Portable information terminal device

• US 20020052226A1
• Filed: 10/30/2001
• Published: 05/02/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Yoshida, Masao
• Application Number:
  US09/984,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20020052226A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/569.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2745 using static electronic memories, e.g. chips
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/605 involving control of the receiver volume to provide a dual operational mode at close or far distance from the user

Abstract

It is an object of the invention to realize an automatic change-over between a receiver and a loudspeaker. Data for reproducing a received talk by virtue of a loudspeaker is stored in each remote person'"'"'s telephone directory data table in a memory. A user is allowed to store the data by operating on an operating section through a controller. When there is a telephone communication between the user and a remote person registered in the telephone directory data table, a change-over switch is automatically changed over to a contact b in accordance with the stored data, thereby using the loudspeaker to reproduce a talk received from a remote person. On the other hand, if there is a telephone communication between the user and a remote person not registered in the telephone directory data table, the change-over switch is kept in contact with contact a, thereby using the receiver to reproduce a talk received from the remote person.

Claims

1. A portable information terminal device having a receiver for reproducing a received talk in a relatively small volume and a loudspeaker for reproducing a received talk in a relatively large volume, said terminal device comprising:

a memory for storing data of each remote person in communication with the terminal device, said data being used to set the receiver or the loudspeaker to reproduce a received talk; and

a controller so formed that when a communication is performed between the terminal device and one remote person in communication with the terminal device, said controller will decide whether the receiver or the loudspeaker should be used to reproduce a received talk, all in accordance with the data stored in the memory.

2. A portable information terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the memory has a recording area for storing data concerning a plurality of remote persons who will be in communication with the terminal device.

3. A portable information terminal device according to claim 2, wherein each set of data concerning one remote person is in the form of a telephone directory data table including a plurality of item data.