JP2005323047A - Alarm ringing device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem of necessity of resetting an alarm again in the case of a personal holiday, etc., since the alarm is rung not in the personal holiday and a workday but in the holiday on a common calendar, the workday when ringing setting of the alarm is performed only on the holiday, only in the workday etc. since the ringing setting of the alarm and the personal schedule cannot be cooperated in a conventional system. <P>SOLUTION: While using an individual holiday as a schedule memory 3 can be registered by a schedule registration unit 1, setting which can select the start of the alarm depending on any of holiday/workday can be performed by an alarm setting unit, and it can be registered with an alarm memory 4. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an alarm sounding device that sounds an alarm at a registered date and time, and more particularly to an alarm sounding device mounted on a portable electronic device such as a mobile phone.

  A portable electronic device such as a mobile phone has a schedule registration function for registering a personal schedule in a calendar, and an alarm registration function for sounding an alarm at a predetermined date and time in conjunction with the calendar registered by the schedule registration function Are also installed.

  In general, a mobile phone is often carried in a bag or a pocket at all times, and it is possible to reliably notify the promised date and time or anniversary. Therefore, the mobile phone is not limited to the original telephone function, but has various functions such as a schedule management function and an alarm function linked to the schedule management function.

  Conventionally, as a mobile phone equipped with this type of alarm sounding device, there is one described in Patent Document 1. This conventional alarm sounding device can sound an alarm if the current time matches the alarm set time, but cannot sound according to a personal holiday. In addition, even if there are only weekdays and holidays as setting items for alarm ringing, if the user is not a holiday on Sunday and Saturday, or if any of Monday to Friday is set as a holiday for the convenience of the user, It was necessary to reset the ringing setting again.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of an alarm setting screen for setting the date and time for sounding the alarm. In the figure, the alarm setting time is set to “21:00”. Select “Only” with the cursor keys, etc. to specify the day of the week, select “Specify day of the week”, set the specific day of the week on the lower setting screen, and set the date of your choice. ”And set a specific date on the lower setting screen. If the alarm activation setting is not performed, “off” is selected.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-154455

  Therefore, for example, when setting up the time to wake up on work days as an alarm setting registration, it is generally possible to specify satisfactory settings if Monday to Friday is specified in `` Specify Day of Week ''. If the user is not a holiday, or if Saturday or Sunday is a workday due to a transfer to a weekday, or if the weekday is a special holiday, the alarm must be set again. .

  An alarm ringing device according to the present invention includes a schedule registration function for registering a personal schedule and a personal holiday in a calendar, an alarm registration function for registering alarm information including date information and time information for ringing an alarm, and the schedule registration function A control unit that compares the calendar registered by the alarm information with the alarm information registered by the alarm registration function and sounds an alarm based on the comparison result, and the alarm registration function selects either weekdays or holidays. The selected alarm information can be registered, and the control unit compares the personal holiday registered by the schedule registration function as a calendar holiday.

  According to the present invention, the alarm registration function enables registration of alarm information in which either weekdays or holidays are selected, and the control unit compares the personal holidays registered by the schedule registration function as calendar holidays. Therefore, it becomes possible to register and set alarms linked to holidays and weekdays for each individual.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail.

  FIG. 1 is a main block diagram according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. 1 is a schedule registration unit for setting and registering schedules such as personal holidays, weekdays, birthdays, and anniversary dates, and 2 is a time for sounding an alarm. It is an alarm setting unit that sets information and date information for sounding alarms. The schedule memory 3 stores a standard calendar in advance, and stores the schedule set and registered by the schedule registration unit 1 by overwriting the standard calendar. The alarm memory 4 stores alarm activation settings including time information for sounding the alarm set by the alarm setting unit 2 and date information for sounding the alarm.

  The setting registration in the schedule registration unit 1 and the alarm setting unit 2 is performed by the user operating the key input unit 5 including a numeric keypad and function keys. The setting registration screen and the registered schedule are displayed on the display unit 6. Is displayed and can be confirmed by the user.

  Next, setting of a personal schedule such as a personal holiday and an alarm sounding operation will be described with reference to FIG.

First, by operating the key input unit 5, personal holidays and weekdays are set in the schedule registration unit 1 (ST1), and the set personal schedule is registered in the schedule memory 3 (ST2).
FIG. 3 shows a holiday setting screen for setting an individual holiday displayed on the display unit 6. The screen on the left side of FIG. 3 is a standard calendar before setting a personal holiday, and Saturday and Sunday are set as holidays, and the corresponding date is displayed in red, for example. When the user sets Wednesday of the 10th as a personal holiday, the user operates the key input unit 5 to set a cursor (not shown) on the screen to the 10th position. When the software key of the key input unit 5 having a positional relationship corresponding to “setting” displayed on the display screen is operated, Wednesday of the 10th is set as a holiday, and the 10th is set as shown on the right screen. For example, it is displayed in red.

  Next, when the software key of the key input unit 5 having the positional relationship corresponding to “Register” displayed on the display screen is operated, the set holiday content is overwritten and saved in the calendar of the schedule memory 3. In the setting and registration of holidays, an arbitrary date can be selected, and conversely, a Sunday or Saturday that is a holiday in the standard calendar can be set as a weekday.

  In FIG. 2, ST 3 is a step for setting the activation of an alarm, and is set by the user with the key input unit 5 using an alarm setting screen displayed on the display unit 6.

FIG. 4 shows an alarm setting screen. When setting the alarm time on the screen on the left side of FIG. 4, the time column displayed on the screen is selected, and the time “07: 0” is input from the key input unit 5. Next, the activation setting column for screen display is selected. As shown in the startup setting column, there are menus of “Only once”, “Specify day of the week”, “Specify date”, “Holiday / Weekday linkage”, and “Off”. When “Only once” is selected The alarm is activated at 7:00 on the set day. When “specify day of week” is selected, an alarm is activated at 7:00 of the set day of the week by setting a specific day of the week on the lower setting screen. When “date designation” is selected, an alarm is activated at 7:00 of the set date by setting a specific date on the lower setting screen. When “off” is selected, the alarm is not activated.
On the other hand, if “holiday / weekday linkage” is selected, the lower right setting screen is displayed on the display unit 6. The user selects “Weekdays only” or “Holidays only” on the screen of the display unit 6 to activate the alarm, and the software of the key input unit 5 in the positional relationship corresponding to “decision” displayed on the display screen When the wear key is operated, the set contents, for example, the setting to activate an alarm at 7:00 on weekdays only is registered in the alarm memory 4 (ST4).

  As described above, when the schedule registration and the alarm setting are completed, the alarm ringing device determines whether or not the current time matches the alarm setting time stored in the alarm memory 4 as condition 1 in ST5. If the result of this determination is that they do not match, the process moves to ST6 and no processing is performed. On the other hand, if the current time matches the alarm set time stored in the alarm memory 4, the process proceeds to ST7.

  In ST7, as condition 2, it is determined whether or not the activation setting is “holiday / weekday linkage”. If the activation setting is not “holiday / weekday linkage” in the determination of ST7, the process proceeds to ST8. In ST8, if “only once” is determined according to the contents of the activation setting, it is determined whether or not the setting is the current day, and if it is the current day, the alarm is activated. . Also, if the contents of the activation setting is "Specify day of the week", it is determined whether the current day is the day specified in the day of the week, and if it is the specified day of the week, the alarm is activated. , Do nothing. In addition, if the contents of the activation setting is "Specify date", it is determined whether the current date is the date specified in the date specification, and if it is the specified date, the alarm is activated, otherwise , Do nothing.

  Next, if the activation setting is “holiday / weekday linkage” in the determination of ST7, the process proceeds to ST9, and as condition 3, “holiday / weekday” designation is “weekdays only” or “holiday only”. It is determined whether it is. If the “holiday / weekday” designation coincides with the current day, the process proceeds to ST10 to activate an alarm. Otherwise, no processing is performed. Here, whether the current day is a weekday or a holiday is a calendar of the personal schedule registered in the schedule memory by the user. Therefore, even if the current day is a weekday in the standard calendar, if the user registers that day as a holiday, the determination in ST9 is made as a holiday.

  In other words, if the user has set an alarm as wake-up time at 7:00 on the working day, the alarm will not be activated if the user sets 10th as a holiday even if the 10th of the day is a weekday. Can sleep slowly on holiday mornings.

It is a principal block diagram of the alarm ringing apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the setting of the personal schedule which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention, and an alarm ringing operation | movement. It is a screen figure which shows the holiday setting screen which sets the personal holiday concerning Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the alarm setting screen which sets the starting of the alarm which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a screen figure which shows the alarm setting screen which sets the date and time which ring the alarm of a conventional system.

Explanation of symbols

1 Schedule registration part 2 Alarm setting part 3 Schedule memory 4 Alarm memory 5 Key input part 6 Display part.

Claims (2)

A schedule registration function for registering a personal schedule and personal holiday information in the calendar;
An alarm registration function for registering alarm information consisting of date information and time information to ring an alarm;
A control unit that compares the calendar registered by the schedule registration function with the alarm information registered by the alarm registration function, and sounds an alarm based on the comparison result;
The above alarm registration function can register alarm information that selects either weekdays or holidays,
The control device compares the personal holiday information registered by the schedule registration function as a calendar holiday. 2. The alarm ringing device according to claim 1, wherein the schedule registration function registers a calendar holiday as a weekday according to personal holiday information.

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