JP2008124588A - Telephone apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telephone apparatus with which its user does not need to notify a partner that a second call is waiting each time. <P>SOLUTION: If a call-waiting telephone call arrives (Y in a S2 step), the telephone apparatus automatically transmits a message that the call-waiting telephone call arrives to the partner who are speaking on an external line, simultaneously mutes voice from a microphone, and starts conversation with a partner who has made the call-waiting telephone call (S3 to S6 steps). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a telephone device.

Currently, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation provides a call waiting service. In this case, during an outside line call, the exchange transmits to the telephone a sound indicating that there is an incoming call from another destination. When the user of the telephone receiving this sound performs a predetermined operation, it is possible to place a call on hold with the other party on the outside line and start a call with the new incoming party.
Many technologies related to the call waiting service have been proposed. For example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-133867, the home simple exchange device automatically detects the cancellation of the call waiting service, and informs the user with a notification sound. A technique for notifying that the hold has been released is described.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-192156

  With a conventional telephone device, if there is a call waiting call during a call, the user must notify the other party that is currently on the call because the other party has received the call. It is troublesome.

  Also, if there is a call waiting during a call, the other party in the call will hear a sound indicating that there is a call waiting. There is.

The present invention is for solving such problems,
The telephone device according to claim 1 is characterized in that when a call waiting is received during a call, a message indicating that the call waiting has been entered is automatically transmitted to the other party during the call.
The telephone device according to claim 2 automatically transmits a message indicating that the call waiting is received to the other party during a call when a call waiting is received during a call, and automatically after the transmission, the other party during the call. And the line with the caller side of the call waiting is connected.
The telephone device according to claim 3 is the telephone device according to claim 1 or 2, and prohibits the transmission of the voice from the microphone to the other party during a call when a call waiting is received during the call. It is characterized by.
5. The telephone device according to claim 4, wherein a call waiting incoming call detecting means for detecting an incoming call incoming call, a message storage means for storing a message indicating that a call waiting has been received, a network control means, and the call waiting incoming call detecting means during a call. Control means for controlling the network control means to send the message stored in the message storage means to the other party during a call when it is determined that the incoming call of call waiting has been detected. .
6. The telephone device according to claim 5, wherein a call waiting incoming call detecting means for detecting an incoming call waiting call, a message storage means for storing a message indicating that a call waiting has been received, a network control means, and the call waiting incoming call detecting means during a call. When it is determined that the incoming call of call waiting has been detected, the message stored in the message storage means is sent to the other party during the call, and after the message is sent, the line with the other party during the call is put on hold. Control means for controlling the network control means.
The telephone device according to claim 6 is the telephone device according to claim 4 or 5, and further includes a microphone and a mute means, and the control means detects the incoming call of the call waiting by the call waiting incoming call detecting means. If determined, the mute means is controlled so as to mute the sound from the microphone.

  According to the telephone device of claims 1 and 4, when a call waiting is received during a call, a message indicating that the call waiting has been entered is automatically transmitted to the other party during the call. There is no need to notify that call waiting has been entered.

According to the second and fifth aspects of the present invention, since the telephone device is automatically put on hold after sending out the message, it is not necessary for the user to perform the operation one by one in order to place the call on hold with the other party who is talking.
According to the telephone device of claims 3 and 6, if there is an incoming call waiting during a call, it is prohibited to transmit the voice from the microphone to the other party during the call. Can be sent to the other party during a call.

  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. It also has a function of sending a DTMF (Dual Tone Multiple Frequency) signal or a dial pulse signal to 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. When the ringer detection unit 120 detects an incoming signal from the line L, the speaker 150 sends out a ringtone, Is performed, the voice from the line L and the RBT (Ring Back Tone) are output from the speaker 150.

  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 speech network unit 180 has a built-in mute circuit (not shown) for preventing the audio signal input from the speaker 191 from being sent to the line L.

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 switch for switching between DTMF and dial pulses, and the signal input from the input unit 220 is sent to the 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.

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.
The response message storage unit 270 stores a message (for example, “I am currently responding to the call waiting party. Please wait for a while”) when the incoming call signal is detected. .

  Next, the operation of the embodiment apparatus to which the present invention is applied will be described below.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the apparatus of this embodiment. Hereinafter, it is assumed that there are three telephones A, B, and C. A is a telephone device which is the apparatus of the present embodiment, B is a partner who initially made a call with A (connected to the line), and C was in a call with A and B (connected to the line) It is the other party who interrupted with the call waiting service.

  In step S1 of FIG. 2, it is assumed that A and B are busy. Subsequently, in step S2, control unit 100 proceeds to step S3 if network control unit 130 determines that a call waiting signal has been received, and proceeds to step S12 if not.

  In step S3, the control unit 100 sends a message stored in the response message storage unit 270 (for example, “We are currently responding to the call waiting party. Please wait for a while”) to the line, and proceeds to step S4. Proceed.

  In step S <b> 4, the control unit 100 controls the speech network unit 180 to mute the sound input from the microphone 193.

  In the subsequent S5 step, the control unit 100 places the call with B on hold, and advances the process to S6 step.

  In step S6, the control unit 100 connects the line between A and C and starts a call.

  In step S7, when determining that the signal indicating that B has disconnected the line has been detected from network control unit 130, control unit 100 proceeds to step S8, and otherwise proceeds to step S10.

  In step S8, the control circuit 100 connects a line between A and C and advances the process to step S9.

  In step S9, when the control circuit 100 detects a signal indicating that the line is disconnected from the network control unit 130 or detects a signal indicating that the handset is on-hook from the hook detection unit 200, the control circuit 100 performs processing. finish.

  In step S10, when the control circuit 100 detects a signal indicating that the line between the network control unit 130 and C has been disconnected, the control circuit 100 proceeds to step S11, and otherwise returns to step S7.

  In step S11, the control circuit 100 performs a call process between A and B, and proceeds to step S12.

  In step S12, the control circuit 100 detects a signal indicating that the line has been disconnected from the network control unit 130 as in step S9, or a signal indicating that the handset is on-hook from the hook detection unit 200. If detected, the process is terminated.

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

Explanation of symbols

100 Control Unit 130 Network Control Unit 200 Hook Detection Unit 270 Response Message Storage Unit

Claims (6)

A telephone device characterized in that when a call waiting is received during a call, a message indicating that the call waiting has been entered is automatically transmitted to the other party during the call. If a call waiting is received during a call, a message indicating that the call waiting has been entered is automatically sent to the other party during the call, and after transmission, the line with the other party during the call is automatically put on hold. A telephone device characterized by connecting a line to a caller side of the call waiting. 3. The telephone device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein if a call waiting is received during a call, the telephone device is prohibited from transmitting voice from the microphone to the other party during the call. Call waiting detection means for detecting incoming call waiting, message storage means for storing a message indicating that a call waiting has been entered, network control means,
Control means for controlling the network control means so as to send the message stored in the message storage means to the other party during the call if it is determined that the call waiting incoming call detection means has detected an incoming call waiting during a call. And a telephone device characterized by comprising: Call waiting detection means for detecting incoming call waiting, message storage means for storing a message indicating that a call waiting has been entered, network control means,
When it is determined that the call waiting incoming call detecting means has detected an incoming call waiting during a call, the message stored in the message storing means is sent to the other party during the call, and after the message is sent, And a control means for controlling the network control means so as to place the line on hold. The telephone device according to claim 4 or 5, further comprising a microphone and a mute means,
When the control means determines that the call waiting incoming call detection means detects an incoming call waiting, the control device controls the mute means to mute the sound from the microphone.

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