JP2008141225A - Telephone syatem - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically turn a calling number to a DTMF signal when listening to a time signal or the like. <P>SOLUTION: When there is dial input (S1 step), an input telephone number is stored in a phonebook memory 230, and information instructing to send out the telephone number to a line by the DTMF signal is added to the telephone number (Y in S2 step), the telephone number input in the S1 step is sent out to the line by the DTMF signal (S3 step). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a telephone device.

  At present, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation provides a service called Voice Warp. This service is a service for transferring a call received at home or office to a preset telephone number.

  In order to use this voice warp, various settings are not performed unless the telephone is set so as to transmit a DTMF (Dual Tone Multiple Frequency) signal.

In addition, although the present applicant was not able to find the patent document concerned, the technique of performing remote control by a DTMF signal is described in patent document 1, for example.
JP 05-122310 A

  Such a service can be executed by sending a DTMF (Dual Tone Multiple Frequency) signal to the line. For this reason, if the dial signal to be transmitted is set to the dial pulse instead of the DTMF signal on the telephone device side, various registration operations for the user to receive services cannot be registered even with the numeric keypad. In such a case, it is necessary for the user to switch the signal sent to the line from the dial pulse to DTMF by performing a slide switch operation or key operation, which is troublesome.

The present invention is for solving such problems,
The telephone device according to claim 1, a storage means for storing a telephone number, a setting means for setting whether the telephone number is sent to the line by a DTMF signal or a dial pulse, an input means, and the input means And sending means for sending the inputted telephone number to the line with a DTMF signal regardless of the setting state of the setting means when the telephone number inputted from the storage means is stored in the storage means. To do.

The telephone device according to claim 2 is a storage means for storing a telephone number and information indicating whether the telephone number is transmitted to the line by a DTMF signal or to the line by a dial pulse, and an input means. If it is determined that the telephone number input from the input means is stored in the storage means, and the information is information indicating that the information is transmitted to the line by a DTMF signal, the telephone number input from the input means is And a sending means for sending to the line with a DTMF signal.
The telephone device according to claim 3 is the telephone device according to claim 1, further comprising a microphone and a mute circuit, and starting the DTMF signal transmission or after transmitting the DTMF signal, It is forbidden to transmit the voice input from the microphone to the line.

The telephone device according to claim 4 includes a storage means for storing a telephone number and information indicating whether the telephone number is transmitted to the line by a DTMF signal or to the line by a dial pulse, and an input means. If it is determined that the telephone number input from the input means is stored in the storage means, and the information is information indicating that the information is transmitted to the line by dial pulse, the telephone number input from the input means is Sending means for sending to the line by dial pulses.
The telephone device according to claim 5 is the telephone device according to claim 4, further comprising a microphone and a mute circuit, wherein the mute circuit is activated after the dial pulse signal transmission is started or after the dial pulse is transmitted, and the microphone It is forbidden to send the voice input from the line to the line.

The telephone device according to claim 6 is a storage means for storing a telephone number, a setting means for setting whether the telephone number is transmitted to a line by a DTMF signal or a dial pulse, an input means, and the input means. Sending means for sending the inputted telephone number to the line with a DTMF signal regardless of the setting state of the setting means if the telephone number inputted from is not stored in the storage means, To do.
A telephone device according to a seventh aspect is the telephone device according to the sixth aspect, further comprising a microphone and a mute circuit, and starting the DTMF signal transmission or after the DTMF signal is transmitted, It is prohibited to send the input voice to the line.

  According to the telephone device of the first aspect, when the telephone number stored in the storage means is input, the telephone number is sent to the line by the DTMF signal regardless of the setting of the setting means. There is no need to switch dial pulses or DTMF.

  According to the telephone device of claim 2, when the input telephone number is stored in the storage means and information to be transmitted by DTMF is added, the telephone number is set regardless of the setting of the setting means. Since the DTMF signal is sent to the line, there is no need for the user to switch dial dial or DTMF.

  According to the telephone device of the third aspect, since the sound from the microphone is automatically muted after the start of the call or after the call, the problem that the information from the line is difficult to hear can be avoided.

  According to the telephone device according to claim 4, when the input telephone number is a telephone number stored in the storage means and information to be transmitted by a dial pulse is added, the telephone number is Regardless of the setting means setting, the dial pulse signal is sent to the line, so there is no need for the user to switch dial dial or DTMF.

  According to the telephone device of the fifth aspect, since the sound from the microphone is automatically muted after the start of the call or after the call, the problem that it is difficult to hear information from the line can be avoided.

  According to the telephone device of claim 6, when a telephone number that is not stored in the storage means is input, the telephone number is sent to the line by a DTMF signal regardless of the setting of the setting means. There is no need to switch dial pulses or DTMF.

  According to the telephone device of the seventh aspect, since the sound from the microphone is automatically muted after the start of the call or after the call, the problem that the information from the line is difficult to hear can be avoided.

  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. In addition, information for instructing to send a telephone number to a line by a DTMF signal is added to a specific telephone number (for example, “117” used in a time signal or the like). Furthermore, information indicating whether the signal sent to the line set by the slide switch of the input unit is DTMF or dial pulse is also stored. In this embodiment, for example, when a specific telephone number such as “117” is input, a DTMF signal is sent to the line even if the setting at the slide switch is a dial pulse.

  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.

  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. If the control unit 100 determines in step S1 of FIG. 2 that a telephone number has been input from the input unit 220, the process proceeds to step S2.

  In step S2, the control unit 100 stores the telephone number input in step S1 in the telephone directory memory 230, and instructs the telephone number to send the telephone number to the line using a DTMF signal. Is added, the process proceeds to step S3, and if not, the process proceeds to step S4.

In step S3, the control unit 100 controls the network control unit 130 to send the telephone number input in step S1 to the line using a DTMF signal. As a result, the telephone number input in step S1 is stored in the telephone directory memory 230 regardless of the setting of whether to send a DTMF signal or a dial pulse based on the state of the slide switch. Is sent to the line. In step S3 and subsequent steps, the speech input from the microphone 193 is muted by the speech network unit 180. By doing so, the voice input from the microphone 193 is not transmitted to the line. As a result, it is possible to avoid a situation where it is difficult to hear due to ambient noise or the like input from the microphone 193 while the user is listening to information from the line.
In step S4, the control unit 100 sets whether to transmit a DTMF signal or a dial pulse based on the state of the slide switch stored in the telephone directory memory 230 with the telephone number input in the step S1. To send to the line.

  In this embodiment, if a telephone number stored in the telephone directory memory is input, the DTMF signal is transmitted to the line. However, if there is an input of a telephone number not stored in the telephone directory memory, A configuration may be adopted in which a DTMF signal is transmitted to a line.

  In addition, when the telephone number and the information transmitted by dial pulse are stored in a pair in the phone book memory, and the destination of the call is the telephone number to which the information transmitted by this dial pulse is added, the telephone number is A configuration may be adopted in which dial pulses are transmitted to the line. This is intended to correspond to a system in which the other party responds with a dial pulse instead of a DTMF signal.

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

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Control part 130 Network control part 180 Speech network part 220 Phonebook memory

Claims (7)

Storage means for storing a telephone number; setting means for setting whether the telephone number is sent to the line by a DTMF signal or dial pulse; input means; and the telephone number input from the input means is stored in the memory And a sending means for sending the inputted telephone number to the line by a DTMF signal regardless of the setting state of the setting means. Storage means for storing a telephone number and information indicating whether the telephone number is transmitted to the line by a DTMF signal or to the line by a dial pulse;
If it is determined that the input means and the telephone number input from the input means are stored in the storage means, and the information is information indicating that the information is to be sent to the line by a DTMF signal, the input means is input. Sending means for sending a telephone number to a line using a DTMF signal. 3. The telephone apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a microphone and a mute circuit, wherein the mute circuit is activated after the start of DTMF signal transmission or after DTMF signal transmission, and voice input from the microphone is sent to the line. A telephone device characterized by prohibiting sending. Storage means for storing a telephone number and information indicating whether the telephone number is transmitted to the line by a DTMF signal or to the line by a dial pulse;
If it is determined that the input means and the telephone number input from the input means are stored in the storage means, and the information indicates that the information is to be transmitted to the line by dial pulse, the input means is input. Sending means for sending a telephone number to a line with a dial pulse. 5. The telephone device according to claim 4, further comprising a microphone and a mute circuit, wherein the mute circuit is activated after dial pulse signal transmission starts or after dial pulse transmission, and voice input from the microphone is transmitted to the line. A telephone device characterized in that it is prohibited to do so. Storage means for storing a telephone number; setting means for setting whether the telephone number is sent to the line by a DTMF signal or dial pulse; input means; and the telephone number input from the input means is stored in the memory And a sending means for sending the inputted telephone number to the line by a DTMF signal regardless of the setting state of the setting means, if not stored in the means. 7. The telephone device according to claim 6, further comprising a microphone and a mute circuit, wherein the mute circuit is activated after the start of DTMF signal transmission or after DTMF signal transmission, and the voice input from the microphone is transmitted to the line. A telephone device characterized by prohibiting this.

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