JP3027314B2 - Mobile phone - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile telephone as a mobile station such as a portable telephone, a car telephone, etc., which performs radio communication with a base station connected to a telephone line network.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Hitherto, in a mobile telephone as a mobile station such as a mobile telephone and a car telephone, an automatic telephone recording service of a telephone network has been used to save a message received when a user cannot answer. I have.

[0003] Generally, the answering service of a mobile telephone uses a telephone network, so that it is necessary to retrieve the contents of a stored received message through the telephone network. For this reason, when retrieving the contents of a stored received message, a call time for retrieving is required in addition to a normal call time, which leads to an increase in the total call time and an increase in call charges. Occurs.

[0004] In view of the above, there has been proposed a mobile telephone having a telephone recording function. Such an answering machine function of the mobile phone is realized by providing a storage device such as a storage buffer for answering machine in the mobile phone. In this case, since the answering function is provided in the mobile telephone and the message is stored in the mobile telephone, it is not necessary to use the telephone line network when listening to the message. Therefore, a call time for retrieving a message can be eliminated, so that a total call charge can be reduced.

[0005]

In the absence recording function of a mobile telephone, it is necessary to increase the size of a recording buffer for absence recording in order to perform a long absence recording. However, if the size of the storage buffer is increased, the size of the mobile telephone and the driving time of the battery may be affected. Therefore, the capacity of the storage buffer is limited to several minutes of recording.

In general, when the answering storage area of the storage buffer provided in the mobile phone is used up, there is a problem that further answering / recording processing cannot be performed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and has as its object to use a built-in voicemail recording function and to utilize a voicemail recording service of a telephone line network to provide a storage buffer. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile telephone capable of storing a large number of received messages while keeping the size to a minimum necessary.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mobile telephone, comprising: a wireless communication means for performing wireless communication with a base station connected to a telephone line network capable of using an answering service; Talking means for converting a user's voice into a voice signal and transmitting the voice signal from the wireless communication means, and converting the voice signal received by the wireless communication means into sound, and recording and reproduction connected to the voice communication means for recording and reproducing the voice signal An answering sound setting means operated by a user to set an answering recording mode in which an answering signal is received by a wireless communication means using the above-mentioned sound recording / reproducing means or an answering sound recording service of a telephone network; When an incoming call is received while the voice recording mode is set by the voice recording setting means, it is determined whether or not voice recording by the recording / playback means is possible. Is characterized in that a control means for controlling the wireless communication means to transfer the received signal to the message recording service telephone network.

[0009]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the control means determines whether or not it is possible for the recording / reproducing means to perform the absence recording when a call is received while the automatic recording mode is set. If it is determined that recording is not possible, the wireless communication unit is controlled so as to transfer the received signal to an answering service of the telephone network. Thereby, when the answering machine is set to the answering machine mode, since the answering machine is preferentially performed by the sound recording / reproducing means in the mobile telephone, it is possible to reduce the number of uses of the answering machine service of the telephone line network. Accordingly, the call time for the voice mail recording service of the telephone line network can be shortened, so that the call charge of the mobile telephone can be reduced.

[0010] Further, when performing an absence recording, the absence recording function in the apparatus and the absence recording service of the telephone line network can be used together, so that a sufficient absence recording time can be secured, and a storage buffer for the absence recording function is provided. Can be made as small as possible. As a result, it is possible to suppress an increase in the size of the mobile phone main body due to an increase in the storage buffer, and as a result, it is possible to reduce the size of the device.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 1, a mobile telephone 1 according to the present embodiment includes a wireless communication unit (wireless communication means) 2 and a communication unit (communication means) 3. The mobile telephone 1 can use an answering service for transferring and recording a signal received by the mobile telephone 1 when a user cannot respond via the telephone line network connected to the base station 11. And

The wireless communication unit 2 transmits and receives voice signals by wireless communication with a base station 11 connected to a telephone network. That is, the wireless communication unit 2 outputs the received audio signal to the communication unit 3, while transmitting the audio signal output from the communication unit 3.

The communication unit 3 converts a received signal from the wireless communication unit 2 into a voice signal, converts a voice signal into a transmission signal, a voice signal processing unit 4, a speaker 5 that converts the voice signal into an acoustic signal, and a Microphone 6 that converts the voice of the person into an audio signal
And That is, the communication unit 3 converts a signal received by the wireless communication unit 2 into an audio signal and converts the signal into a sound using the speaker 5 serving as the earpiece, while converting the sound input from the microphone 6 serving as the mouthpiece into an audio signal. The data is converted and output to the wireless communication unit 2.

A recording / reproducing function unit (recording / reproducing means) 7 for storing and reproducing the audio signal converted by the telephone communication unit 3 as necessary is connected to the telephone unit 3.

The recording / reproducing function unit 7 includes an answering sound recording buffer 8 for storing the audio signal output from the audio signal processing unit 4 and the microphone 6, and the audio signal stored in the storage buffer 8 is required. In response, the signal is output to the audio signal processing unit 4 and the speaker 5.

The recording / reproducing function unit 7 has a function of recording an answering message when a user cannot answer at the time of receiving a call. That is, when the mobile phone is set to the absence recording mode, the recording / playback function unit 7 receives the call.
The audio signal converted by the communication unit 3 is stored in a storage buffer 8.
To memorize it. Here, the terminating call refers to calling the user and notifying of the incoming call when the wireless communication unit 2 receives a signal from the base station 11, that is, at the time of incoming call.

In the storage buffer 8, a communication message for response (hereinafter referred to as a response message) is stored in advance by a user. The response message is reproduced to request a message from the caller, and thereafter, the message from the caller is recorded.

The audio signal stored in the storage buffer 8 is reproduced by operating a reproduction key arranged on the operation unit 10 described later.

In addition to the above-mentioned reproduction key, the operation unit 10 includes an answering machine recording setting key (answering machine setting device) (not shown) for setting an answering machine recording mode, a numeric keypad, and power ON / OFF.
Various keys such as an OFF key are provided, and a control signal based on these key inputs is output to a control unit (control means) 9.

The control unit 9 is composed of a CPU. In addition to the operation unit 10, the wireless communication unit 2, the communication unit 3, the recording / reproducing function unit 7
Are connected, and the control shown in the flowchart of FIG. 2 is performed.

First, as shown in FIG. 2, when a call is received from the telephone line network (S1), the control unit 9 determines whether or not the mobile telephone 1 is set to the answering machine mode (S1).
2). Here, when it is determined that the absence recording mode is set, it is determined whether or not there is a free space in the storage area of the storage buffer 8 for absence recording (S3). Here, if there is a free space in the storage area of the storage buffer 8, the incoming call processing can be performed in the mobile telephone 1, so that the sequence for answering recording is performed.

Next, the recording / reproducing function unit 7 reproduces the response sentence stored in the storage buffer 8 in advance, and requests a message from the caller (S4). Thereafter, recording is started, and a message from the caller is recorded (S5). Then, after detecting the call disconnection of the caller (S6), the recording is stopped and the incoming call processing is terminated (S7), and the mobile telephone 1 is returned to the standby state (S8).

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S2 that the answering mode is not set, a normal incoming call process is performed (S2).
9).

If the answering / recording mode is set in S3 and there is no space in the storage area of the answering / recording storage buffer 8, a request for the answering / recording service of the telephone line network is made (S10). If a signal indicating the end of the use of the answering service is input, the process proceeds to S8, and the mobile phone 1 is returned to the standby state.

As described above, the mobile telephone according to the present embodiment manages the use state of the storage area of the storage buffer 8 for answering voice recording, and when the storage area of the storage buffer 8 becomes full, Is automatically switched from the recording / playback function unit 7 to the absence recording service by the external telephone line network, and the absence recording is performed.

[0027] Thereby, when performing an absence recording, the recording / playback function unit 7 in the apparatus and the absence recording service of the telephone line network can be used together, so that the absence recording time can be sufficiently secured. In addition, the capacity of the storage buffer 8 for the absence recording function can be reduced to a necessary minimum. Therefore, it is possible to suppress an increase in the size of the main body of the mobile phone 1 due to an increase in the storage buffer 8, and as a result, it is possible to reduce the size of the apparatus.

Since the above-described telephone answering service of the telephone network uses the telephone network, it is necessary to retrieve the contents of the stored received message through the telephone network. This results in longer call times,
There is a problem that a call charge increases.

However, in the present embodiment, when the answering / recording mode is set, the answering / recording function by the recording / playback function unit 7 in the mobile telephone 1 is preferentially performed.
That is, since the answering service of the telephone network is used only when the storage area of the storage buffer 8 in the recording / reproducing function unit 7 has no space, the number of uses of the answering service of the telephone network is reduced. be able to. Along with this,
Since the call time for the voice mail recording service of the telephone line network can be shortened, the call charge of the mobile telephone 1 can be reduced.

[0030]

As described above, the mobile telephone according to the first aspect of the present invention comprises: a wireless communication means for performing wireless communication with a base station connected to a telephone line network capable of using an answering service; A communication means for converting the voice of the user into a voice signal and transmitting the voice signal from the wireless communication means, and converting the voice signal received by the wireless communication means into sound; and a voice signal connected to the voice communication means for recording and reproducing the voice signal Recording / reproducing means to be operated by a user, and an answering recording setting means for setting a receiving signal in the wireless communication means to an answering / recording mode in which the recording / reproducing means or the answering / recording service of the telephone network is used to record. When an incoming call is received while the absence recording setting mode is set by the absence recording setting means, it is determined whether or not the absence recording of the recording / playback means is possible, and it is determined that the absence recording is not possible. And if a Configurations that a control means for controlling the wireless communication means to transfer the received signal to the message recording service telephone network.

[0031] With this, when the answering machine is set to the answering machine mode, the answering machine by the sound recording / reproducing means in the mobile telephone is preferentially performed. . Accordingly, the call time for the voice mail recording service of the telephone line network can be shortened, so that the call charge of the mobile telephone can be reduced.

Also, when performing an absence recording, the absence recording function in the apparatus and the absence recording service of the telephone line network can be used in combination, so that a sufficient absence recording time can be secured, and a storage buffer for the absence recording function is provided. Can be made as small as possible. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress an increase in the size of the mobile phone main body due to an increase in the storage buffer, and as a result, it is possible to reduce the size of the device.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration block diagram of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the control of the absence recording in the mobile telephone of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mobile telephone 2 Radio communication part (wireless communication means) 3 Talk part (communication means) 4 Voice signal processing part 7 Recording / playback function part (recording / playback means) 9 Control part (control means) 10 Operation part (answering sound setting means) 11 base stations

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A wireless communication means for performing wireless communication with a base station connected to a telephone line network capable of using an answering service, and connected to the wireless communication means for converting a user's voice into a voice signal and wirelessly transmitting the voice signal. A communication means for converting a voice signal transmitted from the communication means and received by the wireless communication means into sound, a recording / reproduction means connected to the communication means for recording / reproducing a voice signal; a radio communication means operated by a user; An answering sound recording mode for setting the answering signal to an answering sound recording mode in which the answering signal is recorded by using the above sound recording / reproducing means or an answering sound recording service of a telephone line network; and When an incoming call is received, it is determined whether or not the above-mentioned recording / reproducing means can perform the absence recording. If it is determined that the absence recording is impossible, the received signal is transmitted to the absence recording service of the telephone network. Control means for controlling the wireless communication means so as to transfer the data to a service.