JPH0355946A - Memory dial telephone system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To listen to a telephone number of an opposite party registered to a telephone system by retrieving a relevant telephone number stored in a dial memory when a retrieval mode signal and retrieval information are received from a PB signal reception means, converting the retrieved telephone number into a voice synthesizing signal and sending it. CONSTITUTION:When a dial origination with a PB signal is made from an opposite party to confirm a dial number registered in a memory dial telephone system, a CPU 1 retrieves a dial memory area in a RAM 3 responding to the inputted PB signal, reads an abbreviation dial number registered in advance and drives a voice synthesizing circuit 8 responding to the result of the readout. Consequently, the dial number in a voice synthesizing signal from the voice synthesizing circuit 8 is sent to the opposite party. Thus, if the carrying of an address book is forgotten at visit, a phone call is made to its own home to confirm a required dial destination number.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention provides a memory for accessing a telephone device from the outside via a telephone line and checking memory dials such as speed dials registered in advance in the telephone device. This relates to dial telephone equipment. [Prior Art] This type of conventional memory dial telephone device is equipped with a speed dial memory and a telephone directory memory inside the device, and dial numbers, addresses, etc. are registered in these memories according to a predetermined registration operation, and then The dial number registered in this memory is used to make a call according to a predetermined call operation. The dial number, etc. registered in the memory of this telephone device can be confirmed by performing a predetermined confirmation operation from this telephone device, and this memory dial telephone device cannot be accessed from outside. It is not possible to confirm by doing so. [Problem to be Solved by the Invention 1] The conventional memory dial telephone device described above is such that the user always makes a call using the memory dial registered in the memory dial device according to a predetermined calling method, and does not directly input the dial number. There is a tendency for people to forget dialed numbers because they do not make calls.

Therefore, if you forget your address book when you go out and call home to check the dial destination number you need to dial, even though this dial destination number is registered in your home telephone device when you are not at home, There was a problem in that confirmation could not be performed and, therefore, telephone contact could not be made with the other party.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above problems, the memory dial telephone device according to the first aspect of the present invention has the following features:
PB signal receiving means for receiving the signal and sending out a search mode signal and search information; This system is equipped with a telephone number search means for searching, and a voice synchronization means for converting the telephone number searched by the telephone number search means into a voice synthesis signal and transmitting it to a telephone line. The memory dial telephone device according to the second invention also includes a PB signal receiving means for receiving a PB signal arriving at the telephone line and transmitting a search mode signal, and a PB signal receiving means for receiving voice information arriving at the telephone line and performing voice recognition. voice recognition means for transmitting voice search information;
Telephone number 8 for searching the corresponding telephone number stored in the dial memory according to the voice search information recognition output from the voice recognition means after receiving and outputting the search mode signal from the PB signal receiving means
The apparatus includes a search means and a voice synthesis means for converting the telephone number searched by the telephone number search means into a voice synthesis signal and transmitting the signal to a telephone line.

Further, the memory dial telephone device according to the third invention includes a mode changeover switch for switching between an away mode and an at-home mode, and an incoming call automatic answering means that automatically answers an incoming call when in the away mode using the mode changeover switch. [Operation] When the search mode signal and search information are received from the PB signal receiving means, the corresponding telephone number stored in the dial memory is searched, and the searched telephone number is converted into a voice signal. and send it.

Further, when voice search information is received from the voice recognition means after receiving the search mode signal from the PB signal receiving means,
The corresponding telephone number stored in the dial memory is searched, and the searched telephone number is converted into a voice signal and transmitted.

Additionally, if you receive an incoming call while the mode switch is set to away mode, the incoming call will be automatically answered. [Example 2] Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of the memory dial telephone device of the present invention. Note that this memory dial telephone device is an answering machine that automatically answers incoming calls and records and plays back messages. In the figure, 1 is a CPU that controls this memory dial telephone device.
, 2 is RO where the program executed by CPU 1 is stored.
M, 3 is a RAM equipped with a dial memory area in which speed dials, a telephone directory, etc. are stored, and a temporary storage area that is accessed as necessary when the CPU executes a program; 4 is a dial key, registration key, etc. key and L
A keyboard is displayed on a display such as an ED, 5 is an external line interface that is connected to a telephone line (not shown) and is used to close the loop and control calls to and from this telephone line, 6 is a telephone communication circuit, and 7 is a A PB receiver receives the PB signal from the telephone line, 8 is a voice synthesis circuit that sends the voice signal to the telephone line, 9 records the voice signal from the telephone line, and plays back the recorded voice signal to connect the telephone line. The recording and playback unit that sends out data to
This is the telephone line connection terminal. When the switch SW is in the at-home mode, this memory dial telephone device is used as a normal telephone. In other words, incoming calls from the telephone line are sent to terminal L.
Ii comes to the outside line interface 5 via
Then, the incoming call signal arriving at the outside line interface 5 is detected and the outside line interface 5 is driven to close the loop, and a predetermined LED in the keyboard 4 is made to blink, and the ringing sound source is driven to send out a ringing tone. Performs incoming call processing such as As a result, you can talk to the other party.

Also, when you raise the handset when making a call, the CPU
■ accesses the outside line interface 5 and creates a loop, and then when the dial key in the keyboard 4 is pressed, the CPU detects this and sends the pressed dial number to the outside line interface section 5. and dial it. As a result, when the other party answers, the call status is established.Additionally, the speed dial number and phone book are registered in advance in the dial memory area in the RAMB by a predetermined operation, and this is sent by a predetermined calling operation to call the other party. You can also do

Next, when the switch SW is switched to the answering mode and an incoming call arrives, the memory dial telephone device automatically answers the incoming call since it is in the automatic answering mode. That is, the CPU closes the loop to the outside line interface 5, and then drives the recording and reproducing unit 9 to reproduce the recorded voice message. As a result, this voice message is sent to the other party via the telephone call circuit 6 and the outside line interface 5.

Furthermore, after the loop is closed, when the other party makes a dial call using a PB signal in order to confirm the dial number registered in this memory dial telephone device, this PB signal is sent to this memory via the telephone line. It arrives at the dialing device. Then, the PB receiver 1 in this device receives the PB signal from the other party via the outside line interface 5 and the communication circuit 6, and transmits the received PB signal to the CP.
Send to Ul. The CPU searches the dial memory area in the RAMB according to the input PB signal, reads out the pre-registered speed dial number, and drives the speech synthesis circuit 8 according to the read result. As a result, the dial number based on the voice synthesis signal from the voice synthesis circuit 8 is sent to the other party. Also, cput is a special P
When the B signal is received, the recording/reproducing unit 9 is driven to record the voice message from the other party.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment of the memory dial telephone device according to the present invention will be explained based on the flowchart of FIG. First, in step 100, initialization processing is performed. Next, in step 101, it is determined whether or not there is an incoming external call. When this is "N", other processing is performed in step 102 and the process is terminated.If r"l1/J is determined in step 101, that is, if an outside line is received, the switch S is switched in step 103.
Detects W and determines whether or not it is in answering mode. When this is "N", other outside line processing is performed in step 104 and the outside line is released. If “Y” is selected in step 7103, that is, the answering mode is
This incoming call is automatically answered in step 105, and step 10
At step 6, a PB wait timer is set, the PB receiver 7 is placed in a standby state, and a PB signal is received from the other party via the telephone line within the time set by the timer. Then, in step 107, it is determined whether the PB is received, that is, the reception of a PB signal from the other party, and when this is "N", it is determined in step 108 whether the timer has timed out.
If the answer is "N" in step 108, the process returns to step 107 and the PB reception is determined again. If the answer is "Y", that is, if the time is up, other answering processing is performed in step 109. After that, when the other party goes on-hook, the outside line is disconnected. It will be opened. In step 107 r Y . 1, that is, if a PB signal is received, it is determined in step 110 whether the received PB signal is a search mode signal for searching the dial memory. If this is "N", it is determined in step 108 that the time is up, and if it is "Y", that is, if it is a search mode signal, the speech synthesis circuit 8 is driven in step itt, for example, "input a shortened code". Send a reminder voice such as "please j" to the other party, and step 1
PB signal reception at 2 -14! do. And this is "
If the answer is "N", the end of the other party's talk is determined in step 113, and the answer is "N".
"N", that is, if it is not the end of the episode, STETSUA 111
Return to , send the reminder voice again, and press ``Y'' on STETSUA 113.
If it is J, that is, the other party's call is over, the outside line is released in step 114 and the process ends. If "Y" is determined in step 112, that is, the PB signal can be received, the registered PB is determined in step 115, that is, the received PB signal is used to access the speed dial of a predetermined destination.
It is a B signal (search information) and a dial number corresponding to this destination is searched to determine whether this exists. Then, if this is "N", an NG voice is sent in step 7116, i.e. The voice synthesis circuit 8 is driven to send an NG voice such as "This phone number is not registered" to the other party, and the process returns to step 111.Also, in step 115, "Y" is selected, that is, if the registered PB is not registered. If so, in step 117, the corresponding voice, that is, the dial number corresponding to this destination, is read out, and the voice synthesis circuit 8 is driven to convert the read dial number into a voice synthesis signal and send it to the other party, and in step 111 As described above, in the memory dial telephone device according to the first embodiment of the present invention, when the user (the other party) makes a call to the memory dial telephone device via the telephone line, the memory dial telephone device automatically answers the call. Then, when the user sends out a PB signal to confirm the dialed number, the speed dial number registered in this memory dial telephone device is converted to a voice synthesis signal and sent to the telephone line, and the user receives this voice synthesis signal. You can check the dialed number by listening to the signal.

Next, FIG. 2 shows the second part of the memory dial telephone device of the present invention.
FIG. This figure is a block diagram of the first embodiment of the memory dial telephone device shown in FIG. 1 with a voice recognition circuit 10 added thereto.

When registering in the telephone directory, when the registrant speaks the addressee from the handset HS, the addressee information in the form of a voice signal is sent to the voice recognition circuit 10. Then, the speech recognition circuit 10 recognizes and stores this address information, and also converts this recognized address information and sends it to the CPUI. The voice recognition circuit 10 also recognizes the dial number uttered following this address information and converts it to C.
The CPUI receives the converted address information and dial number and registers them in the telephone directory area provided in the dial memory area in the RAM 3.

In addition, by automatically answering an incoming call, the loop of the memory dial telephone device is closed and after a PB signal of a predetermined digit is received, the recipient's address is uttered by the other party in order to confirm the dial number registered in this PB signal. The address information in the form of this voice signal arrives at the voice recognition circuit 10 via the outside line interface 5 and the telephone call circuit 6. The voice recognition circuit 10 receives and identifies this, detects the address information already stored by the registration operation, and if it matches the address information, converts this address information and sends it to the CPUI. The CPU 1 searches the telephone directory area based on the converted address information (voice search information), reads out the pre-registered dial number, and drives the voice synthesis circuit 8 in accordance with the readout result. As a result, the dial number based on the voice synthesis signal from the voice synthesis circuit 8 is sent to the other party.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment of the memory dial telephone device according to the present invention will be explained based on the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. Figure 4 is a flowchart of the registration operation for registering dial numbers etc. in the dial memory. When the registrant presses a registration key on the keyboard 4 while an outside line is being captured, it is determined in step 150 whether the registration key has been pressed. When this is "N", input processing for other keys is performed in step 151. And step 150
If "Y" is detected and the press of the step registration key is detected, the outside line captured in step 152 is released, and the process proceeds to step 15.
Step 3 determines whether the registrant presses the dial key. This is done to select the address of the area to be registered.

If step 153 is "N", wait until the dial key is pressed and its input is detected; if "Y", that is, if dial input is detected, a registration area is secured in the telephone directory area. Then, in step 154, the voice synthesis circuit 8 is driven to send out a prompting voice such as "Please enter the addressee." Then, the registrant utters the addressee from the handset HS in accordance with this reminder voice, and this is sent to the voice recognition circuit 10, and the voice recognition circuit 1
It is identified and stored as 0. Then, in step 155, it is determined whether a name registration completion signal from the voice recognition circuit 10 has been detected. And if this is "N" then step 15
Determine on-hook in step 6, and if “N”, go to step 1
Returning to step 54, if "Y", that is, if on-hook occurs, the process ends.

In step 155, if "YJ", that is, name registration is completed, in step 157, the voice synthesis circuit 8 is driven to output a prompting voice such as "Please enter the dial number." Then, in step 158, the voice recognition circuit 1
A determination is made as to whether a number registration end signal starting from 0 is detected. Then, when this is "N", on-hook judgment is made in step 156, and when this is "N", the process returns to step 154, and "
Y", that is, when on-hook, the process ends. Further, when "Y" is determined in step 158, that is, when the number registration is completed, the address information (name) by the above-mentioned audio signal is sent.
and dial information (dial number) and register it in the secured telephone directory area. Then, in step 160, on-hook determination is made, and if "N", step 15
Returning to step 4, if "Y", that is, if on-hook occurs, the process ends.

In this way, when the registrant speaks the address to register the dial number on the memory dial telephone device, the memory dial telephone device recognizes the address information from this voice signal, and then when the registrant speaks the dial number, The dial information based on this audio signal is recognized, and the address information and dial information are converted and stored in the dial memory.

Next, FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a confirmation operation for confirming a registered dial number. First, in step 200, initialization processing is performed. Next, in step 201, it is determined whether or not there is an incoming external call. When this is "N", other processing is performed in step 202 and the process ends.
If ``Y'' in step 1, that is, an outside call has been received, the switch SW is detected in step 203 to determine whether or not the answering mode is set. When this is "N", other outside line incoming processing is performed in step 204. Step 2
If the answer is "Y" in step 03, that is, the mode is answering, the incoming call is automatically answered in step 205, and the P is pressed in step 206.
A B wait timer is set to put the PB receiver 7 into a standby state, and a PB signal from the other party is received via the telephone line within the time set by the timer. Then, in step 207, it is determined whether the PB has been received, that is, the reception of a PB signal from the other party, and when this is "N", it is determined in step 208 whether the timer has timed out. If "N" in step 208, the process returns to step 107 and determines whether Pa is received again; if "Y", that is, if the time is up, other answering processing is performed in step 209, and the process ends. When "Y" is determined in step 207, that is, if a PB signal is received, it is determined in step 210 whether or not the received P[3 signal is a search mode signal for searching the telephone directory memory in the dial memory area. . And this is r
If N, it is determined in step 208 that the time is up,
When "Y", that is, if it is a search mode signal, the voice synthesis circuit 8 is driven in step 211 to send a reminder voice to the other party, and the voice recognition circuit 10 is driven in step 212. to receive address information in the voice signal of the other party, and to make a determination as to whether or not this is address information.9 Then, if this is "N", it is determined in step 213 that the other party has finished talking, and "N'', that is, if the conversation is not over, the process returns to step 212 and the voice recognition judgment is made again. When “Y” is determined in step 213,
That is, if the other party's call is over, the outside line is released in step 114 and the process ends.

If it is determined in step 212 that it is "Y", that is, address information, then in step 215, the registered voice, that is, the telephone directory area is searched and a dial number corresponding to the address information converted by the voice recognition circuit 10 is found. Determine whether or not. If this is "N", step 216
to output an NG voice, that is, drive the voice synthesis circuit 8 to output an NG voice such as "This phone number is not registered".
The voice is sent to the other party, and the process returns to step 111. Also,
If the result in step 215 is "Y", that is, the voice is a registered voice, the corresponding voice, that is, the dial number corresponding to the converted address information, is read out from the telephone directory area in step 117, and the voice synthesis circuit 8 is driven to read this voice. The dialed digits are converted into a voice synthesis signal and sent to the other party, and the process returns to step 211. As described above, the memory dial telephone device according to the second embodiment of the present invention is such that when the user (the other party) calls the memory dial telephone device via the telephone line, the memory dial telephone device automatically answers the call and then uses the memory dial telephone device. When a person speaks the address to confirm the dialed number, the memory dial telephone device recognizes the address information from this voice signal, converts the dialed number registered in this device into a voice signal, and sends it to the telephone line. The user can confirm the dialed number by listening to this audio signal.

In addition, in the first embodiment and the second embodiment, the voice synthesis circuit 8 was configured to send out the reminder voice.
Instead of this, a tone may be sent out by driving a sound source provided in advance within the memory dial device.

In the first and second embodiments, the answering machine equipped with an automatic incoming answering function was explained, but even a telephone without an automatic incoming answering function can receive a detection mode signal during a call. , it may be configured to shift to search mode. Furthermore, although the first embodiment has been described as a memory dial telephone device equipped with a speed dial function, a registration code separate from the speed code may be used as the search information, or a code may be preset for each phone number for one-touch dialing. You may also assign it to perform remote searches. Furthermore, the present memory dial telephone device is not limited to an answering machine, but may also be a functional telephone or a button telephone device. In the case of a key telephone device with an answering machine function, the telephone compatible speed dial and the system compatible speed dial may be designated by the PB signal.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, when the memory dial telephone device of the present invention receives the search mode signal and search information from the PB signal receiving means, it searches for the corresponding telephone number stored in the dial memory, and performs this search. The system is configured to convert the received phone number into a voice synthesized signal and send it out, so when you forget your address book and can't remember the other party's phone number when you go out, you can make a call to your home phone device and then send it out. By sending out a PB signal, it is possible to hear the telephone number of the other party registered in this telephone device, and therefore it is possible to make telephone contact with the other party. Further, when voice search information is received from the voice recognition means after receiving the search mode signal from the PB signal receiving means,
Since the system is configured to search for the corresponding telephone number stored in the dial memory, convert the searched telephone number into a sweaty voice synthesized signal, and send it out, the system has the effect that the registered telephone number can be searched by voice. be.

In addition, if the memory dial telephone device receives a call while the mode switch is set to the away mode, the incoming call will be automatically answered, so you can automatically check the phone number even if no one is home. There is.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the memory dial telephone device according to the first invention of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the memory dial telephone device according to the second invention of the present invention. 3 and 3 are flowcharts for explaining the operation of the first invention, and FIGS. 4 and 5 are flowcharts for explaining the operation of the second invention. 1---CPU, 2---ROM, 3---RA
M, 4...Keyboard, 5...Outside line interface, 6...Telephone circuit, 7...PB receiver,
8...Speech synthesis circuit, 9...Recording and playback unit, 1o...Speech recognition circuit, SW...Switch,
HS...Handset.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A memory dial telephone device that stores a plurality of telephone numbers input from a keyboard in association with search information in a dial memory, reads out the corresponding telephone number based on the input of the search information, and performs dialing. PB signal receiving means for receiving a PB signal arriving on the line and transmitting a search mode signal and search information; and storing in the dial memory according to the search mode signal reception output and the search information reception output from the PB signal reception means. The present invention is characterized by comprising: a telephone number search means for searching for a corresponding telephone number; and a speech synthesis means for converting the telephone number searched by the telephone number search means into a speech synthesis signal and transmitting the signal to a telephone line. memory dial telephone device. (2) A memory dial telephone device that stores a plurality of telephone numbers input from a keyboard in association with search information in a dial memory, reads out the corresponding telephone number based on the input of the search information, and performs dialing. PB signal receiving means for receiving a PB signal arriving on the line and sending out a search mode signal; voice recognition means for receiving voice information arriving on the telephone line, performing voice recognition and sending out voice search information; a telephone number retrieval means for retrieving a corresponding telephone number stored in the dial memory according to voice search information recognition output from the voice recognition means after receiving and outputting a search mode signal from the signal receiving means; and this telephone number retrieval means. 1. A memory dial telephone device, comprising a voice synthesis means for converting a telephone number retrieved by the computer into a voice synthesis signal and transmitting the signal to a telephone line. (3) In the memory dial telephone device according to claim (1) or claim (2), a mode changeover switch for switching between an away mode and an at-home mode; 1. A memory dial telephone device comprising: automatic incoming call answering means for automatically answering a call; and after the automatic answering means automatically answers a call, the PB signal receiving means is put into a standby state.