JPH098874A - System for ringer and stopping incoming sound - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To permit an owner to become aware of an incoming call by automatically ringing prescribed time incoming sound at the time of a incoming call in a portable communication equipment. CONSTITUTION: The owner of the portable communication equipment operates the incoming volume set key of KEY 2 so that CTL 71 sets incoming call to be 'no sound'. When the incoming call is received in this state, RTX 6 reports to a CTL 71 that the incoming call is received from ANT 5 by call signal reception. CTL 71 starts the timing of TMA 81 by the incoming call report and also turns on/off LED 3. CTL 71 starts the timing of TMB 82 at the point of time when time is out in TMA 81, incoming sound is outputted from RNG 4 during the timing of TMB 82 so as to ring a speaker which is not shown in the Fig, and incoming sound from RNG 4 is stopped at the point of time when time is out in TMB 82. During this, LED 3 continues turning on/off and incoming display.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ringing tone ringing / stopping system, and more particularly to a ringing tone ringing / stopping system for automatically ringing / stopping a ringing tone when an incoming call arrives in a portable communication device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 is a front view showing the appearance of an example of a general mobile phone.

Referring to FIG. 3, this mobile phone 1 has a key unit (KEY) 2 for inputting various signals by key operation.
The mobile phone 1 is provided with a light emitting diode (LED) 3 which blinks to indicate an incoming call, and a ringer (RNG) 4 which produces a ring tone.

By operating the ring tone volume setting key in the KEY 2, the volume of the ring tone generated from the RNG 4 can be set to eight levels of level 0 (silence), 1, ..., 6 and step tone. .

In this mobile phone 1, when an incoming call is received, the LED 3 blinks to display the incoming call regardless of the setting of the incoming call volume level.

When the ring tone volume level is set to "silent" in this conventional portable telephone, the ring tone does not ring even if there is an incoming call. Therefore, for example, it is effective to set to "silent" during a meeting or when it is impossible to respond.

[0007]

However, in this conventional mobile telephone, the LED display is placed in a place where the incoming call display of the LED cannot be seen while the "silence" is set, or the "silence" is set.
If you forget to cancel the setting, it is extremely difficult for the owner of the mobile phone to notice this even if there is an incoming call.
There was a problem that when there was an emergency call, it would not be possible to respond to it.

It is an object of the present invention to automatically ring a ring tone for a predetermined time when an incoming call is received in a portable communication device, so that the owner of the portable communication device can be made aware of the incoming call at any time. To provide.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, in a portable communication device that causes a ringer to ring a ring tone when an incoming call arrives, a first timer for measuring the time for which the ring tone is not ringed, and The second to measure the time to ring the ringtone
And a control means for causing the ringing tone to ring at the time-out point of the first timer and stopping the ringing tone at the time-out point of the second timer. Is obtained.

According to the second aspect of the invention, in a portable communication device in which a ringing tone is made to ring by a ringer at the time of an incoming call, the number of repeating cycles of a ringing signal during a silent set time for making the ringing tone non-ringing is counted 1 counter, a second counter that counts the number of repetition cycles of the ringing signal during the ringing tone, and the count value of the first counter exceeds a predetermined first value. A ringing tone is activated / stopped, comprising a control means for ringing the ringing tone at a time point and for stopping the ringing tone at the time point when the count value of the second counter exceeds a predetermined second value. The scheme is obtained.

Further, the portable communication device is a portable telephone equipped with a key portion for inputting various signals by operating keys, an LED which blinks when an incoming call is received to display the incoming call, and the ringer which produces a ring tone. A ring tone ringing / stopping method characterized by the fact that there is is obtained.

[0012]

Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b) are block diagrams of a portable telephone showing the first and second embodiments of the ring tone ringing / stopping method of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is the first and second embodiments shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the relationship between an incoming call operation | movement and ringing sound ringing in a 2nd Example.

Referring to FIG. 1 (a), the mobile phone of the first embodiment in which a ringer sounds a ringing tone at the time of an incoming call is a KEY2, an LED3, an RNG4 shown in FIG.
In addition to the radio unit (RTX) 6 having the antenna (ANT) 5, a first timer (TMA) 81 that measures the time for which the ringing tone does not ring and a first timer (TMA) 81 that measures the time for ringing the ringing tone No. 2 timer (TMB) 82 and a control unit (CTL) that causes the ringing tone to ring when the TMA 81 times out and stops the ringing tone when the TMB 82 times out.
And 71.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
3 and FIG. 3 will be described together.

When the ring tone volume setting key in KEY2 is operated, the CTL 71 sets the volume of the ring tone to level 0 (silence).

When an incoming call arrives in this state, the RTX 6 informs the CTL 71 of the incoming call from the ANT 5 by receiving the calling signal.

The CTL 71 notifies the TMA 8 of this incoming call notification.
The timing of 1 is started and the LED 3 blinks.

Then, at the time point Ta when the TMA 81 times out, the CTL 71 starts the timing of the TMB 82, and during this timing of the TMB 82, the RNG 4 outputs a ring tone and sounds a speaker (not shown),
At the time Tb when the TMB 82 times out, the ring tone from the RNG 4 is stopped. During this time, the LED 3 continues to blink to continue displaying the incoming call.

Further, in this embodiment, TMA 81 and TMA
The timing times ta and tb of the MB 82 are set to the same time (ta = tb), but they can be set to arbitrary times.

Next, referring to FIG. 1 (b), the mobile phone of the second embodiment in which a ringer sounds a ringing tone at the time of an incoming call is a KEY2, an LED3, and an RNG4 shown in FIG.
And a radio unit (RTX) 6 having an antenna (ANT) 5
In addition to the above, the first counter (C
TA) 91 and a second counter (CTB) that counts the number of repeating cycles of the ringing signal during the time for ringing the ring tone.
92 and a count value of CTA 91 exceeds a predetermined first value (3 cycles in the figure), a ringing tone is sounded at the time Ta, and a count value of CTB 92 is a predetermined second value (3 cycles in the figure). ) Is exceeded and the control unit 72 stops the ringing tone.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
3 and FIG. 3 will be described together.

When the ring tone volume setting key in KEY2 is operated, the CTL 72 sets the volume of the ring tone to level 0 (silence).

When an incoming call arrives in this state, the RTX 6 informs the CTL 72 of the incoming call from the ANT 5 by receiving the calling signal.

The CTL 72 receives the incoming notification and then receives the CTA 9
The counting of the number of repeating cycles of the ringing signal of 1 is started and the LED 3 is made to blink.

Then, at the time Ta when the count value of CTA 91 exceeds a predetermined value (3 cycles), CTL 72 causes CTB 9
The counting of the number of repeating cycles of the ringing signal of No. 2 is started, and while this CTB92 is counting, the ringing tone is output from the RNG4 and the speaker (not shown) is rung, and the CTB92
The ring tone from RNG4 is stopped at time Tb when the count value of exceeds a predetermined value (3 cycles). During this time, L
The ED3 continues blinking and continues to display the incoming call.

Although the set count values of CTA 91 and CTB 92 are the same, they can be set to arbitrary values.

As described above, in the first and second embodiments, even if "silence" is set by the ring volume setting key, after the ring tone automatically sounds for a predetermined time when there is an incoming call. Stop again. In addition, the LED continues to blink and the incoming call display continues regardless of whether the ringing tone is activated or stopped. Therefore, the owner of the mobile phone can notice the incoming call at any time.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, the first timer for measuring the time for which the ringing tone is not ringing in the portable communication device (cellular phone) which rings the ringing tone by the ringer when receiving an incoming call, and the incoming call. The second to measure the time to turn on the sound
And a control means for ringing the ringtone at the time-out of the first timer and stopping the ring-tone at the time-out of the second timer, or a silence set time for non-ringing the ring-tone. A first counter that counts the number of repetition cycles of the ringing signal in the middle, a second counter that counts the number of repetition cycles of the ringing signal during the time when the ring tone is sounded, and the count value of the first counter in advance. By providing a control means for making a ringtone sound when a predetermined first value is exceeded and stopping the ringtone when the count value of the second counter exceeds a predetermined second value, an incoming call is provided. Even if the mobile communication device with the sound set to "silent" is placed in a place where the incoming call display cannot be seen, when a call arrives, the ring tone automatically sounds for the specified time after the specified time. Since, with the effect that eliminates the owner does not notice the call.

Further, since the ring tone automatically stops after a predetermined time has passed after ringing, there is an effect that the ring tone does not ring and cannot be released.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 (a) and 1 (b) are block diagrams of a mobile phone showing first and second embodiments of a ring tone ringing / stopping system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a relationship between an incoming call operation and ringing sound in the first and second embodiments shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing an appearance of an example of a general mobile phone.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Mobile Phone 2 Key Unit (KEY) 3 Light Emitting Diode (LED) 4 Ringer (RNG) 5 Antenna (ANT) 6 Radio Unit (RTX) 71, 72 Control Unit (CTL) 81 First Timer (TMA) 82 Second Timer (TMB) 91 First Counter (CTA) 92 Second Counter (CTB)

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. In a portable communication device that uses a ringer to ring a ring tone when an incoming call arrives, a first timer that measures the time for which the ring tone is not ringing and a second timer that measures the time for ringing the ring tone. Of the second timer and the ringing tone is sounded at the time-out of the first timer and the second timer.
A ringing tone ringing / stopping method comprising control means for stopping the ringing tone when the timer expires. 2. In a portable communication device for ringing a ringing tone by a ringer when an incoming call arrives, a first counter for counting the number of repeating cycles of a ringing signal during a silence setting time for making the ringing tone non-ring, and the ringing tone. A second counter that counts the number of repeating cycles of the ringing signal during the ringing time, and the ringtone is ringed when the count value of the first counter exceeds a predetermined first value. In addition, a ringing tone ringing / stopping method is provided, which further comprises control means for stopping the ringing tone when the count value of the second counter exceeds a predetermined second value. 3. The mobile communication device is a mobile phone including a key unit for inputting various signals by operating a key, an LED that blinks when an incoming call is received to display an incoming call, and the ringer that generates a ring tone. The ringing tone ringing / stopping method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that there is.