JP2001274891A - Portable telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable telephone set improved in retrieving a telephone number. SOLUTION: Concerning each of plural opposite parties of telephone, his/her name, telephone number and a group (sorting data) to which he/she belongs are stored related with each other in a memory 122 mounted in a telephone set circuit. When retrieving a telephone number, a system control 121 reads all of the groups (sorting data) from the memory 122 and makes an input display device 101 display them. When selecting a specific group from these groups, the part 121 reads the name of the telephone opposite party belonging to the group from the memory 122 and makes the device 101 display it. A group whose name is not registered is displayed as a group whose name is not set yet.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone,
In particular, the present invention relates to a mobile phone having a function of searching for a telephone number of a caller.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, there are two types of portable telephones: an analog automobile telephone system, a digital automobile telephone system, and a personal handyphone system.
(PHS), there are three types of mobile phones. This type of mobile phone has a built-in telephone circuit inside a portable casing and a telephone number in addition to a speaker or microphone for telephone calls on the surface of the casing. An operation key for inputting, a small display for confirming the input telephone number, and the like are arranged.

[0003] Conventionally, the names and telephone numbers of a plurality of telephone partners to be called are tabulated and stored in a memory provided in a telephone circuit. It is known that, by inputting the initial of the name of the other party, the name and the telephone number starting from the initial are displayed on a display, and the telephone number can be searched.

[0004]

However, in the case of a portable telephone, since the casing needs to be made as small as possible, the screen size of the display is limited, and when there are many names starting with one initial, Cannot display these names and phone numbers on the screen at once. Therefore, it is necessary to perform an operation of searching for a target name while switching the display screen to the next page.

[0005] In this case, a plurality of telephone partners displayed on one screen are merely common in that they start with the same initial letter. Some of these telephone partners include, for example, a friend and a company. Acquaintances, friends belonging to the same circle,
People belonging to various groups will be included.

Therefore, even when searching for a telephone partner belonging to a specific group, it is necessary to search for all names displayed on the same screen, and there is a problem that the search is complicated.

[0007] If a specific group is set in advance, the degree of freedom in grouping the users is reduced.

[0008] An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized display device for displaying a list of names when searching for a telephone number.
An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone with good searchability.

[0009]

According to a portable telephone according to the present invention, a data input device and a display device are provided on a surface of a casing containing a telephone circuit.
The telephone circuit uses, for each of a plurality of telephone partners to be called, name data for identifying the telephone partner, telephone number data of the telephone partner, and classification data indicating a group to which the telephone partner belongs. Storage means for storing in association with each other by the operation of; and display control means for reading a plurality of classification data from the storage means in response to a command based on the operation of the data input device, and displaying these classification data on a display device. When displaying a plurality of classification data, data in which a group name is not registered in advance is displayed as unnamed classification data as at least a part of the plurality of classification data.

In the above-mentioned portable telephone, based on the operation of the data input device, first, the display device displays a list of classification data indicating all the groups. When the user selects the classification data to which the call partner belongs, the names of one or more call partners belonging to the classification data are displayed in a list on the display device. In the display, a part in which the name of the classification data is not set indicates that the name is not set.

[0011]

In the portable telephone according to the present invention, a plurality of telephone parties to be called are classified in advance into a plurality of groups (classification data). Since the preliminary search is performed based on the group (classification data), only the other party belonging to the specific group (classification data) is displayed on the same screen. Therefore, even if the display device on which the names of the other parties are to be displayed in a list is small, it is easy to select a desired one from the displayed telephone parties, and the searchability is good. Those that do not belong to a predetermined group (classification data) name can be displayed as no name set, and the user can freely use the group name without worrying about the group name.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a PHS with a facsimile function will be specifically described with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the PHS of the present invention has a speaker for reception on a flat surface of a portable flat casing (1).
(102) and a microphone (103) for transmission, and an input display device (1) having both a data input function and a display function.
01). The input display device (101)
Is configured by installing a touch input type digitizer on the surface of a liquid crystal display panel, for example.

A telephone circuit shown in FIG. 2 is built in the casing (1).

The audio signal transmitted and received by the built-in antenna (104) is subjected to frequency conversion by the RF / IF unit (105). The RF / IF section (105) has a π / 4 shift 4-phase QPS
A digital signal processing circuit (107) is connected via a modulation / demodulation unit (106) for performing K modulation / demodulation, and the PHS
Digital signal processing such as TDMA processing based on the standard, transmission / reception processing of CCH (common control channel) and transmission / reception processing of TCH (communication channel) is performed.

The digital signal processing circuit (107) includes an audio signal processing circuit (10) for performing necessary processing on a received audio signal.
8) is connected, and a D / A converter (10) is connected to the circuit (108).
A receiving speaker (102) is connected via 9), and a transmitting microphone (103) is connected via an A / D converter (112).

On the other hand, the facsimile unit (113)
It comprises an AX control unit (117), a FAX codec (115), an encoding memory (114), and a page memory (116).

The system control circuit (121) is composed of a microcomputer.
The RF / IF unit (105) and the digital signal processing circuit (107)
Is connected, and the facsimile unit (113) is connected via a FAX modem (118) for modulating and demodulating facsimile transmission data.

The system control circuit (121) further includes a predetermined display on the input display device (101) and a page memory (116).
A display control circuit (119) for performing display and the like of facsimile image data stored in the input detection circuit (120) for detecting handwritten input data and operation input data input from the input display device (101), Dial information memory (12
2) and are connected.

The dial information memory (122) stores a telephone directory file shown in FIG. 3 and an image data file shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 3, in the telephone directory file, names, telephone numbers and classification numbers are written in a table for each of a plurality of telephone partners who will make telephone calls. Also, as shown in FIG. 4, for each classification number, a mark (image data) symbolizing a group specified by the classification and a name (code data) of the mark are written in the image data file.

FIGS. 5 to 7 show the system control unit (12).
Among the control procedures executed by 1), a characteristic part of the present invention, that is, a mark search and power control procedure based on the telephone directory file and the image data file (FIGS. 5 and 6)
And a new registration procedure for the telephone directory file (FIG. 7).

FIGS. 8 to 11 show a series of screens displayed on the input display device (101) by executing the mark search and the power supply control procedure. FIGS. 12 to 15 show the execution of the new registration procedure. Represents a series of screens displayed on the input display device (101).

As shown in FIG. 5, when the telephone mode is set, first, an initial screen (FIG. 8) is displayed in a step S1, and in a step S2, a "phone directory" icon indicated by an arrow in FIG. It is determined whether the telephone book mode has been set by the input operation.

If it is determined in step S2 that the telephone directory mode has been set, the process proceeds to step S3,
(A) Display the sound pull screen (FIG. 9). In this state, when the initials of the name of the telephone partner to be searched are selected, names starting with the initials are displayed in a list, and the search using the initials as in the related art can be performed.

On the other hand, a "mark" indicated by an arrow on the screen of FIG.
When an icon is input, it is determined that the mark search mode has been selected in step S4, and a mark selection screen (FIG. 10) is displayed in step S5. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, a mark symbolizing "male", a mark symbolizing "female", a mark symbolizing "family",
Image data such as a mark symbolizing a "relative", a mark symbolizing a "company", and a mark symbolizing a "circle" are written in an image data file, and by reading the image data from the image data file, A list of all marks is displayed as shown in FIG. Note that the mark selection screen can be composed of a plurality of pages.

For example, when a mark symbolizing "company" indicated by an arrow is input on the screen of FIG. 10, it is determined that a specific mark has been selected in step S6 of FIG.
In step S7 in FIG. 6, the telephone directory file is searched based on the classification number of the selected mark, and all names registered under the classification number are read from the telephone directory file. The list screen is displayed as shown in FIG.

When a specific mark is selected on the screen shown in FIG. 10, it is possible to read out the name of the mark from the image data file and display the name near the mark display position for a certain period of time.

When the name of the target telephone partner is input on the screen shown in FIG. 11, it is determined that the name has been selected in step S8 in FIG. 6, and the flow shifts to step S9 where the name is highlighted. At the same time, the telephone number of the other party is read from the telephone directory file. As a result, the telephone number is displayed on the screen as shown in FIG.

Thereafter, in step S10 of FIG.
It is determined whether the "call" icon 1 has been input. If the answer is YES, in step S11, the telephone number displayed on the screen is subjected to power supply processing, and the target telephone is automatically called. Is applied.

When a "new" icon indicated by an arrow is input on the screen shown in FIG. 11, a new registration mode is set.

In the new registration mode, a new registration screen (FIG. 12) is first displayed in step S21 of FIG. On the new registration screen, an input pallet consisting of 50 hiragana or an alphanumeric input pallet is switched and displayed as shown in the figure. Using these input pallets, as shown in FIG. And phone number.

As a result, in step S22 of FIG. 7, it is determined that the data input for the name and the telephone number has been performed, and the process shifts to step S23, where FIG.
Waits for the input operation of the mark icon indicated by the arrow.

In the data input of the name, it is a principle to input both the name and the name.
Alternatively, a nickname or the like can be input.

When a mark icon is input, the flow shifts to step S24 to display a mark selection screen (FIG. 14). When displaying the mark selection screen, the image data and names of all the registered marks are read from the image data file, and these marks and names are displayed as a list as shown in FIG.

In this state, when a mark of a group to which a telephone partner to be newly registered belongs is selected as indicated by an arrow in the figure, it is determined that the mark has been selected in step S25 in FIG. At S26, the name, telephone number, and classification number of the telephone partner to be newly registered are written in the telephone directory file, and one registration procedure ends.

As a result, the screen of the input display device (101) displays the name of the newly registered telephone partner as shown in FIG.
The phone number and mark are displayed.

In this state, when the "return" icon is input as shown by the arrow in FIG. 15, the operation proceeds to step S27 in FIG.
It is determined that registration has been completed, and the display returns to the list display state in FIG. 11 in the telephone mode. In contrast, FIG.
When the "new" icon 5 is operated, the process returns to step S21, and the new registration procedure is repeated for the next telephone partner.

In the above PHS, the input display device (1
Even if the screen of (01) is small, the names of the callers belonging to the selected specific group are searched and these names are listed on the screen with the group mark. Is easier than the conventional initial search method, and the searchability is good.

The description of the above embodiment is for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the invention described in the claims or reducing the scope thereof.
In addition, the configuration of each part of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and it goes without saying that various modifications can be made within the technical scope described in the claims.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a PHS embodying the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a telephone circuit of the PHS.

FIG. 3 is a table showing a data format of a telephone directory file.

FIG. 4 is a table showing a data format of an image data file.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a first half of a mark search and power supply control procedure.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a latter half of the procedure.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a new registration procedure.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an initial screen.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a sound-pulling screen.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a mark selection screen.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a list screen after a mark is selected.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an initial state of a new registration screen.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a name and a telephone number have been input on a new registration screen.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a mark selection screen at the time of new registration.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a screen at the end of registration.

[Explanation of symbols]

 (1) Casing (101) Input display device (102) Speaker (103) Microphone

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[Submission Date] February 26, 2001 (2001.2.2)
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[0009]

According to a portable telephone according to the present invention, a data input device and a display device are provided on a surface of a casing containing a telephone circuit.
The telephone circuit uses, for each of a plurality of telephone partners to be called, name data for identifying the telephone partner, telephone number data of the telephone partner, and classification data indicating a group to which the telephone partner belongs. Storage means for storing in association with each other by the operation of; and display control means for reading a plurality of classification data from the storage means in response to a command based on the operation of the data input device, and displaying these classification data on a display device. When displaying a plurality of classification data, data in which a group name is not registered in advance is displayed as unnamed classification data.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (72) Nobuaki Kanazawa, 2-5-5 Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (72) Kazuhisa Mizuta 2-chome, Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka No. 5 Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A portable telephone having a data input device and a display device installed on a surface of a casing containing a telephone circuit therein, wherein the telephone circuit has a function of transmitting a call to each of a plurality of telephone partners. Storage means for storing the name data for identification, the telephone number data of the telephone partner, and the classification data indicating the group to which the telephone partner belongs in association with each other by the user's operation, and responding to a command based on the operation of the data input device. Display control means for reading a plurality of classification data from the storage means and displaying the classification data on a display device. When displaying the plurality of classification data, the data for which a group name is not registered in advance is used. A mobile phone, which displays as unnamed classification data as at least a part of a plurality of classification data. 2. A portable telephone in which a data input device and a display device are installed on a surface of a casing containing a telephone circuit, wherein the telephone circuit has a function of transmitting a call to each of a plurality of telephone partners. Storage means for storing the name data for identification, the telephone number data of the telephone partner, and the classification data indicating the group to which the telephone partner belongs in association with each other by the user's operation, and responding to a command based on the operation of the data input device. When registering the classification data for a new telephone partner, the data in which the group name is not registered in advance is displayed on the display device as at least a part of the plurality of classification data as unnamed classification data, so that the data can be selected. A mobile phone, comprising: