JP2002190862A - Telephone system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telephone system that can immediately make a call to an emergent contact place. SOLUTION: When a telephone number is received in a step S3 during reproduction of a business message, a buffer memory temporarily stores the telephone number in a step S4, when a dial key is depressed in a step S11, the reproduction of the business message is stopped in a step S13, and the phone dials the telephone number stored in the buffer memory in a step S14.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, portable telephone devices, such as answering machines used in ordinary homes, store a message from a calling party (message message) when a user receives an incoming call while the user is away. For example, the user of the telephone device can reproduce the message and listen to the content of the message by putting the speaker of the mobile phone device into his / her ear.

[0003]

A user listens to a message using such a portable telephone device, and contains a message that the user has an urgent business and wants to be contacted, and the telephone number of the emergency contact. The user, while listening to the message, writes the emergency contact phone number on a form,
After the message has been played, the call operation must be performed to the telephone number written.

[0004] As described above, the user has to write down the telephone numbers that he has listened to, which is very troublesome.
In addition, although it is necessary to call the emergency contact immediately, it is necessary to write down the telephone number, input the dialed number and perform the calling operation, so that it is not possible to immediately call the emergency contact. .

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and a telephone device according to the present invention comprises a means for reproducing a business message and a means for inputting a telephone number. Means for storing the telephone number input by the telephone number input means, and the telephone number is input by the telephone number input means when the message reproduction means reproduces the business message. And the storage means stores the input telephone number.

A telephone device according to a second aspect is the telephone device according to the first aspect, further comprising: a dial transmission instruction means;
Means for dialing the telephone number stored in the storage means based on the dialing instruction of the dialing instructing means, and when the dialing instruction is issued by the dialing instructing means, the reproducing means causes the message message to be sent. And the dial transmission means dials the telephone number stored in the storage means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a telephone device comprising: an input means;
Means for playing back a message, a means for temporarily storing the telephone number input by the input means, and a telephone directory memory, wherein when the message playback means plays the message, When a phone number is entered by means,
The temporary storage means temporarily stores the input telephone number,
When there is an instruction from the input means to store the telephone number stored in the temporary storage means in the telephone directory memory,
The telephone number stored in the temporary storage means is stored in the telephone directory memory.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment (mobile phone) according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, a control unit 100 controls each circuit inside the telephone device.

The transmission / reception unit 110 is connected to the antenna 111 and performs transmission / reception of radio waves.

The message storage unit 130 is composed of, for example, a flash memory, and stores a business message received from the calling side.

An input unit 140 reproduces a key (registration key) for instructing a ten-key, a calling key, and a telephone number to be stored in a telephone directory memory to be described later, and a message stored in the message storage unit 130. The key has a key for playing the business.

The display unit 150 displays telephone numbers, characters, and the like.

The buffer memory 160 is composed of, for example, a flash memory, and the input unit 140 is used during reproduction of the business message stored in the message storage unit 130.
Temporarily stores the telephone number entered from.

The telephone directory memory 170 is composed of, for example, a flash memory, and can store a plurality of telephone numbers and / or destination names corresponding to the telephone numbers.

The ringer sound generator 180 generates a ringer sound at the time of an incoming call and sends it to the speaker 190 via the amplifier 191.

The speech network circuit 200 sends the audio signal demodulated by the transmission / reception unit 110 and input from the control unit 100 to the amplifier 210, and sends the audio signal input from the amplifier 220 to the control unit 100. Further, a mute circuit for turning on and off the output of the audio signal is provided inside the speech network circuit 200.

The speaker 230 sends out the audio signal amplified by the amplifier 210.

Microphone 240 sends an externally input audio signal to amplifier 220.

The first switch 250 connects the input terminal of the amplifier 191 to the ringer sound generator 18 under the control of the controller 100.
The connection is switched to the 0 side or a second switch 260 side described later.

The second switch 260 connects the output terminal of the speech network 200 to the first terminal under the control of the control unit 100.
The connection is switched to the switch 250 side or the input terminal side of the amplifier 210.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

FIGS. 2 and 3 are flow charts showing the operation of the apparatus of this embodiment. More specifically, the operation when the user listens to the stored message when the user does not answer the incoming call. Is shown.

In the standby state, the first switch 2
50 is closed to the A side, while the second switch 260 is closed to the D side.

In step S1, when the control unit 100 detects a signal indicating that the reproduction key is pressed from the input unit 140, the control unit 100 proceeds to step S2, otherwise, the control unit 100 proceeds to step S15 shown in FIG. Processing proceeds to

In step S2, the control unit 100 sets the first
The switch 250 is set to the B side and the second switch 260
To the C side, and then input the message data stored in the message storage unit 130, and send the data to the speech network circuit 200, the second switch 260,
Speaker 1 via first switch 250 and amplifier 191
90.

In the following S3 step, the control unit 100
If a signal indicating that the numeric key is pressed is detected from the input unit 140, the process proceeds to step S4.
The process proceeds to step S6.

In step S3, if a key is pressed during the reproduction of the message, a sound indicating that the key is pressed (for example, a beep sound) is output from the mute circuit in the speech network circuit 200. And is not transmitted from the speaker 150. This is to prevent the beep sound indicating the key press from making it difficult for the user to listen to the reproduced message.

In step S4, control unit 100 stores the dial number corresponding to the ten-key input in step S3 in buffer memory 160, and proceeds to step S5.

In step S5, control unit 100 causes display unit 150 to display the dial number corresponding to the ten-key input in step S3, and returns to step S2.

In step S6, when detecting a signal indicating that the registration key has been pressed from input unit 140, control unit 100 executes step S6.
The process proceeds to step S7, and if not, S10
Proceed to step.

In step S7, if control unit 100 determines that a telephone number corresponding to the telephone number stored in buffer memory 160 is stored in telephone directory memory 170, control unit 100 advances the process to step S8. Otherwise, the process proceeds to step S9.

In step S8, control unit 100 causes display unit 150 to display a message indicating that the corresponding telephone number is stored in telephone directory memory 170, and causes speaker 190 to emit a warning sound, and then proceeds to step S2. Return the process to

In step S9, control unit 100 stores the telephone number stored in buffer memory 160 in telephone directory memory 170, and returns to step S2.

In step S10, when the control unit 100 does not detect the message data from the message storage unit 130, it determines that the reproduction of the message has been completed, and returns the process to step S1. If not, the process proceeds to step S11.

In step S11, when detecting a signal indicating that the call key has been pressed from input unit 140, control unit 100 proceeds with the process to step S12, otherwise returns to step S2.

In step S12, if control unit 100 determines that the telephone number is stored in buffer memory 160, it proceeds to step S13, otherwise returns to step S2.

In step S13, control unit 100 terminates the reproduction of the message in message storage unit 130, and proceeds to step S14.

In step S14, the control unit 100 reads the telephone number stored in the buffer memory 160 and controls the transmission / reception unit 110 to make a call to the destination of the telephone number. Then, the process returns to step S1.

Next, the operation when the reproduction key is not pressed in step S1 will be described below.

The control unit 100 performs steps S15 to S1 shown in FIG.
In the eight steps, the same processing as the steps S6 to S9 shown in FIG.

In step S15, the control unit 10
If 0 detects a signal indicating that the registration key has been pressed, the process proceeds to step S16; otherwise, the process proceeds to step S19.

In step S19, the control unit 100
When detecting a signal indicating that the calling key is pressed from the input unit 140, the process proceeds to step S20, otherwise, the process returns to step S1 (FIG. 2).

In step S20, if control unit 100 determines that the telephone number is stored in buffer memory 160, it proceeds to step S21, otherwise returns to step S1 (FIG. 2).

In step S21, the control section 100 reads the telephone number stored in the buffer memory 160 and controls the transmission / reception section 110 to make a call to the destination of the telephone number. Thereafter, the process returns to step S1 (FIG. 2).

As described above, during or after the reproduction of the message, the telephone number input from the input unit 140 is temporarily stored in the buffer memory 160. When the call key is pressed, the telephone number is stored in the buffer memory 160. Outgoing calls can be made to the current telephone number destination. Further, the telephone number stored in the buffer memory 160 is stored in the telephone directory memory 170.
Can also be stored.

As described above, the apparatus of this embodiment can input the telephone number of the emergency contact key while listening to the business message, and register the input telephone number in the telephone directory memory. No need to write down.

Also, even if the user presses the numeric keypad during the reproduction of the message, the key press sound is not transmitted from the speaker, so that the user can surely hear the reproduced message.

In addition, during the reproduction of the business message, when the user completes the input of the telephone number of the emergency contact and presses the call key, the reproduction of the message is stopped and the call to the emergency contact can be made. it can.

Further, even if the user inputs a telephone number using the numeric keypad during the reproduction of the business message, and instructs to store the input telephone number in the telephone directory memory, the input is performed in the telephone directory memory. If there is a telephone number that matches the entered telephone number, the input telephone number is not stored in the memory, so that the storage area of the telephone directory memory can be effectively used.

In the present embodiment, the message stored in the message storage unit 130 in the telephone device is reproduced. However, the message stored in the center is received from the base station, demodulated and reproduced. It may be configured.

Further, in the present embodiment, the configuration is such that the message is transmitted from the speaker for transmitting the ringing tone (loud-voice reception). However, the earphone is attached to the telephone device, and the message is transmitted from the speaker of the earphone. You may do it.

[0053]

The telephone device according to the present invention enables an immediate call to an emergency contact.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the apparatus according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 100 control unit 130 message storage unit 140 input unit 160 buffer memory 170 phonebook memory 190 speaker

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Satoru Moriyama 3-201 Minamiyoshikata, Tottori-shi, Tottori F-term (reference) in Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. 5K036 AA07 BB01 DD11 DD32 DD46 FF02 JJ04 JJ12 JJ15 KK06 KK17 5K039 AA01 BB05 CC01 DD01 EE01 GG03 HH17 JJ07 JJ09

Claims (3)

[Claims] A means for reproducing a business message; a means for inputting a telephone number; and a means for storing a telephone number input by the telephone number input means. A telephone device, wherein when a telephone number is input by the telephone number input means during reproduction of a matter, the storage means stores the input telephone number. 2. The telephone device according to claim 1, further comprising: dial transmission instruction means; and dial transmission of a telephone number stored in said storage means based on a transmission instruction of said dial transmission instruction means. When there is a dial transmission instruction from the dial transmission instruction means, the reproduction means stops reproduction of the business message and the dial transmission means dials the telephone number stored in the storage means. Characteristic telephone equipment. 3. An apparatus comprising: input means; means for reproducing a message; a means for temporarily storing a telephone number input by the input means; and a telephone directory memory. When a telephone number is input from the input means when reproducing a matter, the temporary storage means temporarily stores the input telephone number, and the telephone number stored in the temporary storage means is input from the input means. A telephone device, wherein when there is an instruction to store the telephone number in the telephone directory memory, the telephone number stored in the temporary storage means is stored in the telephone directory memory.