Mobile Terminal Device And Control Method For Saving Electric Power Of Mobile Terminal Device

• US 20110009155A1
• Filed: 09/21/2010
• Published: 01/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: JUFUKU, Yoshiyuki, CHOUMARU, Takanori, SHIMOKAWA, Yoshinobu, SHIGAKI, Kouki
• Granted Patent: US 8,396,504 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0241 where no transmission is received, e.g. out of range of the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/028 switching on or off only a part of the equipment circuit blocks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mobile terminal device communicates with a base station in one of a power-saving state in which consumption of power supplied from a built-in power supply is suppressed and a normal state in which the consumption of power supplied from the built-in power supply is not suppressed. The mobile terminal device includes a base station detecting unit that detects a maximum-power received-wave base station of which a received-wave power is maximum, a base-station-change detecting unit that detects whether the maximum-power received-wave base station detected by the base station detecting unit is changed, and a power-saving-state transition control unit that controls transition to the power-saving state when the change of the maximum-power received-wave base station is not detected by the base-station-change detecting unit in a predetermined time in the normal state.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal device that communicates with a base station in one of a power-saving state in which consumption of power supplied from a built-in power supply is suppressed and a normal state in which the consumption of power supplied from the built-in power supply is not suppressed, the mobile terminal device comprising:

a base station detecting unit that detects a maximum-power received-wave base station of which a received-wave power is maximum;

a base-station-change detecting unit that detects whether the maximum-power received-wave base station detected by the base station detecting unit is changed; and

a power-saving-state transition control unit that controls transition to the power-saving state when the change of the maximum-power received-wave base station is not detected by the base-station-change detecting unit in a predetermined time in the normal state.

2. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a peripheral base station detecting unit that detects a peripheral base station of the maximum-power received-wave base station detected by the base station detecting unit;

a reception timing acquiring unit that acquires a reception timing of the received wave output from the maximum-power received-wave base station;

a reception environment estimating unit that estimates a reception environment of the received wave; and

a power-saving-state transition-information storing unit that stores the maximum-power received-wave base station detected by the base station detecting unit, the peripheral base station detected by the peripheral base station detecting unit, the reception timing of the received wave acquired by the reception timing acquiring unit, and the reception environment of the received wave estimated by the reception environment estimating unit, when the transition control to the power-saving state is performed by the power-saving-state transition control unit.

3. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising

a reception processing unit that receives and processes an electric wave output from the maximum-power received-wave base station;

a transmission processing unit that transmits and processes a transmission wave to be transmitted to the base station; and

a base-station-change control unit that changes, when the base-station-change detecting unit detects the change of the maximum-power received-wave base station from a first maximum-power received-wave base station to a second maximum-power received-wave base station, a base station performing wireless communication to the second maximum-power received-wave base station, wherein

the power-saving-state transition control unit stops feeding power to the base station detecting unit, the base-station-change control unit, and the reception environment estimating unit when moving to the power-saving state,

the reception processing unit receives and processes the received wave on the basis of the maximum-power received-wave base station, the peripheral base station, and the reception environment of the received wave that are stored in the power-saving-state transition-information storing unit, and

the transmission processing unit transmits the transmission wave to the base station on the basis of the reception timing of the received wave.

4. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising

a reception processing unit that receives and processes an electric wave output from the maximum-power received-wave base station;

a transmission processing unit that transmits and processes a transmission wave to be transmitted to the base station;

a signal-conversion processing unit that divides data to be transmitted to the maximum-power received-wave base station and converts the divided data into a radio signal; and

a base-station-change control unit that changes, when the base-station-change detecting unit detects the change of the maximum-power received-wave base station from a first maximum-power received-wave base station to a second maximum-power received-wave base station, a base station performing wireless communication to the second maximum-power received-wave base station, wherein

the signal-conversion processing unit generates an emergency-transmission-data signal and makes the power-saving-state transition-information storing unit store the emergency-transmission-data signal when moving to the power-saving state,

the power-saving-state transition control unit stops feeding power to the reception processing unit, the base station detecting unit, the base-station-change control unit, and the signal-conversion processing unit when moving to the power-saving state, and

the transmission processing unit transmits the emergency-transmission-data signal stored in the power-saving-state transition-information storing unit to the base station on the basis of the reception timing of the received wave.

5. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the power-saving-state transition control unit controls transition to the normal state when the base-station-change detecting unit detects the change of the maximum-power received-wave base station in a predetermined time in the power-saving state.

6. A control method for saving electric power of a mobile terminal device that communicates with a base station in one of a power-saving state in which consumption of power supplied from a built-in power supply is suppressed and a normal state in which the consumption of power supplied from the built-in power supply is not suppressed, the control method comprising:

detecting a maximum-power received-wave base station of which a received-wave power is maximal;

detecting whether the maximum-power received-wave base station detected at the base station detecting is changed; and

controlling transition to the power-saving state when the change of the maximum-power received-wave base station is not detected at the base-station-change detecting in a predetermined time in the normal state.

7. The control method according to claim 6, further comprising:

detecting a peripheral base station of the maximum-power received-wave base station detected at the base station detecting;

acquiring a reception timing of the received wave output from the maximum-power received-wave base station;

estimating a reception environment of the received wave; and

storing the maximum-power received-wave base station detected at the base station detecting, the peripheral base station detected at the peripheral base station detecting, the reception timing of the received wave acquired at the reception timing acquiring, and the reception environment of the received wave estimated at the reception environment estimating in a power-saving-state transition-information storage unit, when the transition control to the power-saving state is performed at the power-saving-state transition controlling.

8. The control method according to claim 7, further comprising

receiving and processing an electric wave output from the maximum-power received-wave base station;

transmitting and processing a transmission wave to be transmitted to the base station; and

changing, when the change of the maximum-power received-wave base station from a first maximum-power received-wave base station to a second maximum-power received-wave base station is detected at the base-station-change detecting, a base station performing wireless communication to the second maximum-power received-wave base station,

the power-saving-state transition controlling includes stopping feeding power to a base station detecting unit that performs the base station detecting, a base-station-change control unit that performs the base-station-change controlling, and a reception environment estimating unit that performs the reception environment estimating when moving to the power-saving state,

the reception processing includes receiving and processing the received wave on the basis of the maximum-power received-wave base station, the peripheral base station, and the reception environment of the received wave that are stored in the power-saving-state transition-information storing unit, and

the transmission processing includes transmitting the transmission wave to the base station on the basis of the reception timing of the received wave.

9. The control method according to claim 7, further comprising

receiving and processing an electric wave output from the maximum-power received-wave base station;

transmitting and processing a transmission wave to be transmitted to the base station;

dividing data to be transmitted to the maximum-power received-wave base station and converting the divided data into a radio signal; and

changing, when the change of the maximum-power received-wave base station from a first maximum-power received-wave base station to a second maximum-power received-wave base station is detected at the base-station-change detecting, a base station performing wireless communication to the second maximum-power received-wave base station, wherein

the signal-conversion processing includes generating an emergency-transmission-data signal and makes the power-saving-state transition-information storing unit store the emergency-transmission-data signal when moving to the power-saving state,

the power-saving-state transition controlling includes stopping feeding power to a reception processing unit that performs the reception processing, a base station detecting unit that performs the base station detecting, a base-station-change control unit that performs the base-station-change controlling, and a signal-conversion processing unit that performs the signal conversion processing when moving to the power-saving state, and

the transmission processing includes transmitting the emergency-transmission-data signal stored in the power-saving-state transition-information storing unit to the base station on the basis of the reception timing of the received wave.

10. The control method according to claim 6, wherein the power-saving-state transition controlling includes controlling transition to the normal state when the change of the maximum-power received-wave base station is detected in a given time in the power-saving state at the base-station-change detecting.