JP2008072268A - Telephone apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telephone apparatus that allows an originator of a silent phone call to be easily registered as the other party of call rejection. <P>SOLUTION: After a ringtone is sounded a prescribed number of times in response to an incoming call, a line is automatically connected to start recording an incoming message from the call originating side (step S6). A timer is started simultaneously with the recording start (step S7), and a telephone number of the call originating side is automatically registered as the other party of call rejection (step S15) when a voice from the call originating side is not detected for a prescribed time (steps S8 and S14). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a telephone device capable of recording a message from a calling party when the user is away.

  Current cordless telephone devices and facsimile devices generally have an absence recording function. This voice mail recording function is set to execute the voice mail recording function, and when the user goes out, and there is an incoming line incoming call, the line is automatically connected after a predetermined number of ringing sounds, I'm out now. Please put a message after a beeping sound "OGM (Out Going Message), so-called response message is output to the line, ICM (In Coming Message) from the calling side, so-called This is a function to record a message by inputting it from the line. The user can listen to the message from the other party who has received the call while he / she is away by listening to the message after returning home from the place.

  Although it is such a convenient answering recording function, a silent message may be input from the caller for mischief purposes, and the caller may be offended.

Many techniques for countermeasures against such mischievous calls have been proposed. For example, in Patent Document 1, if a user sets in advance a destination to be rejected, a line is automatically connected even if there is an incoming call from the user. A technique for cutting is disclosed.
JP 2001-223788 A

  However, with the technique described in Patent Document 1, an incoming call from a mischievous destination, such as a silent call, cannot be rejected unless the user registers an incoming call rejection destination. Also, if there are tens or hundreds of silent calls from the other party that the user is not registered while the user is away, the storage capacity of the memory for recording the message immediately becomes insufficient. There is a problem that messages from the other party cannot be recorded.

The present invention is for solving such problems, and even if the user does not register the incoming call rejection destination, the destination that automatically makes a silent call is registered as the incoming call rejection destination. It is possible to do.
The telephone device according to claim 1 is a telephone device capable of recording a message message from the calling side when there is an incoming call, and connects the line when there is an incoming call, and performs a recording operation of the message from the calling side. If there is no voice from the calling side for a predetermined time after the start, the calling side is registered as a destination of call rejection.
The telephone device according to claim 2 is a telephone device capable of recording a message from the calling party when there is an incoming call, a telephone number detecting means for detecting the telephone number of the calling party at the time of the incoming call, and automatic after the incoming call. Line connecting means for connecting the lines in general, time measuring means for measuring a predetermined time after the line connecting means connects the line, and voice from the calling side while the time measuring means is measuring the predetermined time If the voice detection means does not detect the voice from the calling side during a predetermined time, the incoming call rejection that registers the telephone number detected by the telephone number detection means as the incoming call rejection number And a number registration means.
The telephone device according to claim 3 is a telephone device capable of recording a message from the calling party when there is an incoming call, a telephone number detecting means for detecting the telephone number of the calling party at the time of the incoming call, and automatic after the incoming call. A response means for connecting a line and outputting a response message to the line, a timing means for starting timing a predetermined time when the response means starts outputting the response message to the line, and the timing means timing the predetermined time. A voice detecting means for detecting the voice from the calling side during the call and the telephone detected by the telephone number detecting means if the voice detecting means does not detect the voice from the calling side for a predetermined time An incoming call rejection number registration unit for registering a number as an incoming call rejection number.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a telephone device capable of recording a message message from the calling side when an incoming call is received, a telephone number detecting means for detecting the telephone number of the calling side when the incoming call is received, Line connection means for automatically connecting the line, timing means for timing the silence period after the line connection means connects the line, and when the timing means counts the silence period for a predetermined time or more, And an incoming call rejection number registration means for registering the telephone number detected by the telephone number detection means as an incoming call rejection number.
The telephone device according to claim 5 is a telephone device capable of recording a message from the calling party when there is an incoming call, a telephone number detecting means for detecting the telephone number of the calling party at the time of the incoming call, and automatic after the incoming call. A response means for connecting a line and outputting a response message to the line, a timing means for measuring a silent period after the response means starts outputting the response message to the line, and a timing means. And an incoming call rejection number registration means for registering the telephone number detected by the telephone number detection means as an incoming call rejection number when a silent period is counted for a predetermined time or more.

  According to the telephone device of claim 1, since there is no voice from the calling party for a predetermined time after the start of the recording operation of the message, the calling party is registered as the call rejection destination. In addition, it is possible to register a destination for silent calls as a destination for rejecting incoming calls.

  According to the telephone device of claim 2, if the voice from the calling side is not detected for a predetermined time after the line is connected, the calling side is automatically registered as the call rejection destination, so that the other party of the silent call is automatically made. It is possible to register the destination as a destination of call rejection.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, if the voice from the calling side is not detected for a predetermined time after the response message is output, the calling side is automatically registered as a call rejection destination, It is possible to register the destination as a destination for rejecting incoming calls.

  According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, if there is no sound for a predetermined time after connecting the line, the caller side is automatically registered as the call rejection destination, and therefore the destination of the silent call is automatically rejected. Can be registered.

  According to the telephone device of claim 5, if there is no sound for a predetermined time after outputting the response message, the caller side is automatically registered as the call rejection destination, so that the silent call destination is automatically rejected. It is possible to register as a destination.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment apparatus (telephone apparatus) to which the present invention is applied.

In FIG. 1, a control unit 100 controls each circuit inside the telephone device. Further, the control unit 100 has a buffer memory (not shown) for temporarily storing the telephone number of the calling side when an incoming call is received, and a timer (not shown) for measuring a predetermined time.
The diode bridge 110 is connected to the line L, and keeps the potential of the circuit inside the apparatus constant even if the polarity of the line L is reversed. When the ringer detection unit 120 is connected to the line L and detects an incoming signal having a frequency of 16 Hz transmitted from the line L at a constant period, the ringer detection unit 120 sends a signal indicating the incoming call to the control unit 100.

  The network control unit 130 also has a function of performing a line closing operation under the control of the control unit 100 and detecting the polarity inversion of the line. The beep sound generation unit 140 transmits, for example, a 2 kHz beep sound to the line L via the network control unit 130 under the control of the control unit 100.

  The speaker 150 is connected to the control unit 100 via an amplifier 160 and a mute circuit 170, and sends a ring tone when an incoming signal from the line L is detected by the ringer detection unit 120. This message is transmitted when the message message stored in the message message storage unit 240 is reproduced.

  The mute circuit 170 prevents the voice signal, the ring tone, and the like input from the speech network unit 180 from being transmitted from the speaker under the control of the control unit 100. The speech network unit 180 switches connection of a line through which an audio signal passes.

The speaker 191 of the transmission / reception unit 190 is connected to the speech network unit 180 via the amplifier 192, and transmits the calling-side audio signal input from the line L. The microphone 193 of the transmission / reception unit 190 is connected to the speech network unit 180 via the amplifier 194, and transmits a voice signal emitted by the user to the speech network unit 180.
The hook detection unit 200 is connected to the control unit 100 and detects on-hook and off-hook of the transmission / reception unit 190.
The calling party number detection unit 210 is connected to the speech network unit 180 and the control unit 100, and detects the calling party telephone number from the line L when an incoming call is received.
The input unit 220 includes a numeric keypad, a message reproduction key for reproducing a message message stored in a message message storage unit 240 described later, and the signal input by the input unit 220 is a control unit. 100.

  The telephone directory memory 230 is composed of a rewritable non-volatile memory such as an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), and can store a plurality of telephone numbers and calling party names.

  The message message storage unit 240 is composed of, for example, an EEPROM, and stores an area for storing a message message on the calling side input from the line L when the telephone device starts voice recording, and a call corresponding to the message message. If the calling party number detecting unit 210 detects the calling party's telephone number when receiving an incoming call, the above message message and the calling party's telephone number are stored. Can be stored in pairs, and a plurality of such information can be stored. If the calling party number detection unit 210 does not detect a telephone number when an incoming call is received, only the business message is stored in the business message storage unit 240. Note that the date, date, etc. of the incoming call may be stored corresponding to the business message.

  The display unit 250 can display the telephone number input from the input unit 220, the telephone number and name stored in the telephone directory memory 230, and the like. Further, when a message message from the calling side stored in the message message storage unit 240 is reproduced (sent from the speaker 150), the message on the calling side is stored in the message message storage unit 240. The telephone number of the calling party stored as a pair is displayed.

  The rejection number storage unit 260 is made of, for example, an EEPROM or the like, and stores the telephone number of the other party who rejects the incoming call. In this embodiment, if there is an incoming call and the voice from the calling party is not detected for a predetermined time or longer after recording of the message is started, the incoming telephone number is set as the incoming call rejection telephone number in the rejection number storage unit 260. Store. The telephone number stored in the rejection number storage unit 260 may be input by the user performing a key operation from the input unit 220, or selected from the other parties stored in the phone book memory 230. Also good.

  The response message storage unit 270 is made of, for example, an EEPROM or the like, and is sent to the calling party before storing the message (for example, “I'm just calling now, please put the message after the dial tone”) Is stored.

  Next, the operation of the apparatus of this embodiment will be described below.

  In step S1, when detecting a signal indicating that there is a calling signal from ringer detection unit 120, control unit 100 determines that there is a calling signal, and proceeds to step S2.

  In step S2, when the control unit 100 receives the telephone number data from the calling side from the calling side number detection unit 210, the control unit 100 temporarily stores the telephone number of the calling side in a buffer memory (not shown) in the control unit 100. To store. If the calling party is calling from a public telephone, or if a call is made by adding 184 to the beginning of the telephone number, the telephone number of the calling party is not received. No number is stored.

  In step S3, the control unit 100 starts counting ringing signals detected by the ringer detection unit 120. At this time, the control unit 100 may count the number of ringing sounds for the user output from the speaker 150.

  In step S4, the control unit 100 outputs a ringing tone from the speaker 150, and proceeds to step S5.

  In step S5, when the control circuit 100 determines that the number of ringing sounds started counting in step S3 or the number of ringing signals detected by the ringer detection unit 120 is equal to or greater than the predetermined number, the process proceeds to step S6. If not, return to step S4.

  In step S6, the control circuit 100 controls the network control unit 130 to connect the line, reads the response message data from the response message storage unit 270, outputs the response message data to the line, and subsequently receives the message from the line. The message is received and stored in the business message storage unit 240. At this time, the telephone number data on the calling side stored in the buffer memory of the control circuit 100 and the received message message are associated with each other and stored in the message message storage unit 240.

  In step S7, the control circuit 100 causes a timer mounted therein to start measuring a predetermined time. The predetermined time may be a time set in advance by the user or a time set at the time of factory shipment.

  In step S6, the timer is started after the recording of the message is started. However, the timer may be started from the start of the line connection in step S6, or the timer is started after the response message is transmitted. You may start.

  In subsequent S8 step, when detecting the voice from the calling side, control unit 100 proceeds to step S9, and otherwise proceeds to step S14.

  In this embodiment, the function of detecting the voice from the calling side is installed in the control unit 100. However, in addition to the control unit 100, an integrated circuit such as a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) is installed. It may be configured to detect voice from a line. As a method for detecting the sound, for example, a method of determining a sound when detecting a signal having a predetermined level of amplitude, a signal having a predetermined frequency, or the like can be considered.

  In step S9, the control unit 100 clears the timer that started timing in step S7, and advances the process to step S10.

  In step S10, when the control circuit 100 detects a signal indicating that the handset is off-hook from the hook detection unit 200, the control circuit 100 proceeds to step S11, and if not, proceeds to step S13.

  In step S11, the control circuit 100 deletes the message message recorded in step S6, and proceeds to step S12.

  In step S12, the control circuit 100 controls the speech network unit 180 and the network control unit 130 to connect the line L and the transmission / reception unit 190, and performs a call process with the calling party. In step, the line is disconnected and the process is terminated.

  On the other hand, in step S13, when the control circuit 100 detects a signal indicating that the calling side is on-hook from the network control unit 130, the control circuit 100 proceeds to step S17, and otherwise returns to step S10. This on-hook detection detects that the calling side is on-hook by the network control unit 130 detecting, for example, the polarity inversion of the line L.

  In step S14, the control circuit 100 clears the timer when determining that the timer started in step S7 has counted a predetermined time (for example, 10 seconds), and proceeds to step S15. Otherwise, the process proceeds to step S16. To proceed.

  In step S15, the control circuit 100 stores the calling party telephone number received in step S2 and temporarily stored in the buffer memory in the incoming call rejection storage unit 260, and proceeds to step S17.

  At this time, the voice from the calling party recorded in step S6 (in this case, when only noise is recorded or silent data) may be deleted. By erasing the data stored in the memory as silence data, the capacity of the memory can be used effectively.

  In step S16, if the control circuit 100 determines that the other party has gone on-hook as in step S13, the timer is cleared and the process proceeds to step S17. Otherwise, the process proceeds to step S8.

  In step S17, the control circuit 100 controls the network control unit 130 to disconnect the line L and terminate the process.

  In this way, an incoming call from the other party of the silent call is automatically registered as an incoming call rejection destination. Subsequently, even if there is an incoming call from a registered call rejection party, the line is automatically disconnected without ringing, or the line is automatically connected and a message (for example, “ Incoming calls from this number will not be accepted "), or a line will be automatically connected to send out a repelling sound (for example, a beep) to reject incoming calls from the other party be able to.

  In the present embodiment, if a voice is not detected for a predetermined time, it is registered as a rejection partner. However, if no DTMF signal other than the voice or noise around the calling side is detected, that is, silent. When it is detected that the telephone number is detected, the calling party's telephone number may be registered as a rejection partner.

  Further, when it is detected that there is no sound and a busy tone is further detected, the caller's telephone number may be registered as a rejection partner. By adopting such a configuration, it is possible to register only a destination that has not made any speech during recording of a business message as a rejected destination.

  As described above, in the present embodiment device, when there is an incoming call from the other party of the silent call, the destination is automatically registered as the incoming call rejection destination, so that the user can easily receive the call without performing a registration operation one by one. You can register the refusal destination.

  Further, even if there is an incoming call from the same destination in the future, since the message is not recorded, the capacity of the memory for storing the message can be used effectively.

These are block diagrams of the Example apparatus to which this invention is applied. These are the flowcharts which show operation | movement of a present Example apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Control part 210 Calling party number detection part 240 Message message storage part 260 Rejection number storage part 270 Response message storage part

Claims (5)

When there is an incoming call, it is a telephone device that can record the message from the calling side, connect the line and start recording the message from the calling side for a predetermined time, A telephone device characterized in that if there is no voice from the calling side, the calling side is registered as a destination of call rejection. A telephone device that can record a message from the calling party when there is an incoming call.
A telephone number detecting means for detecting the telephone number of the calling side at the time of an incoming call, a line connecting means for automatically connecting a line after the incoming call, and a timing means for timing a predetermined time after the line connecting means connects the line; A voice detecting means for detecting the voice from the calling side while the time counting means is counting the predetermined time, and the voice detecting means is not to detect the voice from the calling side during the predetermined time. A telephone apparatus comprising: an incoming call rejection number registration means for registering the telephone number detected by the telephone number detection means as an incoming call rejection number. A telephone device that can record a message from the calling party when there is an incoming call.
A telephone number detecting means for detecting the telephone number of the calling party at the time of an incoming call, a response means for automatically connecting a line after the incoming call and outputting a response message to the line, and when the response means starts outputting a response message to the line, The time measuring means for starting the time measurement for a predetermined time, the sound detecting means for detecting the sound from the calling side while the time measuring means is measuring the predetermined time, and the sound detecting means are generated during the predetermined time. A telephone apparatus comprising: an incoming call rejection number registration means for registering the telephone number detected by the telephone number detection means as an incoming call rejection number if no voice is detected from the call side. A telephone device that can record a message from the calling party when there is an incoming call.
Telephone number detecting means for detecting the telephone number of the calling party when an incoming call is received, line connecting means for automatically connecting a line after the incoming call, and time measuring means for measuring a silent period after the line connecting means connects the line And an incoming call rejection number registration means for registering the telephone number detected by the telephone number detection means as an incoming call rejection number when the time counting means measures a silent period for a predetermined time or more. Telephone device. A telephone device that can record a message from the calling party when there is an incoming call.
Telephone number detection means for detecting the calling party's telephone number when an incoming call is received, response means for automatically connecting the line after receiving the call and outputting a response message to the line, and the response means starts outputting the response message to the line Time-counting means for counting the silent period after the time and registration of the incoming call rejection number for registering the telephone number detected by the telephone number detection means as the incoming call rejection number when the time-keeping means measures the silent period for a predetermined time or more. And a telephone device.

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