JP3022786B2 - Mobile phone and control method thereof - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile phone, and more particularly to a power supply for a mobile phone which is located far from the mobile phone when the user forgets to use the mobile phone for a while. The present invention relates to a mobile phone capable of disconnecting.

[Summary of the Invention] The present invention relates to a portable telephone equipped with a function of automatically setting a telephone call state without a user's operation when receiving an incoming call. When a user forgets to use a mobile phone in a place where it cannot be used for a while (such as a car), the user can place a call to his / her mobile phone from a location away from his / her mobile phone and automatically use his / her mobile phone. The present invention provides a mobile phone in which a user is in a call state and a user sends a power-off message to the mobile phone, thereby turning off the power of his / her own mobile phone and confirming the power-off.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, portable wireless communication devices have become extremely easy to carry with the advancement of technical semiconductor integration technology, and demand has been rapidly increasing. This mobile radio communication device includes an MCA system, an analog / digital car phone, an analog / digital personal handy phone, and a PH.
The battery time when you want to turn off the power when you do not plan to talk in order to reduce power consumption and reduce battery consumption. It is used to maintain it. The mobile wireless communication device pays attention to the power consumption as described above. The transmission / reception time is the maximum power consumption state, the reception standby time is the next power consumption state, and the power-off time is the minimum power consumption state. Therefore, when the user does not carry his / her mobile wireless communication device until the battery is charged, he or she wants to turn off the power.

Forgetting to turn off the power on / off switch of such a radio, the battery is discharged,
Portable radios become unusable, and in the case of car-portable radios, it can even happen that driving of a car becomes unusable. In order to solve such a case, a conventional technique is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 7-86999. The solution disclosed in this publication will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 3, a data signal transmitted from the base station radio 12 to turn off the power ON / OFF SW is transmitted from the antenna 11, the radio wave is received by the mobile station radio 14 via the antenna 13, and the demodulation means is provided. After passing through the radio unit 15 including the high-frequency unit 16 and the low-frequency unit 17, the data is analyzed by the data determination unit 20 of the microcomputer unit 19 in the logic unit 18, and the power is turned on by the power ON / OFF determination unit 21. A data signal of disconnection of / OFFSW is determined.
The power supply SW control unit 23 is controlled based on the determination result, and the power supply from the battery 25 to the power supply unit 22 is cut off. In this way, it is possible to control the disconnection of the power supply to the mobile station radio by the operation from the base station radio, and it is possible to prevent the battery from being discharged due to forgetting to turn off the power ON / OFF SW of the radio. , And

In Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 8-102107, a receiver call number and a message code for controlling an electronic device transmitted from a telephone by a pager radio wave are received by a wireless receiving means provided on the electronic device side. The present invention relates to an electronic device remote control device configured to decode a received message code, output an electronic device control code corresponding to the electronic device from an electronic device control code output unit, and remotely control the electronic device. is there. In this publication, the pager has its own call number preset in advance. After the pager's call number is keyed in from the telephone, the numbers "1", "2",. By keying in a message code using “#”, “*”, etc., the person carrying the pager can understand the request of the other party from the message code without talking to the other party. It is a system that can. In this publication, a receiving unit call number and a message code for electronic device control wirelessly transmitted from a telephone are received by a wireless receiving unit, and the message code received by an electronic device control code output unit is decoded. Since the electronic device control code corresponding to the electronic device is configured to be output to the electronic device side, for example, the electronic device is controlled via a wireless reception unit and an electronic device control code output unit provided indoors by a telephone from outside. Remote control, and the configuration of the wireless receiving means employing the pager technology dedicated to reception is simplified, and the cost of use is reduced because only reception is required. In addition, the installation place of the electronic device remote control device becomes free, and the operability is improved. The electronic device remote control device does not correspond to a mobile phone, but includes a home electrical device having a built-in function of the mobile phone, a VTR for setting an answering machine, and the like.

[0006]

However, in the above-described technique, when the user forgets to use the mobile phone in a place where the mobile phone cannot be used for a while while the power of the mobile phone is turned on, the user uses the wireless communication. Although you may be able to turn off your mobile phone, you cannot confirm by remote control whether or not you have really turned off your mobile phone.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-102107 does not disclose that even if a specific message code is transmitted from an external touch-tone telephone by remote control, the power of the pager itself is cut off. Also, it was not possible to confirm whether or not the power of the remote control electronic device was correctly turned off.

The object of the present invention is to provide a function in which a user accesses a portable telephone which can be transmitted and received using a wireless line in the above situation, and turns off the portable telephone.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a mobile phone capable of confirming that the power has been turned off.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, it is possible to communicate with a destination on a wireless communication line (a user has forgotten the possession).
An automatic transmission / reception unit that automatically switches to a communication state when the mobile phone receives a missed call, and notifies a user that a power-off message is received and performs power-off processing; Means for managing time (message reception time), determination means for determining whether or not a power-off message has been received within the managed time, power-off means for cutting off power supply to the device, When the determination means determines that the message is a power-off message, a message sending means for transmitting a power-off message and a control means for turning off the power using the power-off means are provided.

According to the above configuration, when the user forgets the location where the mobile phone cannot be used for a while and sends a power-off message to the mobile phone, the automatic transmission / reception means is first activated. Done,
It is ready to receive, and then time management means manages the message reception time. When it is determined by the determining means that the power-off message has been received, the control means first activates the automatic transmitting / receiving means, transmits information for performing power-off processing to the user, and drives the power-off means after transmission. , Disconnect the power supply to the device.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

[1] Description of Configuration Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the mobile phone of the present invention.

A mobile phone 1 according to the present embodiment shown in FIG.
Is an antenna 3 for receiving a specific radio wave from the wireless line 2,
Automatically receive the outgoing signal from the destination by the automatic incoming call means, and receive the power off message in the demodulated signal,
An automatic transmission / reception means 4 for transmitting information for performing power-off processing, and a message reception time management means 5 for managing a message reception time when a communication state is established by automatic reception.
Receiving message determining means 6 for determining whether the received message is a power-off message, and performing power-off control of the mobile phone 1 when the receiving message determining means 6 determines that the received message is a receiving message. When the reception time management means 5 determines that the message reception acceptance time has been exceeded, a control means 7 for controlling the release of the call state of the mobile phone 1, and a power supply for turning off the power when receiving a power-off request from the control means 7 Disconnection means 8, communication state release means 101 for releasing the call state upon receiving a call state release notification from control means 7, power supply disconnection message sending means 102 for transmitting a power supply disconnection message, and message reception time lapse; And transmission message determination means 10 comprising time lapse message sending means 103 indicating There. Further, there is a user terminal 9 of a telephone connected to the mobile telephone 1 through an external telephone line, and this telephone 9 may be a mobile telephone or a public telephone.

[2] Description of Operation Next, the operation of the mobile phone 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart in the upper part of FIG. The user terminal 9 hooks off, receives the tone sound of the reception from the telephone station A, and keys in the telephone number of the call of the mobile phone 1 from the keyboard of the user terminal 9. The telephone station A that has received this telephone number transmits a specific radio wave corresponding to the telephone number of the mobile telephone from the telephone station B where the mobile telephone 1 is located through the telephone line. Since the power of the mobile phone 1 is on, the antenna 3 receives the specific radio wave, detects that the automatic transmission / reception means 4 of the mobile phone 1 has received the specific radio wave, automatically sets the hook off state, and sets the hook off state. Is transmitted to the telephone station B. The telephone station B transmits a tone from the telephone station A to the user terminal 9 via the telephone line, indicating that the mobile phone 1 is in the hook-off state. The user terminal 9 then key-in a message from the keyboard of the user terminal 9 to support a message that the power of the mobile phone 1 is turned off. For example, "# 00
Key-in a predetermined power-off message of "1".
Is transmitted to the mobile phone 1 via the.

When the mobile telephone 1 receives an incoming call from the user terminal 9, the automatic transmission / reception means 4 sets the mobile telephone 1 in a communicable state. 5, the message reception monitoring time is set, and the message reception time management means 5 is activated. The received message determination means 6 is set in a receivable state and within a time when message reception is permitted.
When receiving the power-off message, the control unit 7 is notified of the reception. Upon receiving the power-off message reception notification, the control means 7 activates the automatic transmission / reception means 4 and sends the power-off message sending means, which is the disconnection execution information in the transmission message determination means 10, to inform the user that the power-off processing is to be performed. In step 102, a power-off message is selected, for example, a message such as “Power off after 10 seconds” or a code such as “# 002” as a telephone message. A is transmitted to the user terminal 9 via A. In this case, the code “# 002” may be converted into voice by the voice generating means in the mobile phone 1 or may be converted into voice by the voice generating means in the telephone station A. Then, after 10 seconds, the mobile phone 1 outputs a response in the on-hook state from the automatic transmission / reception means 4 through the control means 7, activates the power-off means 8, and turns off the power of the mobile phone 1. Then, the power consumption of the battery of the entire mobile phone is completely stopped. The user terminal 9 receives the signal indicating that the mobile phone 1 is on-hook and has generated the end signal, goes on-hook, sends a disconnection signal to the telephone offices A and B, and sends a restoration signal from the telephone office B to the telephone office A. The call procedure of ends.

The timeout of message sending will be described with reference to the lower part of FIG. When the timer 51 of the message reception time management means 5 of the mobile phone 1 detects a timeout of the reception time from the start of the incoming call, it notifies the control means 7, and the control means 7 supports the release of the call state by the transmission message determination means 10. A message indicating that the call state has been released after a lapse of time;
03, for example, a message such as "cancel message reception" or a code as a telephone message such as "# 003" is selected by the automatic transmission / reception means 4 through the telephone stations B and A. Sent to terminal 9. Thereafter, the control means 7 supports the transmission message determination means 10 and the call state release means 101
Sends a message indicating on-hook, which is an instruction to cancel the call state, to the automatic transmission / reception means 4 and transmits the message to the user terminal 9 via the telephone stations B and A via the antenna 3 to cancel the call state. In this case, the power of the mobile phone 1 is not turned off, and if a call to the mobile phone 1 is made, automatic reception is continuously performed.

As described above, a user who forgets to use a mobile phone at a certain place and cannot use it for a while accesses his or her mobile phone from a public telephone or the like and transmits a power-off message, thereby wasting battery waste of the mobile phone. Can be prevented. Further, by transmitting information notifying that the power supply is to be cut off to the user, the user is informed that the power supply is cut off reliably.

Next, a description will be given of a dial lock for locking the key of the portable telephone 1 which has been left behind. First, the user enters the telephone number of his misplaced mobile telephone 1 through the user terminal 9 to go off-hook and prohibit the use of others. This procedure is the same as the procedure in the upper part of FIG. Next, a predetermined dial lock message, for example, “# 004” is pushed from the dial of the user terminal 9. After receiving an incoming call, the mobile phone 1 activates the automatic transmission / reception means 4 and activates the message reception time management means 5.
Of the next message "# 00"
4 "arrives and the received message determination means 6 determines that the message is a dial lock message, and instructs the control means 7 to perform dial lock control. Under the control of the control means 7, the transmission message determination means 10 is attached. A message indicating that dial lock is to be performed, for example, "# 005", and a message such as "lock dial" is sent from the antenna 3 to the telephone station B via the automatic transmission / reception means 4, and the telephone station A Then, the user terminal 9 recognizes that the mobile phone 1 has been dial-locked, and then does not make any response or call even if the mobile phone 1 attempts to key in the dial.
Then, like a so-called pager, only reception will be accepted, battery consumption will be reduced,
For a third party, there is almost no value in use, and even if it is stolen, the return of the mobile phone 1 to the user becomes faster.

In the above embodiment, it is possible to transmit various messages from the user terminal 9 and recognize that the messages are actually executed by the mobile phone 1. Therefore, it is possible to confirm that the action according to the message is executed not only for the above message but also for another message.

Further, during the procedure in the above embodiment, it is also possible to instruct the user terminal of the personal identification number under the condition that the mobile phone accepts the message. That is, after receiving the power-off message, for example, “# 006” may be selected, and a message “Please enter your password” may be sent from the mobile phone 1 to the user terminal 9.

[0020]

According to the present invention, when a user forgets to use a mobile phone for a while, such as when the mobile phone remains turned on when the mobile phone cannot be used for a while, the mobile phone cannot be used from that location. By being able to confirm the disconnection by turning off the power supply, it is possible to prevent wasteful battery consumption and to be reassured from a deceptive sense.

In addition, by transmitting information indicating that the operation has been completed to the user so as to avoid a state where the user has performed the operation but does not know whether the power is actually turned off, an uneasy state can be avoided. , Reliability can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one form of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a signal flow according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration block diagram of a conventional wireless device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cellular phone 2 Wireless line 3 Antenna 4 Automatic transmission / reception means 5 Message reception time management means 6 Received message judgment means 7 Control means 8 Power off means 9 User terminal

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Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A mobile phone equipped with a function of automatically entering a call state without a user's operation when receiving an incoming call, an antenna for receiving a specific radio wave from a wireless line, and an automatic transmitting / receiving means for automatically off-hook upon receiving an incoming call. Received message determining means for determining a received message; control means for performing control based on the determination result of the received message determining means; and transmitted message determination for selecting a transmitted message according to the type of control by the control means Means,
Transmission means for transmitting the transmission message through the automatic transmission / reception means , wherein the reception message indicates a power-off instruction.
The power is turned off after a predetermined time.
A mobile phone, characterized in that it is a message . 2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein
Further, there is provided a message reception time management means for managing a message reception time when the communication state is automatically set, and the transmission message is a message indicating that the message reception time has elapsed. Mobile phone. 3. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein
The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the received message indicates a dial lock instruction, and the transmitted message is a message indicating that the dial lock is performed after a predetermined time. 4. A control method for a mobile phone equipped with a function of automatically entering a communication state without a user's operation upon receiving an incoming call, wherein the mobile phone automatically goes off-hook with the incoming call and counts a timer by a message receiving time managing means. Starting, subsequently receiving the received message and starting the control according to the received message by the control means, selecting a transmission message corresponding to the control by the transmission message determination means, transmitting the transmission message, and thereafter After a time, the control is executed, and the received message indicates that the power is turned off.
Indicates that the power will be turned off after a predetermined time.
A method for controlling a mobile phone, comprising transmitting the transmission message .