JP2014123847A - Mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile phone capable of automatically switching an incoming call mode between a manner mode and a normal mode more appropriately depending on the ambient condition of the mobile phone user.SOLUTION: A mobile phone includes: an ambient terminal device detection section 19 to be driven periodically for detecting terminal identification information that identifies other mobile terminals presenting around the mobile phone; a storage section 22 for storing the terminal identification information; an ambient information amount calculation section 20 for calculating information amount that represents the ambient condition of the mobile phone on the basis of past terminal identification information and the terminal identification information acquired this time; and an incoming call switching section 21 for switching the incoming call mode between the manner mode and the normal mode on the basis of the information amount calculated by the ambient information amount calculation section 20. The mobile phone sets itself in the manner mode if there are many units of mobile terminals in the ambient area, and the variation of terminal identification information amount is small.

Description

  The present invention relates to a cellular phone that automatically sets and cancels a manner mode.

  Conventionally, it has been proposed to automatically switch the incoming mode of a mobile phone to the manner mode using a GPS function or the like. For example, in the mobile phone described in Patent Document 1, it is determined whether or not the person carrying the mobile phone is moving by detecting the position by GPS, and whether the movement is walking by the acceleration sensor, Judge whether it is traveling by other trains. Furthermore, when it is determined that the map information is moving on the route of the transportation facility, the incoming mode of the mobile phone is automatically switched to the manner mode.

JP 2011-171908 A

  In the mobile phone described in Patent Document 1, in order to determine whether or not the owner uses public transportation using position detection by GPS, for example, a train that has been stopped for a long time for time adjustment. There is also a possibility that the manner mode may be canceled in the inside of a bus or in a bus in a traffic jam. In addition, when a taxi is moving along a public transportation route, the manner mode is set even if the public transportation such as a train or a bus is not used.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems of the conventional example, and automatically sets the incoming mode between the manner mode and the normal mode more appropriately according to the situation around the owner of the mobile phone. It is an object to provide a mobile phone that can be switched.

In order to achieve the above object, a mobile phone according to the present invention includes:
Peripheral terminal device detection means that is periodically driven and detects terminal identification information for identifying other mobile terminal devices existing around the device itself;
Storage means for storing the terminal identification information;
Ambient information amount calculating means for calculating the amount of information representing the surrounding situation of the own device using the past terminal identification information stored in the storage means and the terminal identification information acquired this time,
Based on the information amount calculated by the surrounding information amount calculating means, an incoming mode switching means for switching whether the incoming mode is set to the manner mode or the normal mode is provided.

  The surrounding terminal device detection means scans other portable terminal devices existing around the own device using a communication function, and the terminal identification information is a MAC ( Media Access Control) information is preferably used.

  The surrounding information amount calculating means compares the previously scanned MAC information stored in the storage means with the MAC information scanned this time, and uses the surrounding terminal apparatus scanned last time as an information amount representing the surrounding situation of the own device. It is preferable to calculate the ratio value of the change in MAC information with respect to the number of mobile terminals or the number of peripheral terminal devices scanned this time.

  It is preferable that the surrounding information amount calculating means counts the number of other mobile terminal devices existing around the own device from the MAC information scanned this time as an information amount representing the surrounding state of the own device.

  It is preferable that the surrounding information amount calculating means further determines whether the own device is indoors or outdoors as the information amount indicating the surrounding state of the own device.

  It is preferable that the surrounding information amount calculation means determine whether the own device is indoors or outdoors using received power of GPS (Global Positioning System).

  The incoming mode switching means compares the change rate value of the MAC information with a predetermined rate threshold, the change rate value of the MAC information is less than the rate threshold, and the number of the other portable terminal devices And the predetermined number threshold, and when the number of the other portable terminal devices is equal to or greater than the number threshold, the incoming mode is preferably set to the manner mode.

  The incoming mode switching means compares the MAC information change rate value with a predetermined rate threshold value, and the MAC information change rate value is less than the rate threshold value, and when the device is indoors. The incoming mode is preferably set to the manner mode.

  The incoming mode switching means may temporarily set the incoming mode to the manner mode when receiving an e-mail, and then switch the incoming mode to the normal mode based on the information amount calculated by the ambient information amount calculating means. It is preferable to determine whether or not.

  The incoming mode switching means preferably sets the incoming mode once to the manner mode when an incoming call is received, and then sets the incoming mode that was set immediately before the incoming call.

  According to the configuration of the present invention, when the number of mobile terminal devices in the surrounding area is smaller than a certain threshold value, it is considered that there are not many people in the surrounding area, and it is considered less necessary to set the incoming mode to the manner mode. . In other words, even if a ring tone sounds in such a situation, it does not cause much trouble for people around, so the incoming mode can be set to the normal mode. Also, if the percentage of change in terminal identification information is small, the relative movement amount of the owner of the portable terminal and the people around it is small, for example, seated in a movie theater seat or train It is thought that it is moving at. Therefore, it is highly necessary to set the incoming mode to the manner mode, and the incoming mode can be set to the manner mode. On the other hand, when the rate of change of the terminal identification information is large, the relative movement amount between the owner of the portable terminal of the own device and the surrounding people is large. For example, the owner of the portable terminal of the own device The case where it walks on the top etc. is assumed. In this case, since the necessity of setting the incoming mode to the manner mode is not so high, the incoming mode can be set to the normal mode.

The block block diagram of the mobile telephone which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. The flowchart which shows the 1st operation example of the said mobile telephone. The flowchart which shows the 2nd operation example of the said mobile telephone. The flowchart which shows the 3rd operation example of the said mobile telephone.

  A mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 shows a block configuration of a mobile phone 1 according to the present embodiment. The mobile phone 1 includes, for example, a liquid crystal touch panel as one input / output device. The liquid crystal touch panel functions as the image display unit 11, displays icons indicating various functions of the mobile phone, displays received e-mails, receives images captured by a camera (not shown), It is used to display TV images. The liquid crystal touch panel functions as an input unit, detects which part of the keyboard or the like displayed on the screen is operated by the user, and outputs a signal corresponding to the detected part. In addition, the cellular phone 1 includes a microphone 13 and a speaker 14 as an input / output device for an original telephone function. Furthermore, a vibration unit 15 is provided for notifying incoming calls or emails in the manner mode. The input / output control unit 16 controls the input / output devices such as the image display unit 11, the input unit 12, the microphone 13, the speaker 14, and the vibration unit 15. Further, the communication control unit 17 performs radio communication by radio waves with the base station via the communication unit 18. Furthermore, the GPS receiving unit 23 receives radio waves from GPS satellites, and the received GPS signals are used for specifying the current position of the own device.

  The mobile phone 1 is a terminal identification that periodically identifies other mobile terminal devices that are present in the vicinity of the mobile phone 1 in order to automatically switch the incoming mode that is the object of the present invention between the normal mode and the manner mode. A surrounding terminal device detection unit 19 that detects information, a terminal identification information from the surrounding terminal device detection unit 19, a surrounding information amount calculation unit 20 that calculates the amount of change in the situation around the own device, and a surrounding information amount calculation Based on the amount of change calculated by the unit 20, an incoming mode switching unit 21 for switching whether the incoming mode is set to the manner mode or the normal mode is provided.

  FIG. 2 shows a flow of a first operation example of the mobile phone 1. First, the surrounding terminal device detection unit 19 periodically (for example, every few minutes), for example, using Bluetooth (registered trademark), a Bluetooth (registered trademark) compatible mobile phone or tablet terminal device around the device itself, etc. Mobile terminal devices (hereinafter, the mobile terminal device detected by scanning is referred to as “peripheral terminal device”) to detect the number of peripheral terminal devices and the MAC information (terminal identification information) of the peripheral terminal devices (# 1). This scan usually takes about 10 to 20 seconds. These detected data are temporarily stored in the storage unit 22 (# 2). Then, the surrounding information amount calculation unit 20 reads the previously acquired MAC information stored in the storage unit 22 (# 3), and compares the previous MAC information with the current MAC information (# 4). Specifically, the MAC information of the surrounding terminal devices scanned last time is compared with the MAC information of the surrounding terminal devices scanned this time, and the number of mismatches is counted. Then, the ratio of the number of MAC information changes to the number of surrounding terminal devices scanned last time or the number of surrounding terminal devices scanned this time is calculated (# 5). The incoming call mode switching unit 21 compares the calculated ratio value with a ratio threshold value (# 6).

  And when the ratio value of the change number of MAC information is less than a threshold value (it is YES at # 6), the surrounding information amount calculating part 20 counts the number of surrounding terminal devices from the MAC information detected this time (# 7), The surrounding information amount calculator 20 compares the count value with the number threshold (# 8). When the number of surrounding terminal devices is equal to or greater than the number threshold (YES in # 8), the incoming mode switching unit 21 sets the incoming mode of the mobile phone 1 to the manner mode (# 9). That is, when the incoming mode of the mobile phone 1 is set to the normal mode, the mode is switched to the manner mode, and when the incoming mode of the mobile phone 1 is set to the manner mode, the manner mode is maintained as it is. When there are peripheral terminal devices around the number of devices, and the MAC information of the peripheral terminal devices has not changed much, there are relatively many people around the owner of the mobile phone 1 In addition, since these people are not moving, it is assumed that they are seated in a movie theater seat or are moving by train or the like. Therefore, it is necessary to set the incoming mode of the mobile phone 1 to the manner mode.

  On the other hand, if the ratio value at which the MAC information has changed is equal to or greater than the ratio threshold value (NO in # 6), the owner of the mobile phone 1 and the surrounding people are moving relatively, and the owner of the mobile phone 1 It is assumed that you are walking on a sidewalk. Or, although the ratio value in which the MAC information has changed is less than the ratio threshold (YES in # 6), if the number of surrounding terminal devices is less than the number threshold (NO in # 7), it is considered that there are not many people around It is done. That is, even if a ring tone sounds in such a situation, there is not much trouble for people around. Therefore, in these two cases, the incoming call mode switching unit 21 sets the incoming call mode of the mobile phone 1 to the normal mode (# 10).

  FIG. 3 shows a flow of a second operation example of the mobile phone 1. In the second operation example, it is determined whether the mobile phone 1 is indoors or outdoors by using the strength (reception power) of the GPS signal from the GPS satellite received by the GPS receiver 23. In FIG. 3, steps # 11 to # 16 are the same as steps # 1 to # 6 in FIG.

  If the changed ratio value of the MAC information is less than the threshold (YES in # 16), the GPS receiving unit 23 is activated to receive a GPS signal from a GPS satellite (# 17), and the surrounding information amount computing unit 20 The received power (intensity) of the GPS signal is compared with a power threshold value (# 18). In general, when indoors, a GPS signal from a GPS satellite is attenuated by a structural material constituting a building or a vehicle, so that the received power of the GPS signal decreases. Therefore, when the received power of the received GPS signal is less than the power threshold (YES in # 19), the surrounding people are not moving and the owner of the mobile phone 1 is in the building or in the car It is assumed. Accordingly, the incoming mode of the mobile phone 1 is set to the manner mode (# 20).

  On the other hand, when the received power of the received GPS signal is equal to or higher than the power threshold (NO in # 19), it is assumed that the owner of the mobile phone 1 is outdoors, even though the surrounding people are not moving. Even if a ring tone sounds under such circumstances, it is considered that there is not much trouble for people around, so the incoming mode of the mobile phone 1 is set to the normal mode (# 21).

  FIG. 4 shows a flow of a third operation example of the mobile phone 1. The first operation example and the second operation example of the mobile phone 1 are periodically executed regardless of whether there is an incoming call or e-mail, and the manner mode is automatically set according to the surrounding situation. Is set. In the third operation example, in addition to this, when there is an incoming call or e-mail, the incoming mode of the cellular phone 1 is once set to the manner mode, and then switched to the normal mode according to the surrounding situation of the own device. Or whether to maintain the manner mode. As described above, it usually takes about 10 to 20 seconds to scan the MAC information of the surrounding terminal devices. On the other hand, if there is an incoming call and the user does not answer within a few seconds, the other party either hangs up the phone or enters the answering machine mode. Therefore, there is no room for scanning the MAC information of the surrounding terminal devices after the incoming call. On the other hand, in the case of e-mail, even if the timing for notifying the owner of the mobile phone 1 that an e-mail has been received is delayed by about 10 to 20 seconds, there is no problem.

  Therefore, when there is an incoming call or e-mail (# 31), the incoming mode switching unit 21 once sets the incoming mode of the cellular phone 1 to the manner mode regardless of whether the incoming call is a telephone or an e-mail. (# 32). Then, the incoming call mode switching unit 21 determines whether the incoming call is a phone call or an e-mail (# 33). When the incoming call is a telephone call (YES in # 33), it is determined whether or not the previous incoming call mode set immediately before receiving this telephone call is the manner mode (# 34). If the previous incoming mode was the normal mode (NO in # 34), the incoming mode is switched to the normal mode (# 35), the ringtone is output from the speaker 14 (# 36), and the owner receives a call. To inform. On the other hand, if the previous incoming mode is the manner mode (YES in # 34), the vibration unit 15 is driven (# 38) with the incoming mode maintained as it is (# 37), and the owner is called. Notify incoming calls.

  As described above, according to the mobile phone according to the present invention, the surrounding terminal device detection unit 19 uses, for example, Bluetooth (registered trademark), a Bluetooth (registered trademark) compatible mobile phone around the own device, For example, terminal identification information such as MAC information is detected to identify a mobile terminal device such as a tablet terminal device, and the past terminal identification information stored in the storage unit 22 and the current terminal identification information are obtained by the surrounding information amount calculation unit 20 Using the terminal identification information, for example, the number of surrounding terminal devices scanned last time or the ratio of the number of changes in MAC information to the number of surrounding terminal devices scanned this time, the number of surrounding terminal devices, the received power of GPS signals, etc. The incoming call mode switching unit 21 sets the incoming call mode to silent mode based on the information amount calculated by the surrounding information amount calculating unit 20. Or change the set to the normal mode or set to. Therefore, as compared with the conventional example, there is no possibility that the manner mode is canceled in a train or bus that has been stopped for a long time, for example. In addition, when the taxi is moving along a route to public transportation, the manner mode is not unnecessarily set.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the structure of the said embodiment, A various deformation | transformation is possible. In the above embodiment, Bluetooth (registered trademark) is used as a means for scanning the surrounding terminal devices, and the MAC information is exemplified as the terminal identification information. A telephone number or the like may be used. In determining whether the device is outdoors or indoors, it is possible to use the communication status of the mobile phone with the base station, the reception status of the one-segment TV, and the like. Further, the input / output device of the mobile phone is not limited to the liquid crystal touch panel, and may be a combination of a conventional liquid crystal display device and a keyboard, a voice input / output device using a microphone and a speaker, or the like.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cellular phone 19 Peripheral terminal device detection part 20 Ambient information amount calculation part 21 Incoming call mode switching part 22 Storage part 23 GPS receiving part

Claims (10)

Peripheral terminal device detection means that is periodically driven and detects terminal identification information for identifying other mobile terminal devices existing around the device itself;
Storage means for storing the terminal identification information;
Ambient information amount calculating means for calculating the amount of information representing the surrounding situation of the own device using the past terminal identification information stored in the storage means and the terminal identification information acquired this time,
A mobile phone comprising incoming mode switching means for switching whether the incoming mode is set to the manner mode or the normal mode based on the information amount calculated by the ambient information amount calculating means.   The surrounding terminal device detection means scans other portable terminal devices existing around the own device using a communication function, and the terminal identification information is a MAC ( 2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the media access control information is used.   The surrounding information amount calculating means compares the previously scanned MAC information stored in the storage means with the MAC information scanned this time, and uses the surrounding terminal apparatus scanned last time as an information amount representing the surrounding situation of the own device. The mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein a ratio value of a change in MAC information with respect to the number of mobile terminals or the number of peripheral terminal devices scanned this time is calculated.   The surrounding information amount calculating means counts the number of other portable terminal devices existing around the own device from the MAC information scanned this time as an information amount representing the surrounding state of the own device. 3. The mobile phone according to 3.   4. The mobile phone according to claim 3, wherein the surrounding information amount calculating means further determines whether the own device is indoors or outdoors as an information amount representing the surrounding situation of the own device.   6. The mobile phone according to claim 5, wherein the surrounding information amount calculating means determines whether the own device is indoors or outdoors using received power of a GPS (Global Positioning System).   The incoming mode switching means compares the change rate value of the MAC information with a predetermined rate threshold, the change rate value of the MAC information is less than the rate threshold, and the number of the other portable terminal devices 5. The mobile phone according to claim 4, wherein when the number of the other portable terminal devices is equal to or greater than the number threshold, the incoming mode is set to the manner mode.   The incoming mode switching means compares the MAC information change rate value with a predetermined rate threshold value, and the MAC information change rate value is less than the rate threshold value, and when the device is indoors. The mobile phone according to claim 5, wherein the incoming mode is set to a manner mode.   Whether the incoming call mode switching means temporarily sets the incoming call mode to the manner mode when receiving an e-mail, and then switches the incoming call mode to the normal mode based on the amount of change calculated by the surrounding information amount calculating means. The mobile phone according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the mobile phone is determined.   10. The incoming call mode switching unit temporarily sets the incoming call mode to the manner mode when a call is received, and then sets the incoming call mode set immediately before the incoming call. Mobile phone.

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