JP2005039589A - Method, system and program for confirming state of call destination - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To recognize an operation state of a call destination by a vibration pattern of a mobile phone being a call source. <P>SOLUTION: A control part 13 receives state information of the call destination transmitted from a radio network in response to originating a call and instructs a voice analysis part 18 to discriminate the classification (contents) of state information of the call destination and reads out a vibration pattern corresponding to the classification of state information of the call destination discriminated by the voice analysis part, from a vibration pattern table stored in a memory and excites a vibrator 17 by vibration patterns different by classifications of state information of the call destination. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a destination confirmation method, confirmation method, and program therefor, and more particularly to vibrator control that can recognize an operation state of a destination by a vibration pattern of a mobile phone as a transmission source.

  Conventionally, when a destination telephone number is entered and a predetermined outgoing operation is performed, the status of the destination is sent from the network side to the calling side, and the caller receives the incoming call by listening to the contents from the receiver of the mobile phone. The current state of the destination can be known, and the current state of the destination can also be known from the display content of the display device.

  When listening from the receiver, it may be difficult to hear under poor radio wave conditions, and it may be difficult to confirm whether the destination is being called or the destination has answered. For this reason, there is a case where the call charge is wasted without being noticed although the destination is responding.

  Further, when making a call to a different destination, the mobile phone (receiver) must be brought close to the ear each time after the call operation, and the operability is not sufficient.

  The confirmation of the status of the destination by the display content of the display device has a problem that the backlight is turned off and the display content is difficult to confirm depending on the backlight setting of the display screen. Therefore, there is a demand for a confirmation method other than confirmation of the status of the called party by the receiver and display.

  For example, a tone detecting means for detecting a tone is provided in the wireless communication device, and the number dialed by the operation unit is sent to the wireless line via the wireless unit to call the communication partner, and the ringback tone signal from the exchange for the call is sent. Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 11-285065 discloses a wireless communication device that displays a message to that effect by means of display means and / or vibration means when the tone detection means detects it, and stops calling if necessary.

  In the wireless communication device disclosed in the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-285065, if the calling side dials the telephone number of the receiving side to transmit data, and after the exchange with the exchange is performed, the receiving side can be connected. When the connection with the called party is made and the connection is completed, the data transmitted by the calling party is received and stored at the called party.

  Then, the ringing tone for calling the called party is sent back to the calling party as a ringback tone. When this ringback tone is detected by the tone detector, the calling party and the line are connected to the calling party by using a light emitting diode, LCD or vibrator on the calling party. Display and notify that connected data has been sent. When the ringback tone cannot be detected, no display or notification is performed.

  If the caller disconnects the line with the called party, the series of operations is completed. If the caller does not disconnect, the above operation is repeated for the ringback tone that is repeatedly transmitted.

  In addition, the control unit automatically disconnects the line with the incoming side only when the ring back tone signal is detected by the tone detection unit, only when the ring back tone is received once and the line with the incoming side may be disconnected. You can also

JP-A-11-285065 (page 2-4, FIG. 1, paragraph number 0013 to paragraph number 0016).

The above-described conventional wireless communication device detects the ring back tone returned when the called party is ringing and makes the vibrator signal, so that the sender (sender) receives the receiver to listen to the ring back tone. Although it is possible to avoid troublesome operations to bring your ear close to the phone, you cannot check the status of the destination other than during ringing, that is, the status of the destination, such as answering mode setting, out of service area, or incorrect phone number, using the vibration mode. There is a problem.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a destination status confirmation method and a confirmation method capable of recognizing the operation state of a destination, such as during calling, answering machine mode setting, out of service area, and telephone number error, from the vibration pattern of the mobile phone of the originator. And providing the program.

  The destination status confirmation method of the present invention is a mobile phone that connects to a destination telephone device via a wireless network and a wireless base station, and in a mobile phone that makes a call, It has a vibrator control means for receiving status information, identifying the type of status information of the destination, and controlling a vibrator in accordance with the identified status information of the destination.

  Further, the vibrator control means drives and controls the vibrator with different vibration patterns corresponding to the type of state information of the destination.

  The destination information may be a ringback tone indicating that the destination telephone device is being called.

  The destination information may be an answering message indicating that the answering telephone apparatus is setting up an answering machine.

  Further, the destination status information is an out-of-service message indicating that the destination telephone device is out of service area or not powered on.

  Further, the destination status information is a number error message indicating that the destination telephone number input by the user at the time of outgoing call is not currently used.

  Further, in a mobile phone that connects to a destination telephone device via a wireless network and a wireless base station and performs a call, the mobile phone includes a transmission / reception antenna, a wireless unit, a receiver, a sounder, a display unit, An operation unit; a vibrator; a memory including a vibration pattern table; a voice analysis unit including a voice recognition function; and a control unit that controls the entire mobile phone; the control unit includes a central processing unit; Sometimes receiving the destination status information transmitted from the wireless network, instructing the voice analysis unit to identify the type of the destination status information, and the destination status identified by the voice analysis unit The vibration pattern corresponding to the type of information is read from the vibration pattern table of the memory, and the vibrator is controlled to vibrate.

  The control unit determines whether the message is an answering machine message, an out-of-service message, or a number error message based on the type information identified by the voice analysis unit, and determines that the message is a ringback tone signal if none of the messages is received. It is characterized by doing.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for confirming a state of an incoming call destination in a mobile phone that is connected to a destination telephone device via a wireless network and a radio base station, and the mobile phone includes at least a vibrator and a vibration pattern table. A memory, a voice analysis unit having a voice recognition function, and a control unit having a central control device for controlling the entire mobile phone, and the control unit is configured to receive the destination that is transmitted from the wireless network at the time of outgoing call. When the vibration mode is set, the received state information of the destination is output to the voice analysis unit to analyze the state information of the destination. Whether the message is an answering message such as “forwarded to answering center” based on the first step of instructing and the analysis result of the status information of the called party analyzed by the voice analysis unit And a second vibration pattern registered for the answering message is read from the vibration pattern table stored in the memory when the determination result in the second step is an answering message. The second step of oscillating the phone, and when the result of the determination in the second step is not an answering message, it is determined whether or not it is an out-of-service message such as “a place where radio waves do not reach or power is not turned on” And a fourth step of reading the third vibration pattern registered for the out-of-service message from the vibration pattern table when the determination result in the third step is an out-of-service message, and causing the vibrator to vibrate; When the judgment result in the third step is not an out-of-service message, A fifth step for determining whether the number is a number error message such as “the phone number that has been dialed is currently not used”, and the vibration pattern when the determination result in the fifth step is a number error message A sixth step of reading the fourth vibration pattern registered for the number error message from the table and vibrating the vibrator and a ring from the vibration pattern table when the determination result in the fifth step is not a number error message And a seventh step of reading the first vibration pattern registered corresponding to the back tone and causing the vibrator to vibrate.

  An incoming call destination status confirmation program according to the present invention is a mobile phone that is connected to a destination telephone device via a wireless network and a wireless base station to make a call. The mobile phone includes at least a vibrator and a vibration pattern table. A memory, a voice analysis unit having a voice recognition function, and a control unit having a central control device for controlling the entire mobile phone, and the control unit is configured to receive the destination that is transmitted from the wireless network at the time of outgoing call. When the vibration mode is set, the received state information of the destination is output to the voice analysis unit to analyze the state information of the destination. Answering message such as “I was forwarded to the answering machine” based on the first step of instructing and the analysis result of the status information of the called party analyzed by the voice analysis unit The second vibration pattern registered for the answering message from the vibration pattern table stored in the memory when the determination result in the second step is the answering message The second step of reading and vibrating the vibrator, and if the judgment result in the second step is not an answering machine message, whether or not it is an out-of-service message such as “the place where radio waves do not reach or the power is not turned on” A third step of determining and a fourth vibration pattern registered for the out-of-service message from the vibration pattern table when the determination result in the third step is an out-of-service message; When the judgment result in the step and the third step is not an out-of-service message, The fifth step for determining whether or not the number is a number error message such as “The telephone number that has been dialed is not currently being used”, and when the determination result in the fifth step is a number error message When the fourth vibration pattern registered for the number error message is read from the vibration pattern table to vibrate the vibrator, and the determination result in the fifth step is not a number error message, the vibration pattern table Then, the first vibration pattern registered corresponding to the ring back tone is read out and the central control unit is caused to execute the seventh step of vibrating the vibrator.

  According to the present invention, the state information of the destination that is sent from the wireless network side at the time of outgoing call is identified, and the vibrator is signaled with a different signal pattern corresponding to the state type of the identified destination. Without receiving the receiver, the vibrator can vibrate to know whether the called party is ringing, the answering machine is in answering machine mode, out of service area, or the destination telephone number entered when making a call is incorrect it can.

  As described above, according to the present invention, destination state information sent from the wireless network side at the time of outgoing call is identified by a voice analysis unit having a voice recognition function, and vibration corresponding to the identified destination type state The pattern is read from the vibration pattern table stored in the memory, and the vibrator is vibrated with the read vibration pattern, so the caller does not have to wait for the response of the callee by holding the receiver close to the ear, improving user operability To do.

  In addition, since it is not necessary to bring the receiver close to the ear, other work can be performed during that time.

  In addition, because the response of the called party can be confirmed by stopping the vibration of the vibrator corresponding to the ringback tone, the call can be started immediately without missing the answer of the called party, and unnecessary call charges are charged without knowing the answer It will not be done.

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the main configuration of the cellular phone according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a vibration pattern table showing the receiver output and the vibration pattern of the vibrator corresponding to the destination state, and FIG. 3 is a vibrator corresponding to the destination state. It is a flowchart which shows this control processing.
Referring to FIG. 1, a mobile phone 10 includes a transmission / reception antenna 11, a radio unit 12, a control unit 13, a memory 14, a display unit 15, an operation unit 16, a vibrator 17, a voice analysis unit 18, It comprises a receiver 19 and a sounder 20.
The voice analysis unit 18 transmits the dial data to the network side at the time of outgoing call, and then the state of the destination that is sent from the network side, that is, the ringback tone indicating that the destination is being called, and the destination is the answering machine setting. An answering machine message indicating that the caller is connected to the answering machine, a message indicating that the user at the destination has moved to a place where radio waves do not reach, or that the receiver cannot be received because the power is turned off, and the destination telephone number entered by the caller A number error message indicating that is not currently used is received, the content of the message is analyzed, the message type is detected, and the control unit 13 is notified.
The analysis of the message type can be realized by, for example, a known voice recognition technique, and the ringback tone is recognized as a ringback tone in cases other than the answering message, out-of-service message, and number error message.
The control unit 13 includes a central processing unit, refers to the vibration pattern table shown in FIG. 3, and vibrates the vibrator 17 with a vibration pattern corresponding to the message type notified from the voice analysis unit 18.
Further, the vibrator 17 is continuously vibrated with a corresponding vibration pattern while the destination is being called, and when the response of the destination is detected, the vibration of the vibrator 17 is stopped.

In the vibration pattern table shown in FIG. 3, when the destination is in a state where the destination is being called, the output of the receiver 19 is registered as a ring back tone, and the vibration pattern 1 is registered as the vibration pattern of the vibrator.
When the answering machine is set to answering machine, the answering machine outputs the answering machine message and the vibration pattern 2 is registered as the vibrator vibration pattern.
When the destination is moving out of service area or the power is not turned on, the output of the receiver 9 is registered as an out-of-service message, and the vibration pattern 3 is registered in the vibration of the vibrator.

  When a telephone number is input by mistake, a number error message is registered as the output of the receiver 9, and a vibration pattern 4 is registered as vibration of the vibrator.

  The vibration patterns 1 to 4 have different vibration periods, and the vibration period can be arbitrarily set and changed by the user.

  Next, the vibration control processing of the vibrator corresponding to the destination state will be described with reference to FIG. 3 together with FIGS.

  When the caller inputs the destination telephone number from the operation unit 16 of the mobile phone 10 and performs a predetermined call operation, the destination call is sent from the transmission / reception antenna 11 to the network side (not shown) via the radio unit 12. The number is transmitted, the state of the destination is identified on the network side, and the current destination state information is returned to the mobile phone 10 that is the source.

  In the mobile phone 10, the wireless unit receives destination state information via the transmission / reception antenna 11 (step S 101 in FIG. 3), and sends the received destination state information to the control unit 13.

  The control unit 13 checks whether or not the vibration mode is currently set by the user. If the vibration mode is not set, the vibration control process for the vibrator is terminated. When the vibration mode is set, the destination state information is output to the voice analysis unit 18 to instruct analysis of the destination state information (S102).

  The voice analysis unit 18 analyzes the status information of the called party using a voice recognition function and notifies the control unit 13 of the analysis result.

The control unit 13 receives the analysis result of the destination state information from the voice analysis unit 18, determines whether the analysis result is an answering machine message (S104), and when the determination result is an answering machine message, it is shown in FIG. By referring to the vibration pattern table, the vibration pattern 2 data of the vibrator set corresponding to the destination state of “answering machine” is read, and the vibrator 17 is driven (S105).
At this time, as shown in FIG. 2, an answering message such as “forwarded to answering center” is output to the receiver 19 and displayed on the display unit 15.

  When the determination result in step S104 is not an answering machine message, the control unit 13 determines whether or not it is an out-of-service message (S106), and when the determination result is an out-of-service message, refer to the vibration pattern table shown in FIG. Then, the vibration pattern 3 data of the vibrator set corresponding to the “out of service area” destination state is read, and the vibrator 17 is driven (S107).

  At this time, as shown in FIG. 2, an answering message such as “a place where radio waves do not reach or the power is not turned on” is output to the receiver 19 and displayed on the display unit 15.

  When the determination result in step S106 is not an out-of-service message, the control unit 13 determines whether or not it is a number error message (S108), and when the determination result is a number error message, the vibration pattern table shown in FIG. , The data of the vibration pattern 4 of the vibrator set corresponding to the destination state of “phone number error” is read, and the vibrator 17 is driven (S109).

  At this time, as shown in FIG. 2, for example, a number error message such as “the phone number you have called is not in use” is output to the receiver 19 and displayed on the display unit 15.

When the determination result in step S108 is not a number error message, the control unit 13 determines that it is a ringback tone (S110) and refers to the vibration pattern table shown in FIG. The data of the vibration pattern 1 of the vibrator set as described above is read, and the vibrator 17 is driven (S111).
At this time, as shown in FIG. 2, for example, “a ringback tone is output, and a predetermined character or pictograph indicating that the call is being performed is displayed on the display unit 15.
At this time, when the called party answers (S112), the vibrator that vibrates with the vibration pattern 1 corresponding to the ring back tone stops (S113), and transitions to a call state.
As described above, the vibrator 17 vibrates with a different vibration pattern corresponding to the state of the destination, so that the caller can recognize the state of the incoming side by the vibration of the vibrator, and when the vibration stops, the caller receives the incoming call. Recognize previous responses.

It is a block diagram which shows the main structures of the mobile telephone of this invention. It is a vibration pattern table showing a receiver output and a vibration pattern of a vibrator corresponding to the state of the destination of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows the control processing of the vibrator corresponding to the state of the conventional incoming call destination.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Mobile telephone 11 Transmission / reception antenna 12 Radio | wireless part 13 Control part 14 Memory 15 Display part 16 Operation part 17 Vibrator 18 Voice analysis part 19 Receiver 20 Sounder

Claims (10)

In a mobile phone that connects to a destination telephone device via a wireless network and a wireless base station and makes a call, the state of the destination is received by receiving the destination state information transmitted from the wireless network at the time of outgoing call A destination status confirmation system comprising: a vibrator control unit that identifies a type of information and controls a vibrator in accordance with the identified status information type of the destination. 2. The destination status check method according to claim 1, wherein the vibrator control means drives and controls the vibrator with different vibration patterns corresponding to types of the status information of the destination. 3. The destination status confirmation method according to claim 1, wherein the destination status information is a ringback tone indicating that the destination telephone device is being called. 3. The destination status confirmation method according to claim 1, wherein the destination status information is an answering message indicating that the answering destination telephone apparatus is setting up an answering machine. 3. The destination status confirmation method according to claim 1, wherein the destination status information is an out-of-service message indicating that the destination telephone device is out of service area or not powered on. The destination status confirmation according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the destination status information is a number error message indicating that the destination telephone number input by the user at the time of outgoing call is not currently used. method. In a mobile phone that connects to a destination telephone device via a wireless network and a wireless base station and makes a call, the mobile phone includes a transmission / reception antenna, a radio unit, a receiver, a sounder, a display unit, and an operation unit. And a vibrator, a memory having a vibration pattern table, a voice analysis unit having a voice recognition function, and a control unit for controlling the entire mobile phone, the control unit includes a central processing unit, Receiving the destination status information transmitted from the wireless network, instructing the voice analysis unit to identify the type of the destination status information, and receiving the destination status information identified by the voice analysis unit; A method for confirming a destination status, wherein a vibration pattern corresponding to a type is read from the vibration pattern table of the memory and the vibrator is controlled to vibrate. The control unit determines whether the message is an answering machine message, an out-of-service message, or a number error message based on the type information identified by the voice analysis unit, and determines that the message is a ringback tone signal when neither message is received. 8. The destination status confirmation method according to claim 7. In a mobile phone connected to a destination telephone device via a wireless network and a wireless base station and performing a call, the mobile phone includes at least a vibrator, a memory having a vibration pattern table, and a voice analysis unit having a voice recognition function And a control unit including a central control unit that controls the entire mobile phone, and the control unit sets the vibration mode when receiving the destination state information transmitted from the wireless network at the time of outgoing call. A first step of instructing analysis of the destination state information by outputting the received destination state information to a voice analysis unit when the vibration mode is set; and the voice analysis unit A second step of determining whether or not the message is an answering message such as “forwarded to answering center” based on the analysis result of the status information of the called party analyzed by A second step of reading the second vibration pattern registered for the answering message from the vibration pattern table stored in the memory when the determination result in the step is an answering message, and causing the vibrator to vibrate; When the determination result in step 3 is not an answering machine message, a third step for determining whether the message is out of service such as “a place where radio waves do not reach or the power is not turned on”, and a determination in the third step When the result is an out-of-service message, the fourth step of reading the third vibration pattern registered for the out-of-service message from the vibration pattern table and vibrating the vibrator, and the determination result in the third step are the out-of-service message When there was no "Your phone number is currently used A fifth step for determining whether the message is a number error message such as “Not received”, and when the determination result in the fifth step is a number error message, it is registered for the number error message from the vibration pattern table. When the determination result in the fifth step and the fifth step is not a number error message, it is registered corresponding to the ringback tone from the vibration pattern table. And a seventh step of reading the first vibration pattern and vibrating the vibrator. In a mobile phone connected to a destination telephone device via a wireless network and a wireless base station and performing a call, the mobile phone includes at least a vibrator, a memory having a vibration pattern table, and a voice analysis unit having a voice recognition function And a control unit including a central control unit that controls the entire mobile phone, and the control unit sets the vibration mode when receiving the destination state information transmitted from the wireless network at the time of outgoing call. A first step of instructing analysis of the destination state information by outputting the received destination state information to a voice analysis unit when the vibration mode is set; and the voice analysis unit A second step of determining whether or not the message is an answering message such as “forwarded to answering center” based on the analysis result of the status information of the called party analyzed by A second step of reading the second vibration pattern registered for the answering message from the vibration pattern table stored in the memory when the determination result in the step is an answering message, and causing the vibrator to vibrate; When the determination result in step 3 is not an answering machine message, a third step for determining whether the message is out of service such as “a place where radio waves do not reach or the power is not turned on”, and a determination in the third step When the result is an out-of-service message, the fourth step of reading the third vibration pattern registered for the out-of-service message from the vibration pattern table and vibrating the vibrator, and the determination result in the third step are the out-of-service message When there was no "Your phone number is currently used A fifth step for determining whether the message is a number error message such as “Not received”, and when the determination result in the fifth step is a number error message, it is registered for the number error message from the vibration pattern table. When the determination result in the fifth step and the fifth step is not a number error message, it is registered corresponding to the ringback tone from the vibration pattern table. A program for reading the first vibration pattern and causing the central control unit to execute a seventh step of vibrating the vibrator.

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