Portable telephone
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorIchiro Futohashi
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Abstract
A portable telephone produces either beep sound or melody sound as incoming call sound. The melody sound is produced based on music data, which are stored in advance or downloaded from the prescribed distribution center, wherein the music data represent the melody of a single musical tune in different arrangements that are respectively assigned to time zones in advance. Hence, the portable telephone produces the same melody in different arrangements in response to time zones, to which the time for receiving an incoming call belong.
Claims5
(Amended) In a portable telephone that includes a line connection establisher for establishing a line connection, an incoming call sound generator for generating incoming call sound based on music data, and a communicator for allowing a user to make communication by the line connection, said portable telephone comprising:
- a timer for counting a present time;
- a storage for storing in advance a plurality of music data representing a same melody in different arrangements in relation to prescribed time zones respectively;
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- a controller for selectively reading from the storage the music data corresponding to the time zone to which the present time belongs, so that the read music data are forwarded to the incoming call sound generator.
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A portable telephone that produces incoming call melody sound based on music data upon reception of an incoming call, comprising:
- a timer for counting a present time;
- a storage for storing the music data representing a melody of a single musical tune in different arrangements assigned in relation to time zones which are determined in advance;
- a readout control for automatically reading from the storage the music data of the prescribed arrangement assigned to the time zone to which the present time belongs;
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- a musical tone generator for generating musical tones of the melody of the single musical tune in the prescribed arrangement on the basis of the read music data..
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.