JP2008236809A - Communication terminal and communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication terminal and a communication system capable of registering character information appropriately by recognizing characters in an image. <P>SOLUTION: The communication terminal for communication through a communication line is provided with: a telephone directory data storage part for storing telephone book data that is information indicating communication parties; an image input part for inputting an image; an image analysis part for extracting the telephone directory data included in the image by analyzing the image input by the image input part and recognizing characters in the image; and a telephone directory data registration part for registering the telephone directory data extracted by the image analysis part in the telephone directory data storage part. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication terminal device and a communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a communication terminal device and a communication system that use character recognition.

A method has been devised in which characters are photographed with an attached camera in a mobile communication terminal, the obtained image is subjected to image analysis processing, character recognition is performed, and character information is registered (for example, see Non-Patent Document 1). .
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  However, in the conventional technology, when registering in a format such as a telephone directory held by a mobile communication terminal from an image including character information, specific information such as a telephone number and a URL is registered line by line. There was a problem such as.

  Then, an object of this invention is to provide the communication terminal device and communication system which can solve said subject. This object is achieved by a combination of features described in the independent claims. The dependent claims define further advantageous specific examples of the present invention.

  In other words, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a communication terminal apparatus that performs communication via a communication line, a telephone directory data storage unit that stores telephone directory data that is information indicating a communication partner, and an image capture An image capture unit, an image analysis unit that extracts the phone book data included in the image by analyzing the characters captured by the image capture unit, and phone calls the phone book data extracted by the image analysis unit A phone book data registration unit registered in the book data storage unit.

  Also, the image analysis unit determines that the character string is an e-mail address when “@” is included in a continuous character string recognized by character recognition, and extracts the phone book data registration unit. May register a character string as an email address.

  In addition, the image analysis unit determines that the character string is a telephone number when all the characters of the continuous character string recognized by the character recognition are combined with a number or a number and a symbol, and extracts them. The telephone directory data registration unit may register a character string as a telephone number.

  Further, the image analysis unit may determine that the character string is a telephone number when the character string has a predetermined number of digits.

  Further, the image analysis unit determines that the character string is a reading of the name of the communication partner when all the characters in the continuous character string recognized by the character recognition are kana characters, and extracts the phone book data. The registration unit may register the character string as a reading of the name of the communication partner.

  An image display unit that displays a plurality of character strings recognized by the image analysis unit, and a character string selection unit that sequentially selects a character string designated by the user from the plurality of character strings displayed by the image display unit The image analysis unit stores the order selected by the character string selection unit and the type of the phone book data in association with each other, and is selected according to the order selected by the character string selection unit. The type of the phone book data of the character string may be judged and extracted.

  The communication terminal device displays the phone book data extracted by the character recognition by the image analysis unit, or displays the phone book data extracted by the image analysis unit by character recognition according to a predetermined phone book display format. Further, it may be provided.

  A communication unit that transmits and receives communication data is further provided, and the communication unit receives the communication data during the image capture process by the image capture unit, the image analysis process by the image analysis unit, or the registration process by the telephone directory data registration unit. In this case, the image capturing process, the image analysis process, or the registration process, and a control unit that performs parallel processing of the communication process by the communication unit may be further provided.

  The image display unit further includes an image display unit that displays the image captured by the image capture unit in an image format including the capture region of the specific type of the phone book data, and the image analysis unit overlaps the capture region. The character string included in the displayed image may be determined to be a specific type of phone book data and extracted, and the phone book data registration unit may register the character string as a specific type of phone book data.

  The image analysis unit further includes an image display unit that displays the image captured by the image capturing unit in an image format including a telephone number, mail address, name, or address capturing region. The character string included in the superimposed image may be determined to be a telephone number and extracted, and the telephone directory data registration unit may register the character string as a telephone number.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication system including a communication terminal device that performs communication via a communication line, and a management device that performs processing according to a request from the communication terminal device. An image analysis unit that extracts phone book data that is information indicating a communication partner included in the image by analyzing the image received from the communication terminal device and recognizing characters, and the communication terminal device captures the image An image capturing unit, a communication unit that transmits an image captured by the image capturing unit to the management device, and receives phone book data included in the image extracted by the image analysis unit of the management device from the management device, and a receiving unit Has a phone book data registration unit for registering the phone book data received in the phone book data storage unit.

  The above summary of the invention does not enumerate all the necessary features of the present invention, and sub-combinations of these feature groups can also be the invention.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the communication terminal device and communication system which register character information appropriately by recognizing the character of an image can be provided.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described through embodiments of the invention. However, the following embodiments do not limit the invention according to the scope of claims, and all combinations of features described in the embodiments are included. It is not necessarily essential for the solution of the invention.

  FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of a communication terminal apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The communication terminal apparatus 100 transmits and receives communication data such as voice, text, and images to a communication partner via a communication line. In the present embodiment, the communication terminal apparatus 100 is an image including character information indicating phone book data such as a telephone number, an e-mail address, a communication partner name, a group name, a secret, a memo, a company name, an affiliation, and a contact address. Is intended to automatically register information related to the phone book data in the communication terminal device 100 by performing character recognition by image analysis processing.

  The communication terminal device 100 includes a wireless circuit unit 10, a microphone 20, a speaker 30, an input unit 40, an image capture unit 50, an image display unit 60, a memory 70, a control unit 80, and a character selection unit 90.

  The radio circuit unit 10 modulates a signal into a radio wave and transmits it, and demodulates the received radio wave into a signal. The microphone 20 inputs the voice from the user of the communication terminal apparatus 100, and the speaker 30 outputs the voice from the communication partner. The input unit 40 is an operation key having an input or selection function such as a numeric key, a scroll key, and a keypad, and performs input and selection of information in the communication terminal device 100.

  The image capturing unit 60 includes photographing means such as a CCD camera or a CMOS camera. The image capturing unit 60 performs an image capturing process for capturing character information indicating telephone directory data as an image. In this example, the image capturing unit 60 captures, as an image, character information indicating telephone book data that is written on a memo paper or the like freehand or printed on a postcard or a business card. Further, the image capturing unit 60 may capture character information indicating the phone book data displayed on the display screen as an address book or the like as an image.

  The image display unit 50 is a display such as an LCD, and displays the image captured by the image capture unit 60. Further, the image display unit 50 displays the phone book data in accordance with a predetermined phone book display format such as displaying each corresponding phone book data for each name of the communication partner. The control unit 80 performs functions of the communication terminal apparatus 100 such as a call, incoming call, mail transmission / reception, or image capture processing. The control unit 80 includes an image analysis unit 82, a phone book data registration unit 84, and a communication unit 86.

  The image analysis unit 82 performs character recognition by analyzing the image captured by the image capture unit 60. In the image analysis process, the image analysis unit 82 compares the characteristics of each of the phone book data corresponding to the registration item that is the type of the phone book data with the characteristics of the character string that has been character-recognized. As a result, the image analysis unit 82 determines which registration item of the phone book data corresponds to the character string whose character has been recognized.

  For example, in this example, the image analysis unit 82, when “@” (at sign) is included in a continuous character string recognized by character recognition, this character string is the mail address in the registration item. Judgment is made and extracted. In addition, the image analysis unit 82 determines that this character string is a telephone number in the registration item and extracts it when all characters of the continuous character string are combined with numbers or numbers and symbols, When all characters in the continuous character string are kana such as hiragana or katakana, it is determined that this character string is a reading of the name of the communication partner in the registration item, and is extracted.

  In addition, when the continuous character string recognized by the character recognition has a predetermined number of digits predetermined by the user such as 10 digits or 11 digits, the image analysis unit 82 converts the character string into a telephone number. It may be determined that it is. As described above, the image analysis unit 82 extracts at least one phone book data among the telephone number, the mail address, and the name of the communication partner included in the image.

  The phone book data registration unit 84 registers the character string extracted by the image analysis unit 82 in the memory 70 as phone book data indicating a mail address, a phone number, or the name of a communication partner. The phone book data registration unit 84 causes the image display unit 50 to display the phone book data in a predetermined display format in response to the calling of the phone book data, and corrects or transmits the phone book data.

  The communication unit 86 transmits and receives communication data with the communication partner by controlling the wireless circuit unit 10. The image analysis unit 82 may perform image analysis processing on the communication data image received by the communication unit 86. In addition, when the communication unit 86 receives communication data during the image capture process by the image capture unit 60, the image analysis process by the image analysis unit 82, or the registration process by the telephone directory data registration unit 84, the control is performed. The unit 80 causes image capture processing, image analysis processing, or registration processing, and communication processing by the communication unit 86 to be performed in parallel.

  The memory 70 has a telephone directory data storage unit 75 that stores telephone directory data. The telephone directory data storage unit 75 may store at least one of the telephone number and the mail address in association with the name of the communication partner. The character selection unit 90 sequentially selects a character string designated by the user from a plurality of character strings recognized by the image analysis unit 82 and displayed on the image display unit 50. In this case, the character selection unit 90 selects in order by surrounding a plurality of character strings displayed on the image display unit 50 using, for example, a cursor key in the input unit 40.

  In communication terminal device 100 configured as described above, phone book data can be quickly registered by performing character recognition on an image including character information indicating phone book data by image analysis processing.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a first operation example of the communication terminal apparatus 100. In the communication terminal device 100, for example, when “phone book key” is selected and the automatic registration function is activated, the control unit 80 determines whether an image to be subjected to image analysis processing is captured. When the target image exists (YES in S100), the image analysis unit 82 performs character recognition by performing image analysis processing. In this case, the image analysis unit 82 creates analysis data by image analysis processing (S102). Then, the image analysis unit 82 generates character code data representing each recognized character based on the generated analysis data (S104).

  When the creation of the character code is successful (YES in S106), the image display unit 50 displays the character string extracted by the image analysis unit 82 through character recognition as the phone book data of the registration item. In this case, the image display unit 50 may display the character string in a phone book display format in which phone book data is stored in association with registration items. Thereby, the image display part 50 makes a user confirm the result of character recognition. When the user wants to correct the displayed character string, for example, the user performs correction using the input function of the input unit 40 (S108).

  When the character string displayed on the image display unit 50 is determined by the user as content to be registered and, for example, a confirmation key is selected, the phone book data registration unit 84 converts the character string into the phone book data storage unit 75. (S110). If the registration in the phone book data storage unit 75 is successful (S112 YES), the image display unit 50 displays a registration completion screen indicating that the registration of the phone book data is completed for a predetermined time (S114). Thereafter, the image display unit 50 displays a standby screen that is in a state of waiting for an incoming call (S116).

  In S100, when there is no target image (NO in S100), the user registers the phone book data by inputting using, for example, an input key (S118). When the registration of the phone book data is completed, the image display unit 50 displays a standby screen (S116).

  Further, when an error such as failure of character code creation occurs in S106 (NO in S106), and when an error such as registration failure in the telephone directory data storage unit 75 occurs in S112, the image display unit 50 Displays an error screen showing the cause and contents of the error (S120). Here, when the error is confirmed by the user and the confirmation key is selected (S122 YES), the image display unit 50 displays a standby screen (S116). If the confirmation button is not selected, the image display unit 50 continues to display the error screen (NO in S122).

  In this example, the control unit 80 may allow the user to set the priority of parallel processing performed by the control unit 80. For example, when there is an incoming call or the like during the image analysis process in S102, the control unit 80 may process the image analysis process and the incoming call process in parallel. Further, the control unit 80 may temporarily interrupt the image analysis process to give priority to the incoming call process, and resume the interrupted image analysis process after the incoming call process ends. Further, the control unit 80 may stop the image analysis process and perform the incoming process, and may perform the image analysis process from the beginning after the incoming process is completed. The control unit 80 may reject the incoming call and prioritize the image analysis process. Thereby, the communication terminal device 100 can appropriately perform incoming call processing and image analysis processing.

  FIG. 3 shows a first example of a screen displayed by the image display unit 50 in the first operation example. In S100, the image display unit 50 displays a screen 400 that is an image captured by the image capture unit 60. Thereby, the image display unit 50 allows the user to confirm whether or not the image captured as the target of the image analysis processing is an image including the phone book data. In this example, the image capturing unit 60 captures, as an image, a memo sheet or the like that is written with a line feed for each line by consecutively indicating names, readings, telephone numbers, or e-mail addresses. Good.

  When a phone book key, an enter key, or the like is selected, the image display unit 50 displays a screen 402 indicating that image analysis processing is being performed in S102 and S104. Here, when the cancel key is selected, the image analysis processing is interrupted.

  In S108, the image display unit 50 displays a screen 404 showing the extracted phone book data in the phone book display format. Here, for example, when the correction key is selected by the user, the contents of the phone book data are corrected by the input unit 40. When the cancel key is selected by the user, the telephone directory data storage unit 75 interrupts the process, and when the confirmation key is selected, the image display unit 50 displays a screen 406.

  In step S110, the image display unit 50 displays a screen 406 indicating that the phone book data storage unit 75 is in the process of automatically registering phone book data. When the predetermined time has elapsed, the image display unit 50 displays a screen 408 that is an example of a registration completion screen in S114, and then displays a screen 410 that is an example of a standby screen in S116.

  FIG. 4 shows an example of the format sheet 300. The format sheet 300 has an input format 310 for entering phone book data to be registered freehand. The input format 310 has a plurality of squares for writing a name, a reading, a telephone number, and an address for registration in the telephone directory data one by one. In this example, the input format 310 has, for example, four lines, and in each line, a name, reading, telephone number, and address are entered in this order from the top.

  FIG. 5 shows a second example of a screen displayed by the image display unit 50 in the first operation example. In FIG. 5, the screen 422 and the images 426 to 430 have the same or similar functions as the screen 402 and the screen 406 to the screen 410 described in FIG.

  The image display unit 50 displays a screen 420 captured by the image capturing unit 60 as one input format 310 as an imaging range. In step S102, the image analysis unit 82 determines each character string recognized as a phone book data corresponding to each of name, reading, phone number, and address in accordance with the order of registered items written on the format sheet. And extract. The image display unit 50 displays the extracted phone book data on the screen 424.

  When the confirmation key is selected on the screen 426, the phone book data registration unit 84 registers the phone book data extracted by the image analysis unit 82 in the phone book data storage unit 75. If there is a line that is not entered in the input format 310, the telephone book data registration unit 84 registers the corresponding telephone book data item as, for example, NULL data.

  Thus, the format paper 300 can improve the character recognition accuracy of the image analysis processing of the image analysis unit 82 by aligning the size and shape of the characters. Further, in this case, the image analysis unit 82 can extract the character string that has been character-recognized and the corresponding phone book data item. Thereby, the communication terminal device 100 in this example can quickly register the recognized character string in the telephone directory data.

  FIG. 6 shows a third example of a screen displayed by the image display unit 50 in the first operation example. In FIG. 6, each of the screen 442 and the screens 446 to 452 has the same or similar function as the screen 402 and the screens 406 to 410 described in FIG.

  In this example, the image capturing unit 60 may capture, as an image, a memo sheet or the like in which phonebook data corresponding to at least one registration item is entered without a line break. On the screen 440, the image display unit 50 displays an image captured by the image capture unit 60 on a memo sheet in which the name, reading, telephone number, and mail address are entered without line feed.

  The image display unit 50 displays on the screen 444 the character string that has been recognized based on the character code data generated after the image analysis processing. Here, the character selection unit 90 sequentially selects a character string designated by the user from this character string.

  At this time, the image analysis unit 82 stores the order selected by the character string selection unit in advance in association with the type of the phone book data, and is selected according to the order selected by the character selection unit 90. It is judged and extracted which registration item is the telephone directory data of the character string. As a result, the image display unit 50 displays the extracted result on the screen 446 in the telephone directory data display format.

  Further, the image display unit 50 displays the selected character string in a modifiable manner on the screen 446 displayed in the telephone directory display format. In this case, the user makes corrections using the input unit 40. Here, if no phone book data indicating the name of the communication partner such as “reading” is extracted, the extracted phone book data cannot be stored in association with the name of the communication partner. Therefore, the user may modify or add items such as “reading” necessary for registration in the phone book display format on the screen 446.

  Thus, in this example, the character selection unit 90 can select the result of character recognition performed by the image analysis unit 82 on the image display unit 50. In this case, the communication terminal device 100 can reliably register the registered phone book data by selecting the phone book data of the registration item to be registered from the character-recognized character string.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a second operation example of communication terminal apparatus 100. FIG. 8 shows an example of a screen displayed by the image display unit 50 in the second operation example.

  When performing phone book data by image registration, the image display unit 50 displays a phone book registration method for selecting manual registration or automatic registration, as shown in FIG. For example, when the enter key is selected by the keypad in the input unit 40 and registration by image is selected (S200 YES), the image display unit 50 shows a list of image types as shown in FIG. 8B. Display the image type selection screen.

  Here, when the business card 1 is selected from the image types of the business card 1, the business card 2, the postcard 1, and the postcard 2 (S202), the image display unit 50, as shown in FIG. An image format including a phonebook data capturing area corresponding to the registered items of affiliation, name, address, and contact is displayed. When the image to be captured is displayed (S204), the image display unit 50 displays the image format and the image to be captured by the image capture unit in an overlapping manner as shown in FIG. 8D. In this example, the image display unit 50 may reduce and display the frame indicating the capture area along the portion indicating the character information in the image.

  If each piece of character information enclosed in the capture area is phonebook data corresponding to a registration item to be registered, the determination key is selected by the keypad (YES in S206). The image analysis unit 82 determines that the character string included in the image superimposed and displayed in the capture area is phonebook data corresponding to a specific registration item, and extracts (S208). As shown in FIG. 8E, the image display unit 50 displays the extracted character string in, for example, a telephone directory display format.

  Here, if there is no content to be corrected, the determination key is selected (S210 YES), and the reading corresponding to the name in the registration item is input by the input unit 40 (S212), for example. Register the reading as phonebook data. Then, the phone book data registration unit 84 registers the character string displayed in the phone book display format as phone book data (S214).

  When the phone book data is manually registered (NO in S200), for example, each of the phone book data is input using the input key of the input unit 40 (S220) and registered as phone book data (S214). If each piece of character information enclosed in the capture area is not phone book data corresponding to the registration item to be registered, the user performs correction by selecting a correction key using the keypad (NO in S206) (S218). ).

  FIG. 9 shows an example of a screen displayed by the image display unit 50 in the operation in S218. As shown in FIG. 9A, the image display unit 50 also displays a telephone number in the capture area indicating the address. In this example, an example of a screen in the case where the user corrects the capture area surrounding the address is shown.

  When the correction is started, the capture area surrounding the company name is selected, and the top left vertex of the capture area becomes movable. In this example, since the capture area is substantially rectangular, the user corrects the range indicated by the capture area by sequentially correcting the positions of the two vertices located at the diagonal of the approximately rectangular shape. Further, in this case, the image display unit 50 displays the vertex that can be moved to correct the capture area by using a mark such as a cross mark.

  The user corrects the position by moving the vertex vertically and horizontally with a keypad or the like. When the Enter key is selected, the upper left position of the capture area is fixed, and then the position of the lower right vertex of the capture area that encloses the company name can be moved, and the user moves this vertex. Correct the position. Here, when the enter key is selected, the lower right position of the capture area is fixed, and the capture area corresponding to the company name is a substantially rectangular formed by the newly fixed upper left vertex and lower right vertex. The range is corrected. Then, the top left vertex of the capture area surrounding the affiliation in the registration item can be moved. Similarly, the user selects each of the capture area that encloses the affiliation in the registration item, the capture area that encloses the name, the capture area that encloses the address, and the capture area that encloses the contact information. , Correct in that order.

  In this example, when the user corrects the capture area surrounding the address, the image display unit 50 moves the top left vertex of the capture area surrounding the address, as shown in FIG. 9B. Displayed with a cross mark. Then, as shown in FIG. 9C, the user corrects the position of the top left vertex to a position where only the character string indicating the address overlaps the capture area. Also, since the user does not need to change the lower right vertex of the capture area, if the determination key is selected twice in succession, the upper left vertex of the capture area surrounding the contact can be moved next. However, similarly, since it is not necessary to change the position, the determination key is selected, and the lower right vertex of the capture area can be moved as shown in FIG. Here, as shown in FIG. 9E, the user corrects the position of the apex so as to include the telephone number that is the contact to be registered, and when the determination key is selected, the address and the contact The modification of the capture area ends.

  In this way, the user selects the capture area that encloses each registration item, and the coordinates indicating the boundary line of the selected capture area are sequentially corrected by the keypad, so that the image display unit 50 can register the registration item. The image including the character information corresponding to can be displayed so as to be appropriately overlaid on the capture area. In addition, the image analysis unit 82 can extract the character string included in the modified capture area as phonebook data, whereby the communication terminal device 100 can extract character information written in various forms. Phonebook data can be registered from the images included.

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a third operation example of communication terminal apparatus 100. FIG. 11 shows an example of a screen displayed by the image display unit 50 in the third operation example. In FIG. 10, S250, S252, S256 to S262, S266 to S268, and S272 to S276 are the same as or similar to S200, S202, S204 to S210, and S212 to S220 described with reference to FIG. The description is omitted.

  When registering phone book data, the image display unit 50 displays a phone book registration method as shown in FIG. Here, when image registration is selected in S252, the image display unit 50, as shown in FIG. 11 (b), the business card 1, business card 2, postcard 1, postcard 2, item designation 1, Item designation 2 is displayed. Here, when the item designation 1 is selected, the image display unit 50 displays each of a plurality of registered items as shown in FIG. When the enter key is selected and a company name is selected as a registration item (S254), the image display unit 50 displays an image format indicating a company name capture area, as shown in FIG. .

  When the image to be captured is displayed (S256), the image display unit 50 superimposes the image format indicating the registered item of the company name on the image to be captured by the image capture unit, as shown in FIG. indicate. Here, when the determination key is selected, the image analysis unit 82 determines that the character string included in the image displayed in an overlapping manner in the capture area is the company name, as shown in FIG. And extract. The telephone directory data registration unit 86 registers this character string as a company name.

  In this example, instead of the company name, the affiliation, name, address, and contact information are selected as registration items in S252, and the image capture unit 60 captures the image format including each capture area. The images may be displayed in an overlapping manner, and character strings included in the images displayed in an overlapping manner in the capturing area may be determined and extracted as telephone directory data such as affiliation, name, address, and contact information.

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing an example of image format editing. FIG. 13 shows an example of a screen displayed by the image display unit 50 in FIG. When editing of the image format is selected, the image display unit 50 displays an image type selection screen as shown in FIG. Here, the user may store the name indicating the image type in advance in the image format including the capture area corresponding to the registration item. For example, when the business card 1 is selected as the image type by the user (S280), the image display unit 50 displays an image format including a registration item capture area of the business card 1 as shown in FIG. 13B. To do.

  When a capture area indicating affiliation is selected as a registration item (S282), the image display unit 50 displays the selected capture area with a thick frame as shown in FIG. 13C. When the delete key is selected (S284: YES), the selected capture area is deleted (S292).

  When the capture area is deleted, the image display unit 50 displays the capture area indicating the name, which is another registered item, with a thick frame as shown in FIG. Here, when the user does not delete the capture area (NO in S292), when the enter key is selected (YES in S286), the image display unit 50 displays the capture area indicating the name as shown in FIG. . Here, when the range of the capture area is changed (S288), the user corrects the position of the upper left vertex of the capture area as shown in FIG. 13 (f), as shown in FIG. 13 (g). Select the position of the lower right vertex of the capture area. Then, the user changes the range of the capture area by correcting the position of the lower right vertex of the capture area, as shown in FIG. When editing of all the capture areas is completed (S290 YES), this flowchart ends. When any one of the capture areas is changed continuously (NO in S290), the image display unit 50 displays the screen in S282 again.

  FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image format. FIG. 14A shows an image format of a vertically written business card. FIG. 14B shows an image format of a horizontally written business card. FIG. 14C shows an image format of a vertically written postcard. FIG. 14D shows a horizontally written image format.

  As shown in FIGS. 14 (a) and 14 (b), the image display unit 50 takes in the phone book data with the company name, affiliation, name, address, and contact information as registration items as an image format for showing a business card. Display area. As shown in FIGS. 14 (c) and 14 (d), the image display unit 50 displays, as an image format of the postcard, a phone book data capturing area in which the address, name, and contact information are registered items.

  In this example, the image display unit 50 may display the image format rotated by approximately 90 degrees. For example, the image display unit 50 rotates each of FIGS. 14B and 14D by approximately 90 degrees, and displays each as shown in FIGS. 14A and 14B. Good.

  FIG. 15 shows an exemplary configuration of a communication system 400 according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The communication system 400 includes a communication terminal device 100 and a management device 200. The communication terminal device 100 performs communication via a communication line. The management device 200 performs processing in response to a request from the communication terminal device 100.

  The communication terminal device 100 includes a wireless circuit unit 10, a microphone 20, a speaker 30, an input unit 40, an image display unit 50, an image capturing unit 60, a memory 70, a control unit 80, and a character selection unit 90. In addition, the management apparatus 200 includes an image analysis unit 210. The configuration of the communication terminal apparatus 100 denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 1 has the same or similar functions as the configuration in FIG.

  The control unit 80 includes a telephone directory data registration unit 84 and a communication unit 86. The communication unit 86 transmits the image captured by the image capturing unit 60 to the image analysis unit 210. The image analysis unit 210 extracts at least one phone book data from the telephone number, the mail address, and the name of the communication partner included in the image by analyzing the image received from the communication terminal device 100 and recognizing characters. To do.

  In this case, the communication unit 86 receives the phone book data included in the image extracted by the image analysis unit 82 of the management device 200 from the management device 200. The data registration unit 84 receives the phone book data received by the communication unit 86. Is registered in the telephone directory data storage unit 75.

  In the communication system 400 configured as described above, the communication unit 86 receives an item of the phone book data recognized by the image analysis unit 210, and the communication unit 86 converts the item of the phone book data into a telephone number. Register in the book data storage unit 75. As described above, by performing the image analysis process in the management apparatus 200, the processing load on the communication terminal apparatus 100 can be reduced. In the present embodiment, the communication system 400 can appropriately register phone book data to be registered in the communication terminal device 100.

  As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated using embodiment, the technical scope of this invention is not limited to the range as described in the said embodiment. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications or improvements can be added to the above-described embodiment. It is apparent from the scope of the claims that the embodiments added with such changes or improvements can be included in the technical scope of the present invention.

It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the communication terminal device 100 which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a first operation example of the communication terminal device 100. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a first example of a screen displayed by the image display unit 50 in the first operation example. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a format sheet 300. FIG. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a second example of a screen displayed by the image display unit 50 in the first operation example. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a third example of a screen displayed by the image display unit 50 in the first operation example. 6 is a flowchart showing a second operation example of communication terminal apparatus 100. In a 2nd operation example, it is a figure which shows an example of the screen which the image display part displays. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen which the image display part 50 displays in the operation | movement in S218. 10 is a flowchart showing a third operation example of communication terminal apparatus 100. In a 3rd operation example, it is a figure which shows an example of the screen which the image display part displays. It is a flowchart which shows an example of edit of an image format. In FIG. 12, it is a figure which shows an example of the screen which the image display part 50 displays. It is a figure which shows an example of an image format. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the communication system 400 which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Wireless circuit part, 20 ... Microphone, 30 ... Speaker, 40 ... Input part, 50 ... Image display part, 60 ... Image capture part, 70 ... Memory, 75 ... Phonebook data storage unit, 80 ... Control unit, 82 ... Image analysis unit, 84 ... Phonebook data registration unit, 86 ... Communication unit, 90 ... Character selection unit, DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Communication terminal device, 200 ... Management apparatus, 210 ... Image analysis part, 300 ... Format paper, 310 ... Input format, 400 ... Communication system

Claims (1)

A wireless communication terminal device that performs wireless communication via a communication line,
A telephone directory data storage unit for storing telephone directory data, which is information indicating a communication partner;
An image capture unit for capturing images;
A display unit that displays an image to be captured and a capture area in an overlapping manner;
An image analysis unit that is an image captured by the image capture unit and extracts a character string included in the image in the capture region;
A phone book data registration unit that registers the character string extracted by the image analysis unit in the phone book data storage unit;
The display unit displays a plurality of registration items of the phone book data when registering the phone book data,
The phone book data registration unit stores the phone book data as the phone book data of a registration item selected by the user from a plurality of registration items displayed by the display unit, using the character string extracted by the image analysis unit. A wireless communication terminal device registered in the department.

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