WO2000003528A2 - Telephone mobile - Google Patents

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WO2000003528A2
WO2000003528A2 PCT/JP1999/003683 JP9903683W WO0003528A2 WO 2000003528 A2 WO2000003528 A2 WO 2000003528A2 JP 9903683 W JP9903683 W JP 9903683W WO 0003528 A2 WO0003528 A2 WO 0003528A2
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mobile telephone
antenna
orientation
display unit
display
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PCT/JP1999/003683
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Martin James Hennelly
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Nec Corporation
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/02—Constructional features of telephone sets
    • H04M1/0202—Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G2340/00—Aspects of display data processing
    • G09G2340/04—Changes in size, position or resolution of an image
    • G09G2340/0492—Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/02—Constructional features of telephone sets
    • H04M1/0202—Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets
    • H04M1/0206—Portable telephones comprising a plurality of mechanically joined movable body parts, e.g. hinged housings
    • H04M1/0208—Portable telephones comprising a plurality of mechanically joined movable body parts, e.g. hinged housings characterized by the relative motions of the body parts
    • H04M1/0214—Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position

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  • This invention relates to mobile telephones, and more particularly to the performance of mobile telephones in differing configurations.
  • a mobile telephone includes its display unit and the change of orientation of the display unit itself is well known in the prior art. Such changes of orientation are usually in response to a user's choice or to accommodate different types of data appearing on the display unit.
  • a mobile telephone operating under the control of a control means and including a display unit, the orientation of text, numerals or devices displayed on the display unit being changed automatically to correspond with an orientation preferential for operating performance of the mobile telephone following a change of configuration of the mobile telephone.
  • the user When a letter or numeral is displayed to the user, the user may be expected to hold the mobile telephone in a manner that allows the letter or numeral to be presented in its normal direction. There will then be a correspondence between the display and the preferential orientation of the mobile telephone in the selected configuration .
  • Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a mobile telephone set according to the prevent invention
  • Fig. 2a is a front view of the mobile telephone set shown in Fig. 1 with a deployed antenna
  • Fig. 2b is a front view of the mobile telephone set shown in Fig. 1 with the antenna in a stowed position.
  • a mobile telephone set according to the present invention comprises an antenna 3 for transmitting and receiving radio waves, a display unit
  • a button 12 for receiving information for receiving information
  • CPU 9 as control means for processing the information received via the button 12 and the microphone 11, outputting the processed information to the antenna 3, processing the information received via the antenna 3, outputting the processed information to the speaker 10, and controlling the content of the display and the direction of the display at the display unit 2, and a microswitch 8 as a switching means for generating an interrupt signal to control the direction of the display at the display unit 2 to CPU 9 by its ON- and OFF- states.
  • a mobile telephone set has a display unit 2, a microswitch 8, CPU 9, a speaker 10, a microphone 11 and a button 12 in the housing 5.
  • the antenna 3 is supported by a rotational joint 4 with the housing 5 so that the antenna 3 can rotate.
  • the antenna 3 contacts the microswitch 8.
  • an effective way of mounting the antenna is by a rotational joint on the top of the communications handset.
  • the antenna must be deployed. Deployment of the antenna is effected usually from a stowed position by rotating the antenna about the rotational joint toward the line of sight to the satellite .
  • Antenna 3 is shown in Fig.2a in the deployed position, extending from rotational joint 4 with the distal end of the antenna pointing skyward. In this deployed position the gain of antenna 3 is maximum in the general direction of the top of the mobile telephone, along the line of the physical communication channel.
  • the antenna 3 as shown in Fig.2b depends from rotational joint 4 and lies alongside the casing 5 of mobile telephone 1.
  • the maximum gain of the antenna in the stowed position is toward the bottom of the mobile telephone i.e. away from the direction of the physical communication channel. With the antenna in the stowed position, however, it is required that the mobile telephone should still be able to receive paging and other control channels.
  • the text displayed on display unit 2 is changed to correspond with the preferred orientation. Therefore with the antenna 3 in the deployed position and the preferred orientation of the mobile telephone as ' shown in Fig.2a with top 6 pointing generally towards the sky (skyward) and bottom 7 pointing generally towards the earth (earthward) the text in display unit 2 will be displayed for the user to read normally i.e. as shown by "ABCDEFGH" in Fig.2a.
  • a two position switch, microswitch 8 is switched when the antenna 3 is moved to the stowed position by the action of the antenna 3 being pushed into place.
  • CPU 9 controlling the operation of the mobile telephone detects the change in state of the microswitch 8, by an interrupt from the microswitch 8 and inverts the text on the display unit 2. The text orientation on the display for the antenna stowed position will then be inverted as shown in Fig.2b.
  • CPU 9 can also switch the functions of speaker and earpiece microphones or many other functions as required for an arrangement other than described herein.
  • the invention may 'also be applied to telephones with touch sensitive screens or speech recognition functions and the number of orientations available for the display need not be restricted to two.
  • a tilt switch may be employed instead of microswitch 8, for example, to indicate various orientations of the telephone housing.

Abstract

Ce téléphone mobile comporte un écran sur lequel l'orientation de textes, de nombres ou de dispositifs affichés change automatiquement en fonction des configurations de téléphone choisies. Cette orientation des textes, des nombres ou des dispositifs affichés amène l'utilisateur à orienter le téléphone en une position de rendement optimum pour la configuration choisie. Les changements de configuration tels que le déploiement ou le rangement de l'antenne satellite provoquent l'inversion du texte affiché.
PCT/JP1999/003683 1998-07-11 1999-07-08 Telephone mobile WO2000003528A2 (fr)

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AU46499/99A AU4649999A (en) 1998-07-11 1999-07-08 Mobile telephone

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GB9815003A GB2339509B (en) 1998-07-11 1998-07-11 Mobile phone with preferential orientation

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2000031948A1 (fr) * 1998-11-20 2000-06-02 Institut für Halbleiterphysik Frankfurt (Oder) GmbH Unite mobile de telecommunication au confort d'utilisation ameliore
WO2002047365A1 (fr) * 2000-12-04 2002-06-13 Philip Paul Larson Dispositif informatique/de communication portatif, mobile, ergonomique
EP1263193A3 (fr) * 2001-05-31 2003-10-08 Nokia Corporation Station mobile munie d'un élément d'affichage
GB2390347A (en) * 2002-07-02 2004-01-07 Ford Global Tech Inc Portable interface device for a vehicle
US7181251B2 (en) 2003-10-22 2007-02-20 Nokia Corporation Mobile communication terminal with multi orientation user interface
WO2013186089A2 (fr) 2012-06-14 2013-12-19 Basf Se Procédés pesticides utilisant des composés thiazole à substitution 3-pyridyle et leurs dérivés pour lutter contre des nuisibles

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