JPH1042008A - Radio selective calling receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a radio selective calling receiver in which notification is made by a method suitable for a surrounding noise state of the user at that point of time when a call is received. SOLUTION: A noise detection section 9 detects a surrounding noise level. A storage section 5 stores respectively notice method designation information designating a notice method corresponding to each combination between any of a plurality of kinds of time zones and a plurality of kinds of noise levels. A call selection section 11 selects the notice method designation information corresponding to a range of a noise level detected by the noise detection section among a plurality of kinds of the noise levels and a time zone belonging to a call time among a plurality of kinds of the time zones and controls any relevant section among a melody section 6, a ring tone section 7, a vibrator section 8 and a silent section 13 according to the notice method designation information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a radio selective calling receiver.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A radio selective call receiver generally has a notification function for notifying a user of a call when the call is received, but this notification function is easy for the radio selective call receiver to use. It is an important factor that determines whether or not there is. That is, from the viewpoint of the user, for example, it is convenient to call at a normal volume in a situation where the surroundings do not cause annoyance. There is a need for a radio selective call receiver that can provide notification in a manner appropriate for the situation in which the user is located.

In order to meet such demands, speakers,
LED (Light Emitting Diode), LCD (Liquid Cry
stal Display), a vibrator, etc., when a call is made, a notification method according to the calling time is selected according to a program stored in advance, and particularly, notification by sound is made according to the calling time. Wireless selective call receivers that select a volume and perform notification have been proposed. For this type of radio selective call receiver,
For example, it is disclosed in JP-A-4-326632.

[0004]

As described above, according to the conventional radio selective calling receiver, the notification is performed by the notification method according to the calling time, but this notification is based on the situation around the user at the time of calling. Regardless, the call is performed according to a predetermined program in a method determined by the calling time. However, when the notification is performed without sensing the surrounding situation, the following problem occurs.

(1) For example, for a radio selective calling receiver,
It is assumed that a setting has been made so that the ringing volume during the conference is set to “low”. In this case, if there is a call in the radio selective calling receiver during the time of the conference and the surroundings of the user are noisy at the time of the call, the user may not notice even if there is a notification. .

(2) For example, for a radio selective calling receiver,
It is assumed that the ringing volume has been set to “high”. In this case, when the user is traveling on an outgoing train and a call is received by the radio selective calling receiver, and the surroundings of the user are relatively quiet at the time of the call, the notification is noticed by another person. I will.

(3) For example, for a radio selective calling receiver,
It is assumed that the ringing volume is set to “medium”. In this case, if the radio selective calling receiver receives a call while the user is watching a movie in a movie theater and the noise situation around the user changes frequently at that time, the calling during the notification is performed. Because the volume is constant, others notice it.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-described circumstances, and provides a radio selective call receiver which can notify a user of a call by a method suitable for the noise situation around the user at the time of the call. It is intended to provide.

[0009]

The invention according to claim 1 is
Notification means for notifying when a call is received, a noise detection unit for detecting a surrounding noise level, and control means for controlling notification by the notification means according to the noise level detected by the noise detection unit. The gist of the present invention is a wireless selective call receiver characterized by comprising:

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a notifying means for notifying when a call is received, a noise detecting unit for detecting a surrounding noise level, a time at which the call is received, and a noise detected by the noise detecting unit. And a control means for controlling the notification by the notification means according to the noise level.

The invention according to claim 3 corresponds to each combination of a plurality of types of time zones and a plurality of types of noise level ranges,
A storage unit for storing notification method designation information that specifies a notification method to be performed by the notification unit, wherein the control unit determines a time zone to which a call receiving time belongs to among the plurality of types of time zones; Selecting notification method designation information corresponding to the noise level range to which the noise level detected by the noise detection unit belongs from among a plurality of types of noise level ranges from the notification method designation information stored in the storage unit, 3. The radio selective call receiver according to claim 2, wherein said notification means is controlled according to said notification method designation information.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the control means includes:
If a change occurs in the noise level detected by the noise detection unit while the notification by the notification unit is being performed, the notification method specifying information suitable for the latest noise level is stored in the storage unit. 4. The radio selective call receiver according to claim 3, wherein a selection is made from method designation information, and the notification means is controlled in accordance with the notification method designation information.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio selective calling receiver 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 shows the radio selective calling receiver 10.
0 is a flowchart showing the operation of the radio selective calling receiver 100. FIG.

First, the configuration of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a control unit that controls each unit in the radio selective calling receiver 100, 2 denotes a receiving unit that receives a selective reception signal from an external transmitting station 10, and 3 denotes a display that displays a received message and the like. The unit 4 is an operation unit for inputting various commands.

Reference numeral 5 denotes this radio selective calling receiver 100
This is a storage unit for storing various control information required for the control of. Here, the control information stored in the storage unit 5 also includes a matrix table illustrated in FIG. In the radio selective calling receiver 100 according to the present embodiment, when a call is made, a notification method according to the time and the surrounding noise level at that time is selected, but this method is used as a reference for selecting this notification method. This matrix table is stored in the storage unit 5 by the operation of the operation unit 4 performed by the user.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a melody section, 7 denotes a sound section, and 8 denotes a vibrator section. These are notification means provided for performing notification by sound or vibration. Reference numeral 13 denotes a silent unit. Reference numeral 9 denotes a noise detection unit that detects a surrounding noise level. Reference numeral 11 denotes a call selection unit. When a call is made, the call selection unit 11 detects the call time and the noise detection unit 9 at the time of the call based on the notification means selection information in the storage unit 5 under the control of the control unit 1. The notification means according to the noise level is selected and driven. 1
Reference numeral 2 denotes a timer unit for measuring time.

Radio selective call receiver 1 having the above configuration
When using 00, the user operates the operation unit 4 to input the following information for forming the matrix table shown in FIG.

Morning (07: 00-11: 59) / Static (20 phones or less) A1 mode Morning (07: 00-11: 59) / Small (21 phones-40 phones) A2 Mode Morning (07: 00-11: 59) / Medium (41 to 60 phones) A3 mode Morning (07:00 to 11:59) / Large (61 to 80 phones) A4 Mode Morning (07: 00-11: 59) / Noisy (81 phones or more) A5 mode Afternoon (12: 00-18: 59) / Static (20 phones or less) P1 mode Afternoon (12 : 00-18: 59) / Small (21 phons to 40 phons) ... P2 mode Afternoon (12: 00-18: 59) / Medium (41 phons to 60 phones) ... P3 mode Afternoon (12 : 00-18: 59) / Large (61-80 phones) P4 mode Afternoon (12: 00-18: 59) / Noisy (81 phones or more) P5 mode Nighttime (19:00) ~ 06: 59) / Still (20 phones or less) ... N1 mode Night ( 19:00-06:59) / Small (21 to 40 phones) N2 mode Night (19:00 to 06:59) / Medium (41 to 60 phones) N3 mode Night ( 19: 00-06: 59) / Large (61 phones to 80 phones) N4 mode Night (19:00 06:59) / Noisy (81 phones or more) N5 mode Regular meetings / static (20 phones or less) D1 mode regular meeting / small (21 to 40 phones) D2 mode regular meeting / medium (41 to 60 phones) D3 mode regular meeting / large (・ ・ ・ ・ D4 mode Regular meeting / noise (81 phones or more) ・ ・ ・ ・ D5 mode

In each of the above information, A1 to A5, P1 to
Each mode of P5, N1 to N5, and D1 to D5 corresponds to each element (each column divided by vertical and horizontal partition lines) constituting the matrix table of FIG. And
The above series of information specifies the conditions arranged vertically and horizontally in the matrix table of FIG. 3, that is, the time period and the range of the noise level which are the conditions for selecting the mode for each mode. It is. For example, the first of the above series of information belongs to the time zone where the current time is in the morning (07:00 to 11:59) in order for the A1 mode to be selected,
In addition, it specifies that the condition that the noise level belongs to the range of static (20 phones or less) is a condition. The same applies to other information. Each piece of information including the item “regular meeting” does not specify a specific time zone, but this time zone is separately input (described later).

Next, referring to the flowchart shown in FIG.
The operation of the present embodiment will be described on the assumption that the information is set in the storage unit 5. First, when the radio selective calling receiver 100 is turned on, initialization is performed (step S1). With this initialization, each piece of information for forming the above-described matrix table is read from the storage unit 5. Is passed to the call selection unit 11. Next, the control unit 1 enters the standby mode (step S2). In this standby mode, when there is a setting request for elements of the matrix table by inputting key information from the operation unit 4, the time / time
The mode shifts to the noise setting mode (step S3). In this time / noise setting mode, the user performs the following series of information inputs by operating the keys of the operation unit 4.

(1) D1 mode to D5 by key operation
Set the mode time from 10:00 to 11:00. (2) "Vibrator" is switched to D1 mode by key operation
Is set. (3) “Ring (small)” is set in the D2 mode by key operation. (4) Set "ringing (medium)" to D3 mode by key operation. (5) "Vibrator" is switched to D4 mode by key operation
Is set. (6) “Vibrator” is switched to D5 mode by key operation
Is set. (7) By key operation, switch to A1 mode to "vibrator"
Is set. (8) The key operation sets "Melody (small)" in the A2 mode. (9) The key operation sets "Melody (medium)" in the A3 mode. (10) “Melody (large)” is set in the A4 mode by key operation. (11) “A vibrator” is set to the A5 mode by a key operation. (12) The key operation sets "vibrator" to the P1 mode. (13) By key operation, P2 mode switches to "sound (small)"
Is set. (14) By key operation, the P3 mode switches to “sound (medium)”
Is set. (15) By key operation, P4 mode switches to "sound (large)"
Is set. (16) The key operation sets "vibrator" to the P5 mode. (17) N1 mode "silent" by key operation
Is set. (18) The key operation sets "vibrator" to the N2 mode. (19) The key operation sets "vibrator" to the N3 mode. (20) Set "vibrator" to N4 mode by key operation. (21) “Vibrator” is set to N5 mode by key operation.

In the above information input, (1) is input in this time / noise setting mode because the time of the meeting in the matrix table is undefined as described above. In addition, in (2) to (21), notification method designation information for designating a notification method to be selected in each mode described above is input as specific contents of each element of the matrix table shown in FIG. Each of the above information input by key operation is captured by the control unit 4 and displayed on the display unit 4. Therefore, the user checks the input information on the display unit 4 while checking the above (1) to (2).
A series of information input of 1) can be performed.

When the above information input is completed, all the information constituting the matrix table is completed. The control unit 1 sends each piece of information obtained by receiving the above information input to the call selection unit 11 and enters a standby mode (step S
Return to 2). The call selection unit 11 receives the information acquired by the control unit 1 by the information input and writes the information in the storage unit 5.
In this way, all information constituting the matrix table of FIG. 3 is stored in the storage unit 5, and the matrix table can be used.

In this state, it is assumed that the selected reception signal transmitted from the transmitting station 10 is received by the receiving unit 2, and the selected reception signal at that time matches a predetermined call number of the radio selective call receiver 100. Then, the reception information is notified from the reception unit 2 to the control unit 1. As a result, the control unit 1
Sends the reception time and the notification request at which the selection reception signal is received to the call selection unit 11. Upon receiving the notification request, the call selection unit 11 sets a time for performing the notification in the timer unit 12 and based on the reception time of the selected reception signal and the noise level detected by the noise detection unit 9 at that time. The information corresponding to the reception time and the noise level is selected from the notification method designation information which is each element of the matrix table shown in FIG. 3 (step S4), and the notification is controlled according to the selected notification method designation information. Specifically, it is as follows.

(1) For example, if the calling time is 8:00 and the surrounding noise level is 40 phones, the A2 mode is selected. In the A2 mode, since the melody (small) is designated by the notification method designation information, the melody is output by the melody unit 6 at a low volume, and the notification is performed (step S2).
5).

(2) For example, if the calling time is 10:30 and the surrounding noise level is 50 phones, the D3 mode is selected.
This D3 mode sounds (medium) according to the notification method designation information.
Is designated, the sounding unit 7 outputs a sound at a medium volume to notify the user (step S6).

(3) For example, if the calling time is 15:00 and the surrounding noise level is 10 phones, the P1 mode is selected.
In the P1 mode, since the vibrator is specified by the notification method specifying information, the notification is performed by operating the vibrator unit 8 and vibrating the housing (step S7).

(4) For example, if the calling time is 2:30 and the surrounding noise level is 10 phones, the N1 mode is selected. In the N1 mode, since the silent is designated by the notification method designation information, a command is sent to the silent unit 13 and
A silent notification is performed (step S9).

When the notification is started in this way, it is then determined whether or not the time measurement by the timer unit 12 is completed (step S8). If the time measurement is not completed, the timer unit 12 responds to the reception time and the noise level. The process returns to the selection of the element (step S4). Therefore, the notification is continuously executed until the timing ends. While this notification is continuously performed, the surrounding noise level may change, but the change in the noise level may change the element selected in step S4. For example, in the case of the above (2),
Initially, the sound is output at a medium volume, but thereafter, when the ambient noise level increases, the notification is switched to the notification by the vibrator unit 8 (see the row of the regular meeting in FIG. 3). As described above, even when the noise level changes after the start of the notification, the notification method is switched to the optimum notification method according to the change, so that the effective notification is performed without disturbing the surroundings.

In the above embodiment, the notification method is controlled according to the reception time and the noise level. However, this control may be performed based only on the noise level.

[0031]

As described above, according to the radio selective call receiver according to the present invention, when a call is made, it is suitable for the time of the call and suitable for the noise situation around the user at that time. There is an effect that the notification can be performed by the method described above.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio selective calling receiver 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of the radio selective calling receiver 100.

FIG. 3 is a diagram exemplifying a matrix table used for selecting a notification means in the radio selective calling receiver 100;

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 radio selective call receiver 1 control unit 2 reception unit 5 storage unit 9 noise detection unit 11 call selection unit 6 melody unit (notification unit) 7 sounding unit (notification unit) 8 vibrator unit (notification unit) 13 silent unit (notification) means)

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A notifying unit for notifying when a call is received, a noise detecting unit for detecting a surrounding noise level, and a notification by the notifying unit according to the noise level detected by the noise detecting unit. A radio selective call receiver, comprising: control means for performing control. 2. A notifying means for notifying when a call is received, a noise detecting unit for detecting a surrounding noise level, and a time when the call is received and a noise level detected by the noise detecting unit. Control means for controlling the notification by the notification means. 3. A storage unit for storing notification method designation information for each combination of a plurality of types of time zones and a plurality of types of noise level ranges, which specifies a notification method to be performed by the notification unit. The control means may include a time zone to which the time of receiving the call belongs among the plurality of types of time zones and a noise level to which the noise level detected by the noise detection unit belongs among the ranges of the plurality of types of noise levels. The notification method designation information corresponding to the range is selected from the notification method designation information stored in the storage unit, and the notifying unit is controlled according to the notification method designation information. Radio selective call receiver. 4. A notification method designating method adapted to the latest noise level when a change occurs in the noise level detected by the noise detection means while the notification by the notification means is being performed. 4. The radio selective call receiver according to claim 3, wherein information is selected from the notification method designation information stored in the storage unit, and the notification means is controlled according to the notification method designation information.