Method for controlling mobile phone to output audio signals and alert sounds through external audio player

• US 20050143139A1
• Filed: 12/30/2004
• Published: 06/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hark-Sang, Park, Tae-Won, Suh, Byung-Hwan, Park, Seok-Hyo
• Application Number:
  US11/024,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20050143139A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/567
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface

Abstract

Disclosed is a method of controlling a mobile phone capable of processing incoming call signals, alert sounds and speech signals from a caller, comprising setting modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode for outputting audio signals and alert sounds to an external audio player equipped with a radio, modulating an audio signal or an alert sound generated during a mode implemented in the audio signal sending mode to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal or sound to the radio in the external audio player, and outputting an audio signal or an alert sound generated during a mode that is not implemented in the audio signal sending mode through a speaker of the mobile phone.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a mobile phone capable of processing incoming call signals, alert sounds and speech signals from a caller, comprising:

setting modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode for outputting audio signals and alert sounds to an external audio player equipped with a radio;

modulating an audio signal or an alert sound generated during a mode implemented in the audio signal sending mode to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal or sound to the radio in the external audio player; and

outputting an audio signal or an alert sound generated during a mode that is not implemented in the audio signal sending mode through a speaker of the mobile phone.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the modes set to be implemented in the audio signal sending mode include an MP3 mode, a hands-free mode, an incoming call informing mode and a navigation mode.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wireless signal is a frequency-modulated audio signal or alert sound.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wireless signal has a frequency which is not used in broadcasting among FM radio frequency bandwidths.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of setting modes includes:

selecting the audio signal sending mode by pressing a menu key and setting a frequency channel of a wireless signal;

selecting a mode to be implemented in the audio signal sending mode and detecting whether an end key is pressed; and

when the end key is pressed, storing the mode selected to be implemented in the audio signal sending mode and setting the mobile phone in the selected mode.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of setting modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode comprises:

reading out a selected MP3 file data to be reproduced;

decoding the MP3 file data;

converting a digital signal in the decoded MP3 file data into an analog audio signal; and

modulating the analog audio signal to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio of the external audio player.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of setting modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode comprises:

detecting an event such as an incoming call and converting an alert sound for the event into an analog signal; and

modulating the analog signal to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio of the external audio player.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of setting modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode comprises:

accessing a navigation service and receiving information;

converting an audio signal included in received voice information into an analog audio signal; and

modulating the analog audio signal to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio of the external audio player.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of setting modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode comprises:

modulating a speech signal from a caller or a recipient, during implementation of a hands-free mode in the audio signal sending mode, to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency; and

sending the modulated signal to the radio in the external audio player.

10. A method for controlling a mobile phone capable of processing incoming call signals, alert sounds and speech signals from a caller, comprising:

setting an MP3 mode, an incoming call informing mode, a navigation mode and a hands-free mode which are to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode for outputting audio signals and alert sounds to an external audio player equipped with a radio;

in the MP3 mode, modulating an audio signal in a reproduced MP3 file to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio in the external audio player;

in the incoming call information mode, modulating a ring or alert sound generated according to an incoming call signal to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated sound to the radio in the external audio player;

in the navigation mode, modulating an audio signal in voice information received through navigation services to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio in the external audio player; and

in the hands-free mode, modulating a speech signal from a caller or a recipient to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio in the external audio player.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the wireless signal has a frequency which is not used in broadcasting among FM radio frequency bandwidths.

12. A computer readable medium of instructions for controlling a mobile phone capable of processing incoming call signals, alert sounds and speech signals from a caller, comprising:

a first set of instructions, adapted to set modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode for outputting audio signals and alert sounds to an external audio player equipped with a radio;

a second set of instructions, adapted to modulate an audio signal or an alert sound generated during a mode implemented in the audio signal sending mode to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal or sound to the radio in the external audio player; and

a third set of instructions, adapted to output an audio signal or an alert sound generated during a mode that is not implemented in the audio signal sending mode through a speaker of the mobile phone.

13. The computer readable medium of instructions as claimed in claim 12, wherein said modes set to be implemented in the audio signal sending mode include an MP3 mode, a hands-free mode, an incoming call informing mode and a navigation mode.

14. The computer readable medium of instructions as claimed in claim 12, wherein said wireless signal is a frequency-modulated audio signal or alert sound.

15. The computer readable medium of instructions as claimed in claim 12, wherein said wireless signal has a frequency which is not used in broadcasting among FM radio frequency bandwidths.

16. The computer readable medium of instructions as claimed in claim 12, wherein the first set of instructions adapted to set modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode includes:

a fourth set of instructions adapted to select the audio signal sending mode by pressing a menu key and setting a frequency channel of a wireless signal;

a fifth set of instructions adapted to select a mode to be implemented in the audio signal sending mode and detecting whether an end key is pressed; and

a sixth set of instructions adapted to, when the end key is pressed, store the mode selected to be implemented in the audio signal sending mode and setting the mobile phone in the selected mode.

17. The computer readable medium of instructions as claimed in claim 12, wherein the first set of instructions adapted to set modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode comprises:

a seventh set of instructions adapted to read out a selected MP3 file data to be reproduced;

an eighth set of instructions adapted to decode the MP3 file data;

a ninth set of instructions adapted to convert a digital signal in the decoded MP3 file data into an analog audio signal; and

a tenth set of instructions adapted to modulate the analog audio signal to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio of the external audio player.

18. The computer readable medium of instructions as claimed in claim 12, wherein the first set of instructions, adapted to set modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode comprises:

an eleventh set of instructions adapted to detect an event such as an incoming call and converting an alert sound for the event into an analog signal; and

a twelfth set of instructions adapted to modulate the analog signal to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio of the external audio player.

19. The computer readable medium of instructions as claimed in claim 12, wherein the first set of instructions, adapted to set modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode comprises:

a thirteenth set of instructions adapted to access a navigation service and receiving information;

a fourteenth set of instructions adapted to convert an audio signal included in received voice information into an analog audio signal; and

a fifteenth set of instructions adapted to modulate the analog audio signal to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio of the external audio player.

20. The computer readable medium of instructions as claimed in claim 12, wherein the first set of instructions, adapted to set modes to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode comprises:

a sixteenth set of instructions adapted to modulate a speech signal from a caller or a recipient, during implementation of a hands-free mode in the audio signal sending mode, to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency; and

a seventeenth set of instructions adapted to send the modulated signal to the radio in the external audio player.

21. A computer readable medium of instructions for controlling a mobile phone capable of processing incoming call signals, alert sounds and speech signals from a caller, comprising:

a first set of instructions adapted to set an MP3 mode, an incoming call informing mode, a navigation mode and a hands-free mode which are to be implemented in an audio signal sending mode for outputting audio signals and alert sounds to an external audio player equipped with a radio;

a second set of instructions adapted to, in the MP3 mode, modulate an audio signal in a reproduced MP3 file to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio in the external audio player;

a third set of instructions adapted to, in the incoming call information mode, modulating a ring or alert sound generated according to an incoming call signal to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated sound to the radio in the external audio player;

a fourth set of instructions adapted to, in the navigation mode, modulating an audio signal in voice information received through navigation services to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio in the external audio player; and

a fifth set of instructions adapted to, in the hands-free mode, modulating a speech signal from a caller or a recipient to a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency and sending the modulated signal to the radio in the external audio player.

22. The computer readable medium of instructions as claimed in claim 21, wherein said wireless signal has a frequency which is not used in broadcasting among FM radio frequency bandwidths.