JP2008219682A - Telephone apparatus withg simple setting function - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telephone apparatus capable of reducing the time and labor required for data setting and easily performing target data setting by relating an operating state of a telephone set to data setting. <P>SOLUTION: Information such as a state or date and time relating to each operating state of a telephone set and an opposite-side telephone number, etc., is stored as history information (F402) and when a data setting button is pressed (F403, Yes), data setting items relating to the current state are extracted and displayed (F409). Furthermore, in the case of setting after a state under call arrival or the like, a state under waiting is recovered and then, on the basis of the history information being stored, data setting items corresponding to states in the past are extracted and displayed (F410). The data setting items selected in such a state are then set (F411). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a telephone device that can easily set various operation modes and data registration.

  In the conventional telephone, in order for the user to set and operate the operation mode of various functions such as ringtone selection, clock calendar setting, call rejection setting, etc., after changing the display screen to the data setting screen during standby, It was customary to select and set hierarchical setting items.

  However, in the conventional setting operation method for various functions, many hierarchical menu trees are selected in order until the display screen is changed to the data setting screen, which is very difficult to reach the target setting item screen. There was a drawback of requiring time and labor.

As a method for improving the setting operation method of the conventional telephone, in Patent Document 1, a hierarchy is made into a menu icon, an outline of the hierarchy structure is visually grasped, and the operation position and operation direction of the jog dial are determined by the hierarchy position cursor. By moving to the corresponding data setting item and selecting it, the cursor movement between hierarchies has been improved.
JP 2004-295600 A

  In many cases, the user changes or adds a setting item of the telephone while recognizing the necessity during the actual use of the telephone and changing or adding the setting item after use. However, even in Patent Document 1, it is necessary to frequently operate the jog dial in order to find the target data setting item, and it cannot be said that the operability is sufficiently improved.

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is to easily set a target setting item without correlating many menu trees in order by associating the operation state of the telephone in use with the data setting. It is an object to provide a telephone device capable of setting data.

  In order to solve the above problems, the first invention is a telephone device with a setting operation guidance function related to a setting item, the operation state management means for managing the operation state of the own device, and the association with the operation state of the own device Setting item extracting means for managing setting items and extracting predetermined setting items, setting item display means for displaying a description or setting method of the specified setting item, and setting item executing means for executing the specified setting item The operation state management unit stores a history of past operation states up to the current operation state of the device, and the setting item extraction unit stores the current operation state of the device or a past designated by the operator. The setting item associated with the operation state is extracted, the setting item display unit displays the setting item extracted by the setting item extraction unit, and the setting item execution unit includes the setting item display unit. And executes the setting item when a particular setting items from the setting items are displayed is designated.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the second invention is the telephone device according to claim 1, wherein the operation state management means includes a history of past operation states up to a current operation state of the own device and the past. Communication partner data is accumulated in the operation state, and when the communication partner data is required for the designated setting item, the setting item execution means stores the communication partner data in the past operation state when the setting item is designated. The setting item is executed by using.

  According to the present invention, since data setting items related to the operating state of using the telephone or immediately after use are extracted in advance, a desired setting item is sequentially viewed from the menu tree of the hierarchical setting items. There is no hassle to find out. Further, even when the state immediately changes to the next state, such as a state during an incoming call, data setting relating to the past operation state can be performed later.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an external view of a telephone device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a telephone according to the present invention, 2 is a display unit, 3 is a handset, 4 is a dial button, 51 is a data setting button, 52 is an automatic setting button, and 6 is an item displayed on the display unit 2. A cross button 7 for moving the pointer and a determination button 7 for determining the selected item. By pressing the data setting button 51 during use, the telephone 1 can easily set various data registrations such as phone book registration and ringing tone and operation conditions.

  FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention. 8 is a control unit that controls the entire telephone 1, 81 is a setting item extraction unit that extracts data setting items related to each operation state, 82 is a state monitoring unit that monitors the operation state, and 11 is an analog telephone line or digital telephone. A public line connection unit connected to a public network such as a line or an IP telephone line, 12 a display control unit for controlling display contents of the display unit 2, 13 an operation state from the state monitoring unit 82, communication partner data at that time, It is a past state history storage unit that stores communication date and time, call time, number of incoming calls, and number of outgoing calls.

  FIG. 3 is a transition diagram of the operation state of the telephone 1, showing an example of setting items displayed on the display unit 2 in each operation state.

  S300 is a standby state, and the setting items associated with this state are calendar clock setting, LCD density setting, backlight setting, key touch tone setting, and the like.

  S310 is a state in which a call is being made, and the setting items associated with this state are phone book registration, dialing type setting, dial press sound setting, call history storage setting, and the like. Thereby, for example, it is possible to efficiently set whether or not to register the telephone number of the dialed partner in the telephone directory, whether to leave the telephone number of the partner in the outgoing call history, or the like.

  S320 is a state in which an incoming call is received, and the setting items associated with this state are ringing music (ringtone) setting at the time of an incoming call, incoming volume setting, incoming call rejection setting, incoming call history saving setting, and the like. Thereby, for example, ringtone setting for each partner can be set efficiently. However, since the incoming call is immediately answered and the call is in progress (S330), there is no room for selecting and setting ringtones. On the other hand, since the history of the past incoming state (S320) is stored in the past state history storage unit 13 including the information of the other party at that time, the past when the time after the call ends has a margin. It is only necessary to display the history information of the state on the display unit 2 and perform desired data setting again.

  S330 is a state during a call, and setting items associated with this state are a charge display setting, a reception volume setting, an IP call quality setting, a long-time call alarm timer, and the like.

  S340 to S360 are mail-related states. S360 is a state in which a mail is being created, and the setting items associated with this state are mail address registration, security settings, and the like. S350 is a state during mail transmission. S360 is a state in which a mail is being received, and the setting items associated with this state are mail ringtone setting, mail address registration, security setting, and the like.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart relating to various settings of the telephone 1. This flow starts from the state S300 in which the telephone 1 is on standby (F400).
The state monitoring unit 82 changes the operating state of the telephone 1 from waiting (S300) to calling (S310) or receiving (S320), to talking (S330), and from talking (S330) to waiting again. Every time a transition from each state such as (S300) to the next state is detected (F401, Yes), the control unit 8 keeps information on the state, date, telephone number, call time, etc. related to each operation state in the past. It is stored as history information in the state history storage unit 13 (F402). It is also possible to calculate frequency information such as the number of outgoing calls and the number of incoming calls for each call partner from the history information in the past state history storage unit 13 and extract setting items from the frequency information.
If no state transition has occurred in F401 (F401, No), the process proceeds to F403.

  In F403, it is determined whether or not the data setting button 51 has been pressed. If it is determined that the data setting button 51 has been pressed (F403, Yes), the control unit 8 causes the display unit 2 to display whether or not the setting is related to the current operation state. Wait for selection operation from the user. When the user's selection is a setting related to the current state (F408, Yes), the data setting extraction unit 81 extracts the data setting item corresponding to the current state, and the description related to the setting item and the data to be selected The item is displayed on the display unit 2 (F409), parameters, data, and the like of the input setting item are set (F411), and this flow ends (F412).

  When the user's selection is a setting related to a past state (F408, No), after specifying a past operation state designated by the user by a predetermined display such as tracing the history in reverse order and an input operation from the user The data setting extraction unit 81 extracts data setting items corresponding to the past operation state, causes the display unit 2 to display explanations and data items to be selected related to the setting items (F410), and proceeds to F411.

  For example, when the state transition of F401 is a state transition from waiting (S300) to receiving (S320), there is no room for setting operation such as changing the ringtone. However, when the user raises the handset 3 and performs a response operation, the telephone is busy (S330), and even if the incoming call is in a past state, information such as the other party's phone number related to the incoming call is stored in the past state history storage unit 13 as history information. (F402). Accordingly, the user ends the call and returns to the waiting state (S300), and then presses the data setting button 51 (F403, Yes), for example, to display the past incoming state display from the other party who wants to change the ringtone song. A ringtone change is selected from the associated data setting item with the cross button 6 and set with the decision button 7 (F411).

  Next, the function of the automatic setting button 52 will be described. When the data setting button 51 is not pressed in F403 (F403, No) and the automatic setting button 52 is pressed (F405, Yes), the control unit 8 displays whether or not the setting is related to the current operation state. And waits for a selection operation from the user. When the user's selection is a setting related to the current state (F405, Yes), the data setting extraction unit 81 extracts automatic data setting items corresponding to the current state, and explanations and settings related to the setting items are made. Data and the like are displayed on the display unit 2 (F406), and the process proceeds to step F411.

  When the user's selection is a setting related to a past state (F405, No), the data setting extraction unit 81 extracts automatic data setting items corresponding to the past state, and explanations and settings related to the setting items are made. Data and the like are displayed on the display unit 2 (F407), and the process proceeds to step F411.

Here, the entrusted setting means that the history information in the past state history storage unit 13 is analyzed and the control unit 8 automatically presents recommended setting items and setting contents.
For example, when the current or past state is an incoming call from a specific partner and the telephone number of the partner is not registered in the phone book, the control unit 8 analyzes the history information in the past state history storage unit 13, If it is determined that the number of incoming calls from the same party number or the number of outgoing calls to the same party number is greater than or equal to a certain value, a data setting screen for recommending phone book registration from the data setting items is displayed on the display unit 2 (F406). Also, ringtones may be appropriately selected from unused songs. As a result, the user can achieve the desired setting with very few selection operations. If the setting content displayed on the display unit 2 is OK, the user can automatically set the target setting item simply by pressing the enter button 7.

  In the above, a single telephone connected to a public line such as an analog line, a digital line, or an IP line has been described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the telephone device of the present invention may be an extension telephone connected to a PBX or a key telephone main device. In this case, among the functional blocks shown in FIG. 2, the control unit 8, the setting item extraction unit 81, the state monitoring unit 82, the past state history storage unit 13 and the like may be incorporated in the PBX or the key telephone main device.

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Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Telephone of this invention 2 Display part 3 Handset 4 Dial button 6 Cross button 7 Decision button 8 Control part 10 Voice communication control part 11 Public line connection part 12 Display control part 13 Past state history storage part 51 Data setting button 52 Auto setting button 81 Setting item extraction unit 82 Status monitoring unit

Claims (2)

A telephone device with a setting operation guidance function related to a setting item,
Operation state management means for managing the operation state of the own apparatus, setting item extraction means for managing setting items in association with the operation state of the own apparatus and extracting predetermined setting items, and explanation or setting method for the specified setting item A setting item display means for displaying the setting item and a setting item execution means for executing the specified setting item,
The operation state management unit stores a history of past operation states up to the current operation state of the device itself, and the setting item extraction unit stores the current operation state of the device itself or a past operation state designated by the operator. The associated setting item is extracted, the setting item display means displays the setting item extracted by the setting item extraction means, and the setting item execution means starts from the setting item displayed by the setting item display means. A telephone device having a simple setting function, wherein when a specific setting item is designated, the setting item is executed. The telephone device according to claim 1,
The operation state management means accumulates a history of past operation states up to the current operation state of the device itself and communication partner data in the past operation states, and when communication partner data is required for the designated setting item, The telephone device having a simple setting function, wherein the setting item execution means executes the setting item using communication partner data in a past operation state when the setting item is designated.

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