CELLULAR TELEPHONE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE APPARATUS

• US 20100130270A1
• Filed: 11/19/2009
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: NARUSE, Naoki
• Application Number:
  US12/621,670
• Publication Number:
  US 20100130270A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0256 wherein the modules are operable in the detached state, e.g. one module for the user interface and one module for the transceiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion

Abstract

To separate a part of a cellular telephone apparatus to use, while ensuring the convenience in various functions installed in the cellular telephone apparatus, in a cellular telephone apparatus where a sub-terminal constituting a part of the cellular telephone apparatus is separable from a main terminal constituting the apparatus body, provided are a state monitoring section that detects a state of the sub-terminal, a table holding section that holds a device table that defines devices driven in various functions of the cellular telephone apparatus corresponding to states of the sub-terminal, and a control section that determines devices driven in the sub-terminal and main terminal according to descriptions of the device table in response to the state of the sub-terminal detected in the state monitoring section.

Claims

1. A cellular telephone apparatus in which a first apparatus constituting a part of the cellular telephone apparatus is provided to be separable from a second apparatus constituting an apparatus body, comprising:

a detecting section that detects a state of the first apparatus;

a table holding section that holds a device table that defines devices driven in various functions of the cellular telephone apparatus corresponding to states of the first apparatus; and

a control section that determines devices driven in the first apparatus and the second apparatus according to descriptions of the device table in response to the state of the first apparatus detected in the detecting section.

2. The cellular telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the detecting section detects a change in the state of the first apparatus, the detecting section notifies the control section of the state of the first apparatus that has been changed, and the control section determines devices driven in the first apparatus and the second apparatus according to descriptions of the device table in response to the notified state of the first apparatus.

3. The cellular telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the control section detects a change in the state in the function operating in the cellular telephone apparatus, the control section inquires of the detecting section for the state of the first apparatus, and determines devices driven in the first apparatus and the second apparatus according to descriptions of the device table in response to the responded state of the first apparatus.

4. The cellular telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the control section is instructed to use a particular function that is inoperable in the current state of the first apparatus, the control section informs of the state of the first apparatus enabling the particular function to operate.

5. The cellular telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the device table defines a device driven in a function expected to be used when the state of the first apparatus is switched in a particular function of the cellular telephone apparatus.

6. The cellular telephone apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the device table defines a device driven to use a voice calling function only by the second apparatus when the first apparatus is switched to a separate state in the voice calling function in the cellular telephone apparatus.

7. The cellular telephone apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the device table defines a device driven to use an e-mail processing function only by the first apparatus when the first apparatus is switched to a separate state in the e-mail processing function in the cellular telephone apparatus.

8. The cellular telephone apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the device table defines a device driven to use a browser function only by the first apparatus when the first apparatus is switched to a separate state in the browser function in the cellular telephone apparatus.

9. The cellular telephone apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the device table defines a device driven to use a speech replay function only by the first apparatus when the first apparatus is switched to a separate state in the speech replay function in the cellular telephone apparatus.

10. A control method of a cellular telephone apparatus in which a first apparatus constituting a part of the cellular telephone apparatus is provided to be separable from a second apparatus constituting an apparatus body, and the cellular telephone apparatus holds a device table that defines devices driven in various functions of the cellular telephone apparatus corresponding to states of the first apparatus, comprising:

detecting a state of the first apparatus; and

determining devices driven in the first apparatus and the second apparatus according to descriptions of the device table in response to the state of the first apparatus that has been detected.

11. The control method of the cellular telephone apparatus according to claim 10, wherein when a change is detected in the state of the first apparatus, devices driven in the first apparatus and the second apparatus are determined according to the descriptions of the device table in response to the state of the first apparatus that has been changed.

12. The control method of the cellular telephone apparatus according to claim 10, wherein when a change is detected in a state of a function operating in the cellular telephone apparatus, devices driven in the first apparatus and the second apparatus are determined according to the descriptions of the device table in response to the state of the first apparatus at the time of detecting the change in the state.