JP2008270901A - Telephone terminal and communicating system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a caller to indirectly understand a physical condition of a called person. <P>SOLUTION: A telephone terminal mounts a sensor which can detect the physical condition of the telephone terminal, and transmits music data which enables the caller to associate the physical condition of the portable telephone terminal to the caller based on the data of the sensor. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a telephone terminal such as a mobile phone terminal and the telephone terminal, and more particularly to a control technique for a caller side terminal until a callee answers a call.

  In a mobile phone system, when a caller calls the other party, the caller can hear a tone signal until the other party answers the call. This tone signal is transmitted from the mobile phone base station to the caller.

Conventionally, for example, there is a service in which a base station listens to music instead of a tone signal to a caller. However, this is whether the base station determines what kind of music is selected, or whether the music registered in advance by the subscriber is selected.
Thus, conventionally, music that can express the state of the called party has not been transmitted instead of the tone signal that can be heard by the calling party.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2005-341125 describes a telephone that allows a caller to listen to favorite music when calling from a calling telephone to a called telephone.
JP 2005-341125 A

However, at present, not only a function as a communication means, such as playing a game on a telephone terminal or listening to music, but also a function as an entertainment is desired. For this reason, it is desired to provide more expression means even for telephone terminals.
In view of this point, an object of the present invention is to provide a telephone terminal that can listen to music according to the physical state of the other party at the time of outgoing call.

  The present invention provides a telephone terminal having a sensor that generates state data representing the state of the telephone terminal, a call data to be transmitted to a base station at the time of call reception, and a memory for storing the state data. . The telephone terminal is a telephone terminal characterized by comprising a control unit that establishes a data communication channel with the base station when receiving a call and transmits call data corresponding to the state data to the base station.

  In addition, a data communication channel is established with the base station using the above telephone terminal, call data corresponding to the status data is transmitted to the telephone terminal on the caller side, and the call data is transmitted to the telephone terminal on the caller side. Provided is a communication system for outputting sound from a speaker by converting to sound.

  According to the present invention, when a user of a telephone terminal makes a call, the user can indirectly know the state of the other party from the ringing sound heard before the other party answers the telephone. In addition, it can be used as an expression means for notifying the other party of his / her current state when receiving a call.

  An example of an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 shows a telephone terminal as an example of the embodiment. An antenna 101 that performs wireless communication with a base station is connected to a communication circuit 102. The communication circuit 102 is communication processing means for performing reception processing and transmission processing such as demodulation of a received signal and modulation of a signal to be transmitted. The audio data in the received data packet is supplied to the speaker 104 as an analog audio signal and output.

  Also, the voice signal picked up by the microphone 103 is supplied to the communication circuit 102 to be used as transmission voice data, and the voice data is converted into a transmission data packet and transmitted to the base station side. Data transmission between the communication circuit 102 and each unit is performed using a data line 160.

  Further, the communication circuit 102 is configured to perform data transfer with the control unit 120 via the control line 150, and reception and transmission are performed based on an instruction from the control unit 120. In addition, received data other than audio data is sent to the control unit 120 and stored in the memory 105 as necessary. Data that needs to be transmitted is also sent from the control unit 120 or the memory 105 to the communication circuit 102 for transmission processing. When transmitting music data to be described later, the music data stored in the memory 105 (or an external storage device 750 to be described later) is sent to the communication circuit 102 and wirelessly transmitted.

  Further, operation data of the operation unit 106 constituted by operation means such as operation keys arranged in the mobile phone terminal 100 is supplied to the control unit 120, and a display unit 107 constituted by display means such as a liquid crystal display panel. The display at is also executed under the control of the control unit 120. The operation means arranged as the operation unit 106 includes a push button for inputting a telephone number or the like.

  The mobile phone terminal 100 includes a music data control unit 810, and music data stored in the built-in memory 105 or the external storage device 750 connected to the external device connection unit 701 under the control of the music data control unit 810. Can be output from the music speaker 124 as an analog audio signal. As the external storage device 122, for example, storage (recording) means such as a memory card is used.

  The music data stored in the memory 105 or the external storage device 750 is assumed to be, for example, music data downloaded from a server that accesses a server that distributes music data by wireless communication using the communication circuit 102. Is done. Alternatively, music data recorded by a user from, for example, a CD player, or music data transferred through a personal computer is assumed.

  The mobile phone terminal 100 further includes an acceleration sensor 901 and a temperature sensor 902. Data from these sensors is recorded in the memory 105 by the control unit 120 as time passes. Therefore, data is recorded in the memory 105 in time series. Also, when the data reaches a certain amount, it is preferable that the oldest data is overwritten in order, and a certain amount of data is always stored.

  Although not shown in the figure, the mobile phone terminal 100 has a current state of the mobile phone terminal 100 such as the remaining battery level, the strength of radio waves from the base station, the current position by the base station or the global positioning system so-called GPS, and the time. The physical state may be recorded.

  Thus, the cellular phone terminal 100 can store data representing its current physical state in the memory in time series. However, this data does not necessarily have to be stored in the memory 105, and the data output from each sensor may be processed by the control unit 120 or the like without going through the memory 105. Hereinafter, such data indicating the physical state of the mobile phone terminal 100 will be referred to as “state data”.

  Next, the state data and the call data are associated with each other such as what kind of call data is transmitted when the mobile phone terminal 100 is in any state. Call data is voice data that is heard when a caller makes a call and before the other party answers the call. Further, in the case of a telephone terminal that can display video, since video can be displayed on the caller's terminal before the other party answers the call, the video data also becomes call data. Furthermore, blinking of a light emitting diode or the like can be used for calling data.

Associating, for example, when a large acceleration continues for a certain interval or more, it can be inferred that a sport is being performed. In this case, select music that is intense and exciting, such as rock music. In addition, when the user is at rest, the mobile phone terminal 100 does not detect a large acceleration, so a quiet song such as classical music is selected.
Similarly, when the temperature sensor 902 detects a high temperature, music that images a southern country is selected, and when a low temperature is detected, music that images a winter is selected.

  That is, the state of the mobile phone terminal 100 is associated with the music category. Although details will be described later, it is preferable to store in the memory 105 in the form of a list. Such association can be performed automatically by processing the state data and the call data by a mathematical method. Also, the user may go ahead by himself.

  In this way, the user's state is inferred from the state data, and call data that makes the caller associate the state of the called party is transmitted. In other words, it is necessary to associate state data with call data. Various methods have been proposed for this method, and for example, they can be related by a principal method analysis or a mathematical method using a neural network. In addition to mathematical methods, the user can perform the association himself. In this case, the user can let the sender hear his / her favorite music.

  FIG. 3 is an example of a menu screen displayed on the display unit 107 of the mobile phone terminal 100 when the user of the mobile phone terminal 100 associates the status data with the music data 400 by himself. For example, as shown in the figure, a menu list such as “exercising”, “in the train”, “driving”, “sleeping”, “meeting” is displayed from the status menu 101, and one of these menus is displayed. select. In the figure, “Exercise” is selected. Next, a music category such as rock, jazz or classical music is selected from the music menu 102. In the figure, lock is selected.

  Next, the music data 400 stored in the memory 105 or the external storage device 750 is selected from the file menu 103. Finally, registration is completed by clicking the registration button 104. Here, since a plurality of songs exist in one category in the music menu, when one music data 400 is registered as described above, a different song is selected again in the file menu 103 and the registration button 104 is clicked.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of a menu screen when registration is changed or deleted. In the deletion screen, an arbitrary state is selected from the state menu 101. For example, during sleep, 101 'is selected. Next, when the corresponding music category is changed to pops, pops 102 ′ is selected in the music menu 102.

  Next, music data 400 ′ is selected from the file menu 103. Finally, the change button 105 is clicked. When deleting a song, for example, music3 is selected from the file menu 103 and the delete button 104 is clicked. As a result, music data 400 'belonging to a certain music category can be deleted.

  When changing or deleting a music category, the category is selected from the music menu 102, and then the file button 103 is not selected and the change button 105 or the delete button 104 is clicked.

The screen or operation procedure displayed on such a display unit can be arbitrarily formed, and is not limited to the present embodiment. Therefore, for example, registration, change, and deletion buttons may be displayed on one screen so that registration, change, and deletion can be operated on one screen.
That is, any operation screen and operation method can be included in the mobile phone terminal 100 of the present embodiment as long as the state data and the call data can be associated with each other manually.

  The associated data can be stored in the memory 105 in the form of a table. An example of the table is shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, a status column 10 representing the state of the mobile phone terminal 100, a music column 11 representing a music category corresponding to each state, and a video column 12 are configured.

  As described above, the music category and video corresponding to each state are associated with each other. For example, the music corresponding to the exercise is a rock, and the video is a tennis video. If the user is sleeping, the corresponding music category is classical, and the image is a starry sky image.

  The music column 11 and the video column 12 further correspond to one or a plurality of music data 400 and video data. When selecting the music data 400 and the video data from the music column 11 and the video column 12, the music data 400 and the video data may be selected at random using random numbers or the like, or the music data 400 and the video data most suitable for the current state data are selected. May be.

  Next, a communication system using the cellular phone terminal 100 of the example of the present embodiment will be described. In the communication system described below, it is assumed that the calling side uses a telephone terminal that is not the above embodiment. Therefore, hereinafter, the telephone terminal on the calling side is referred to as “sender terminal”.

  FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an outline of a communication system using the mobile phone terminal 100. First, when the caller terminal 300 makes a call S31, the base station 20 of the cell in which the caller terminal 300 is located performs authentication S32 as to whether or not the caller terminal 300 is a legitimate user. When it is confirmed that the user is a legitimate user, the base station 20 establishes a communication channel S21 with the mobile phone terminal 100.

  Actually, the base station 20 of the caller terminal 300 manages a plurality of base stations (areas), and the area where the mobile phone terminal 100 is located in a so-called home location register (not shown in FIG. 1). Inquire. That is, strictly speaking, there are two base stations 20 in FIG. 1 via the home location register. The home location register is not described here because it does not affect the description of the embodiment.

  When the communication channel S21 is established between the base station 20, the mobile phone terminal 100 and the communication channel S21 will be described in detail later, a predetermined process S110 is performed to transmit a state parameter or data corresponding thereto to the base station 20 S12. A data transmission communication channel is used for data transmission. This establishes the data communication channel S22 between the base station 20 and the mobile phone terminal 100 when establishing the communication channel S21 as shown in FIG.

The base station 20 transmits the received data to the caller terminal 30 as call data S33. The call data is, for example, music data or voice data in which a message is recorded. The format of the call data may be, for example, MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3), which is an audio compression format for compressing digitized audio, or WAV, which is a format for describing digitized audio. When there is a data transmission S12 from the mobile phone terminal 100, the base station 20 establishes a data communication channel S22 with the caller terminal 30. Thereafter, transmission 33 of call data is performed.
If music data is used for the call data, the caller terminal 30 can listen to the music instead of the call tone. In addition, the mobile phone terminal 100 generates a ring tone.

A communication system using the mobile phone terminal 100 as described above will be described below. In each embodiment, music data is assumed as call data. The following three communication systems are assumed.
(1) The music data 400 is stored in the mobile phone terminal 100, and the music data 400 is transmitted from the mobile phone terminal 100.
(2) The music data 400 is stored in the base station 20, and the base station 20 reproduces music and transmits it to the caller terminal 300.
(3) The music data 400 is stored in the caller terminal 300, and music is played on the caller terminal 300.
Each of the above embodiments will be described below.

(First form)
FIG. 6 is a diagram conceptually showing the first embodiment, and will be described below with reference to FIGS. The first form is an example in which music data is stored in the mobile phone terminal 100. First, as described above, the communication channel S21 is established with the mobile phone terminal 100 via the base station 20 by the call S31 of the caller terminal 30. At this time, the base station 20 establishes a data communication channel S22 used for packet communication in addition to a channel used for normal voice communication with the mobile phone terminal 100 on the receiving side. That is, the communication channel S21 in FIG. 2 includes a data communication channel S22 for packet communication.

  The data communication channel S22 is not necessarily performed when the communication channel S21 is established. The data communication channel S22 may be established at any time as long as it is before the data transmission S21 of the mobile phone terminal 100 in FIG. Therefore, the data communication channel S22 may be established after the process S110. For example, the data communication channel S22 may be a method used when the mobile phone terminal 100 is used to use the Internet or send / receive mail.

  Next, the cellular phone terminal 100 performs a process S110 for selecting the music data 400 from the state data. Specifically, based on the state data stored in the memory 105, the appropriate music data 400 is selected from the music stored in the memory 105 or the external storage device 705.

  When such processing S110 is completed, the cellular phone terminal 100 transmits music data 400 corresponding to the state data to the base station 20 using the data communication channel S22. When the base station 20 receives the data, the base station 20 establishes the data communication channel S22 with the caller terminal 30 to receive the music data 400, and transmits the music data 400. The caller terminal 30 reproduces the received music data 400.

  By transmitting the music data 400 to the caller in this way, the caller can guess the state of the called party from music. As described above, the data communication channel S22 established between the mobile phone terminal 100 and the caller terminal 30 may be charged because it may be a method used when using the Internet or mail.

(Second form)
FIG. 7 shows a second embodiment of a communication system using the mobile phone terminal 100. In this embodiment, the music data 400 is stored in the base station 20. Therefore, the user must transmit the music data 400 to the base station 20 in advance. The music data 400 may be transmitted by the mobile phone terminal 100, for example, or may be transmitted via the Internet using a personal computer (not shown).

The operation (see FIG. 2) from the call S31 to the process S110 of the caller terminal 300 is the same as in the first embodiment. Therefore, description will be made after the processing S110 of the mobile phone terminal 100.
In FIG. 3, the mobile phone terminal 100 transmits data for identifying the selected music piece to the base station 20. This data may be data that can identify the music data 400. Therefore, for example, text data corresponding to the title of a song, or an index number arbitrarily given to the music data 400 may be used.

The base station 20 reproduces the music based on the transmitted data and transmits it to the caller terminal 30. As a result, the caller terminal 300 can listen to music instead of the ring tone. When the base station 20 transmits music to the caller terminal 300, the base station converts the music data 400 into voice and transmits it to the caller terminal 300. In this way, the caller does not need to establish the data communication channel S22 with the base station 20, so that the caller is not charged.
However, the base station 20 may establish the data communication channel S22 with the caller terminal 30, transmit the music data 400 to the caller terminal 30 and play music on the caller terminal 30.

  In the present embodiment, the data transmitted by the mobile phone terminal 100 is data for identifying a song, so that the data amount is smaller than that of the music data 400. Therefore, compared with the first embodiment, communication costs such as packet communication can be reduced in the data communication channel S22. Further, since it is not necessary to store the music data 400 in the mobile phone terminal 100, it is possible to prevent the music data 400 from occupying most of the memory 105.

(Third form)
Next, a third embodiment will be described. Also in the present embodiment, the steps S31 to S110 of the caller terminal 300 are the same as those in the first embodiment, and thus the description thereof is omitted. In the third mode, the music data 400 is held by the caller terminal 30.
When the music selection is completed in the process S110 (see FIG. 5), the mobile phone terminal 100 transmits data for identifying the music to the base station 20. The base station 20 transmits data for identifying a song to the caller terminal 30. At this time, in order to receive the data selected by the mobile phone terminal 100, the caller terminal 30 must establish a data communication channel S22 between the authentication S32 and the data transmission S33 of the base station 20 in FIG. This may be the same as the data communication channel S22 established between the mobile phone terminal 100 and the base station 20.

  When the caller terminal 30 receives the data for identifying the song, the caller terminal 30 plays the song corresponding to this data. If there is no song corresponding to the received data on the caller terminal 30, the closest song is played. For example, when the data for identifying a song indicates rock music, the song is selected from rock music of the same genre.

  In the present embodiment, since the music data 400 is stored in the caller terminal 30, the music desired by the caller can be reproduced. In the case of the present embodiment, when data for identifying the music data 400 is received, this data must be processed by the caller terminal 30. Therefore, software or the like that can process this data is incorporated in the caller terminal 30. For example, a so-called JAVA (registered trademark) application is suitable.

It is a block diagram of an example of an embodiment of the invention. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system including an embodiment of the present invention. It is an example of the screen which correlates state data and call data. It is an example of the screen which changes or deletes the association between state data and call data. It is an example of the table which linked | related state data and call data. It is the 1st form of the communication system containing embodiment of this invention. It is the 2nd form of the communication system containing embodiment of this invention. It is the 3rd form of the communication system containing embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

  20 ... base station, 21 ... communication channel, 22 ... data communication channel, 30 ... caller terminal, 33 ... transmission of call data, 100 ... mobile phone terminal, 400 ...・ Music data

Claims (4)

A sensor that generates state data representing the state of the telephone terminal;
A memory for storing call data and status data to be transmitted to the base station before the start of a call when an incoming call is received;
A telephone terminal comprising: a control unit that establishes a data communication channel with a base station when an incoming call is received and transmits call data corresponding to status data to the base station. The telephone terminal according to claim 1, wherein the state data includes any of acceleration, temperature, battery remaining amount, radio wave intensity from a base station, current position, and time. The telephone terminal according to claim 2, wherein the call data is music or voice data. A communication system that transmits data to a caller's phone terminal according to the physical state of the phone terminal when an incoming call is received,
The telephone terminal establishes a data communication channel with the base station when receiving a call,
The call data corresponding to the state data stored in the terminal on the called side is transmitted to the telephone terminal device on the calling side via the base station,
A communication system that converts received call data into voice and outputs it from a speaker at a telephone terminal on the caller side.

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