PORTABLE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD

• US 20160211876A1
• Filed: 08/06/2014
• Published: 07/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: YAMAMOTO, Eiji
• Application Number:
  US14/912,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20160211876A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3838 Arrangements for reducing RF exposure to the user, e.g. by changing the shape of the transceiver while in use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/605 involving control of the receiver volume to provide a dual operational mode at close or far distance from the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion

Abstract

A portable terminal of the present invention includes an output limiting section (14) for limiting an electric wave intensity at a time when a wireless output section (16) outputs a wireless signal, in a case where (i) a proximity sensor (11) detects that the portable terminal is in proximity to an object, which proximity sensor (11) is provided on a surface of the portable terminal which surface comes in contact with or in closest proximity to the head of a user in cases where the portable terminal is in use and (ii) a grip sensor (12) detects that the portable terminal is held by a hand of a user, which grip sensor (12) is provided at a position different from a position where the proximity sensor (11) is provided.

Claims

1. A portable terminal comprising:

a wireless output section for outputting a wireless signal to an external device;

a first sensor which detects whether the portable terminal is in contact with or in proximity to an object, the first sensor being provided in a region of a surface of the portable terminal which surface comes in contact with or in closest proximity to a head of a user in cases where the portable terminal is in use;

a second sensor which detects whether the portable terminal is held by a hand of a user, the second sensor being provided at a position different from a position where the first sensor is provided; and

an output limiting section for limiting an electric wave intensity at a time when the wireless output section outputs the wireless signal, in a case where (i) the first sensor detects that the portable terminal is in contact with or in proximity to an object and (ii) the second sensor detects that the portable terminal is held by a hand of a user.

2. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the first sensor is provided in one region farther from a ground between two equal regions which are obtained by equally dividing the surface of the portable terminal into two regions by an axis parallel to a short side of the surface, the surface of the portable terminal coming in contact with or in closest proximity to a head of a user in cases where the portable terminal is in use.

3. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a speaker in another region of the surface which comes in contact with or in closest proximity to a head of a user in cases where the portable terminal is in use,

the first sensor being provided in the vicinity of the speaker on the portable terminal.

4. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the second sensor is provided on at least one of two surfaces of the portable terminal each of which two surfaces shares, with the surface, a long side of the surface which comes in contact with or in closest proximity to a head of a user in cases where the portable terminal is in use.

5. A method for controlling a portable terminal including a wireless output section for outputting a wireless signal to an external device, the method comprising the step of limiting an electric wave intensity at a time when the wireless output section outputs a wireless signal, in a case where (i) a first sensor detects that the portable terminal is in contact with or in proximity to an object and (ii) a second sensor detects that the portable terminal is held by a hand of a user,

the first sensor detecting whether the portable terminal is in contact with or in proximity to an object, and being provided in a region of a surface of the portable terminal which surface comes in contact with or in closest proximity to a head of a user in cases where the portable terminal is in use, and

the second sensor detecting whether the portable terminal is held by a hand of a user, and being provided at a position different from a position where the first sensor is provided.