JP2002111798A - Mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] To display a telephone number and an e-mail address at the same time as a missed call display so that the sender can be specified at a glance and a reply can be made based on the information of the missed call display. SOLUTION: A control unit 2 determines that the telephone number of the caller is R if the incoming call type to the wireless transmitting / receiving circuit unit 1 is voice.
It is determined whether the dial is registered in the AM 9 or not, and if registered, the memory dial index of the caller is displayed on the display unit 3. Caller's phone number is RAM
If it is not registered in 9, the display unit 3 displays the telephone number of the caller. On the other hand, when a mail arrives at the wireless transmission / reception circuit unit 1, the memory dial index or the mail address of the sender is displayed on the display unit 3 as described above. Further, the user selects the telephone number or e-mail address of the caller displayed on the display unit 3 and presses a key assigned to telephone transmission / mail transmission with the input keys 5 to make a telephone call or mail transmission. Can also be performed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone, and more particularly to a display of a missed call and a return call operation in the portable telephone.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a call cannot be made to a mobile phone or when a sender is cut off before answering a call, a missed call display appears on a display screen. In other words, the missed call display on the mobile phone is displayed on the LCD together with the date and time of the incoming call while the display screen is on standby.
Contents indicating that there is an incoming call, such as <incoming call> and <mail>, are displayed. When there are a plurality of incoming calls, the last missed call received is displayed, and the incoming call history can be sequentially repeated by key operation.

[0003]

However, such a missed call display does not indicate who the incoming call came from. Therefore, in order to identify the sender, press the key assigned to "Missed call display" or "Open mail" and check the incoming call history or mail every time, and display the missed call displayed on the screen. Checking the phone number and mail content corresponding to the incoming call. Then, based on the telephone number or mail address of the incoming call history displayed on the screen, a predetermined key operation is performed to make a call or send a mail to a desired party to be returned.

That is, in a conventional mobile phone,
After confirming the display such as "incoming call" and "email present", the caller must be identified by confirming the incoming call history by a predetermined key operation, and then a return call must be made to the desired party or a mail must be sent. . For this reason, it takes time and effort to confirm the sender and reply to the missed call display, which is an inconvenient operation procedure.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and has as its object to display a telephone number and an e-mail address at the same time as displaying a missed call so that a sender can be specified at a glance. It is another object of the present invention to provide a mobile phone having a function of replying to a desired party by a simple key operation based on information of a missed call display.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a portable telephone according to the present invention comprises: a portable telephone configured to display a missed call on a standby display screen of a display; Simultaneously with the display of the missed call, a function of displaying at least information specifying the sender, and selecting information specifying the sender from the standby display screen, and pressing a predetermined key assigned to information transmission, A function of transmitting information to the specified sender.

[0007] As described above, the portable telephone of the present invention displays on the standby display screen that the call is a missed call,
Information for identifying the sender, such as the sender's telephone number and mail address and the corresponding index (for example, sender name), is displayed. When an incoming mail is displayed on the standby display screen, the mail text can be displayed at the same time. Of course, the setting of whether the text of the mail can be displayed or not can be arbitrarily switched.

Further, on the standby display screen, a telephone number, a mail address, an index (for example, a sender name) corresponding thereto, or a display irrelevant to such information is selected to perform a telephone call operation or a mail transmission operation. By pressing the key assigned to
A telephone call or mail transmission for replying to a desired caller can be performed. When the standby display screen is an incoming mail, if the desired screen information is selected, it goes without saying that the mail information of the sender is automatically displayed. Thus, the mail sender can confirm the contents of the mail from the sender and immediately reply to the mail.

As described above, according to the portable telephone of the present invention, the display of a missed call such as <incoming call>, <mail present>, etc., as well as the telephone number, mail address or mail text or additional information corresponding thereto (for example, transmission) Name, etc.) to determine at a glance who is receiving the call or e-mail, and select the displayed phone number, e-mail address, additional information, or other information unrelated to it and make a call. Alternatively, by pressing a key assigned to mail transmission, a telephone call or mail transmission can be easily performed.

[0010]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a portable telephone according to the present invention. Figure 1
1 is an example of a block diagram illustrating a system configuration of a mobile phone according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a mobile phone according to the present invention includes a wireless transmission / reception circuit unit 1 including an antenna, a control unit 2 for controlling the entire mobile phone, a display unit 3 for displaying desired information on a display screen such as an LCD, and the like. Control unit 2
LCD driver 4 which is software for controlling a display screen such as an LCD based on an instruction from the user, an input key group 5 having a plurality of operation keys for inputting information regarding various functions, and various processing of a call voice And a voice processing unit 6 for adjusting the reception volume, a font ROM 7 for reading and storing received mail, a ROM 8 for storing various programs for transmission and reception operations, and a telephone number and a mail address of a sender written in advance. It is composed of a RAM 9 to be registered.

With this configuration, the control unit 2 causes the display unit 3 to display the telephone number or the mail address received by the wireless transmission / reception circuit unit 1 when a call or mail is received. Further, when making a telephone call or sending a mail using a missed call or mail arrival display, a desired key operation of the input key group 5 is performed to display the displayed telephone number or mail address or the telephone number stored in the RAM 9. By selecting additional information (for example, the name of the sender) corresponding to the number or e-mail address and display information unrelated to such information, and depressing the key assigned to telephone transmission or e-mail transmission, Processing or mail transmission processing can be performed.

Hereinafter, a missed call display according to the present invention and a call / transmission using the missed call display will be described with reference to a flowchart.
The operation of the transmission process will be described in detail. First, in order to facilitate understanding, an outline of a flow of a missed call display process in the mobile phone of the present invention will be described. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of a missed call display process in the mobile phone of the present invention. First, when the control unit 2 of the mobile phone determines whether or not there is a missed call, the control unit 2 determines whether or not the incoming call type received by the wireless transmitting and receiving circuit unit 1 is voice (step S1). If the incoming call is a voice call (step S1, Y), the determination of the incoming call type is continued until the incoming call operation is completed or the incoming call is answered by the user (step S2).

Then, it is determined whether or not the incoming call operation has been completed (step S3). If the incoming operation has been completed (step S3, Y), a missed call display is displayed on the display unit 3 (step S4). finish. In step S3, if there is an incoming call response by the user without terminating the incoming call operation (step S3, N), a normal voice call is started (step S5). Further, in step S1, if the incoming call type is not voice (step S1, N), a missed incoming call display of the incoming mail is displayed on the display unit 3 (step S1).
4), end.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the flow of the incoming call history display processing in the mobile phone of the present invention, and is a flow chart in which the missed call display in FIG. 2 is developed more specifically. First, the control unit 2 determines whether or not the incoming call type received by the wireless transmission / reception circuit unit 1 is voice (step S11). If the incoming call type is voice (step S11, Y), the caller's It is determined whether or not the telephone number has been registered in the RAM 9 in advance by dialing (step S12). Here, the telephone number of the caller is stored in the RAM 9
If the dial is registered (step S12, Y),
A memory dial index of the caller's phone number,
For example, an abbreviated number is displayed on the display unit 3 (step S13). If it is determined in step S12 that the telephone number of the caller has not been dialed in the RAM 9 (step S12, N), the telephone number of the caller is displayed on the display unit 3 as it is (step S14).

On the other hand, in step S11, if the incoming call type to the wireless transmission / reception circuit unit 1 is not voice (N in step S11), since the mail is an incoming call, the mail address of the sender is dial registered in the RAM9. It is determined whether or not it has been performed (step S15). If the mail address of the sender is registered in the RAM 9 by dialing (step S15, Y), the memory dial index of the mail address of the sender, for example, abbreviated code or name, is displayed on the display unit 3 (step S15). S16). If the e-mail address of the sender is not registered in the RAM 9 in step S15 (N in step S15), the e-mail address of the sender is displayed on the display unit 3 as it is (step S17).

Further, when the memory dial index of the caller is displayed in step S16, step S1
In any case where the sender's mail address is displayed as it is in step 7, the display setting of the sender's mail body is set to OF.
F (step S18)
If the display setting of the mail text is OFF (step S18, Y), the memory dial index or the mail address of the sender is displayed on the display unit 3 and the process is terminated. On the other hand, if the display setting of the mail body is not turned off in step S18, that is, if the display setting is turned on (N in step S18), the mail body is displayed together with the memory dial index or mail address of the sender. (Step S19), and ends.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are image diagrams of a missed call display in the portable telephone of the present invention, wherein FIG. 4A shows an image when a voice call is received, and FIG. 4B shows an image when a mail call is received. That is, as shown in FIG. 4 (a), when a voice call is received, the display of the display unit indicates that <call received> TEL090-1234-1234 or TEL Mr. Sato has called. . On the other hand, when an incoming mail is received, <mail exists> te
st@test.co.jp or email from Sato-san is displayed.

In this way, the additional information such as the telephone number, the mail address, or the name of the sender corresponding thereto is displayed together with the display of the missed call such as <call received> and <mail>. Can determine at a glance who is receiving the call or mail. Further, in the case of an incoming mail, the mail text can be displayed at the same time as necessary.

Further, in the portable telephone of the present invention, a return calling operation can be performed using the missed call display. That is, by selecting additional information such as the telephone number, e-mail address or name of the displayed caller, or a display irrelevant to them, and pressing the key assigned to telephone call or mail transmission, You can easily make a phone call or send a mail.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the flow of processing in the case of performing a calling operation using a missed call display in the portable telephone of the present invention. First, it is determined whether or not the incoming call type selected based on the missed call display displayed on the standby screen of the display unit 3 is voice (Step S).
21), if the incoming call type is voice (step S21,
Y), a predetermined call key assigned to telephone call is pressed to perform a voice call operation (step S22), and a call is started.

On the other hand, in step S21, if the incoming call type of the missed call display displayed on the standby screen of the display unit 3 is not voice (N in step S21), it is an incoming mail, so the sender name on the standby screen is displayed. Alternatively, when any of the mail addresses is selected, the transmission screen input by the mail sender is displayed (step S23). A mail message is created based on the transmission screen, and a predetermined transmission key assigned to the mail transmission is prepared. By pressing the button and performing the mail transmission operation (step S24), the mail can be transmitted to the desired partner. If the sender name is displayed on the standby screen in advance, the mail can be immediately transmitted to the desired party by pressing a predetermined call key without performing the selection operation on the display screen.

As described above, when performing a telephone call operation or an e-mail transmission operation using a missed call display or an e-mail call display, a telephone number, an e-mail address, or additional information corresponding to these are input by a key input operation. (E.g., name) or anything else unrelated to it,
By pressing a transmission key assigned to telephone transmission or mail transmission, telephone transmission or mail transmission to a desired party can be performed.

The embodiment described above is an example for explaining the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, in the above embodiment,
The missed call display and the calling operation using the missed call display on the mobile phone have been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and any mobile terminal such as a PHS or a mobile terminal can display the missed call display and the missed call display of the present invention. Can be used to perform a calling operation.

[0024]

As described above, according to the portable telephone of the present invention, when the missed call display on the standby screen is displayed, it is possible to know at a glance from whom the call or mail is received, and to receive the mail call. In that case, you can also view the email content at the same time. In addition, the missed call display screen allows the user to immediately return a call to the desired party,
In the case of an incoming mail, the sender's transmission screen is displayed, so that a return mail reply can be immediately made. Moreover, such processing can be realized by software, not by adding or changing hardware. Therefore, it is possible to provide an extremely convenient mobile phone without increasing the cost.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an example of a block diagram showing a system configuration of a mobile phone according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a flow of a missed call display process in the mobile phone of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing for displaying a call history in the mobile phone of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an image diagram of a missed call display on the mobile phone of the present invention, wherein (a) shows a case where a voice call is received;
(B) shows an image when a mail is received.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing when a calling operation is performed using a missed call display in the mobile phone of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Wireless transmission / reception circuit part 2 Control part 3 Display part 4 LCD driver 5 Input key group 6 Audio processing part 7 Font ROM 8 ROM 9 RAM

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A mobile phone configured to display a missed call on a standby display screen of a display, wherein a function of displaying at least information specifying a sender simultaneously with the display of the missed call on the standby display screen. And a function of transmitting information to the specified sender by selecting information for specifying the sender from the standby display screen and pressing a predetermined key assigned to information transmission. A mobile phone characterized by the following.