Mobile device having broadcast receiving function and telephone communication function

• US 20060258396A1
• Filed: 03/11/2004
• Published: 11/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuoka, Ko
• Application Number:
  US10/549,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20060258396A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4852 for modifying audio parameters, e.g. switching between mono and stereo
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4858 for modifying screen layout parameters, e.g. fonts, size of the windows
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/60 for the sound signals

Abstract

A mobile apparatus comprising a broadcast receiving function for receiving a television broadcast and a telephone communication function for performing a telephone communication, wherein an audio output device comprising audio output units of two systems, the audio output device outputting a television audio and a telephone-received audio, and an audio processing circuit for outputting the television audio using one of the audio output units of the two systems and outputting the telephone-received audio using the other audio output unit when a telephone communication is performed while the television is continuously viewed/listened to, are provided.

Claims

1. A mobile apparatus comprising:

a broadcast receiving function for receiving a television broadcast; and

a telephone communication function for performing a telephone communication, wherein

an audio output device comprising a left-channel audio output unit and a right-channel audio output unit, and

an audio processing circuit for outputting a left-channel signal of a television audio to the left-channel audio output unit and outputting a right-channel signal of the television audio to the right-channel audio output unit when a telephone communication is not performed and the television is viewed and listened to, the audio processing circuit further generating a monaural television audio signal from the left-channel signal and the right-channel signal of the television audio, outputting a monaural television audio using one of the left-channel and right-channel audio output units and outputting a telephone-received audio using the other audio output unit in the case of performing the telephone communication at the time of viewing/listening to the television, are provided.

2. A mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

a setting means for setting which of the audio output units is used for outputting the television audio and the telephone-received audio in the case of performing the telephone communication at the time of viewing/listening to the television, is provided.

3. A mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

a sound volume ratio control means for controlling a ratio of sound volumes of the two audio output units in the case of performing the telephone communication at the time of viewing/listening to the television, is provided.

4. A mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein

a setting means used by a user for setting the sound volume ratio is provided.

5. A mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the sound volume ratio control means controls the sound volume ratio so that the sound volume of the telephone-received audio is higher than the sound volume of the television audio.

6. A mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

a display device for displaying a television image and a telephone-received image and a display control means for displaying both of the television image and the telephone-received image on the display device in the case of performing the telephone communication at the time of viewing/listening to the television, are provided.

7. A mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein

the display control means window-displays one of the television image and the telephone-received image in a displayed image of the other.

8. A mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein

the display control means divides a display screen into two regions and displays the television image in one of the divided display regions and the telephone-received image in the other region.

9. A mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein

a setting means used by the user for setting sizes and display positions of the television image and the telephone-received image displayed on the display device is provided.

10. A mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the audio output device is an earphone or a headphone.