KR100754599B1 - Apparatus and Method for notifying call in Mobile Phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides two or more vibration motors in which a call notification device of a mobile terminal device rotates in a different direction, and when the call is received, the vibration motor is driven in a selective pattern according to a user's request. It includes a control unit for controlling to rotate according to, characterized in that to attach a point support to the lower end of the portable terminal device housing.

Handheld terminal, vibration, motor

Description

Apparatus and method for notifying call in Mobile Phone}

1 is an internal configuration diagram of a portable terminal device according to the prior art;

2 is an internal configuration diagram of a mobile terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a top side view of a mobile terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a diagram illustrating a ratio of high signal time per period according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

5A is a diagram illustrating a mobile terminal device rotating in a clockwise direction when a call is received according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

5B is a view showing that the mobile terminal device rotates in a counterclockwise direction when a call is received according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a view for explaining the detailed operation of the vibration amplitude and frequency determination unit according to an embodiment of the present invention,

7 is a signal flowchart illustrating a method of setting a call notification notification mode according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

8 is a signal flowchart illustrating a call notification method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal device and a method of operating the same, and more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for notifying a user when a call is received.

Typically, a mobile terminal device (for example, a mobile phone) transmits or vibrates a bell sound according to a bell or vibration mode when a call is received. In general, the portable terminal device can adjust the type or size of the bell sound according to the user's preference in the bell mode, and can provide only one type of vibration in the vibration mode.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a general portable terminal device.

Referring to FIG. 1, the control unit 100 controls the overall operation of the mobile terminal device, receives the call notification notification mode setting information input through the key input unit 110 for the call notification, and sets the set mode when the call is received. The control signal is output to the sound output unit 150 or the vibration motor 120. The key input unit 110 includes a plurality of numeric keys and character keys, and provides key data input from the user to the controller 100. The vibration motor 120 drives the vibration motor 125 at the preset vibration period and intensity when the call is received under the vibration mode under the control of the controller 100. The display unit 130 displays a message for guiding whether to select a vibration mode and setting the strength or period of vibration under the control of the controller 100. The wireless transceiver 140 detects whether a call is received and transmits and receives wireless data when forming a call.

Conventionally, by using the vibration generated when the vibration motor 120 rotates in one direction, the vibration motor 120 may be simply turned on / off or the intensity may be adjusted to notify the user by only tactile information.

The conventional portable terminal device as described above has the following problems in call notification.

First, the intensity or period of vibration was fixed at one intensity or period according to the type of portable terminal device. Therefore, even when a call is received in the vibration mode, the vibration is so weak that the user does not recognize the call reception, and there is a problem in that the call is not known in the situation where the user does not come into contact with the portable terminal device. In addition, when the intensity of vibration is too large, there is a problem that a sensitive user is surprised because of vibration of the portable terminal device.

Second, there is a problem that the user can not give the opportunity to select according to the taste because only the fixed vibration in accordance with the type of the portable terminal device in the vibration mode.

Third, since only one intensity and period of vibration are provided, there is no way to distinguish the caller from the user in the vibration mode even if the caller can be recognized.

Accordingly, in order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides an apparatus and method for allowing a user to recognize whether a call is received even when the user does not come into contact with the portable terminal device.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for providing various vibration patterns according to a user's taste.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for providing a vibration pattern according to a caller so that a user can recognize the caller.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for providing a vibration pattern corresponding to stored announcements or ringing tones.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides two or more vibration motors in which a call notification device of a mobile terminal device rotates in different directions, and drives the vibration motors in a selective pattern at the request of a user. And a controller for controlling the portable terminal device to rotate according to the pattern, wherein a point support is attached to a lower end of the housing of the portable terminal device.

Hereinafter, the detailed operation and structure of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that reference numerals and like elements among the drawings are denoted by the same reference numerals and symbols as much as possible even though they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The present invention proposes a technology including two or more vibration motors in a portable terminal device and attaching a point support to the bottom of the portable terminal device to provide various vibration types according to a ringing tone or a caller.

A schematic configuration of a mobile terminal device for implementing the present invention as described above will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

Referring to FIG. 2, the controller 200 controls the overall operation of the mobile terminal device and receives call notification notification mode setting information input through the key input unit 210 for call notification. The control signal is output to the sound output unit 250 or the vibrator 220. The key input unit 210 includes a plurality of numeric keys and character keys, and provides key data input from the user to the controller 200. The vibration unit 220 drives the vibration motors 225 and 226 at the preset vibration period and intensity when the call is received under the vibration mode under the control of the controller 200. The display unit 230 displays a message for guiding whether to select a vibration mode and setting the strength or period of vibration under the control of the controller 200. The wireless transceiver 240 detects whether a call is received and transmits and receives wireless data when forming a call.

In addition, in accordance with the present invention is attached to the bottom of the portable terminal device housing the cusp support as shown in FIG. This is to allow the portable terminal device to move in accordance with the rotation direction of the vibration by allowing the portable terminal device to come into contact with the floor where the mobile terminal device is located.

In addition, the portable terminal device according to the present invention includes two or more vibration motors, for example, a first vibration motor 225 and a second vibration motor 226, which rotate in different directions as shown in FIG. Using the difference in the rotational motion of the motors, the peak support is moved around the axis.

Meanwhile, if the control unit 200 of FIG. 2 can give a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, the controller 200 may use the same, and if the control unit 200 does not support the same, as shown in FIG. 220). This is because a simple on / off signal cannot precisely control the vibration motor.

The motor controller 220 drives the vibration motors 225 and 226 using the difference in the duty ratio of the pulse width modulated signal. The duty ratio refers to the ratio of the high signal time to one cycle. Control refers to a method of adjusting the duty ratio of such a pulse signal. That is, the average value of the signal changes as the duty ratio of the pulse signal changes, and this average value is used as the control input value of the vibration motor.

This is immediately indicated by the movement of the mobile terminal device, and the speed and direction of the mobile terminal device movement are determined by the width of the duty ratio difference. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, when two vibration motors A and B are mounted inside the portable terminal device, when a control signal to rotate in a counterclockwise direction is input from the controller, the vibration magnitude and frequency determination unit and the motor are input. The controller increases the input of the motor oscillating in the counterclockwise direction and decreases the input of the motor oscillating in the clockwise direction.

Referring to FIG. 5A, since the rotation force of the second vibration motor rotating clockwise is greater than the rotation force of the first vibration motor rotating counterclockwise, it rotates clockwise. Referring to FIG. 5B, the first vibration motor Since the rotational force of the greater than the rotational force of the second vibration motor is rotated in the counterclockwise direction.

Accordingly, by adjusting the rotation period of the vibration motor, the portable terminal device can be rotated in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. Meanwhile, a vibration motor having a large capacity may be used so that the rotational kinetic energy transmitted when the vibration motor is rotated is sufficiently changed to the kinetic energy of the mobile terminal device.

Accordingly, the vibration terminal and the frequency determining unit may control the vibration motor according to the ringing tone (ment or music) so that the portable terminal device can dance.

When the call is received, the control unit 200 displays the individual movement of the portable terminal device according to the sender by using the incoming information previously stored in the memory. To this end, the portable terminal device stores information such as the frequency and strength of the vibration motor according to each sender in advance or includes the information in the incoming signal so that the portable terminal device interprets it to determine the frequency and strength of the vibration motor. do. Vibration motors can also be controlled using information obtained by analyzing incoming tones output in real time (for example, low frequency characteristics (using the low frequency components of incoming tones), sound intensity, and speed). The vibration magnitude and frequency determination unit built in the portable terminal device generates a signal for controlling the vibration motor according to the ringing tone.

To this end, as shown in FIG. 4, the vibration magnitude and frequency determining unit detects low frequency components of the ringing tone, determines the strength and weakness of the ringing tone, and compensates the minimum offset for operating the vibration motor. Can be determined. Alternatively, the above-mentioned information can be extracted from the MIDI file included in the received information, and the communication service provider includes this information (the MIDI file sent by the communication service provider as a ring tone) in the transmission information. It can also be used in vibration magnitude and frequency determination.

The control unit includes a ring tone setup module that receives a vibration mode from a user, and a ring tone control module that controls the ring tone to be vibrated by the set vibration mode when the call is received.

Detailed descriptions of the incoming notification mode setting module and the incoming notification operation module will be given at the same time when the following incoming notification method is described.

7 is a signal flowchart illustrating a vibration mode setting method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, in operation 700, the vibration mode setting module displays an incoming alarm mode menu in response to a call notification mode setting request from a user. The incoming alarm menu includes a vibration pattern item according to a caller and a vibration pattern item according to a ringing tone. In step 730, the vibration mode setting module determines whether a caller item or a ring tone item is selected. As a result of checking in step 730, in the vibration mode according to the caller, the vibration mode setting module receives and stores the vibration selection information according to the caller ID. In other words, the user has to input in advance how to move according to the person who attempted the call in advance. The input fields are rotation direction (clockwise and counterclockwise), continuation of rotation, and speed. For example, when A attempts to make a call, it rotates for 5 seconds clockwise and then repeats 5 seconds for counterclockwise rotation, and B rapidly rotates only clockwise. In the case of C, it rotates very slowly counterclockwise. However, as a result of checking in step 730, if the vibration mode according to the ring tone, it is set to the vibration mode according to the ring tone.

According to the vibration mode setting as described above, the vibration mode control module performs an operation as shown in FIG. 8.

Referring to FIG. 8, in response to occurrence of call reception in step 810, the vibration mode control module acquires incoming information in step 820. The incoming information may include caller distinguishing information. In step 830, the vibration control module determines whether the user selects the vibration mode setting method according to the caller or the vibration mode setting method according to the ringing tone.

As a result of the determination in step 830, when the user selects the vibration mode setting method according to the caller, the vibration control module acquires vibration pattern information corresponding to the caller discrimination information in step 840, and in step 850 The vibration pattern information is determined and the control signal is output through the motor controller in step 860.

However, as a result of the determination in step 830, when the user selects the vibration mode setting method according to the ringing tone, the vibration control module analyzes the ringing tone in step 870. In operation 880, a vibration pattern corresponding to the incoming call is determined, and in operation 890, a control signal is output through the motor controller.

It can be moved according to the low frequency components obtained through the low frequency filter, and using the loudness of the incoming call can make the movement faster as the sound gets louder and slow when the sound gets smaller. In addition, depending on the type of ring tone, slow music, slow music may move quickly.

Alternatively, the above-described information may be extracted from the MIDI file included in the received information, and the communication service provider may include this information in the transmission information and use it in the vibration magnitude and frequency determination unit. The direction in which the mobile terminal device should move is determined using the determined magnitude and frequency of vibration.

As described above, the present invention provides a function that makes the reception of the portable terminal device more interesting and sure by performing the dancing operation of the portable terminal device placed on the desk together with the ring tone. In addition, the vibration mode selected when the mobile terminal device is received is not simply a notification of an incoming call through vibration, but also works with music or a ringing tone, thereby meeting various demands of the user and increasing practicality. In addition, since the user can see the movement of the mobile terminal device to obtain information on the call, the probability of missing a reception can be reduced.

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