JP2011103580A - Mobile terminal, program thereof, and method for controlling ringtone and volume - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile terminal that always responds to a ringtone with a prime volume according to a connection status by which a headphone is connected with a terminal body. <P>SOLUTION: The mobile terminal detects the connection status of the headphone and adjusts the volume of the tone that is output from either the headphone or a speaker according to the status. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a portable terminal that outputs an incoming voice at an optimum volume according to a connection state of headphones to a terminal body, a program thereof, and an incoming voice volume control method.

  With mobile terminals such as mobile phones, content such as music, games, and videos can be easily obtained through the Internet, and it can be enjoyed anytime and anywhere. When using an application that outputs sound, most users listen to music or the like using a portable terminal equipped with headphones so as not to disturb others in public places such as trains. For this reason, recently, damage to the human body, such as hearing loss and other damage to the health of the ear by listening to a loud sound through headphones, has been reported as a problem. Therefore, it is necessary to take measures to adjust the sound volume according to the wearing state of the headphones on the human body.

  Conventional techniques for adjusting the volume of incoming voice of a mobile terminal are disclosed in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 below. In Patent Document 1, when an incoming call is received during voice output, the volume of the voice is lowered and output from the designated volume, and the volume of the ringtone is gradually raised from a volume lower than the set volume and outputted. This technique is disclosed. Further, in Patent Document 2, when there is an incoming call during audio output, when the connection of the monaural earphone is detected, the sound is output at the volume of the sound, and when the connection of the stereo earphone is detected or the earphone When no sound is detected, a technique is disclosed in which the sound output from one of the earphones and the incoming sound from the other are output as monaural sound adjusted to be the same as the volume of stereo sound.

JP 2006-135841 A JP 2002-31840 A

  However, in Patent Document 1, there is no detection of the connection state of the headset to the terminal body itself, and in Patent Document 2, the connection state of the headset to the terminal body is detected. The volume of the incoming voice is adjusted accordingly. For this reason, there is a problem that it is necessary to adjust the volume of the incoming call sound every time the listening of the speaker and headphones is switched.

  If you set the optimal volume on the speaker of the mobile device, and you do not adjust the volume, you will hear a higher volume than on the speaker, so you will lose the health of your ears. If the volume is not adjusted in the same way after setting to a proper volume, the speaker will hear a lower volume than when listening with headphones. Further, when the portable terminal is stored in a pocket or a bag with the headphones connected to the portable terminal, the incoming voice is output from the headphones, and thus there is also a problem that the incoming voice is missed.

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal and an incoming call sound volume control method that can always respond with an optimum output location and volume according to the connection state of headphones to the mobile terminal.

  In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, headphones, a speaker built in the terminal body, headphone connection detection means for detecting a connection state of the headphones to the terminal body, According to the connection state, a portable terminal comprising a volume adjusting means for adjusting a volume of sound output from at least one of the headphones and the built-in peaker is obtained.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, the computer detects an incoming signal from the wireless unit, detects the connection state of the headphones to the terminal body when the incoming signal is detected, and connects the headphones. According to a state, a program for adjusting a volume of sound output from at least one of the headphones and the built-in speaker is obtained.

  Furthermore, according to another aspect of the present invention, a step of detecting an incoming signal from the radio unit, a step of detecting a connection state of the headphones to the terminal body when the incoming signal is detected, and a connection of the headphones And a step of adjusting a volume of sound output from at least one of the headphones and the built-in speaker according to a state.

  In the present invention, since it is always possible to respond to the incoming sound at the optimum volume, there is no need to adjust the volume, and there is no possibility of impairing the health of the ear because there is no output of high volume with headphones, Is not output, so there is an advantage that the incoming voice is not missed.

  Furthermore, the possibility of missing the incoming call voice is low even when the mobile terminal is stored in a pocket or bag with the headphones connected to the mobile terminal.

It is a block diagram which shows the portable terminal which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a processing flow explaining operation | movement of the terminal main body of the portable terminal shown by FIG. It is the processing flow which showed other operation | movement of the terminal main body.

  Hereinafter, a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an operation flow thereof.

  The mobile terminal shown in FIG. 1 includes a terminal main body 100, a control unit 101 that controls the entire apparatus, a memory 102 that stores data such as incoming voice and music, and output from data such as incoming voice and music. There was an incoming call, an audio generation unit 103 that generates a signal, a volume adjustment unit 104 that amplifies or attenuates an output signal of the audio generation unit 104, a headphone detection unit 105 that detects the connection of headphones to the terminal body, A radio unit 106 that generates an incoming call signal, a speaker 107 that outputs incoming voice and music, and a headphone 110 that is connected to the portable terminal and outputs incoming voice and music.

  Next, the operation of the mobile terminal shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The control unit 101 continues to detect the incoming signal until there is an incoming call (step S201: No). When there is an incoming call and the incoming signal is detected from the wireless unit 106 (step S201: Yes), the control unit 101 detects the headphone detection unit 105. A detection signal is detected from (step S202). When the headphone 110 is not connected to the terminal body 100 (step S202: No), the control unit 101 uses the incoming voice and the first volume data set in the memory 102 in advance as the voice generation unit 103 and the volume of the speaker, respectively. Output to the adjustment unit 104. The output signal generated by the sound generation unit 103 is adjusted in volume by the volume adjustment unit 104 and transmitted to the speaker, whereby the incoming call sound is output from the speaker 107 at the first volume (steps S205 and S206). When the headphone 110 is connected to the terminal main body 100 (step S202: Yes), the control unit 101 similarly receives the incoming voice set in the memory 102 in advance and the second volume data lower than the first volume, respectively. The data is output to the generation unit 103 and the volume control unit 104 of the headphones 110. The output signal generated by the sound generation unit 103 is adjusted in volume by the volume adjustment unit 104 and transmitted to the speaker, whereby the incoming call sound is output from the headphones 110 at the second volume (steps S203 and S204).

  As described above, the mobile terminal according to this embodiment can individually control the volume output to the headphones 110 and the speaker 107 according to whether or not the headphones 110 are connected. That is, the step S202 for detecting whether or not the headphones 110 are connected and the first and second volume setting steps S205 and S203 can be referred to as a headphone connection detection unit and a volume adjustment unit, respectively.

  Hereinafter, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. This embodiment is the same as the first embodiment except that step S210, which is a means for detecting whether or not music output detection means, that is, music by a music application is in an output state, is added. Since the process until the incoming signal is detected is the same as that in the first embodiment, it will be omitted and the process after the detection will be described. When the headphone 110 is not connected to the terminal body 100 (step S202: No), the control unit 101 uses the incoming voice and the first volume data set in the memory 102 in advance as the voice generation unit 103 and the volume of the speaker, respectively. Output to the adjustment unit 104. The output signal generated by the sound generation unit 103 is adjusted in volume by the volume adjustment unit 104 and transmitted to the speaker, whereby the incoming call sound is output from the speaker 107 at the first volume (steps S205 and S206). When the headphones 110 are connected to the terminal body 100, the incoming call sound is output from the speaker 107 at the first volume even when music or the like is not output (steps S205 and S206). On the other hand, when music or the like is output, that is, when music or the like is output by a music application, when the control unit 101 detects the sound from the memory 102, the incoming call sound is output from the headphones 110 at the second volume. (Steps S203 and 204).

  Note that the blocks of S201 which is the headphone connection detection means and S202 which is the music output means may be reversed. Further, in the above embodiment, when the headphones 110 are connected to the terminal main body 100, it may be configured such that individually set incoming sounds are output from both the headphones 110 and the speakers 107. This configuration is suitable even when music or the like is output and the headphones 110 are not attached to the ears, that is, even when the headphones 110 are not attached to the ears and forgetting to stop the music or the like. In addition, it has the advantage of reducing the chance of missed incoming calls.

  The operations according to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 are usually executed by a program stored in a computer-readable recording medium, but may be executed by a hardware circuit. The headphones 110 may be wireless headphones using infrared rays or the like as long as they can communicate with the terminal body 100 in addition to electrical connection. The incoming voice and music include those stored in advance in the memory 102 and those received from a network such as the Internet and stored in the memory 102. Incoming calls include incoming calls such as e-mails and chats received through the network.

  Each of the above-described embodiments is merely an example of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the present invention can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the gist thereof.

  In the embodiment described above, the mobile phone has been described. However, the incoming call sound volume control method according to the present invention can be applied to a mobile terminal capable of communicating through a network, such as a portable personal computer and a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). it can.

100 Terminal Body 101 Control Unit 102 Memory 103 Sound Generation Unit 104 Volume Control Unit 105 Headphone Detection Unit 106 Radio Unit 107 Speaker 110 Headphone

Claims (14)

Headphones and a speaker built into the device,
Headphone connection detection means for detecting a connection state of the headphones to the terminal body;
A portable terminal comprising: a volume adjusting unit that adjusts a volume of sound output from at least one of the headphones and the built-in speaker according to the connection state. 2. The portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein when the headphones are connected to the terminal body, the volume control unit causes the headphones to output sound at a preset first volume, and the headphones are connected. If not, the portable terminal outputs sound to the speaker at a preset first volume. 2. The portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein the terminal main body has a music output detecting means for detecting a music output state. 4. The portable terminal according to claim 3, wherein the sound volume adjusting means adjusts sound volume according to the music output state by the music output detecting means and the headphone connection state by the headphone connection detecting means. Mobile terminal. The mobile terminal according to claim 4,
By the headphone connection detection means or the music output detection means,
If the headphone is connected to the terminal body and the music is detected being output, the headphone outputs sound at a preset first volume,
A portable terminal characterized in that when it is detected that the headphones are not connected to the terminal main body or the music is not output, a sound is output to a speaker at a preset first volume. The portable terminal according to claim 2 or 5, wherein the first volume is equal to or lower than the first volume. On the computer,
Detecting an incoming signal from the radio unit;
If the incoming signal is detected, detecting the connection status of the headphones to the terminal body,
And a step of adjusting a volume of sound output from at least one of the headphones and the built-in speaker according to a connection state of the headphones. On the computer,
Detecting an incoming signal from the radio unit;
If an incoming signal is detected,
When the headphones are connected to the terminal body, the sound is output to the headphones at a preset first volume,
A program for causing a speaker to output sound at a preset first volume when the headphones are not connected to the terminal body. On the computer,
Detecting an incoming signal from the radio unit;
If an incoming signal is detected,
When the headphones are connected to the terminal main body and the music is being output, the sound is output to the headphones at a preset first volume,
A program for causing a speaker to output a sound at a preset first volume when the headphones are not connected to the terminal body or when the music is not output. 10. The program according to claim 8, wherein the first volume is a volume that is equal to or lower than the first volume. Detecting an incoming signal from the radio unit;
If the incoming signal is detected, detecting the connection status of the headphones to the terminal body,
And a step of adjusting a volume of sound output from at least one of the headphones and the built-in speaker according to a connection state of the headphones. Detecting an incoming signal from the radio unit;
If an incoming signal is detected,
When the headphones are connected to the terminal body, the sound is output to the headphones at a preset first volume,
And a step of causing the speaker to output a sound at a preset first volume when the headphones are not connected to the terminal main body. Detecting an incoming signal from the radio unit;
If an incoming signal is detected,
When the headphones are connected to the terminal main body and the music is being output, the sound is output to the headphones at a preset first volume,
And a step of outputting a sound to a speaker at a first preset volume when the headphones are not connected to the terminal body or when the music is not output. Method. 14. The incoming call sound volume control method according to claim 12, wherein the first sound volume is a sound volume equal to or lower than the first sound volume.

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