Mobile phone terminal

• US 8,996,058 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2012
• Issued: 03/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IP Wave Pte. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Shouji, Daisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Beamer, Temica M
• Application Number:
  US13/530,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20120289292A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566, 455/90.2, 455/556.1, 455/550.1
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724631 by limiting the access to the user interface, e.g. locking a touch-screen or a keypad
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Disclosed is an information communication terminal having a configuration in which it is possible to prevent a wrong operation of the information communication terminal due to an unconscious operation of an input equipment during operating an audio output equipment. That is, the information communication terminal includes a controller. The controller operates a detection sensor that detects an object approaching during operating the audio output equipment. And the controller controls a status of being input into the input equipment based on a detected result of the detection sensor.

Claims

1. An information communication terminal comprising:

a detection sensor that detects an object approaching;

an input equipment that receives information;

an audio output equipment that outputs audio and

a controller that starts to operate the detection sensor when the audio output equipment starts, and stops operating the detection sensor when the audio output equipment stops, and controls a status of being input into the input equipment based on a detected result of the detection sensor.

2. The information communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output equipment that outputs information,

wherein the controller controls a status of being output from the output equipment based on the detected result of the detection sensor.

5. The information communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller disables the information received from the input equipment while detecting the approaching object by the detection sensor.

6. The information communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the output equipment is a display equipment that displays an information.

7. The information communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the detection sensor outputs a wave and detects the approaching object by receiving a wave.

3. The information communication terminal according to clam 1, wherein the controller has a function that performs a telephone call mode utilizing the audio output equipment, and the controller operates the detection sensor in the telephone call mode.

4. The information communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein the controller operates the detection sensor during the telephone call mode and stops the detection sensor other than the telephone call mode.

8. A method of avoiding an unnecessary operation, the method comprising;

starting to operate a detection sensor detecting an object approaching when an audio output equipment, which outputs audio, starts;

stopping operating the detection sensor when the audio output equipment stops; and

controlling a status of being input an input equipment receiving information based on a detected result of the detection sensor.

9. A non-transitory storage medium storing a computer program to control a computer, the computer program comprising:

a program code to start to operate a detection sensor detecting an object approaching when an audio output equipment, which outputs audio, starts;

a program code to stop operating the detection sensor when the audio output equipment stops; and

a program code to control a status of being input into an input equipment receiving information based on a detected result of the detection sensor.