Drinking glass, toast dramatization system, drinking dramatization system, program, and recording medium

Abstract

A drinking glass (1) includes: a glass body (10) being a bottomed cylinder having a top opening (11); a storage part (20) extending from the side face or bottom part, toward the interior side, of the glass body and used for storing a mobile communication device (100); and a waveguide (30) extending from the side face, toward the interior side, of the glass body and used for letting the radio waves to/from the mobile communication device pass through. The radio waves from the mobile communication device can be taken out of the glass body through the waveguide. An individual can enjoy oneself together with not only others nearby, but also others in remote locations, through many different ways of dramatization such as playing sound and image from the mobile communication device.

1 . A drinking glass, characterized by comprising:
 a glass body being a bottomed cylinder having a top opening;   a storage part extending from a side face or bottom part, toward an interior side, of the glass body and used for storing a mobile communication device; and   a waveguide extending from a side face, toward an interior side, of the glass body and used for letting radio waves pass through to/from the mobile communication device;   wherein the waveguide is such that, by being surrounded by a drink, it manifests a waveguide function of letting radio waves pass through an interior thereof.   
     
     
         2 . The drinking glass according to  claim 1 , characterized in that it has, in at least a part of the glass body, a transparent part having transparency, wherein a display part of the mobile communication device when being stored in the storage part can be viewed through the side face of the glass body via the transparent part. 
     
     
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         4 . The drinking glass according to  claim 1 , characterized by having a spacer to be inserted in the storage part. 
     
     
         5 . The drinking glass according to  claim 1 , characterized in that the storage part and the waveguide are spatially connected. 
     
     
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         8 . The drinking glass according to  claim 1 , characterized by having a lid for closing off the top opening. 
     
     
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         11 . The drinking glass according to  claim 1 , characterized by having an acceleration sensor for measuring an acceleration at which the glass body moves. 
     
     
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         13 . The drinking glass according to  claim 1 , characterized by having a piezoelectric sensor on a side face of the glass body. 
     
     
         14 . The drinking glass according to  claim 1 , characterized in that:
 the mobile communication device comprises an image display part that displays images, a wireless communication part with an antenna, a voice output part that outputs voice, and a control part that controls driving thereof;   the waveguide extends from a side opening formed in the side face of the glass body to near the wireless communication part for letting the radio waves pass through to/from the mobile communication device;   a dielectric substance is filled in at least a part of an interior of the waveguide; and   a transparent part is provided for allowing images displayed on the image display part to be viewed from an exterior.   
     
     
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         16 . The drinking glass according to  claim 14 , characterized in that a shape of the side opening is a polygon, and a length of a longest side, among sides constituting the polygon, is longer than one-half a wavelength of the radio waves. 
     
     
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         23 . The drinking glass according to  claim 14 , characterized by having a GPS signal reception part for receiving GPS signals. 
     
     
         24 . The drinking glass according to  claim 14 , characterized by having a sensor for detecting a state of the glass body or a state of surroundings of the glass body;
 wherein the control part receives detection signals transmitted by the sensor and transmits output signals to an exterior via the wireless communication part.   
     
     
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         30 . The drinking glass according to  claim 14 , characterized in that it has strings around the side opening, and when the strings vibrate, generated sounds reverberate inside the waveguide and sound waves of the reverberating sounds propagate to an air and/or liquid inside the glass body via the waveguide, thereby generating reverberating sounds also from an interior of the glass body. 
     
     
         31 . The drinking glass according to  claim 30 , characterized by having a sound data analysis part for performing frequency spectrum analysis of sounds generated by the strings through vibrations. 
     
     
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         34 . A toast dramatization system comprising two or more drinking glasses according to  claim 1 , characterized in that sound and/or image will be played, when the drinking glasses contact each other, by the mobile communication devices stored in the drinking glasses that have made contact. 
     
     
         35 . The toast dramatization system according to  claim 34 , characterized in that, when the drinking glasses contact each other, a voice and/or image currently played by the mobile communication devices changes. 
     
     
         36 . The toast dramatization system according to  claim 34 , characterized in that, when the drinking glasses contact each other, the mobile communication devices vibrate. 
     
     
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         38 . The toast dramatization system according to  claim 34 , characterized in that, when the drinking glasses contact each other, a contact signal indicating contact is transmitted to an other drinking glass, via a communication line, from the drinking glasses that have made contact, so that a voice and/or image will also be played by the mobile communication device of the other drinking glass that has received the contact signal. 
     
     
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         45 . The toast dramatization system according to  claim 38 , characterized in that the contact signal is transmitted to a server via a communication line, and the server records a number of times a contact signal has been received, as a number of toasts. 
     
     
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         49 . A drinking dramatization system characterized by having the drinking glass according to  claim 24 ; wherein:
 an external computer, upon receiving the output signal, generates prescribed image data and transmits it to an external image display device; and the external image display device displays an image from the image data as image content.   
     
     
         50 . (canceled) 
     
     
         51 . The drinking dramatization system according to  claim 49 , characterized in that the image content relates to a character having at least eyes and a mouth, and a user can make a virtual toast with the character displayed on the external image display device. 
     
     
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