Mobile terminal device and data transfer control program

• US 8,634,863 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2007
• Issued: 01/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Hasegawa, Motoyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Mahendra
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hua, Quan M
• Application Number:
  US12/374,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20100009667A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,395 Days
• Field of Search: 705/71, 455/414.1, 455/466, 455/418, 455/426.1, 345/158, 345/1.1, 345/159, 700/13, 700/56, 700/69, 370328-338
• US Class Current: 455/466
• 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 specific changes on a posture of an apparatus body, the specific changes comprising at least rotation of the apparatus body in yaw and pitch directions;

the postural change detecting means comprises a sampling means for sampling, after the data to be transferred are selected in the transferred data selecting process, angles by which a posture of an apparatus body is displaced from a reference position from outputs of acceleration sensors fixed in the apparatus body every predetermined period of time, the acceleration sensors comprising acceleration sensors for detecting rotations of the apparatus body in yaw and pitch directions;

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,

wherein the transfer of data comprises transmitting the selected data to a receiving mobile device via a radio channel; and

data transfer starting means for starting transfer of the data when the postural change detecting means detects any of the specific changes in a state where the data to be transferred are selected by the transferred data selecting means, the data transfer starting means further comprising notification sound outputting means for outputting sound of flowing water as a notification sound for notifying a predetermined data transfer state while the data are transferred,

wherein;

the postural change detecting means detects the specific change when the apparatus body is rotated on a plane in a range of angle while the display displays visual information regardless of the posture;

the range comprises a first posture that the apparatus body is rotated on the plane by 180 degrees from a second posture that a user operates the mobile terminal device with seeing the display, and information displayed on the display is out of sight of the user when the apparatus body has the first posture.

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 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.

7. 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.

8. A non-transitory medium storing a data transfer control program for causing a processor of a mobile device to execute:

a transferred data selecting process for selecting data to be transferred to a receiving mobile device via a radio channel;

a sampling process for sampling, after the data to be transferred are selected in the transferred data selecting process, angles by which a posture of an apparatus body is displaced from a reference position from outputs of acceleration sensors fixed in the apparatus body every predetermined period of time, the acceleration sensors comprising acceleration sensors for detecting rotations of the apparatus body in yaw and pitch directions;

a specific angle range continuously detecting process for detecting this when the angle in yaw direction enters a specific angle range in yaw direction more than once by the sampling process or when the angle in pitch direction enters a specific angle range in pitch direction 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 each of the angles 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 sound of flowing water as 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,

wherein;

the postural change detecting means detects the specific change when the apparatus body is rotated on a plane in a range of angle while the display displays visual information regardless of the posture;

the range comprises a first posture that the apparatus body is rotated on the plane by 180 degrees from a second posture that a user operates the mobile terminal device with seeing the display, and information displayed on the display is out of sight of the user when the apparatus body has the first posture.

9. The non-transitory medium as claimed in claim 8, 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.