Mobile communication system and mobile terminal apparatus

• US 20070021099A1
• Filed: 07/18/2006
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sato, Tsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US11/487,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20070021099A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3805 with built-in auxiliary receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/72 of terrestrial networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/27 specially adapted for broadcast systems covered by groups H04H20/53 - H04H20/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/09 Arrangements for device control with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time; Arrangements for control of broadcast-related services
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/91 Mobile communication networks for accessing the Internet H04H60/85
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A mobile communication system according to the present invention implements a communication by radio with a station apparatus, and comprises; a mobile communication radio unit receiving an annunciation data, which contains an emergency broadcast notification data for announcing an emergency broadcast from a broadcast station and a receiving condition data needed for receiving the emergency broadcast from the broadcast station; a broadcast receiver for receiving a broadcast wave from the broadcast station; and a controller supplies a power source automatically to the broadcast receiver and also set up the receiving condition data to the broadcast receiver when the emergency broadcast notification data received by the mobile communication radio unit is effective.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system comprising a station apparatus and a mobile terminal apparatus, the mobile terminal apparatus including a mobile communication radio unit for communicating by radio with the station apparatus and a broadcast receiver for receiving a broadcast wave transmitted from a broadcast station, wherein

the station apparatus transmits by radio an annunciation data including an emergency broadcast notification data for announcing the presence of an emergency broadcast and a receiving condition data needed for receiving the emergency broadcast that are transmitted from the broadcast station to the mobile terminal apparatus, and

the mobile terminal apparatus gives a power supply to the broadcast receiver when the emergency broadcast notification data included in the annunciation data received at the mobile communication radio unit shows the presence of the emergency broadcast, and concurrently set up the receiving condition data included in the received annunciation data to the broadcast receiver. Thereby, the emergency broadcast is received at the broadcast receiver.

2. A mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the receiving condition data contains the channel number, the frequency, the mode showing transmission pattern at an interval of a carrier wave in OFDM format and the guard interval of the emergency broadcast.

3. A mobile terminal apparatus comprising:

a mobile communication radio unit for communicating by radio with a station apparatus which transmits by radio an annunciation data emitted from a broadcast station that includes an emergency broadcast notification data for announcing the presence of an emergency broadcast and a receiving condition data needed for receiving the emergency broadcast;

a broadcast receiver for receiving a broadcast wave transmitted from the broadcast station; and

a controller supplies a power source to the broadcast receiver when the emergency broadcast notification data included in the annunciation data received by the mobile communication radio unit shows the presence of the emergency broadcast, and concurrently set up the receiving condition data included in the received annunciation data to the broadcast receiver.

4. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the controller supplies the power source intermittently, to the broadcast receiver and judges the presence of the emergency broadcast through analyzing the broadcast wave received by the broadcast receiver when the mobile communication radio unit is impossible to communicate with the station apparatus, and then switch the broadcast receiver to the state capable of receiving the emergency broadcast when it is judged to be present.

5. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the controller terminates the intermittent power supply to the broadcast receiver when the communication between the mobile communication radio unit and the station apparatus is shifted from a disabled state to an enabled state.

6. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a sound emitter which is able to set up a sound deadening function is provided, wherein

the controller releases the setup when a sound deadening of the sound emitter is set at the reception of the emergency broadcast, and then performs the reception of the emergency broadcast through the broadcast receiving apparatus and a voice production of the broadcast content of the emergency broadcast through the sound emitter.

7. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the controller set the sound volume at a maximum level in the sound emitter when the reception of the emergency broadcast through the broadcast receiving apparatus and a voice production of the broadcast content of the emergency broadcast through the sound emitter are performed after a sound deadening setup of the sound emitter is released.

8. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a storage unit is provided for saving a broadcast content, wherein

the controller saves the received emergency broadcast in the storage unit.

9. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an alarm device for announcing the reception of the emergency broadcast to a user; and

an entry device for receiving an entry data produced by the user, wherein

the controller announces the reception of the emergency broadcast to the user through the alarm device when the emergency broadcast has been finished, and then terminates an operation of annunciation on the reception through the alarm device after confirmation entry is carried out to the entry device by the user who has confirmed a reception annunciation through the alarm device.

10. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the alarm device informs the user of the reception of the emergency broadcast by one or a combination of visual display, alarm sound, vibration, and light emission.

11. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 8 which has a foldable shape so as to open and shut freely, further comprising:

a detector for detecting the open and shut state of the mobile terminal apparatus; and

a player for playing back the emergency broadcast, wherein

the controller receives the emergency broadcast and saves it in the storage unit under a state where the detector detects the shutting of the mobile terminal apparatus, and then read out the emergency broadcast recorded in the storage unit and is made to play back the same with the player when the detector detects the opening of the mobile terminal apparatus.

12. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an alarm device for informing the user of the reception of the emergency broadcast, wherein

the controller informs the user of the reception of the emergency broadcast through the alarm device when the broadcast receiver receives the emergency broadcast.

13. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

the alarm device informs the user of the reception of the emergency broadcast by one or a combination of visual display, alarm sound, vibration, and light emission.

14. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a display device for displaying a content of the emergency broadcast, wherein

the controller displays the content of the emergency broadcast while keeping the current communication when the emergency broadcast is received during the communication of the mobile terminal apparatus with another mobile terminal apparatus.

15. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the emergency broadcast notification data contains an identifier that is able to identify the emergency broadcast individually, and

the controller memorizes the identifier included in the received emergency broadcast notification data and is not made a saving content of the current emergency broadcast in the storage unit when the identifier contained in the emergency broadcast notification data corresponding to the emergency broadcast received by the broadcast receiver is identical to the previously saved identifier.

16. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the emergency broadcast notification data contains an identifier that is able to identify the emergency broadcast individually, and

the controller memorizes the identifier included in the received emergency broadcast notification data and continues a terminated situation of the reception annunciation operation by the alarm device when the identifier contained in the emergency broadcast notification data corresponding to the emergency broadcast received by the broadcast receiver is identical to the previously saved identifier after the user implements an confirmation input to the entry device.

17. A mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an alarm device for informing the user of the reception of the emergency broadcast, wherein

the emergency broadcast notification data contains support data with respect to the position of the station apparatus, the location of a disaster or accident, and the near evacuation site and the public facilities, and

the controller informs the user of the support data contained in the emergency broadcast notification data corresponding to the emergency broadcast through the alarm device when the emergency broadcast is received.