JP2002374572A - Mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile phone that can actively inform a user about an abandoned state of the mobile phone without using a device other than the mobile phone main body. SOLUTION: The mobile phone 1 has: a vibration sensor 107 that senses vibration generated in the main body of the mobile phone 1; an alarm tone generating section 115 and a light-emitting notification section 110 that inform the user about the abandoned mobile phone 1; and a CPU 100 that receives the output of the vibration sensor 107 and discriminates that the mobile phone 1 is abandoned when the vibration caused in the main body of the mobile phone 1 continues for a prescribed period or over to drive the alarm tone generating section 115 and the light-emitting emission notification section 110.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone device, and more particularly, to a portable telephone device having a function of notifying whether a portable telephone device has been left or has been dropped.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional mobile telephone device of this kind,
A mobile phone device has been proposed in which another device other than the mobile phone body is prepared, and when these two devices are separated from each other by a certain distance or more, sound, light, and vibration indicate that the mobile phone is in an idle state. (Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 5-95328,
00-76569, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 5-80047). In addition, a telephone that turns on a light source when a human body approaches (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-18564) has been proposed.

[0003]

In the prior art described above, the method of preparing another device other than the main body of the mobile phone has a drawback that the number of luggage to be carried increases.
In addition, another device needs to incorporate a signal transmission / reception unit and a battery in order to exhibit a misplacement prevention function or a location confirmation function in a dark place, and the structure is complicated and expensive compared to a single mobile phone. There was.

The method of emitting light when a human body approaches the telephone is effective when the location of the telephone is known. However, when the location of the telephone is unknown, the user walks around in the dark, which is very difficult. Had the problem of being dangerous. Further, when the mobile phone device is dropped, for example, when the mobile phone device such as a sandy beach is dropped and the user walks in a place where no sound is heard, the state of the dropped mobile phone device is notified to the owner. It would be useful if you could.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and it is possible to actively report the idle state of a portable telephone device without using another device other than the portable telephone device body. It is an object to provide a mobile phone device. Another object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone device that can notify the owner of a state in which the mobile phone device has dropped.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable telephone device, wherein the portable telephone device is provided with a function for notifying the user of the neglected state when the portable telephone device is left unattended. It is characterized by having.

Further, the invention according to claim 2 is a vibration detecting means for detecting a vibration generated in the portable telephone device main body, a notifying device for notifying that the portable telephone device is in an idle state, and the vibration detecting device. Control means for fetching the output of the means, determining that the mobile phone apparatus is in an idle state when the vibration generated in the mobile phone apparatus body continues for a predetermined time or more, and driving the notification means. And

[0008] Further, the invention described in claim 3 is based on claim 2.
In the mobile phone device described in the above, the notification means, an alarm sound generation means for notifying the idle state of the mobile phone device by an alarm sound, and light emission notification means for notifying the idle state of the mobile phone device by light emission, The control means drives one or both of the alarm sound generation means and the light emission notification means.

According to the first to third aspects of the present invention, it is possible to actively notify the neglected state of the portable telephone device without using another device other than the portable telephone device main body. In addition, when the mobile phone device is in the idle state, the mobile phone device is informed of the idle state by one or both of the alarm sound and the light emission. For example, the mobile phone device is in the notification state in a dark place such as at night. In some cases, the owner does not need to roam in the dark to find the mobile phone device.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the portable telephone device, when the portable telephone device falls, the portable telephone device has a function of actively notifying of the falling state.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a vibration detecting means for detecting a vibration generated in a main body of a portable telephone device, a notifying means for reporting a state where the portable telephone device is dropped,
A control unit that captures an output of the vibration detection unit, determines that the mobile phone device is in a dropped state when the vibration generated in the mobile phone device is equal to or greater than a preset threshold, and drives the notification unit. A mobile phone device comprising:

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, the notifying means includes an alarm sound generating means for notifying the state of dropping of the portable telephone device by an alarm sound, and a light emitting means for notifying the state of dropping of the portable telephone device. 6. The portable telephone device according to claim 5, comprising: a light emission notifying unit for notifying, and the control unit drives one or both of an alarm sound generating unit and a light emission notifying unit.

According to the fourth to sixth aspects of the present invention, since the portable telephone device is actively notified of the falling state, it is possible to prevent the owner from being lost by dropping the portable telephone device. In addition, when the mobile phone device is dropped, the idle state is notified by one or both of the alarm sound and the light emission, so that when the mobile phone device is dropped in a dark place, it can be found immediately.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an electrical configuration of the mobile phone device. In the figure, a mobile phone device 1 executes a variety of programs to execute a telephone or
A CPU 100 for controlling the operation of each unit so as to have a function as a game machine, a music player, etc .; a ROM 102 for storing various data and fixed data;
, An operation input unit 106, a vibration sensor 107 for detecting vibration of the main body of the mobile phone device 1, a vibrator 108 for notifying an incoming call, a light emission notifying unit 110, and a wireless communication unit 112
, An audio codec (CODEC) 114, an alarm sound generation unit 115, a music reproduction unit 116, and a display unit 118
, An interface (I / F) 120 and a microphone 12
2, a receiving speaker 124, and a receiving speaker 126
And

The ROM 102 stores, in addition to various programs, fixed data such as music data for ringing melody, and application programs such as game software. The RAM 104 stores the Internet 40
And data such as music data taken in from an external audio device through the interface 120 are stored.

The operation input unit 106 includes a start key used to start a call, an end key to end the call, a numeric key,
It is composed of various function keys (# key, * key, F key), power key and the like. Specific keys of the above function keys,
For example, the # key is used to set a misplacement notification mode for notifying whether the mobile phone device 1 has been left idle or dropped.
The function to specify release is assigned. That is,
The misplacement notification mode is set by operating the # key, and the mode is released by operating the # key again. The setting and cancellation of the misplacement notification mode is not limited to this example, but may be any.

The vibration sensor 107 detects vibration of the main body of the portable telephone device 1. Based on the detection output of the vibration sensor 107, the CPU 100 determines whether or not the mobile phone device 1 is in an idle state. Light emission notification unit 110
When the mobile phone device 1 is in an abandoned state or falls, the neglected state or the dropped state is referred to as a CP.
Notify by light emission under the control of U100.

Radio communication section 112 demodulates a signal received via antenna 20, modulates a signal to be transmitted to the outside, and transmits the modulated signal via antenna 20. Voice CODEC 1
14 decodes the audio signal received from the wireless communication unit 112 and outputs the decoded signal to the receiving speaker 124;
Compression coding of the audio signal input from the
12 is sent.

When the portable telephone device 1 is in an idle state or falls, the alarm sound generating section 115 notifies the idle state or the dropped state by an alarm sound under the control of the CPU 100. The CPU 100 executes a program stored in the ROM 102 when the mobile phone device 1 is in the idle state or falls when the mobile phone device 1 is set to the misplacement notification mode by the operation input unit 106. The alarm generation unit 115 and the light emission notification unit 1 notify the owner of the mobile phone device 1 of the idle state or the dropped state of the mobile phone device 1.
Drive control is performed on one or both of 10.

The music reproducing section 116 reproduces music as an incoming melody for notifying an incoming call when receiving an incoming call and outputs the melody to the speaker 126 for incoming call.
The music stored in 104 is reproduced. The display unit 118
For displaying various data, for example, a liquid crystal display (L
CD). An input terminal of the interface (I / F) 120 is connected to an input terminal (not shown), and can be connected to an external audio device via the input terminal to store desired music data in the RAM 104. It has become.

CPU 100, ROM 102, RAM 10
4. Operation input unit 106, vibration sensor 107, vibrator 108, light emission notification unit 110, wireless communication unit 112, audio CODEC 114, alarm sound generation unit 115, music playback unit 116, display unit 118, and interface (I /
F) 120 are interconnected via a bus 90. Here, the vibration sensor 107 includes a light emission notification unit 110 and an alarm sound generation unit 115 as vibration detection means of the present invention.
Corresponds to notification means of the present invention, and the CPU 100 corresponds to control means of the present invention.

An example of the operation of the portable telephone device 1 having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
FIG. 2 shows a timer interrupt routine that is executed at regular intervals and is executed when the misplacement notification mode is set by operating the # key on the operation input unit 106. In FIG. 2, first, the output of the vibration sensor 107 is captured, and based on the output, it is determined whether or not vibration has occurred in the main body of the mobile phone device 1 (step 200).
If no vibration is detected, the execution of this routine ends.

If it is determined in step 200 that vibration has occurred in the main body of the portable telephone device 1, a timer is started (step 201). Here, the timer is a soft timer that measures time by software. Next, it is determined whether or not the content of the timer t satisfies t ≧ t0, that is, whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed since the timer was started (step 2).
02). Steps 200, 201, and 202 are processes for determining that the mobile phone device 1 is in the idle state when the mobile phone device 1 has not been vibrated for a predetermined time or more.

If the determination in step 202 is negative, it is determined based on the output of the vibration sensor 107 whether or not vibration has occurred in the main body of the portable telephone device 1 (step 2).
07). If no vibration is detected in step 207, the process returns to step 202. If a vibration is detected in step 207, the process proceeds to step 205.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 202 that the content of the timer t satisfies t.gtoreq.t0, that is, it is determined that a predetermined time has elapsed since the timer was started, the notification unit, that is, the alarm sound generation unit 115, By driving both of the light emission notification units 110, the owner of the mobile phone device 1 is notified that the mobile phone device 1 is in an idle state (step 203). In the present embodiment, the mobile phone 1
Is driven, both the alarm sound generation unit 115 and the light emission notification unit 110 are driven, but any one of them may be driven.

Next, based on the output of the vibration sensor 107, it is determined whether or not vibration has occurred in the main body of the portable telephone device 1 (step 204). If the determination in step 204 is denied, the driving of the notification unit, that is, both the alarm sound generation unit 115 and the light emission notification unit 110 is continued (step 208), and the execution of this routine ends. If the determination in step 204 is affirmative, the timer is reset (step 205), and the driving of the alarm sound generation unit 115 and the light emission notification unit 110 is stopped (step 206).

Another operation example of the mobile phone 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In this operation example, when the mobile phone device 1 is dropped on the ground or the like, its impact is detected (detected as vibration), thereby immediately informing the owner of the state. Although the basic configuration of the mobile phone device is the same as that of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 shows the configuration of main parts involved in the operation.

In FIG. 3, the main parts are a vibration sensor 107, a threshold setting unit 200, a threshold storage unit 201 for storing the threshold set by the threshold setting unit 200, an output of the vibration sensor 107, and a threshold storage. A comparing unit 202 for comparing a threshold value stored in the unit 201 with the comparing unit 202;
When the output of the vibration sensor 107 is equal to or greater than the threshold based on the output of the
And a drive control unit 203 for driving one or both of them. The vibration sensor 107 includes a vibration unit 1071, a voltage conversion unit 1072 that converts the vibration generated by the vibration unit 1071 into a voltage, and a voltage conversion unit 107 that converts the generated vibration.
And a voltage displacement monitoring unit 1073 that extracts the amount of change in the voltage converted by Step 2.

In the configuration shown in FIG. 3, the threshold setting unit 200 corresponds to the operation input unit 106 in FIG. 1, the threshold storage unit 201 corresponds to the RAM 104 in FIG. 1, and the functions of the comparison unit 202 and the drive control unit 203 Is realized by: In FIG. 4, first, the output of the vibration sensor 107 is captured, and based on the output, it is determined whether or not vibration has occurred in the main body of the mobile phone device 1 (step 30).
0). If no vibration is detected, the execution of this routine ends.

If it is determined in step 300 that vibration has occurred in the body of the portable telephone device 1, it is determined whether or not the vibration is greater than a set threshold (step 30).
1). If the vibration generated in step 301 is equal to or smaller than the threshold, the matter of this routine ends. If the vibration generated in step 301 is equal to or larger than the threshold,
By driving both the notification unit, that is, the alarm sound generation unit 115 and the light emission notification unit 110, the mobile phone 1
Is notified of the state of the mobile phone device 1 having dropped (step 302).

Next, at step 303, it is determined whether or not any key of the operation input unit 106 has been operated. If the determination is negative, the driving of the notification unit is continued (step 305). The process returns to step 303. If the determination in step 303 is affirmative, the driving of the notification unit is stopped (step 304), and the execution of this routine ends. In the present embodiment, when the mobile phone device 1 falls, both the alarm sound generation unit 115 and the light emission notification unit 110 are driven, but either one of them is driven. Is also good.

As described above, according to the portable telephone device according to the present embodiment, the idle state of the portable telephone device can be actively reported without using another device other than the portable telephone device main body. In addition, when the mobile phone device is in the idle state, the mobile phone device is informed of the idle state by one or both of the alarm sound and the light emission. For example, the mobile phone device is in the notification state in a dark place such as at night. In some cases, the owner does not need to roam in the dark to find the mobile phone device.

Further, according to the portable telephone device according to the present embodiment, since the portable telephone device is actively notified of the falling state, it can be prevented that the owner loses the portable telephone device by dropping it. In addition, when the mobile phone device is dropped, the idle state is notified by one or both of the alarm sound and the light emission, so that when the mobile phone device is dropped in a dark place, it can be found immediately.

[0034]

As described above, claims 1 to 3 are described.
According to the invention described in (1), the idle state of the mobile phone device can be actively reported without using another device other than the mobile phone device main body. In addition, when the mobile phone device is in the idle state, the mobile phone device is informed of the idle state by one or both of the alarm sound and the light emission. In that case, the owner does not need to roam in the dark to find the mobile phone device.

Further, according to the inventions described in claims 4 to 6, since the portable telephone device is actively notified of the falling state, it is possible to prevent the owner from being lost by dropping the portable telephone device. In addition, when the mobile phone device is dropped, the idle state is notified by one or both of the alarm sound and the light emission, so that when the mobile phone device is dropped in a dark place, it can be found immediately.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a mobile phone device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the mobile phone device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of main parts involved in the operation of the mobile phone device shown in FIG.

4 is a flowchart showing another example of the operation of the mobile phone device shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1. Cellular phone device, 100 CPU, 102 ROM
104 RAM, 106 operation input unit, 107 vibration sensor, 110 light emission notification unit, 115 alarm sound generation unit, 126 reception speaker, 200 threshold setting unit, 2
01: threshold value storage unit, 202: comparison unit, 203: drive control unit

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A portable telephone device, characterized in that it has a function of actively notifying the abandoned state when the portable telephone device is left unattended. 2. A portable telephone device, comprising: a vibration detecting unit for detecting a vibration generated in a main body of the portable telephone device; a notifying unit for notifying that the portable telephone device is in an idle state; A control unit that determines that the mobile phone device is in an abandoned state when the vibration generated in the main body continues for a predetermined time or more, and drives the notification unit. 3. The notifying means comprises: an alarm sound generating means for notifying an idle state of the mobile phone device by an alarm sound; and a light emitting notifying means for notifying the idle state of the mobile phone device by light emission. The mobile phone device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit drives one or both of an alarm sound generation unit and a light emission notification unit. 4. The portable telephone device according to claim 1, further comprising a function of, when said portable telephone device falls, actively reporting the state of said fall. 5. A vibration detecting means for detecting a vibration generated in the mobile phone device main body, a notifying device for notifying a state in which the mobile telephone device has dropped, an output of the vibration detecting means is taken in, and the mobile phone device main body is taken in. When the generated vibration is equal to or larger than a preset threshold value, the mobile phone device determines that the mobile phone device is in a falling state, and controls the notifying device. 6. The notifying means comprises: an alarm sound generating means for notifying, by an alarm sound, a state in which the mobile phone device has dropped; and a light emitting notifying means for notifying by flashing the state in which the mobile phone device has dropped. The mobile phone device according to claim 5, wherein the control unit drives one or both of an alarm sound generation unit and a light emission notification unit.