Mobile communication terminal and method for controlling operation thereof

• US 20060027656A1
• Filed: 08/02/2005
• Published: 02/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Aoike, Tooru
• Granted Patent: US 7,530,500 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/451
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations

Abstract

When anon-contact type IC of a mobile communication terminal is used, equipment or location is identified from equipment identification information, and a pre-specified melody, tone or music is sounded from a speaker as a confirmation sound, and thereby, a user can confirm whether communication is normally succeeded by a desired sound. Through communication between the non-contact type IC and an external non-contact type IC reader/writer, a CPU acquires equipment identification information about the non-contact type IC reader/writer. This equipment identification information is specific to the non-contact type IC reader/writer and enables identification of the installation location, type and the like of the non-contact type IC reader/writer. The CPU refers to a ROM with the use of the extracted equipment identification information; reads from the ROM confirmation voice signal data corresponding to equipment identification information identical to the received equipment identification information, among confirmation voice signal data associated with equipment identification information, which are set in the ROM in advance; and supplies the confirmation voice signal data to a speaker. Thereby, a confirmation sound with a tone corresponding to the equipment identification information is generated as a ring alert sound.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal having a function of performing wireless communication with a base station, the mobile communication terminal comprising:

a non-contact type IC for performing non-contact short-distance communication with a reader/writer;

storage means for storing in advance voice data mutually different according to identification information identifying the reader/writer;

reading means for, based on the identification information of the reader/writer obtained from a signal received by the non-contact type IC, reading voice data corresponding to the identification information from the storage means; and

sound generation means for generating a sound based on the voice data read by the reading means.

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

determination means for determining success or failure of communication based on whether the equipment identification information about the reader/writer is obtained from the signal received by the non-contact type IC; and

display means for displaying the result of the determination by the determination means.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein, when the voice data corresponding to the equipment identification information of the reader/writer is not stored in the storage means, the reading means reads second voice data which is stored in the storage means in advance to be used in the case of communication success, and causes the sound generation means to generate a sound based on the second voice data.

4. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein, when a received signal is not inputted from the non-contact type IC, the reading means reads third voice signal data which is stored in the storage means in advance to be used in the case of communication failure, and causes the sound generation means to generate a sound based on the third voice data.

5. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, the voice signal data are stored in the storage means with any one of parameters of a tone, melody, sound volume, discontinuous sound pattern and voice set therefor in a manner that the parameter is mutually different among the voice signal data.

6. A method for controlling the operation of a mobile communication terminal which includes wireless communication means for performing wireless communication with a base station and a non-contact type IC for performing non-contact short-distance communication with a reader/writer, the method comprising the steps of:

reading, from storage means in which voice data mutually different according to identification information identifying the reader writer are stored in advance, voice data corresponding to the identification information about the reader/writer obtained from the signal received by the non-contact type IC; and

causing sound generation means to generate a sound based on the voice data read by the reading means.

7. The operation control method according to claim 6, further comprising the steps of:

determining success or failure of communication based on whether the equipment identification information about the reader/writer is obtained from the signal received by the non-contact type IC; and

displaying the result of the determination by the determination step.

8. The operation control method according to claim 6, further comprising a step of, when the voice data corresponding to the equipment identification information about the reader/writer is not stored in the storage means, reading second voice data which is stored in the storage means in advance to be used in the case of communication success, and causing the sound generation means to generate a sound based on the second voice data.

9. The operation control method according to claim 6, further comprising a step of, when a received signal is not inputted from the non-contact type IC, reading third voice signal data which is stored in the storage means in advance to be used in the case of communication failure, and causing the sound generation means to generate a sound based on the third voice data.

10. The operation control method according to claim 6, wherein the voice signal data are stored in the storage means with any one of parameters of a tone, melody, sound volume, discontinuous sound pattern and voice set therefor in a manner that the parameter is mutually different among the voice signal data.

11. A program for causing a computer to perform the operation of a mobile communication terminal which includes wireless communication means for performing wireless communication with a base station and a non-contact type IC for performing non-contact short-distance communication with a reader/writer, the program comprising the processes of:

reading, from storage means in which voice data mutually different according to identification information identifying the reader/writer are stored in advance, voice data corresponding to the identification information about the reader/writer obtained from the signal received by the non-contact type IC; and

causing sound generation means to generate a sound based on the voice data read by the reading means.