JPH10276466A - Incoming notification system for cordless system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically select an incoming notification that is suitable for an ambient condition. SOLUTION: An area number in each area is set to an area that is defined by a radio base station according to an ambient condition, and a portable terminal previously registers incoming notification information such as a ringer tone or vibration, which is suitable for an ambient condition on area correspondence incoming notification information memory 15, utilizing that an area number identification registering part 12 of the portable terminal can acquire these area numbers from a main unit of a radio base station side. On the other hand, an incoming notification that is suitable for an ambient condition is selected by always detecting its own existence place from a message that is acquired from the main unit, registering it to a registration area number storage area 14 through an area number and reading incoming notification information front the memory 15 based on the area number that is registered in the area 14 at the time of an incoming call.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable terminal connected to a radio base station via a radio channel. The present invention relates to an incoming call notification system of a cordless system that selects one of them and notifies the owner of the portable terminal of an incoming call, and particularly relates to an incoming call notification system of a cordless system that can automatically select an incoming call notification suitable for surrounding environmental conditions. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an incoming call notification system of a cordless system, as shown in FIG.
1 controls the wireless base station 22 to call the portable terminal 23 via the wireless channel, and only sends a predetermined call signal. When the portable terminal 23 receives this call signal,
As a means of notifying a mobile phone of an incoming call, sound, emission,
The vibration of the mobile terminal or the like is selected.

Conventionally, in this type of incoming call notification system of a cordless system, when an incoming call is received, the user of the portable terminal switches by a manual switch to take care of the inconvenience that a ringing sound gives to nearby people. Instead of making a sound, a light is generated or the mobile terminal is vibrated to recognize an incoming call. However, since the switching is performed by the holder, it is unavoidable that bothers will be troubled by forgetting the switching.

On the other hand, a technique for automatically switching a ringing tone is described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 4-268854. This device detects the vibration of a portable terminal that occurs when a person carries the portable terminal, and when this vibration is detected, the CPU controls the CPU (Central Processing Unit).
The incoming call is made by vibration. In addition, when the portable terminal is placed on a desk or the like and there is no vibration, the light emitting unit is automatically selected and the incoming call is made by light. As a result, when carried by a person, an incoming call by vibration that does not bother others is automatically selected.

Another technique for automatically switching the calling conditions is described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-103553. This device is provided with an illuminance sensor, and when a ringing sound or a call by light emission is selected in advance, a switching instruction signal is generated when the illuminance sensor is darker than a predetermined illuminance to make the ringing sound or light emission a vibration. Switching. As a result, when the ringing sound is switched to the light-emitting call, even if the light emission of the portable terminal is not visible due to the pocket or cover of the clothes, the incoming call can be surely known.

[0006]

In the above-described incoming call notification system of the conventional cordless system, the surrounding environmental conditions are not involved. For example, when the portable terminal is placed in a bright place at a standstill, noise is generated. Selection switching between an intense work site and a quiet place such as an office requires the mobile terminal holder to perform setting operations, so that the problem of complicated operations is inevitable.

[0007] The reason is that in the former publication, when the portable terminal is carried by a person and moves, the incoming call is automatically switched to the incoming call by vibration. In the latter publication, the portable terminal emits light as if in a pocket of clothes. Is automatically switched to incoming call due to vibration when it is in a place where it cannot be seen, so the ringing sound is increased and vibration is given at the work site where the noise is intense, and only the vibration is taken at the quiet place in the room. This is because switching cannot be performed depending on environmental conditions.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to provide an incoming call notification system of a cordless system that can automatically select an incoming call notification suitable for surrounding environmental conditions.

[0009]

An incoming call notification system for a cordless system according to the present invention is a portable terminal connected to a wireless base station via a wireless channel, and is provided with a plurality of at least ringing sounds and vibrations when an incoming call is received. In addition, in the incoming call notification method of the cordless system that selects at least one of the incoming call notification information and notifies an incoming call, including a combination of these strengths, the portable terminal is provided with an area set in advance for each predetermined area. Incoming call notification information memory that stores incoming call notification information that presets the type of notifying the reception of an incoming call corresponding to each area number and this area number, and communicates with the wireless base station at a predetermined time to identify the area number To mark the area number of the incoming call notification information memory, and when an incoming call is accepted, the incoming call corresponding to the area number marked in the incoming call notification information memory is marked. Reporting the incoming call by the notification means based on the notification information.

One specific example of the area number preset for each of the above-mentioned predetermined areas is the area number of the area for which the location registration was performed when the location registration was requested by the radio base station. Is a well-known paging area number identified as

When an area number registered in the above-mentioned portable terminal is assigned to a work site, a hall, an office, a meeting room, a passage, or the like, an incoming call notification can be made based on each environmental condition.

[0012]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the incoming call notification system of the cordless system shown in FIG. 1, the radio unit 1, channel codec 2, input / output control unit 3, keypad 4, display device 5, audio codec 6, microphone 7, amplifier 8, speaker 9, vibration The apparatus 10 includes a device 10, a control device 11, and a storage device 13. The control device 11 includes an area number identification and registration unit 12, and the storage device 13 includes a registered area number storage area 14 and an area corresponding incoming notification information memory 15,
It is assumed that each is provided.

The present invention is different from the prior art in that the portable terminal identifies the location of the portable terminal by an area number, and registers the area number in an area number storage area 14 with an area number identification and registration unit 12. And an area-corresponding notification information memory 15 for storing in advance the notification information corresponding to the environment condition corresponding to the designated area number.

In the incoming call notification system of the cordless system shown in FIG. 1, ARIB (Association of Radio Industry) is used.
ies and Businesses: Standard version 2 of the (Radio Industry) and RCR (Center for Radio System:
Radio System Development Center) Standard STD-28
Provisions based on

In this system, since the main unit needs to register the position of the portable terminal in order to call the portable terminal, the main unit always transmits a broadcast message from the radio base station at fixed time intervals. The position of each mobile terminal is registered based on the response message. At this time, the portable terminal can identify an area number for a general call indicating a specific area called a general call area from the transmitted notification message.

The incoming call notification system of the cordless system according to the present invention is suitable for an intra-company communication system in which the number of the paging areas is limited and the paging areas can be easily set according to the surrounding environmental conditions. An example in which the present invention is applied to a communication system will be described.

The radio unit 1, the channel codec 2, the input / output control unit 3, the keypad 4, the display device 5, the audio codec 6, the microphone 7, the amplifier 8, the loudspeaker 9, and the vibration device 10 are the same as those in the prior art. Can be used, and the description is omitted.

The control device 11 has, in addition to the conventional control functions,
When receiving the broadcast message from the radio base station, the area number corresponding to the paging area can be identified from the received broadcast message by the area number identification and registration unit 12, and the area number identified by the area number identification and registration unit 12 is It is assumed that the information is registered in the registration area number storage area 14 of the storage device 13.

When receiving an incoming call, the control device 11 reads out from the storage device 13 incoming notification information corresponding to the area number registered in the registered area number storage area 14 from the area corresponding incoming notification information memory 15, At least one of the amplifier 8 and the vibration device 10 is driven based on the read incoming notification information, and the output amount is controlled.

Registered area number storage area 1 of storage device 13
4 stores one area number written from the control device 11. This area number is a paging area number included in the broadcast message transmitted from the wireless base station, and indicates the location of the portable terminal.

In addition, it is assumed that incoming notification information corresponding to each of a plurality of area numbers is preliminarily input into the area corresponding incoming notification information memory 15 of the storage device 13 by a portable terminal user. Therefore, the area number indicates the surrounding environmental condition, and the incoming call notification information corresponding to the surrounding environmental condition can be obtained from the area number.

FIG. 2 shows an area corresponding incoming call notification information memory 15.
FIG. 4 is an information configuration diagram showing an example of information stored in a. As shown in the figure, in the incoming call notification information, an incoming call notification for registering a sound or vibration or both a sound and vibration for an incoming call, and an on / off pattern for a ring tone are code registered. It is assumed that the information includes ring tone pattern information and ring tone volume information for registering the degree of volume in the case of a ring tone.

For example, as shown in the figure, the ring tone of the same volume is prohibited in the area number 1 which is the office room on the premise that it is placed on the desk, and the generation of the sound is prohibited in the area number 2 which is the conference room. In the area No. 3 which is the work place, only the vibration is assumed to be stored in the inner pocket. It is assumed that the settings can be made appropriately and registered as shown.

Next, the main operation will be described with reference to FIGS.

When the portable terminal 23 is turned on and turned on, when the paging area is moved to the next area,
When a location registration request is received from the main apparatus 21, the location registration is performed on the main apparatus 21 by a well-known procedure upon receiving a notification message from the main apparatus 21.

At this time, the portable terminal 23 can recognize the area number for which the location registration has been performed from the content of the received notification message.
To the registered area number storage area 14 of the storage device 13
It is assumed that area number 1 of the office is registered.

In this state, when the portable terminal 23 receives the incoming call signal from the main device 21, if the incoming call signal is an incoming call to itself, the control device 11 stores the registered area number storage area 14 in the storage device 13. The registered area number 1 is read, and the incoming notification information registered in the read area number 1 is read from the area corresponding incoming notification information memory 15.

The control device 11 controls the drive of the amplifier 8 based on the sound pattern information obtained by reading the average volume corresponding to the area number 1 and turning it on for 1 second and off for 2 seconds, and causes the speaker 9 to ring.

Next, when the portable terminal 23 moves into the conference room, the portable terminal 23 moves to the conference room, so that the portable terminal 23
1 and updates the location registration in the main unit 21 by the area number identification and registration unit 12 of the control device 11 and the registered area number storage area 1 of the storage device 13.
4, the area number 2 of the conference room is registered.

In this state, in the portable terminal 23 which has received the incoming call signal from the main device 21, if the incoming call signal is an incoming call to itself, the control device 11 stores the registered area number in the storage device 13 as described above. The area number 2 registered in the area 14 is read, and the incoming notification information registered in the read area number 2 is read from the area corresponding incoming notification information memory 15.

The control device 11 controls the driving of the vibration device 10 based on the vibration information read out corresponding to the area number 2 and vibrates the main body of the portable terminal 23 to notify the holder of the incoming call.

Similarly, in the case of a work area with a lot of noise, since the area number 3 is registered, the incoming call notification uses both a ringing tone and a vibration having a large volume corresponding to the area number 3.

When the portable terminal 23 is moved while being held by a human hand, such as when moving in an outdoor passage, there is no setting in the area-based incoming call notification information memory 15 as indicated by the area number n. In such a case, when an incoming call is received from the main device 21, a notification for calling based on the incoming call signal received from the main device 21 is sent to the speaker 9 as in the related art.
Done through.

As described above, the area number is set for each area in accordance with the surrounding environmental conditions, the call signal at the time of the incoming call is registered in advance as the incoming information for each area number, and the portable terminal moves. However, by detecting his / her own location and registering it with an area number, it is possible to select an appropriate incoming call notification according to the surrounding environmental conditions for a call at the time of an incoming call.

In the above description, the ringing tone and its volume level,
And only the vibration is illustrated and described, but the light, the intensity of the light or the vibration, and other incoming information to be newly set,
It is also possible to adopt a combination of these and to set the conditions in detail.

In the above description, it is described that the present invention is most suitable for an intra-company communication system, but it is needless to say that the present invention is effective for other mobile communication systems. Although the function of identifying and registering the area number with the main unit is based on the standard rules of ARIB and RCR, other communication rules or new rules may be set. The above description is not intended to limit the invention.

[0038]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to obtain an effect that an incoming call notification suitable for surrounding environmental conditions can be automatically selected.

The reason is that the area by the radio base station is
An area number is set for each area according to the surrounding environmental conditions, and by utilizing the fact that these area numbers can be obtained from the main device of the wireless base station at the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal receives a call for each of these area numbers. By registering the call signal at the time as incoming information in advance, always detecting your own location and registering it with the area number, the appropriate incoming notification according to the surrounding environmental conditions can be selected for the incoming call Because you can.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of a portable terminal according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an information configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an area-based incoming call notification information memory of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a connection system diagram showing an example of a main part of the cordless system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 8 Amplifier 9 Speaker 10 Vibration device 11 Control device 12 Area number identification registration unit 13 Storage device 14 Registered area number storage area 15 Area corresponding incoming notification information memory

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A portable terminal connected to a radio base station via a radio channel, when an incoming call is accepted, at least one of a plurality of incoming call notification information notifying the portable terminal that the incoming call has been accepted is selected. In the incoming call notification system of the cordless system for notifying the owner of the mobile terminal of an incoming call, the mobile terminal receives an incoming call corresponding to an area number preset for each predetermined area and each of the area numbers. An incoming call notification information memory for storing incoming call notification information for setting an incoming call notification type to be notified in advance, communicating with a radio base station at a predetermined time, identifying an area number, and marking the area number of the incoming call notification information memory. Receiving an incoming call by notifying an incoming call by notifying means based on incoming notification information corresponding to the area number marked in the incoming notification information memory when an incoming call is accepted. -Notification system for incoming calls. 2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the area number set in advance for each predetermined area is a well-known area number of an area for which position registration has been performed when a position registration is requested by a radio base station. An incoming call notification method for a cordless system, which is a paging area number based on a communication protocol. 3. The incoming call notification system of a cordless system according to claim 1, wherein the incoming call notification information includes at least a ringing tone, light and vibration, and a combination of these levels. 4. An incoming call notification system for a cordless system according to claim 1, further comprising the area number described in claim 2 and the incoming call notification information described in claim 3.