JP2003324773A - Radio equipment, speech management method for radio equipment, and speech management program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a radio equipment whereby a user can enjoy a wasteless speech environment without the need for notifying a positional relation and continuously realize grasping of conference progress and taking part in discussion even when the user retires on the way in the case of a phone conference or the like. <P>SOLUTION: A positional relation decision means 14 makes speech management by way of a speech control means 13 that decides face to face performance of the radio equipment of a speech opposite party and searches the radio equipment of a speech opposite party on the basis of identification information of the speech opposite party to make a speech. Further, an external field information acquisition means 15 acquires voice information or identification information of an external field and gives the acquired information to the positional relation decision means 14, which decides the face to face performance of the radio equipment of the speech opposite party and makes speech management by way of the speech control means 13. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention particularly relates to a wireless device, a call management method in a wireless device, and a call management program for performing appropriate call management by determining a relationship with a communication partner.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a voice call using a wireless device such as a mobile phone or a transceiver, both parties can talk without being aware of the current positions of the callers, and both parties can talk while moving. It is often the case to find the other person while talking, such as when meeting on the street corner. However, it is wasteful to talk while using a mobile phone or a transceiver even if the callers are close enough to talk face-to-face, and it is unfriendly to the user.

[0003]

Further, in the work in a company or factory, the work instructor and the actual worker give a call instruction using a mobile phone, a transceiver or the like, and the worker actually goes to the place where the instructor is. It is very inconvenient to make a phone call and hang up many times when performing work while repeating direct instructions received and sent many times. Furthermore, if you leave your seat during a conference call,
It was not possible to grasp the progress of the conference and participate in the discussion, and some kind of response was desired to continue participating.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and by automatically controlling the call function by determining the in-person relationship with the person with whom the call is being made, the user is not conscious of the in-place relationship and wasteful. An object of the present invention is to provide a wireless device, a call management method in the wireless device, and a call management program that enable a user to enjoy a non-call environment. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a wireless device, a call management method in a wireless device, and a call management program that enable continuous understanding of the progress of a conference and participation in discussions even if the user leaves the conference room during a conference call. And

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a call control means for making a call by searching for a radio device of a call partner based on identification information of the call partner, and the call partner radio. A face-to-face relationship of the device, and a physical relationship determination means for performing call management through the call control means. According to the present invention, the face-to-face relationship determining means determines the face-to-face relationship of the callee wireless device, and searches for the callee wireless device based on the identification information of the callee to make a call via the call control means. By performing the management, the user can enjoy a lean call environment without being aware of the relationship of the positions.

Further, the present invention is characterized by further comprising external world information acquisition means for acquiring voice information or identification information of the external world and delivering the acquired information to the positional relationship determining means. According to the present invention, the external world information acquisition unit acquires voice information or identification information of the external world, and passes the acquired information to the placement relationship determination unit,
The face-to-face relationship determining means can determine face-to-face contact with the other party's wireless device and manage the call via the call control means.

Further, in the invention, it is characterized in that the face-to-face relationship determining means instructs the call control means to end the call in the face-to-face relationship. Further, in the invention, it is characterized in that the apposition relationship determination means instructs the call control means to resume the call when the apposition relationship is lost. According to the present invention, the face-to-face relationship determining means turns off the call function to the call control means in a face-to-face call or the like.
By turning on the call function again when the face-to-face relationship is lost, the user can enjoy a lean call environment without being aware of the face-to-face relationship.

Further, in the present invention, the apposition relationship determining means compares the apposition relationship stored at the time of the previous call with the identifier of the partner wireless device at the present time to obtain the apposition relationship. It is characterized by making a judgment. According to the present invention, by comparing the identifiers by short-distance wireless communication to determine the apposition relationship, for example, the short-distance wireless communication by Bluetooth or weak wireless is used to acquire the ID such as a telephone number or the electric field strength, By judging the face-to-face relationship by comparing the threshold values of the strength, it is possible to continuously judge the face-to-face relationship even after the call ends.

Further, in the present invention, the apposition relation judging means judges the apposition relation by comparing the voice information transmitted from the partner radio device with the voice information transmitted from the outside world information acquiring means. It is characterized by doing.
According to the present invention, it is possible to determine that a face-to-face relationship is obtained when they match by determining the face-to-face relationship by comparing audio information.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides
One or more wireless devices that communicate with a wireless device installed in a conference room, search for the wireless device based on identification information of the wireless device installed in the conference room, and include itself, and through the wireless device. The voice information output by the user and the voice control unit that transmits the voice information of itself to make a call and the face-to-face contact with the wireless device installed in the conference room are determined, and the call control unit is used. And a physical relationship determining means for managing the telephone call. According to the present invention, the placement relationship determination means determines the face-to-face relationship with the wireless device installed in the conference room, searches for the wireless device based on the identification information of the wireless device installed in the conference room, and includes itself. By receiving voice information output via the wireless device and transmitting voice information of itself to perform call management through the call control means, even when the user leaves the conference room during a conference call,
It is possible to grasp the progress of the conference and participate in the discussion.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides
A method of managing a call in a wireless device, the method comprising: searching for a wireless device at the other end of the call based on identification information of the other end of the call, making a call, and determining face-to-face contact of the wireless device at the other end of call, and managing the call. Characterize.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides
A call management program used for a wireless device, comprising a call control step of searching for a callee wireless device based on identification information of a callee and making a call, determining face-to-face contact of the callee wireless device, and The computer is made to perform a physical relationship determination step of performing call management through the call control means.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides
A call management program used for one or more wireless devices that make a call with a wireless device installed in a conference room, the wireless device searching for the wireless device based on identification information of the wireless device installed in the conference room, including itself. , A call control step of receiving voice information output via the wireless device, and transmitting voice information of the user to perform a call, and determining face-to-face contact with the wireless device installed in the conference room, It is characterized by causing a computer to execute an interpersonal relationship determining step for managing a call.

[0014]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, which shows the internal configuration of a wireless device of the present invention in the form of functional expansion. The wireless device intended by the present invention includes a transceiver that directly communicates between the wireless devices and a mobile phone terminal that allows the wireless devices to communicate through a relay device. Here, a mobile phone terminal will be described as an example. The wireless device of the present invention comprises a call identifier input means 11, a call mode input means 12, a call control means 13, and a placement relationship determination means 14.
An external world information acquisition unit 15, a voice output unit 16, a voice input unit 17, and a previous caller information database (D
B) It is composed of 18.

The call identifier input means 1 has a function of taking in a telephone number input by the user as an ID and supplying it to the call control means 13, and the call mode input means 12 is provided.
Is a call mode prepared in the present invention, here, a call mode for performing a normal call, an automatic OFF mode for automatically ending a call when there is a confrontation relationship, and a call mode when the confrontation relationship is restored. There are three modes of the continuation mode for recovering the call. When any one of them is input by the user, it has a function of taking it in and supplying it to the call control means 13. The call control means 13 has a function of searching for a callee wireless device based on the identification information of the callee and making a call, and the placement relationship determining means 14 determines face-to-face contact of the callee wireless device and controls the call. It has a function of managing a call through the means 13. Also, the external world information acquisition means 15
Is a basis for obtaining voice information or identification information of the outside world, passing the obtained information to the placement relationship determination means 14, and determining face-to-face contact.

In the previous caller information DB 18, the previous caller's telephone number and other identifiers including the previous call mode are stored as a set. Here, it is assumed that the character string consists of 12 digits, and the first digit at the beginning is the call mode (0: normal mode, 1:
In the automatic OFF mode, 2: continuous mode), the remaining 11 digits are used to indicate the telephone number. The voice output means 16 is a speaker attached to the mobile phone, and the voice input means 17 is a microphone attached to the mobile phone.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1, and specifically shows the processing procedure of the call management program of the present invention. Hereinafter, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. Here, an example is shown in which Mr. A and Mr. B hold a meeting using a mobile phone at a street corner.

First, Mr. A uses the call identifier input means 11 of the wireless device (mobile phone A) owned by Mr. A to input the phone number of the wireless device owned by Mr. B (mobile phone B), for example, " 090111122222 "is fetched (S21). At this time, it is assumed that the call mode is set to the normal mode "0" as a standard setting. After the telephone number of the wireless device is input, it is assumed that the call mode input unit 12 changes the call mode to the automatic OFF mode "1" (S22). Next, the wireless device (mobile phone A)
Calls the partner wireless device (mobile phone B) via the call control means 13 based on the input call identifier (S2).
3) At the same time as the incoming call, the identifier information “1090111112222” including the call mode of the partner wireless device (mobile phone B) is stored in the previous caller DB 18 (S24, S).
25).

Here, the positional relationship judging means 14 previously accessed the data in the caller DB 18 to check the call mode (S26), and when either the automatic OFF mode or the continuation mode is set. Starts the acquisition of the external world information through the external world information acquisition means 15 (S2).
7). The external world information acquisition means 15 constantly acquires the audio information of the external world from the audio input means 17 and notifies the information to the placement relationship determination means 14.

On the other hand, it is assumed that Mr. A and Mr. B are talking using their own wireless devices (mobile phone A and mobile phone B). The call is made through the voice output means 16 and the voice input means 17. During a call, the wireless communication device (mobile phone B) of the other party is determined by the positional relationship determining means 14.
By comparing the voice information sent from the user with the voice information obtained from the external world information obtaining means 15, it is possible to determine the positional relationship between Mr. A and Mr. B (S28). It is necessary to consider a slight time lag in the apposition relationship here, but when the results of the voice comparison show that they are in agreement, it may be considered that they are in a face-to-face relationship. In addition, the voice comparison algorithm is a PAMS (Perceptu) used for voice quality evaluation.
al AnalysisMeasurement System), PSQM (Perce
ptual Speech Quality Measurement), PESQ (P
The commonly used technologies such as erceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) are used. Here, since it is not directly related to the gist of the present invention, further detailed description will be omitted. When the placement relationship determination means 14 determines that Mr. A and Mr. B have a face-to-face relationship, the call is ended through the call control means 13 (S29).

In the embodiment of the present invention described above, the automatic OFF mode is described. However, when the call mode is the continuous mode (S30), the outside world information acquisition means 15 acquires the outside world information even after the call ends. Alignment relationship determination means 14
It is necessary for the face-to-face relationship determining means 14 to continue the face-to-face relationship determination. When the face-to-face relationship determining unit 14 determines that the face-to-face relationship is not established, the call control unit 13 automatically restarts the call. However, the face-to-face determination in this case requires the face-to-face determination by a method of short-range wireless communication by Bluetooth or weak radio or a method of acquiring an identifier, not by the method such as the voice comparison described above. In this case, an adapter (not shown) for short-range wireless communication is added to the wireless device shown in FIG. 1, where the ID such as a telephone number and the electric field strength are acquired and taken in by the outside world information acquisition means 15. By this (S31), the face-to-face judgment is made by the placement relationship judging means 14 by comparing the threshold values of the electric field strength (S32). Here, when the person is no longer in a face-to-face relationship (S32, No; outside the threshold range), the state is returned to the state in which the call can be made again via the call control means 13 (S33). Then, the presence / absence of a disconnection request is checked (S34), if there is a disconnection request, a telephone disconnection process is performed (S35), and if there is no disconnection request, the processes from S26 onward are repeated. In the determination step of S30, if the continuous mode is not set, the process ends.

In the call mode check process of S26, if the normal mode "0" is set, a normal call is made until a disconnection request is issued (S3).
6).

An embodiment in which the above-mentioned wireless device is installed in a conference room and the progress of the conference is grasped and the participant participates in the discussion while leaving the conference by a headset or the like even if the user leaves the conference will be described. In this case, as a wireless device installed in the conference room, as shown in FIG. 3, in addition to the configuration shown in FIG. 1, a wireless output means 19 and a wireless input means 20 are further added.
The wireless output means 19 is connected to the call control means 13, and the wireless input means 20 is connected to the outside world information acquisition means 15.
Others are the same as the configuration shown in FIG.

[0024] In the above structure, a person leaving the room brings a headset type wireless device having a microphone function,
Make two-way voice calls while you are away. The only wireless device installed in the conference room outputs the voice in the conference room captured via the voice input means 17 and the voice captured wirelessly from the headset of the midway occupant via the wireless input means 20. Audio is always output via the output unit 16, and audio in the conference room is always output via wireless to the headset via the wireless output unit 19. Figure 1
Similar to the embodiment shown in FIG. 7, the placement relationship determination means 14 determines whether there is face-to-face contact by referring to the previous caller information DB 18 by ID comparison, and controls automatic OFF and continuous mode. The description here is omitted because it is similar to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1. As a result, it can be applied to a conference room, and even those who are leaving midway can understand the progress of the conference while they are leaving and participate in discussions.

As described above, according to the present invention, the user can enjoy a lean call environment without being aware of the placement relationship by automatically controlling the call function by determining the placement relationship with the other party. It was made possible, and also
Even if you leave the conference in the middle of a conference call, you can understand the progress of the conference,
It will make it possible to continue to participate in the discussion. Although the above-described embodiment of the present invention has been described only with respect to the case of using a telephone in which wireless devices communicate with each other through a repeater, IDs are allocated to and managed by bidirectional transceivers of n channels. The same can be applied to the wireless device.

Further, the call identifier input means 11, the call mode input means 12, the call control means 13 shown in FIGS.
A computer-readable record of a program for realizing the function of each of the positional relationship determination unit 14, the external world information acquisition unit 15, the voice output unit 16, the voice input unit 17, the wireless output unit 19, and the wireless input unit 20. By recording on a medium, the program recorded on the recording medium is read by a computer, and the computer sequentially reads and executes the program,
The wireless device of the present invention is constructed. The computer system mentioned here includes an OS and hardware such as peripheral devices.

The "computer system" is a WW.
If the W system is used, the homepage providing environment (or display environment) is also included. The "computer-readable recording medium" means a flexible disk, a magneto-optical disk, a ROM, a CD-
A portable medium such as a ROM or a storage device such as a hard disk built in a computer system. Further, the "computer-readable recording medium" means a volatile memory (R) inside a computer system that serves as a server or a client when a program is transmitted via a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line.
(AM), which holds the program for a certain period of time.

Further, the above program may be transmitted from a computer system in which the program is stored in a storage device or the like to another computer system via a transmission medium or by a transmission wave in the transmission medium. Here, the "transmission medium" for transmitting the program refers to a medium having a function of transmitting information, such as a network (communication network) such as the Internet or a communication line (communication line) such as a telephone line. Further, the program may be a program for realizing some of the functions described above. further,
It may be a so-called difference file (difference program) that can realize the above-mentioned functions in combination with a program already recorded in the computer system.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above with reference to the drawings, the specific structure is not limited to this embodiment, and includes a design etc. within the scope not departing from the gist of the present invention. Be done.

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention, the automatic control of the call function based on the determination of the relationship with the other party of the call allows the user to make a phone call without being conscious of the relationship of the other party. You can enjoy the environment. In addition, since one of the wireless devices has a pairing relationship determination means, it is possible to manage the call by the wireless device alone, and it is not necessary for the wireless devices held by both callers to have the function realized by the present invention. It can be realized when the device is compatible. Further, the existing communication infrastructure can be used as it is without changing the communication network of the existing mobile phone. In addition, if you leave your seat in the middle of a meeting, etc., the call mode is automatically set via the wireless device, so you can grasp the progress of the meeting and participate in discussions while you are leaving, and you will have flexibility in meeting style. Can be made.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, showing the internal configuration of a wireless device of the present invention in a functionally expanded manner.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart cited to explain the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... Call identifier input means, 12 ... Call mode input means, 13 ... Call control means, 14 ... Position relationship determination means, 1
5 ... External world information acquisition means, 16 ... Voice output means, 17 ... Voice input means, 18 ... Last caller information DB, 19 ... Wireless output means, 20 ... Wireless input means

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. A call control means for searching for a callee wireless device based on identification information of the callee and making a call, and determining face-to-face contact between the callee wireless device and making a call via the call control means. A wireless device comprising: an inter-positional relationship determining means for managing. 2. The wireless device according to claim 1, further comprising: external world information acquisition means for acquiring voice information or identification information of the external world and delivering the acquired information to the placement relationship determination means. 3. The wireless device according to claim 1, wherein the face-to-face relationship determining unit instructs the call control unit to end the call in the face-to-face relationship. 4. The wireless device according to claim 3, wherein the face-to-face relationship determining unit instructs the call control unit to resume the call when the face-to-face relationship is lost. 5. The apposition-relationship determining means determines the apposition-relationship by comparing the identifier of the partner wireless device stored at the time of the last call with the identifier currently acquired through the short-range wireless communication. The wireless device according to claim 1, wherein the wireless device is a wireless device. 6. The apposition relationship determination means determines the apposition relationship by comparing the voice information transmitted from the partner wireless device with the voice information transmitted from the outside world information acquisition means. The wireless device according to any one of claims 2 to 4. 7. One or more wireless devices for communicating with a wireless device installed in a conference room, the wireless device being searched for based on identification information of the wireless device installed in the conference room, including itself. Receiving face-to-face contact between a call control unit that receives voice information output via the wireless device, and transmits voice information of itself to perform a call, and a wireless device installed in the conference room,
A wireless device, comprising: an interpersonal relationship determining unit that manages a call via the call control unit. 8. A call management method in a wireless device, wherein a call partner wireless device is searched for a call based on identification information of the call partner, and the call management is performed by determining face-to-face contact of the call partner wireless device. A call management method characterized by: 9. A call management program used for a wireless device, comprising: a call control step of searching for a wireless device of a called party based on identification information of the called party and making a call; A call management program that causes a computer to execute a physical relationship determination step of performing a call management via the call control means. 10. A call management program used for one or more wireless devices that make a call with a wireless device installed in a conference room, wherein the wireless device is identified based on identification information of the wireless device installed in the conference room. A call control step of searching for, receiving voice information including itself, which is output via the wireless device, and transmitting voice information of the user to make a call; and a face-to-face meeting with a wireless device installed in the conference room. Judge sex,
A call management program that causes a computer to execute the step of determining the relational relationship that manages the call.