Mobile phone with music reproduction function, music data reproduction method by mobile phone with music reproduction function, and the program thereof
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsKenji Tagawa, Takashi Hiraoka
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Abstract
A mobile phone 100 with music reproduction function comprising a reproduction unit 106 that reproduces music data and a ring tone which are recorded in a music data recording medium 105 and a ring tone, a communication unit 108 that detects an incoming call from outside and a control unit 103 that instructs the reproduction unit 106 to perform a fade-out process of reproducing music data and to perform a fade-in process of outputting a ring tone when the communication unit 108 detects an incoming call while the reproduction unit 106 is reproducing music data.
Claims6
A mobile phone with a content reproduction function, said mobile phone comprising:
- a reproduction unit operable to reproduce a content;
- an incoming call detection unit operable to detect an incoming call from outside;
- a ring tone outputting unit operable to output a ring tone;
- a stop unit operable to instruct said reproduction unit to stop reproduction of the content after fading out the content, and to instruct said ring tone outputting unit to output a ring tone while fading in the ring tone, when said incoming call detection unit detects an incoming call while said reproduction unit is reproducing the content;
- a resume method storage unit operable to store information indicating at least two reproduction resume methods;
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- a control unit operable to select one of the at least two reproduction resume methods stored in said resume method storage unit, to specify a reproduction start position of the content based on the selected reproduction resume method, and to instruct said reproduction unit to reproduce the content from the specified reproduction start position, after reproduction is stopped by said reproduction unit in accordance with the instruction from said stop unit and a conversation finishes,
- wherein the at least two reproduction resume methods include at least one of a method to reproduce the content from a beginning of the content which was being reproduced just before being stopped, a method to reproduce the content from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped, and a method to jump back to the content for a specified time from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped and to restart the reproduction of the content at the point.
A content reproduction method of a mobile phone with a content reproduction function for storing information indicating at least two reproduction resume methods in a memory in advance, said content reproduction method comprising:
- reproducing a content;
- detecting an incoming call from outside;
- outputting a ring tone;
- temporarily stopping reproduction of the reproduced content after fading out the content, and outputting a ring tone while fading in the ring tone, when an incoming call is detected while the content is being reproduced;
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- selecting one of the at least two reproduction resume methods stored in the memory, specifying a reproduction start position of the content based on the selected reproduction resume method, and resuming reproduction of the content from the specified reproduction start position, after reproduction is stopped and a conversation finishes,
- wherein the at least two reproduction resume methods include at least one of a method to reproduce the content from a beginning of the content which was being reproduced just before being stopped, a method to reproduce the content from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped, and a method to jump back to the content for a specified time from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped and to restart the reproduction of the content at the point.
A program embodied on a computer readable medium for execution by a computer of a mobile phone with a content reproduction function for storing information indicating at least two reproduction resume methods in a memory in advance, said program comprising:
- computer readable program code operable to reproduce a content;
- computer readable program code operable to detect an incoming call from outside;
- computer readable program code operable to output a ring tone;
- computer readable program code operable to instruct said computer readable program code operable to reproduce a content to stop reproduction of the content after fading out the content, and to instruct said computer readable program code operable to output a ring tone to output a ring tone while fading in the ring tone, when said computer readable program code operable to detect an incoming call detects an incoming call while said computer readable program code operable to reproduce a content is reproducing the content;
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- computer readable program code operable to select one of the at least two reproduction resume methods stored in the memory, to specify a reproduction start position of the content based on the selected reproduction resume method, and to resume reproduction of the content from the specified reproduction start position, after reproduction is stopped and a conversation finishes,
- wherein the at least two reproduction resume methods include at least one of a method to reproduce the content from a beginning of the content which was being reproduced just before being stopped, a method to reproduce the content from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped, and a method to jump back to the content for a specified time from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped and to restart the reproduction of the content at the point.
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