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Patent US8050626 - Portable terminal and portable telephone - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsThe invention relates to a portable terminal such as a portable telephone terminal and so forth for effecting communication, information processing and so forth, and to provide the portable terminal and a master slave portable telephone system capable of rendering a transmission and/or reception mode...http://www.google.com/patents/US8050626?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8050626 - Portable terminal and portable telephoneAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS8050626 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 12/947,372Publication dateNov 1, 2011Filing dateNov 16, 2010Priority dateMar 28, 2003Fee statusPaidAlso published asUS7245873, US7920828, US20040192228, US20070178923, US20110065395Publication number12947372, 947372, US 8050626 B2, US 8050626B2, US-B2-8050626, US8050626 B2, US8050626B2InventorsTadayoshi Yamamoto, Takashi TaniiOriginal AssigneeFujitsu LimitedExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (25), Non-Patent Citations (1), Classifications (11), Legal Events (2) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetPortable terminal and portable telephone
US 8050626 B2Abstract
The invention relates to a portable terminal such as a portable telephone terminal and so forth for effecting communication, information processing and so forth, and to provide the portable terminal and a master slave portable telephone system capable of rendering a transmission and/or reception mode of information to be multi-functional to enhance communication function, thereby enhancing the convenience thereof. The portable terminal comprises an information transmission and/or reception part for effecting transmission and/or reception of information, a radio communication part for effecting communication by radio, and an information processing part for processing information. The portable terminal can effect transmission and/or reception of information relative to another portable terminal by any of a master terminal made up of the information transmission and/or reception part and the information processing part, a slave terminal made up of the information transmission and/or reception part and the radio communication part, and a normal terminal configured by combining the radio communication part with the information processing part via the information transmission and/or reception part.
an information transmission and/or reception part that effects transmission and/or reception of information;
an information processing part that processes said information;
a switching part that connects and disconnects connection among said radio communication part, said information processing part, and said information transmission and/or reception part,
a master terminal made up of said information transmission and/or reception part and said information processing part;
a slave terminal made up of said information transmission and/or reception part and said radio communication part; and
a normal terminal configured by combining said radio communication part with said information processing part via said information transmission and/or reception part,
wherein the switching part is configured such that said portable terminal can effect transmission and/or reception of said information relative to other portable terminals by selecting from one of the master terminal, the slave terminal and the normal terminal.
2. The portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein said portable terminal is a portable telephone. Description
A portable terminal corresponding to a conventional communication system is configured, for example, as shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 1 shows the summary of a portable terminal. A portable terminal 2 has a radio part 4 and a control part 6 as a basic configuration. The radio part 4 in the preceding stage is a part for effecting transmission and/or reception of an RF (Radio Frequency) signal while using radio wave serving as a transmission medium, and has an antenna 8, a transmission and/or reception switching part 10, an RF (Radio Frequency) reception part 12, an RF transmission part 14, and a base band part 16. The control part 6 in the subsequent stage has a processing part 18, a microphone 20, a speaker 22, a keyboard 24, a display part 26 and so forth. The processing part 18 has a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read-Only Memory), a RAM (Random-Access Memory) and so forth, which execute a keyboard control, a voice amplification, a display control, an application control and so forth.
A first object of the invention relates to a portable terminal such as a portable telephone terminal and so forth for effecting communication, information processing and so forth, and is to provide the portable terminal and a portable telephone capable of rendering a transmission and/or reception mode of information to be multi-functional to enhance communication function, thereby enhancing the convenience thereof.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a summary of a portable terminal corresponding to a conventional communication system;
A first embodiment of the invention is now described with reference to FIG. 2. FIG. 2 shows a portable terminal according to the first embodiment of the invention. A portable terminal 102 configures as an information processing terminal, for example, a portable telephone, and has a radio part 104 and a control part 106 as a basic configuration wherein the radio part 104 and the control part 106 are configured to function separately. The radio part 104 and control part 106 may be configured to have a function part which can function or can be used separately. For example, the radio part 104 is a function part needed for effecting long-range or short-range communication using a radio wave and so forth as transmission medium, for example, with a telephone using a public circuit and so forth, and the control part 106 is a function part for processing information to be transmitted or received, wherein the function part of the radio part 104 may be included in the control part 106. Accordingly, even if the radio part 4 and the control part 6 are independent functionally from each other according to the conventional portable terminal 2 in FIG. 1, they can merely integrally operate, whereas according to the portable terminal 102 of this embodiment, the radio part 104 and the control part 106 are configured to function separately. The configuration to function or to be used separately means that the radio part 104 and the control part 106 may operate at the same time and it does not mean that only one of the radio part 104 and control part 106 operates.
With the portable terminal 102 having such an arrangement, the radio part 104 is allowed to function in isolation while separating from the control part 106 in addition to the function as the normal terminal, and also effects transmission and/or reception of information between itself and other same type of portable terminals via the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception part 118 so as to transmit the information from the radio part 104 toward the base station. Further, the control part 106 is allowed to function in isolation while separating from the radio part 104, and can effect transmission and/or reception of information between itself and other same type of portable terminals via the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception part 128, and can transmit the information from the control part 106 toward the base station via the other portable terminals. Further, information received from another portable terminal can be also transmitted from the radio part 104 via the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception parts 118, 128. In such a manner, the portable terminal 102 can realize complex call and data communication associated with another portable terminal in addition to the function as a single normal terminal.
A second embodiment of the invention is now described with reference to FIG. 3. FIG. 3 shows a portable terminal according to the second embodiment of the invention. A portable terminal 102 of this embodiment is configured in that a control part 106M serves as a master terminal and a radio part 104S serves as a slave terminal, and these radio part 104S and the control part 106M configure a normal terminal. The other configurations of the second embodiment are the same as those of the first embodiment. That is, according to the second embodiment, the radio part 104S and the control part 106M are configured to function (separately) independently from each other, and the portable terminal 102 is electrically and functionally connected to another portable terminal via respective weak radio wave transmission and/or reception parts 118S, 128M, so that the portable terminal 102 can function as a normal terminal. With such a configuration, the control part 106M serving as the master terminal is connected to a radio part of other same kind of portable terminals to effect transmission and/or reception of information while the radio part 104S serving as the slave terminal connected to the control part of the same type other portable terminal to effect transmission and/or reception of information, thereby facilitating diversification of the communication mode.
A third embodiment of the invention is now described with reference to FIG. 4. FIG. 4 shows a master slave portable telephone system according to the third embodiment of the invention. The master slave portable telephone system is configured by use of two units of portable terminals 1021, 1022 serving as a plurality of portable terminals. According to this embodiment, the portable terminal 1021 is present at the master side and the portable terminal 1022 is present at the slave side, and the configurations of the portable terminals 1021, 1022 are basically the same as the portable terminal 102 shown in FIG. 2.
A fourth embodiment of the invention is next described with reference to FIG. 5. FIG. 5 shows a portable terminal according to the fourth embodiment of the invention. A portable terminal 102 is provided with a radio part 104 and a control part 106 as a basic configuration, and the radio part 104 and control part 106 are configured to function separately and independently from each other but according to the fourth embodiment, first, second and third switches 132, 134, 136 are installed as switching part together with a single weak radio wave transmission and/or reception part 130 which is used in common by the radio part 104 and the control part 106. The switch 132 is installed between a base band part 116 and the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception part 130, the switch 134 is installed while bridging over the switch 132 and the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception part 130 and the switch 136 is installed between the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception part 130 and a processing part 119. Accordingly, according to the portable terminal 102, a first communication mode is established by closing the switch 134 and the switch 136, and the base band part 116 and the processing part 119 are connected to each other via the switch 134 and the switch 136, thereby configuring a normal terminal.
A fifth embodiment of the invention is next described with reference to FIG. 8. FIG. 8 shows a master slave portable telephone system according to the fifth embodiment of the invention. According to the master slave portable telephone system, it is configured by portable terminals 1021, 1022 at a master side and a slave side each using the portable terminal 102 of the fourth embodiment, wherein the portable terminals 1021, 1022 are the same as the portable terminal 102 shown in FIG. 5.
A sixth embodiment of the invention is described next with reference to FIG. 9. FIG. 9 shows a portable terminal according to the sixth embodiment of the invention. A portable terminal 102 of this embodiment is provided with a radio part 104 and a control part 106 as a basic configuration and these radio part 104 and control part 106 are configured to function separately and independently from each other, wherein first and second weak radio wave transmission and/or reception parts 1181, 1182 as a plurality of weak radio wave transmission and/or reception parts are installed in an information transmission and/or reception part 1180 at the radio part 104 side, while first and second weak radio wave transmission and/or reception parts 1281, 1282 as a plurality of weak radio wave transmission and/or reception parts are installed in an information transmission and/or reception part 1280 at the control part 106 side. With the portable terminal 102 having such a configuration, either the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception part 1181 or 1182 is connected to either the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception part 1281 or 1282 through the weak radio wave, thereby configuring a normal portable terminal so that a call and transmission processing of information can be executed as the master terminal, the slave terminal or the normal terminal as set forth above.
A communication processing in the portable terminal 102 according to this embodiment is now described with reference to FIG. 12. FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a normal processing of the portable terminal.
A seventh embodiment of the invention is described next with reference to FIG. 13. FIG. 13 shows a master slave portable telephone system according to the seventh embodiment of the invention. According to the master slave portable telephone system, the portable terminal 102 of the sixth embodiment is used in the portable terminals 1021, 1022 at master and slave sides to configure the master slave portable telephone system, wherein the portable terminals 1021, 1022 are the same as the portable terminal 102 as illustrated in FIGS. 9, 10 and 11. In this case, the portable terminal 1022 serving as the slave terminal is a high-function terminal corresponding to, for example, a W-CDMA system, and is capable of effecting transmission and/or reception and processing of large capacity and high-function information such as image data and so forth.
The transmitted information is displayed on a large screen of a display part 126S at the portable terminal 1022 side, and it is stored in the RAM 150 (FIG. 11) constituting the large capacity memory of the processing part 119S (step S34), thereby using high-function terminal function. Upon termination of this processing, a signal representing a termination of the processing is generated in the processing part 119S (step S35). The termination signal is transmitted to the processing part 119M via the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception parts 1281S, 1282M, then the termination of the processing is notified (step S36). The termination of the processing is notified from the radio part 104M of the portable terminal 1021 serving as the master terminal to the opponent's terminal serving as another portable terminal (step S37). In this case, information such as data representing termination of the processing of the control part 106M is transmitted to the radio part 104M via the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception parts 1281M, 1181M (ascending operation (step S38). In the radio part 104M, modulation processing is executed at the base band part 116M (step S39), then the base band is subjected to RF amplification and so forth at the RF transmission part 114, then it is transmitted from the radio part 104M to the base station as a transmission radio wave, and it is notified to the opponent's terminal (step S40).
An eighth embodiment of the invention is described next with reference to FIG. 16. FIG. 16 shows a master slave portable telephone system according to the eighth embodiment of the invention.
A ninth embodiment of the invention is described next with reference to FIG. 18. FIG. 18 shows a master slave portable telephone system according to the ninth embodiment of the invention.
A call state is established utilizing a mobile communication telephone network between the portable terminals 1021,1022 (step S51). This call is effected as a normal terminal using a radio part 104 and a control part 106 of the portable terminal 1022. Calling is effected from the control part 106 of the portable terminal 1022 to the portable terminal 1023 while maintaining a call state, thereby establishing a communication state via respective weak radio wave transmission and/or reception parts 128 (step S52). Further, in this case, a connection state can be also established by effecting calling from the control part 106 of the portable terminal 1023 to the portable terminal 1022 via respective the weak radio wave transmission and/or reception parts 128 (step S53). If such connection states are established, the control part 106 of the portable terminal 1023 is rendered in a connection state with the portable terminal 1021 via the portable terminal 1022. In such connection states, long range communication utilizing a public circuit network between the portable terminals 1021, 1022, and the short range communication between the portable terminals 1022, 1023 can be effected at the same time, and also the communication comprising short range and long range communications is established at the portable terminal 1023 via the portable terminal 1022 (step S54). That is, the communication modes are as follows.
a the portable terminal 1021—the portable terminal 1022 b the portable terminal 1022—the portable terminal 1023 c the portable terminal 1021—the portable terminal 1022—the portable terminal 1023 An interphone function between the portable terminals 1022, 1023 are described next with reference to FIG. 20. FIG. 20 shows an example of the interphone function.
Tenth to Twelfth Embodiments
Examples of a concrete configuration of portable terminals according to the tenth to twelfth embodiments of the invention are described next with reference FIGS. 21 to 23. The portable terminal of the invention is applied to a portable telephone 180 (tenth embodiment) shown in FIG. 21, a laptop computer 182 shown in FIG. 22 (eleventh embodiment) and a PDA 184 shown in FIG. 23 (twelfth embodiment), and common components as those of the first to ninth embodiments are depicted by the common reference numerals and the explanation thereof is omitted. The portable telephone 180 is installed, for example, on a charger 186 as shown in FIG. 24 and is capable of charging a secondary cell 140. In this case, if the charger 186 is installed in a station part 174 (FIG. 16), and an external antenna 178 is installed in the station part 174, a stable communication state can be realized even in a weak electric region.
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