JP2003134192A - Telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To receive and confirm character information such as an electronic mail address even during call. SOLUTION: In the case of transmitting the electronic mail address during call, by an operation of a transmission key 81, frequency signals of DTMF by a combination of numerals corresponding to identification information and respective alphabets of the electronic mail address are formed by a DTMF oscillation part 31 of a transmission part 3 on the basis of a table of a ROM 5 and voiced information for which the electronic mail address is made into voice information is made to coexist with the voice information of the call and transmitted to an opposite party. At the opposite party, the voice information is separated by a signal separation part 21 of a reception part 2 on the basis of the identification information, the combination of frequencies of a low group and a high group constituting the voice information is successively detected by a DTMF reception part 22, and the alphabets or the like corresponding to the combination are derived by collation with table data of the ROM 5 by a control part 4, converted into the original electronic mail address and displayed at a display part 7.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone having a function of displaying, on a display unit, information such as a telephone number of a party who is making a call through a communication line and a call duration.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a telephone such as a home telephone and a mobile telephone, voice information can be exchanged between callers, and when a home telephone also has a facsimile function, image data is transmitted. Facsimile communication is possible.

A mobile phone with a mail function can send and receive a mail address and other character information by e-mail, and a phone with a facsimile function sends a mail address and other character information by facsimile. You can send and receive.

[0004]

However, even if it is necessary to convey the e-mail address of oneself or the known e-mail address of an acquaintance to the other party during a call using the telephone, the only method is to give it by mouth. There was a possibility that the wrong information such as the e-mail address was transmitted due to the misreading of the character information to be transmitted such as the e-mail address or the misunderstanding of the other party.

Even if the mobile phone is equipped with a mail function, if it becomes necessary to transmit character information such as an e-mail address during a call, the call must be switched to the mail function each time. There was a problem that it was troublesome.

[0006] By the way, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-134507, when personal information such as e-mail address data of a third party included in the person is inquired during a telephone call, predetermined personal information data is preliminarily set. There is described a wireless telephone in which necessary personal information is retrieved from a format registered in the format of (1) and the retrieved personal information is transmitted as an e-mail to a communication partner.

However, in the above-mentioned wireless telephone,
As described in the official gazette, if multi-call is not possible, personal information mail retrieved in the communication-enabled state immediately after the call ends is sent to the other party, so personal information during the call Could not be confirmed,
The inconvenience felt by the user cannot be eliminated.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a telephone which can receive and confirm character information such as an electronic mail address even during a call.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention displays information such as the telephone number of the other party who is in a call or a call time on a display unit via a wireless or wired communication line. In a telephone having a function, a combination of a low group number and a high group number in a matrix of a DTFM signal is pre-assigned to a storage unit storing self and others' electronic mail addresses and each letter of the alphabet. A holding unit that holds a table and each alphabet that forms character information composed of the electronic mail address selected from the electronic mail addresses stored in the storage unit by operating a dedicated operation switch during a call The corresponding combination of the numbers in the low group and the numbers in the high group is extracted from the table of the holding unit to extract the phonetic information. And transmitting the voiced information converted into voice information and transmitting the voiced information mixed with the voice information of the call together with the identification information indicating the voiced information, and the identification information transmitted from the other party. Then, the voicing information is separated, and the alphabet corresponding to the combination of the numbers of the low group and the numbers of the high group forming the received voicing information is extracted from the table of the holding unit to extract the original. And a display control unit for displaying the electronic mail address converted by the receiving unit on the display unit.

According to this structure, when a predetermined e-mail address needs to be transmitted to the other party during a call, the dedicated operation switch is operated to use the well-known DTMF to send the e-mail. The voiced information obtained by converting the address into voice information is transmitted to the other party together with the identification information and the voice information of the call. On the other hand, at the other party who receives this voiced information together with the identification information, the voiced information converted into voice information by DTMF is converted into the original electronic mail address and displayed on the display unit.

Therefore, since the transmitted electronic mail address can be grasped on the display unit, it is possible to prevent erroneous transmission such as in the conventional case where the electronic mail address is verbally transmitted between the call partners. It is very convenient because you can check the communication contents in real time.

Further, according to the present invention, in a telephone having a function of displaying information such as a telephone number of a calling party or a calling time on a display unit via a wireless or wired communication line, address data of self and others is displayed. A storage unit that stores the data, a holding unit that holds a table in which a combination of numbers in the low group and numbers in the high group in the matrix of the DTFM signal is pre-allocated for each character of the alphabet, and during a call,
By operating a dedicated operation switch, the numbers in the low group and the numbers in the high group corresponding to the respective alphabets forming the character information consisting of the address data selected from the address data stored in the storage unit. The combination of the above is extracted from the table of the holding unit to form the voicing information, and the voicing information converted into voicing information is mixed with the voicing information of the call together with the identification information indicating the voicing information. Numbers of the low group that form a transmitting unit for transmitting and the voicing information by recognizing the identification information transmitted from the other party and forming the received voicing information from the table of the holding unit. And a receiving unit that extracts the alphabet corresponding to the combination of the numbers of the high group and converts it into the address data that is the original character information, and the housing converted by the receiving unit. It is characterized by comprising a display control unit for displaying data on the display unit.

With such a configuration, when it is necessary to transmit the predetermined address to the other party during a call, the dedicated operation switch is operated to use the well-known DTMF to output the address data. The computerized voiced information is transmitted to the other party together with the identification information and the voice information of the call. On the other hand, at the other party who receives this voiced information together with the identification information, the voiced information converted into voice information by DTMF is converted into the original address data and displayed on the display unit.

Therefore, since the transmitted address data can be grasped by the display unit, it is possible to prevent erroneous transmission such as in the case of transmitting the address verbally between the call partners as in the conventional case. Moreover, it is very convenient because you can check the contents of communication in real time.

Further, according to the present invention, in a telephone having a function of displaying information such as a telephone number of a calling party or a calling time on the display unit via a communication line, character information is added in the middle of voice information of the call. A function of transmitting the voiced information converted into voiced information together with the identification information indicating the voiced information, and separating the voiced information by recognizing the identification information transmitted from the other party, It has a function of converting the original character information and displaying the converted character information on the display unit.

With such a configuration, when it becomes necessary to transmit some character information to the other party during a call, the voiced information obtained by converting the character information into voice information is converted into the voice information of the call together with the identification information. Since the information is mixed and transmitted to the other party, the character information can be converted into voice and transmitted to the other party when necessary even during a call.

On the other hand, the other party who receives this voicing information together with the identification information converts the voicing information into the original character information and displays it on the display unit, so that the display unit understands the transmitted character information. be able to.

Therefore, since the transmitted character information can be grasped by the display unit, it is possible to prevent erroneous transmission such as in the conventional case where the character information is verbally transmitted between the call partners. This is very convenient because you can check the contents of communication in real time.

Further, according to the present invention, by operating a dedicated operation switch, a transmitter for transmitting the voicing information together with the identification information, and recognizing the identification information from the other party and receiving the voicing information, And a display control unit for displaying the character information converted by the receiving unit on the display unit.

According to this structure, by operating the dedicated operation switch, the character information can be converted into voicing information and transmitted from the transmitting section. On the other hand, the receiving unit can convert the received character information into voicing information, and the display control unit can display the converted character information on the display unit.

Further, the present invention comprises a storage unit storing the e-mail addresses of self and others, wherein the character information is
It is characterized in that it is the electronic mail address selected from the electronic mail addresses in the storage unit or the input electronic mail address.

According to such a configuration, the voiced information in which the electronic mail address is voiced can be mixed with the voice information during the call, and the desired electronic mail can be sent to the other party even during the call. The email address can be reliably transmitted.

The present invention further comprises a storage unit for storing the addresses of self and others, and the character information is the address selected from the addresses in the storage unit or the input address. It is characterized by that.

According to this structure, the voiced information obtained by converting the address into voice information can be mixed with the voice information during the call, and the desired address data can be sent to the other party even during the call. Can be reliably transmitted.

The present invention further comprises a holding unit for holding a table in which a combination of a low group number and a high group number in the matrix of the DTFM signal is pre-assigned to each character of the alphabet, and the transmission is performed. The unit extracts from the table of the holding unit combinations of the numbers in the low group and the numbers in the high group corresponding to the respective alphabets forming the character information, forms the voicing information, and receives the received information. From the table of the holding unit,
The character information is formed by extracting an alphabet corresponding to a combination of the numbers in the low group and the numbers in the high group forming the received voiced information.

According to such a configuration, the voice information can be generated by converting the character information such as the electronic mail address into voice, and the voice information can be mixed with the voice information of the call and transmitted.

[0027]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. However, FIG. 1 is a block diagram, and FIGS. 2 to 5 are operation explanatory diagrams.

The telephone in this embodiment is configured as shown in FIG. 1, and includes a communication unit 1, a receiving unit 2, a transmitting unit 3, and
A control unit 4 including a CPU, a ROM 5, a RAM 6, and
A display unit 7 including an LCD (liquid crystal display),
An operation unit 8 having a plurality of keys such as “#” key and “*” key in addition to the numeric keys “0” to “9” and a transmission key 81 which is a dedicated transmission switch for transmitting an electronic mail address. And a transmitter / receiver unit 9. Where RA
The M6 stores a plurality of pieces of information relating to individuals such as their own and others' electronic mail addresses, telephone number data, and address data, and corresponds to the storage unit in the present invention.

The communication unit 1 connects the other party to the main telephone via, for example, a wireless communication line (a mobile phone line in this case), and communicates with the other party via the communication line. In addition to voice information in a normal call, voice information, which is voice information of an email address that is character information, is transmitted and received.

At this time, in order to generate voiced information obtained by converting the electronic mail address, which is character information, into voiced information, the well-known DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) signal is used for voiced information conversion.

That is, normally, the DTMF matrix is as shown in FIG.
The DTMF is configured as shown in FIG. 2 and the DTMF is used for transmitting numbers and the like using a combination of the low group frequency signal and the high group frequency signal in this matrix. For each character such as the alphabet and various symbols, the combination of the low group number and the high group number in the DTFM matrix,
For example, as shown in FIG. 3, a table that is pre-allocated is created and stored in the ROM 5. Where RO
M5 corresponds to the holding portion in the present invention.

Then, when the electronic mail address to be transmitted is selected, the control section 4 reads a combination of numbers corresponding to each alphabet constituting the electronic mail address from the table of the ROM 5 and reads it. A combination of numbers corresponding to each alphabet is sent to the transmitter 3.

As shown in FIG. 1, the transmitting unit 3 uses the DTMF.
A DTMF oscillator 31 that oscillates a signal and a signal mixer 32
And the transmission key 81 of the operation unit 8 is operated,
When the electronic mail address to be transmitted is selected from the RAM 6, the DTMF oscillating unit 31 oscillates a frequency signal of DTMF by a combination of the numbers corresponding to the respective alphabets of the electronic mail address from the control unit 4, which is character information. The voice information is generated by converting the electronic mail address into voice information, and the signal mixing unit 32 mixes the voice information of the call input from the handset 9 with the voice information generated by the DTMF oscillating unit 31. It is transmitted to the other party via the communication unit 1.

At this time, on the receiving side, the start of the voiced information is represented by two "#" signals, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, so that the voiced information mixed in the voice information of the call can be clearly identified. As the identification information is formed,
Identification information indicating the end of the voicing information is formed by the three "#" signals, and these identification information are DTMF of FIG.
The voice information is added by the combination of the low group frequency and the high group frequency based on the matrix and added to the beginning and end of the voiced information of the electronic mail address.

As shown in FIG. 1, the receiving unit 2 receives the signal separating unit 21 for selecting a signal from the other party via the communication unit 1 and the DTMF signal selected by the signal separating unit 21. The DTMF receiving unit 22 and the signal selecting unit 21 based on the above identification information, the communication unit 1
The voice information received from the other party via the telephone is separated from the voiced information obtained by converting the electronic mail address into voice. The separated voice information is sent as it is to the transmitting / receiving unit 9 via the control unit 4 and is output to the caller as a voice signal, while the voiced information is sent to the DTMF receiving unit 22.

Then, the DTMF receiving section 22 sequentially detects the combination of the low group frequency and the high group frequency which constitutes the voicing information, and the control section 4 detects the low group frequency and the high group frequency based on the table data of the ROM 5. The alphabets, symbols, etc. corresponding to the combination are derived and converted into the original character information, and the electronic mail address that is the converted original character information is displayed on the display unit 7. This control unit 4
The display control processing of the display unit 7 by means of corresponds to the display control unit.

Thus, during a call, for example, "funai"
@Funai. co. When the send key 81 is turned on in order to send the e-mail address "jp" to the other party, the e-mail address is changed as shown in FIG.
Start identification information and each alphabet,
The DTMF frequency signal is reconstructed into the end identification information and a combination of these start identification information, each alphabet, and a number corresponding to the end identification information,
It is formed by the DTMF oscillating unit 31 of the transmitting unit 3 based on the table data of the OM 5, and the e-mail address which is the character information is converted into voice information, and as shown in FIG. 5, the voice information of the call is mixed with the voice information. In this way, the communication section 1 transmits the data to the other party via the communication line.

At the other end, based on the identification information,
The signal separation unit 21 of the reception unit 2 separates and extracts the voiced information mixed with the voice information of the call through the communication line, and D
The TMF receiving unit 22 sequentially detects the combination of the low group frequency and the high group frequency that make up the voicing information, and the control unit 4 compares the combination with the table data of the ROM 5 to obtain the combination of the low group frequency and the high group frequency. Corresponding alphabets, symbols, etc. are derived, converted into the original character information e-mail address, and displayed on the display unit 7.

Therefore, according to the above-mentioned embodiment, since the transmitted electronic mail address can be grasped by the display of the display unit 7, the electronic mail address is verbally transmitted between the call parties as in the conventional case. It is possible to reliably prevent erroneous communication such as in the case of doing, and it is possible to confirm the transmitted content in real time.

In the above embodiment, the case where the character information is the electronic mail address stored in the RAM 6 has been described, but the electronic mail address entered by the key operation of the operation unit 8 may be used. Further, the character information is not limited to such an e-mail address, and the RAM 6
It may be the addresses of the user and others stored in or entered by key operation, or may be other character information.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, an example of using a wireless communication line like a mobile phone is shown, but a wired communication line like a home phone may be used. Of course.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications other than those described above can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

[0043]

As described above, according to the invention as set forth in claim 1, since the transmitted electronic mail address can be grasped on the display unit, it is possible to verbally communicate between the call partners as in the conventional case. It is very convenient because it is possible to prevent erroneous transmission such as when transmitting an e-mail address, and it is possible to confirm the transmitted content in real time.

Further, according to the second aspect of the invention, since the transmitted address data can be grasped by the display unit, the case where the address is verbally transmitted between the call partners as in the conventional case It is possible to prevent such miscommunication, and moreover, it is possible to check the contents of communication in real time, which is very convenient.

According to the third aspect of the invention, since the transmitted character information can be grasped by the display unit, the character information is verbally transmitted between the call partners as in the conventional case. It is possible to prevent erroneous communication as in the case, and moreover, it is very convenient to be able to confirm the content of the transfer in real time.

Further, according to the invention described in claim 4, by operating the dedicated operation switch, the character information can be converted into the voiced information and can be transmitted from the transmitting section. On the other hand, the receiving unit can convert the received character information into voicing information, and the display control unit can display the converted character information on the display unit.

Further, according to the invention described in claim 5, the voiced information in which the electronic mail address is voiced can be mixed with the voice information during the call, and can be transmitted. The desired e-mail address can be surely transmitted first.

Further, according to the invention described in claim 6, the voicing information in which the address is voiced can be mixed with the voice information during the call, and can be transmitted to the other party even during the call. It becomes possible to reliably transmit the desired address data.

Further, according to the invention described in claim 7, it is possible to generate the voiced information by converting the character information such as the electronic mail address into voiced information, and the voiced information is mixed with the voice information of the call. It becomes possible to send.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an operation explanatory diagram of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory diagram of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an operation explanatory diagram of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an operation explanatory diagram of the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

2 Receiver 3 transmitter 4 Control unit (display control unit) 5 ROM (holding unit) 6 RAM (storage unit) 7 Display 81 Send key (dedicated operation switch)

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A telephone having a function of displaying information such as a telephone number of the other party or a call duration during a call through a wireless or wired communication line on a display unit, and storing the e-mail addresses of self and others. Section, a holding section that holds a table in which a combination of numbers in the low group and numbers in the high group in the matrix of the DTFM signal is previously assigned to each character of the alphabet, and the operation of the dedicated operation switch during a call. The combination of the numbers in the low group and the numbers in the high group corresponding to the respective alphabets forming the character information consisting of the electronic mail address selected from the electronic mail addresses stored in the storage unit , The voicing information extracted from the table of the holding unit to form the voicing information, A transmission unit that mixes with the voice information of the call together with the identification information indicating that the voice information is transmitted by recognizing the identification information transmitted from the other party, and from the table of the holding unit. ,
A receiving unit that extracts an alphabet corresponding to a combination of the numbers in the low group and the numbers in the high group forming the received voiced information and converts the alphabet into the electronic mail address that is the original character information; A display control unit for displaying the electronic mail address converted by the unit on the display unit. 2. A telephone having a function of displaying information such as a telephone number of the other party during a call or a call time on a display through a wireless or wired communication line, in a storage unit storing address data of self and another person. And, for each character of the alphabet, a holding unit that holds a table in which the combination of the numbers of the low group and the numbers of the high group in the matrix of the DTFM signal is pre-assigned, and by operating the dedicated operation switch during a call. , The combination of the numbers in the low group and the numbers in the high group corresponding to the respective alphabets forming the character information composed of the address data selected from the address data stored in the storage unit, Of the table, the voicing information is formed by extracting the voicing information from the table, and the voicing information converted into the voicing information is shared with the identification information indicating the voicing information. A transmission section that mixes with the voice information of the call and transmits, and the identification information transmitted from the other party is recognized to separate the voicing information, and from the table of the holding section,
A receiving unit that extracts an alphabet corresponding to a combination of the numbers of the low group and the numbers of the high group forming the received voiced information and converts the alphabet into the address data that is the original character information, and the receiving unit. And a display control unit for displaying the address data converted by the above on the display unit. 3. A telephone having a function of displaying information such as a telephone number of the other party who is in a call through a communication line and a call time on a display unit, and character information is converted into voice information in the middle of voice information of the call. A function of transmitting the voicing information together with the identification information indicating that it is the voicing information, and recognizing the identification information transmitted from the other party to separate the voicing information to obtain the original character information. And a function of displaying the converted character information on the display unit. 4. A transmission unit for transmitting the voicing information together with the identification information by operating a dedicated operation switch, and recognizing the identification information from the other party to receive the voicing information to convert it into original text information. The telephone according to claim 3, further comprising: a receiving unit for converting, and a display control unit for displaying the character information converted by the receiving unit on the display unit. 5. A storage unit storing the electronic mail addresses of self and another person, wherein the character information is the electronic mail address selected from the electronic mail addresses of the storage unit, or the input electronic mail. The telephone according to claim 3, which is a mail address. 6. A storage unit storing addresses of self and another person, wherein the character information is the address selected from the addresses of the storage unit or an input address. The telephone according to claim 3 or 4. 7. DT for each letter of the alphabet
The transmitting unit forms the character information from the table of the holding unit, which includes a holding unit that holds a table in which combinations of low-group numbers and high-group numbers in the FM signal matrix are pre-allocated. The combination of the numbers of the low group and the numbers of the high group corresponding to each of the alphabets is extracted to form the phonetic information, and the receiving unit receives the phonetic information from the table of the holding unit. 4. The character information is formed by extracting an alphabet corresponding to a combination of the numbers of the low group and the numbers of the high group that form the.
7. The telephone set according to any one of 1 to 6.