JP3467104B2 - Wireless telephone system and wireless telephone - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a radiotelephone system and a radiotelephone system, and more particularly to a radiotelephone system and a radiotelephone system capable of significantly reducing the power consumption of a battery of the radiotelephone during automatic response.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A radio telephone system enables communication between radio telephones or between a radio telephone and a general telephone via a radio base station, and has been widely put into practical use in recent years. In the wireless telephone of this wireless telephone system,
When an incoming call is received, a ringing tone is generated, and when the carrier of the wireless telephone who listens to it operates the off-hook key, the wireless telephone and the telephone of the calling side are connected to each other and a call is possible.

By the way, in a public place such as on a train, when a wireless telephone being carried receives an incoming call and the ringing tone described above occurs, it causes annoyance to the people around. However, in view of this point, by key operation, A wireless telephone that can notify an incoming call by blinking a light emitting element instead of generating a ringing tone is also put into practical use. However, this type of wireless telephone cannot be recognized by the carrier even if an incoming call is received, depending on the mode of carrying the device, such as being carried in a bag. Therefore, when an incoming call arrives, the telephone number of the calling side telephone is stored, and a wireless telephone with an automatic answering function that can select a mode for transmitting a previously stored response message to the calling side telephone by key operation Is also proposed.

[0004] A certain type of wireless telephone system provides a service of transmitting the telephone number to the telephone of the other side by registering the owner of the telephone of the calling side. This service will be provided in the near future. It tends to be expanded to general telephone systems.

[0005]

By the way, the wireless telephone with the automatic response function transmits a response message from the wireless telephone with the automatic response function by receiving power supply from the battery of the wireless telephone with the automatic response function. .
The power consumption of the battery due to the transmission of this response message is not negligible, and becomes extremely large when the response message is long.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a radiotelephone system and a radiotelephone system capable of significantly reducing the power consumption of the battery of the radiotelephone at the time of automatic response of the radiotelephone. And

[0007]

According to the invention of claim 1, there is no
Next, a wireless telephone system including a line telephone and a wireless base station will be described.
Like That is, the wireless telephone is
The incoming call information including the telephone number of the telephone and the incoming time is stored.
Incoming call memory and ring tone when there is an incoming call
Is prohibited and the incoming call information is not stored in the above incoming call memory.
In addition, the wireless base station connects the wireless telephone to the wireless line.
And the response message is sent to the calling telephone.
Send predetermined response data to the wireless base station
Automatic response control means and an antenna
And a radio circuit unit for transmitting and receiving radio signals to and from the ground station
On the other hand, the radio base station stores the response message.
Answer message memory and the wireless
When the above specified response data is transmitted from the handset
Disconnect the wireless line from this wireless telephone,
Stored in the above answer message memory on the phone
Response message transmission control means for transmitting response message
And a radio signal between the wireless telephone equipped with an antenna
And a wireless unit for transmitting and receiving.

According to the invention of claim 2, the radio according to claim 1
In addition to the wireless telephone in the telephone system, the following three
The means etc. were added. That is, upon receiving a key input,
The incoming call information stored in the incoming call memory is displayed sequentially.
Display section, and when the key input is received, it is displayed on the above display section.
Specifying one incoming call information and key input
In response to the incoming call information specified by the above-mentioned specifying means,
Read the stored telephone number from the above incoming memory and read this
Based on the phone number
Simple call to send a wireless signal to the wireless circuit section to call
Control means was added.

According to the invention of claim 3, in the wireless telephone system
The wireless telephone used in the above was constructed as follows. You
That is, including the telephone number of the calling telephone and the arrival time
Incoming call memory that stores incoming call information and when there is an incoming call
In addition to prohibiting the ringing tone,
The incoming call information is stored, and the wireless base station
Disconnects the wireless line between
The specified response data is sent so that it can be sent to the calling telephone.
The automatic response control means for transmitting to the radio base station and the antenna
Be prepared to send and receive wireless signals to and from the wireless base station
And a line circuit section.

According to the invention of claim 4, the radio according to claim 3
In addition to the wireless telephone in the telephone system, the following three
The means etc. were added. That is, upon receiving a key input,
The incoming call information stored in the incoming call memory is displayed sequentially.
Display section, and when the key input is received, it is displayed on the above display section.
Specifying one incoming call information and key input
In response to the incoming call information specified by the above-mentioned specifying means,
Read the stored telephone number from the above incoming memory and read this
Based on the phone number
Simple call to send a wireless signal to the wireless circuit section to call
Control means was added.

The operation of the invention of each of the above claims will be described below.
explain. In the invention of claim 1, the automatic response of the wireless telephone
The control means prohibits the ringing tone from
Wireless phone battery power consumption is significantly reduced
In addition, the predetermined response data sent by the automatic response control means
By shortening the parameter, the wireless telephone's
Batteries' power consumption is significantly reduced, and wireless
Due to the presence of the response message transmission control means of the base station,
Prescribed short response data sent from the wireless telephone
Is received and the corresponding response message is sent to the calling party.
The caller receives a sufficient response
Can receive sage.

According to the invention of claim 2, the user of the wireless telephone
Is stored in the above incoming memory by key input
The incoming call information is sequentially displayed on the display unit, and further by key operation.
The incoming call information displayed on the display using
Specify one message and use the key operation to perform a simple call control
Use Dan to set the other party's phone that is the target of the automatic response.
It will be easy to call.

In the invention of claim 3, the automatic response control means is
The generation of a ringing tone when an incoming call is prohibited by the
The power consumption of the battery of the
Shorter the predetermined response data sent by the response control means
Power consumption of the wireless telephone battery
The cost is further reduced, and the wireless base station is
In response to this, the communication line with the wireless telephone is disconnected.
Therefore, the power consumption of the battery is further reduced.

According to the invention of claim 4, the user of the wireless telephone
Is stored in the above incoming memory by key input
The incoming call information is sequentially displayed on the display unit, and further by key operation.
The incoming call information displayed on the display using
Specify one message and use the key operation to perform a simple call control
Use Dan to set the other party's phone that is the target of the automatic response.
It will be easy to call.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be specifically described below based on the embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a wireless telephone system according to an embodiment of the present invention. That is, the present embodiment is composed of a wireless telephone 1 (only one is shown in the figure, but many are actually present) and a wireless base station 10. In the wireless telephone 1, the control unit 2
Is composed of a CPU and a ROM or the like that fixedly stores programs related to various operations of the wireless telephone 1. It sends control signals to each connected circuit unit, controls them, and processes the sent signals. It is a circuit unit that processes and sends out. The display unit 3 is a circuit unit arranged at a position where the wireless telephone 1 can be easily seen and displaying data from the control unit 2. The key input unit 4 is an off-hook key switch (call key switch) or an on-hook key switch. In addition to general switches such as (end-call key switch) and dial key switch, a circuit unit that includes various switches to be described later and sends a corresponding key input signal to the control unit 2 when any of these switches is operated. is there.

The RAM 5 is a circuit section for storing the data from the control section 2 and sending the stored data to the control section 2 under the control of the control section 2. The incoming call memory TM provided in the RAM 5 is a memory for storing incoming call information consisting of the incoming call time and the telephone number of the calling telephone when an incoming call is received in the automatic answering mode, that is, in the incoming call recording mode. is there. The wireless circuit unit 6 including the antenna 7 is a circuit unit that performs wireless transmission / reception operation under the control of the control unit 2. The microphone 8 is a circuit unit that inputs a voice for transmission, converts the voice into an electric signal and sends the electric signal to the control unit 2, and the speaker 9 inputs an electric signal for reception or ringing sound from the control unit 2. Then, it is a circuit unit which converts this into a voice or a ringing tone and outputs it.

In the radio base station 10, the control unit 11
It is composed of a CPU and a ROM or the like that fixedly stores programs related to various operations of the wireless base station 10, and is connected to each circuit portion (various circuits not shown, for example, a control terminal device to which a public line is connected). (Including equipment) to control signals, control the signals, and process and send the received signals.

The RAM 12 is under the control of the control unit 11,
It is a circuit unit that stores data from the control unit 11 and sends the stored data to the control unit 11. This RA
An automatic response message memory M provided in M12
M stores a response message (for example, a response message such as "I will contact you later") that is sent back to the calling telephone when a predetermined short response data is sent from the wireless telephone 1 that received the call. Memory. The wireless unit 13 including the antenna 14 is a circuit unit that performs wireless transmission / reception operation under the control of the control unit 11.

Next, the operation of this embodiment configured as described above will be described. FIG. 2 is a general flowchart showing an outline of the operation of the wireless telephone 1. That is, in the wireless telephone 1, when the power is turned on, the process proceeds to step S1, and in this step S1, it is determined whether there is an incoming call. If there is no incoming call, the process proceeds to step S10, and any key switch of the key input unit 4 is operated. Determine whether there was a key input. When there is no key input, the process returns to step S1, and thereafter waits for an incoming call and key input, and steps S1 and S10.
The process of is repeated. When there is an incoming call, the incoming call is detected in step S1, the process proceeds to step S2, it is determined whether the incoming call recording mode is currently set, and when the incoming call recording mode is not set, that is, in the normal mode, In step S5, an incoming call notification for generating a ringing tone is performed from the speaker 9, and in the following step S6, the operation of the off-hook key switch is awaited. When this operation is performed, this is detected in step S6, and then Go to the call processing of step S7.

In the call process of step S7, various processes relating to transmission / reception of a mobile phone are executed. Each time one of the processes is executed, the process proceeds to step S8 to judge whether the on-hook key switch has been operated. If it is not operated, the process returns to step S7. In this way, the operation of the on-hook key switch is awaited while executing the call processing, and when the operation of the on-hook key switch is detected, it is detected in step S8 and the process returns to step S1.
The standby state for the above-mentioned incoming call and key input is entered. When any of the key switches is operated during the standby state and there is a key input, it is detected in step S10, the process proceeds to the key input process of step S11, the process corresponding to the key input is executed, and then , And returns to step S1.

When it is determined in step S2 that the incoming call recording mode is set, the operation in the incoming call recording mode shown in steps S3 and S4 is executed, which will be described later in detail. Note that FIG. 3 shows the above step S11.
4 is a flowchart showing in detail the key input process of FIG. 4, and FIG. 4 shows a display example when the incoming call information recorded in the incoming call memory TM is displayed on the display unit 3. Less than,
The main operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.

(A) Operation in the incoming call recording mode To switch from the normal mode to the incoming call recording mode, the incoming call recording mode key switch of the key input unit 4 is operated.
In this case, the process proceeds from step S10 of FIG. 2 to step S11, that is, the key input process of FIG. Then, the above operation is detected in step S20, and the incoming call recording mode is set in subsequent step S21.

If there is an incoming call in the incoming call recording mode,
The process proceeds from step S1 to step S2 in FIG. 2, and in this step it is judged that the incoming call recording mode is set, and the process proceeds to step S3, the current time at that point, that is, the incoming time, and the telephone set of the calling side sent. And the telephone number are recorded as one incoming call information in the incoming call memory TM. Then, in step S4, a predetermined short response data is read, and this data is given to the wireless circuit unit 6 to be transmitted. In this case, in the wireless base station 10, the wireless unit 13 receives the predetermined short response data and gives it to the control unit 11. Then, the control unit 11 reads the response message from the automatic response message memory MM based on the above data and transmits it to the calling side telephone.
When the process of step S4 in FIG. 1 is completed, the process returns to step S1 to enter the standby state. The above operation is repeated every time there is an incoming call in the incoming call recording mode,
The incoming call information is accumulated in the incoming call memory TM.

(B) Confirmation operation of the incoming call information stored in the incoming call memory TM As described above, the incoming call information stored in the incoming call memory TM, that is, the call originated from the wireless telephone 1 in the incoming call recording mode When confirming the telephone number or the like of the side telephone, the record display key switch of the key input unit 4 is operated. In this case, the operation is detected in step S22 of FIG. 3, the process proceeds to the next step S23, and as shown in FIG. 4, the incoming call time of the incoming call information stored in the incoming call memory TM is the oldest. The six are displayed in chronological order from the top. To check the new incoming call information, key input section 4
Operate the scroll key switch of. in this case,
Every time the operation is performed, this is detected in step S24 of FIG. 3, the process proceeds to the next step S25, the incoming call information displayed at the top of the display unit 3 is erased, and the other incoming call information is set to 1
A scroll display is performed in which the incoming call information is displayed stepwise at the top and new incoming call information is additionally displayed at the bottom. This allows
The user of the wireless telephone 1 can confirm all the incoming call information stored in the incoming call memory TM.

(C) Operation at the time of simple call When the wireless telephone 1 is set to the incoming call recording mode, when the telephone of the calling side that called the wireless telephone 1 is called from the wireless telephone 1 on the contrary. As described above, the incoming call information of the calling telephone, that is, the telephone number is displayed on the display unit 3
, And further operate the designation change key switch of the key input unit 4 to bring an instruction line (the line shown below the uppermost incoming call information in FIG. 4) under the incoming call information, and then Then, the simple call key switch of the key input unit 4 is operated. At this time, each time the designation change key switch is operated, it is detected in step S26 of FIG. 3, and the process proceeds to the next step S27, in which only one instruction line is displayed below the incoming call information below. (When it comes to the bottom of the incoming call information at the bottom, replace it with the bottom of the incoming call information at the top). Further, when the simple call key switch is operated, it is detected in step S28 of FIG. 3, the process proceeds to the next step S29, and the telephone related to the incoming call information having the instruction line on the display unit 3 is detected. The number is read from the incoming call memory TM, and a call signal for calling the telephone set associated with this telephone number is sent from the wireless circuit section 6.

The invention of the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications and applications are possible without departing from the scope of the invention. For example, in the above embodiment, the wireless telephone 1
When an incoming call is received in the incoming call recording mode, the incoming call information is stored in the incoming call memory TM. However, this operation is not performed, and the wireless base station 10 issues a response message such as "Please call again later." It is needless to say that only the predetermined short response data to be sent to the telephone of the calling side may be sent to the radio base station 10.

Further, in the above embodiment, the radio telephone 1 displays the incoming call information of the incoming call memory TM on the display unit 3 plurally, but it is assumed that the incoming call information is displayed one by one. Of course, when the simple call key switch is operated while being displayed, the incoming call information being displayed, that is, the telephone having the telephone number may be called.

[0028]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a radiotelephone system and a radiotelephone system capable of significantly reducing the power consumption of the battery of the radiotelephone during automatic response of the radiotelephone. To do.

[0029]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a general flowchart showing an outline of the operation of the wireless telephone in the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing in detail the key input processing in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of incoming call information on a display unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 wireless telephone 2 control unit 3 Display 4 Key input section 5 RAM 6 Radio circuit section 7 antenna 8 microphones 9 speakers 10 wireless base stations 11 Control unit 12 RAM 13 radio section 14 antenna TM incoming memory MM automatic response message memory

Continuation of the front page (56) Reference JP-A-4-74026 (JP, A) JP-A-4-368027 (JP, A) JP-A-6-232962 (JP, A) JP-A-6-62108 (JP , A) (58) Fields surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) H04B ^7/ 24-7/26 H04Q ⁷ /00-7/38

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A radio comprising a radio telephone and a radio base station
In the telephone system, the wireless telephone has incoming call information including the telephone number of the calling telephone and the incoming time.
Incoming call memory that is stored, and prohibits ringing sound when there is an incoming call,
Store the incoming call information in the above incoming call memory, and further
Disconnects the wireless line from the wireless phone
Predetermined to send a response message to the calling phone
Response control that sends response data of the target to the wireless base station
Means and an antenna to transmit a radio signal to the radio base station.
And a radio circuit unit which receives, on the other hand, the radio base station, a response message memory the response message is stored
And the specified response data is sent from the wireless telephone that is calling.
The wireless line to and from this wireless telephone when it is received.
Disconnects the call, and the above answer message memory is displayed on the calling telephone.
Reply message to send the reply message stored in
And a wireless signal from the wireless telephone equipped with an antenna.
A radio having a radio unit for receiving
Telephone system. 2. The wireless telephone further receives a key input and receives a call stored in the incoming call memory.
The display section that sequentially displays the incoming call information and the incoming call information that is displayed on the above-mentioned display section in response to key input.
Designating means for designating one piece of information and key designation, and designated by the above-mentioned designating means
Read the phone number in the incoming call information from the above incoming call memory
Based on this read phone number
A radio signal for calling the relevant telephone is transmitted to the radio circuit section.
And a simple call control means for
The wireless telephone system according to claim 1. 3. A wireless telephone system used in
Incoming call information including the telephone number and the arrival time of the calling telephone that is a line telephone
Incoming call memory that is stored, and prohibits ringing sound when there is an incoming call,
Store the incoming call information in the above incoming call memory, and further
Disconnects the wireless line from the wireless telephone and responds.
Predetermined to send the answer message to the calling phone
An automatic response controller that sends response data to the radio base station.
And a radio antenna for transmitting radio signals to and from the radio base station.
A wireless circuit including a wireless circuit unit for receiving
Telephone. 4. Upon receipt of a key input, the incoming call memory is recorded.
The display section that sequentially displays the stored incoming call information and the incoming call information displayed on the above-mentioned display section in response to key input
Designating means for designating one piece of information and key designation, and designated by the above-mentioned designating means
Read the phone number in the incoming call information from the above incoming call memory
Based on this read phone number
A radio signal for calling the relevant telephone is transmitted to the radio circuit section.
And a simple call control means
The wireless telephone according to claim 3.