JPH05316236A - Speaker identification system for conference communication - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow conference participants to identify who is speaking at present. CONSTITUTION:A central control unit 24 requests the sound pressure level information of multifunction telephone sets connected at present to the subscriber's circuits 16-20 of multifunction telephone sets 11-15 in a conference speech in a fixed time cycle, identifies the sound pressure information larger than a constant level among the collected sound pressure level information, and turns on lamps for the conference speech corresponding to the constant number of multifunction telephone sets among the lamps provided at the multifunction telephone sets 11-15 participating in the conference, in the order of the high sound pressure level from the identified result. Also, when the multifunction telephone sets participating the conference are equipped with display devices, operator name information corresponding to the constant number of multifunction telephone sets is read from a telephone set operator name information storage part 26 in a storage device 25 in the order of the high sound pressure level, and displayed at a reading display device.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a conference call service of an electronic automatic private branch exchange, and more particularly to a speaker identification system during a conference call.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional conference call service, the only way to identify who is talking to two or more callers is to judge the voice of the person who is talking.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional method, when the number of the parties of the conference call is three or more, or when there are two or more persons who talk for the first time among the parties of the conference call, It was often difficult to identify who was talking now by voice, which resulted in confusion in the meeting.

[0004]

The speaker identification system for conference calls according to the present invention is a sound pressure level at the time of receiving a request of a multi-function telephone connected by a request from a central control unit in an electronic automatic private branch exchange. A subscriber circuit having means for notifying the central control unit of the sound pressure level information converted into multi-step numerical information, a lamp for the number of participants in the conference call that can be controlled from the central control unit, and An information requesting means for providing sound pressure level information to a subscriber circuit of each of the multifunctional telephones, which is provided with a multifunctional telephone having a button corresponding to a lamp, and which performs a conference call from the central control unit at a constant time cycle. , The sound pressure level information having a level higher than a predetermined constant sound pressure level is identified from among the sound pressure level information of each multi-function telephone received by the central control unit, and is identified. Judgment means for comparing the pressure level information to judge whether the sound pressure level is high or low for each multi-function telephone, and the high or low sound pressure level among the lamps provided in each multi-function telephone making a conference call From the sound pressure level information having a sound pressure level higher than a predetermined level determined by the determining means, a predetermined number of sound pressure level information is extracted in order of the highest sound pressure level,
It is provided with a lamp lighting means for lighting a lamp corresponding to the multifunction telephone having the extracted sound pressure level information.

A speaker identification system for conference call according to another invention of the present invention is the one described above, which is housed in a display device capable of displaying character information on a multifunction telephone and an electronic automatic private branch exchange. Handling of a multifunctional telephone with a storage device for registering the name of the person who handles the telephone in advance and having a predetermined number of sound pressure level information from the highest sound pressure level retrieved A reading means for reading the person's name from the storage device and a display means for displaying the person's name read by the reading means on the display device of the multifunction telephone are provided.

[0006]

According to the present invention, in a conference call service of an electronic automatic private branch exchange, a multi-function telephone having a sound pressure level higher than a certain value among conference participants during a conference call, that is, a multi-functional telephone that is talking. Identifies the function telephone and turns on the lamp provided on each multi-function telephone of the conference participants and turns on the lamp corresponding to the multi-function telephone, or the name of the person who handles the multi-function telephone talking is given to the conference participant. Is displayed on the display device of each multi-function telephone.

[0007]

1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, showing an example of the construction of an electronic automatic private branch exchange.
In FIG. 1, reference numerals 11, 12, ... 15 denote multifunction telephones having lamps for the number of participants in a conference call that can be controlled by the central control unit 24 and buttons corresponding to the lamps. Reference numeral 15 denotes a telephone for making a conference call, each telephone having the number of participants in the conference call, in this embodiment, five conference call lamps 1 to 5 (not shown) and buttons corresponding to these lamps 1 to 5. 1 to 5 (not shown) are provided. The multifunction telephones 14 and 15 are multifunction telephones equipped with the display devices 21 and 22 in addition to the lamps and buttons described above. Here, the display devices 21 and 22 are the multifunction telephone 1
It is a display device capable of displaying character information at 4 and 15, respectively. Reference numerals 16 to 20 denote subscriber circuits of the multi-function telephones 11 to 15, respectively. The subscriber circuits 16 to 20 respond to a request from the central control unit 24, and sound of the connected multi-function telephone at the time of receiving a request. The central control unit 2 detects the sound pressure level and converts the sound pressure level information converted into multi-stage numerical information.
4 has a means to notify. 23 is a main switch, 2
Reference numeral 5 is a storage device including a telephone operator information storage portion 26 in which a telephone operator name is registered in advance, and this storage device 25 is a telephone operator who is accommodated in an electronic automatic private branch exchange in advance. This is a storage device for registering names. Reference numeral 27 is a conference call trunk.

Then, the central control unit 24 has an information requesting means for requesting the sound pressure level information from the central control unit 24 to the subscriber circuit of each multi-function telephone making a conference call at a constant time period, and a central control unit. From the sound pressure level information of each multifunction telephone received by the control device 24, the sound pressure level information having a higher level than a predetermined constant sound pressure level is identified and the identified sound pressure level information is compared. Of the sound pressure level of each multi-function telephone and the judgment means of the above-mentioned sound pressure level of the lamps provided in each multi-function telephone making a conference call. From the sound pressure level information having a sound pressure level higher than a predetermined level, a predetermined number of pieces of sound pressure level information are extracted in order of the highest sound pressure level, and the extracted sound pressure And a lamp lighting device for lighting a lamp corresponding to multifunction telephone with bell information. The central control unit 24 also reads out from the storage unit 25 the name of the person who handles the multi-function telephone having a predetermined number of pieces of sound pressure level information from the highest extracted sound pressure level. And a display means for displaying the name of the operator read by the reading means on the display device of the multi-function telephone.

Next, the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 will be described. First, in order to start a conference call, the conference organizer, who handles the multifunction telephone 11 in this embodiment, makes a call from the multifunction telephone 11 and presses the button 1 provided on the multifunction telephone 11. The central control unit 24 identifies that the conference call is started, identifies that the multifunction telephone 11 is associated with the button 1, and the conference call trunk 27
To wait for the reception of the conference participant number. Next, the person who handles the multifunction telephone 11
When the button 2 for conference call provided on the telephone is pressed and then the number of the multi-function telephone 12 which is a participant of the conference is dialed, the central control unit 24 calls the multi-function telephone 12.
When the person who handles the multi-function telephone 12 responds from the multi-function telephone 12, the central controller 24 identifies that the multi-function telephone 12 is associated with the button 2, and the multi-function telephone 11 and the multi-function telephone 12 are connected to each other. A conference call trunk 27
Connect via. By this operation, the multifunction telephone 11
The call to the multifunctional telephone 12 becomes possible, and the operator of the multifunctional telephone 11 verbally notifies the holding of the conference.

By a similar operation, the operator of each multifunction telephone is called by dialing the numbers of the multifunction telephones 13, 14, 15 in response to the depression of the buttons 3, 4 and 5, respectively. Responds,
Finally, the central controller 24 pushes the button 1 to the multifunction telephone 1.
1 identifies that the button 2 is associated with the multifunction telephone 12, the button 3 is associated with the multifunction telephone 13, the button 4 is associated with the multifunction telephone 14, and the button 5 is associated with the multifunction telephone 15. In addition, by the above operation, the multifunction telephones 11 to 11
The multifunction telephone 15 is connected via the conference call trunk 27.
Is a trunk having a function of adding the voices of the connected telephones and outputting the added voices to each of the connected telephones, as is well known. Therefore, by this connection, five multifunction telephones 11 to 15 are configured. A conference call is realized. Then, the person who handles the multi-function telephone 11 as the conference organizer gives each conference participant, that is, the person who handles the multi-function telephone 12 to the multi-function telephone 15 the buttons 1 to 5 respectively. It verifies that it is associated with the telephone 15 and then starts the conference.

During a conference call, the central control unit 24 requests sound pressure level information from the subscriber circuits 16 to 20 of the multi-function telephone 11 to the multi-function telephone 15 at regular time intervals, and the subscriber circuit is requested. 15-subscriber circuit 20 is a multi-function telephone 11 to each connected to the central control unit 24
The sound pressure level information of the multifunction telephone 15 is transmitted. The sound pressure levels are higher in the order of the multi-function phones 12, 13, 14, 15, and 11, and in particular, the sound pressure level information of the multi-function phones 12 and 13 exceeds the predetermined sound pressure level. In the case of the electronic automatic private branch exchange system in which the number of lights for the conference call trunk is set to one in advance, the central control unit 24 receives the sound pressure level information from each subscriber circuit, and sets the predetermined number. A subscriber who has identified the sound pressure level information of the multi-function telephone 12 and the multi-function telephone 13 as the sound pressure level information having a value higher than a certain sound pressure level, and transmitted the information with the highest sound pressure level among them. A multifunction telephone connected to the circuit, ie,
The button 2 associated with the multi-function telephone 12 is identified, the lamp 2 associated with the button 2 of the multi-function telephone 11 to the multi-function telephone 15 is turned on, and the conference call is turned on in the last cycle. The lamp is extinguished, and the operator name information of the multifunction telephone 12 is read from the telephone operator name information storage portion 26 inside the storage device 25, and the display devices 21, 21 of the multifunction telephone 14 and the multifunction telephone 15 are read out. Two
Display in 2 respectively.

When the conference ends and the multifunction telephones 11 to 15 are restored, the central control unit 24 causes the multifunction telephones 11 to 15 and the conference call trunk 2 to operate.
7, the conference call lamps 1 to 5 provided in the multifunction telephone 11 to the multifunction telephone 15 are extinguished, and the display devices 21 of the multifunction telephone 14 and the multifunction telephone 15 are extinguished.
The telephone caller's name displayed on 22 is deleted, and the conference call service is terminated. In the above-mentioned embodiment,
The case where the number of conference call lamps is turned on has been described as an example. It is also possible to set two or more sound pressure level information in descending order of sound pressure level.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, in the conference call service of the electronic automatic private branch exchange, during the conference call, the multi-functional telephone in which the sound pressure level among the conference participants is higher than a certain value, that is, Identifies the talking multi-function phone and turns on the lamp provided on each multi-function phone of the conference participants to talk to the multi-function phone or treats the talking multi-function phone By displaying the name of the person on the display device of each multifunction telephone of the conference participants, the conference participants can know who is currently speaking, and the conference can be smoothly performed. is there.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

[Explanation of symbols]

 11-15 Multi-function telephone 16-20 Subscriber circuit 21,22 Display device 23 Main switch 24 Central control device 25 Storage device 26 Telephone operator name information storage part 27 Conference call trunk

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. In an electronic automatic private branch exchange, sound pressure level information obtained by detecting a sound pressure level at the time of receiving a request from a multifunction telephone connected to the central control unit and converting the sound pressure level into multistage numerical information. A subscriber circuit having means for notifying the central control unit of the number, a lamp for the number of participants in a conference call that can be controlled from the central control unit, and a multifunction telephone having buttons corresponding to the lamp, Information requesting means for requesting sound pressure level information from the control device to the subscriber circuit of each multi-function telephone making a conference call at a fixed time period, and the sound pressure level of each multi-function telephone received by the central control device. Sound pressure level information having a level higher than a predetermined constant sound pressure level is identified from among the information, and the identified sound pressure level information is compared to determine the sound pressure level for each multifunction telephone. Of the sound pressure level determined by the judgment means for judging whether the sound pressure level is high or low among the lamps provided in each of the multi-function telephones making a conference call. From the sound pressure level information that has, the predetermined number of sound pressure level information is taken out in the order of the highest sound pressure level, and the lamp corresponding to the multi-function telephone that has the taken sound pressure level information is turned on. A speaker identification method for a conference call, comprising a lamp lighting means for controlling the call. 2. The speaker identification system for conference call according to claim 1, wherein a display device capable of displaying character information on a multi-function telephone and a person who handles a telephone accommodated in an electronic automatic private branch exchange in advance. Provide a storage device for registering names,
And reading means for reading from the storage device the name of the person who handles the multi-function telephone having a predetermined number of pieces of sound pressure level information in order from the highest extracted sound pressure level.
A speaker identification system for a conference call, comprising display means for displaying the name of the person who has been read by the reading means on the display device of the multifunction telephone.