MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE AND DATA TRANSFER CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20100009667A1
• Filed: 07/02/2007
• Published: 01/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hasegawa, Motoyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,634,863 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/165 the additional display being small, e.g. for presenting status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors

Abstract

There are obtained a mobile terminal device and a data transfer control program that, even in the case where a plurality of data that become a target of transfer exist, can simply carry out an operation to select data to be transferred from them and to start transfer itself without a mistake. An acceleration sensor 118 fixedly provided in the device is activated at a state where the data to be transferred are displayed on a first liquid crystal display 104 and selected by an operation section 112. A control section 121 starts the transfer of the data using an infrared communication section 105 at the time when to become a posture of a specific angle range continuously more than once. Since a predetermined melody comes out from a speaker 110 during the transfer of the data, it is possible to know that the transfer is carried out.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal device comprising:

postural change detecting means for detecting a specific change on a posture of an apparatus body;

a display for displaying visual information;

transferred data candidate display means for displaying candidates of data to be transferred on the display;

transferred data selecting means for selecting data to be transferred from the candidates displayed by the transferred data candidate display means; and

data transfer starting means for starting transfer of the data when the postural change detecting means detects the specific change in a state where the data to be transferred are selected by the transferred data selecting means.

2. The mobile terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data transfer starting means includes notification sound outputting means for outputting a notification sound for notifying a predetermined data transfer state when the transfer of the data is started.

3. The mobile terminal device as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

data transfer termination detecting means for detecting termination of the transfer of the data,

wherein the notification sound outputting means outputs the notification sound until the data transfer termination detecting means detects the termination of the transfer of the data.

4. The mobile terminal device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the notification sound outputting means outputs a completion notification sound for notifying transfer completion of the data when the data transfer termination detecting means detects the termination of the transfer of the data.

5. The mobile terminal device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

transfer state data outputting means for outputting transfer state data for causing the display to display a state of the data transfer while the data transfer starting means carries out the transfer of the data.

6. The mobile terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the postural change detecting means detects the specific change when the posture is rotated by a specific angle or more from a predetermined home position.

7. The mobile terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the postural change detecting means detects a specific change when the posture is rotated in a range of a specific angle or more and not more than other specific angle from a predetermined home position.

8. The mobile terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the postural change detecting means includes:

change presence/absence determining means for determining presence or absence of the specific change with a plurality of intervals of time;

count means for increasing a count value whenever the change presence/absence determining means detects presence of the change and for resetting the count value at the time when absence of the change is detected; and

detection determining means for determining that the specific change is detected when the count means counts a positive value more than one.

9. A data transfer control program for causing a computer to execute:

a transferred data selecting process for selecting data to be transferred;

a sampling process for sampling, after the data to be transferred are selected in the transferred data selecting process, an angle by which a posture of an apparatus body is displaced from a reference position from an output of an acceleration sensor fixed in the apparatus body every predetermined period of time;

a specific angle range continuously detecting process for detecting this when the angle enters a specific angle range more than once by the sampling process;

a data transfer starting process for starting transfer of the data selected in the transferred data selecting process when it is detected that the angle continuously enters the specific angle range more than once in the specific angle range continuously detecting process; and

a notification sound outputting process for outputting a notification sound until the transfer of the data is terminated when the transfer of the data is started in the data transfer starting process, the notification sound indicating that the transfer of the data is being carried out.