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

• US 8,718,237 B2
• Filed: 12/03/2010
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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:
  US12/959,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20110077049A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,250 Days
• Field of Search: 379/70, 379/78, 379/88.13
• US Class Current: 379/78
• 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 music reproduction function, said mobile phone comprising:

a reproduction unit operable to reproduce music data;

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

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

a stop unit operable to instruct said reproduction unit to stop reproduction of the music data after gradually reducing a volume of the music data, and to instruct said ring tone output 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 music data;

a resume method storage unit operable to store information indicating at least two reproduction resume methods for resuming reproduction of the music data interrupted by the incoming call at different positions of the music data; 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 music data based on the selected reproduction resume method, and to instruct said reproduction unit to reproduce the music data 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 music data from a beginning of the music data which was being reproduced just before being stopped, a method to reproduce the music data from a point at which the reproduction of the music data was stopped, and a method to jump back to the music data for a specified time from a point at which the reproduction of the music data was stopped and to restart the reproduction of the music data at the point.

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

a storage unit operable to store a list in which a communicating partner registered beforehand is corresponded to incoming call processing information indicating per communicating partner whether or not to stop reproduction of music data when a call arrives during reproduction of music data,

wherein said control unit specifies a communicating partner who is a caller of an incoming call detected by the incoming call detection unit, and instructs, via said stop unit, said reproduction unit to stop reproduction of the music data after gradually reducing the volume of the music data when the incoming call processing information corresponding to a specified communicating partner indicates a stop of reproduction of music data.

3. The mobile phone according to claim 2,

wherein the list is a phone book list in which a phone number of a communicating partner registered beforehand is corresponded to the incoming call processing information, and

said control unit compares a caller'"'"'s phone number of an incoming call detected by the incoming call detection unit with the phone number stored in said storage unit, and if the phone numbers match with each other as a result of comparison, instructs, via said stop unit, said reproduction unit to stop reproduction of the music data after gradually reducing the volume of the music data when the incoming call processing information corresponding to the phone number indicates a stop of reproduction of music data.

4. The mobile phone according to claim 1,

wherein said control unit comprises an elapsed time counting unit that counts an elapsed time from a point of receiving a call, instructs, via said stop unit, said ring tone output unit to stop outputting the ring tone after gradually reducing the volume of the ring tone when a conversation does not start within a specified time elapsed after said incoming call detection unit detects an incoming call, and instructs said reproduction unit to resume reproduction of the music data by gradually increasing the volume of the music data.

5. The mobile phone according to claim 1,

wherein said control unit, via said stop unit, instructs said ring tone output unit to start gradually increasing the volume of the ring tone at the same time when said reproduction unit starts gradually reducing the volume of the music data.

6. The mobile phone according to claim 1,

wherein said control unit, via said stop unit, instructs said ring tone output unit to start gradually increasing the volume of the ring tone after said reproduction unit completes gradually reducing the volume of the music data.

7. The mobile phone according to claim 1,

wherein said control unit, via said stop unit, instructs said ring tone output unit to start gradually increasing the volume of the ring tone after said reproduction unit starts gradually reducing the volume of the music data.

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

reproducing music data;

detecting an incoming call from outside;

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

selecting one of the at least two reproduction resume methods for resuming reproduction of the music data interrupted by the incoming call at different positions of the music data stored in the memory, specifying a reproduction start position of the music data based on the selected reproduction resume method, and resuming reproduction of the music data 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 music data from a beginning of the music data which was being reproduced just before being stopped, a method to reproduce the music data from a point at which the reproduction of the music data was stopped, and a method to jump back to the music data for a specified time from a point at which the reproduction of the music data was stopped and to restart the reproduction of the music data at the point.

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

reproducing music data;

detecting an incoming call from outside;

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

selecting one of the at least two reproduction resume methods for resuming reproduction of the music data interrupted by the incoming call at different positions of the music data stored in the memory, specifying a reproduction start position of the music data based on the selected reproduction resume method, and resuming reproduction of the music data 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 music data from a beginning of the music data which was being reproduced just before being stopped, a method to reproduce the music data from a point at which the reproduction of the music data was stopped, and a method to jump back to the music data for a specified time from a point at which the reproduction of the music data was stopped and to restart the reproduction of the music data at the point.