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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2008
Hajime Yamashita, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuki Atsuta, Tokyo, JP;
Hajime Yamashita, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuki Atsuta, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a mobile phone device, and its channel search method and program capable of starting up a channel search without requiring a user to manipulate any channel search button, and of returning from out-of-service-range or waiting in the optimal channel. A mobile phone device includes an acceleration sensor that detects an amount of vibration exerted on the mobile phone device, and the control means compares an amount of vibration detected by the acceleration sensor with a predetermined first threshold, and when the amount of vibration is higher than or equal to the first threshold, starts electric field level measurement of a waiting channel or a call channel as a channel search.