Cellular phone

• US 20090042543A1
• Filed: 05/18/2006
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagata, Keisuke, Koshijima, Miwa
• Application Number:
  US11/919,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20090042543A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.200
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2230/021 Mobile ringtone, i.e. generation, transmission, conversion or downloading of ringing tones or other sounds for mobile telephony; Special musical data formats or protocols herefor mobile telephone transmission specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments G10H2240/251
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations

Abstract

A mobile phone 100 includes a display control unit 152, a setting unit 151, a pictogram detection unit 153, a ringtone determination unit 154, and a speaker driving unit 170. The display control unit 152 has a display unit 110 display an image for receiving an operation of associating a predetermined pictogram code with sound data. The setting unit 151 receives an operation of an input unit 120 by a user, and stores received sound data and pictogram code into a storage unit 160. The pictogram detection unit 153 detects a pictogram code in mail received by a radio unit 140. The ringtone determination unit 154 determines sound data corresponding to the detected pictogram code. The speaker driving unit 170 has a speaker 180 output a sound based on the determined sound data.

Claims

1. A mobile phone that receives mail, comprising:

a storage unit operable to store one or more specific characters and sound data in correspondence with each other;

a detection unit operable to detect, when the mail is received, any specific character out of the one or more specific characters in the received mail; and

an output control unit operable to output a sound based on the sound data, if the detection unit detects the specific character.

2. The mobile phone of claim 1,

wherein the mail contains one or more types of specific characters,

the storage unit stores sound data corresponding to each type of specific character,

the detection unit detects the one or more types of specific characters from a beginning of the mail in sequence, and

the output control unit determines, as an output target, sound data corresponding to a type of specific character detected first by the detection unit, and outputs the sound based on the sound data determined as the output target.

3. The mobile phone of claim 1,

wherein the one or more specific characters are a plurality of types of specific characters,

the detection unit detects the plurality of types of specific characters in the mail and, for each type of specific character, counts a number of times the type of specific character is detected, and

the output control unit determines, as an output target, sound data corresponding to a type of specific character having a largest number of times counted by the detection unit, and outputs the sound based on the sound data determined as the output target.

4. The mobile phone of claim 1,

wherein the mail contains one or more types of specific characters,

the storage unit stores sound data corresponding to each type of specific character,

the detection unit detects the one or more types of specific characters from a beginning of the mail in sequence, and

the output control unit determines, as an output target, sound data corresponding to each type of specific character detected by the detection unit, and outputs the sound based on the sound data determined as the output target in an order of the detection by the detection unit.

5. The mobile phone of claim 1,

wherein the one or more specific characters are a plurality of types of specific characters,

the storage unit stores a plurality of groups into which the plurality of types of specific characters are sorted, and sound data corresponding to each of the plurality of groups, and

the output control unit determines, as an output target, sound data corresponding to a group to which the specific character detected by the detection unit belongs, and outputs the sound based on the sound data determined as the output target.

6. The mobile phone of claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit operable to display the specific character; and

a selection receiving unit operable to receive a selection of the sound data while the specific character is being displayed by the display unit,

wherein the storage unit stores the displayed specific character and the selected sound data in correspondence with each other.

7. The mobile phone of claim 1,

wherein the storage unit further stores an output time period in correspondence with the sound data, and

the output control unit outputs the sound based on the sound data for the output time period corresponding to the sound data, based on the sound data and the output time period stored in the storage unit.

8. The mobile phone of claim 1,

wherein the mail is composed of mail header data and mail body data,

the detection unit detects the specific character in the mail header data, when the mail header data is received, and

the output control unit determines, when the mail header data is received, the sound data corresponding to the detected specific character as an output target, and outputs the sound based on the sound data determined as the output target.

9. The mobile phone of claim 8,

wherein the detection unit further detects the specific character in the mail body data, when the mail body data is received, and

the output control unit further determines, when the mail body data is received, the sound data corresponding to the detected specific character as an output target, and outputs the sound based on the sound data determined as the output target.

10. A mobile phone that receives mail, comprising:

a storage unit operable to store one or more character combination patterns and sound data in correspondence with each other;

a detection unit operable to detect, when the mail is received, any character combination pattern out of the one or more character combination patterns in the received mail; and

an output control unit operable to output a sound based on the sound data, if the detection unit detects the character combination pattern.

11. A mobile phone that receives mail, comprising:

a storage unit operable to store one or more pieces of image data and sound data in correspondence with each other;

a detection unit operable to detect, when the mail is received, any piece of image data out of the one or more pieces of image data in the received mail; and

an output control unit operable to output a sound based on the sound data, if the detection unit detects the piece of image data.

12. A control program for causing a program executable device to execute a process of controlling an output of a sound corresponding to a specific character, comprising:

a storage step of storing one or more specific characters and sound data in correspondence with each other;

a detection step of detecting, when mail is received, any specific character out of the one or more specific characters in the received mail; and

an output control step of outputting a sound based on the sound data, if the detection step detects the specific character.