Patent ID: 7076052
Filing Date: 2006-07-11
Classification: G10H,H04M

Abstract:
1. A telephone terminal device having a music playback function for generating musical tone signals to notify a user of reception of an incoming call, comprising: a communicator; a storage for storing a plurality of music data representing a plurality of musical tunes, including common data, which are commonly used in different uses, and reproduction start position data, which differs from each other between an incoming call and other uses; a music reproduction device for reproducing the music data supplied thereto within the plurality of music data stored in the storage; and a music data supply device for selecting the music data including the common data and the reproduction start position data used for incoming call notification from among the plurality of music data stored in the storage so as to supply the selected music data to the music reproduction device, wherein when the reproduction is made with respect to the other uses besides the incoming call notification, the music data supply device selects the music data including all of the common data and the reproduction start position data not related to the incoming call notification from among the plurality of music data stored in the storage to supply the selected music data to the music reproduction device, and the music reproduction device reproduces musical tone signals for the incoming call notification by starting at a prescribed position of the music data while in the other uses, the reproduction is started from a top position of the music data.