MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION TERMINAL HAVING AN APPLICATION- MODULE FOR COMBATTING HARMFUL INSECTS AND SYSTEM FOR SERVICING THE APPLICATION MODULE USING AN INTERNET
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a mobile telecommunication terminal having an application module for combatting harmful insects and a system for servicing the application module using an internet and, more particularly, a mobile telecommunication terminal having an application module for combatting harmful insects and a system for servicing the application module using an internet adapted to download in a software type and install at an information processing region of routinely used electronic gadgets a series of application modules for periodically outputting harmful insect-combatting sound waves, or installing same in a hardware type through which a user can easily combat various harmful insects abundant in our environments.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Generally, harmful insects such as mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches, rats, mites and the like transmit various diseases, give rise to skin diseases such as itchy skins and serve as media to spread a variety of contagious diseases. Particularly, mosquitoes are known to bring about fatal diseases such as malaria, encephalitis and the like. The
various insects that directly or indirectly harm human bodies live in various living quarters including homes, thus exposing these harmful insects to human beings.
Various methods have been recently disclosed as measures to prevent damage from harmful insects, and one of the methods has been the development of a harmful insect-combatting gadget.
However, there is a problem in the conventional harmful insect-combatting gadgets thus described in that most of the gadgets are separate hardware devices that have nothing to do with electronic equipments used by users in everyday life, such that the combating gadgets are separately and cumbersomely installed (or in separate state) in living quarters away from the existing electronic equipment.
Particularly, with a soon-to-be adopted 5-work-day per week system, many people are expected to spend lots of days and nights outdoors and people have to endure the inconvenience of carrying separate harmful insect combatting gadgets along with the existing electronic equipments whenever going outdoors. In order to overcome these drawbacks, electronic gadgets that have harmful insect-combatting functions have been developed, as disclosed in Korean laid-open patent application No. 2002-0015876 (laid open date of March 2,2002) and Korean utility model No. 20-0271510 (registered on March 29, 2002).
These two technical items are communication terminal devices (e.g., mobile phones) added with harmful insect-combatting functions. In other words, a storage (e.g., ROM: Read Only Memory) of a mobile phone handset is stored with ultrasonic
waves to be discharged via speakers for combating harmful insects, or harmful insect- combatting frequencies are downloaded as bell sounds and stored in a ROM, which is in turn discharged via speakers using firmware to thereby combat the harmful insects.
In Korean utility model No. 20-0271510, harmful insect-combatting programs are pre-stored in a ROM as a firmware type. Because the harmful insect-combatting programs are stored in a ROM as a firmware type, it is difficult to efficiently cope with harmful insect frequencies downloaded in various types.
In other words, in case inexecutable harmful insect frequencies are downloaded in a. pre-stored firmware, the firmware should be upgraded whenever said frequencies are downloaded, thus causing the inconvenience of having to visit a mobile phone servicing booth to upgrade the firmware whenever it is to be upgraded.
Other electronic gadgets that have a function of combatting harmful insects are disclosed in addition to the above-mentioned items, but conventional technical devices are all monotonously constructed to discharge identical ultrasonic waves or harmful combatting frequencies.
Many different kinds of mosquitoes are reported to exist and are repelled by various sound waves according to the environment in which they live. It is known in the related field that the frequency bandwidths for repelling mosquitoes have not yet been established and opinions thereto vary. Generally, related fields use high frequency bandwidths for combatting mosquitoes while entomologists claim that low frequency bandwidths are the frequency bands for coping with mosquitoes. Subsequently, there can be a limit for combatting various kinds of mosquitoes just by indiscriminately
transmitting the same ultrasonic waves or frequencies as seen in the conventional arts.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is disclosed to solve the afore-mentioned problems and it is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile telecommunication terminal having an application module for combatting harmful insects and a system for servicing the application module using an internet adapted to download in a software type and install at an information processing region of routinely used electronic gadgets a series of application modules for periodically outputting harmful insect- combatting sound waves, or installing same in a hardware type through which a user can easily control various harmful insects abundant in our environments.
According to one aspect of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a mobile telecommunication terminal comprises: a transceiver for wireless communication with a radio communication system; a Mobile Station Modem (MSM) for processing signals inputted to or outputted from the transceiver; a mobile operation system for controlling an overall operation of the MSM; a controller including a virtual machine for being operated by the mobile operation system and for performing an independent code of a platform; a user interface part for transmitting a user's instruction to the controller so that a user can control the controller; a speaker for outputting an aural signal processed by the MSM to the user; and an application module executed by the virtual machine, stored with lots of sound wave data that repel harmful insects, alternatively arranging and processing mutually different ranges of
frequencies out of the sound wave data in response to the user's manipulation to repeatedly output the processed corresponding sound wave data to the speaker for a predetermined period of time.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
For fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the present invention, reference should be made to the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram for illustrating a construction of a mobile communication terminal equipped with a harmful insect combating-application module according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG 2 is a schematic block diagram for illustrating a construction of an application module of FIG. 1;
FIG.3 is an exemplary drawing for schematically illustrating a downloaded situation of the application module of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 4 is a flow chart for illustrating an operational characteristic of the mobile communication terminal of FIG. 1.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the annexed drawings. However, it should be noted that the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been presented in order to explain the principles of the invention and its practical application to one skilled in the art to utilize the invention in various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.
As shown in FIG 1, a mobile communication terminal equipped with a harmful insect-combatting application module according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes an antenna 10, a duplexer 20, a radio receiver 30, a radio transmitter 40, an MSM 50, a speaker 60, a microphone 70, an earphone jack 80, a liquid crystal display part 90, a key input part 100, a memory part 110, and an application module 120.
The antenna 10 transmits a radio signal received from a base station 200 (See FIG.3) to duplexer 20. The duplexer 20 selects a transmittal signal from the radio signal received from the antenna 10 to send same to a radio receiver 30.
The radio receiver 30 amplifies the radio signal received from the duplexer 20 to filter same, allowing only a desired band to pass and converts the filtered signal to an intermediate frequency signal in response to a particular oscillating frequency signal to re-filter same, allowing only a pre-set intermediate frequency band to pass, and gain-adjusts the re-filtered signal to a predetermined level to down-convert and send same to the MSM 50.
The radio transmitter 40 up-converts the signal outputted from the MSM 50 to adjust gain thereof, and converts the gain-adjusted signal to a radio signal to amplify in power and send same to the duplexer 20. The duplexer 20 selects the transmittal signal outputted from the radio transmitter 40 to transmit same to a base station via the antenna 10.
The MSM 50 includes a modem 510, a deinterleaver and decoder 520, a sound
-processing Digital Signal Processor (DSP) 530, an interleaver and encoder 540, a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter 550, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter 560, and a controller 570. The controller includes a mobile operation system 571 and a virtual machine 572.
The modem 510 demodulates a signal outputted from the radio receiver 30 by a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) protocol to be sent to the deinterleaver and decoder 520 and modulates a signal outputted from the interleaver and encoder 540 by the CDMA protocol to transmit same to the radio transmitter 40. The deinterleaver and decoder 520 carries out a deinterleaving and decoding operation in response to the signal outputted from the modem 510 to output the processed signal to the sound-processing DSP 530.
The interleaver and encoder 540 carries out the interleaving and encoding operation in response to the signal outputted from the sound-processing DSP 530 to output same to the modem 510. The sound-processing DSP 530 sound-processes the signal outputted from the deinterleaver and decoder 520 to output the generated digital sound data to the D/A converter 550, and sound-processes the digital data outputted
from the A/D converter 560 to be outputted to the interleaver and encoder 540.
The controller 570 controls the operation of the modem 510, the deinterleaver and decoder 520, the sound-processing DSP 530 and the interleaver and encoder 540 which are an inner constituting element and operations of the liquid crystal display part 90, the key input part 100, and the memory part 110 which are an outer constituting element via the mobile operation system 571 which is the operating system.
The controller 570 further controls the operation of the application module 120 regardless of the type of mobile operation system 571 via the virtual machine 572 transferred for effecting an independent code of a hardware platform. The application module 120 will be further described later.
The liquid crystal display part 90, one of the outer constituting elements, displays various screens to be shown to a CDMA user under the control of the controller 570, particularly a sound wave generating set-up screen provided from the application module 120. The liquid crystal display part 90 further displays images illustrating harmful insects when frequency bandwidths are selected for allowing a user to easily select a different frequency bandwidth per insect, whereby a mosquito image can be selected when a user is to cope with the mosquitoes.
The key input part 100 is equipped with a plurality of keys and various function keys for enabling an input of numbers and characters, and the key input part 100 transmits data, particularly sound wave generation-related data, to the controller
570.
The memory part 110, which includes an Electrically Erasable Programmable
ROM (EEPROM), a flash ROM and a Random Access Memory (RAM), transmits various data, necessary for control of the mobile communication terminal, particularly sound wave generation-related environment variables, to the controller 570 under the control of the controller 570.
The application module 120, as depicted in FIG.2, includes an application module controller 121, a set-up part 122, a sound wave data processor 123, a sound wave data reading part 124, a sound wave data storage 125, and a sound wave data output driving part 126. The application module 120 further includes an image data reading part 128, an image data storage 129, and an image data output driving part 127.
Referring to FIG. 3, the application module 120 thus constructed downloads a software in a program type from an application module providing server 400 via an Internet network 300 for installation in the mobile communication terminal 1. In other words, a mobile communication terminal that receives and transmits sound data and image data via the Internet network 300, e.g., a cellular phone, a smart phone, a Personal Digital Assistance (PDA). The mobile communication terminal is downloaded with the application module 120 from the application module providing server 400 via the Internet network 300, such that it is possible to upgrade the application module 120 via the application module providing server 400 at any time.
However, with regard to mobile communication terminals, such as a pager,
which is limited in receiving and transmitting sound data and image data, the application module 120 is stored in the memory part 110 in a software type and is installed at a predetermined region via the virtual machine 552. The application module 120 may be also stored in a hardware type in the mobile communication terminal 1.
Furthermore, harmful insect combating electronic devices comprising the application module 120 illustrated in FIG.2, driving means including the virtual machine 572 for driving the application module 120, outputting means for outputting sound waves provided from the application module 120, control means for controlling said constituting elements and storage means for storing a preset programs may be mounted at a predetermined position of electronic and electric gadgets such as refrigerators, air conditioners, television sets, or transportation means such as passenger cars, buses, trains, ships, or furniture such as chairs, desks, wardrobes, or accessories such as purses, or personal ornaments. In these cases, the application module 120 may be installed in a program type.
The application module controller 121 controls an entire operation of the application module 120. Particularly, the application module controller 121 discriminates whether an established time for the set-up part 122 has lapsed via a timer (not shown) mounted (or intrinsically mounted) at the mobile communication terminal 1, and if the established time has lapsed, the operation of the sound wave data output driving part 126 is controlled so that sound wave data processed by the sound wave data processor 123 can be outputted to the speaker 60 of the mobile communication terminal 1.
The pre-set part 122 establishes an output reserved time, an output start time, an output keeping time, and a repeated frequency of corresponding sound wave data out of the sound data stored in the sound wave data storage 125 in response to the key input of a user via the key input part 100 of the mobile communication terminal 1, and stores the established information. The established information may be stored in the memory part 110 of the mobile communication terminal 1, or stored in a program type.
The output reserved time is a reserved time for reserving an output start time so that a sound wave data can be outputted at a given time in which a user is desirous of outputting the sound wave data. The output keeping time is a keeping time in which the output of corresponding sound wave data can maintained. The repeated frequency is an output repeating frequency where sound wave data having mutually different plural frequency bandwidths are packeted, and are outputted as one cycle.
The sound wave data processor 123 receives the sound data read from the sound data reading part 124, where the sound data is processed alternatively in the order of low to high frequency bandwidths or in the order of high to low frequency bandwidths in relation to the range of the frequency bandwidths. The frequency bandwidths thus alternatively processed are outputted via the speaker 60 of the mobile communication terminal 1 in correspondence to the output start time and the output keeping time established by the pre-set part 122.
For example, suppose that low frequency bandwidths of 200Hz, 400Hz, and 600Hz are set up and high frequency bandwidths of lOKHz, 13KHz. and 17KHz are
established, and an output keeping time of 4 seconds per frequency bandwidth is established by the set-up part 122, a sound data of 200Hz (4 seconds), 17KHz (4 seconds), 400Hz (4 seconds), 13KHz (4 seconds), 600Hz (4 seconds), lOKHz (4 seconds) and lKHz (4 seconds) is repeatedly outputted via the speaker 60 as one cycle. At this time, a total output keeping time for one cycle is 28 seconds. When the number of repeating times (repeated frequency) is established at 4 times by the set-up part 122, the sound data is outputted 4 times repeatedly with said sound data as one cycle.
In the above description, the low frequency bandwidth defines a bandwidth of lKHz or less, and the high frequency bandwidth means lKHz or more.
In other words, the low frequency bandwidth is selected from a range of 100Hz to lKHz, and the high frequency bandwidth is selected from a range of lOKHz to 20KHz.
However, the frequency bandwidths are not limited to said ranges. The frequency bandwidths are preferably selected in consideration of characteristics of harmful insects. Furthermore, the output keeping time is selected within a range of 1 second to 5 seconds.
The sound wave data reading part 124 reads out the sound wave data stored in the sound wave data storage 125 and sends same to the sound wave data processor 123. The sound wave data storage 125 is stored with a variety of frequency bandwidths that repel harmful insects or rodents such as rats and the like manufactured by generalized
MLDI sound source manufacturing system. At this time, it is preferred that the sound wave data storage 125 should be sequentially stored with frequency bandwidths per range thereof, and the sound wave data can be sequentially read out by the sound wave data reading part 124. The sound wave data output driving part 126 outputs according to the control of the application module controller 121 the sound wave data processed by the sound wave data processor 123 via the speaker 70 and/or the earphone jack 80 in correspondence to the output reserved time, the output start time, the output keeping time, and the output repeated frequency established by the set-up part 122. As mentioned in the foregoing, the application module 120 further includes an image data reading part 128, an image data storage 129, and an image data output driving part 127.
The image data reading part 128 reads out an image data corresponding to the sound wave data from the image data storage 129 to output same to the liquid crystal display part 90 of the mobile communication terminal 1 in response to the operation of the image data output driving part 127. The image data output driving part 127 is operated in synchronization with that of the sound wave data output driving part 126.
For example, if the sound wave data outputted from the speaker 60 and/or the earphone jack 80 are all mosquito-combatting frequency bandwidths, the image data represent images that show mosquitoes being coped with. By this, it can be easily noticed by a user that the sound wave data being outputted via the speaker 60 and/or the earphone jack 80 are mosquito-combatting sound wave data, and sound wave data
are being outputted audibly via the speaker 60 and/or the earphone jack 80.
The operating characteristics of the mobile communication terminal equipped with harmful insects combatting application module explained via FIGS. 1 to 3 will now be described via FIG.4, where S defines a step. General operating characteristics of a mobile communication terminal are identical to those of the prior art such that they will be deleted for convenience of explanation.
First, a user downloads the application module 120 from the harmful insect- combatting application module providing server 400 illustrated in FIG.3 and installs same in his or her mobile communication terminal 1. Once the installation is done, the key input part 100 of the mobile communication terminal 1 is manipulated to complete an execution preparation of the application module 120 (SI 0).
When the execution preparation is completed, a check is made as to whether a reserved harmful insect execution data is available. If it is available, the sound wave data output driving part 126 and the image data output driving part 127 are driven based on information pre-set by a user to allow the sound data processed by the sound wave data processor 123 is outputted to the speaker 60 and/or the earphone jack 80. At the same time, an image data corresponding to the outputted sound wave data is read out from the image data storage 129 to allow being outputted to the liquid crystal display part 90 (S20 and S30). Henceforth, when an established output keeping time arrives, the output of the sound wave data and image data is finished (S80).
If it is discriminated at S20 that the reserved harmful insect-combatting execution data is not available, insects desired to be coped with are selected (S40), and once the harmful insects are selected, an established information including an output start time, an output keeping time, a repeated frequency is established by the set-up part 122 (S50).
When the established information is set up, a menu is outputted as to whether execution is effected per the established information, or re-establishment is to be made (S60 and S70).
If it is determined at S60 that the execution should be selected, the application module controller 121 controls the sound wave data reading part 124 and the sound wave data processor 123 in response to the established information to prepare sound wave data corresponding to the established information. When corresponding sound wave data is prepared, the sound wave data output driving part 126 and the image data output driving part 127 are driven to allow the sound wave data to be outputted to the speaker 60 and/or the earphone jack80 and simultaneously the image data is outputted to the liquid crystal display part 90 (S30).
Meanwhile, when the re-establishment is selected, the flow is returned to S40 to effect the re-establishment.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiment of the invention has been presented for the purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to explain the principles of the invention and its
practical application to one skilled in the art to utilize the invention in various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. It is intended that scope of the invention be defined by the claims appended hereto, and their equivalents. As apparent from the foregoing, there is an advantage in the mobile telecommunication terminal having an application module for combatting harmful insects and a system for servicing the application module using an internet according to an embodiment of the present invention thus described in that a series of application modules for periodically outputting various harmful insect-combatting sound waves are downloaded in a software type and installed at an information processing region of routinely used electronic gadgets, or installed in a hardware type by which sound wave data are outputted from the said electronic gadgets through a user's manipulation to enable to easily control various harmful insects abundant in our environments without recourse to a separate installation of a hardware equipment. There is another advantage in that sound wave data, each having a different frequency bandwidth, are alternatively arranged, and the arranged sound wave data are repeatedly outputted to enable to simultaneously cope with harmful insects, each of which are repelled by a certain particular frequency bandwidth.