JP2013115789A - E-mail-reception telephone-response processing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an e-mail-reception telephone-response processing apparatus capable of handling an e-mail with a hands-free set when receiving the e-mail and, when no hands-free set is available, finding a place appropriate for making a phone call immediately and leading a user to the place.SOLUTION: When e-mail reception means receives an e-mail, an e-mail-reception telephone-response processing apparatus detects a destination telephone number corresponding to the e-mail and determines whether a hands-free set is connected or not. When the apparatus determines that the hands-free set is connected, the apparatus immediately makes a phone call to the hands-free set of the destination telephone number. When no hands-free set is connected, the apparatus detects a parking lot nearby and leads a user to the parking lot. When a car is driven along a guidance route, the apparatus detects a parking lot nearby along the guidance route. The apparatus also comprises read-out means for reading out an incoming e-mail and detects urgency thereof. The hands-free set may be included in a navigation device.

Description

The present invention relates to a mail reception response telephone processing device that enables a telephone to be called when an e-mail arrives while driving a vehicle and the mail is urgent.
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  Due to the widespread use of mobile phones, many people always have a mobile phone, but the driver of the vehicle must keep an eye on the front, and if a call comes in while driving the vehicle, it cannot be made . For this reason, if the person who makes the call knows that the other party is currently driving, contact is made by e-mail. In other words, according to the e-mail, it is only necessary to look at the text, so even the driver can watch it carefully.

  In recent years, a hands-free set has been used so that a mobile phone can be freely used in a vehicle so that a telephone call can be made even while the vehicle is in operation. With such a hands-free set, you can make a call freely and answer the incoming call. This hands-free set can be connected to a navigation device or the like so that sound can be heard from a vehicle speaker. At this time, a mobile phone can be connected to the navigation device, and the hands-free set function of the navigation device can capture sound from a microphone near the driver and output sound from the vehicle speaker. .

  On the other hand, a mobile phone is connected to a navigation device or the like, and a mail connection function provided in the navigation device can display a mail when it arrives. According to this function, when a mobile phone is connected to the navigation device, when a mail arrives, even if the navigation device screen is currently displayed, the navigation screen is reduced to a small screen and the mail is sent to the remaining screen. Can be viewed on a large monitor screen without looking at the mobile phone.

  In recent years, such mail is displayed on a monitor screen, and the incoming mail is read by software that reads the mail. According to this function, when reading a mail, it is possible to understand the text of the mail and read it in a normal manner without any sense of incongruity by voice.

  A technique for storing telephone book data transmitted from a mobile phone by wireless communication and restricting notification of e-mail reception based on the stored telephone book data when the mobile phone receives an e-mail. It is disclosed in Patent Document 1.

 In addition, when receiving disaster information from a radio station, the in-vehicle device determines whether it is necessary to evacuate urgently from the disaster information. The map data including is sent to the mobile phone. Subsequently, Patent Document 2 discloses a technique for performing route guidance of a vehicle from a current position to a searched parking location and transmitting a walking route connecting the parking location and the searched evacuation location to a mobile phone.

  Further, in response to the input of the emergency state input means for inputting the passenger's emergency state, the map data storage means is searched for the hospital facility around the current position, the searched hospital facility is displayed, and the route to the hospital facility is displayed. A technique for guiding is disclosed in Patent Document 3.

JP2009-027403 JP 2009-175033 A JP 2010-145324 A

  In the navigation apparatus having various functions as described above, when a mail is received, if the mail is a highly urgent mail, it is necessary to make a call. However, in a normal vehicle, it is impossible to make a call while driving the vehicle, and the vehicle can only be paused by moving to a place where the vehicle can be paused. It was inconvenient to search for a place with a navigation device.

  Therefore, according to the present invention, when an e-mail is received, a hands-free set can be dealt with immediately, and even when there is no hands-free set, a place where a call can be made is immediately searched, and a call can be made by stopping there. The main object of the present invention is to provide such a mail reception response telephone processing device.

  In order to solve the above problems, the mail reception response telephone processing device according to the present invention connects a telephone number detection means for detecting a destination telephone number of a mail when a mail is received by the mail reception means, and a hands-free set. A hands-free set connection determining means for determining whether or not the phone number detecting means determines that a hands-free set is connected by the hands-free set connection determining means. It is characterized in that a call is made to the detected telephone number.

  Another mail reception response telephone processing device according to the present invention is characterized in that in the mail reception response telephone processing device, when the hands-free set is not connected, a nearby parking lot is detected and guidance is provided. And

  In another mail reception response telephone processing device according to the present invention, in the mail reception response telephone processing device, when the nearby parking lot is traveling along the guide route, It is characterized by detecting the parking lot and providing guidance.

  In addition, another mail reception response telephone processing device according to the present invention includes an incoming mail read-out means in the mail reception response telephone processing apparatus, wherein the read-out means detects urgency and responds to an emergency mail. It is characterized by making a phone call.

  Another mail reception response telephone processing device according to the present invention is characterized in that in the mail reception response telephone processing device, the hands-free set is provided in a navigation device.

  Since the present invention is configured as described above, when a mail is received, it can be immediately handled with a hands-free set, and even when there is no hands-free set, a place where a call can be made is immediately searched and guided there. Can do.

It is a functional block diagram of the Example of this invention. It is an operation | movement flowchart of the Example. It is a figure which shows the operation state of the Example. It is a figure which shows the other operating state of the Example.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of an embodiment of mail reception response telephone processing in the present invention, and shows a functional block diagram in which the present invention can be implemented in various modes. In addition, in the same figure, the function part which performs each function can be said to be a means which performs each function.

  In the example shown in FIG. 1, an example in which the mobile phone 1 is connected to the navigation device 2 by the mobile phone connection unit 10 is shown, but this may be not only the navigation device but also a head unit or the like. In addition, a mail receiving unit 3 is connected to the mobile phone connection unit 10 so that mail received from the mobile phone can be displayed. In addition, the navigation device is provided with mail reading software 4 and can read mail received by the mail receiving unit 3.

  In addition, the reading software includes an urgency determining unit 5 that determines whether or not characters such as “urgent”, “emergency”, and “hurry” are included in the read-out mail and makes a return call when it is included. Determine if it is necessary.

  In the example shown in FIG. 1, the telephone number detecting unit 6 is provided, and the telephone number of the mail partner is detected from the registered 7 such as a mail / phone number correspondence table such as a telephone directory function unit. In some cases, when a telephone number is written in the mail, the telephone number of the other party can be detected from 8 in the mail, and can be detected separately from the other 9 such as a memo pad.

  In the guidance route setting unit 11, the proximity call location detection unit 12 detects whether there is a place where a phone call is made in the vicinity when a hands-free set or the like is not connected when an e-mail is received. As such a nearby call place, a parking lot such as a nearby convenience store can be set. Further, when the vehicle is currently traveling along the guidance route, the on-guidance route detection unit 13 searches for a nearby location along the guidance route. Also, when driving on an expressway, it is set in a nearby service area (SA), parking area (PA), or the like.

  The guide route guide unit 14 guides to a nearby place where the telephone is set as described above. In that case, it sets as a new waypoint or destination, and guides there. There are cases where the hands-free set 15 is connected to the navigation device and is incorporated as a function of the navigation device. In any case, when this hands-free set exists, you can call while driving.

  The present invention comprising the functional blocks as described above can be implemented in various forms according to the operation flow as shown in FIG. That is. In the example of the mail reception response process shown in FIG. 2, the process starts from the reception of the first mail (step S1).

  In other words, in the embodiment of the present invention, an example in which the mail receiving unit 4 is provided in the navigation device is shown. However, in the present invention, the navigation device or the like does not necessarily have a mail receiving unit, and it is only necessary to receive mail.

  Thereafter, it is determined whether or not there is mail reading software (step S2). If it is determined that there is mail reading software, the mail reading software is activated (step S3), and reading is started. If there is no reading software, the process proceeds to step S4 together with the reading by the mail reading software in step S3, and it is determined whether or not there is urgency.

  Here, when reading out by the reading software, it is detected whether there is urgency as one function of the reading software, and when characters such as “urgent”, “emergency”, “hurry” are entered, Determine. On the other hand, when there is no such character, it is determined that there is no urgency, and thereafter, no response is made to this mail (step S11). This determination is performed by the urgency determination unit 6 in the reading-out software 5 of FIG.

  On the other hand, it is determined in step S2 that there is no mail reading software, and when the process proceeds to step S4, the user understands the contents of the mail and determines whether there is urgency. As a result, when it is determined that there is no urgency, determining that it does not respond to the mail is the same as when determining that it does not respond with the previous mail reading software.

  On the other hand, when the words “urgent”, “emergency”, “hurry”, etc. are entered by the e-mail reading software, it is determined that there is urgency, and when there is no e-mail reading software, the e-mail is read. When it is determined that there is a mail, it is determined whether or not the telephone number of the mail partner is known. This processing is performed in the telephone number detection unit 7 of FIG.

  Here, when it is already registered by the telephone book function, described in the mail, or when the telephone number is known by another method, it is determined whether or not the hands-free set is connected (step S6). In this operation, when the hands-free set of FIG. 1 is connected as an external device or provided as one function of navigation, it is determined that the hands-free set is connected here.

  If it is determined that the hands-free set is connected, the telephone is immediately called to the mail partner (step S12). Therefore, when you receive an e-mail, whether or not you have e-mail reading software, if the user determines that there is an urgency, if you know the destination telephone number of the e-mail, as long as the handsfree set is connected Call the mail partner immediately.

  On the other hand, when it is determined that the hands-free set is not connected in step S6 and when the telephone number of the mail partner is not known in step S5, the process proceeds to step S7, and is the vehicle traveling along the guidance route? When the vehicle is traveling along the guidance route, a nearby parking lot on a guidance route such as a nearby convenience store is detected (step S8). Also. When it is determined that the vehicle is not traveling along the guidance route, a proximity parking lot such as a convenience store in front of the vehicle is detected (step S10). At that time, when traveling on a highway, a service area and a parking area are searched.

  After that, when traveling with the navigation device as described above, guidance is provided toward the proximity parking lot on the guidance route, and when not traveling along the guidance route, guidance is provided toward the proximity parking lot existing ahead (step S9). ). In this way, when there is a high degree of urgency when an email arrives, if there is no hands-free set, even if you know the phone number or you do not know, you can guide you to a nearby parking lot and respond slowly.

  The above operation can be performed as shown in FIGS. That is, FIG. 3 shows a state in which the mail is received by the navigation device, the navigation screen is reduced to 1/3, the received mail is displayed on the central 1/3 screen, and the other 3 minutes. 1 shows the function selection screen.

  In the same figure, the e-mail is read out by the reading software, and at that time, it is determined whether or not a word in the urgent word table as shown in FIG. Is selected, select the reply telephone call function and select "Yes" on the "Do you want to make a call to XXXXXX" depending on the connected hands-free set. Then, by making a hands-free call, an example is shown in which “calling to XXXXXX” and “calling time ○ minute XX seconds” are displayed as shown in FIG. ing.

  FIG. 3B shows an example in which a nearby parking lot guidance is performed after receiving an e-mail. An example of selecting “Yes” for “Do you want to guide nearby parking lots”? Show. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 4C, an example is shown in which a nearby “XXX” convenience store is found along the guidance route and guided there. By performing such processing, the vehicle can be guided to a nearby parking lot without performing a special operation.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cellular phone 2 Navigation apparatus 3 Mail receiving part 4 Reading software 5 Urgency discrimination part 6 Telephone number detection part 7 Existing registration 8 In-mail 9 Other 10 Mobile telephone connection part 11 Guidance route setting part 12 Proximity call place detection part 13 Guidance route Upper detection unit 14 Guidance route guide unit 15 Hands-free set

Claims (5)

A telephone number detecting means for detecting a destination telephone number of the mail when the mail is received by the mail receiving means;
A hands-free set connection determining means for determining whether or not a hands-free set is connected,
When the hands-free set connection determining means determines that a hands-free set is connected, a telephone call is made to the telephone number detected by the telephone number detecting means by the hands-free set. Processing equipment.   The mail reception response telephone processing device according to claim 1, wherein when a hands-free set is not connected, a nearby parking lot is detected and guidance is provided.   The mail reception response telephone processing device according to claim 1, wherein the nearby parking lot detects a nearby parking lot on the guidance route and provides guidance when traveling along the guidance route. It has a means to read incoming mail,
The reading means performs urgent detection,
2. The mail reception response telephone processing device according to claim 1, wherein a telephone call is made to an urgent mail.   The mail reception response telephone processing device according to claim 1, wherein the hands-free set is provided in a navigation device.

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