Incoming call alerting method and mobile communication terminal using the same

• US 20050064913A1
• Filed: 08/13/2004
• Published: 03/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SK Teletech Company Limited
• Original Assignee: SK Teletech Company Limited
• Inventors: Kim, Byung-Jin
• Application Number:
  US10/917,623
• Publication Number:
  US 20050064913A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/567
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/041 Encoding the ringing signal, i.e. providing distinctive or selective ringing capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method for generating incoming call alerting signals depending on motion and a mobile communication terminal using the method. The mobile communication terminal includes a motion detection unit, a memory and a control unit. The motion detection unit outputs a value in proportion to motion of a mobile communication terminal. The memory stores a program that has an algorithm for adjusting a volume of a ring tone or an intensity of vibrations according to an output value of the motion detection unit, and data that is used to execute the program. The control unit performs a function of adjusting the volume of a ring tone or the intensity of vibrations in proportion to a degree of the motion of the mobile communication terminal represented by the output value of the motion detection unit.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a motion detection unit configured to detect and output a value in proportion to the motion of the mobile communication terminal;

a memory unit configured to store a program that has an algorithm for adjusting a call alerting signal according to the output value of the motion detection unit, and data that is used to execute the program; and

a control unit configured to adjust the call alerting signal in proportion to a degree of the motion of the mobile communication terminal represented by the output value of the motion detection unit.

2. The mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the motion detection unit is a gyro sensor.

3. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the call alerting signal is one of a ring tone and a vibration.

4. A call alerting method of a mobile communication terminal, comprising:

determining whether an instruction for a call alerting signal exists;

detecting at least one value in proportion to the motion of the mobile communication terminal from a motion detection unit if the instruction exists; and

adjusting the call alerting signal according to the at least one value from the detecting.

5. The method as set forth in claim 4, wherein the at least one value in proportion to the motion of the mobile communication terminal is an average of values output from the motion detection unit for a predetermined period of time.

6. The call alerting method of claim 4, wherein the call alerting signal is one of a ring tone and a vibration of the mobile communication terminal.

7. A call alerting method of a mobile communication terminal, comprising:

determining whether an instruction for a call alerting signal exists;

detecting at least one value in proportion to the motion of the mobile communication terminal from a motion detection unit if the instruction exists; and

selecting one of various types of ring tones according to the at least one value from the detecting.

8. The method as set forth in claim 7, wherein the at least one value in proportion to the motion of the mobile communication terminal is an average of values output from the motion detection unit for a predetermined period of time.

9. The call alerting method of claim 7, wherein the call alerting signal is one of a ring tone and a vibration of the mobile communication terminal.

10. A call alerting method of a mobile communication terminal, comprising:

determining whether an instruction for a call alert signal exists;

detecting at least one value in proportion to the motion of the mobile communication terminal from a motion detection unit if the instruction exists;

activating a timer if the motion indicated by the at least one value does not exists; and

switching the mobile communication terminal to a manner mode if it is determined from the activating that a predetermined period of time has elapsed.

11. The method as set forth in claim 10, further comprising:

reading a value from the motion detection unit while the mobile communication terminal is in the manner mode; and

canceling the manner mode if it is determined in the reading that there is a motion in the mobile communication terminal.

12. The method as set forth in claim 10, wherein the at least one value in proportion to the motion of the mobile communication terminal is an average of values output from the motion detection unit for a predetermined period of time.

13. A call alerting method of a mobile communication terminal, comprising:

determining whether an instruction for a call alerting signal exists;

detecting at least one value in proportion to the motion of the mobile communication terminal from a motion detection unit if the instruction exists; and

switching the mobile communication terminal to a manner mode if it is recognized in the detecting that the mobile communication terminal is laid horizontally.

14. The method as set forth in claim 13, further comprising:

reading a value from the motion detection unit if a motion of the mobile communication terminal exists in the manner mode; and

canceling the manner mode if it is determined in the reading that there is the motion exists in the manner mode.

15. The method as set forth in claim 13, wherein the at least one value in proportion to the motion of the mobile communication terminal is an average of values output from the motion detection unit for a predetermined period of time.

16. A call alerting method of a mobile communication terminal comprising:

detecting a motion of the mobile communication terminal; and

adjusting the call alerting method based on a predetermined value from the detecting.

17. The call alerting method of claim 16, wherein the adjusting is increasing or decreasing the volume of a ring tone of the mobile communication signal.

18. The call alerting method of claim 16, wherein the adjusting is in creasing or decreasing the intensity of a vibration degree of the mobile communication signal.