JP2009224950A - Mail transceiving system - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide an e-mail transmission / reception system that increases the possibility of transmitting a sender's feelings more precisely when receiving e-mails or browsing e-mails.
In a mail transmission / reception system according to the present invention, a mobile phone that transmits mail generates vibration information representing at least the intensity of vibration based on an acceleration value detected by an acceleration sensor included in the device, and transmits the mail. If the mobile phone that received the mail and added the vibration information to the received mail generates vibration with the intensity corresponding to the added vibration information, it vibrates itself. Let
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Description

  The present invention relates to a mail transmission / reception technique between mobile phones, and more particularly to a technique for transmitting a sender's emotion together with a mail.

  In recent years, a communication terminal such as a cellular phone is provided with a mail function for sending and receiving mail in addition to a function for performing a voice call.

  This e-mail function is basically used to send and receive e-mails composed of texts, and can accurately convey the information that you want to convey, for example, the meeting place, and can be reviewed later. .

  However, since the e-mail conveys the requirements in text, it cannot convey emotions with the loudness and tone of the voice like a voice call, and it can only convey the emotions of the mail sender with pictograms etc. .

  Here, there is a technique for displaying a picture representing a caller's emotion on an incoming call screen when a call is received (Patent Document 1). In this technique, after inputting a telephone number, one of a plurality of predetermined emotion modes is selected to make a call. On the called side, the emotion mode is read at the time of the incoming call, and a corresponding picture, for example, a picture of a smiling face or an angry face is displayed, or a predetermined strength is determined according to the emotion mode. Incoming calls are notified by vibration.

If this technology is applied to the mail function, it is possible to know what kind of emotion the sender has sent this mail when receiving the mail.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-289577

  However, with this technology, emotions can be transmitted only in a predetermined emotion mode, and detailed emotions cannot be transmitted. In other words, even if you are angry, it is difficult to tell if you are very angry or a little angry.

  Further, when the received mail is viewed later rather than at the time of reception, it is impossible to know what picture is displayed at the time of reception.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a mail transmission / reception system that increases the possibility of transmitting the sender's emotions more finely when receiving a mail or browsing a mail.

  In order to solve the above problems, a mail transmission / reception system according to the present invention is a mail transmission / reception system including first and second mobile phones, wherein the first mobile phone includes detection means for detecting vibration of the own device. A vibration information generating means for generating vibration information based on a vibration pattern detected by the detecting means; and a mail transmitting means for transmitting a mail to which the vibration information is added, wherein the second mobile phone If vibration information is added to the vibration generating means, the mail receiving means, and the received mail that are generated and vibrate, the vibration generating means transmits vibration corresponding to the added vibration information to the vibration generating means. And a vibration control means to be generated.

  Since the mail transmission / reception system according to the present invention has the above-described configuration, the vibration that the mail sender wants to transmit can be converted into a signal, added to the mail and transmitted, and the vibration can be transmitted to the mail receiver. , Can convey the information of the mail sender as well as characters.

<Embodiment 1>
<Overview>
In the present invention, the emotion of the mail sender is represented by the gesture of the sender, and the emotion of the sender represented by this gesture is represented by the vibration of the cellular phone of the mail receiver.

  Specifically, an operation in which the sender of the mail shakes the mobile phone is detected by an acceleration sensor built in the mobile phone, and the detected acceleration is converted into vibration information and attached to the mail for transmission. The mail receiving side refers to the received vibration information and vibrates its own vibrator to express the emotion of the sender.

  As described above, when a mail is received or when an attempt is made to browse the mail, vibration occurs, so that the mail recipient can feel the feeling of the mail sender that cannot be expressed in text.

  Hereinafter, a mobile phone constituting the mail transmission / reception system according to the present invention will be described.

<Configuration>
First, the configuration of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile phone.

  The cellular phone 100 includes a communication unit 1100 including an antenna 1101, an operation unit 1110, a display 1120, a sound processing unit 1130 including a microphone 1131 that inputs external sound and a speaker 1132 that outputs sound signals, a control unit 1200, and a vibration control unit. 1300, a vibration generation unit 1310, a mail display unit 1400, a mail transmission / reception unit 1500, a mail creation unit 1600, a vibration information generation unit 1700, an acceleration sensor 1800, a received mail storage unit 2000, and a transmission mail storage unit 3000.

  The mobile phone 100 is assumed to have a function of adding vibration information to a mail for transmission and a function of receiving a mail with vibration information added. Therefore, the mail transmission / reception system of the present invention can be constructed by two mobile phones having the same function as the mobile phone 100.

  First, the control unit 1200 includes a CPU, a memory, and the like (not shown), and performs general control processing necessary for the mobile phone, such as a call, an incoming call notification, and a mail reception notification, and instructs each function unit described below. And processing specific to the present invention, for example, processing such as adding vibration information to a mail in response to a user operation.

  The communication unit 1100 includes a modulation / demodulation circuit, a signal processing circuit, and the like, and has a function of communicating with a base station (not shown) according to an instruction from the control unit 1200.

  The operation unit 1110 includes a key, a button, and the like, and has a function of detecting a user operation such as pressing a button and notifying the control unit 1200.

  The display 1120 includes a display panel such as a liquid crystal and has a function of displaying a menu, a mail text, and the like on the display according to an instruction from the control unit 1200.

  The sound processing unit 1130 has a function of performing processing such as sound digitization and modulation / demodulation.

  Next, the vibration control unit 1300 has a function of referring to the vibration information according to an instruction from the control unit 1200 and causing the vibration generation unit 1310 to generate vibration according to the information. The vibration information will be described in the section <Data>.

  The vibration generating unit 1310 is a so-called vibrator and has a function of vibrating the mobile phone 100 in accordance with an instruction from the vibration control unit 1300. For example, it is used to notify the user of an incoming call. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that vibrations of two types of strengths “strong” and “weak” can be generated.

  The mail display unit 1400 has a function of displaying transmitted / received mails on the display 1120. The received mail is read from the received mail storage unit 2000 and displayed, and the already transmitted mail is read from the transmitted mail storage unit 3000 and displayed.

  The mail display unit 1400 has a function of detecting whether vibration information is added to the mail to be displayed and notifying the control unit 1200 to that effect.

  Further, the mail display means 1400 receives the cursor movement information detected by the operation unit 1110 via the control unit 1200 and displays it on the display 1120 when the text of the mail is long and cannot be displayed on the display 1120. It has a function of so-called scrolling to change the mail text.

  The mail transmission / reception unit 1500 has a function of performing transmission / reception of mail via the control unit 1200 and the communication unit 1100. The received mail is stored in the received mail storage unit 2000, and the mail to be transmitted is read from the transmitted mail storage unit 3000 and transmitted. In addition, the mail transmission / reception unit 1500 detects whether vibration information is added to the received mail, and if so, notifies the control unit 1200 to that effect.

  The mail creating unit 1600 includes a vibration information adding unit 1610, and has a function of creating a conventional mail and attaching vibration information as an attached file to the mail. The created mail is stored in the transmitted mail storage unit 3000.

  The vibration information adding unit 1610 has a function of creating a vibration information attached file among the functions of the mail creating unit 1600. The vibration information is obtained by requesting the vibration information generation unit 1700 to create the vibration information.

  The vibration information generation unit 1700 has a function of generating vibration information, which is information including vibration intensity and time. The vibration information generation unit 1700 stores, as an acceleration value group, a vector representing acceleration output from the acceleration sensor from when the recording start instruction is received from the control unit 1200 until the recording end instruction is received. Vibration information is generated from the acceleration value group. The acceleration value group and the vibration information will be described in the section <Data>.

  The acceleration sensor 1800 has a function of detecting an acceleration, that is, a change in the movement speed of the mobile phone per unit time, and outputting the change to the vibration information generation unit 1700. The acceleration sensor 1800 detects three-dimensional acceleration by three-axis detection, and outputs the acceleration as a vector.

  The received mail storage unit 2000 has a function of storing mail received by the mail transmission / reception unit 1500. In this figure, a mail 2100 to which vibration information 2110 is added is shown as an example of the stored mail.

  The outgoing mail storage unit 3000 has a function of storing the mail created by the mail creation unit 1600. In this figure, a mail 3100 to which vibration information 3110 is added is shown as an example of the stored mail.

  Note that all or part of each process performed by each unit such as the control unit 1200 is realized by the CPU executing various programs.

<Data>
Hereinafter, main data used by the mobile phone of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  First, FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example and content example of the acceleration value group 1710 stored in the vibration information generation unit 1700.

  The acceleration value group 1710 includes a detection time 1711 and an acceleration 1712.

  The detection time 1711 indicates the time when acceleration is output from the acceleration sensor 1800. When the vibration information generation unit 1700 first stores acceleration according to an instruction from the control unit 1200, “0.00” is set, and thereafter, the acceleration is recorded in units of “0.20” seconds to create an acceleration value group 1710. To do. The acceleration sensor 1800 outputs acceleration every “0.20” seconds.

  The acceleration 1712 is a three-dimensional vector that represents the acceleration output from the acceleration sensor 1800.

  The relationship between the acceleration 1712 and the mobile phone 100 will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a mobile phone 100, a built-in acceleration sensor 1800, and a coordinate system of the acceleration sensor 1800. 2A is a diagram showing an opened state of the mobile phone 100 that is a foldable type, FIG. 2B is a front view of the folded state, and FIG. 2C is a folded state. It is a side view of a state.

  The mobile phone 100 is composed of an upper casing 181 and a lower casing 182, which are connected by a hint section 180. An acceleration sensor 1800 is provided inside the lower housing 182. The acceleration sensor 1800 has a three-axis coordinate system shown in FIGS. 2A to 2C, and a vector indicating the acceleration 1712 to be output is represented by this coordinate system.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the emotion added to the mail by the mail sender by hand gesture. When the mail sender shakes the mobile phone in his hand, the acceleration sensor 1800 outputs this hand shake as an acceleration 1712.

  Next, FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example and content example of the vibration information 2110.

  This vibration information 2110 is generated by the vibration information generation unit 1700, and is transmitted and received attached to an email. Note that the vibration information 3110 of the received mail storage unit 3000 in FIG. 1 has the same configuration.

  The vibration information 2110 includes a vibration time 2111 and vibration strength 2112.

  The vibration time 2111 indicates the start time for generating the vibration indicated by the vibration strength 2112, and the vibration strength 2112 indicates the strength of the vibration to be generated.

  “T0” of the vibration time 2111 is a time to start generation of vibration. The vibration times 2111 “t1”, “t2”, and the like are elapsed times from “t0”.

  For example, the generation of vibration is started when the vibration time 2111 is “t1” to “weak”, and when the vibration time is “t2”, the vibration is generated with “strong” strength.

  In the present embodiment, the vibration is temporarily stopped at the time of vibration time “t1”, “t2”, etc., and the rhythm is also expressed. For example, generation of vibration is started when the vibration time 2111 is from “t0” to “weak”, and at “t1”, vibration is once stopped and generation of vibration is started again at “weak” strength. .

  A method for generating the vibration information 2110 will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a temporal change in acceleration. The horizontal axis indicates time, and the vertical axis indicates the magnitude of acceleration. The lower part shows the strength of vibration.

  In this figure, it is shown that the gesture of the mail sender has stopped at the timings t0, t1, etc. when the acceleration is substantially 0 (zero). That is, between time t0 and t1, waving in one direction and stopping, and in time t1 to t2, waving and stopping, indicating that this repetition has been achieved. (See FIG. 3).

  In the present embodiment, when the acceleration exceeds a predetermined threshold value n during a period of time t0 to t1, time t1 to t2, time t2 to t3, etc., the intensity of vibration during that period is set to “strong”. If not, it shall be “weak”.

  Note that the times t0, t1, etc. in this figure indicate t0, t1, etc. of the vibration time 2111 of the vibration information 2110 shown in FIG.

<Operation>
Hereinafter, the operation of the above-described mobile phone will be described with reference to FIGS.

  Here, three operations will be described. The first is processing for adding vibration information to mail and transmitting it, and the second is processing for receiving mail with vibration information added. The third is processing when browsing mail to which vibration information is added.

<Process to add vibration information to mail and send>
First, the process of adding vibration information to an email and sending it will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing processing for adding vibration information to a mail and transmitting it.

  First, an email is created as usual (step S100). Specifically, the operation unit 1110 that has detected that a mail creation instruction, for example, a button for starting the creation of a mail has been pressed, notifies the control unit 1200 to that effect, and the control unit 1200 that has received the notification The mail creation unit 1600 is instructed to start creating mail. Upon receiving the instruction, the mail creation unit 1600 creates a mail while exchanging instructions and data with the operation unit 1110 and the display 1120 via the control unit 1200, and stores the created mail 3100 in the transmission mail storage unit 3100. At this time, the vibration information 3110 has not been added yet.

  Here, when the control unit 1200 receives a transmission instruction, for example, a notification indicating that the transmission button has been pressed from the operation unit 1110 (step S110: transmission instruction), the control unit 1200 transmits the mail 3100 to the mail transmission / reception unit 1500. Instruct.

  Receiving the instruction, the mail transmission / reception unit 1500 reads the mail 3100 from the transmission mail storage unit 3000 and transmits it via the control unit 1200 and the communication unit 1100 (step S140).

  On the other hand, when the control unit 1200 receives an instruction to add vibration information, for example, a notification that the depression of the emotion addition button has been detected from the operation unit 1110 (step S110: vibration information addition instruction), a mail information creation unit Via 1600, the vibration information adding unit 1610 is instructed to add vibration information. At the same time, it instructs the acceleration sensor 1800 to start detecting acceleration and output the acceleration.

  Upon receiving the instruction, the acceleration sensor 1800 starts detecting acceleration and starting outputting acceleration.

  The vibration information adding unit 1610 that has received the instruction instructs the vibration information generating unit 1700 to create the acceleration value group 1710, and the vibration information generating unit 1700 that has received the instruction is output from the acceleration sensor 1800. Memorize acceleration.

  At this time, the user who pressed the emotion addition button shakes the hand holding the mobile phone according to the emotion. For example, if you are angry, shake it quickly and shake it. If you are happy, shake it slowly. The user presses the end button after performing a hand gesture.

  The operation unit 1110 that has detected that the hand gesture has ended, for example, the pressing of the end button, notifies the control unit 1200 to that effect.

  Receiving the notification, the control unit 1200 notifies the vibration information adding unit 1610 via the mail creating unit 1600 that the hand gesture has been completed. At the same time, the acceleration sensor 1800 is notified that the detection of acceleration is to be ended, and the acceleration sensor 1800 that has received the notification ends the detection.

  The vibration information addition unit 1610 that has received the notification that the hand gesture has ended instructs the vibration information generation unit 1700 to end the storage of the acceleration output from the acceleration sensor 1800 and generate the vibration information.

  Receiving the generation instruction, the vibration information generation unit 1700 finishes storing the acceleration output from the acceleration sensor 1800, and performs generation processing of the vibration information 2110 from the stored acceleration value group 1710. The generated vibration information 2110 is passed to the vibration information adding unit 1610 (step S120).

  The vibration information adding unit 1610 that has received the vibration information 2110 adds the received vibration information 2110 as an attached file as the vibration information 3110 of the mail 3100 stored in the transmission mail storage unit 3000 (step S130).

  After that, when receiving an instruction to transmit, for example, a notification indicating that the transmission button has been pressed from the operation unit 1110 (step S110: transmission instruction), the control unit 1200 instructs the mail transmission / reception unit 1500 to transmit an email. Upon receiving the instruction, the mail transmitting / receiving unit 1500 reads the mail 3100 from the transmitted mail storage unit 3000 and transmits it via the control unit 1200 and the communication unit 1100 (step S140).

<Processing when receiving an email with vibration information>
Next, processing when a mail to which vibration information is added is received will be described using FIG.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing processing when a mail to which vibration information is added is received.

  First, mail is received as usual (step S200). Specifically, the mail transmission / reception unit 1500 receives the mail via the communication unit 1100 and the control unit 1200, and stores the received mail 2100 in the received mail storage unit 2000.

  When the mail transmission / reception unit 1500 receives the mail, the mail transmission / reception unit 1500 determines whether or not the vibration information 2110 is added to the mail 2100 as an attached file. Whether or not the file is attached with vibration information is determined by the extension of the attached file. Note that it is only necessary to determine that the file is an attached file of vibration information, and the content of the attached file may start with a specific code.

  When the mail transmitting / receiving unit 1500 determines that the attached file of vibration information has not been added (step S210: NO), the mail transmitting / receiving unit 1500 notifies the mobile phone 100 using a method set as a notification method at the time of incoming mail (step S210). S230).

  On the other hand, when it is determined that an attached file of vibration information is added (step S210: YES), the mail transmitting / receiving unit 1500 notifies the control unit 1200 to that effect.

  Upon receiving the notification, the control unit 1200 instructs the vibration control unit 1300 to generate vibration according to the attached file of the vibration information 2110 added to the received mail 2100.

  Upon receiving the instruction, the vibration control unit 1300 reads the attached file of the vibration information 2110 from the received mail storage unit 2000, and causes the vibration generation unit 1310 to generate vibration in accordance with the vibration information 2110 (step S220).

<Processing when browsing mail with vibration information added>
Next, the processing when browsing mail with vibration information added will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a process when browsing a mail to which vibration information is added.

  The operation unit 1110 that has detected that an instruction to browse the mail, for example, a mail is specified in the received mail list displayed on the display 1120 and the display button is pressed, notifies the control unit 1200 (step S300).

  Upon receiving the notification, the control unit 1200 notifies the mail display unit 1400 of the designated mail and instructs to display the mail.

  Upon receiving the instruction, the mail display unit 1400 reads the designated mail 2100 from the received mail storage unit 2000, and determines whether an attached file of the vibration information 2110 is added to the read mail (step S310).

  If it is determined that it has not been added (step S310: NO), the mail 2100 is displayed on the display 1120 via the control unit 1200 (step S330).

  On the other hand, when it is determined that the attached file of the vibration information 2110 is added (step S310: YES), the mail display unit 1400 notifies the control unit 1200 to that effect.

  Upon receiving the notification, the control unit 1200 designates the mail to be displayed and instructs the vibration control unit 1300 to generate vibration in accordance with the attached file of the vibration information 2110 added to the mail 2100.

  Receiving the instruction, the vibration control unit 1300 reads the attached file of the vibration information 2110 from the received mail storage unit 2000 and causes the vibration generation unit 1310 to generate vibration according to the vibration information 2110 (step S320).

  In addition, the mail display unit 1400 notifies the control unit 1200 that an attached file of vibration information has been added, and simultaneously displays the mail 2100 on the display 1120 via the control unit 1200 (step S330).

  As described above, the mobile phone according to the present embodiment represents the intensity of vibration based on the acceleration value detected by the acceleration sensor built in the mobile phone when the mail sender expresses emotion by swinging the mobile phone. Vibration information can be generated and added to emails. Therefore, the mobile phone that has received the mail can generate vibration in accordance with the vibration information added to the mail. From the intensity of the vibration, the mail recipient You will be able to estimate what kind of emotion you shook your mobile phone.

In other words, it is possible to communicate intuitively by transmitting the emotion of the mail sender, which is difficult to convey in the mail text, as vibration.
<Embodiment 2>
<Overview>
In the first embodiment, vibration information is added to the mail itself, but in the second embodiment, vibration information is added to characters or character strings in the mail body. Here, the characters or character strings include pictograms, emoticons, symbols, and the like that can be used for mail.

  The usage pattern will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display screen in which mail is displayed on the display 1120 of the mobile phone 100. Assume that the body of the email is long and it is necessary to scroll to display the full text.

  A display screen 4000 shows a part of the mail text being displayed, and a display screen 4100 shows the mail text scrolled down by one line.

  If vibration information is added to the character string 4110 “full stomach” of the mail text on the display screen 4100, vibration is generated when the character string 4110 is displayed.

  By adding vibration information to a character or a character string, it is possible to tell what kind of emotion the mail sender has with the meaning of the character or character string and vibration. In other words, you can convey more detailed emotions.

  In the present embodiment, if there is a character or a character string with vibration information added to the mail body displayed first, vibration is generated when displayed, and vibration information is displayed on the bottom line by scrolling. It is assumed that vibration is generated when an added character or character string is displayed. Note that scrolling is performed line by line.

<Configuration>
The configuration of the mobile phone according to the present embodiment is almost the same as the configuration of FIG. 1, and the difference is that the mail display unit 1400 and the vibration information adding unit 1610 have the following functions.

  In addition to the functions described in the first embodiment, the mail display unit 1400 has a function of detecting whether there is a character or a character string to which vibration information is added in the mail text displayed on the display.

  Further, when adding the vibration information as an attached file, the vibration information adding unit 1610 creates an attached file in association with information indicating which character or character string the vibration information is added to.

<Data>
The main data used by the mobile phone of this embodiment is almost the same as that in FIGS. 4 and 6 of the first embodiment, except that the vibration information 2110 in FIG. 6 is the vibration information 5110 in FIG. The vibration information 5110 is obtained by adding information indicating which character or character string is added to the vibration information 2110.

  This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example and content example of the vibration information 5110.

  The vibration information 5110 includes a vibration time 2111, vibration strength 2112 and a character position 5113.

  The vibration time 2111 and the vibration strength 2112 are the same as those described with reference to FIG.

  A character position 5113 indicates a position in the mail text. In this embodiment, the number of characters from the beginning of the mail body is shown.

  For example, the character position 5113 “51:54” indicates a character string of 4 characters from the first character to the 54th character, and “10:10” indicates the 10th character. . In addition, it may be represented not by the number of characters but by the number of bytes or the like, as long as the character or character string in the mail body can be specified.

<Operation>
Here, a process for adding vibration information to a character or character string in a mail body and transmitting the mail and a process for browsing a mail in which vibration information is added to the character or character string will be described. Hereinafter, a character or a character string is simply referred to as a “character string”.

<Process to add vibration information to character string and send>
FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating a process of adding vibration information to a mail according to the second embodiment and transmitting the mail. The processing is almost the same as the processing shown in FIG. 7, and only different points will be described.

  In the present embodiment, when vibration information is created, a character string is designated and vibration information is created.

  That is, the control unit 1200 receives an instruction to add vibration information from the operation unit 1110 and issues an instruction to add vibration information to the vibration information addition unit 1610. At this time, the position of the designated character string is passed. (Step S500: vibration information addition instruction).

  For example, when the user presses the emotion addition button while a character string is selected, the operation unit 1110 notifies the control unit 1200 that an instruction to add vibration information has been made. At this time, the position of the selected character string is also notified.

  Further, the vibration information adding unit 1610 receives the vibration information from the vibration information generating unit 1700 and creates an attached file. At this time, the vibration information adding unit 1610 generates vibration from the received vibration information 2110 and the position of the character string passed from the control unit 1200. Information 5110 is created and attached as an attached file to the mail 3100 stored in the outgoing mail storage unit 3000 (step S510). It should be noted that vibration information can be added to each of a plurality of character strings in the mail body by repeating the processing of steps S500 to S510.

  Step S100, step S120, and step S140 are the same as step S100, step S120, and step S140 of FIG.

<Processing when browsing mail with vibration information added to character string>
Next, a process for browsing a mail in which vibration information is added to a character string will be described with reference to FIG. Assume that the text of the mail is larger than the number of characters that can be displayed on the display at one time.

  FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating processing when browsing mail in which vibration information is added to the character string of the second embodiment.

  The operation unit 1110 that has detected that an instruction to browse the mail, for example, a mail is specified in the received mail list displayed on the display 1120 and the display button is pressed, notifies the control unit 1200 (step S400).

  Upon receiving the notification, the control unit 1200 notifies the mail display unit 1400 of the designated mail and instructs to display the mail.

  Upon receiving the instruction, the mail display unit 1400 reads the designated mail 2100 from the received mail storage unit 2000, and displays on the display 1120 via the control unit 1200 the part from the beginning of the mail text that can be displayed on the display 1120. (Step S410).

  The mail display unit 1400 displays on the display 1120 and at the same time determines whether the character string to which the vibration information 5110 is added is displayed (step S420). This determination is made based on whether or not the position indicated by the character position 5113 is included in the displayed mail body part. If it is included, it is determined that it is displayed.

  When it is determined that the character string to which the vibration information 5110 is added is not displayed (step S420: NO), nothing is performed, and when it is determined that the character string to which the vibration information 5110 is added is displayed (step S420). : YES), this is notified to the control unit 1200.

  Upon receiving the notification, the control unit 1200 designates the vibration information 5110 of the displayed character string and instructs the vibration control unit 1300 to generate vibration.

  Receiving the instruction, the vibration control unit 1300 reads the vibration information 5110 from the received mail storage unit 2000, and causes the vibration generation unit 1310 to generate vibration according to the vibration information 5110 (step S430).

  Thereafter, the operation unit 1110 detects that the cursor has been moved (step S440), and notifies the mail display unit 1400 to that effect via the control unit 1200 (step S440: cursor movement).

  Upon receiving the notification, the mail display unit 1400 extracts a part to be displayed from the mail body in response to the notified cursor movement, and displays it on the display 1120 via the control unit 1200. At this time, it is determined whether the character string to which the vibration information 5110 is added is displayed on the bottom line (step S450). This determination is made based on whether or not the position indicated by the character position 5113 is included in the part of the mail text displayed on the bottom line. If it is included, it is determined that it is displayed.

  If it is determined that the character string to which the vibration information 5110 is added is not displayed on the bottom line (step S450: NO), nothing is performed and it is determined that the character string to which the vibration information 5110 is added is displayed on the bottom line. If so (step S450: YES), the control unit 1200 is notified to that effect.

  Upon receiving the notification, the control unit 1200 designates the vibration information 5110 of the displayed character string, instructs the vibration control unit 1300 to generate vibration, and receives the instruction, the vibration control unit 1300 stores the received mail. The vibration information 5110 is read from the unit 2000, and the vibration generating unit 1310 is caused to generate a vibration according to the vibration information 5110 (step S460).

  Thereafter, the operation unit 1110 detects that the display has been instructed, and notifies the mail display unit 1400 to that effect via the control unit 1200 (step S440: end). Upon receiving the notification, the mail display unit 1400 ends the display of the mail (step S470).

<Supplement>
The mail transmission / reception system according to the present invention has been described above based on the embodiment. However, the mail transmission / reception system and the mobile phone can be partially modified, and the present invention is of course not limited to the above-described embodiment. It is. That is,
(1) In the embodiment, the vibration information is generated based only on the magnitude of the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor. However, the vibration information may be generated in consideration of the direction of the acceleration. For example, when it is determined from the change in the direction of acceleration that the mobile phone is drawing a circle, the strength of vibration is reduced.

  In the embodiment, vibration information representing the intensity of vibration is generated. However, vibration information including other information may be generated. For example, when the mobile phone on the receiving side has a plurality of vibration generation units, vibration information indicating when and what vibration is generated in which vibration generation unit may be generated. For example, in the case of a mobile phone having vibration generating units at two locations, it is caused to vibrate alternately or only one of them.

  In the embodiment, the vibration information is generated and added to the mail and transmitted. However, the acceleration value group output by the acceleration sensor is transmitted, and the vibration information is generated by the mobile phone on the receiving side to generate the vibration. It is good as well. In this case, there is an advantage that vibration information according to the specifications of the mobile phone on the receiving side can be generated.

Further, in the embodiment, the acceleration sensor 1800 is provided to detect the vibration of the own device. However, this only needs to detect the vibration of the own device. For example, inside the housing of the mobile phone, an electrode (which is freely movable to some extent and can be contacted and non-contacted with the electrode) A spherical conductor, sheet metal, etc.) may be provided, and the acceleration pattern may be substituted for the rhythm of contact or non-contact between the electrode and the conductor generated when the mobile phone is shaken.
(2) In the second embodiment, the character string to which vibration information is added is designed to generate vibration when it is displayed on the bottom line, but it may of course be used for other purposes.

  For example, if the cursor moves upward, vibration is generated when displayed on the uppermost line.

In the second embodiment, the vibration information is added to the character string of the mail text. However, the vibration information may be added to a character string in a title other than the text. In this case, vibration is generated when the cursor moves to the character string.
(3) In the embodiment, the vibration information is generated and added after the mail is created. However, it may be generated in advance and added to the mail or added during the mail creation.

In the embodiment, the user instructs the start and end of creation of vibration information. However, the user may instruct only the start, and the end may be after a predetermined period, for example, 5 seconds.
(4) In the embodiment, when vibration information is added, the vibration is generated unconditionally, but it is of course possible that the vibration is not set by the user's setting.
(5) A program for causing the CPU to execute each control process (see FIG. 7 and the like) for realizing each function of the mobile phone shown in the embodiment is recorded on a recording medium or via various communication paths. It can also be distributed and distributed. Such a recording medium includes an IC card, an optical disk, a flexible disk, a ROM, a flash memory, and the like. The distributed and distributed program is used by being stored in a memory or the like that can be read by the CPU in the device, and each function described in the embodiment is realized by the CPU executing the program.

  This is useful as a technique for transmitting by adding information other than text and voice to mail transmitted from a mobile phone equipped with an acceleration sensor.

It is a functional block diagram which shows the structure of the mobile telephone of this invention. It is the figure which showed the coordinate system of the mobile phone 100, the built-in acceleration sensor 1800, and the acceleration sensor 1800. FIG. 2A is a diagram showing an opened state of the mobile phone 100 that is a folding type, FIG. 2B is a front view in a folded state, and FIG. 2C is a folded state. It is a side view of a state. It is a figure showing the feeling which a mail sender adds to mail by hand gesture. It is a figure which shows the structural example and content example of the acceleration value group 1710 which the vibration information generation part 1700 memorize | stores. It is a figure showing the time change of an acceleration. It is a figure which shows the structural example and content example of vibration information 2110. It is a flowchart which shows the process which adds vibration information to a mail and transmits. It is a flowchart which shows a process when the mail to which vibration information is added is received. It is a flowchart which shows a process when browsing the mail to which vibration information is added. It is a figure which shows the example of the display screen in which the mail is displayed on the display 1120 of the mobile telephone 100. FIG. It is a figure which shows the structural example and content example of vibration information 5110. FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the process which adds vibration information to the mail of Embodiment 2, and transmits. It is a flowchart which shows a process when browsing the mail with which the vibration information is added to the character string of Embodiment 2. FIG.

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1000 cellular phone 1100 communication unit 1110 operation unit 1120 display 1130 audio processing unit 1200 control unit 1300 vibration control unit 1310 vibration generation unit 1400 mail display unit 1500 mail transmission / reception unit 1600 mail creation unit 1610 vibration information addition unit 1700 vibration information generation unit 1800 acceleration Sensor 2000 Incoming mail storage unit 2100 3100 Mail 2110 3110 Vibration information 3000 Outgoing mail storage unit

Claims (9)

There is a mail transmission / reception system composed of first and second mobile phones,
The first mobile phone is
Detection means for detecting the vibration of the aircraft,
Vibration information generating means for generating vibration information based on a vibration pattern detected by the detecting means;
Mail transmitting means for transmitting the mail with the vibration information added thereto,
The second mobile phone is
Vibration generating means for generating vibration to vibrate its own machine,
Mail receiving means;
A mail transmission / reception system comprising: vibration control means for causing the vibration generating means to generate vibration according to the added vibration information when vibration information is added to the received mail. The second mobile phone further includes:
Display,
Mail display means for displaying the received mail on the display,
The mail transmission / reception according to claim 1, wherein when the vibration information is added to the mail to be displayed, the mail display means causes the vibration control means to generate vibration when displaying the mail. system. The first mobile phone further includes vibration information adding means for specifying a mail and adding vibration information generated by the vibration information generating means to the specified mail,
The vibration information adding means is a character or character string included in the designated mail, and adds the vibration information generated by the vibration information generating means in association with the character or character string designated by the user,
When vibration information is added to a character or a character string included in a mail to be displayed, the mail display unit vibrates the vibration control unit when the character or the character string is displayed on the display. The mail transmission / reception system according to claim 2, wherein the mail transmission / reception system is generated. The second mobile phone further comprises notification means for notifying that the mail has been received when the mail is received,
The mail transmitting / receiving system according to claim 1, wherein, when vibration information is added to the received mail, the notification means causes the vibration control means to generate vibration. The vibration information is a vibration intensity represented by strong and weak,
The detecting means is an acceleration sensor;
The acceleration value detected by the acceleration sensor is a value indicating acceleration per unit time,
The vibration information generating means includes, from the acceleration value group for a predetermined period detected by the acceleration sensor, intensity information indicating strength when the acceleration value exceeds a threshold value, and strength information indicating weakness when the acceleration value falls below the threshold value. The mail transmission / reception system according to claim 1, wherein the vibration information is generated and vibration information in which the intensity information is associated with time is generated. The mail transmission / reception system according to claim 1, wherein the mail transmission means transmits vibration information added to the mail as an attached file of the mail. Detection means for detecting the vibration of the aircraft,
Vibration information generating means for generating vibration information based on a vibration pattern detected by the detecting means;
A cellular phone comprising: a mail transmitting means for transmitting a mail with the vibration information added thereto. Vibration generating means for generating vibration to vibrate its own machine,
Mail receiving means;
When vibration information based on a vibration pattern is added to the received mail, the vibration generating means generates vibration according to the added vibration information. Mobile phone. There is a mail transmission / reception system composed of first and second mobile phones,
The first mobile phone is
Detection means for detecting the vibration of the aircraft,
An e-mail transmission unit that transmits an e-mail to which information indicating a vibration pattern detected by the detection unit is added;
The second mobile phone is
Vibration generating means for generating vibration to vibrate its own machine,
Mail receiving means;
When information indicating a vibration pattern is added to the received mail, vibration information is generated based on the information indicating the added vibration pattern, and the vibration generating means is in accordance with the generated vibration information. And a vibration control means for generating the mail.

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