification sound, and a timing means for timing the time. Position information acquisition means for acquiring position information, storage means for storing any pre-registered arbitrary position information and time, and time and time stored by the time measuring means in a state where the notification function is set When the time stored in the means matches, the position information is acquired by the position information acquisition means, the position information is compared with the position information stored in the storage means, and both the position information When the position information is within the range, control is performed so that the notification means is not operated and the notification means is not ringed. When the position information is not within the predetermined allowable range, the notification means is not operated. And a control means for controlling so as to sound the alarm sound by operating the unit.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the mobile terminal device according to the first aspect of the present invention, the portable terminal device has a mute mode in which the notification unit is deactivated, and the control unit is configured to perform the both operations when the mute mode is set. When the position information is not within the predetermined allowable range, the mute mode is canceled, and the notification means is operated to sound the notification sound.

  Preferably, the control means resets the mute mode and deactivates the notification means when the notification sound from the notification means ends.

  Since the mobile terminal device according to the present invention determines the necessity of alarm notification based on the current position of the user, there is an advantage of improving user convenience as schedule management.

First Embodiment Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of the appearance of a mobile terminal device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. (A) is the figure which looked at the portable terminal device 100 from the front, (b) is the figure which looked at the portable terminal device 100 from the back.
As shown in FIG. 1, the main body case 1 of the mobile terminal device 100 has a rounded rectangular shape, and a cylindrical antenna 7 is provided at the upper end portion of the main body case 1 so that it can be pulled out. .
Also, an image display panel 2 a having a rectangular display portion is provided at a position near the antenna 7 in the front portion of the main body case 1. In the remaining portion of the front portion, 15 push button switches constituting the key operation unit 3 are arranged adjacent to the image display panel 2a in a 3 × 5 matrix.

Further, as shown in FIG. 1 (a), a speaker opening 6a for outputting sound from the speaker is opened at the edge on the antenna 7 side of the front portion, and a microphone is provided at the opposite edge. A microphone opening 5a for collecting sound is opened.
Further, in FIG. 1B, the GPS positioning unit 4 built inside the main body case 1 is shown by a dotted line.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a system configuration of the mobile terminal device 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention. A mobile terminal device 100 illustrated in FIG. 2 includes a display unit 2, a key operation unit 3, a GPS positioning unit 4, a microphone 5, a speaker 6, an antenna 7, a GPS control unit 8, and an audio processing unit 9. And a communication processing unit 10 and a control unit 11.

In addition, the alerting | reporting means in this invention is corresponded to the audio | voice processing part 9 and the speaker 6 in this embodiment.
The time measuring means in the present invention corresponds to the time measuring unit 12 in the present embodiment.
The position information acquisition means in the present invention corresponds to the GPS positioning unit 4 and the GPS control unit 8 in the present embodiment.
The storage means in the present invention corresponds to the memory 13 in the present embodiment.
The control means in the present invention corresponds to the control unit 11 in the present embodiment.

The display unit 2 includes, for example, a liquid crystal display panel (LCD panel), an organic EL panel, and the like, and displays a predetermined image under the control of the control unit 11. In addition, the display unit 2 may include a light emitting element such as a light emitting diode that blinks under the control of the control unit 11.
The key operation unit 3 has an input operation mechanism such as a push button switch, and inputs a signal according to a user input operation to the control unit 11.

  The GPS positioning unit 4 receives radio waves flying from at least three GPS satellites under the control of the GPS control unit 8 and outputs received signals to the GPS control unit 8. The radio wave from each GPS satellite includes accurate position information of the satellite and time information when the radio wave is emitted.

The microphone 5 converts the input sound into an electrical sound signal and outputs it to the sound processing unit 9.
The speaker 6 converts the electrical audio signal output from the audio processing unit 9 into sound and emits the sound.
The antenna 7 receives a radio signal and inputs it to the communication processing unit 10 and radiates a radio signal output from the communication processing unit 10 to space.

The GPS control unit 8 instructs the GPS positioning unit 4 to start receiving radio waves from the GPS satellites according to the control of the control unit 11, and receives the reception signals received by the GPS positioning unit 4 from the respective GPS satellites. Calculate latitude and longitude. When the calculation of latitude and longitude (positioning) is completed, an interrupt signal indicating the completion of positioning is output to the control unit 11, and position information (latitude and longitude) as a positioning result is output to the control unit 11.
The audio processing unit 9 converts the audio signal from the microphone 5 into a digital signal, performs a predetermined encoding process, and outputs audio data as a processing result to the control unit 11. In addition, the audio data output from the control unit 11 is subjected to a predetermined decoding process to be converted into an analog audio signal, which is output to the speaker 6.
In addition, the alarm data is generated by subjecting the sound data stored in the memory 13 (which will be described later) to a predetermined decoding process, converting the sound data into an analog sound signal, and outputting the analog sound signal to the speaker 6.

The communication processing unit 10 performs predetermined modulation processing on the transmission data output from the control unit 11 to convert it into a radio signal, and outputs it to the antenna 7. Further, the radio signal received by the antenna 7 is subjected to a predetermined demodulation process to reproduce the received data and output it to the control unit 11.
The control unit 11 performs various processes related to the overall operation of the mobile terminal device 100.
For example, as processing related to voice communication, processing for making and receiving calls in response to a key input operation in the key operation unit 3, and voice data input and output in the voice processing unit 9 are transmitted and received in the communication processing unit 10. Process.
In addition, the mobile terminal device 100 has a manner mode (silence mode) set by the user through the key operation unit 3, and the control unit 11 also determines whether or not the current setting is the manner mode. .

The timer 12 counts the time based on the initial time set by the user, and calculates the current time.
The memory 13 is electrically erasable, such as an EEPROM, and includes a non-volatile memory that retains stored contents even when the power of the mobile terminal device 100 is turned off. An address book (phone book data) in which sound data, names and telephone numbers are registered is stored. Further, in the present embodiment, as will be described later, position information and alarm setting time registered by the user via the key operation unit 3 are stored.

The configuration of the mobile terminal device 100 has been described above. Next, the operation of the mobile terminal device 100 in this embodiment will be described.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the mobile terminal device 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention. The user uses the alarm notification function of the mobile terminal device 100 to attend a scheduled meeting, and schedules The operation when managing is shown.
First, the flowchart shown in FIG. 3 will be described.

Step ST10:
The user registers the location of the place where the schedule is to be set through the key operation unit 3. For example, if the user has a meeting scheduled at a fixed time in a meeting room, reception room, work place, or the like at work, the following location registration operation is performed in order to notify an alarm when that time is reached.

For example, when a predetermined operation is performed through the key operation unit 3 in a conference room where a schedule is to be set, the GPS control unit 8 instructs the GPS positioning unit 4 to start receiving radio waves from the GPS satellites through the control unit 11. When the GPS positioning unit 4 receives a radio wave from a GPS satellite according to the control of the GPS control unit 8, the control unit 8 receives the received signal and calculates (positions) the latitude and longitude.
When the positioning is completed, the GPS control unit 8 outputs an interrupt signal indicating the completion of positioning to the control unit 11 and outputs position information as a positioning result to the control unit 11. Thereby, the location registration of the conference room is performed, and the location registration data is stored in the memory 13.
As described above, the GPS positioning unit 4 and the GPS control unit 8 may be used to configure the control unit 11 so that the location registration data is stored in the memory 13, or the user may directly connect to the conference room. The latitude and longitude may be input through the key operation unit 3, and the input latitude and longitude may be stored in the memory 13.

Step ST11:
Next, a time when the user desires to generate an alarm notification sound is set through the key operation unit 3. For example, a meeting start time (for example, AM 10:00) set by the user is set.
When the alarm notification time is set, it is stored in the memory 13 as the alarm setting time.

Step ST12:
In this step, it is assumed that the current time has reached the alarm set time (for example, AM 10:00) set in step ST11. In other words, the control unit 11 constantly compares the current time sequentially calculated by the time measuring unit 12 with the alarm set time stored in the memory 13, and as a result, the two match.

Step ST13:
Next, the current position is measured using the GPS function.
That is, the GPS control unit 8 instructs the GPS positioning unit 4 to start receiving radio waves from GPS satellites through the control unit 11. When the GPS positioning unit 4 receives a radio wave from a GPS satellite according to the control of the GPS control unit 8, the control unit 8 receives the received signal and calculates (positions) the latitude and longitude.
When the positioning is completed, the GPS control unit 8 outputs an interrupt signal indicating the completion of positioning to the control unit 11 and outputs position information as a positioning result to the control unit 11.

  In addition, according to the flowchart of FIG. 3, it is described that positioning of the current position is performed after reaching the alarm setting time, but in actuality, the AM10 is considered in consideration of the processing time of positioning of the current position. For example, the positioning process may be started at AM 9:59 one minute before the alarm notification at 0:00. Of course, as long as the positioning processing time can be negligibly short (for example, about several seconds), the positioning processing may be performed in the order shown in the flowchart of FIG.

Step ST14:
In step ST13, since the positioning result (latitude and longitude) by the GPS function is obtained, the control unit 11 compares the positioning result with the position registration data stored in the memory 13 in step ST10 (during registration). Determine whether they match.
Here, when a positioning error (for example, 5 to 10 m) is taken into consideration, even if the positioning result and the position registration data do not completely coincide with each other, within a predetermined allowable range (for example, 10 to 15 m) based on the positioning error. ), The control unit 11 determines that they match.

Step ST15 and step ST16:
As a result of the comparison in step ST14, when the positioning result matches the position registration data, the control unit 11 controls the voice processing unit 9 and does not output the alarm notification sound from the speaker 6 (step ST15).
As a result of the comparison in step ST14, if the positioning result does not match the position registration data, the control unit 11 takes out predetermined sound data from the memory 13, controls the sound processing unit 9, and outputs an alarm notification sound from the speaker 6 (Step ST16).

  As described above, according to the mobile terminal device 100 of the present embodiment, the display unit 2, the key operation unit 3, the GPS positioning unit 4, the GPS control unit 8, the speaker 6, the voice processing unit 9, the control unit 11, the timekeeping. When the user inputs the alarm setting time and the position registration information through the display unit 2 and the key operation unit 32, the control unit 11 stores the alarm setting time and the position registration information in the memory 13. When the stored alarm setting time is reached, the GPS control unit 8 causes the GPS control unit 8 to calculate (measure) the latitude and longitude based on the radio wave received from the GPS satellite, and compares the calculation result with the position registration information. As a result, when the two match, the audio processing unit 9 is instructed not to output the alarm notification sound from the speaker 6, and when the two do not match, the alarm notification sound is output. Since an instruction to, the following effects can be obtained.

  That is, if a user registers a conference room and conference start time in advance as schedule management, it is considered that the user has forgotten the scheduled conference if he / she is at a location other than the conference room at the conference start time. The alarm notification is performed reliably, and when the user has already arrived at the conference room of the scheduled meeting, the alarm notification is not necessary anymore, so the alarm sound does not sound. Therefore, since it is automatically determined whether or not alarm notification is performed, the user does not need to set and cancel the alarm notification according to the situation, and the convenience of the mobile terminal device 100 is improved.

Second Embodiment Hereinafter, a second embodiment will be described.
The mobile terminal device in the second embodiment has the same configuration as the mobile terminal device 100 described in the first embodiment, but the operation is different.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation in the present embodiment. Compared with the flowchart of FIG. 3 described in the first embodiment, steps ST27 to ST31 are added in the flowchart of FIG. 4. In this embodiment, the alarm set time is set before the alarm set time. Prior to the alarm notification.
In the present embodiment, the alarm notification timing in advance is two minutes before the alarm setting time, but it is needless to say that the alarm notification time is not limited to two minutes and can be set arbitrarily.
Hereinafter, the operation in this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

Step ST22:
As in the first embodiment, the location registration and the alarm set time are registered in steps ST20 and ST21, and two minutes before the registered alarm set time is reached. That is, the control unit 11 constantly compares the current time sequentially calculated by the time measuring unit 12 with the time two minutes before the alarm set time stored in the memory 13, and as a result, the two match.
Step ST23:
Next, the current position is measured using the GPS function.
That is, the GPS control unit 8 instructs the GPS positioning unit 4 to start receiving radio waves from GPS satellites through the control unit 11. When the GPS positioning unit 4 receives a radio wave from a GPS satellite according to the control of the GPS control unit 8, the control unit 8 receives the received signal and calculates (positions) the latitude and longitude.
When the positioning is completed, the GPS control unit 8 outputs an interrupt signal indicating completion of positioning to the control unit 11 and outputs position information as a positioning result to the control unit 11.

In addition, according to the flowchart of FIG. 3, it is described that the current position is measured after two minutes before the alarm setting time. However, in actuality, the processing time of the current position is considered. Then, the positioning process is started, for example, at 9:57 one minute before the alarm notification at 9:58. Of course, as long as the positioning process can be performed in such a short time (eg, several seconds) that it can be ignored, the positioning process may be performed in the order shown in the flowchart of FIG.
Step ST24:
Since the positioning result (latitude and longitude) by the GPS function is obtained in step ST23, the control unit 11 compares the positioning result with the position registration data stored in the memory 13 in step ST10 (during registration). Determine whether they match.
Here, when a positioning error (for example, 5 to 10 m) is taken into consideration, even if the positioning result and the position registration data do not completely coincide with each other, within a predetermined allowable range (for example, 10 to 15 m) based on the positioning error. ), The control unit 11 determines that they match.

  However, since this step is a comparative determination for prior alarm notification before the conference start time, the allowable range in this step is compared with the allowable error in the position comparison (step ST28) performed at the original alarm setting time. May be set with a wider range. That is, it is conceivable that the user is approaching the conference room whose location is registered for the AM 10:00 conference (for example, 50 m to the conference room), and it is not necessary to perform alarm notification even in that case.

Step ST25 and step ST26:
As a result of the comparison in step ST24, if the positioning result and the position registration data match, the control unit 11 controls the voice processing unit 9 so that no alarm notification sound is output from the speaker 6 (step ST25).
As a result of the comparison in step ST14, if the positioning result does not match the position registration data, the control unit 11 takes out predetermined sound data from the memory 13, controls the sound processing unit 9, and outputs an alarm notification sound from the speaker 6 (Step ST26).

  After step ST27, similarly to steps ST13 to ST16 in FIG. 3, the alarm result may be notified by comparing the positioning result and the position registration information again at the alarm setting time.

As described above, the mobile terminal device according to the present embodiment is compared with the mobile terminal device 100 according to the first embodiment at any time before the alarm setting time, for example, 2 minutes before the control unit 11 If the GPS control unit 8 causes the GPS positioning unit 4 to calculate (position) the latitude and longitude based on the radio wave received from the GPS satellite and compares the calculated result with the position registration information, the voice processing is performed. Since the operation of instructing the unit 9 not to output the alarm notification sound from the speaker 6 and the instruction to output the alarm notification sound when both do not match is added, the following effects can be obtained.
That is, even if an alarm is notified at the scheduled time, for example, there is a high possibility that it will not be in time for the start time of the conference. However, according to the mobile terminal device of this embodiment, an early warning is given for the delay of the schedule. Since it becomes possible to give to a user, a user will surely be in time for the start time of a meeting, and a user's convenience will further improve.

Third Embodiment Hereinafter, a third embodiment will be described.
The mobile terminal device in the third embodiment has the same configuration as the mobile terminal device 100 described in the first embodiment, but the operation of the control unit 11 is different.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the mobile terminal device 100 in the present embodiment. Compared with the flowchart of FIG. 3 described in the first embodiment, steps ST14a and 14b are added between step ST14 and step ST16 in the flowchart of FIG.
Hereinafter, the operation of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

Step ST14a:
The current time coincides with the alarm set time (step ST12), the current position is measured by the GPS positioning unit 4 and the GPS control unit 8 (step ST13), and the registered position is registered with the position of the conference room or the like stored in the memory 13 As a result of comparing the information (step ST14), if the current position does not match the registered position, it is checked whether or not the portable terminal device 100 is in the manner mode.
Since the control unit 11 is configured to input the operation state of a predetermined button of the user from the key operation unit 3 and set, for example, a manner mode flag (1: manner mode, 0: not manner mode), it is easy. It is possible to check whether the manner mode is in effect.

Step ST14b:
If it is determined in step ST14a that the manner mode is set, the control unit 11 cancels the manner mode, takes out predetermined sound data from the memory 13, controls the sound processing unit 9, and controls the speaker 6 Outputs an alarm sound.
Thereby, even when the manner mode is set, an alarm notification sound is output if the position condition is met.

  When determining in step ST14a that the manner mode is not set, the control unit 11 controls the sound processing unit 9 to output an alarm notification sound from the speaker 6.

  As described above, according to the mobile terminal device 100 in the present embodiment, the GPS positioning unit 4 and the GPS control unit 8 are compared when the alarm set time is reached as compared with the mobile terminal device 100 in the first embodiment. If the current position is determined by the position and the positioning result does not match the position registration information stored in advance in the memory 13, the control unit 11 checks whether the manner mode is set and the manner mode is set. If the control unit 11 is configured to cancel the manner mode and perform alarm notification, the following effects can be obtained.

  That is, even if the user is in the mute mode that does not sound the notification sound, that is, the manner mode, when the user is in a place where the alarm notification is desired, the alarm notification can be reliably performed, It is possible to prevent the alarm from sounding due to forgetting to cancel the manner mode.

Fourth Embodiment Hereinafter, a fourth embodiment will be described.
The mobile terminal device in the fourth embodiment has the same configuration as the mobile terminal device 100 described in the third embodiment, but an operation of one step is added after step ST16 in FIG. Is different.
That is, in the present embodiment, the control unit 11 checks whether or not the manner mode is set (step ST14a). If the manner mode is set, the manner mode is canceled (step ST14b). Although an alarm notification sound is output (step ST16), when the alarm notification sound is finished, the original manner mode is set again (step not shown in FIG. 5).

  Thereby, even when the user is set to the manner mode, when the user is in a place (a place away from the conference room) where the user wants to make an alarm notification, the alarm notification can be surely performed, When the alarm notification ends, the manner mode is restored, so that an inadvertent notification sound can be prevented after the alarm notification for schedule management.

It is the figure which illustrated an example of the external appearance of the portable terminal device which concerns on embodiment of this invention, (a) is the figure which looked at the portable terminal device from the front, (b) is the figure which looked at the portable terminal device from the back. . It is the block diagram which illustrated an example of the system configuration | structure of the portable terminal device which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a part of flowchart which shows an example of operation | movement of the portable terminal device which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a part of flowchart which shows an example of operation | movement of the portable terminal device which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a part of flowchart which shows an example of operation | movement of the portable terminal device which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Portable terminal device 1 ... Main body case 2 ... Display part 3 ... Key operation part 4 ... GPS positioning part 5 ... Microphone 6 ... Speaker 7 ... Antenna 8 ... GPS control part 9 ... Voice processing part 10 ... Communication processing part 11 ... Control Part 12 ... Timekeeping part 13 ... Memory

Claims (3)

A portable terminal device having a notification function for performing alarm notification at an arbitrary time,
A notification means for generating a notification sound;
A time measuring means for measuring time;
Position information acquisition means for acquiring position information;
Storage means for storing arbitrary position information and time respectively;
In the state where the notification function is set, when the time measured by the time measuring means coincides with the time stored in the storage means, the position information acquisition means acquires position information, and the position information and the storage The position information stored in the means is compared, and when both the position information are within a predetermined allowable range, control is performed so that the notification means is not operated and the notification means is not ringed. And a control unit configured to control the alarm unit to operate to generate a notification sound when not within the predetermined allowable range. The portable terminal device further has a mute mode for disabling the notification means,
The control means includes
When the mute mode is set and the position information is not within the predetermined allowable range, the mute mode is canceled and the notification means is operated to sound a notification sound. The portable terminal device according to claim 1. The control means includes
3. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2, wherein when the notification sound by the notification unit ends, the mute mode is reset to disable the notification unit. 4.

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