Mobile phone with music reproduction function, music data reproduction method by mobile phone with music reproduction function, and the program thereof

• US 7,869,580 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2005
• Issued: 01/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tagawa, Kenji, Hiraoka, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan; Joseph T
• Application Number:
  US11/166,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20050239446A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,024 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 455/412.1, 379/88.22
• US Class Current: 379/88.22
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/041 Encoding the ringing signal, i.e. providing distinctive or selective ringing capability

Abstract

A mobile phone 100 with music reproduction function comprising a reproduction unit 106 that reproduces music data and a ring tone which are recorded in a music data recording medium 105 and a ring tone, a communication unit 108 that detects an incoming call from outside and a control unit 103 that instructs the reproduction unit 106 to perform a fade-out process of reproducing music data and to perform a fade-in process of outputting a ring tone when the communication unit 108 detects an incoming call while the reproduction unit 106 is reproducing music data.

Claims

1. A mobile phone with a content reproduction function, said mobile phone comprising:

a reproduction unit operable to reproduce a content;

an incoming call detection unit operable to detect an incoming call from outside;

a ring tone outputting unit operable to output a ring tone;

a stop unit operable to instruct said reproduction unit to stop reproduction of the content after gradually reducing a volume of the content, and to instruct said ring tone outputting unit to output a ring tone while gradually increasing a volume of the ring tone, when said incoming call detection unit detects an incoming call while said reproduction unit is reproducing the content;

a resume method storage unit operable to store information indicating at least two reproduction resume methods for resuming reproduction of the content interrupted by the incoming call at different positions of the content; and

a control unit operable to select one of the at least two reproduction resume methods stored in said resume method storage unit, to specify a reproduction start position of the content based on the selected reproduction resume method, and to instruct said reproduction unit to reproduce the content from the specified reproduction start position, after reproduction is stopped by said reproduction unit in accordance with the instruction from said stop unit and a conversation finishes,

wherein the at least two reproduction resume methods include at least one of a method to reproduce the content from a beginning of the content which was being reproduced just before being stopped, a method to reproduce the content from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped, and a method to jump back to the content for a specified time from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped and to restart the reproduction of the content at the point.

2. The mobile phone according to claim 1,

wherein said resume method storage unit includes a resume position information storage unit operable to store per the content, resume position information indicating at least one break point of content, and

one of the at least two reproduction resume methods is a method to reproduce the content from the at least one break point indicated by the resume position information just before a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped.

3. The mobile phone according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reproduction resume method memory unit operable to memorize a reproduction resume method designated by a user,

wherein said control unit is operable to instruct said reproduction unit to reproduce the content based on the designated reproduction resume method.

4. The mobile phone according to claim 1, further comprising:

a measurement unit operable to measure a call duration,

wherein said control unit is operable to instruct said reproduction unit to reproduce the content from the beginning of the content which was being reproduced just before being stopped, when the call duration measured by said measurement unit exceeds a predetermined duration.

5. A content reproduction method of a mobile phone with a content reproduction function for storing information indicating at least two reproduction resume methods for resuming reproduction of a content interrupted by an incoming call at different positions of the content in a memory in advance, said content reproduction method comprising:

reproducing a content;

detecting an incoming call from outside;

outputting a ring tone;

temporarily stopping reproduction of the reproduced content after gradually reducing a volume of the content, and outputting a ring tone while gradually increasing a volume of the ring tone, when an incoming call is detected while the content is being reproduced; and

selecting one of the at least two reproduction resume methods for resuming reproduction of the content interrupted by the incoming call at different positions of the content stored in the memory, specifying a reproduction start position of the content based on the selected reproduction resume method, and resuming reproduction of the content from the specified reproduction start position, after reproduction is stopped and a conversation finishes,

wherein the at least two reproduction resume methods include at least one of a method to reproduce the content from a beginning of the content which was being reproduced just before being stopped, a method to reproduce the content from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped, and a method to jump back to the content for a specified time from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped and to restart the reproduction of the content at the point.

6. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having a computer program stored thereon for execution by a computer of a mobile phone with a content reproduction function for storing information indicating at least two reproduction resume methods for resuming reproduction of a content interrupted by an incoming call at different positions of the content in a memory in advance, said computer program comprising:

computer readable program code operable to reproduce a content;

computer readable program code operable to detect an incoming call from outside;

computer readable program code operable to output a ring tone;

computer readable program code operable to instruct said computer readable program code operable to reproduce a content to stop reproduction of the content after gradually reducing a volume of the content, and to instruct said computer readable program code operable to output a ring tone to output a ring tone while gradually increasing a volume of the ring tone, when said computer readable program code operable to detect an incoming call detects an incoming call while said computer readable program code operable to reproduce a content is reproducing the content; and

computer readable program code operable to select one of the at least two reproduction resume methods for resuming reproduction of the content interrupted by the incoming call at different positions of the content stored in the memory, to specify a reproduction start position of the content based on the selected reproduction resume method, and to resume reproduction of the content from the specified reproduction start position, after reproduction is stopped and a conversation finishes,

wherein the at least two reproduction resume methods include at least one of a method to reproduce the content from a beginning of the content which was being reproduced just before being stopped, a method to reproduce the content from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped, and a method to jump back to the content for a specified time from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped and to restart the reproduction of the content at the point.