JP3054619B2 - Communication terminal device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication terminal device such as a selective call receiving device used for a pager or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a selective call receiving apparatus used for a pager uses a ROM read-out device to read a melody, a tone color, a sounding interval, and the like at the time of calling a PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, or the like. Write to
When you want to change the written contents, add a new ROM
It was rewritten using a writer or the like.

FIG. 4 shows the structure of a conventional selective call receiving apparatus. In FIG. 4, 1 is a selective call receiving device, 2
Is a ROM writer.

[0004] Reference numeral 3 denotes an antenna in the selective call receiving apparatus 1, reference numeral 4 denotes a receiving section for receiving a reception signal input from the antenna 3, reference numeral 5 denotes a waveform shaping section for shaping the output of the receiving section 4, and reference numeral 6 denotes a waveform shaping section. A control circuit that demodulates the signal whose waveform has been shaped by the unit 5 and controls the entirety of the selective call receiving apparatus 1 is electrically written with a call number and a ringing tone pattern of the user. Erasable EEP
ROM.

[0005] Reference numeral 8 denotes a melody IC in which a plurality of melodies corresponding to the sound pattern written in the EEPROM 7 are written, 9 is a speaker for calling, 10 is a light emitting diode,
11 is a power switch, and 12 is a push switch for stopping a ringing tone.

Next, the operation of the above conventional example will be described. In FIG. 4, when the power switch 11 is turned on, a selective calling signal from the telephone can be received by the antenna 3. The received signal is received by the receiving unit 4 and then subjected to waveform shaping by the waveform shaping unit 5. , And demodulated by the control device 6.

[0007] The output of the control device 6 causes the EEPRO
A ringing tone corresponding to the ringing tone pattern written in M 7 is output from the melody IC 8, and this ringing tone flows from the speaker 9. At this time, the light emitting diode 10 also emits light.

When the user wants to stop the sound from the speaker 9 and the light emission of the light emitting diode 10, the push switch 12 is turned on to stop the sound of the speaker 9 and the light emission of the light emitting diode 10.

When it is desired to rewrite the contents written in the EEPROM 7, for example, the control device 6 and the ROM
By performing communication with the writer 2, the contents of the EEPROM 7 are rewritten with data generated by a personal computer or the like.

[0010]

In recent years, the number of users who use pagers has been increasing, and the sounds of pagers being heard in various places throughout the city have been heard.

However, the above-described conventional selective call receiving apparatus 1
Pager, for example, stores a tone of a single frequency of 2660 Hz in the EEPROM 7. Therefore, as the pager becomes popular, it is difficult to know who called it. In such a case, there is a problem that it is impossible to know which pager is being called without taking out each pager and confirming it. Further, conventionally, since the tone color of the ring tone is a single frequency and a monotonous tone color, the ring tone has been called by a combination of a plurality of frequencies or a melody tone.

However, for example, when it is desired to change the tune of the melody or the like, it is troublesome to go to the company that provides the pager service and have the contents of the EEPROM 7 changed. Also, with a so-called passive device such as a selective call receiving device that waits for a call from the outside, it is uneasy whether the sound will sound even when the power is turned on, and whether the sound volume can be heard even if it sounds. become. Also, depending on the consumption of the battery, the setting state of the volume, or the ambient noise, it may be better to change to a sound pattern that is easier to hear. Therefore, each time the power is turned on, an operation test is performed, and if it is difficult to hear the sounding pattern emitted at the time of calling, another candidate of the sounding pattern is immediately selected and emitted at the time of calling. It is convenient if the sounding pattern can be easily selected again.

The present invention has been made to solve such a conventional problem, and allows a user to arbitrarily select a ringing sound by himself / herself while also setting a ringing sound at a previously set ringing time. The user-friendly selective call receiving device, which enables the user to substantially confirm the above pattern every time the power is turned on, and provides the user with a chance to select and select another sound pattern candidate. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication terminal device.

[0014]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a sound pattern storing means for storing a plurality of sound patterns emitted at the time of calling, and an operation for selecting a sound pattern are started. A switch; a sound pattern presenting means for extracting and presenting a sound pattern stored in the sound pattern storage means; and one of a plurality of sound patterns presented by the sound pattern presenting means. Selecting means for selecting one of the two and storing the sounding pattern selected by the selecting means, and storing the order of presentation of a plurality of sounding patterns to be presented when selecting the sounding pattern emitted at the time of calling. An electrically writable and readable memory, and read out a sounding pattern stored in the memory at the time of calling from the outside, and output it to the sounding pattern presenting means. Sounding pattern reading means, indicator means for outputting a sounding pattern corresponding to the sounding pattern presented by the sounding pattern presenting means, and a power switch; and an operation for selecting the sounding pattern. The switch to be started and the two switches of the power supply switch are shared by one switch means, and when the switch means is turned on from off, the power is turned on and the operation of selecting a sound pattern is started, A plurality of sound patterns stored in the sound pattern storage means are presented in the order of presentation stored in the memory, and a sound pattern emitted at the time of calling during the presentation of the sound pattern is selected. When the selection is made, the selection result is stored in the memory, while a plurality of sounds to be presented when selecting a sounding pattern to be emitted at the time of calling is selected. The order of the turn presentation is stored first so that the sound pattern as the selection result is presented first, and the other sound patterns are presented after the second, and after selecting the sound pattern emitted at the time of calling, When there is a call from the outside, the stored sound pattern is presented as the selection result, and after selecting the sound pattern to be emitted at the time of calling, the switch means is turned on from off to turn on the power. Starting up, according to the order of presentation of the plurality of sounding patterns stored in the memory, the sounding pattern as the selection result is presented first, and the other sounding patterns are presented secondly and thereafter. Make up.

According to the present invention, a desired sound pattern is selected from a plurality of sound patterns and stored in a memory. When a call is made from the outside, the sound pattern stored in the memory is selected. Is output, so that the user can arbitrarily select the ringing sound at the time of calling. Also, after selecting the ringing pattern to be emitted at the time of ringing, if the switch means, which also functions as a switch for starting the operation for selecting the ringing pattern and the power switch, is turned on from off, the previously set ringing sound for ringing at the last time is set. Each time the power is turned on, it is possible to substantially confirm the pattern even in the context of an operation test, and to provide the user with a chance to select and reset another sound pattern candidate. it can.

[0016]

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 21 is a selective call receiving device, 22 is an antenna, 23 is a receiving unit that receives and processes an external call signal received by the antenna 22, 24 is a waveform shaping unit that shapes the output of the receiving unit 23, 25 is a power switch.

Reference numeral 26 denotes a melody IC (integrated circuit) serving as a sound pattern storing means which stores a plurality of patterns of sound to be emitted at the time of calling, and 27 is depressed when stopping the sound to be emitted at the time of calling. This is a push switch as selection means, which is pressed when one of a plurality of sound patterns stored in the melody IC 26 is selected.

Reference numeral 28 denotes an EEPROM as a memory capable of electrically writing and erasing, storing one sounding pattern selected by operating the push switch 27;
A control device 29 demodulates the output from the waveform shaping section 24 and controls the melody IC 26 and the EEPROM 28.

The control unit 29 includes a demodulation unit 29a for demodulating the output from the waveform shaping unit 24, and when the power switch 25 shifts from off to on to activate the selective call receiving unit 21. And a sound pattern presenting section 29b as means for extracting and presenting a plurality of sound patterns stored in the melody IC 26.

The control device 29 includes the waveform shaping unit.
When the output from 24 is inputted, that is, at the time of calling from the outside, a sounding pattern reading unit 29c is provided as a means for reading out the sounding pattern stored in the EEPROM 28 and outputting it to the sounding pattern presentation unit 29b. Things.

Reference numeral 30 denotes a sound pattern presenting section of the control device 29.
An indicator section as indicator means for outputting a sound corresponding to the sound pattern presented by 29b, 31
Is a speaker that emits a sound when driven by an output from the indicator unit 30, and 32 is a light-emitting diode that emits light by an output from the indicator unit 30, similarly to the speaker 31.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 shows the power switch 25 and the power switch 25 when selecting and setting the sound to be used when calling from outside.
6 is a timing chart showing the operation timing of each of a speaker 31 and a push switch 27.

More specifically, the transition of the power switch 25 from the off side to the on side and the accompanying sound output from the speaker 31 and a plurality of ringing candidates to be output from the speaker 31 at the time of calling from outside, ie, a plurality of A push switch 27 that is operated in response to the sound output status and the output of the plurality of sounds.
6 is a timing chart showing the mutual timing with the operation of FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, when the power switch 25 is turned on from off, a sound pattern presenting section of the control device 29 is provided.
Reference numeral 29b denotes a plurality of sounding patterns A to C stored in the EEPROM 28 in the order of sound A, sound B, and sound C.
Are sequentially taken out and presented, and output to the indicator unit 30.

Thus, selectable sounds A, B, and C are sequentially emitted from the speaker 31. For example, the sounds A to C are generated unless the push switch 27 is operated. Are emitted from the speaker 31 for about three seconds each. Further, at this time, when the speaker 31 sounds further in the following description, the light emitting diode 32 emits light simultaneously.

Then, the user presses the push switch 27 when the sound to be used at the time of calling is being emitted from the speaker 31. Thereby, the ringing sound at the time of calling is selected. For example, when the ringing sound C is selected, the push switch 27 must be pressed at the timing as shown in FIG. By this, it is selected and set to be called by the sound C at the time of calling from outside.

The selection result of the sound to be used at the time of calling is written and stored in the EEPROM 28 when the selection and the setting are completed. On the other hand, the order of the sound pattern stored in the EEPROM 28 is changed to the present order. From the order of the ringing sound A, the ringing sound B, and the ringing sound C, the selected ringing sound C, the ringing sound A, and the ringing sound B are changed in this order.

Therefore, when a call signal from the outside is input to the control unit 29 via the antenna 22, the receiving unit 23, and the waveform shaping unit 24, the sound pattern reading unit of the control unit 29
The sound pattern stored in the EEPROM 28 is read by 29c and output to the sound pattern presenting section 29b.

Based on the output of the sound pattern from the sound pattern presentation section 29b to the indicator section 30, the sound selected by operating the push switch 27 as described above is emitted from the speaker 31.

Next, after the selection of the sound to be used at the time of calling is performed as described above, the use of the selective reception device is temporarily stopped, and the power switch 25 is turned off when the use is started again. Power switch 25 when turned on from
The operation timing of each of the speaker 31 and the push switch 27 will be described based on the timing chart of FIG.

When the power switch 25 is once switched from on to off after the selection of the sound, and the power switch is turned on again from off, the sound pattern presenting section 29b of the control device 29
The sound C, the sound A, and the sound B stored in the PROM 28 are sequentially taken out and output to the indicator unit 30.
As shown in FIG. 3, a sound C, a sound A, and a sound B are sequentially emitted from the speaker 31.

Here, as shown in FIG. 3, when the user does not press down the push switch 27, the sound used when calling from the outside thereafter turns on the power switch 25. The sound C that was first output
Is set to

If the push switch 27 is pressed during the sounding of the sound A or the sound B following the sound C by the speaker 31, the speaker 31 is pressed at the timing of the pressing operation. Sound A emitted from
Alternatively, the pattern of the sound B is stored in the EEPROM 28 in place of the sound C stored so far.

Then, at the time of calling from outside thereafter, the sound A is emitted from the speaker 31 based on the pattern of the sound A newly stored in the EEPROM 28, for example.

As described above, when the power switch 25 is turned on from off, the user can arbitrarily set the ringing sound emitted from the speaker at the time of calling by a simple operation of the push switch 27.

In the above embodiment, the case where the speaker 31 is used as the indicator has been described.
In addition to a sounding body such as the speaker 31, an indicator using display means such as a liquid crystal may be used.

[0037]

As is apparent from the above embodiment, the present invention provides a sound pattern storing means for storing a plurality of sound patterns generated at the time of calling, a switch for starting an operation for selecting a sound pattern, A sound pattern presenting means for extracting and presenting a sound pattern stored in the sound pattern storage means, and selecting one of a plurality of sound patterns presented by the sound pattern presenting means; Electrically storing the sounding pattern selected by the selecting means and storing the order of presentation of a plurality of sounding patterns to be presented when selecting the sounding pattern to be emitted at the time of calling. A writable and readable memory, and a sound pattern for reading a sound pattern stored in the memory and calling the sound pattern presenting means at the time of calling from outside. And a power switch for starting the operation of selecting the sound pattern. The switch to be turned on and the two switches of the power switch are shared by one switch means. When the switch means is turned on from off, the power is turned on and the operation of selecting a sound pattern is started, A plurality of sounding patterns stored in the sounding pattern storage means are presented in the order of presentation stored in the memory, and a sounding pattern emitted at the time of calling during the presentation of the sounding pattern is selected. When the selection result is stored in the memory, a plurality of sound patterns to be presented when selecting a sound pattern to be emitted at the time of calling is selected. The order of presentation in FIRST the sound pattern as the selection result, and stores to present other sound pattern to the second and subsequent,
After selecting a sound pattern to be emitted at the time of calling, if there is a call from the outside, the stored sound pattern is presented as the selection result, and after selecting the sound pattern to be emitted at the time of calling, When the switch is turned on from off, the power is turned on,
According to the order of presentation of the plurality of sounding patterns stored in the memory, the sounding pattern as the selection result is the first, the other sounding patterns are configured to be presented after the second, A desired tone pattern is selected from a plurality of tone patterns and stored in a memory, and when a call is made from outside, a tone corresponding to the tone pattern stored in the memory is output. Therefore, the user can arbitrarily select the ringing sound at the time of calling.

Further, according to the present invention, since the power switch and the switch for starting the operation for selecting the sound pattern are used as one switch means, when the power switch is turned on from off, the power is turned on and the sound pattern is changed. Start the action to be selected. In addition, the operation of selecting the ringing pattern is presented first, and the set ringing sound pattern is presented first, so that each time the power switch is turned on, the user sets the previously set ringing sound. There is an effect that the sound pattern can be substantially confirmed each time the power is turned on. Furthermore, after presenting the sound pattern selected as the ring pattern at the time of calling, after the second and subsequent, present a candidate of a sound pattern that can be replaced as the ring pattern at the time of calling, If the selection means is operated during the presentation of ringing pattern candidates, the newly selected ringing pattern is reset to the ringing sound pattern at the time of ringing. Each time the communication terminal device is powered on to start up, the user can be provided with a chance to select and reselect another sound pattern candidate.

With a conventional selective call receiving device, since it is a so-called passive device that waits for a call from the outside, it is uneasy that the device will sound reliably even when the power is turned on. I was worried about the volume that could be heard, but the present invention suggests that it may be better to change to a more audible sound pattern depending on battery drain, volume setting, or ambient noise. Considering this, each time the power is turned on, a so-called operation test is performed to present the sounding pattern emitted at the time of calling, and if the sounding pattern emitted at the time of calling is difficult to hear, another sound is immediately generated. By selecting a pattern candidate and easily reselecting the sound pattern emitted at the time of calling, you can set a sound pattern that can be heard reliably. There is an effect that it provides a good communication terminal apparatus with a certain ease.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a selective call receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a first timing chart showing operation timings of a power switch, a speaker, and a push switch in the selective call receiving device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a second timing chart showing operation timings of a power switch, a speaker, and a push switch in the selective call receiving device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of a conventional selective call receiving apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 21 Selective call receiving device 26 Melody IC 27 Push switch 28 EEPROM 29b Sound pattern presenting section 29c Sound pattern reading section 30 Indicator section

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A sound pattern storing means for storing a plurality of sound patterns emitted at the time of calling, a switch for starting an operation for selecting a sound pattern, and a sound stored in the sound pattern storing means. A sound pattern presenting means for extracting and presenting a sound pattern, a selecting means for selecting one of a plurality of sound patterns presented by the sound pattern presenting means, and a selecting means selected by the selecting means. An electrically writable and readable memory for storing the order of presentation of a plurality of sound patterns to be presented when selecting a sound pattern to be emitted at the time of calling while calling patterns are stored; A sound pattern reading means for reading a sound pattern stored in the memory at a time and outputting the read sound pattern to the sound pattern presenting means; Indicator means for outputting a sound pattern corresponding to the sound pattern presented by
A power switch, and a switch for starting the operation of selecting the sounding pattern and a switch for the power switch are used as one switch means. When the switch means is turned on from off, the power is turned on. At the same time, the operation for selecting a sound pattern is started, and a plurality of sound patterns stored in the sound pattern storage means are presented in the order of presentation stored in the memory. When a sound pattern to be emitted at the time of calling is selected during presentation of the sound pattern, the selection result is stored in the memory, while a plurality of sound patterns to be presented at the time of selecting the sound pattern to be emitted at the time of calling are selected. The order of presentation is stored so that the sound pattern as a result of the selection is presented first, and the other sound patterns are presented second and subsequent times. After selecting a sound pattern to be emitted to, when there is a call from the outside, the stored sound pattern is presented as the selection result, and after selecting the sound pattern to be emitted at the time of the call, When the switch means is turned on from off, the power supply is turned on, and the sound pattern as the selection result is ranked first according to the presentation order of the plurality of sound patterns stored in the memory, and the other sound patterns are selected. A communication terminal device characterized by presenting a pattern in the second and subsequent patterns.