JP2976768B2 - Key telephone equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a key telephone apparatus, and more particularly to a key telephone apparatus having a display function and an electronic telephone function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 2 shows a conventional key telephone apparatus of this type. In FIG. 2, the key telephone device includes a main device 11, and a telephone interface 12 in the main device 11 is a telephone 13 with a display device.
And the line interface 14 is connected to a public line. An electronic telephone directory memory 16, a character string sorting device 17, a memory dividing device 18, a table of contents screen information 19, and a central processing unit 15 are connected to each interface. The electronic telephone directory memory 16 stores name information and number information of the destination. The information stored in the memory is sorted by the character string sorting device 17 in the order of the character strings of the names. Table of contents screen information 1
Reference numeral 9 stores information on a table of contents screen when the electronic telephone directory function is used. The control of each unit is controlled by the central processing unit 15.

Next, the operation of the above conventional example will be described. First, when a telephone number and a name of a call destination are inputted by a predetermined operation from the telephone 13 with a display device, the inputted information is stored in the electronic telephone directory memory 16 via the telephone interface 12 by a command from the central processing unit 15. Is done. The stored information is sorted by the character string sorting device 17 in the order of the character strings of the names. Further, the information stored in the electronic telephone directory memory 16 is stored in the memory partitioning device 1.
8, the memory 16 corresponding to the table of contents screen information 19
a, memory 16b... As a result, a table of contents screen of the table of contents screen information 19 is displayed on the display-equipped telephone 13 as shown in FIG. For example, when the second item of the table of contents, "", is selected from the telephone 13 with the display device by a predetermined operation, the central processing unit 15 displays the name information of the corresponding memory 16b in FIG. To be displayed on the display-equipped telephone 13 so that the display is displayed. In this case, if the information cannot be displayed on one screen, a predetermined operation is performed, and a subsequent screen is displayed as shown in FIG.

As described above, the name of the destination to be transmitted is displayed on the telephone 13 with a display device, and when the name of the destination is designated by a predetermined operation, the corresponding instruction in the electronic telephone directory memory 16b is issued by a command from the central processing unit 15. The number information to be output is output to the public line via the line interface 14. For this reason, even with the conventional key telephone device, it is possible to make a call using only the name information of the other party using the electronic telephone directory.

[0005]

However, in the conventional key telephone apparatus, when the information amount of each item in the table of contents of the electronic telephone directory varies, the name of the destination included in the item having a large amount of information is changed. There is a problem that many operations are required to display.

That is, when the information stored in the electronic telephone directory memory 16 is as shown in FIG. 5A, when this information is divided by the memory dividing device 18, FIG.
The state is as shown in the figure. When displaying such divided information, for example, to display "Uchida",
More operations are required compared to displaying "Miyamoto".

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves such a conventional problem, and eliminates a difference in the amount of information of each item in the table of contents, and can average the operations required until the name is displayed. It is intended to provide a device.

[0008]

According to the present invention, there is provided an information input means for inputting a name and a number of a destination, and a telephone for storing name information and number information by input of the information input means. A book storage unit, a character string sorting unit that sorts information stored in the telephone directory storage unit in the order of the character strings of the name, and an information division that equally divides the information of the destinations sorted by the character string sorting unit according to the name information. Means, table of contents screen information generating means for generating table of contents screen information corresponding to a character string from the information divided by the information dividing means, and table of contents screen information generated by the table of contents screen information generating means in response to the operation. A button comprising: a table of contents screen information extracting means for extracting specified table of contents screen information; and a display means for displaying a table of contents screen in accordance with the table of contents screen information extracted by the table of contents screen information extracting means. It is obtained by configuring the telephone apparatus.

[0009]

Therefore, according to the present invention, when the destination information is rearranged in the order of the character string of the name, this information is equally divided according to the name information, and the table of contents screen information corresponding to the character string is obtained from the equally divided information. Is generated, there is no difference in the amount of information of each item of the table of contents, and operations required until a specified name is displayed according to the table of contents screen information can be averaged.

[0010]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a key telephone apparatus showing one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the key telephone apparatus includes a main device 1, a telephone interface 2 of the main device 1 is connected to a telephone 3 with a display device, and an office line interface 4 is connected to a public line. An electronic telephone directory memory 6, a character string sorting device 7, a memory dividing device 8, a table of contents screen information 9, a table of contents screen creating device 10, and a central processing unit 5 are connected to each interface. The electronic telephone directory memory 6 stores name information and number information of the destination. That is, the electronic telephone directory memory 6 is configured as telephone directory storage means. The information stored in the electronic telephone directory memory 6 is sorted by the character string sorting device 7 in the order of the character strings of the names.
Further, the information stored in the electronic telephone directory memory 6 is equally divided by the memory dividing device 8 according to the name information. That is, the information in the electronic telephone directory memory 6 is equally divided like the memory 6a, the memory 6b,. The information divided equally is searched for the first letter of the name information by the table-of-contents screen creation device 10, the table-of-contents screen information is edited, and stored in the table-of-contents screen information 9.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. First, when a destination name and a telephone number are input by a predetermined operation of the display-equipped telephone 3, the input information is stored in the electronic telephone directory memory 6 via the telephone interface 2 as name information and number information. You. When the name information and the number information are stored in the electronic telephone directory memory 6, the information in the electronic telephone directory memory 6 is rearranged in the order of the character strings of the name by the character string sorting device 7 in accordance with a command from the central processing unit 5. Subsequently, the information in the electronic telephone directory memory 6 is equally divided into a predetermined number by the memory dividing device 8 and stored as the memories 6a, 6b. That is, the information stored in the electronic telephone directory memory 6 is equally divided according to the name information. Thereafter, the table-of-contents screen creation device 10 is activated by a command from the central processing unit 5, and
a, the initials of the name information in the memory 6b are searched, the table of contents screen information is edited according to the search result, and the edited result is stored in the table of contents screen information 9.

When these processes are completed, the information of the table-of-contents screen information 9 is displayed on the display screen of the telephone with display device 3 in response to a command from the central processing unit 5 as a table of contents screen. In this case, a table of contents screen as shown in FIG. 4A is displayed. At this time, for example, by a predetermined operation of the telephone 3 with a display device, the second item in the table of contents,
When the item "f" is selected, the name information of the corresponding memory 6b is displayed on the display screen of the display-equipped telephone 3 according to a command from the central processing unit 5. In this case, a table of contents screen as shown in FIG. 4B is displayed. If the information cannot be displayed on one screen at this time, a table of contents screen as shown in FIG. 4C is displayed as a subsequent screen by a predetermined operation.

In this way, after the name of the destination is displayed on the display screen of the telephone 3 with a display device, when the name of the destination is designated by a predetermined operation of the telephone 3 with a display device, the central processing unit The corresponding telephone number in the electronic telephone directory memory 6b is output to the public line via the central office interface 4 in response to a command from 5.

As described above, in this embodiment, since the information in the electronic telephone directory memory 6 is equally divided as shown in FIG. 5C, the names in the electronic telephone directory memory 6 are displayed. It is possible to prevent the amount of operation required for the name from being significantly different depending on the name. That is, it is possible to eliminate the difference in the amount of information of each item of the table of contents, and to average the operations required until the name is displayed.

[0015]

As is apparent from the above embodiment, the present invention rearranges the information stored in the telephone directory storing means for storing the name information and the number information in the order of the character strings of the names, and also rearranges the rearranged information. Since the table of contents screen information corresponding to the character string is generated from the equally divided information according to the name information, there is no difference in the amount of information of each item of the table of contents, and it is necessary to display the name of the destination Operations can be averaged.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a key telephone apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a conventional example.

3A is a diagram illustrating a display example of a table of contents screen of a conventional example. FIG. 3B is a diagram illustrating a display example of a telephone directory screen of a conventional example. FIG. 3C is a display example of a conventional phone book screen. Figure

4A is a diagram showing a display example of a table of contents screen in the key telephone apparatus of the present invention. FIG. 4B is a diagram showing a display example of a telephone directory screen of the present invention. FIG. Figure showing a display example

5A is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a conventional memory. FIG. 5B is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a conventional memory. FIG. 5C is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an electronic telephone directory memory in the key telephone apparatus of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main device 2 Telephone interface 3 Telephone with display device 4 Local line interface 5 Central processing unit 6 Electronic telephone directory memory 7 Character string sorting device 8 Memory division device 9 Table of contents screen information 10 Table of contents screen creation device

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An information input means for inputting a name and a number of a call destination, a telephone directory storage means for storing name information and number information inputted by the information input means, and a name stored in the telephone directory storage means. Character string sorting means for sorting the destination information sorted by the character string sorting means according to name information, and a character string based on the information divided by the information dividing means. Table of contents screen information generating means for generating table of contents screen information, table of contents screen information extracting means for extracting specified table of contents screen information from table of contents screen information generated by the table of contents screen information in response to an operation, A key telephone device comprising: a display unit that displays a table of contents according to the table of contents screen information extracted by the screen information extraction unit.