Mobile radio terminal equipment

• US 20030013494A1
• Filed: 05/22/2002
• Published: 01/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Imura, Shigeru
• Application Number:
  US10/189,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20030013494A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/0076 in which the time in another time-zone or in another city can be displayed at will
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications

Abstract

Mobile radio terminal equipment such as a mobile phone with a clock function in which, if a time difference is detected, the time indication is automatically changed to enable the user to recognize the time difference easily. When a user of mobile radio terminal equipment moves to a place where there is a time difference from the basic time for him/her, the time difference is detected using the area code sent from a base station or the caller number from the other party'"'"'s terminal equipment. After that, the time display is automatically changed to the mode where both Home time (usual clock time) and Local time (time which reflects the time difference) are displayed simultaneously.

Claims

1. Mobile radio terminal equipment with a built-in clock for time indication, comprising:

basic time storage means for storing basic time information;

display means for displaying time;

recognition means for recognizing time information for the current location of the mobile radio terminal equipment;

recognized time storage means for storing the time information recognized by the recognition means;

detection means for comparing the time information stored by the basic time storage means with the time information stored by the recognized time storage means and detecting a time difference if any; and

control means for performing automatic control so as to display on the display means both the basic time information and the time information for the current location when a time difference is detected by the detection means.

2. The mobile radio terminal equipment as claimed in claim 1, further comprising receiving means for receiving information from a base station, wherein the time information received by the receiving means at given time intervals is used as the current location time information for the recognition means.

3. The mobile radio terminal equipment as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving means for receiving information from a base station; and

table storage means for storing a table of time differences by area code,

wherein, according to the area code received by the receiving means at given time intervals, the time difference which corresponds to the received area code is read out from the table stored in the table storage means, and

time information based on the time difference read out is used as the current location time information for the recognition means.

4. The mobile radio terminal equipment as claimed in claim 1, further comprising

receiving means for receiving information from a base station,

wherein time information received by the receiving means is used as the basic time information.

5. The mobile radio terminal equipment as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving means for receiving information from a base station; and

table storage means for storing a table of time differences by area code,

wherein, according to the area code received by the receiving means, the time difference which corresponds to the received area code is read out from the table stored in the table storage means, and

time information based on the time difference read out is used as the basic time information.

6. The mobile radio terminal equipment as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

table storage means for storing a table of time differences by area code,

wherein, according to the user residence area code stored in a subscriber card, the time difference which corresponds to the residence area code is read out from the table stored in the table storage means and the time information based on the time difference read out is used as the basic time information.