JP4316602B2 - Communication device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication device such as a cellular phone that can automatically switch between a ringing tone notification notified by a buzzer, a melody, and the like and a vibration notification notified by vibration when an incoming call is received.

  The communication apparatus has, for example, the configuration shown in FIG. 9, wherein 51 is a control unit, 52 is a signal processing unit, 53 is a radio unit, 54 is a transmitter, 55 is a receiver, 56 is an operation unit, and 57 is A mode selection unit, 58 is a ring tone generation unit, 59 is a speaker, 60 is a drive unit, 61 is a vibration unit, and 62 is an antenna.

  The control unit 51 controls each unit and controls outgoing and incoming calls via a control channel, for example. The signal processing unit 52 encodes the audio signal from the transmitter 54 and sends the audio signal reproduced by processing such as decoding to the receiver 55. The functions of the control unit 51 and the signal processing unit 52 can also be realized by processing functions such as a digital signal processor (DSP).

  The radio unit 53 connected to the antenna 62 includes a high-frequency amplifier, a modem, and the like, and has a radio transmission / reception function having a configuration corresponding to a mobile phone system such as a time division multiplex communication system or a code division multiplex communication system. The operation unit 56 includes a dial key and the like for inputting a telephone number of the other party. The mode selection unit 57 selects whether the notification at the time of the incoming call is a ringing tone notification mode in which normal sound is performed or a vibration notification mode in which vibration is performed.

  Further, when the mode selection unit 57 sets the ring tone notification mode, for example, when the incoming call is detected, the control unit 51 controls the ring tone generation unit 58 to send a ring tone by a melody from the speaker 59. When the vibration notification mode is set, the vibration is generated from the vibration unit 61 by controlling the drive unit 60 when receiving a call. For example, a configuration in which vibration is generated by rotating a motor having an unbalanced rotating body can be applied to the vibrating unit 61.

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a conventional example, and a mobile phone will be described as a communication device. First, an incoming call notification method in the mobile phone is selected (F1). That is, either the vibration notification mode (F2) or the ring tone notification mode (F3) is selected. Then, the standby state (F4) is continued in the selected mode. When there is an incoming call in this standby state, the vibration unit 61 is driven in accordance with the selected mode to notify, or a melody or the like is generated from the sweeper 59 and notified.

  When the vibration notification mode is selected, if the mobile phone is placed in a bag or the like away from the body, the incoming notification due to vibration cannot be recognized. In view of this, a configuration is known in which the control unit 51 switches to the ringing tone notification mode if no response is received even if notification is received by vibration for a predetermined time or longer (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

In addition, it is possible to select between the no notification mode and the ring tone notification mode. When the no notification mode is selected, the ring tone is not generated when an incoming call is received. There is also known a configuration for performing notification according to (see, for example, Patent Document 2).
JP-A-8-18173 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-173771

  When a vibration sound notification mode is selected in a communication device such as a mobile phone capable of selecting a ring tone notification mode and a vibration sound notification mode, the communication device such as the mobile phone is vibrated in a body pocket such as by putting it in a pocket of clothes. Must be carried in a state where can be transmitted. On the other hand, when the ring tone notification mode is selected, an incoming call can be recognized by the ring tone even if a communication device such as a mobile phone is placed at a position away from the body. However, there are various places where this ringing tone is annoying to other people around, and in such places, the vibration notification mode is selected.

  After selecting this vibration notification mode, when it becomes an environment where an incoming call may be notified with a normal ring tone, or when it is stored in a bag or the like, it may forget to switch to the ring tone notification mode. In such a situation, there is a problem that even if there is an incoming call for an emergency call, it cannot be recognized.

  The present invention solves the problems of the conventional example, and automatically switches between the mode of incoming call notification by vibration and the mode of incoming call notification by ringtone according to the setting condition, so that a specific partner or emergency The purpose is to make it possible to answer incoming calls.

The communication device of the present invention is a communication device capable of performing notification by ringing tone or notification by vibration when there is an incoming call, and the number of times of no response to an incoming call from a specific telephone number reaches a set number. when the, and a control unit that performs control for switching from the notification of the incoming by the vibration in the notification of incoming call by the ringtone.

  A communication apparatus having a first mode for notifying by ringtone when an incoming call is received and a second mode for notifying by vibration when an incoming call is received, wherein the first mode and the first mode In addition to mode 2, it is possible to select a mode that automatically switches from a mode that notifies by vibration after a set time has elapsed to a mode that notifies by incoming, and performs control according to the selected mode A control unit is provided.

  In addition, a control unit is provided for performing control to prohibit the first operation when a predetermined number of calls are received from a specific telephone number in a state where the first operation is permitted.

  The control unit includes a control unit that controls the prohibition of the first operation so as to allow the second operation instead of the first operation.

  The present invention automatically sets the incoming call notification by vibration and the incoming call notification by ringtone from vibration notification mode to ringtone notification mode when conditions such as the number of no-responses and elapsed time are set. Even when the control unit that performs the switching control forgets to switch from the vibration notification mode to the ring tone notification mode, for example, the number of consecutive non-responses for incoming calls from a specific telephone number is set to the set number of times. When it reaches or when the set time elapses, it can automatically switch to the ring tone notification mode to notify the incoming call. Therefore, even when ring tone prevention is set, it can be automatically canceled according to the setting conditions.

  The communication device of the present invention is a communication device capable of performing notification by ringing tone or notification by vibration when an incoming call is received, and when the elapse of a set time is detected, from notification of an incoming call by vibration, A control unit that performs control to switch to notification of incoming calls by ringtone is provided.

  FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a main part of a first embodiment of the present invention, showing a main part of a communication device such as a mobile phone, wherein 1 is a control unit, 2 is a signal processing unit, 3 is a radio unit, 4 Is a transmitter, 5 is a receiver, 6 is an operation unit, 7 is a mode selection unit, 8 is a ring tone generation unit, 9 is a speaker, 10 is a drive unit, 11 is a vibration unit, 12 is an antenna, 13 is a memory, 14 Indicates a display unit, and 15 indicates a timer.

  The mode selection unit 7 selects the ring tone notification mode as the first mode, the vibration notification mode as the second mode, and the automatic switching mode. In accordance with the selection result, when the incoming call is in the ringtone notification mode, the control unit 1 reproduces the melody generated by the ringtone generation unit 8 by the speaker 9 and notifies the incoming call. In the vibration notification mode, the drive unit 10 is controlled to generate vibration from the vibration unit 11 to notify the incoming call. In the case of the automatic switching mode, the incoming call is notified by switching from the vibration notification mode to the ringing tone notification mode according to the setting conditions.

  The automatic switching mode switches to the ring tone notification mode when M unanswered calls continue from an unspecified caller or a specific caller or when a specified time elapses. When the automatic switching mode is selected, unspecified or specific selection of the caller, caller number in a specific case, and the number M of no responses are set. Alternatively, the elapsed time is set. These settings can be made by the operation unit 6 in accordance with guidance by the display unit 14 or the like. The setting data set by the operation unit 6, the incoming data set as the incoming call history, the search data set used in the automatic switching mode, and the like are stored in the memory 13 according to the control of the control unit 1. Note that the set number M of no response is M ≧ 2.

  Therefore, when the automatic switching mode is selected by the mode selection unit 7, the incoming call is notified by the vibration notification as the first operation, and it does not respond to it for more than M times, or after the set time has elapsed, Is switched to ring tone notification as the second operation, and a ring tone is generated from the speaker 9 to notify the incoming call. Therefore, when switching from the vibration notification mode to the ring tone notification mode is forgotten, it is possible to automatically switch to the ring tone notification mode.

  FIG. 2 is an operation flowchart according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As an incoming call notification method selection (A1), one of a vibration notification mode, an automatic switching mode, and a ring tone notification mode is selected. When the vibration notification mode is selected, a standby state is set in the vibration notification mode (A2). Then, the presence / absence of an incoming call is determined (A3), and if there is an incoming call, the incoming call is notified by vibration by the vibration unit 11 (A4). When the ring tone notification mode is selected, the standby state is set in the ring tone notification mode (A5). Then, the presence / absence of an incoming call is determined (A6), and if there is an incoming call, an incoming call notification is given by a ring tone from the speaker 9 (A7).

  If the automatic switching mode is selected, the number of incoming calls N = 0 (A8), and the presence / absence of an incoming call is determined as a standby state (A9) (A10). If there is an incoming call, N = N + 1 is set (A11), and the above-mentioned setting number M is compared with the number N of incoming calls (A12). When M> N, an incoming call notification by vibration is performed (A13), the presence / absence of a response is determined (A15), if there is no response, the process proceeds to step (A9), and if there is a response, N = 0 (A16) and a call is made (A17).

  If no response continues for M times, M = N in step (A12). In this case, the incoming call notification is performed by switching from the vibration to the ring tone (A14). If there is no response due to this incoming call notification, N + 1 is obtained in step (A11). Therefore, in the next incoming call step (A12), M <N, and the incoming call notification by the ring tone notification is given. This is performed continuously (A14).

  Therefore, when the incoming call notification is performed as the vibration notification mode and no response is made for the set number M of times, the incoming call notification mode can be automatically switched to the incoming call tone notification mode. Therefore, even if you forget to switch to the normal ring tone notification mode and put your mobile phone in a bag etc. Thus, the incoming call can be notified by the ring tone from the speaker 9.

  FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a data set, and shows an incoming data set (A) and a search data set (B) formed in the memory 13 (see FIG. 1) of the mobile phone. The incoming data set records 1 to Z incoming caller IDs (caller numbers), date and time, and presence / absence of responses (“1”, “0”). In this case, the incoming data set with the number 1 is the oldest and the incoming data set with the number Z is the newest. The search data set is set by extracting the caller ID (caller number), date and time, and presence / absence of a response from 1 to (M-1) incoming calls since the automatic switching mode was set. Is. Also in this search data set, number 1 is the oldest and number M-1 is the newest.

  FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of the initial setting. When the automatic switching mode is selected, it is determined how many times the incoming call is switched (B1), and a number is input by a key (the operation unit 6 in FIG. 1). Whether or not the input is completed is determined (B2), and the input is completed and stored in the memory 13 (see FIG. 1) (B3). Further, “1” is set when switching from the same telephone number when M calls are made, and “0” is set when switching is made when the telephone number is called M times unspecified (B4). The presence / absence of the input of “1” or “0” is determined (B5), and stored in the memory 13 when the input is completed. In addition, it is determined how many minutes the incoming call is to be processed (B7), and the numerical value is input to determine whether the input is completed (B8). When the input is completed, it is stored in the memory 13. In this case, when the time interval between the oldest time of the search data set and the time of the current search data set is equal to or longer than a predetermined time, the oldest time The search data set is stored in the memory 13 with a time interval set so as not to count as the number of non-responses (B9).

  That is, when the automatic switching mode is set, there is a case where no response is continued even if an incoming call is notified in the vibration notification mode. Therefore, the number M for switching to the ringing tone notification mode is set. Then, whether the incoming call is from the same telephone number or the incoming call from an unspecified telephone number is set. Alternatively, a specific telephone number is set, and the number M of incoming calls from this specific telephone number is set. It is also possible to set the elapsed time since the automatic switching mode was set.

  5 and 6 are flowcharts of Embodiment 2 of the present invention. When the vibration notification mode is selected, for example, by selecting the incoming notification method (C1), whether or not there is an incoming call is determined as the standby state (C2). (C3) When receiving an incoming call, an incoming call notification by vibration is performed (C4). When the ring tone notification mode is selected, the presence / absence of an incoming call is determined as a standby state (C5) (C6).

  When the automatic switching mode is selected, the standby state is set (C8), and whether or not there is an incoming call is determined (C9). When there is an incoming call, the caller telephone number by the caller number notification is extracted by the control unit 1 (see FIG. 1), and the incoming call date and time is detected by the calendar function of the control unit 1 (C10). The incoming data set including the date and time is registered as DATA1 (C11). At this time, the incoming data set DATA1 is preferentially stored from the incoming data of the new date and time, and the oldest data set is deleted if necessary according to the maximum number of data sets Z that can be stored in the incoming data set.

  Then, it is determined whether or not S = 1 (C12). In other words, the setting of whether switching by incoming call from the same telephone number (“1”) or switching by incoming call from an unspecified telephone number (“0”) set in step (B4) of FIG. = 1 indicates switching by incoming call from the same number. When S = 0, that is, when switching by incoming call from an unspecified telephone number is set, the search data set (DATA2) is set in order of date and time of the incoming data set (DATA1) (C13). For example, as shown in (B) from the incoming data set in FIG. 3A, (M-1) incoming data sets are registered as search data sets in the order of date and time.

  When S = 1, that is, when switching by incoming call from the same telephone number is set, the search data set (DATA1) is extracted from the incoming data set (DATA1) in the order of the latest date and time. DATA2) is registered (C14). Then, DATA2 (search data set) is compared with the initial set value (C15). If the number of all search data sets is M-1, the response data is all 0, and the incoming date and time is newer than P minutes before the current time, indicate the setting conditions for automatic switching Therefore, if the comparison result satisfies all the conditions, it switches to ringing tone notification and notifies the incoming call (C17).

  If the condition is not satisfied in step (C15), the vibration notification mode is continued and the current incoming call is notified by vibration (C16). Then, the presence / absence of a response is monitored (C18). If there is no response, "0" is set in the response column of the incoming data set DATA1 (C21). Then, the process proceeds to the standby state (C8). If there is a response, "1" is set in the response column of the incoming data set DATA1 (C19), and a call is made (C20).

  FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a data set. (A), (B), and (D) show an incoming data set, and (C) and (E) show a search data set. Corresponding to (A) and (B) in FIG. 3 corresponds to the case of Z = 6 and M−1 = 3. If the incoming data set shown in (A) is registered as the incoming call history, and the incoming call from the caller ID = 333333 is at 4:45 on January 1, 1999, The oldest incoming data set in the No. 1 area is discarded and sequentially shifted, and as shown in (B) in the No. 6 area, the caller ID = 111111, date = 1999/1/1/4: 45 Is registered as an incoming data set. In this case, if there is no response, the response column is 0.

  Then, when the automatic switching mode is selected and the number M of no responses to incoming calls from the same telephone number is set and automatic switching is performed when the number of no responses reaches M, that is, S = 1, the same For example, when the telephone number is 111111 and the time interval P is set to 50 minutes, the incoming data set of (B) is searched, and the incoming data set of the same telephone number 111111 is extracted and set as a search data set. Thereby, the search data set shown in (C) is obtained. In this case, the vibration notification mode is continued.

  Also, if there is an incoming call from the telephone number 111111 at 4:50 on the same day, for example, the incoming data set is updated as shown in FIG. Then, a search data set shown in (E) of FIG. 7 is obtained by searching for the incoming data set of the telephone number 111111 and using the latest incoming data set as the search data set. If there is no response, the response column is zero.

  In this state, for example, if there is an incoming call from the telephone number 111111 at 4:50 on the same day, there are M-1 = 3 search data sets (DATA2) by the step (C19) in FIG. 1 to (M-1) of the set (DATA2) are all unanswered, the first date and time of the search data set is 4:15, and the date and time of this incoming call is a time interval from 4:50 The time after subtracting P = 50 minutes is 4 o'clock, and the incoming date / time of this time is newer than the initial date / time. Therefore, the process proceeds to step (C17), the mode is switched to the ringtone notification mode, and the incoming call is received by the ringtone. You will be notified.

  In this case, if the current arrival date and time is 5 o'clock on the same day, the time of the oldest search data set is 4:15 with respect to the above-mentioned time interval P = 50 minutes. In this case, it is not counted as the number of no-responses. Then, when the search data set is updated and the next incoming call is 5: 5, the time of the oldest search data set is 4:25, so the incoming call is within the time interval P. The mode is switched from the vibration notification mode to the ring tone notification mode.

  In step (C15) in FIG. 6, it is also possible to perform determination processing ignoring the time interval P. That is, it is also possible to automatically switch to the ring tone notification mode when the number of non-responses for incoming calls from the same telephone number exceeds the set number.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart of the incoming call notification method according to the third embodiment of the present invention, and shows a case where the automatic switching to the ringtone notification mode is performed when a set time has elapsed. That is, the case where the automatic switching mode is selected in step (D1) corresponding to step (C1) in FIG. 5 is shown. When the ring tone notification mode or vibration notification mode is set, step (C2) shown in FIG. Control of (C7) is performed. When the automatic switching mode is selected, it is determined whether or not the time is set (D2). When the time is not set, a standby state corresponding to step (C8) in FIG. 5 is set (D3).

  When the time is set, the time until release is set (D4), the incoming call waiting time is counted (D5), and it is determined whether or not the set time has passed (D6). That is, a value for setting the time is input from the operation unit 6 in FIG. 1, and the control unit 1 sets the incoming call waiting time in the timer 15 according to the input content and starts the operation. In this case, the remaining time until the set time can be displayed on the display unit 14.

  Then, the elapse of the set time is identified by the timeout of the timer 15. When the set time has elapsed, the mode is switched from the vibration notification mode to the ring tone notification mode (D7), and it is determined whether or not to extend. When the extension is performed, the process proceeds to step (D5), and when the extension is not performed, the process ends. In this case, the vibration notification mode can be extended by notifying the end of the set time in the vibration notification mode and inputting an extension instruction from the operation unit 6. The time setting by the operation unit 6 can be set for 5 minutes, for example, by pressing a specific key once. When the time setting for 30 minutes is desired, the time setting is performed 6 times. ), The extension of the vibration notification mode can be input by pressing the key.

  Also, when the incoming call is received during the vibration notification mode and the call is terminated in response, the automatic switching mode can be canceled and the incoming call tone notification mode can be entered for the next incoming call. Alternatively, the automatic switching mode can be extended.

It is principal part explanatory drawing of Example 1 of this invention. It is an operation | movement flowchart of Example 1 of this invention. It is explanatory drawing of a data set. It is a flowchart of initial setting. It is an operation | movement flowchart of Example 2 of this invention. It is an operation | movement flowchart of Example 2 of this invention. It is explanatory drawing of a data set. It is an operation | movement flowchart of Example 3 of this invention. It is explanatory drawing of a prior art example. It is a flowchart of a prior art example.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Control part 2 Signal processing part 3 Radio | wireless part 4 Transmitter 5 Handset 6 Operation part 7 Mode selection part 8 Ringing tone generation part 9 Speaker 10 Drive part 11 Vibration part 12 Antenna 13 Memory 14 Display part

Claims (1)

In a communication device capable of notifying by ringtone or vibration when there is an incoming call,
When the number of non-responses for an incoming call from a set specific telephone number reaches the set number within a set time, the incoming call notification from the vibration to the incoming call notification by the ring tone for the next incoming call A communication device comprising a control unit that performs switching control.

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