KR101097067B1 - Portable communication terminal having control function of receipt tone under idle mode and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable communication terminal, and more particularly, to a portable radio terminal having a control function of an incoming call or an alarm sound in a standby mode and a method thereof.

A portable wireless terminal capable of controlling a ringing tone in a standby mode according to the present invention is a device for controlling a ringing tone in a standby mode using a mobile communication terminal. An input unit for inputting, a display unit for displaying a command and an incoming result for controlling the ringing tone in the standby mode, a storage unit storing data for controlling the command and the ringing tone, and controlling the ringing tone according to the data And the ringing tone is displayed as a vibration by a ring and a vibrator, which are pronounced by a speaker, or the ringing state is displayed as a light source in a silent and non-vibrating state or no display is made according to a control result of the controller. It is characterized in that it is displayed by any one form Lose.

Portable wireless terminal, ring tone, alarm tone, standby mode

Description

Portable communication terminal having control function of ring tone in idle mode and method thereof

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the main part for controlling the ring tone or alarm sound in a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing a main part of controlling a ringing tone or an alarm sound in a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a processor of a method for controlling a ringing tone or an alarm sound in a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a block diagram illustrating options for controlling a ringing tone or an alarm sound in a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable communication terminal, and more particularly, to a portable radio terminal having a control function of an incoming call or an alarm sound and a method thereof.                         

In general, a mobile communication system of a portable wireless terminal transmits a call message including a unique number of a portable wireless terminal called through a call channel of a base station to call the portable wireless terminal, and the transmitted wireless call message is specified. It is a system that allows the receiver to talk to the sender by pressing the call button after the terminal to recognize that the call came by using the ring tone or vibration.

In general, such a portable wireless terminal has more than 10 million subscribers of the portable wireless terminal even in Korea, and its use has become a daily life. Therefore, an easy ring tone and alarm related to public etiquette in using the portable wireless terminal is common. A negative control method is required.

In addition, in using a portable wireless terminal, in some cases, such as when taking a short sleep or attending an important meeting, the portable wireless terminal user's needs are prevented from intermittent ringing tones or alarms designated by a commercial user. If you do not want to receive the handheld wireless terminal may be in the off mode or vibration mode.

However, in some cases, it is not possible to change the live portable terminal to vibrate mode or to turn it off, which is beyond the scope of courtesy for the use of the portable terminal. It is often interrupted by the ringing tone of the portable wireless terminal during the meeting.

The reason why the portable wireless terminal cannot be changed to the off mode or the vibrating mode as described above is that the portable wireless terminal is turned off or vibrated in the above situation, and the mobile wireless terminal is forgotten even after leaving the place and is not restored to its original state. This is because there is a possibility that a call may not occur between users of the portable wireless terminal.

For this reason, when the portable radio terminal is not turned off, unpleasant ringing of the portable radio terminal often results in politeness in public places or in important places where good manners are to be observed.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a portable wireless terminal and a method for efficiently controlling a ringing tone or an alarm sound generated in a portable wireless terminal.

In order to achieve the above object, a portable wireless terminal capable of controlling a ringing tone in a standby mode according to the present invention is an apparatus for controlling a ringing tone in a standby mode using a mobile communication terminal. An input unit for inputting a command for controlling a signal, a display unit for displaying a command for controlling a ringing tone in the standby mode and a ringing result; a storage unit for storing the command and data for controlling the ringing tone; A control unit that controls the ringing tone according to data, and the ringing tone is displayed as a vibration by a ring, a vibrator, pronounced by a speaker, or the ringing state is displayed as a light source in a silent and non-vibrating state according to a control result of the control unit. Display by any form not showing That is achieved by the features.

According to the configuration as described above, when the incoming signal is detected to express the ringing tone in the portable wireless terminal, according to a predetermined condition can be set in advance to be represented by any one of the speaker or vibrator provided in the portable wireless terminal or nothing. There is an effect that can provide a display method in response to the user's convenience.

In addition, the method for controlling the ring tone in the standby mode state of the portable wireless terminal according to the present invention, in the method for controlling the ring tone using a mobile communication terminal, the standby mode starting step for setting the standby mode state, the standby A standby mode termination selection step of selecting to terminate the standby mode by inputting a standby mode termination time at which the mode ends, or to set a termination method so that the standby mode is terminated by a user's arbitrary button operation; and a ringing tone in the standby mode And an optional adjustment step of selecting the displayed method, wherein the ringing tone of the option adjusting step is indicated by a vibration output by a ring or a vibrator pronounced by a speaker, or by only a light source indicating an incoming state in a silent and non-vibrating state. In any one or more of the ways indicated or not indicated. It is characterized in that it can be set to be displayed by.

According to this method, an alarm sound or an incoming sound is set by the user at the option adjusting step by a method of expressing an alarm sound or an incoming sound when the preset alarm time arrives or when an incoming signal is detected during the standby mode. There is an effect that can be easily controlled.

Hereinafter, a mobile phone terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in more detail as follows.

1 is a perspective view showing a main part for controlling a ringing tone or an alarm sound in a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a control of the ringing tone or alarm sound in a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention It is a block diagram showing the main parts.

As shown in the figure, the portable terminal according to the present invention is hinge-coupled with a cover part 1 having an image display device module 9 and a speaker device 7a on a main body part 3 having all the basic arithmetic function devices. Coupled with a connecting portion 7 composed of a coupling means such as to form a body portion 5 which is the appearance of a portable wireless terminal.

The main body unit 3 includes a control unit 25, an interface unit 23, a storage unit 26, a duplexer 15, and a transmission unit 21 each including a ROM 26a, a RAM 26b, and a flash memory 26c. It includes all the computing function devices necessary for the basic computing functions of the portable wireless terminal, etc., and performs the basic functions of the portable wireless terminal.

In addition, the main body 3 and the cover 1 include a microphone device 7b having a microphone for demodulating a user's voice signal into an electrical data signal, and demodulating the received radio signal into a voice signal. An audio device (7) composed of a speaker device (7a) for outputting is provided so as to enable a wireless voice call of a user of a wireless terminal.                     

Here, in addition to the above-described voice signal output function, the speaker device 7a has a ringing sound for notifying the user that the incoming signal is detected when an incoming signal transmitted from the base station is detected through the antenna device 17, or an alarm preset by the user. When the time arrives, it also performs a function of expressing an alarm sound notifying the user that the alarm time has arrived.

In addition to the speaker device 7a described above as an apparatus for representing an incoming signal or an alarm signal, an oscillator (not shown) having an eccentric shaft is provided inside the portable wireless terminal, and the incoming call or alarm sound is transmitted through the speaker device 7a. The incoming signal or the alarm signal can be expressed by the vibration of the vibrator rather than the expression.

In addition, the main body unit 3 is an input unit for inputting a character or a symbol or data for controlling a ringing tone and an alarm sound, and a keypad 13 is installed at the front of the main body unit 3 so that a user can enter the portable wireless terminal. When inputting data for controlling a ringing tone and an alarming sound, the keypad 13 is provided to be operated by input.

In addition, the main body 3 is provided with a function keypad 11 including a direction button 11a, a menu button 11b, a confirmation button 11c, and the like so that the data can be input according to each step.

In the front of the cover portion 1 of the body portion 5 of the portable wireless terminal having such a configuration, the data inputted through the keypad 13 or the input data are controlled by the function keypad 11. The image display device module 9 is provided and mounted so as to be identified by the user's eyes.                     

A liquid crystal display (LCD) module may be typically applied to the mounted image display module 9, but in addition, organic electroluminescence (EL), plasma display panel (PDP), and fluorescent display Of course, a flat panel display module such as a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) may be applied.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a processor of a method of controlling a ringing tone or an alarm sound in a portable radio terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. This is as follows.

First, when the menu button 11b is pressed in the normal reception mode S301, the standby mode start step S303 is started.

After the standby mode start step (S303), the contents or options necessary for performing the standby mode can be adjusted as follows.

First, when the OK button 11c is pressed in the standby mode start step (S303), the standby mode end time input step (S305) is performed. In step S305, after inputting the time at which the standby mode automatically ends, the function keypad ( If the cancel button in 11) is pressed, the input end time is immediately stored without returning to the normal reception mode (S301), and if the input button 11c is pressed, the input end time is stored and the option adjustment step (steps below) is performed. S307).

In the option adjustment step (S307), when the portable radio terminal is in the standby mode step (S309), an option value for a method of informing the user of various information related to the alarm sound and the ringing tone generated by the portable radio terminal is set.

In the option adjustment step (S307), after setting various option values desired by the user and pressing the confirmation button (11c), the standby mode step (S309) is finally performed. In the standby mode step (S307), various option values are inputted. After pressing the cancel button on the function keypad 11, the set option value is not stored and returns to the normal reception mode (S301). On the contrary, when the confirm button 11c is pressed, the set option value is stored and finally The standby mode step (S309) proceeds.

In the standby mode step S309, when the user reaches the end time specified in the standby mode end time input step S305, or terminates the standby mode step S309 by a user's operation, the normal reception mode step S301 is performed. Is switched to.

Here, the option adjustment step (S307) for setting an option value for how to inform the user of various information related to the alarm sound and the ringing tone generated by the portable radio terminal when the portable radio terminal is in the standby mode step (S309). When described in detail with reference to Figure 4 as follows.

4 is a block diagram illustrating options for controlling a ringing tone or an alarm sound in a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, there are three cases in which the alarm sound and the ringing tone are controlled in the portable wireless terminal according to the present invention.

First, when the standby mode is in progress while the standby mode is in progress, or when the standby mode is terminated due to the user's operation to control the alarm sound indicating the end of the standby mode (401) and the second When the preset alarm time arrives to control the representation of the alarm sound (403), and the third when the incoming signal is received while the standby mode is in progress when the incoming call indicating the incoming signal is expressed Case 405.

In all three cases, the method of controlling the alarm sound and the ringing tone is common in the case of expressing the ring first and the vibration generated by the vibrator, without generating both the ring and the vibration. It can be divided into a case of notifying by simply blinking a lamp provided and skipping without any expression.

However, in the case where the incoming call signal is received when the incoming signal is received while the standby mode is in progress, the third case is controlled (405), the result is divided into two cases.

First, the incoming signal is not reported to the ring without being handled by the missed call, or the incoming signal is notified by the vibration generated by the vibrator, or by the flashing of the lamp provided in the portable wireless terminal without generating both the ring and the vibration. Can control the result with method 405a.

In addition to the above method, the received incoming signal may be treated as a missed call, and the result may be controlled by dividing the received incoming call to be ignored (405b).                     

In addition, the controlled reception result can be confirmed by the display unit 9 provided in the portable wireless terminal.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, Of course.

As described above, the portable wireless terminal according to the present invention may be subjected to occasional ringing tones due to the needs of the portable wireless terminal user, such as when a situation is to be courteous in a public place or when a short time sleep or an important meeting is attended. If you do not want to be disturbed by the specified alarm sound, it is possible to control the method of expressing the incoming call or alarm signal for the incoming signal or alarm signal with a simple operation, thereby providing a display method suitable for user convenience.

In addition, since the state of the portable wireless terminal does not need to be turned off by the need of the portable wireless terminal user, it is possible to check whether the incoming signal is detected at any time when an important contact is expected.

Claims (4)

In a portable wireless terminal, Input unit, The operation time to the standby mode is controlled based on the standby time end time set through the input unit, and the ring tone output is output based on the ring tone output method set corresponding to the standby mode for the incoming signal received during operation in the standby mode. And a control unit for controlling and switching the ringing tone output method to a state prior to entering the standby mode when the standby mode ends. Setting an end time of the standby mode based on the received control input; Controlling an operation time for the standby mode based on the end time; Control the ringing tone output based on the ringing tone output method set corresponding to the standby mode for the incoming signal received during the operation in the standby mode, and when the standby mode ends, return the ringing tone output method to the state before entering the standby mode. A ring tone control method of a portable radio terminal, characterized in that for switching. 3. The method of claim 2, And setting a ringing tone output method corresponding to the standby mode based on the received control input. The method of claim 3, If the ring tone output method corresponding to the standby mode is ring tone-free output, displaying the incoming signal received during the operation in the standby mode to the missed call.

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