KR19980020891A - How to choose the ringtone for your cell phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a cellular phone, and more particularly, to a method of selecting a ringing tone of a cellular phone, which enables a user to select and use a sound of an incoming ringing sound when an incoming signal is received from the cellular phone.

In general, a cell phone alerts the user that a call is ringing when an incoming call is made, and each cell phone has a similar ring tone, which is owned by another person in a public place such as a music concert, bus, or train. Even if a ringing tone is heard by a cellular phone, a person often misunderstands as ringing in his or her cell phone. When the ringing tone rings, the ringing tone rings in a difficult place, causing problems to people around.

The present invention allows the user to select and use the ring tone of the cell phone, thereby avoiding confusion with the ring tone of another cell phone, and avoiding ringing of the ring tone of the cell phone, thereby receiving the cell phone with confidence even in a place requiring quietness. You can keep it on standby.

Description

How to choose the ringtone for your cell phone

The present invention relates to a cellular phone, and more particularly, to a method of selecting a ringing tone of a cellular phone, which enables a user to select and use a sound of an incoming ringing sound when an incoming signal is received from the cellular phone.

In general, as shown in FIG. 1, the cellular phone includes a duplexer 10, a receiver 20, a transmitter 30, a frequency synthesizer 40, a controller 50, and a first memory unit 60. And a second memory unit 70, a third memory unit 80 (non-volatile RAM), a key unit 90, a liquid crystal display unit 100, an audio processing unit 110, and a speaker 120.

The receiver 20 receives and outputs a call signal and a call message of the other party applied through the duplexer 1 from the antenna ANT, and the transmitter 30 processes the call signal processing and the phone message of the authorized user by the duplexer ( 10) and via antenna (ANT). The frequency synthesizer 40 synthesizes and supplies a transmission frequency to the transmitter 30, simultaneously synthesizes and supplies a reception frequency applied from the receiver 20, and the controller 50 controls the overall operation of the cellular phone. The first memory unit 60 stores the operation program of the controller 50, the second memory unit 70 stores the signal processing program of the controller 50, and the third memory unit 80 is Korean. And information such as special characters and a telephone number input by the user. The key unit 90 includes a plurality of keys for inputting various indication information to the control unit 50, and the liquid crystal display unit 100 shows the reception and transmission states of the cellular phone under the control of the control unit 50. The voice processor 110 outputs a digital signal or a signal received from the controller 50 by digitalization or analog signal processing, and the speaker 120 outputs a signal applied from the voice processor 110 to the outside.

In the cellular phone having the above configuration, when an incoming call occurs, the controller 50 controls the voice processing unit 110 to output a ring tone through the speaker 120 to inform the user that a call has been received. Due to the similarity of cell phone ringing tones, it is often mistaken that a cell phone is owned by someone else in a public place such as a music concert, bus or train, and the ringing tone is ringing on his or her cell phone. Edo ringing, there is a problem that damages people around.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and by storing various types of ringing tones of the cell phone and selecting and using ringing tones that can be easily recognized by the user, it is possible to avoid confusion with ringing tones of other cellular phones. The purpose is to provide a way to avoid ringing in places where you can be quiet.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for selecting a ring tone for a cellular phone, comprising: a first process of checking whether a function button is pressed; A second step of displaying a main menu when a function button is input after the first step; A third step of generating a ring tone currently selected when the ring tone selection menu is selected after the second step; A fourth step of asking whether to change the ring tone currently selected after the third step; A fifth step of asking whether to turn off the ringing tone when selecting the change of the ringing tone in the fourth step; A sixth step of outputting a new ring tone to the speaker if the ring tone is not selected in the fifth step; A seventh step of asking whether to select a ring tone after the sixth step; An eighth step of, when the ring tone is selected in the seventh step, storing the newly selected ring tone data in a predetermined memory and terminating the program; If the ring tone is turned off in the fifth step, the preset ring tone data is deleted from a predetermined memory, and then the ninth step of terminating the program is included.

1 is a block diagram of a typical cell phone,

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for selecting a ringing tone for a cellular phone according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10: duplexer 20: receiver

30: transmitter 40: frequency synthesizer

50: control unit 60: first memory unit

70: second memory unit 80: third memory unit

90: key portion 100: liquid crystal display portion

110: voice processing unit 120: speaker

130: microphone

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The present invention is applied to the cellular phone shown in Fig. 1, having a function button for selecting a ringing tone on the key portion 90 of the cellular phone and generating various kinds of ringing bells usable in the second memory portion 70. Having the data for the present invention enables the present invention to be implemented.

The method for selecting a ringing tone of the cellular phone according to the present invention proceeds in the order of FIG. 2. First, when the type of ring tone of the cellular phone is to be changed, when the function button of the key unit 90 is input (step S1), the control unit 50 displays the main menu on the liquid crystal display unit 100 (step S2). . At this time, when the user selects the ring tone selection menu from the main menu, the ring tone is currently output through the speaker 120 (step S3). On the other hand, if the user operates the function button of the key unit 90 to select the ring tone change (step S4), the control unit 50 prompts the user to turn on / off the ring tone generation of the cellular phone. (Step S5), when the ring tone is selected, the controller 50 reads the other type of ring tone data stored in the second memory unit 70 from the second memory unit and outputs it through the speaker 120. The user can confirm (step S6), and output a message to the liquid crystal display unit 100 to inquire whether to select the ring tone (step S7). At this time, if the user operates the function button of the key unit 90 to select the ring tone (step S7), after the corresponding data is stored in the third memory unit 80 (step S8), the operation is terminated. . Therefore, when the incoming signal is received by the cellular phone, the selected ring tone is generated, so that the user can distinguish the ringing tone from another cellular phone.

On the other hand, in the case where the cellular phone does not ring a ringing tone, when the user inputs the function button of the key unit 90 (step S1), the control unit 50 displays the main menu on the liquid crystal display unit 100 (step S2). If the ring tone selection menu is selected in the main menu, the ring tone is currently output through the speaker (step S3). When the user selects the ring tone change (step S4), the user is asked whether to turn on / off the ring tone generation of the cellular phone. At this time, if the user selects the ring tone off (step S5), the controller 50 controls the third memory unit. After the data of the ringing tone stored in 70 is removed, the operation ends (step S9). Therefore, even when an incoming signal is received by the cellular phone, the ringing tone does not ring, so that the cellular phone can be kept in a waiting state for reception in a place requiring quietness.

As described above, the present invention allows the user to select and use the ring tone of the cell phone, thereby avoiding confusion with the ring tone of another cell phone, and avoiding ringing of the ring tone of the cell phone, so it is safe even in places requiring quietness. The cell phone can be kept in the standby state.

Claims (1)

A method for selecting a ring tone for a cellular phone, comprising: a first step of checking whether a function button is input; A second step of displaying a main menu when a function button is input after the first step; A third step of generating a ring tone currently selected when the ring tone selection menu is selected after the second step; A fourth step of asking whether to change the ring tone currently selected after the third step; A fifth step of asking whether to turn off the ringing tone when selecting the change of the ringing tone in the fourth step; A sixth step of outputting a new ring tone to the speaker if the ring tone is not selected in the fifth step; A seventh step of asking whether to select a ring tone after the sixth step; An eighth step of, when the ring tone is selected in the seventh step, storing the newly selected ring tone data in a predetermined memory and terminating the program; And selecting a ring tone off in the fifth process, and deleting the preset ring tone data from a predetermined memory and ending the program.