Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080220824 | Terminal device and incoming e-mail/call notification method - An incoming mail notification unit notifies the user, of the terminal device, of the incoming e-mail when the incoming e-mail is received. A vibration number measurement unit measures the number of vibrations applied to the terminal device. A determination unit determines whether the user has switched from a walking state to a walking-stopped state based on the measured number of vibrations. The incoming mail notification unit re-notifies the user of the incoming e-mail when the determination unit determines that the user has switched from the walking state to the walking-stopped state. | 09-11-2008 |
20080220829 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, METHOD OF POWER SAVING CONTROL FOR MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A mobile terminal device having a display includes an image capturing unit capturing an image at a prescribed periodical timing; an image changing detector detecting an image change exceeding a prescribed extent between the image captured at a prescribed timing and one or more of images obtained at a previous timing; and a power saving controller controlling a power saving state of the display depending on whether an image change exceeding the prescribed extent is detected. | 09-11-2008 |
20080233929 | Information processing device for notifying a requested address information to another information processing devices - According to an aspect of an embodiment, an information processing device for communicating with another information processing devices, the information processing device comprises: a storage unit for storing a table containing address information which is either permitted or not permitted to notify the another information processing devices; a processor for performing a process of communicating with the another information processing devices comprising the steps of: determining whether address information requested from the another information processing device is rated as permitted in the table; and notifying the requested address information to the another information processing device when the requested address information is rated as permitted in the table. | 09-25-2008 |
20080233957 | Profile information synchronization system, profile information synchronization method, mobile terminal device and profile information synchronization server - Profile information of mobile terminal devices of users is synchronized by transmitting profile information of a user of a mobile terminal device along with a group identification information to a profile information synchronization server, registering by the server received profile information in correspondence with received group identification information, based upon the transmitting, extracting by the server one or more of the profile information managed based upon the received group identification information of the group to which the user of the terminal device belongs including new profile information that the terminal device has not recorded and transmitting the extracted profile information to the terminal device. The terminal device obtains the profile information of the group to which the user of the terminal device belongs including the new profile information that the terminal device itself has not recorded, from the server based upon the group identification information. | 09-25-2008 |
20080233972 | Wireless communication system - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a communication system comprisies: a) a mobile communication terminal; b) a first apparatus comprising: and a controller for controlling communication with the mobile communication terminal and for receiving a local information from the mobile communication terminal, c) a second apparatus comprising: a controller for transmitting a request for starting the direct communication with the mobile communication terminal when selected by the first apparatus, and d) an exchange comprising: a communication unit capable of communicating with the mobile communication terminal via the second apparatus, and a controller for starting communication with the mobile communication terminal via the selected second apparatus upon receiving the request from the selected second apparatus, wherein the storage unit stores information relating to the second apparatus, and the controller of the first apparatus selects the second apparatus to start the direct communication with the mobile communication terminal. | 09-25-2008 |
20090300728 | ELECTRONIC MAIL TERMINAL APPARATUS, MAIL SERVER, CHECK CODE REGISTERING METHOD, AND MAIL RECEPTION PERMITTING METHOD - An apparatus includes: an address book to store mail addresses; an address registration unit to register a mail address of electronic mail in the address book; a check code generation unit to generate a check code from the mail address; and a check code transmission unit to transmit a mail reception permission notification including the check code generated from the mail address to a registration unit. | 12-03-2009 |
20100003957 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SAFETY CONFIRMATION METHOD - A device having a first configuration includes an input unit configured to accept an input made by a user, and a transmitting unit configured to add a safety confirmation number accepted by the input unit to a first call control signal and to transmit the first call control signal with the safety confirmation number. A device having a second configuration includes a storing unit configured to store a safety confirmation text and a safety confirmation number by associating the safety confirmation text with the safety confirmation number, and a display unit configured to display the safety confirmation text that is stored in the storing unit correspondingly to the safety confirmation number added to a received first call control signal. | 01-07-2010 |
20100041437 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus for communicating with another apparatus via a network, includes: a storage unit for storing identification information of a plurality of networks and areas where the networks are deployed, respectively, and information of time periods while communication over the networks is permissible for the communication apparatus, respectively; a processor to control communication with the another apparatus in accordance with a process including: selecting one of the networks which is currently connectable and available to communicate with the another apparatus on the basis of the identification information of the networks and the areas; determining whether the present time is within one of the time periods; and either inhibiting communication with the another apparatus via the selected network when the present time is not within the period of time, or allowing communication with the another apparatus via the selected network when the present time is within the period of time. | 02-18-2010 |
20100069050 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE METHOD BETWEEN MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICES - An information exchange system includes a first mobile terminal device having publication notification request unit to request a publication notification, and information notification unit to transmit, upon receiving a publication request, the particular information to a mobile terminal device that sent the request; a second mobile terminal device having publication notification unit to send a publication notification to a mobile terminal device registered in a registration information storing unit; and a third mobile terminal device having information obtaining unit to send a publication request for the particular information to the first mobile terminal device to obtain the specific information from the first mobile terminal device. | 03-18-2010 |
20100085904 | POWER CONTROL SYSTEM IN RADIO COMMUNICATION - A power control system for controlling power consumption of a mobile station used in a radio communication system. The power control system includes a prediction unit and an operation mode setting unit. The prediction unit is configured to predict an outside-communication-area-time taken for the mobile station to pass through a zone in which an intensity of a received radio wave from a base station detected in the mobile station is smaller than a specified value, on a basis of cell information indicating a location of the base station and a communication area, and movement history information indicating movement history of the mobile station. The operation mode setting unit is configured to set the mobile station to a low power consumption mode during the outside-communication-area-time obtained by the prediction unit. | 04-08-2010 |
20100093348 | PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE INITIALIZING METHOD - To provide an initialization method that enables a portable terminal device to be initialized with a remote operation even if an insertable/removable user information storing unit is replaced with one possessed by a third party in the portable terminal device that performs an incoming/outgoing operation on the basis of identification information registered to the user information storing unit, a communication system includes a portable terminal device that obtains first identification information and second identification information from a user information history storing unit and notifies a switch of the obtained information, and a switch that searches for the second identification information in an initialization target storing unit, and instructs the portable terminal device into which the user information storing unit to which the first identification information is registered is inserted to initialize data upon detection of the second identification information. | 04-15-2010 |
20100208123 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS - A photographing device to photograph an object includes a displaying unit to display an image acquired from the object, an image recording unit to record the image, an enlarged image generating unit to extract a portion or whole of the image displayed on the displaying unit to generate an enlarged image from the image, and a display control unit to display the enlarged image instead of the image on the displaying unit or in an overlapped manner with the image before capturing the image into the image recording unit. | 08-19-2010 |
20100235455 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives messages, and a control unit that sends an editing message indicating that a reply message responding to a received message received by the receiving unit is being edited, to a sending source of the received message. | 09-16-2010 |
20100289764 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic device including a display unit which displays a first selection image which is selectable by touching a screen with an object and a display control unit which controls display of a second selection image corresponding to the first selection image displayed within a prescribed range based on a position in which the object touches in the screen. | 11-18-2010 |
20100291873 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND TRIPARTITE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication terminal device includes a terminal body which enables a communication with a radio communication network by a first radio communication, a separating member which may be separated from the terminal body and enables a communication with the terminal body by a second radio communication, a tripartite communication unit which enables a tripartite communication among the terminal body, the separating member, and the radio communication network when the separating member and the terminal body are separated, and a control unit which controls howling between the terminal body and the separating member when the separating member and the terminal body are close during the tripartite communication. | 11-18-2010 |
20100323721 | SHARED PHONE, MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREIN PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING SHARED PHONE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SHARED PHONE - The present invention provides a shared phone, a medium having recorded therein a program for controlling the shared phone, and a method for controlling the shared phone, which can make the shared use by a plurality of users easy. The shared phone switches phone numbers depending on users, and includes a user information storage unit that stores user information including phone numbers for each user, a public line communication unit that performs public line communication, and registers phone numbers stored in the user information storage unit to a public line, and detects an incoming call to a registered phone number, a display unit that, in case an incoming call is detected by the public line communication unit, displays user information corresponding to the incoming call from among user information stored by the user information storage unit, and an operation unit that accepts instruction for public line communication from a user, and sends the instruction to the public line communication unit. | 12-23-2010 |
20110013813 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING AUTHENTICATION FUNCTION AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An electronic device includes a sensor for acquiring data which is input while a relative position of the living body with respect to the sensor is changed, a first authentication portion for obtaining a first detection pattern based on a group of data acquired by the sensor during a period from the start of the acquisition of the data to detection of a stopped state of the change, and for executing a first authentication process by using the first detection pattern, and a second authentication portion for obtaining a second detection pattern different from the first detection pattern, based on a group of data acquired by the sensor during a period from the start of the acquisition of the data to the end of the acquisition of the data after the detection of the stopped state, and for executing a second authentication process by using the second detection pattern. | 01-20-2011 |
20110117920 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile terminal used in a wireless communication system including a first wireless base station where a handover is not allowed between the same type of wireless base stations and a second wireless base station where a handover is allowed between the same type of wireless base stations, the mobile terminal includes a handover executing unit which executes first handover processing that switches a communication destination of the mobile terminal from the first wireless base station to the second wireless base station while communicating with the first wireless base station and a disconnecting unit which disconnects communication between the mobile terminal and the second wireless base station when the communication destination of the mobile terminal has not returned from the second wireless base station to the first wireless base station within a predetermined time. | 05-19-2011 |
20110153758 | INFORMATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information terminal includes: a first controlling unit which controls a displaying unit to display a received mail icon indicating a received mail; a second controlling unit which controls the displaying unit to display a return mail icon indicating a return mail to the received mail; and a transmitting unit which transmits, when an operation of selecting a display area at which the return mail icon is displayed is performed, the return mail indicated by the return mail icon on which the operation is performed, to a source of the received mail indicated by the received mail icon. | 06-23-2011 |
20110162088 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING FUNCTION - A communication terminal apparatus for communicating data is disclosed, the communication terminal apparatus including a sending part configured to send, upon occurrence of an operation event, first identification data that identifies the communication terminal apparatus to another communication terminal apparatus which is in communication with the communication terminal apparatus; a receiving part configured to receive, from the another communication terminal apparatus, second identification data that identifies the another communication terminal apparatus; a memory part configured to store the first identification data upon occurrence of the operation event and the second identification data upon reception by the receiving part of the second identification data; and a controlling part configured to prevent an operation locally performed on the communication terminal apparatus from changing a setting of a function of the communication terminal apparatus while the second identification data is stored in the memory part. | 06-30-2011 |
20120108290 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR IMAGE MANAGEMENT AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A mobile electronic apparatus includes a storage unit which stores an image shot by an image shooting unit, a region information obtaining unit which obtains region information indicating in which one of a plurality of regions the mobile electronic apparatus is located, a move identifying unit which identifies whether the mobile electronic apparatus moved from a first region to a second region on the basis of the region information obtained by the region information obtaining unit and a connection unit which connects, upon the move identifying unit identifying that the mobile electronic apparatus moved from the first region to the second region, an image stored in the storage unit after the mobile electronic apparatus moved from another region to the first region with a region identifier of the first region. | 05-03-2012 |
20120166566 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, MAIL RECORDING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An electronic equipment sends a mail specifying destinations, confirms mail delivery to the destinations based on a delivery confirmation notification received for the mail with respect to the destinations, records in a first storage the sent mail whose delivery is being confirmed together with each destination for which the delivery is being confirmed, records in a second storage the mail whose delivery is confirmed together with each destination for which the delivery is confirmed, and copies the mail from the first to the second storage when the notification is first received and moves each destination for which the notification is received to the second storage. | 06-28-2012 |
20120235933 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A mobile terminal includes a display unit displaying a display image generated based on a acquired content; a touched divided region detector detecting a touched divided region from among divided regions formed by virtually dividing a screen of the display unit; a storage storing a table in which the divided region is associated with an area having a display image to be preferentially generated among display images generated based on the content; an image processor, when the screen of the display unit is touched, referring to the table, specifying an area corresponding to the divided region detected by the touched divided region detector, and generating the display image corresponding to the area specified in the content; and a display controller displaying the display image generated by the image processor on the display unit in accordance with displacement of a touched position. | 09-20-2012 |
20130097266 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS IMPLEMENTING EDITING MESSAGE - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives messages, and a control unit that sends an editing message indicating that a reply message responding to a received message received by the receiving unit is being edited, to a sending source of the received message. | 04-18-2013 |