JP2005252971A - Portable terminal device, and incoming call notification method and program of the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To notify an incoming call as the user intended, when taking pictures using a portable terminal device equipped with a camera. <P>SOLUTION: When there is an incoming call in a communication section 14, a CPU 32 starts processing and then a camera state detecting section 12 detects whether a camera section 10 has been enabled. When the camera section 10 has been enabled, it is decided whether an incoming call notifying method is set as a vibration mode; and when vibration mode has been set, a vibrator controller 22 changes a vibration level into a lower one and then a vibrator 20 notifies the incoming call. When the camera section 10 has not been started and the incoming call notifying method has not been set as the vibration mode, the incoming call is notified by a notifying method currently set. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal device provided with photographing means, and particularly to a mobile terminal device capable of notifying an incoming call by vibration, an incoming call notification method for the mobile terminal device, and a program for causing a computer to execute the incoming call notification method. It is.

  Although there is a remarkable spread of mobile phones, in recent years, mobile phones with cameras that have photographing means for acquiring image data by photographing are becoming popular. By using such a camera-equipped mobile phone, the user's favorite image data acquired by photographing can be set on the standby screen of the mobile phone, although the function is inferior to that of a general camera. Also, you can attach the image data acquired by shooting to an e-mail and send it to a friend, so when you have to cancel your appointment or when you are late for the meeting time, It is convenient for communication with friends because it is possible to inform a friend of his / her current situation, such as taking a picture of his / her disappointing expression and sending it to a friend.

  On the other hand, the method of notifying the incoming of a mobile phone is generally by voice, but in consideration of the situation where the user does not want to hear the voice, in the mobile phone, the vibrate mode is used to notify the incoming by vibration. It is common to have.

  By the way, when there is an incoming call during shooting by the camera, there is a problem that the camera shake is likely to occur and the shooting cannot be performed satisfactorily especially when the incoming call is set to be notified by vibration.

For this reason, a mobile phone has been proposed in which functions other than voice calls are stopped when an incoming call is received (see Patent Document 1). In addition, when a mode for taking a picture is set by the camera and a mode for notifying an incoming call by vibration is set, the incoming call notification method is changed to a method such as sound other than vibration. Has been proposed (see Patent Documents 2 and 3). Further, as a method for changing the incoming call notification method, a method has been proposed in which ambient brightness is estimated based on an image acquired by shooting and the ringing volume is changed according to the brightness (see Patent Document 4).
JP 2001-189812 A JP 2000-217051 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-16560 JP 2000-184013 A

  However, in the mobile phone described in Patent Document 1, even when it is desired to continue shooting while ignoring incoming calls, functions other than voice calls are stopped, so that shooting can continue as desired by the user. There is a problem that it will not be possible. In addition, the methods described in Patent Documents 2 and 3 notify the incoming call by a voice or a display on a monitor that is different from the incoming call notification method set by the user of the mobile phone. In addition, the sound may cause trouble to the surroundings.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to make it possible to notify an incoming call as intended by a user at the time of shooting using a mobile terminal device with a camera.

A first portable terminal device according to the present invention includes a communication unit that communicates with another communication device;
Photographing means for photographing a subject image;
Vibration notification means for notifying incoming calls from the other communication devices by vibration;
Detecting means for detecting the state of the photographing means;
Level detecting means for changing the vibration level when the detecting means detects that the photographing means is ready for photographing and the vibration notifying means is set to notify the incoming call by vibration; It is characterized by comprising.

  “Changing the vibration level” includes not only reducing the vibration level but also increasing it. If the vibration level can be changed in stages, it means that the level is changed.

  In the first portable terminal device according to the present invention, the level changing means may be means for changing the vibration level when the communication means arrives.

A second portable terminal device according to the present invention includes a communication unit that communicates with another communication device;
Photographing means for photographing a subject image;
Shooting condition setting means for setting shooting conditions of the shooting means;
Vibration notification means for notifying incoming calls from the other communication devices by vibration;
Detecting means for detecting the state of the photographing means;
The photographing condition set by the photographing condition setting means when the photographing means is detected as being ready for photographing by the detecting means and the incoming call is set to be notified by vibration by the vibration notifying means. And a level changing means for changing the vibration level according to the above.

  As the “photographing conditions”, the shutter speed of the photographing means, the brightness at the time of photographing, and the like can be used.

  Here, when the brightness at the time of shooting is large or when the shutter speed is fast, there is a low possibility that the shooting will fail even if there is some camera shake at the time of shooting. On the other hand, if the brightness at the time of shooting is dark or the shutter speed is slow, there is a high possibility that shooting will fail even with slight camera shake. Therefore, in the second portable terminal device of the present invention, “change the vibration level according to the shooting condition” means changing the vibration level so that the vibration level is reduced as the shooting condition is likely to cause camera shake. However, it does not exclude changing to increase the vibration level. If the vibration level can be changed in stages, it means that the level is changed. It should be noted that “changing the vibration level according to the shooting conditions” includes not changing the vibration level set by the user depending on the shooting conditions.

  In the second portable terminal device according to the present invention, the level changing means may be means for changing the vibration level when the communication means receives an incoming call.

Further, the second portable terminal device according to the present invention further includes voice notification means for performing an incoming call notification by voice,
The level changing means may be means for controlling the voice notification means so as to perform voice incoming notification instead of the vibration when the photographing condition is a predetermined level.

An incoming call notification method for a first portable terminal device according to the present invention comprises: a communication unit that communicates with another communication device;
Photographing means for photographing a subject image;
In an incoming call notification method for a mobile terminal device comprising vibration notification means for notifying an incoming call from the other communication device by vibration,
Detecting the state of the imaging means;
The vibration level is changed when it is detected that the photographing unit is ready for photographing, and the vibration notification unit is set to notify the incoming call by vibration. .

An incoming call notification method for a second portable terminal device according to the present invention comprises a communication means for communicating with another communication device;
Photographing means for photographing a subject image;
Shooting condition setting means for setting shooting conditions of the shooting means;
In an incoming call notification method for a mobile terminal device comprising vibration notification means for notifying an incoming call from the other communication device by vibration,
Detecting the state of the imaging means;
According to the shooting condition set by the shooting condition setting unit, when it is detected that the shooting unit is ready for shooting and the vibration notification unit is set to notify the incoming call by vibration, The vibration level is changed.

  In addition, you may provide as a program for making a computer perform the incoming call notification method of the 1st and 2nd portable terminal device by this invention.

  According to the first portable terminal device and the incoming call notification method thereof of the present invention, when it is detected that the photographing unit is ready for photographing, and the incoming call is set to be notified by vibration, the vibration level is set. Is changed. For this reason, if the vibration level is changed to be small, camera shake does not occur during photographing. Therefore, it is possible to notify an incoming call by a method intended by the user while continuing to photograph. Conversely, if the vibration level is greatly changed, camera shake is likely to occur, so it is possible to guide the user to stop shooting, thereby preventing camera shake from failing due to camera shake. can do.

  Also, by changing the vibration level when an incoming call is received, it is possible to prevent the vibration level from being changed when there is no incoming call.

  According to the second portable terminal device and the incoming call notification method of the present invention, when the photographing unit is detected to be capable of photographing and is set to notify the incoming call by vibration, the photographing condition is set. Accordingly, the vibration level is changed. For this reason, in the case of shooting conditions that are likely to cause camera shake, if the vibration level is changed to be small, camera shake will not occur during shooting. In addition, in the case of shooting conditions in which camera shake is unlikely to occur, an incoming call is notified by a method intended by the user if the level of vibration is changed so as not to decrease so much or is not changed. Therefore, it is possible to notify an incoming call by a method intended by the user while continuing to photograph. On the other hand, if the vibration level is set so as to greatly change the vibration level, camera shake is likely to occur, so that the user can be guided to stop shooting, thereby taking a picture due to camera shake. It is possible to prevent failure.

  Further, by setting the vibration level when an incoming call is received, it is possible to prevent the vibration level from being changed when there is no incoming call.

  In addition, when the shooting conditions are at a predetermined level, it is possible to completely prevent camera shake by performing an incoming call notification by voice instead of vibration.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile phone according to a first embodiment of a mobile terminal device of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a mobile phone 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes a camera unit 10 that captures a subject, a camera state detection unit 12 that detects the state of the camera unit 10, voice calls, and electronic devices. A communication unit 14 that communicates with other mobile phones by sending and receiving mails, an operation unit 16 including a numeric keypad and a cross key that accepts input of operations on the mobile phone 1, images taken by the camera unit 10, and the like Stores a display unit 18 composed of a liquid crystal monitor or the like for performing various displays, a vibrator 20 for notifying an incoming call by vibration, a vibrator control unit 22 for controlling the driving of the vibrator 20, an operation program for the mobile phone 1, and the like. A main memory 24 serving as a work area at the time of program execution, and a first control for controlling recording and reading of various information to and from the main memory A memory control unit 26, a recording medium 28 such as a detachable memory card for recording an image taken by the camera unit 10, and a second memory control for controlling recording and reading of various information on the recording medium 28. The unit 30 and a CPU 32 that controls driving of the mobile phone 1 are connected by a bus 34.

  The camera unit 10 includes a photographing lens, a shutter, a CCD that acquires image data by photographing, a strobe, and an image processing unit that performs various image processing on the image data. The operation mode of the mobile phone 1 is controlled by the operation unit 16. In a state in which the camera mode is switched, the user performs a shooting operation using the operation unit 16, thereby shooting the subject and obtaining image data representing the subject image. The image data acquired by the camera unit 10 is recorded on the recording medium 28 by the second memory control unit 30.

  The camera state detection unit 12 detects whether or not the camera unit 10 is activated in response to an instruction from the CPU 32 when a voice call or an email is received by the communication unit 14. That is, when the camera state detection unit 12 receives an incoming call while the user switches the operation mode of the mobile phone 1 to the camera mode using the operation unit 16 and performs shooting, the camera unit 10 is activated. Is detected. The detection result is output to the CPU 32. Note that if the mobile phone 1 receives an incoming call when the operation mode of the mobile phone 1 is switched to a mode other than the camera mode (for example, a call mode, a mail mode, etc.), the camera state detection unit 12 has not started the camera unit 10. And the detection result is output to the CPU 32.

  When there is an incoming voice call or mail, the communication unit 14 outputs a message to that effect to the CPU 32. The communication unit 14 has a function of notifying incoming calls by voice, a function of making a voice call, and a function of sending and receiving mail.

  The vibrator control unit 22 notifies the incoming call by vibration instead of the voice notification in response to an instruction from the CPU 42 when there is an incoming call to the communication unit 14 in a state where the user sets the incoming call mode to the vibration mode by the operation unit 16. Then, the vibrator 20 is driven. In the present embodiment, the vibration level of the vibrator 20 can be set to three levels of strong, medium and weak by an operation from the operation unit 16. The vibrator control unit 22 drives the vibrator 20 to vibrate at a set level.

  The CPU 32 controls the driving of the mobile phone 1 according to the mode of the mobile phone 1. That is, when the call mode or the mail mode is set, the mobile phone 1 is controlled so that a call or mail can be transmitted / received or a mail can be created. When the camera mode is set, the mobile phone 1 is controlled so that the subject can be photographed by the operation from the operation unit 16 using the camera unit 10.

  In addition, when there is an incoming call to the communication unit 14, the CPU 32 instructs the camera state detection unit 12 to detect whether the camera unit 10 is activated. When a detection result indicating that the camera unit 10 is activated is input from the camera state detection unit 12, it is further determined whether or not the incoming mode is set to the vibrate mode. When it is determined that the incoming mode is set to the vibrator mode, the vibrator control unit 22 is instructed to change the vibration level of the vibrator 20 to be weak. Note that when a detection result indicating that the camera unit 10 is not activated is input from the camera state detection unit 12, the vibrator control unit 22 is instructed to drive the vibrator 20 at the currently set level.

  Next, processing performed in the first embodiment will be described. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing processing performed when an incoming call is received in the first embodiment. When the communication unit 14 receives an incoming call, the CPU 32 starts processing, and the camera state detection unit 12 detects whether or not the camera unit 10 is activated by an instruction from the CPU 32 (step S1). Then, the CPU 32 determines whether or not the detection result by the camera state detection unit 12 indicates that the camera unit 10 is activated (step S2). When step S2 is affirmed, the CPU 32 determines whether the incoming call is received. It is determined whether or not the notification method is a vibration mode (step S3). If step S3 is affirmed, the vibrator control unit 22 changes the vibration level of the vibrator 20 to weak according to an instruction from the CPU 32 (step S4), and thereby the vibrator 20 notifies the incoming call with the weak vibration level (step S5). ), The process is terminated.

  If step S2 is denied because the camera unit 10 is not activated, and if step S3 is denied because the incoming call notification method is not set to the vibrate mode, the current setting is made. An incoming call notification is made by the notification method (step S6), and the process is terminated.

  As described above, in the first embodiment, when the camera unit 10 is activated and the incoming call notification is set to the vibrate mode, the vibration level is changed to weak when there is an incoming call. Sometimes camera shake does not occur. Therefore, it is possible to notify an incoming call by a method intended by the user while continuing to photograph.

  In the first embodiment, it is detected whether or not the camera unit 10 is activated at the time of an incoming call. However, when the operation mode of the mobile phone 1 is switched to the camera mode, the incoming call notification method is a vibration. It may be determined whether the mode is set, and when the vibration mode is set, the vibration level may be changed to be weak.

  In the first embodiment, the vibration level of the vibrator 20 is changed to weak when there is an incoming call while the camera unit 10 is activated. May be. By changing the vibration level to be strong in this way, camera shake is likely to occur, so it is possible to guide the user to stop shooting, thereby preventing failure of shooting due to camera shake. it can.

  Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of a mobile phone according to the second embodiment of the mobile terminal device of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the mobile phone 51 according to the second embodiment of the present invention includes a camera unit 10, a camera state detection unit 12, a communication unit 14, an operation unit 16, and a display of the mobile phone 1 according to the first embodiment. In addition to the unit 18, the vibrator 20, the vibrator control unit 22, the main memory 24, the first memory control unit 26, the recording medium 28, the second memory control unit 30, and the CPU 32, the vibration level in the vibrator mode is determined. The vibration level determining unit 40 is configured by being connected by a bus 34.

  The vibration level determination unit 40 detects that the communication unit 14 has received an incoming call, the camera state detection unit 12 detects that the camera unit 10 is activated, and the incoming call mode is set to the vibrate mode. To obtain photographing condition information representing the photographing condition. Here, in this embodiment, the shutter speed when the camera unit 10 performs shooting is used as shooting condition information. And the vibration level of the vibrator 20 is determined according to the acquired imaging condition information. In the second embodiment, it is assumed that the vibration level can be switched between four levels of strong, medium, and weak.

  Specifically, the vibration level is determined as follows. That is, when the shutter speed is 1/60 or lower, the vibration level is determined to be weak, when the shutter speed is higher than 1/60 and lower than 1/250, the vibration level is determined to be weak, and when the shutter speed is higher than 1/250. The current vibration level is maintained as is.

  Next, processing performed in the second embodiment will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing performed when an incoming call is received in the second embodiment. When the communication unit 14 receives an incoming call, the CPU 32 starts processing, and in response to an instruction from the CPU 32, the camera state detection unit 12 detects whether the camera unit 10 is activated (step S11). Then, the CPU 32 determines whether or not the detection result by the camera state detection unit 12 indicates that the camera unit 10 is activated (step S12). When step S12 is affirmed, the CPU 32 determines whether the incoming call has been received. It is determined whether or not the notification method is a vibration mode (step S13). If step S13 is positive, the vibration level determination unit 40 acquires shooting condition information from the camera unit 10 according to an instruction from the CPU 32 (step S14), and the shutter speed represented by the shooting condition information is 1/60 or less. It is determined whether or not there is (step S15). If step S15 is positive, the vibration level determination unit 40 determines the vibration level to be weak, and the vibrator control unit 22 thereby changes the vibration level of the vibrator 20 to be weak (step S16). Then, the vibrator 20 gives an incoming call notification with a weak vibration level (step S17), and the process ends.

  On the other hand, if step S15 is negative, the vibration level determination unit 40 determines whether or not the shutter speed represented by the shooting condition information is 1/250 or less (step S18). If step S18 is affirmed, the vibration level determination unit 40 determines the vibration level to be weak, and the vibrator control unit 22 thereby changes the vibration level of the vibrator 20 to weak (step S19). Then, the vibrator 20 makes an incoming call notification with a weak vibration level (step S17), and the process ends.

  Note that if step S12 is denied because the camera unit 10 is not activated, if step S13 is denied because the incoming notification method is not set to the vibrate mode, and the shutter speed is from 1/250. If the result of step S18 is negative because of speed, an incoming call notification is made by the currently set notification method (step S20), and the process ends.

As described above, in the second embodiment, when the camera unit 10 is activated and the incoming call notification is set to the vibrate mode and there is an incoming call, the lower the shutter speed according to the shooting condition information, the stepwise the step. Since the vibration level is changed to weak and weak and the incoming call is notified, the camera shake does not occur at the time of shooting particularly in the case of shooting conditions that are likely to cause camera shake. Further, since only the vibration level is changed, the incoming call can be notified by a method intended by the user. Also, in the case of shooting conditions where the shutter speed is fast and it is difficult for camera shake to occur, the incoming call is notified based on the currently set vibration level, so the incoming call is notified without changing the method intended by the user. Therefore, it is possible to notify the incoming call by a method intended by the user while continuing shooting. In the second embodiment, whether or not the camera unit 10 is activated at the time of incoming call is detected. When the operation mode of the mobile phone 51 is switched to the camera mode, it is determined whether or not the incoming call notification method is the vibration mode. If the vibration mode is set to the vibration mode, the vibration level determination unit 40 determines the vibration level. You may make it do.

  In the second embodiment, when there is an incoming call with the camera unit 10 activated, the vibration level of the vibrator 20 is changed to weak or weak according to the shooting condition information. And you may make it vibrate more greatly. By changing the vibration level to be strong in this way, camera shake is likely to occur, so it is possible to guide the user to stop shooting and to prevent the shooting from failing due to camera shake caused by this. it can.

  In the second embodiment, the vibration level determination unit 40 determines the vibration level according to the shutter speed. However, the vibration level is determined according to the ambient brightness detected by the exposure meter included in the camera unit 10. May be determined. Specifically, the vibration level may be determined such that the darker the brightness, the weaker the vibration level.

  In the second embodiment, the vibration level is determined to be weak when the shutter speed is 1/60 or less. Alternatively, an incoming call may be notified by voice. . Thereby, it is possible to completely prevent camera shake. In this case, the vibration level determination unit 40 determines that the incoming call method is voice, and inputs the determination result to the CPU 32. In response to this input, the CPU 32 instructs the communication unit 14 to make an incoming call notification by voice, and the communication unit 14 makes an incoming call notification by voice.

1 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of a mobile phone according to a first embodiment of a mobile terminal device of the present invention. The flowchart which shows the process performed at the time of an incoming call in 1st Embodiment The schematic block diagram which shows the structure of the mobile telephone by 2nd Embodiment of the portable terminal device of this invention. The flowchart which shows the process performed at the time of an incoming call in 2nd Embodiment

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1,51 Mobile phone 10 Camera part 12 Camera state detection part 14 Communication part 16 Operation part 18 Display part 20 Vibrator 22 Vibrator control part 24 Main memory 26 1st memory control part 28 Recording medium 30 2nd memory control part 32 CPU
34 Bus 40 Vibration level determination unit

Claims (9)

A communication means for communicating with other communication devices;
Photographing means for photographing a subject image;
Vibration notification means for notifying incoming calls from the other communication devices by vibration;
Detecting means for detecting the state of the photographing means;
Level detecting means for changing the vibration level when the detecting means detects that the photographing means is ready for photographing and the vibration notifying means is set to notify the incoming call by vibration; A portable terminal device comprising:   2. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the level changing means is means for changing the vibration level when the communication means receives an incoming call. A communication means for communicating with other communication devices;
Photographing means for photographing a subject image;
Shooting condition setting means for setting shooting conditions of the shooting means;
Vibration notification means for notifying incoming calls from the other communication devices by vibration;
Detecting means for detecting the state of the photographing means;
The photographing condition set by the photographing condition setting means when the photographing means is detected as being ready for photographing by the detecting means and the incoming call is set to be notified by vibration by the vibration notifying means. And a level changing means for changing the level of the vibration according to the portable terminal device.   4. The portable terminal device according to claim 3, wherein the level changing means is means for changing the vibration level when the communication means receives an incoming call. It further comprises voice notification means for performing incoming call notification by voice,
5. The level change means is means for controlling the voice notification means so as to perform an incoming call notification by voice instead of the vibration when the photographing condition is a predetermined level. The portable terminal device described. A communication means for communicating with other communication devices;
Photographing means for photographing a subject image;
In an incoming call notification method for a mobile terminal device comprising vibration notification means for notifying an incoming call from the other communication device by vibration,
Detecting the state of the imaging means;
A portable terminal device that changes a level of vibration when it is detected that the photographing unit is ready to shoot and the vibration notification unit is set to notify the incoming call by vibration. Incoming call notification method. A communication means for communicating with other communication devices;
Photographing means for photographing a subject image;
Shooting condition setting means for setting shooting conditions of the shooting means;
In an incoming call notification method for a mobile terminal device comprising vibration notification means for notifying an incoming call from the other communication device by vibration,
Detecting the state of the imaging means;
According to the shooting condition set by the shooting condition setting unit, when it is detected that the shooting unit is ready for shooting and the vibration notification unit is set to notify the incoming call by vibration, An incoming call notification method for a mobile terminal device, characterized in that the vibration level is changed. A communication means for communicating with other communication devices;
Photographing means for photographing a subject image;
In a program for causing a computer to execute an incoming call notification method for a mobile terminal device comprising vibration notification means for notifying an incoming call from the other communication device by vibration,
A procedure for detecting the state of the photographing means;
And a procedure for changing the vibration level when it is detected that the photographing means is ready for photographing, and the vibration notification means is set to notify the incoming call by vibration. Program to do. A communication means for communicating with other communication devices;
Photographing means for photographing a subject image;
Shooting condition setting means for setting shooting conditions of the shooting means;
In a program for causing a computer to execute an incoming call notification method for a mobile terminal device comprising vibration notification means for notifying an incoming call from the other communication device by vibration,
A procedure for detecting the state of the photographing means;
According to the shooting condition set by the shooting condition setting unit, when it is detected that the shooting unit is ready for shooting and the vibration notification unit is set to notify the incoming call by vibration, A program for changing the vibration level.

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