JPH11275262A - Videotelephone terminal equipment having telephone directory function - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily retrieve the telephone number of a desired party by adding the image information of an individual registered on a telephone directory to the name of that individual, on adding the image data of the employee of a company in the case of a company's name. SOLUTION: The image information of an individual registered on a telephone directory is added to the name of that individual, on in the case of a company's name, the image data of the employee of that company are added. When retrieving any registered telephone number using this equipment, a retrieval key is pressed by a character input means 4, and the first letter of the registered name of the telephone number to be retrieved is inputted. A number retrieving means 10 retrieves the inputted character from a data storage means 9, and when there are matching data, the name, telephone number and party's terminal class of these stored data are displayed on a character display means 11. When information showing the presence of additional images is stored, that image information is read out of an image storage means 3 and images are restored by an image extending means 5 and written in an image display memory 7 so as to be displayed on an image display means 8.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a videophone terminal having a telephone directory function in which image information is added to a telephone directory.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a videophone terminal having a conventional telephone directory function, a telephone directory search means inputs an initial of a partner to be searched, as shown by a normal voice terminal, and the initial is input. The search was performed in such a manner that the name of the other party was displayed or the telephone number of the other party was displayed at the same time. In a terminal having voice recognition means, a search is performed by displaying a registered telephone number by calling the name of the other party.

[0003]

In such a conventional videophone terminal having a telephone directory function, a telephone number registered under the same name to search by "character" or "name" In order to identify the telephone number of a caller who actually wants to make a call from several telephone numbers registered under the same name, the user has to search based on character information. Further, it has not been possible to identify whether the partner terminal indicated by the registered telephone number or partner name is a TV telephone.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve these problems, and is intended to identify a partner terminal based on information such as a personal name, an organization name, a telephone number, and an address stored in a recording medium. In a videophone terminal device having a telephone directory function that can be called, the image information of the individual is additionally registered for each individual name. Provided is a videophone terminal device having a book function.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a videophone terminal device having a telephone directory function according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the internal data structure of the data storage means shown in the block diagram of the videophone terminal device having the telephone directory function of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a videophone having the telephone directory function of FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the internal data structure of the image storage means 3 shown in the block diagram of the terminal device. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the character input shown in the block diagram of the videophone terminal device having the telephone directory function of FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a means 4.

In FIG. 1, an image input means 1 is an image input means such as a CCD camera or a CMOS sensor. Image data input from the image input unit 1 is compressed by the image compression unit 2. The compressed image data is transmitted to the partner terminal by the data transmission unit 12 through the image storage unit 3 to the partner terminal during a telephone call by the TV phone. Also, the compressed image data received from the partner terminal is restored by the image decompression means 5 and written to the image display memory 7 without passing through the image reduction means 6, so that it is displayed on the image display means 8. .

When registering a telephone directory, a character input means 4 having a structure as shown in FIG. 4 is used to input a partner name, a telephone number, and a type of a partner terminal (TV telephone or voice telephone). Next, by depressing an “imaging” key 405 shown in FIG. 4, the image input by the image input unit 1 is compressed by the image compression unit 2 and stored in the image storage unit 3 with the configuration shown in FIG. Is done. After that, by pressing the “registration” key 403, the partner name, telephone number,
Information on the partner terminal type is stored in the data storage means 9 in a configuration as shown in FIG. Here, in the method of inputting the partner name, kana characters or alphabetic characters are assigned to each key in the key arrangement shown in FIG.

For example, as for the alphabet character corresponding to the "1" key 406, a, b, and c are sequentially repeated each time the key is pressed, and in the case of the kana character, the characters in the "A" line may be sequentially repeated. The telephone number is indicated by a numeric key ("1" key 406).
To "#" key 417) are used as they are. The other party terminal type is displayed by prompting the character display means 11 to make a selection, so as to be input with the numeric keys, for example, "1" TV phone, "2" voice phone.

In the image storage means 3, data having the structure shown in FIG.
Various data previously input are stored in a pair of data storage means in the structure shown in FIG. 2 using ASCII data or the like. In FIG. 2, the information indicating the presence / absence of an additional image is stored in the “image pickup” key 4 when registering a telephone number.
If “06” is pressed, “Yes” is set. If registration is performed without pressing “06”, “No” is set. The structure shown in FIG. 2 and the structure shown in FIG. 3 always treat data as a pair, and when there is no additional image, the “data length” shown in FIG.

Next, when searching for an already registered telephone number, a "search" key 40 is
By pressing 4 and inputting the first letter of the registered name of the telephone number to be searched, the number search means 10 searches for the corresponding number. The number search means 10 searches the data storage means 9 for the entered character, and if there is a match, the name of the stored data, the telephone number,
The type of the partner terminal is displayed on the character display means 11. If information indicating that an additional image is present is stored, the image information is read out from the image storage means 3, the image is restored by the image decompression means 5, and the image is written into the image display memory 7 so that the image display means 8 is read. Display. At this time, if there are n corresponding numbers, the n pieces of image data are read out from the image storage means 3, the image is expanded by the image expansion means 5, and the image data is By writing the image in the image display memory 7 so that the n images are arranged side by side, it is possible to display the n images on the image display means 8 and improve the visibility of the search candidates. it can.

When n images are displayed on the screen, a telephone number, a partner name, and a partner terminal type corresponding to the first image are displayed on the character display means 11. Here, the "▲" key 419 and the "▼" key 418 of the character input means 4 in FIG. 4 are depressed, and the telephone number, partner name and partner terminal type displayed on the character display means 11 are displayed as the next candidate. It is possible to switch to. At this time, the character display means 1
The correspondence between the information displayed in 1 and the n images displayed in the image display means 8 is such as displaying a frame on the image corresponding to the information displayed in the character display means 11. To make it recognizable at a glance. At this time, various methods for distinguishing the corresponding image from other images include various methods such as reverse display of an unselected image and reduction of the brightness of an unselected image. May be used. When displaying n images, depending on the configuration and resolution of the image display means 8 and the image display memory 7, if there is a possibility that a problem of visibility may occur if the screen size is not a certain size, the image is reduced. The size to be reduced by the means 6 and the number of images to be displayed may be limited. For example, when the display on the screen is limited to a maximum of four screens, if there are six search candidates, first, four search candidates are displayed, and a “▲” key 419 and a “▼” key are displayed. The image displayed on the image display means 8 is also scrolled at the timing when the display of the character display means 11 is switched by pressing the button 418, and the images can be displayed in order by scrolling one image at a time.

In this manner, the telephone number can be easily searched,
The type of the partner terminal can also be determined at the same time, and by pressing the off-hook key 401 in FIG. 4, it is possible to make a call to the intended partner. Needless to say, the above includes not only a wired terminal but also a wireless terminal having a telephone directory function.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, the name of an individual registered in the telephone directory is added with the image information of the individual, and in the case of a company name, the image data of the employees of the company is added. It is possible to search for the other party's telephone number.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a videophone terminal device having a telephone directory function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an internal data structure of a data storage unit shown in a block diagram of the videophone terminal device having a telephone directory function of FIG. 1;

3 is a diagram illustrating an internal data structure of an image storage unit 3 shown in a block diagram of the videophone terminal device having a telephone directory function in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a character input unit 4 shown in a block diagram of the videophone terminal device having a telephone directory function of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Image input means 2 ... Image compression means 3 ... Image storage means 4 ... Character input means 5 ... Image decompression means 6 ... Image reduction means 7 ... Image display memory 8 ... image display means 9 ... data storage means 10 ... number search means 11 ... character display means 12 ... data transmission means 401 off-hook key 402 on-hook key 403 registration key 404 ··· Search key 405 ··· Image pickup key 406 ··· '1' key 407 ······· 2 key 408 ········· 3 key 409 ······ “4” key 410 ····· “5” key 411 ··· “6” ７ “7” key 413 「“ 8 ”key 414 ・“ 9 ”key 415 ・“ * ”key 416 １７“ 0 ”key 417 ・“ # ”key 418 ・“ ▼ ”key 419 ... "▲" key

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A videophone terminal device having a telephone directory function capable of calling a partner terminal based on information such as a personal name, a group name, a telephone number, and an address stored in a recording medium. A video telephone terminal device having a telephone directory function, wherein image information of the individual is additionally registered in the group, and in the case of a group name, image data of group members related to the group is additionally registered. 2. When a plurality of group members related to the group name are registered, a plurality of group members are displayed on one screen, and desired image data is selected from the plurality of displayed image data. The videophone terminal device having a telephone directory function according to claim 1. 3. The video telephone terminal having a telephone directory function according to claim 1, wherein the telephone directory stores information for identifying whether the other terminal is a TV telephone or a voice terminal. apparatus.