Mobile communication terminal apparatus

• US 20020118797A1
• Filed: 10/09/2001
• Published: 08/29/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Masuda, Atsushi
• Application Number:
  US09/971,702
• Publication Number:
  US 20020118797A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN

Abstract

This invention is a mobile communication terminal apparatus capable of radio communication with a base station, in a videophone mode for communication on video and speech or in a speech communication mode for communication on speech, comprising means for detecting input of a predetermined number, and means, when the means for detecting detects the predetermined number while the speech communication mode is set, for changing the speech communication mode to the videophone mode.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal apparatus capable of radio communication with a base station, in a videophone mode for communication on video and speech or in a speech communication mode for communication on speech, comprising:

means for detecting input of a predetermined number; and

means for changing said speech communication mode to said videophone mode, when said means for detecting detects said predetermined number while the speech communication mode is set.

2. A mobile communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a camera whose shooting direction is changeable; and

means for making announcement to request an operator of said mobile communication terminal apparatus to adjust the shooting direction of said camera if input of said predetermined number is detected by said means for detecting.

3. A mobile communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a camera whose shooting direction is changeable;

means for detecting the shooting direction of said camera; and

means for making announcement to request an operator of said mobile communication terminal apparatus to adjust the shooting direction of said camera in accordance with a result of the detection of shooting direction, when input of said predetermined number is detected by said means for detecting.

4. A mobile communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined number is a telephone number of an emergency center.

5. A mobile communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined number is a telephone number of a hospital.

6. A mobile communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for requesting an identification number to be input, in detecting an operation to request termination of communication after communication with a party of communication having said predetermined number is started, and for maintaining said communication unless the input identification number matches a preregistered identification number.

7. A mobile communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for requesting an identification number to be input, in detecting an operation to disconnect a power supply after communication with a party of communication having said predetermined number is started, and for maintaining said communication unless the input identification number matches a preregistered identification number.

8. A mobile communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for inhibiting change from said videophone mode to said speech communication mode after communication with a party of communication having said predetermined number is started.