US 2003/0147113 A1 · Communication apparatus having a light emitting unit that emits light in a variety of colors

Abstract

A communication apparatus of the present invention notifies a user that one of a plurality of events has occurred, and includes a first reception unit, a second reception unit, a detection unit, and a light emitting unit. The first reception unit receives from the user, for each time slot that composes a light emission pattern, designation of a light emission color or non-emission, as a light emission attribute of the time slot. The second reception unit receives a designation of an event to be corresponded with the light emission pattern. The detection unit detects that one of the plurality of events has occurred. The light emitting unit, when the detection unit detects that the event has occurred, emits light based on the light emission pattern designated in correspondence with the event.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A communication apparatus that notifies a user that one of a plurality of events has occurred, comprising:

a first reception unit operable to receive from the user, for each time slot that composes a light emission pattern, designation of a light emission color or non-emission, as a light emission attribute of the time slot;
a second reception unit operable to receive a designation of an event to be corresponded with the light emission pattern;
a detection unit operable to detect that one of the plurality of events has occurred;
and
a light emitting unit operable, when the detection unit detects that the event has occurred, to emit light based on the light emission pattern designated in correspondence with the event.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/329,606Filed 26 Dec 2002

Priority

JP 2001-39861827 Dec 2001

Published

7 Aug 2003

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04M 1/22
Constructional features of telephone sets: illumination; Arrangements for improving the visibility of characters on dials
H04M 1/724
Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection: user interfaces…
H04M 19/04
Providing ringing current or supervisory tones, e.g. dialling tone or busy tone: the ringing-current being generated at the substations
H01H 2219/039
Light emitting elements: selective or different modes of illumination

Communication apparatus having a light emitting unit that emits light in a variety of colors

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Communication apparatus having a light emitting unit that emits light in a variety of colors

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Abstract

Claims11