JP2005223782A - Mobile portable terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a mobile portable terminal to accurately notify contents of a schedule related to its location, in that location. <P>SOLUTION: A mobile portable terminal capable of specifying its current location using a GPS receiving section 10 comprises: a location register means for registering a location related to a schedule; a schedule content register means for registering contents of the schedule; and a schedule notification means for notifying the contents of the schedule when the current location specified by the GPS receiving section 10 enters an application area which is set based on the registered locations. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile portable terminal such as a mobile phone whose current position can be specified by a GPS receiver, and more particularly, to a mobile portable terminal that is notified of a schedule related to the position when the position is registered in advance.

  In recent years, mobile portable terminals equipped with a GPS receiver have become widespread. The GPS receiving unit is configured to receive positioning signals from three or more GPS satellites and identify the current position based on these positioning signals, and the specified position information includes a function for displaying the current position, It is used in the function of notifying the current position to other terminals.

There has also been proposed a mobile portable terminal that compares a current position specified by a GPS receiver with a pre-registered position or area and performs a predetermined operation when they match (for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).
For example, the mobile portable terminal disclosed in Patent Document 1 is configured to notify arrival at the destination when the current location matches the destination when the destination is registered in advance. According to such a mobile portable terminal, even if a person takes a nap on a train or a bus, arrival at the destination is notified, so it is possible to prevent overpass.

The mobile portable terminal disclosed in Patent Document 2 is configured to warn of switching to the manner mode or automatically switch to the manner mode when entering a pre-registered area. According to such a mobile portable terminal, since switching to the manner mode is surely performed in places where manners are important, such as a library, a museum, a concert venue, etc., it is possible to prevent manner violations due to ringtones.
JP 2001-241964 A JP 2002-95060 A

By the way, when there is a schedule “When you go to place A, you will take action B.”, if you use the notification function of the mobile portable terminal shown in Patent Documents 1 and 2, the presence of the schedule is notified at “place A”. Is possible. That is, if the location information of “place A” is registered in advance in the mobile mobile terminal, the mobile mobile terminal performs a notification operation when going to “place A”.
However, if you forget the contents of the schedule “Behavior B”, even if the mobile portable terminal performs a notification operation at “Location A”, “Behavior B” cannot be recalled and the schedule is not executed. there is a possibility.

  Although it is possible to notify the contents of the schedule using the schedule management function of the mobile portable terminal, the conventional schedule management function manages the contents of the schedule in association with the date and time, and the contents of the schedule at that date and time. Therefore, it is difficult to accurately notify a schedule with an ambiguous date and time as described above.

  The present invention has been considered in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile portable terminal that can accurately notify the contents of a schedule related to a position at the position.

  In order to achieve the above object, a mobile portable terminal according to the present invention is a mobile portable terminal capable of specifying a current position by a GPS receiver, and registers position registration means for registering a position related to a schedule, and contents of the schedule. A configuration comprising schedule content registration means and schedule notification means for notifying the contents of the schedule when the current position specified by the GPS receiving unit enters an application area set based on the registered position It is as.

  If comprised in this way, the content of the schedule related to a position can be accurately notified by the position. For example, when there is a schedule of “If you go to place A, do action B.” If you register “place A” as the position related to the schedule and register “action B” as the contents of the schedule, When going to “place A”, “action B” is notified. As a result, it is possible to reliably execute the schedule of “If you go to place A, take action B”.

The mobile portable terminal of the present invention is configured such that when the schedule notification means notifies the contents of the schedule, the presence of the schedule is notified by sound or vibration and the contents of the schedule are displayed on the screen. .
If configured in this manner, the presence of the schedule relating to the position is reliably notified, so that it is possible to prevent forgetting to see the contents of the schedule and to prompt execution of the schedule.

Moreover, the mobile portable terminal of this invention is set as the structure provided with the 1st position registration mode in which the said position registration means registers the present position specified by the said GPS receiving part as a position which concerns on the said schedule.
If comprised in this way, when registering a present position as a position which concerns on a schedule, the input of a latitude and a longitude can be omitted and a user's labor can be reduced.

In addition, the mobile portable terminal of the present invention includes a second position registration mode in which the position registration unit obtains latitude and longitude and registers the input latitude and longitude as the position according to the schedule. is there.
With this configuration, accurate position registration that does not include a GPS positioning error is possible, so that the position accuracy of schedule notification can be improved.

In the mobile portable terminal of the present invention, the location registration unit displays a name of a location stored in advance, and a third location registration mode in which a location selected from the location is registered as a location according to the schedule. It is as a structure to provide.
If comprised in this way, since the position which concerns on a schedule can be registered only by selecting the name of a position, a user's effort can be reduced.

In the mobile portable terminal of the present invention, the application area is a range of a circle centered on the registration position, and the radius is arbitrarily set.
If comprised in this way, it will become possible to set the width of an application area arbitrarily according to a user's liking and the kind of schedule. Further, by setting the application area in consideration of the GPS positioning error, it is possible to eliminate the delay in schedule notification caused by the GPS positioning error.

  As described above, according to the present invention, by registering the position related to the schedule and the contents of the schedule, the contents of the registered schedule are notified in the application area including the registered position. Can be executed reliably.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in this figure, the mobile portable terminal of the present embodiment includes a GPS receiver 10, a mobile phone transceiver 20, an input unit 30, an output unit 40, a control unit 50, a storage unit 60, and the like. .

The GPS receiver 10 receives positioning signals from three or more GPS satellites via the GPS antenna 11, and specifies the current position (latitude and longitude) of the mobile portable terminal based on these positioning signals.
The mobile phone transmitting / receiving unit 20 transmits and receives radio signals for mobile phones to and from the base station via the mobile phone antenna 21.

The input unit 30 has input means such as a keypad and a microphone, and receives information input by the user via these input means.
The output unit 40 includes notification means such as a speaker and a vibrator, and display means such as a liquid crystal panel, and performs an incoming call notification, a schedule notification, a schedule content display, and the like by these operations.

The control unit 50 is a part that controls each unit of the mobile portable terminal, and includes a position comparison unit 51, a schedule notification processing unit 52, a mobile phone control unit 53, and the like as functional components configured by software. Yes.
The position comparison unit 51 compares and collates the latest current position periodically calculated by the GPS receiving unit 10 with the application area of the registered position stored in the storage unit 60, and the mobile phone control unit 53 Perform control related to functions.

The schedule notification processing unit 52 is a part that performs setting and control related to the schedule notification function of the present invention, and includes, as a functional configuration, a position registration unit, an application area setting unit, a schedule content registration unit, and a schedule notification unit. .
The position registration means is a processing means for registering a position related to the schedule, and includes the following three position registration modes.

The first position registration mode is a mode for registering the current position. In this mode, the current position specified by the GPS receiving unit 10 is registered as a position related to the schedule.
The second position registration mode is a mode for registering an arbitrary position. In this mode, input of latitude and longitude is requested, and the latitude and longitude input here are registered as a position related to the schedule.
The third position registration mode is a mode for selectively registering a position stored in advance. In this mode, the name of the position stored in advance is displayed, and the position selected from the names is registered as the position related to the schedule.

The positions stored in advance include not only positions registered in the past by the user but also sample positions stored in advance in the mobile mobile terminal at the shipping stage. It is preferable that many sample positions (for example, Tokyo Station, etc.) are included in the sample positions.
The position registration mode according to the schedule is not limited to the above. For example, a mode may be added in which a map is displayed on the screen and a position selected on the map is registered as a position according to the schedule.

The application area setting unit is a processing unit for setting an application area for schedule notification. In the present embodiment, the range of a circle centered on the registration position is the application area, and the radius distance can be arbitrarily set.
The shape of the application area is not limited to a circle. For example, the application area may be a polygon, and the vertex position may be registered.

The schedule content registration means is a processing means for registering the contents of the schedule. In the present embodiment, input of schedule contents is requested on the display screen, and character information key-input by the user is registered as schedule contents.
The contents of the schedule are not limited to text information. For example, a voice memo input from a microphone may be registered as schedule contents, and the voice memo may be reproduced when the schedule is notified.

  The schedule notification means is a processing means for notifying the contents of the schedule when the current position specified by the GPS receiving unit 10 enters an application area set based on the registered position. In this embodiment, when notifying the contents of the schedule, the presence of the schedule is notified by the sound or vibration of the notification means, and the contents of the schedule are displayed on the screen.

  The storage unit 60 is a part that stores various types of information. The storage unit 60 stores a registered position, a position name, an application area (radial distance), and the like, and stores positions and sample positions that the user has registered in the past. A position storage unit 62 that stores the contents of the registered schedule, and a schedule content storage unit 63 that stores the contents of the registered schedule.

Next, the operation of the mobile portable terminal according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure in the schedule setting mode (first and second location registration modes), FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure in the schedule setting mode (third location registration mode), and FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of schedule setting mode (application area setting and schedule content registration).

  When the schedule setting is selected on the menu screen, the mode shifts to the schedule setting mode shown in FIGS. In the schedule setting mode, first, a position registration mode selection screen is displayed (S101), and a user's selection operation is awaited (S102). When the selection operation is completed, the selected position registration mode is determined (S103). Here, when the first position registration mode is selected, a position name input screen is displayed (S104), and a user input operation is awaited (S105). When the position name input is completed, the current position is calculated by the GPS receiving unit 10 (S106), and this position information is stored in the set position storage unit 61 in association with the position name (S107).

  Even when the second position registration mode is selected, the position name input screen is displayed (S108), and the user's input operation is awaited (S109). When the position name input is completed, an input screen for latitude and longitude is displayed (S110), and an input operation by the user is awaited (S111). When the input of the latitude and longitude is finished, this position information is stored in the set position storage unit 61 in association with the position name (S107).

  As shown in FIG. 3, when the third location registration mode is selected, the location names stored in the location storage unit 62 are read (S112), and these location names are displayed as a list on the screen (S113). ), Waiting for the user's selection operation (S114). When the selection operation is completed, the information on the selected position is stored in the setting position storage unit 61 in association with the position name (S115).

  As shown in FIG. 4, when the position registration is completed, an application area (radial distance) setting screen is displayed (S116), and a user setting operation is awaited (S117). When the setting operation of the application area is completed, the setting contents of the application area are stored in the setting position storage unit 61 (S118). Next, a schedule content input screen is displayed (S119), and a user input operation is awaited (S120). When the schedule content input operation is completed, the input schedule content is stored in the schedule content storage unit 63 (S121), and the schedule setting mode ends.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure in the normal mode (schedule notification).
When the position registration, application area setting, and schedule content registration are completed and the schedule setting mode is completed, the mode shifts to the normal mode. In the normal mode, the GPS reception unit 10 periodically calculates the latest current position information (S201), and notifies the position comparison unit 51 of the control unit 50 of this. The position comparison unit 51 compares the application position of the registered position stored in the set position storage unit 61 with the current position, and determines whether the current position is within the application area (S202). If this determination is NO, the above process is repeated.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the current position is within the application area, the notifying means is operated (S203), the presence of the schedule is notified by sound or vibration, and the corresponding schedule content is read from the schedule content storage unit 63. This is displayed on the screen (S204). Thereby, the user can recognize the existence of the schedule regarding the current position and the contents of the schedule.

  According to the mobile portable terminal of the present embodiment configured as described above, the position registration unit for registering the position related to the schedule, the schedule content registration unit for registering the contents of the schedule, and the GPS receiving unit 10 are specified. When the current position falls within the application area set based on the registered position, it is equipped with schedule notification means that notifies the contents of the schedule, so the contents of the schedule related to the position are accurately notified at that position. can do.

  In addition, when notifying the contents of the schedule, the mobile portable terminal of the present embodiment notifies the existence of the schedule by sound or vibration, and then displays the contents of the schedule on the screen. It is possible to reliably notify the user and prevent forgetting to see the contents of the schedule.

  Moreover, since the mobile portable terminal of this embodiment is provided with the 1st position registration mode which registers the present position specified by the GPS receiving part 10 as a position which concerns on a schedule, it registers a present position as a position which concerns on a schedule. In this case, input of latitude and longitude can be omitted, and the user's labor can be reduced.

  In addition, since the mobile portable terminal of the present embodiment includes a second position registration mode that obtains the input of latitude and longitude and registers the input latitude and longitude as the position according to the schedule, it includes a GPS positioning error. Accurate position registration is possible, and the position accuracy of the schedule notification can be improved.

  Moreover, since the mobile portable terminal of this embodiment is provided with the 3rd position registration mode which displays the name of the position memorize | stored beforehand and registers the position selected from it as a position which concerns on a schedule, the name of a position The position related to the schedule can be registered only by selecting, and the user's labor can be reduced.

  In the mobile portable terminal of the present embodiment, the schedule notification application area is a circle range centered on the registration position, and the radius distance can be arbitrarily set. Depending on the type, the size of the application area can be set arbitrarily. Further, by setting the application area in consideration of the GPS positioning error, it is possible to eliminate the delay in schedule notification caused by the GPS positioning error.

  The present invention is applied to a mobile portable terminal such as a cellular phone, a PDA, or a portable personal computer whose current position can be specified by a GPS receiver. In particular, it is useful in a mobile phone with GPS that is always carried by a user.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the mobile portable terminal which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of schedule setting mode (1st and 2nd position registration mode). It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of schedule setting mode (3rd position registration mode). It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of schedule setting mode (application area setting and schedule content registration). It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of normal mode (schedule notification).

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 GPS receiving part 20 Mobile telephone transmission / reception part 30 Input part 40 Output part 50 Control part 51 Position comparison part 52 Schedule notification process part 53 Mobile telephone control part 60 Storage part 61 Setting position storage part 62 Position storage part 63 Schedule content storage part

Claims (6)

A mobile portable terminal whose current position can be specified by a GPS receiver,
Position registration means for registering a position according to the schedule;
Schedule content registration means for registering the contents of the schedule;
A schedule notification means for notifying the contents of the schedule when the current position specified by the GPS receiver enters an application area set based on the registered position; Terminal.   2. The mobile portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein when the schedule notification means notifies the contents of the schedule, the schedule notification means notifies the existence of the schedule by sound or vibration and displays the contents of the schedule on a screen. .   3. The mobile portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein the location registration unit includes a first location registration mode in which a current location specified by the GPS receiver is registered as a location according to the schedule.   The said position registration means is provided with the 2nd position registration mode which calculates | requires the input of the latitude and longitude, and registers the input latitude and longitude as a position which concerns on the said schedule. The mobile portable terminal according to Crab.   The said position registration means is provided with the 3rd position registration mode which displays the name of the position memorize | stored beforehand, and registers the position selected from it as a position which concerns on the said schedule. 4. The mobile portable terminal according to any one of 4 above.   The mobile portable terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the application area is a range of a circle centered on the registered position, and a radius thereof is arbitrarily set.

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