JP2007184987A - Mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile telephone and mobile communication system in which, in particular, a message notified from a calling party can be learnt before a called destination responds to an incoming call. <P>SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal 10A capable of making a telephone conversation with other communication terminal via a base station 20, comprising an emotion class holding means 14 for holding a listing of emotion classes to be notified to a communication terminal 10B that becomes a speech party, and an emotion class information adding means for adding information indicative of the emotion classes to the communication terminal that becomes the speech party, into a calling message to the base station 20. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a telephone set, and more particularly, to a mobile telephone set and a mobile communication system which can know a message notified from a caller before an incoming call is answered.

  In the conventional communication system, for example, both communication can be achieved by sending a message such as a call or SMS (Short Message Service).

In order to communicate with each other, the communication terminal on the sending side can send predetermined information to the communication terminal on the receiving side, and the volume at the time of the incoming call of the communication terminal on the receiving side can be changed according to the information. Such communication systems are also known (for example, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2). In this conventional communication system, since the caller can set the ring volume of the receiver, for example, in the case of important communication, the ring volume can be increased to notify the caller of the importance of communication.
JP-A-2-65493 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-6996

  However, in a call or SMS, it is difficult to tell what kind of emotion the sender is trying to talk to the other party, and even if the incoming volume is changed as in the conventional communication terminal, there is no recipient. In the case of time, I did not know the importance of communication, and I did not know how important the incoming call was even by referring to the incoming call history.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and is capable of notifying the recipient of what kind of emotion the sender intending to make a call is trying to communicate with the incoming call notification. An object is to provide a mobile communication terminal and a mobile communication system.

  The present invention is a mobile communication terminal capable of making a call with another communication terminal via a base station, the emotion type holding means for holding a list of emotion types to be notified to a communication terminal as a call partner, and the base Emotion type information adding means for adding information indicating the emotion type to a communication terminal serving as a call partner in a call message to a station.

  The present invention also relates to a mobile communication terminal capable of making a call with another communication terminal via a base station, an emotion type holding means for holding a list of emotion types to be notified from a communication terminal as a call partner, An emotion type selection means for selecting an emotion type from the emotion type holding means based on the emotion type information when information indicating the emotion type is added to the incoming call message from the station, and an emotion type selection means And an emotion type processing means for performing an incoming call notification process based on the emotion type selected by.

  In addition, it is preferable to include emotion type history holding means for holding the emotion type selected by the emotion type selection means together with the incoming call history.

  Furthermore, the emotion type processing means preferably performs processing based on the emotion type by at least one of vibration, background color, sound, and display image.

  In addition, the present invention provides a communication system including a base station, and a first mobile communication terminal and a second mobile communication terminal that can communicate with each other via the base station. An emotion type holding means for holding a list of emotion types to be notified to the communication terminal, and an emotion type to which information indicating the emotion type to be notified to the second communication terminal is added in a call message to the base station The second mobile communication terminal includes an emotion type holding means for holding a list of emotion types notified from the first communication terminal, and an emotion type in an incoming call message from the base station. When the information indicating the emotion type is added, the emotion type selection unit that selects the emotion type from the emotion type holding unit based on the emotion type information, and the emotion that performs processing based on the emotion type selected by the emotion type selection unit Type processing Comprising a stage, and wherein the was.

  The second mobile communication terminal preferably includes emotion type history holding means for holding the emotion type selected by the emotion type selection means together with the incoming call history.

  Further, in the second mobile communication terminal, the emotion type processing means preferably performs processing based on the emotion type by at least one of vibration, background color, sound, and display image.

  The present invention includes emotion type notification information in a message transmitted by a mobile communication terminal that makes a call, and the mobile communication terminal that has received the emotion type notification information performs the processing specified in the emotion type notification information. It is possible to accurately convey nuances that are difficult to communicate through communication such as calls and emails, and to communicate according to emotions. In addition, since a history including the emotion type remains in the mobile communication terminal that receives an incoming call, the priority corresponding to the callee can be clarified.

  Hereinafter, a communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the mobile communication system according to the first embodiment of this invention.

  Mobile communication terminals 10A and 10B, which are mobile telephones, are connected to the base station 20 through a wireless communication line. The base station 20 is connected to another base station 20, an exchange, and a mobile communication control station (not shown) via a public line network or a dedicated line, and the mobile communication terminals 10A and 10B are connected to any one of the base stations 20 and a radio communication line. Connected by. The mobile communication terminal 10 includes an antenna 11, a radio unit 12, a control unit 13, a storage unit 14, a vibrator 15, an operation unit 16, a display unit 17, and the like.

  The radio unit 12 includes a transmission / reception unit, an RF control unit, and the like, receives radio waves from the base station 20, and transmits radio waves to the base station 20. The transmission / reception unit includes a transmission unit and a reception unit. The transmission unit generates a high-frequency signal to be transmitted from the antenna 11, and the reception unit amplifies and converts the frequency of the high-frequency signal received by the antenna 11 to obtain a baseband signal. Output to the RF controller. The RF control unit includes a baseband unit and a radio control unit, and the baseband unit demodulates the baseband signal into an audio signal by a codec unit in the baseband unit. The codec unit modulates the audio signal to generate a baseband signal. Further, the wireless control unit controls the frequency transmitted / received by the transmission / reception unit, the transmission / reception timing, and the output of the transmitted radio wave.

  The control unit 13 is mainly composed of a CPU, and based on data stored in the storage unit (RAM and ROM) 14, a portable unit such as a wireless unit 12, a vibrator 15, an operation unit 16, a display unit 17, and the like. Control each part of the phone. The storage unit 14 also holds an emotion table described later.

  The vibrator 15 is configured by a motor or the like to which an eccentric weight is attached. The vibration is generated in the mobile communication terminal 10 by supplying power to the motor by the control unit 13 or by controlling voltage or current. By controlling the time and strength, it is possible to notify the user that there has been an incoming call, incoming mail or the like.

  The operation unit 16 accepts input of characters and numbers from the user, and operation instructions to the mobile phone, and the display unit 17 receives character information, image information, and the operating state of the mobile phone (radio waves) from the control unit 13. (Strength, remaining battery level, time).

  Furthermore, the mobile communication terminal 10 has a transmitter (not shown) that converts an acoustic signal into an electrical signal, and a receiver (not shown) that converts an electrical signal into an acoustic signal.

  Next, the operation of the first embodiment of the present invention configured as described above will be described.

  In the embodiment of the present invention, the mobile communication terminal 10A that makes a call selects an emotion type (emotion mode) when starting communication, and includes information indicating the selected emotion mode in the call message. The base station 20 sends an incoming call message with an emotion mode added to the mobile communication terminal 10B based on the received message. The mobile communication terminal 10B determines whether or not an emotion mode is added to the incoming call message. If the emotion mode is included, the mobile communication terminal 10B corresponds to the emotion mode received from the preset list of emotion modes. An incoming call notification that is emotion type processing (for example, display of strength of a vibrator, a color displayed on a display unit, an image, or the like) is performed.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing processing at the time of outgoing call by the mobile communication terminal 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  First, the user operates the operation unit 16 to input the telephone number of the callee (step 101). For example, the telephone number of the other party can be obtained by referring to the telephone book data held in the storage unit 14 by a method of directly inputting a telephone number using the numeric keys of the operation unit 16 or a function such as a telephone book search. Can be entered.

  Next, it is determined whether or not an emotion mode has been selected (step 102). This emotion mode is input when the mobile communication terminal 10 displays a message prompting the user to set the emotion mode after the telephone number is input in step 101, and when the user sets the emotion mode, for example, the operation unit 16 Of the numeric keys, the key corresponding to the emotion mode desired to be set is input, and when the emotion mode is not set, the keys other than the numeric keys 1 to 6 are input.

  The emotion mode may be set from a menu instead of a numeric key.

  When it is determined that the emotion mode is selected, that is, when numeric keys 1 to 6 are input, the emotion mode set in step 102 in the call message transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 10 to the base station Is added (step 103). On the other hand, if it is determined that the emotion mode is not selected, that is, if any number other than 1 to 6 is input, the process proceeds to step 104.

  In step 104, the calling process is performed for the telephone number set in step 101.

  FIG. 3 is a table showing emotion modes set in the mobile communication terminal 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  In the example of FIG. 3, emotion mode and number keys are used for seven emotion modes of “joyful”, “anger”, “sad”, “lonely”, “fun”, “laughter”, and no emotion mode. And the correspondence between the emotion mode and the processing to be performed by the mobile communication terminal. This emotion table is stored in advance in the storage unit 14 of the calling-side mobile communication terminal 10A and the storage unit 14 of the called-side mobile communication terminal 10B.

  For example, when the emotion mode is “I'm happy”, the number key set in step 102 of FIG. 2 is “1”. When this emotion mode is set, the mobile communication terminal 10 of the other party will receive the incoming call. The background of the display unit 17 is “pink”, the intensity of the vibrator 15 is 0 (the vibrator 15 is not operated), the incoming call is notified, “image 1” is displayed on the display unit 17, and the character “happy” Is displayed on the display unit 17 to notify the incoming call. Whether the display or the operation of the vibrator is performed can be selected by the user of the mobile communication terminal 10 on the called side, and a plurality of operations can be selected.

  The emotion mode defined in the emotion table can be edited, added, or deleted by the user. For example, an original emotion mode in which an image photographed by a camera built in the mobile communication terminal 10 is set. It can also be added.

Furthermore, by passing emotion mode data between users by using a function such as e-mail, a specific emotion table can be shared and used among specific users.

  FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a screen displayed on the display unit 17 of the partner mobile communication terminal 10B when the emotion mode is set. When the user selects to display an image, FIG. A) is an example of an image displayed when an incoming call is received when the emotion mode is set to “I'm happy”, and FIG. 4B is an example when the emotion mode is set to “anger”.

  Next, call processing with an emotion mode added will be described.

  FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram showing a calling process for the mobile communication terminal 10B via the base station 20 by the mobile communication terminal 10A according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  First, the mobile communication terminal 10 </ b> A performs call processing (FIG. 2) for the base station 20 and transmits a call message to the base station 20. Details of the call message will be described later with reference to FIG.

  When receiving the call message, the base station 20 transmits an ACK message indicating that the message has been received to the mobile communication terminal 10A. Next, the base station 20 transmits a paging message notifying that there is an incoming call to the mobile communication terminal 10B. When the mobile communication terminal 10B receives the paging message and transmits an ACK message indicating that it has been received, information on the call channel is transmitted. Thereafter, the base station 20 transmits an information message to the mobile communication terminal 10B based on the call message. Details of this information message will be described later with reference to FIG.

  The base station with which mobile communication terminal 10A communicates and the base station with which mobile communication terminal 10B communicates may not be the same. In this case, the base station and the base station are connected by a dedicated line or the like, and each message is exchanged.

  The mobile communication terminal 10B transmits an ACK message indicating that the information message has been received to the base station 20, and performs incoming processing based on the content included in the information message. Details of this incoming call processing will be described later with reference to FIG.

  When the mobile communication terminal 10B performs a response operation by the incoming call processing, an off-hook message is transmitted to the base station 20. The base station 20 transmits an ACK indicating that the off-hook message has been received to the mobile communication terminal 10B, and then transmits an off-hook message to the mobile communication terminal 10A. The mobile communication terminal 10A indicates that the off-hook message has been received. When ACK is transmitted to the base station 20, a communication line is set between the mobile communication terminal 10A and the mobile communication terminal 10B, and a call can be performed.

  FIG. 6 is a configuration diagram of a call message transmitted to the base station 20 by the mobile communication terminal 10A according to the embodiment of this invention.

  The field 1001 includes “calling meaning” and “calling side transfer terminal ID”. “Meaning of call” indicates the type of call made by the mobile communication terminal, and includes information indicating the type of call such as outgoing call purpose, SMS transmission, and Web connection. Further, the caller side communication terminal ID includes information indicating an ID inherent to the mobile communication terminal 10A that makes a call, and the base station 20 identifies which mobile communication terminal the message is from. Used for.

  The field 1002 includes information corresponding to the contents defined in the meaning of the call in the field 1001. In the example shown in FIG. 6, the contents included in the field 1002 in the case where the outgoing call is outgoing for the purpose of calling are exemplified, and the own station number, the other party number, the display, and the outgoing number notification restriction are included.

  The local station number includes information indicating the telephone number of the mobile communication terminal 10A that makes a call, and the partner number includes information indicating the telephone number of the mobile communication terminal 10B that receives the incoming call.

  The Display is an 8-bit field for storing display information to be displayed on the mobile communication terminal 10B that the base station receives an incoming call. In the embodiment of the present invention, the Display field indicates an emotion mode. Information (for example, numerical values of 1 to 9 and 0) is stored.

  The calling number notification restriction is a field for indicating whether or not to notify the mobile communication terminal 10B that receives an incoming call of the telephone number of the mobile communication terminal 10A that makes the call.

  A field 1003 is a field for indicating the end of the message.

  FIG. 7 is a configuration diagram of an information message transmitted from the base station 20 to the mobile communication terminal 10B according to the embodiment of this invention.

  The field 1101 includes “Meaning of incoming call” and “Calling side transfer terminal ID”. “Meaning of incoming call” includes the same content as “Meaning of outgoing call” in FIG. 6 described above, and includes information indicating the type of incoming call for the purpose of call, SMS reception, for example.

In addition, the callee side communication terminal ID includes information indicating an ID inherent to the mobile communication terminal 10B that receives the incoming call, so that the mobile station 10 can identify which mobile communication terminal 10 the base station 20 is for. Used for.

  The field 1102 includes information corresponding to the contents defined in the meaning of the incoming call in the field 1101. Similar to the example shown in FIG. 6, the example shown in FIG. 7 illustrates the contents included in the field 1102 when the incoming call is for a call purpose. The local station number, the other party number, the display, and the outgoing number notification restriction It is included. Information indicating the emotion mode is stored in the Display field, and the mobile communication terminal 10B that has received an incoming call determines the contents of the Display field and performs an incoming call process described later with reference to FIG.

  A field 1103 is a field for indicating the end of the message.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing processing when the mobile communication terminal 10 according to the embodiment of this invention accepts an incoming call.

  First, it is determined whether an emotion mode is included in an incoming call message (information message) sent from the base station (step 201). If the emotion mode is included, the process proceeds to step 202. If the emotion mode is not included, the process proceeds to step 204.

  In step 202, the received emotion mode is selected from the emotion table (see FIG. 3). Then, the process indicated by the selected emotion mode (for example, LCD color, vibrator strength, etc.) is executed (step 203).

  Next, in step 204, an incoming call notification process for playing a ring tone and displaying the caller's telephone number or a name corresponding to the telephone number is performed.

  Next, it is determined whether or not the user has responded to the incoming call notification (step 205). If it is determined that the response process has been performed, a call is started (step 206). If it is determined that the response process has not been performed, the incoming call is terminated after a predetermined time has elapsed, and the telephone number and other information of the mobile communication terminal 10 that made the call are written in the incoming call history (step 207), The process proceeds to standby processing (step 208).

  FIG. 9 illustrates an example of information recorded in the incoming call history of the mobile communication terminal 10 according to the embodiment of this invention.

  The upper part of the table shows that at 15:05 on February 8th, an incoming call with the emotion mode “anger” was from a caller named “XXX”. The middle part of the figure shows that at 15:00 on February 8th, there was an incoming call that did not include the emotion mode from a caller named “XXX”.

  In the communication system according to the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above, information indicating the emotion mode is included in the call message transmitted to the base station 20 by the mobile communication terminal 10A that makes a call, and the base station Since the emotion mode included in the outgoing call message is included in the information message transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 10B that receives the incoming call, processing corresponding to the emotion table is performed for the mobile communication terminal 10B when the incoming call is notified. Can be made.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the communication system of embodiment of this invention. Similarly, it is a flowchart of the process at the time of call origination of the mobile communication terminal 10. Similarly, it is a table showing emotion modes set in the mobile communication terminal 10. Similarly, it is explanatory drawing of the screen displayed on the other party's mobile communication terminal 10 when emotion mode is set. Similarly, it is a sequence diagram of call processing. Similarly, it is a block diagram of a call message. Similarly, it is a block diagram of an information message. Similarly, it is a flowchart of an incoming call reception process. Similarly, it is explanatory drawing of the information recorded on an incoming call history.

Explanation of symbols

10A, 10B Mobile communication terminal 11 Antenna 12 Radio unit 13 Control unit 14 Storage unit 15 Vibrator 16 Operation unit 17 Display unit 20 Base station

Claims (7)

A mobile communication terminal that can communicate with other communication terminals via a base station,
An emotion type holding means for holding a list of emotion types to be notified to a communication terminal as a call partner;
Emotion type information adding means for adding information indicating the emotion type to a communication terminal serving as a call partner in a call message to the base station;
A mobile communication terminal comprising: A mobile communication terminal that can communicate with other communication terminals via a base station,
An emotion type holding means for holding a list of emotion types to be notified from a communication terminal as a communication partner;
An emotion type selection means for selecting an emotion type from the emotion type holding means based on the emotion type information when information indicating the emotion type is added to the incoming call message from the base station;
Emotion type processing means for performing incoming call notification processing based on the emotion type selected by the emotion type selection means;
A mobile communication terminal comprising:   The mobile communication terminal according to claim 2, further comprising emotion type history holding means for holding the emotion type selected by the emotion type selection means together with the incoming call history.   The mobile communication terminal according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the emotion type processing means performs processing based on the emotion type by at least one of vibration, background color, voice, and display image. In a communication system comprising a base station, and a first mobile communication terminal and a second mobile communication terminal capable of making a call via the base station,
The first mobile communication terminal is
Emotion type holding means for holding a list of emotion types to be notified to the second communication terminal;
Emotion type information adding means for adding information indicating the emotion type to be notified to the second communication terminal in a call message to the base station,
The second mobile communication terminal is
Emotion type holding means for holding a list of emotion types notified from the first communication terminal;
An emotion type selecting means for selecting an emotion type from the emotion type holding means based on the emotion type information when information indicating the emotion type is added to the incoming call message from the base station;
Emotion type processing means for performing processing based on the emotion type selected by the emotion type selection means,
A communication system characterized by the above.   6. The communication system according to claim 5, wherein the second mobile communication terminal includes emotion type history holding means for holding the emotion type selected by the emotion type selection means together with the incoming call history.   7. The second mobile communication terminal according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the emotion type processing means performs processing based on the emotion type by at least one of vibration, background color, sound, and display image. The communication system described.

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