MOBILE PHONE

• US 20090011798A1
• Filed: 03/08/2007
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Yamada, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US12/281,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20090011798A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/021 using combined folding and rotation motions combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0241 using relative motion of the body parts to change the operational status of the telephone set, e.g. switching on/off, answering incoming call
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• 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 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4858 for modifying screen layout parameters, e.g. fonts, size of the windows
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

Herein disclosed is a mobile phone capable of receiving TV broadcasting, including a first housing having a display unit on a front face thereof and a sub-display unit on a back face thereof, and a second housing having an operation unit on a surface thereof, the first housing and the second housing being coupled via a biaxial hinge, and mobile phone can be off-hooked for starting the phone communication merely by detection of a change in housing form upon detection of an incoming call, from a TV viewing form in a portrait or landscape orientation in a folded state, a TV viewing form in the landscape orientation with the first housing being inclined by 90 degrees, a TV viewing form in a control information display mode, and a TV viewing form in the phone communication mode.

Claims

1. A mobile phone capable of receiving TV broadcasting, including a first housing having a display unit on a front face thereof and a sub-display unit on a back face thereof, and a second housing having an operation unit on a surface thereof and coupled to said first housing via a biaxial hinge, wherein a TV viewing mode can be switched to a phone communication mode merely by a single manipulation of a user, upon receipt of an incoming call in said TV viewing mode.

2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, comprising a housing form detection unit that detects a mutual coupling posture of said first housing and said second housing, to thereby detect said single manipulation of said user based on a change of said mutual coupling posture of said first housing and said second housing detected by said housing form detection unit.

3. The mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein said single manipulation of said user includes changing said mutual coupling posture of said first housing and said second housing, upon receipt of an incoming call while viewing TV in a TV viewing form in which a TV image is displayed on said display unit with said mobile phone being folded such that said display unit on said first housing is oriented forward, from said TV viewing form to a phone communication form in which said mobile phone is opened such that said display unit on said first housing is oriented forward and said operation unit is exposed on said surface of said second housing, to thereby off-hook thus enabling starting phone communication.

4. The mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein said single manipulation of said user includes changing said mutual coupling posture of said first housing and said second housing, upon receipt of an incoming call while viewing TV in a TV viewing form in which a TV image is displayed on said display unit with said first housing being inclined by 90 degrees with respect to said second housing, from a phone communication form in which said mobile phone is opened such that said display unit on said first housing is oriented forward and said operation unit is exposed on said surface of said second housing, from said TV viewing form to said phone communication form by rotating said first housing by 90 degrees with respect to said second housing, to thereby off-hook thus enabling starting phone communication.

5. The mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein said single manipulation of said user includes changing said mutual coupling posture of said first housing and said second housing, upon receipt of an incoming call while viewing TV in a TV viewing form in which a TV image is displayed on said sub-display unit, with said mobile phone being opened such that said sub-display unit on said first housing is oriented forward and said operation unit is exposed on said surface of said second housing thus assuming a control information display form, from said TV viewing form to said phone communication form by rotating said first housing by 180 degrees with respect to said second housing, to thereby off-hook thus enabling starting phone communication.

6. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said single manipulation of said user includes pressing a call receipt key provided on said operation unit, to thereby off-hook thus enabling starting phone communication, upon receipt of an incoming call while viewing TV, with a TV image being displayed on said display unit in a phone communication form in which said mobile phone is opened such that said display unit on said first housing is oriented forward and said operation unit is exposed on said surface of said second housing.

7. The mobile phone according to claim 1, said mobile phone being configured to accept connection of a headphone that outputs received sound and includes a microphone for inputting sound to be transmitted and a call receipt button that sets said mobile phone in a phone communication mode, comprising a detector that detects whether said headphone is connected, so as to allow, under a state that said headphone is detected to be connected, switching from said TV viewing mode to said phone communication mode only by a single manipulation of said user, upon receipt of an incoming call while viewing TV.

8. The mobile phone according to claim 7, wherein said single manipulation of said user includes pressing said call receipt button to thereby off-hook thus enabling starting phone communication, upon receipt of an incoming call while viewing TV displaying a TV image on said display unit with said mobile phone being folded such that said display unit on said first housing is oriented forward.

9. The mobile phone according to claim 7, wherein said single manipulation of said user includes pressing said call receipt button or a call receipt key provided on said operation unit, to thereby off-hook thus enabling starting phone communication, upon receipt of an incoming call while viewing TV displaying a TV image on said display unit with said first housing being inclined by 90 degrees with respect to said second housing, from a phone communication form in which said mobile phone is opened such that said display unit on said first housing is oriented forward and said operation unit is exposed on said surface of said second housing.

10. The mobile phone according to claim 7, wherein said single manipulation of said user includes pressing said call receipt button or a call receipt key provided on said operation unit, to thereby off-hook thus enabling starting phone communication, upon receipt of an incoming call while viewing TV displaying a TV image on said sub-display unit in a control information display form in which said mobile phone is opened such that said sub-display unit on said first housing is oriented forward and said operation unit is exposed on said surface of said second housing.

11. The mobile phone according to claim 7, wherein said single manipulation of said user includes pressing said call receipt button or a call receipt key provided on said operation unit, to thereby off-hook thus enabling starting phone communication, upon receipt of an incoming call while viewing TV displaying a TV image on said display unit in a phone communication form in which said mobile phone is opened such that said display unit on said first housing is oriented forward and said operation unit is exposed on said surface of said second housing.

12. The mobile phone according to claim 1, said mobile phone being configured to accept connection of a headphone that outputs received sound and includes a microphone for inputting sound to be transmitted and a call receipt button that sets said mobile phone in said phone communication mode, comprising a detector that detects whether said headphone is connected, so as to allow, under a state that said headphone is not detected to be connected, switching from said TV viewing mode to said phone communication mode only by a single manipulation of said user, upon receipt of an incoming call while viewing TV.