A kind of modular unit of portable terminal device and methodTechnical field
The present invention relates to a kind of technology of each function portion of modularization portable terminal device, especially relate to minority and connect that pin (pin) connects each module and with in consume low amounts of power with prevent mobile display digital interface (MDDI) the mode combination of high-speed transferring data under the state of noise, thereby dwindle the portable terminal device size and improve the modular unit and the method for a kind of portable terminal device of function expansibility.
Background technology
Mobile communication portable terminal device (MS:MOBILE STATION) is a kind of most advanced and sophisticated radio communication device, it moves freely in the coverage (SERVICE AREA) of corresponding base station (RAN:RADIOACCESS NETWORK) formation of system that adds and register or mobile radio communication (NETWORK), supervision according to mobile station (MSC:MOBILE SWITCHING CENTER), control and switch (SWITCHING) via the communication path that is provided with is at any time Anywhere with the instant wireless connections of required the other side and communicate.
Above-mentioned portable terminal device MS is intended to mobile communication, and its actual time that is used in communication seldom, so portable terminal device often moves with carrier state, does not know when can communicate by letter.
For the utilance that improves portable terminal device as mentioned above or apply flexibly rate and application and convenience on the real life are provided when the utilance that various Additional Services, above-mentioned Additional Services improve portable terminal device is provided.
Additional Services that provided by mobile communication service business merchant exploitation and the Additional Services that provided by portable terminal device manufacturer exploitation are provided in above-mentioned Additional Services, for example, manufacturer exploitation and the Additional Services that provide have that camera, Bluetooth communication, WLAN (wireless local area network), radio reception, satellite TV receive, ripple TV reception on the ground, recreation, electronic calculator and calendar etc.; Mobile communication service business merchant exploitation and the Additional Services that provide have speech message, word message, image message, game on line, wireless Internet and addresser's affirmation etc., and above-mentioned Additional Services continue exploitation and adding function new, easy to use.
Along with above-mentioned various new Additional Services function development and interpolations, if use the function of above-mentioned new interpolation, then need the portable terminal device that more renews, but also exist equipment price to go up, original portable terminal device need be discarded, and causes the problems such as waste of resource.
Thereby when adding above-mentioned required most Additional Services to portable terminal device, change and making it expansion easily, it is littler to be necessary to develop whole size, the fault of generation portable terminal device still less.
Below, with reference to the mobile communication terminal structure of description of drawings according to prior art.
Fig. 1, Fig. 2 are additional for prior art is described, wherein, Fig. 1 is the illustrative view of functional configuration of common mobile communication system, and Fig. 2 is a kind of portable terminal device illustrative view of functional configuration of the prior art.
Common mobile communication system is described with reference to described Fig. 1, when portable terminal device MS10 moves freely in the coverage (SERVICE AREA) that base station RAN20 forms with the other side's wireless connections and communicate.
Described portable terminal device 10 is for the other side's wireless connections and carry out mobile communication, and mobile station MSC 30 analyzes the call connection request signals, via switching the communication path that (SWITCHING) is provided with, with the other side's wireless connections.
Described mobile station 30 is according to the call connection request signal analysis, when communication counterpart has added other mobile communication system or added wire net or during the specific website of internet (INTERNET) (SITE) etc., by control public network 50 the respective communication path has been set.
The mobile communication system that comprises described mobile station 30 provides various Additional Services to portable terminal device, and described Additional Services are handled by respective server 40, and described server 40 comprises database.
For example, when described portable terminal device 10 will connect Additional Services and is connected to specific website (site) on the internet by wireless Internet, utilize wireless Internet linkage function portion wireless request respective call additional on the portable terminal device to connect, described request inserts mobile station 30 by base station 20, whether the database identification of described mobile station 30 search servers 40 is for providing the registered portable terminal device of wireless the Internet service, if described affirmation result, be registered portable terminal device 10, then control public network 50 and connection Internet traffic path is set.
For portable terminal device is connected to wireless Internet, portable terminal device should have the corresponding function portion that handles the wireless Internet data and send the collection of letters, if there is not described function portion, then needs the portable terminal device that more renews.
Below, describe with reference to 2 pairs of a kind of portable terminal device functions formations of the prior art of accompanying drawing.
If power supply unit 50 is supplied working power first, the control part 20 of described mobile communication portable terminal device is in memory section 30 read operations (OPERATING) program and various application (APPLICATION) program, read and load (LOAD) corresponding data (DATA), thereby enter the operation holding state.
The control command that the respective keys analysis that described control part 20 has by input and output portion 40 is imported, if the control command of request mobile communication, request call is connected when controlling radio section 10 with base station RAN wireless connections.
Described base station RAN is sent to the calling connection access signal of wireless receiving mobile station MSC and by hand-off process communication path is set, display part, microphone and loud speaker etc. that described portable terminal device utilizes input and output portion to have carry out mobile communication with the other side of the communication path that is connected to described setting.
Described portable terminal device will utilize the control command of Additional Services to be transfused to if described control part is judged by input and output portion under the state that does not utilize its communication, then controls the corresponding Additional Services of additional function portion 60 utilizations.
Described additional function portion 60 is only limited to the function that utilization has in advance, for example, wants to utilize camera (CAMERA) Additional Services, just should have camera function, wants to utilize the MP3 Additional Services, just should have the MP3 function.
The Additional Services that described additional function portion 60 does not have can not utilize, and want to utilize new Additional Services, just should buy the portable terminal device of supporting corresponding function again with more expensive price.
Thereby when changing selection and utilizing Additional Services, therefore the new portable terminal device of the corresponding Additional Services that need provide support, exists economic loss big, need throw away the problem of the wasting of resources of original terminal.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to provide a kind of modular unit and method of portable terminal device, portable terminal device utilizes the MDDI interface to connect with the minority pin or a plurality of Additional Services function portion of disintegration modular form, thereby additional new easily service function and the size of dwindling portable terminal device are applied flexibly resource.
To achieve these goals, the invention provides a kind of modular unit of portable terminal device, comprising:
Select the control part of the module portion of the selected Additional Services function of utilization according to the control signal that inserts;
Be connected to described control part, with the MDDI portion of MDDI mode and Additional Services module data signal;
Be connected to described MDDI portion, have the module portion of a plurality of function portion that on portable terminal device, uses with modular form.
The modular unit of described portable terminal device also comprises:
According to the control of mobile communication portable terminal device control part, be connected and the wireless radio section of receiving signal of communication that send with base station radio;
Be connected to described control part, operation sequence, application program and data record are stored in the zone of coupling and the memory section of output;
Be connected to described control part, the input and output portion of input and output voice signal, letter signal and multi-media signal and input of control commands and dialing signal.
Described module portion comprises:
Be connected and according to control signal the MP3 module of record storage, outputting music file with matching status with mobile display digital interface MDDI portion;
Be connected with matching status with mobile display digital interface MDDI portion and according to control signal, the camera model of the signal of video signal of specifying subject is taken in output;
Be connected with matching status with mobile display digital interface MDDI portion and, receive the radio module of the radio signals of output selected channel according to control signal;
Be connected with matching status with mobile display digital interface MDDI portion and according to control signal, receive the output satellite and the DMB module of the selected channel signal of ripple television broadcasting on the ground.
MP3 module, camera model, radio module and the DMB module of described module portion include:
With described mobile display digital interface MDDI portion with pin connected mode connection portions;
Be connected to described connector portion, the matching part of mating the data-signal of two-way transmission in mobile display digital interface MDDI mode;
Be connected to the additional function portion that described matching part uses the Additional Services function of being mated.
Described mobile display digital interface MDDI portion is to sending the data that receive and carry out forward with low electric power low noise series system and reverse high speed coupling transmits between described control part and the module portion, and forms with the minority pin.
Described control part is according to the control command that inserts from described input and output portion, and the Additional Services of selected function in a plurality of functions of the module portion that utilization connects in the MDDI mode are controlled whole utilizations of portable terminal device and to be monitored and the service of utilization mobile communication.
In addition, the invention provides a kind of modular method of portable terminal device to achieve these goals, comprising:
When utilizing Additional Services by portable terminal device, the additional step of the Additional Services function that selection will be used;
When not being when having Additional Services function portion, selected functional module portion is combined in the module step of MDDI portion with bonding state in described additional step;
To activate in described module step selection and the module that has, and the service steps of utilization Additional Services.Described additional step comprises:
Described portable terminal device judges whether to select and to utilize the step of Additional Services under the state that does not utilize communication;
When utilizing Additional Services, the step of the Additional Services function that selection will be used.
Described module step comprises:
Judge that portable terminal device is whether in conjunction with the step with selected Additional Services function portion;
Not when having selected Additional Services function portion, this function portion is incorporated into the step of mobile display digital interface MDDI portion.
The present invention of structure adopts the connector pin number of connection few as mentioned above, the electric power that consumes is few, transmit the MDDI interface mode of signal with the state that cuts off noise, unloading Additional Services functional module is installed, thereby has the profile size of dwindling portable terminal device and can utilize the industry of new Additional Services to utilize effect immediately.
In addition, the present invention installs the Additional Services module of unloading portable terminal device by the MDDI interface, thereby has minimizing power consumption, cuts off noise, improves in the use of reliability of Additional Services effect easily.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 is the illustrative view of functional configuration of common mobile communication system;
Fig. 2 is a kind of portable terminal device illustrative view of functional configuration of the prior art;
Fig. 3 is the modular unit illustrative view of functional configuration of portable terminal device of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the signal condition schematic diagram of MDDI of the present invention portion;
Fig. 5 is each module detailed functions structural representation of module of the present invention portion;
Fig. 6 is the modular method flow chart of portable terminal device of the present invention.
The symbol description * * of * accompanying drawing major part
100: radio section 110: control part 120: memory section
130: 140:MDDI portion of input and output portion 150: module portion
151:MP 3 modules 152: camera model 153: radio module
154:DMB module 156: connector portion 157: matching part
158: additional function portion
Embodiment
Below, with reference to modular unit and the method for description of drawings according to portable terminal device of the present invention.
Fig. 3, Fig. 4, Fig. 5, Fig. 6 is the accompanying drawing additional for the present invention is described, Fig. 3 is the modular unit illustrative view of functional configuration of portable terminal device of the present invention, Fig. 4 is the signal condition schematic diagram of MDDI of the present invention portion, and Fig. 5 is each module detailed functions structural representation of module of the present invention portion, and Fig. 6 is the modular method flow chart of portable terminal device of the present invention.
With reference to the modular unit of above-mentioned accompanying drawing 3 explanations according to portable terminal device of the present invention, it comprises:
Radio section 100 is according to the control of mobile communication portable terminaldevice control part 110, with base station RAN wireless connections and the wireless receipts signal of communication that send;
Control part 110, themodule portion 150 that is connected to describedradio section 100 and selects to use selected Additional Services function according to the control command signal that inserts from input and output portion 130, promptly, according to the control command that inserts from input and output portion 130, the Additional Services of utilization selected function in a plurality of functions of the module portion that MDDI portion connects, control monitor the whole utilizations and the service of utilization mobile communication of portable terminal device;
Memory section 120 is connected to describedcontrol part 110, will operate zone and output that (OPERATION) program, application (APPLICATION) program and data record are stored in coupling;
Input and output portion 130 is connected to describedcontrol part 110, input and output voice signal, letter signal and multi-media signal and input of control commands and dialing signal;
MDDI portion 140, be connected to describedcontrol part 110 and carry out the data-signal transmission with MDDI mode and Additional Services module, that is, transmit the data that transmit reception betweencontrol part 110 and themodule portion 150 with low power consumption (LOW POWER CONSUMPTION), low noise (LOWNOISE) series connection (SERIAL) connected mode forward (FORWARD DIRECTION) and reverse (REVERSEDIRECTION) high speed coupling;
Module portion 150, be connected to describedMDDI portion 140, has a plurality of function portion that on portable terminal device, uses with module (MODULE) form, it comprises: (MATCHING) state is connected and according to control signal, record is stored, theMP3 module 151 of outputting music file (MUSIC FILE) to mate withMDDI portion 140; (MATCHING) state is connected and according to control signal, thecamera model 152 of the signal of video signal of specifying subject is taken in output to mate withMDDI portion 140; (MATCHING) state is connected and according to control signal, receive the radio module 153 of radio (RADIO) broadcasting (BROADCASTING) signal of output selected channel to mate withMDDI portion 140; (MATCHING) state is connected and according to control signal, receive DMB (the DMB:DIGITAL MEDIA BROADCASTING)module 154 of the selected channel signal of output satellite and ground ripple television broadcasting to mate withMDDI portion 140.
In addition, each function portion of described module portion comprises: with described MDDI portion's 140 pins (PIN) connection portions 156; Be connected to described connector portion 156, the matching part 157 of mating the data-signal of (MATCHING) two-way transmission in the MDDI mode; Be connected to the additional function portion 158 that described matching part 157 uses the Additional Services function of being mated.
Below, with reference to the portable terminal device modular unit of accompanying drawing detailed description according to structure as mentioned above of the present invention.
Described mobile communication portable terminal device be in moving whenever and wherever possible can both with the other side's wireless connections and communicating devices immediately, it is actual, and to be used in time of communication very short, and in any all contingent communication most of the time, be used to carry, therefore, utilance or utilization rate are low.
What add for the utilance that improves described portable terminal device or utilization rate is exactly Additional Services, described Additional Services need have function corresponding portion, add and renewal because new Additional Services constantly are developed, therefore want to utilize new Additional Services to be replaced with new portable terminal device to original portable terminal device.
As mentioned above, just should guarantee to have the new portable terminal device of corresponding function in order to utilize new Additional Services, and original portable terminal device must abandon, thus the many problems of consumption costs when having wasting of resources degree Datong District, and head it off is exactly technology of the present invention.
If working power is supplied to thecontrol part 110 of described mobile communication portable terminal device, when reading and loading (LOAD) operation sequence and various application program, reads loading (LOAD) corresponding data, thereby enter holding state frommemory section 120.
110 pairs of control commands that insert from input and output portion 130 of the control part of above-mentioned state are analyzed, if analysis result is the mobile communication order, then activate describedradio section 100 and input and output portion 130, by communication path and the other side's wireless connections that are provided with by the switching of mobile station MSC, and mobile the time in selected mode in voice signal, letter signal, the multi-media signal by described input and output portion 130 free communications.
Described portable terminal device is under the state that does not use communication, if utilize the control command of Additional Services by 130 inputs of described input and output portion, themodule portion 150 that describedcontrol part 110 connects by 140 search of MDDI portion, thus whether judge to connect hasMP3 module 151,camera model 152, radio module 153 or theDMB module 154 of carrying out selected function.
The module (MODULE) that described as requiredmodule portion 150 has comprising: theMP3 module 151 of utilizing storage of music file (MUSICFILE) record and outputting music signal; Take the subject of appointment and thecamera model 152 of output image signal; Receive and the satellite television (TV) of output allocated channel (CH) or DMB (the DMB:DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING)module 154 of ground ripple TV (TV) signal.
As shown in Figure 5, each module (MODULE) that describedmodule portion 150 has is connected toMDDI portion 140 by the connector portion 156 with minority connector pin (PIN), additional function portion 158 according to coupling carries out MP3 or camera or radio or DMB or the like function, and after handle in mobile display digital interface (MDDI:MOBILE DISPLAY DIGITAL INTER-FACE) mode matching part 157, output to described connector portion 156 from the signal of described additional function portion 158 outputs, thereby insert describedMDDI portion 140.
As shown in Figure 4, describedMDDI portion 140 will transmit from the signal forward coupling of describedcontrol part 110 outputs andaccess module portion 150, and will transmit from the signals reverse coupling of described module portion's 150 outputs andaccess control portion 110, and, working power is supplied to describedmodule portion 150 according to the control ofcontrol part 110.
DescribedMDDI portion 140 is that a kind of consumption electric power of proposing of QualCom (QUALCOMM) company is few, the interface mode that not influenced by noise when it transmits forward or backwards signal, transmits with series system, thereby reduce connection pin (PIN) number of connector, and dwindle the size and the volume of portable terminal device.
As mentioned above, judge themodule portion 150 that connects by describedMDDI portion 140 whencontrol part 110 and have the functional module that selected Additional Services are provided, when beingMP3 module 151,camera model 152, radio module 153 orDMB module 154, activating this module, and use selected Additional Services.
Describedmodule portion 150 form with the functional module of each separation on demand in conjunction with or the structure of decomposing, and the module of described combination or decomposition is according to selecting (OPTION) to be arranged on a circuit board or circuit board separately.
Thereby, the present invention of structure as mentioned above, though the Additional Services that exploitation makes new advances, because the module (MODULE) of this function connects in the MDDI mode, do not need the mobile communication terminal buying or more renew so have, can utilize the advantage of the Additional Services of being developed immediately yet.
Below, with reference to the modular method of accompanying drawing 6 explanations portable terminal device of the present invention, it comprises:
Additional step, when described mobile communication portable terminal device utilizes Additional Services, the Additional Services function that selection will be used, this step comprises: portable terminal device judges whether to select and to utilize the step (seeing step S100) of Additional Services under the state that does not utilize communication; When step S100 utilizes Additional Services, the step (seeing step S110) of the Additional Services function that selection will be used;
The module step, when not being when having Additional Services function portion at described additional step with bonding state, selected functional module portion is incorporated intoMDDI portion 140, and this step comprises: judge that portable terminal device is whether in conjunction with the step (seeing step S120) with selected Additional Services function portion; Not when having selected Additional Services function portion, this functional module portion is incorporated into the step (seeing step S130) ofMDDI portion 140 at step S120;
Service steps will activate in described module step selection and the module that has, and utilization Additional Services (seeing step S140).
Below, the modular method of the portable terminal device that present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying.
Described mobile communication portable terminal device judges whether to utilize Additional Services (seeing step S100) under the state that does not utilize communication, if judged result is when utilizing Additional Services in step S100, select the Additional Services function (seeing step S110) that will use.
Whether the portable terminaldevice control part 110judge module portions 150 of above-mentioned steps have the module (seeing step S120) of selected Additional Services function portion, if in described judgement, do not have this Additional Services module, selectedfunctional module portion 150 is incorporated into MDDI portion 140 (seeing step S130) with the MDDI interface mode, activates and be incorporated into this functional module (MODULE) ofMDDI portion 140 and use selected Additional Services (seeing step S140).
The invention described above on portable terminal device with the MDDI interface mode in conjunction with or decompose Additional Services module, the therefore advantage that possesses needed Additional Services easily and use.
Above specific embodiment only is used to illustrate the present invention, but not is used to limit the present invention.