JP2006191436A - Cellular phone unit - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cellular phone unit capable of automatically recording the contents of a telephone conversation, without having the user perform special operation, and facilitating confirmation and reproduction of the contents the recorded telephone conversation. <P>SOLUTION: A control circuit portion 7 records voice data on the voices of the telephone conversation outputted from a voice signal conversion portion 6 on a recording medium 8, comprising a hard disk drive unit or the like, when the telephone conversation is decided as being an object of recording, on the basis of a preset telephone conversation recording condition. While recording these voice data from the start of the telephone conversation up to the finish, additional information on the date of the telephone conversation, its partner, and so on is recorded on the recording medium 8 being made to correspond to the voice data. When a display operation for a telephone conversation history is performed by an input operation portion 10, the control circuit portion 7 reads additional information, concerning the date and partner of the telephone conversation out of the recording medium, and allows a display portion 9 to display the information. If specific information is selected and designated from the displayed additional information, corresponding voice data are read out from the recording medium 8 and are reproduced. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&amp;NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile phone device having a function of recording a call content.

Some telephones such as mobile phone devices have a function of recording the contents of a call in a recording medium such as an internal memory such as an internal semiconductor memory or a memory card by operating a memo switch provided in the device during the call. Are known. Further, in this telephone, by operating a playback switch provided in the apparatus, the content of the call recorded on the recording medium is reproduced, and the content of the call can be heard later (for example, see Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-236075

  However, in the conventional telephone as described above, since the call recording is started by operating the memo switch, for example, when it is recognized that the content is important after the call ends, the subsequent operation is not performed. If you think you want to save the phone call, you can't deal with it. In addition, when a plurality of call recordings are performed, it is not easy to check the contents of each call recording or to reproduce them individually.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and can automatically record the content of a call without any particular operation by the user, and easily confirm and reproduce the recorded content of the call. An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone device that can be used.

  The mobile phone device of the present invention is a mobile phone device that performs a voice call, and is a call recording unit that records voice data of a call voice transmitted and received with a call partner and additional information related to the call on a recording medium in association with each other. Recording condition setting means for setting and holding call recording conditions for recording the voice data, and the call recording means determines whether to record voice data based on the call recording conditions, The voice data recording operation is executed when the call recording conditions are met.

  Thereby, the voice data of the call voice and the additional information related to the call can be automatically recorded, and the call contents can be automatically recorded without any operation by the user. Further, since the additional information related to the call and the audio data are stored in association with each other, it is possible to easily check and reproduce the recorded call content. Also, by setting the call recording conditions, it is possible to record any call content such as recording all calls, recording only outgoing or incoming calls, recording only calls with a specific call partner, etc. Become.

  The mobile phone device of the present invention is the mobile phone device described above, wherein the call recording unit records voice data from a call start to a call end of a call that meets the call recording conditions on the recording medium. Is. As a result, the desired call voice can be automatically recorded from the start of the call to the end of the call.

  The mobile phone device of the present invention is the mobile phone device described above, wherein the additional information recorded on the recording medium includes at least one of a call date and a call partner, and additional information display means for displaying the additional information. Is provided. Accordingly, the recorded call contents can be easily confirmed and reproduced based on the call date and time and the additional information related to the call partner. Also, by designating desired additional information, the corresponding call voice can be easily selected and played back.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cellular phone device according to any one of the above-described cellular phone devices, comprising: a recording voice reproduction unit that inputs selection designation of the additional information and reproduces voice data stored in association with the designated additional information. It is to be prepared. Thereby, the audio data corresponding to the additional information can be easily extracted and reproduced.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cellular phone device including the above-described cellular phone device, wherein the recording medium includes a disk recording device. As a result, it is possible to record a large volume of audio data, and it is possible to record for a long time and a large number of records.

  According to the present invention, there is provided a mobile phone device capable of automatically recording a call content without any particular operation by a user, and easily confirming and reproducing the recorded call content. Can be provided.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile phone device according to an embodiment of the present invention. A cellular phone device 1 according to the present embodiment includes an antenna 2, a communication unit 3, a microphone 4, a receiver 5, an audio signal conversion unit 6, a control circuit unit 7, a recording medium 8, a display unit 9, and an input operation unit 10. Composed. The recording medium 8 is configured using a large-capacity recording medium such as a disk recording device having a large storage capacity such as a hard disk device.

  The transmitted voice signal output from the microphone 4 is supplied to the communication unit 3 and the voice signal conversion unit 6. The communication unit 3 performs processing such as encoding on the transmission voice signal output from the microphone 4 and transmits it via the antenna 2, and also decodes the voice signal from the other party received via the antenna 2. The received voice signal is output by performing the above process. The received voice signal is supplied to the receiver 5 and the voice signal converter 6. The communication unit 3 transmits and receives various control information related to outgoing / incoming calls / calls and the like with a base station (not shown), and exchanges various information related to outgoing / incoming calls / calls and the like with the control circuit unit 7. Do. As a result, the control circuit unit 7 can obtain the telephone number of the other party on the incoming call.

  The voice signal conversion unit 6 mixes the transmitted voice signal and the received voice signal in a call recording state to generate a voice signal for recording, and A / D converts the generated voice signal to generate voice data. Generate. The audio data may be data that has been subjected to data compression by performing an encoding process or the like. This audio data is supplied to the control circuit unit 7. In addition, the audio signal conversion unit 6 D / A converts audio data read from the recording medium 8 via the control circuit unit 7 in the audio reproduction state to generate a call audio signal, and the generated call audio signal Is supplied to the receiver 5, and the call voice is reproduced by the receiver 5.

  When the recording condition setting operation is performed by the input operation unit 10, the control circuit unit 7 displays a menu screen for recording condition setting on the display unit 9. Using this menu screen, the user of the mobile phone device 1 can set a call recording condition for recording a call. The following can be selected and set as call recording conditions. (1) Record all calls. (2) Record all incoming calls. (3) Record all outgoing calls. (4) Record only a specific call partner (for example, record only a call with Mr. XX). In the case of (4), the telephone number or name of the other party to be recorded is designated. Here, a plurality of call partners to be recorded can be registered. In addition, the control circuit unit 7 records the call recording conditions set by the user of the mobile phone device 1 in the storage unit such as a semiconductor memory (not shown) in the control circuit unit 7 or the recording medium 8 as described above. Keep it.

  The control circuit unit 7 records additional information such as the telephone number and name of the other party of call and the date and time of incoming / outgoing calls in a storage unit (not shown) in the control circuit unit 7 when a call is made or received by the mobile phone device 1. To do. Then, the control circuit unit 7 determines whether or not the call is an object of call recording based on the call recording condition set by the user. In the case of a call recording target, the control circuit unit 7 starts a voice data recording operation and controls the voice signal conversion unit 5 to a call recording state. When the call is started, the control circuit unit 7 records the audio data output from the audio signal conversion unit 5 in the recording medium 8. Further, the control circuit unit 7 stops the operation of recording the audio data on the recording medium 8 at the time when the call is finished, and controls the audio signal conversion unit 5 to the recording stop state.

  Further, when the call is finished, the control circuit unit 7 records additional information such as the distinction between outgoing and incoming calls, the start date and time of the call, the telephone number and name of the other party, whether or not the call is recorded, and the recording time on the recording medium 8. To do. Here, the control circuit unit 7 records the audio data and the additional information of the audio data in association with each other. The audio data may be recorded on the recording medium 8 and the additional information may be recorded on the storage unit in the control circuit unit 7. In this case, information for associating the audio data with the additional information is added.

  When a call history display operation is performed by the input operation unit 10, the control circuit unit 7 reads additional information from the recording medium 8, distinguishes between outgoing and incoming calls, call start date and time, telephone number and name of the other party, call recording Is displayed on the display unit 9 as a call history such as the presence / absence of recording and the recording time. If there are a large number of call histories, a part of the call histories is displayed, and the other is scrolled so that it can be displayed by scrolling. When the user selects and designates a desired call history, the control circuit unit 7 controls the audio signal conversion unit 6 to the audio reproduction state, reads out audio data corresponding to the selected and designated call from the recording medium 8, The signal is supplied to the signal converter 6. As a result, the recorded content of the designated call voice is reproduced and output from the receiver 5.

  In the above configuration, the voice recording unit for recording the voice data of the voice and the additional information related to the call such as the call date and time or the call partner in the recording medium 8 by the voice signal conversion unit 6 and the control circuit unit 7 and the designation Recorded audio reproduction means for reproducing audio data corresponding to the added information is configured. The control circuit unit 7, the display unit 9, and the input operation unit 10 constitute recording condition setting means for setting and holding a call recording condition for recording a call content. Further, additional information display means for displaying the additional information recorded by the control circuit unit 7 and the display unit 9 is configured.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the call recording operation of the mobile phone device according to the embodiment of the present invention. When the call is started, the control circuit unit 7 reads out additional information such as the telephone number and name of the other party of the call and the date and time of incoming / outgoing calls (step S21), and determines whether it is a preset recording target (step S22). ). If this call is to be recorded (YES in step S22), the voice data of the call voice is recorded in the recording medium 8 (step S23). Then, it is determined whether or not the call is ended (step S24), and the recording of the voice data is continued until it is determined that the call is ended in step S24. Next, if it is determined that the call has ended (YES in step S24), additional information such as the telephone number and name of the other party of the call and the date and time of outgoing / incoming calls are recorded in the recording medium 8 in correspondence with the voice data ( Step S25). If it is determined that the call is not a record target (NO in step S22), the voice data is not recorded in the recording medium 8, and additional information such as the telephone number and name of the call partner, the outgoing / incoming date and time, etc. is recorded in step S25. Only record.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of additional information (call history) in the mobile phone device according to the embodiment of the present invention. The control circuit unit 7 inputs a call history display operation from the input operation unit 10, and when an instruction to display the recorded call history is given, reads the additional information recorded in the recording medium 8 and reads the read additional information. Is displayed on the display unit 9. As a result, as shown in FIG. 3, the distinction between outgoing / incoming calls, the date and time of the call, the telephone number or name of the other party, the presence or absence of recording, and the recording time are displayed. If there are more call histories than can be displayed on one screen, the call history is scrolled so that it can be displayed.

  Then, the control circuit unit 7 inputs a selection / designation operation from the input operation unit 10 and records the voice data of the selected / designated call when a specific call is selected from the displayed call history. The data is read from the medium 8 and reproduced through the audio signal converter 6 and the receiver 5.

  According to this embodiment described above, all or specific call voices can be automatically recorded without any particular operation by the user of the mobile phone device. A user can record a desired call based on the call recording condition by setting an arbitrary call recording condition in advance as a call recording condition for determining whether or not to record the call voice. Further, at this time, by storing the voice data of the call contents and the additional information related to the call date and time, the other party, etc., it is possible to easily extract the voice data of the corresponding call contents based on the additional information. Thus, call recording can be easily called, reproduced, confirmed, and the like. Furthermore, by using a large-capacity recording medium, it is possible to record long-time calls and many calls. In addition, the user can refer to additional information such as the date and time of the call, the other party of the call, and the voice data of the call contents later, and can confirm when and with whom and what kind of call was made.

  The present invention can automatically record the content of the call without any particular operation by the user, and has the effect that the recorded content of the call can be easily confirmed and reproduced, This is useful for a mobile phone device having a function of recording the contents of a call.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the mobile telephone apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. Flowchart of call recording operation of mobile phone device according to an embodiment of the present invention The figure which shows the example of a display of the additional information (call history) in the mobile telephone apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cellular phone apparatus 2 Antenna 3 Communication part 4 Microphone 5 Receiver 6 Audio | voice signal conversion part 7 Control circuit part 8 Recording medium 9 Display part 10 Input operation part

Claims (5)

A mobile phone device for making a voice call,
Call recording means for associating the voice data of the call voice transmitted and received with the call partner and the additional information related to the call and recording them on a recording medium;
Recording condition setting means for setting and holding call recording conditions for recording the audio data;
The mobile phone device, wherein the call recording unit determines whether to record voice data based on the call recording condition, and executes a voice data recording operation when the call recording condition is met. The mobile phone device according to claim 1,
The mobile phone device, wherein the call recording unit records voice data from a call start to a call end of a call that meets the call recording conditions on the recording medium. The mobile phone device according to claim 1,
Additional information recorded on the recording medium includes at least one of a call date and time and a call partner, and a mobile phone device including additional information display means for displaying the additional information. The mobile phone device according to claim 1,
A portable telephone device comprising a recorded voice reproduction means for inputting selection designation of the additional information and reproducing voice data stored in association with the designated additional information. The mobile phone device according to claim 1,
A mobile phone device comprising a disk recording device as the recording medium.

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