JP3272946B2 - Message communication terminal - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a message communication terminal used for message communication.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, message communication for transmitting and receiving a message composed of visually recognizable codes such as letters, numbers, and symbols has been performed using a communication terminal such as a mobile phone or a pager (wireless calling terminal). . In conventional message communication using a message communication terminal, the sender of the message operates the communication terminal on the sending side to input and send the message with the telephone number of the contact, and the receiver of the message communicates from the received message. Read the phone number,
In the receiving communication terminal or another telephone, processing has been performed in which the number buttons 0 to 9 are pressed to input the telephone number and make a call.

[0003]

As described above, in the message communication using the conventional message communication terminal, the recipient of the message presses the number buttons 0 to 9 on the receiving communication terminal or another telephone. It was necessary to enter a telephone number, and the burden on the receiving side was not small.
Further, there is a problem that an erroneous input is likely to occur on the receiving side.

When a contact is registered in a speed dial, the use of a speed dial button can reduce the trouble of inputting a telephone number. However, the telephone number of the contact is assigned to any speed dial button. If the operator (recipient) does not know exactly
New trouble such as searching for speed dials or calling the wrong contact. In the first place, if the contact is not registered in the speed dial, the only choice is to use the number buttons 0-9.

Further, from the viewpoint of the efficiency of the entire message communication system, a configuration in which both the sender and the recipient enter the same telephone number using the number buttons 0 to 9 or the speed dial buttons is extremely inefficient. It must be said that it is a typical configuration. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has as its object to provide a message communication terminal capable of effectively utilizing a telephone number in a message and making a simple and reliable call using the telephone number. .

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a message communication terminal, comprising: a receiving means for receiving a message comprising a visually recognizable code; and a message received by the receiving means. Message storage means for storing messages, and the messages stored in the message storage means are partially and sequentially scrolled and displayed in a display area.
Scroll display means for displaying the entire message, and operation
A communication terminal having an operation means including a child, at the moment of the operation for instructing a search by pre Symbol operator, said disk
Or in the entire more display should do message to roll display means
Et al., One code of the head which is displayed in the display area is <br/> field case of non-numeric searching for numeric sequence included after the code,
The case of the sign of the head which is displayed in the display area numbers find the sign of the non-numeric immediately numeric string beginning with those <br/> the numbers
And, as the head and the search unit that searches a numeric sequence included after the code, a digit sequence searched by the searching means
Display control means for displaying a code string in the display area;
At the moment of the operation for instructing transmission via operator, and transmission means for transmitting by using a numeric string retrieved by the pre-dangerous search means numeric string consisting of digits within a predetermined length of the code sequence to the top as a telephone number Is provided .

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, a message communication terminal according to a second aspect of the present invention is the message communication terminal according to the first aspect, wherein the operating element is used in place of the transmission means.
At the moment of the operation for instructing the sound, before or number within a predetermined length of the code sequence to start the search digit string by dangerous search means
And sounding means for emitting a sound corresponding to the telephone number represented by the numeral string .

Further, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems,
Message communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein, in one of claim 1 Symbol placement, before dangerous search means, the scroll display hand
The numeric sequence that is part of the message to be displayed by the step, sequentially searched as triggered by the operation of instructing a search by the operator.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS According to the present invention, when a telephone number is present in a received message, the telephone number is searched,
This is based on the technical idea of making a simple and reliable call using the searched telephone number directly.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention based on the above technical idea will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, in order to avoid a complicated description, in each embodiment, it is assumed that the telephone number is stored in the message as a numeric string not including a delimiter. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a message communication terminal according to a first embodiment of the present invention. The message communication terminal shown in FIG. 1 is a terminal capable of transmitting and receiving messages and making a call, such as a mobile phone.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a transmission / reception means including an antenna and a transceiver, 2 denotes a message storage means including a flash memory for sequentially storing messages received by the transmission / reception means 1, and 3 denotes characters, numerals, symbols, etc. A display means such as a liquid crystal panel for displaying a visible code, and 4 are operation buttons (operators) such as a number button, various symbol buttons, a call button, a search button, a next search button, a call button, and up, down, left and right arrow buttons. Operation means provided.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a main control means for communicating with the various means 1 to 4 directly or via the transmission / reception control means 6 and the display control means 7 to control the operation of the entire message communication terminal. The main control means 5 includes, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), and a RAM (Random Access
Memory), various I / O interfaces, etc.
It operates based on the operation program written in the ROM, and basically takes in input data from the operation means 4, supplies display data to the display control means 7 for controlling the display means 3, and controls the transmission / reception means 1. The transmission / reception of data to / from the transmission / reception control means 6 and the writing / reading of data to / from the message storage means 2 are performed. The transmission / reception control means 6 has a built-in decoder and encoder for converting a signal format.

As shown in the figure, the main control means 5 includes:
The message selecting means 8, the telephone number searching means 9, and the calling equivalent means 10 are functionally realized. The message selecting means 8 is a means for selecting a message to be processed from among the messages stored in the message storing means 2, and holds, for example, a start address of a message to be processed in the message storing means 2. Further, when the input data from the operation unit 4 is data by pressing a predetermined button (for example, a left arrow button or a right arrow button), the message selection unit 8 sequentially changes the message to be processed.

The telephone number search means 9 receives the input data by pressing the search button from the operation means 4 while the message to be processed is selected by the message selection means 8, and displays the processing displayed on the display means 3. A search pointer is positioned at the beginning of the visible area of the target message (for example, a code displayed at the upper left corner of the display area of the display means 3), and a code string subsequent to the search pointer is searched for a string of three or more consecutive digits. Then, the number string that has been hit is supplied to the transmission equalizing means 10 and the display control means 7, and the search pointer that has been moved to immediately after the number string that has been hit is held at that position. When the search fails (when no hit is made), the search processing is terminated while the search pointer is held at the end position of the message to be processed. However, if the head of the visible area of the message to be processed is a number, the search pointer is positioned at the code immediately after the number string starting from this number, and the search processing is performed on the code string after this search pointer.

In the search algorithm of the telephone number, the limitation of "numerical string of three or more digits" is added in the time expression (for example, "16:00") and the date (for example, "96"). / 05/30 ”) and the like, whereby the probability of hitting a code string including a number string other than a telephone number can be reduced.

Of course, in the present embodiment, since the transmission is performed after the operator confirms the contents of the search code string, it is not necessary to employ a search algorithm for strictly searching only the telephone number. It is also possible to employ an algorithm such as searching for a string of at least one digit. Further, a search algorithm for searching for a numeric string from the head of the message instead of the head of the visible area of the message can be employed.

When the next search button is pressed, the telephone number search means 9 performs the same search as described above for the message after the position indicated by the search pointer, and outputs the hit code string by the transmission equalization means 10 and the display control means. The search pointer is supplied to the means 7 and the search pointer is moved immediately after the hit code string. If the search fails, the search process is terminated while the search pointer is held at the end of the message to be processed.

The transmission equivalence means 10 constitutes a transmission means together with the transmission / reception control means 6 and the transmission / reception means 1, and is supplied from the telephone number search means 9 when the input data is received from the operation means 4 by pressing the transmission button. Only numbers are extracted from the encoded code string (numerical string in the present embodiment), and a number string formed by connecting these numbers without changing the order is supplied to the transmission / reception control means 6. The transmission equivalent means 10
The number string supplied to the transmission / reception control means 6 is configured to have the same content and the same format as when the same number string is input via the operation means 4.

When predetermined data is supplied from the main control means 5, the transmission / reception control means 6 switches the operation mode (transmission mode / reception mode) of the transmission / reception means 1, and switches the transmission / reception means 1.
Is in the transmission mode, the output data from the main control means 5 is transmitted to the transmission / reception means 1, and in the reception mode, the transmission / reception means 1
Is supplied to the main control means 5. The display control means 7 controls the display means 3 based on the display data from the main control means 5, and displays an image represented by the display data on the display means 3.

The process of transmitting a call to the telephone number in the message stored in the message storage means 2 will now be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. However, it is assumed that one of the messages stored in the message storage means 2 is displayed on the display means 3. In such a state, first, the operator operates a predetermined operation button (for example, a left arrow button or a right arrow button) of the operation means 4, and from the plurality of messages stored in the message storage means 2 in the order of arrival, the main operation is performed. A desired message (for example, the message shown in FIG. 3) is selected by the message selecting means 8 in the control means 5. As a result, a part of the selected message is displayed on the display means 3 as shown on the left side of FIG. 4 (step SA1). The operator presses a predetermined operation button (for example, an up-arrow button or a down-arrow button) as necessary to scroll and display the message image.

Next, when the operator presses a predetermined operation button (for example, a search button) of the operation means 4, the telephone number search means 9 searches for a string of three or more digits continuous from the beginning of the visible area of the message. (Step SA2). As a result of this search process, if no hit is found, the process ends, and, for example, the display state shown on the left side of FIG. 4 does not change.

On the other hand, when a character string that is continuous by three or more digits is hit in the search processing, for example, as shown on the right side of FIG. (Code sequence) alone is displayed (step SA2). The display position of the search code string is not particularly limited, such as the upper left and lower left of the displayable area. However, from the viewpoint that the search code string can be completely viewed, the upper left of the displayable area is suitable in the example shown in FIG. ing. Further, instead of displaying only the search code string, a code string subsequent to the search code string may be displayed. The operator refers to the search code string displayed on the display means 3 and determines whether or not the search code string is a desired telephone number (step SA).
4) If the telephone number is not a desired telephone number, another numeric string is searched by pressing a predetermined operation button (for example, a next search button) provided in the operation means 4 (step SA5).

The process of searching for another number string is repeated until a desired telephone number is displayed or until another number string is no longer searched. When the desired telephone number is displayed, the operator is prompted. When a predetermined operation button (for example, a call button) of the operation unit 4 is pressed, the transmission equivalent unit 10 transmits and receives a signal corresponding to the telephone number as if the telephone number was input from the operation unit 4. It is supplied to the control means 6 (step SA6). This allows
The transmission / reception means 1 makes a call to the telephone number.

By the way, in the search algorithm described above,
It is possible that the search code string is not a telephone number.
When a call is made via the "0", processing equivalent to erroneous input of a telephone number to the operation means 4 is performed. However, since it is usually the same operator that performs the search processing and the transmission processing,
It is possible to easily determine whether the telephone number is erroneously input to the operation means 4 or whether the search code string is inappropriate. In other words, there is no particular inconvenience caused by searching for a character string other than a telephone number, and therefore, in the search processing, it is not necessary to strictly determine whether or not the searched code string is a telephone number. It is trying to make it.

As described above, according to the above-described first embodiment, it is possible to search for a telephone number in a message and make a call using the telephone number without re-entering the telephone number by the operator. If a dedicated operation button for a search operation, a next search operation, and a call operation to a search code string cannot be prepared on the communication terminal, a button normally provided in the communication terminal is assigned to these operations. Is also good. For example, an input system for each of the above operations can be realized by an off-hook button, up / down / left / right arrow buttons, a call button, and a combination of these buttons and function buttons.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a message communication terminal according to a second embodiment of the present invention. The message communication terminal shown in FIG. 5 can only receive a message such as a pager (wireless call terminal). Terminal.
The message communication terminal shown in FIG. 5 is different from that shown in FIG. 1 in that a receiving unit 12 and a reception control unit 13 are provided instead of the transmission / reception unit 1 and the message storage unit 2, and the main control unit 5 Instead, a main control unit 11 is provided, and a dial tone signal generation unit 14 and a notification unit 15 functioning as sound generation units are provided. FIG.
Although the display means 3 and the operation means 4 in FIG. 5 are actually different from the display means 3 and the operation means 4 in FIG. 5, they are logically equivalent in the present invention. Omitted.

The main control means 11 has a configuration in which the transmission equalization means 10 is deleted from the main control means 5.
The output of the telephone number searching means 9 is supplied to the dial tone signal generating means 14 outside the main control means 5. When the call button of the operation means 4 is pressed, the dial tone signal generation means 14 extracts only the numbers from the code string (the number string in the present embodiment) supplied from the telephone number search means 9 and orders these numbers in order. A dial tone signal having a frequency change corresponding to the number string formed by connecting the numbers is generated, and the dial tone signal sound is emitted from the notification means 15 including an amplifier, a speaker, and the like.

The process of transmitting a call to the telephone number in the message stored in the message storage means 2 will now be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. However, FIG. 6 is different from FIG. 2 only in the process of step SB6, and the description is omitted except for this point. As in the first embodiment, when a code string representing a desired telephone number is obtained by the search processing and / or the next search processing, the search operator switches the communication terminal to another telephone (for example, a public telephone). The call button is pressed down by approaching the mouth (step SB6). This allows
A dial tone signal corresponding to a digit string excluding unnecessary symbols and the like from the code string is generated by the dial tone signal generating means 14.
And a dial tone signal is emitted from the notification means. Then, the telephone set to which the dial tone signal tone is input from the mouthpiece has a telephone number corresponding to the dial tone signal tone, that is, a numeral string displayed on the upper left of the display area of the display means 3 when the call button is pressed. Automatically call the indicated phone number.

As described above, according to the above-described second embodiment, the telephone number in the message is searched, and the telephone number can be transmitted from another telephone using the telephone number without the operator re-entering the telephone number. Can be. Normally, operation buttons of a reception-only communication terminal such as a pager are designed to be as small as possible. Therefore, there is a high possibility that dedicated operation buttons for a search operation, a next search operation, and a transmission operation to a search code string cannot be prepared. In such a case, the various functions described above may be realized by buttons normally provided in the communication terminal. For example, main button, mode button, select button,
An input system for each of the above operations may be realized by a transmission button, a combination thereof, or the like.

As described above, according to the above-described first and second embodiments, a telephone number in a received message can be effectively used, and a call can be easily and reliably transmitted using the telephone number. This effect is particularly remarkable when applied to a message communication system in which the telephone number of the sender is automatically added to the message according to the sender's will.

Further, since the telephone number input by the sender is used as it is, erroneous calls due to erroneous input by the operator can be reduced. Further, even if the message sender has just changed the telephone number and the old telephone number is registered in the speed dial of the telephone on the reply side, the call to the new telephone number can be reliably performed.

Further, in a terminal that can handle a plurality of received messages by concatenating them as one message, or in a message communication system that can provide a telephone number guidance service, a search operation and a next search operation are performed. You can use your messages like a phone book.

Also, since the search is started from the beginning of the visible area of the message to be processed, the message to be processed is scrolled and visually checked for the existence of the telephone number.
It can also be used to make outgoing calls. The display area of the display means 3 is in the direction of enlargement, but the message length to be handled is becoming longer. In such a situation, there are many situations in which the message must be scrolled and displayed, and if a search algorithm that positions the search pointer at the beginning of the message in the search process by pressing the search button is employed, as a result of the search operation,
Numerical strings near the beginning of the message that are not already displayed may be searched and displayed.

For example, “5/30 Canalus @ TenwakutaSushi @ AM035 ******** P
"**" in the message "M030 ********"
When the code string “PM030 ********” is displayed and you try to search for a telephone number after “PM”, the code string after “AM” is “035 **”.
***** "will be searched. Further, in the above state, if a search algorithm for searching at least one digit string is applied to the message, the number "5" at the head of the message will be searched.

On the other hand, in the search algorithm employed in each embodiment, which searches from the beginning of the visible area of the message to be processed (if the beginning is a number, immediately after the numeral string containing this number), the desired telephone number is used. "030 ********
* ”Is searched. As described above, the search algorithm employed in the present embodiment is particularly suitable for a usage in which a search operation is performed after a desired telephone number is scrolled and displayed. This is remarkable when a message is used like a telephone directory.

In each of the above-described embodiments, the search operator refers to and confirms the search result to perform a transmission (sound emission) operation. However, a search algorithm that can search only a telephone number with a high probability is used. In addition to adopting, a phone number is automatically searched immediately after selecting a message, and only when a plurality of phone numbers exist in one message, a search code string is displayed on the display means by pressing a predetermined operation button. You may make it wait for the transmission operation of an operator. As clues to the algorithm used at this time, phone numbers are represented by 5 to 10 digits in a simple numeric string, and 6 to 12 digits in a numeric string using a delimiter. Operational matters, such as not being allowed.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, three types of buttons are separately assigned to the respective operations.
A search operation and a next search operation may be assigned to the same button, and the first operation after selecting a message may be set as a search process, and the second and subsequent operations may be set as a next search process. With this setting, the search operator can perform the search processing and the next search processing in a simpler procedure of repeatedly pressing the same button.

Similarly, the search operation and the transmission (sound emission) operation are assigned to the same button, and after the search operation or after the next search operation, the same button as the search operation is pressed, and the transmission (sound emission) with the search code string is performed. ) May be set. According to such a setting, when a desired telephone number can be searched for by a search operation, it is possible to perform processing up to transmission to a search code string by pressing the same button twice.

A button may be provided for a next search operation when a search code string is not displayed in a predetermined area of the display means, and a transmission (sound emission) operation when the search code string is displayed. By allocating a plurality of functions to the same button in this way, not only a few buttons can be effectively used, but also operability can be improved.

If the telephone number searching means 9 is configured to supply a code string of a predetermined length including a search code string to the transmission equalizing means 10 or the dial tone signal generating means 14, the telephone number including the delimiter is provided. Can also be accommodated. Of course, if the telephone number search means 9 cannot secure a code string of a predetermined length at the end of the message or the like, a code string starting from the search code string to the end of the message is substituted. Furthermore, various modifications are possible, such as adding a plurality of messages to be searched, and adding a pre-search function for searching in a direction opposite to the next search.

[0041]

As described above, according to the present invention,
If a telephone number is present in the message stored in the message storage means, the telephone number can be searched, and a call can be made from the own device or another telephone using the searched telephone number. Therefore, it is possible to effectively utilize the telephone number in the message and easily make a call using the telephone number, thereby improving convenience. Further, it is possible to prevent erroneous input of a telephone number due to erroneous operation of the operation means, and it is possible to reliably transmit a telephone number in a message.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a message communication terminal according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a procedure for making a call to a telephone number in a message in the message communication terminal.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a message received by the message communication terminal.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a process in which the message communication terminal searches for a telephone number from a message.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a message communication terminal according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a procedure for calling the telephone number in the message in the message communication terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... transmission / reception means, 2 ... message storage means, 3 ... display means, 4 ... operation means, 5, 11 ... main control means, 6 ... transmission / reception control means, 7 ... display control means, 8 ... ... Message selecting means, 9 ... Phone number searching means, 10 ... Sending equivalent means, 12 ... Receiving means, 13 ... Receiving control means, 14 ... Dial tone signal generating means, 15 ... Notifying means.

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A receiving means for receiving a message comprising a visible code, a message storing means for storing a message received by the receiving means, and a message stored in the message storing means , In the display area
Scroll display and displays the entire message scroll
And Lumpur display means, a communication terminal having an operation unit provided with a manipulator, at the moment of the operation for instructing a search by the operator, the
More display should do the entire message of the scroll display means
From within one code of the head which is displayed on the display region is if the non-numeric searching for numeric sequence included after the code
Who, if the head of the code is a number that is displayed on the display area
It detects the sign of the non-numeric immediately after the string of digits starting from the numbers
And search, code to the search means that searches a numeric sequence included after the code, a digit sequence searched by the search means and the top
Display control means for displaying the columns on the display area, the operation for instructing an outgoing by the operator at the moment of the previous SL
; And a transmitting means for <br/> transmitting using the numeric string consisting of digits within a predetermined length of <br/> code string to the top search digit string by search means as a telephone number Message communication terminal. Wherein instead of the transmission means, at the moment of the operation for instructing the sound by the operator, before Symbol
By comprising pronunciation means for sounding the sound corresponding to the telephone number, represented by the numeric string consisting of digits within a predetermined length of <br/> code string to the top search digit string by search means The message communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein: Wherein before dangerous search means, the scroll display hand
Message communication terminal according to claim 1 numeric string that is part of the message to be displayed, to sequential search to features and Turkey as a trigger operation for instructing a search by the operator by stage.