JP3099736B2 - Mobile 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 portable terminal device in which description contents of a book or a newspaper are inputted and stored from the outside, and are displayed on a display means such as an LCD and can be read by an input operation.

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2. Description of the Related Art Descriptive contents of books and newspapers, texts created by a personal computer, texts received through personal computer communication, and the like are input and stored from the outside, and the stored contents are input to display means such as an LCD. And a portable terminal device capable of reading the contents of a book or the like has been proposed and put into practical use (for example, issued by NEC Corporation, NEC Technical Report, Vol. 47, No. 8, 1994).
"Digital Book" described on September 16, pp. 95-97
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FIG. 3 is a block diagram of such a conventional portable terminal device. In the figure, a portable terminal 900 is a small and lightweight device for easy carrying, a display means 10 such as an LCD, an input means 11 having several kinds of keys such as a page turning key, and a rewriting of an EEPROM or the like. A storage unit 12 composed of a non-volatile memory that can be used, a main storage 13 composed of a rewritable volatile memory such as a RAM,
Transmission / reception means 14 for transmitting and receiving data and the like to and from an external device by serial transmission or parallel transmission; control means 15 such as a microprocessor connected thereto for controlling a main operation of the entire portable terminal 900; And a secondary battery 901 for supplying electric power to each section. Further, a connector 902 for connecting the transmitting / receiving means 14 to an external device is provided.

[0004] The secondary battery 901 supplies power to each unit in the portable terminal 900, and can be removed from the portable terminal 900. If the power storage is insufficient, the secondary battery 901 is detached and separately provided. It is charged by the prepared charger 903.

[0005] Data to be displayed on the display means 10 of the portable terminal 900 is stored in the storage means 12, but the stored contents can be replaced by data obtained from various information infrastructures. ing. In FIG. 3 , the modem 904 is connected to its connector 90.
5 by connecting to the connector 902 of the portable terminal 900, the storage means 12 can be updated with display data obtained from the outside through the modem 904, and the floppy disk unit 906 is connected to the portable terminal 9 by the connector 907.
00, the storage means 12 can be updated with the display data stored in the floppy disk 908 loaded in the floppy disk unit 906. The process of exchanging these display data is mainly performed by the control unit 15 of the portable terminal 900.

If the type of data to be displayed is different, the display program that controls the display of the data is usually different. Therefore, a display program that matches the type of input data is stored in the main memory of the portable terminal 900. It can be loaded. In this loading, the floppy disk 909 storing the desired display program is loaded into the floppy disk unit 906, and the control means 15 reads out the display program stored in the floppy disk 909 through the transmitting / receiving means 14 and stores it in the main memory 13. It is done by doing. For example, when displaying a text created by a personal computer, Japanese MS-DOS text display software is used as a display program. When the display data and the display software are stored on the same floppy disk, the display data and the display software can be read into the portable terminal 900 at the same time.

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Such a portable terminal device operates on a secondary battery, so that there is no restriction on the place of use, and that various data can be viewed (read) by exchanging display data. Etc. are great advantages. However, for that purpose, it is necessary to appropriately charge the secondary battery and to exchange data.
In the conventional portable terminal device, data cannot be exchanged while the secondary battery 901 is being charged, so that these operations have to be performed at different times, which is a heavy burden on the user.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal device in which charging is performed when a charging device is connected to the portable terminal, and data exchange is automatically started at a preset time.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal device capable of automatically loading a display program that matches display data inputted this time during charging.

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A portable terminal device according to the present invention comprises a rewritable storage device for storing data to be displayed, a display device for displaying data stored in the storage device, and an external device. Control means for storing input data in the storage means and displaying the data stored in the storage means on the display means in response to an input operation of the input means; If, houses a clock unit to issue a notification to the control means upon arrival of the charger and the set time for charging the secondary battery wherein connected to the portable terminal during charging of the secondary battery, the portable terminal
The control unit inputs data to be displayed from an external storage device connected to the mobile terminal when the set time is notified from the clock unit. And starting a process of storing the data in the storage means.

In the portable terminal device having such a configuration, when a desired time is set in a clock section and a charger is connected to a secondary battery built in the portable terminal, charging is started and the designated time is set. Then, the control means starts a process of inputting data to be displayed from the outside and storing the data in the storage means.

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[0013] The charging device, a nonvolatile memory for storing a display program for executing the data stored in the storage means in response to an input operation of said control means said input means when displaying on said display means The control unit stores data from the external storage device in the storage unit, and then inputs a display program stored in the non-volatile memory, as a display program of the data stored in the storage unit. When the configuration used is adopted, a display program matching the display data input this time can be automatically loaded during charging.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

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[0034] FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a real施例of the portable terminal device of the present invention. The portable terminal device of this embodiment is of a type in which display data is obtained from a floppy disk 8 loaded in a floppy disk unit 7, and includes a portable terminal 5 and a charging device 6.

The portable terminal 5 has a display means 10 such as an LCD.
Input means 11 having several kinds of keys, and EEPR
The storage means 12 composed of a rewritable non-volatile memory such as an OM, the main memory 13 composed of a rewritable volatile memory such as a RAM, and data stored in the charging device 2 by serial transmission or parallel transmission. And the like, a control unit 15 such as a microprocessor connected thereto, and a secondary battery 16 for supplying power to each unit in the portable terminal 5. Storage means 12
Has a display data storage area 121 and a data load control program storage area 122, and the latter storage area 122.
Stores one data load control program 123 in advance. Also, a socket 17 for connecting the transmitting / receiving means 14 to the charging device 6 and the floppy disk unit 7 and a socket 18 for connecting a charging terminal of the secondary battery 16 to the charging device 2 are provided.

On the other hand, the charging device 6 includes a charger 20 for charging the secondary battery 16, transmission / reception means 21 for transmitting / receiving data or the like to / from the portable terminal 5 by serial transmission or parallel transmission, It has a clock section 23 and a ROM 24 connected to the means 21. In addition, the connection cable 64 and the plug 26 for connecting the charging terminal of the charger 20 to the charging terminal of the secondary battery 16 through the socket 18 of the mobile terminal 5, and the transmission / reception means 21 together with the floppy disk unit 7 are connected to the socket of the mobile terminal 5. Connection cable 6 for connecting to transmission / reception means 14 through
3 and a plug 25.

The clock unit 23 of the charging device 6 has a display unit 231 for displaying the current time and the set time, and a setting unit 232 for setting the time at which a notification is sent to the portable terminal 5. If a certain time is set by the setting unit 232, the clock unit 23 sets the transmission / reception unit 2 when the time comes.
1 to the connected portable terminal 5 that the set time has arrived.

The ROM 24 of the charging device 6 stores in advance a display program 243 to be executed by the control means 15 when the display data stored on the floppy disk 8 is displayed on the portable terminal 5.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. When the user wants to complete charging of the secondary battery 16 of the mobile terminal 5 and acquisition of display data at one time, the user sets the setting unit 232 of the clock unit 23.
To set the time at which display data is desired to be acquired in the clock unit 23, and insert the plug 61 into the socket 17 and the plug 62 into the socket 18, respectively.
, A charging device 6 and a floppy disk unit 7 are connected.

When the plug 62 is inserted into the socket 18 and the charger 20 is connected to the charging terminal of the secondary battery 16 in the portable terminal 5, the charging of the secondary battery 16 by the charger 20 is started.

On the other hand, when the time set by the user comes, the clock unit 23 notifies the control unit 15 of the portable terminal 5 via the transmission / reception unit 21 that the set time has arrived. The control means 15 of the portable terminal 5 executes the processing shown in FIG. 2 triggered by this notification. First, the storage unit 12
The data load control program 123 are copied to the main memory 13, executes the data load control program 123 (S 3 1). By executing the data load control program 123, the control unit 15 causes the transmission / reception unit 1
4 to access the floppy disk 8 loaded in the floppy disk unit 7, input the display data stored therein, and store it in the display data storage area 121 of the storage means 12. After this storage, the control means 15 reads out the display program 243 from the ROM 24 of the charging device 6 via the transmission / reception means 14 and 21, and stores the display program 243 in the main memory 13. Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 2 , the control means 15 executes the display program 24 stored in the main memory 13.
The control is shifted to 3 (S32).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the clock unit 2
3, the time is set, and the charging device 6 and the floppy disk unit 7 are connected to the portable terminal 5.
Charging of the secondary battery 16 and acquisition of display data at the set time can be performed simultaneously. Here, the display data is acquired at the set time because, for example, when the floppy disk 8 is periodically replaced every certain time, the data of the floppy disk 8 loaded in a predetermined time zone is deleted. This is so that it can be obtained. When only charging is performed and display data is not desired to be obtained, only plug 62 is inserted into socket 18 and plug 61 is not inserted into socket 17.
Alternatively, setting the time in the clock unit 23 may be omitted.

When the charging of the secondary battery 16 is completed as described above and the latest display data is obtained, the charging device 2 and the floppy disk unit 7 are no longer necessary. Remove from 18. Thus, only the portable terminal 5 needs to be carried. When the user reads the data stored in the storage area 121 of the storage means 12, the user designates a page or the like to be read by operating the key of the input means 11, and the control means 15 executes the display program 243 for the display data. As a result, the content of the corresponding location is read from the storage area 121 of the storage means 12 and displayed on the display means 10.

[0044] In the portable terminal device in the embodiment of Figure 1,
Although the display data is obtained from the floppy disk 8, the display data may be obtained from another storage medium having a magnetic, optical, or other storage system such as a fixed disk or a CD-ROM. is there.

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As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

When the desired time is set in the clock section and the charger is connected to the portable terminal, charging of the secondary battery built in the portable terminal is started, and data exchange is automatically started at the set time. Therefore, it is possible to greatly reduce the user's work involved in charging the secondary battery and exchanging data.

If the time setting is omitted, only the charging of the secondary battery can be performed without replacing the display data.

A display program that matches the display data input this time can also be automatically loaded during charging.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of processing executed by a control unit of a mobile terminal in response to a notification from a clock unit in the embodiment of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a conventional portable terminal device.

[Description of Signs] 5 : Portable terminal 10: Display means 11: Input means 12: Storage means 121: Display data storage area 122: Data load control program area 123: Data load control program 13: Main storage 15: Control means 16 ... secondary battery 17, 18 ... socket 6 ... charging device 20 ... charger 21 ... transceiver unit 23 ... clock unit 231 ... display 232 ... setter 24 ... ROM 24 3 ... display program 61, 62 ... plug

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A rewritable storage means for storing data to be displayed, a display means for displaying data stored in the storage means, and a means for storing and inputting externally input data in the storage means. Control means for displaying data stored in the storage means on the display means in response to input operation of means, a mobile terminal operated by a secondary battery, and the mobile terminal at the time of charging the secondary battery are connected accommodated clock unit to issue a notification to the control means upon arrival of the charger and the set time for charging the secondary battery, the
And a detachable battery charger to the portable terminal, the control means when the arrival of the set time is notified from the clock unit, the portable terminal to the connected external storage
Mobile terminal device characterized by having a configuration that starts a process of storing in the storage means to input data to be displayed from the device. 2. A non-volatile storage device for storing, in the charging device, a display program executed when the control unit displays data stored in the storage unit on the display unit in response to an input operation of the input unit. The control means stores data from the external storage device in the storage means, inputs a display program stored in the non-volatile memory, and displays the data stored in the storage means. 2. The portable terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the portable terminal device has a configuration used as a program.