JPH01162044A - Telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce an erroneous dialing and to decrease an erroneous telephone calling by optically reading a telephone number written on the surface of a name card, etc., and executing automatic dial origination. CONSTITUTION:A telephone set 1 has a reading part 11 to optically read the telephone number to be printed on the name card. The user of the telephone set 1 allows the telephone number to be read from the name card of a called person by the reading part 11. The reading part 11 sends the telephone number read from the name card to a control part 12. When the control part 12 recognizes the read telephone number correctly as the telephone number, the signal of a call request is sent to a line closing part 14. When the signal of the call request is received from the control part 12, the line closing part 14 allows the telephone set 1 to be in an off-hook condition and executes the closing of a line.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to telephones.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, when dialing a telephone, a telephone user manually dials by looking at the telephone number on a business card, for example.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

The above-mentioned conventional telephones have a drawback in that the telephone user dials while looking at the telephone number on a business card, for example, and may dial the number incorrectly.

[Means for solving problems]

The telephone of the present invention includes a reader that optically reads a telephone number written on paper, a control section that recognizes the telephone number read by the reader, and a line that automatically makes a call based on a signal from the control section. a line closing unit that closes the line; a tone recognition unit that checks the dial tone from the line and sends the result to the control unit; and a tone recognition unit that converts the telephone number sent by the control unit into a dial signal. and an automatic dial transmitting section that sends the call to the line.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the telephone 1 of this embodiment includes a reading section 11 that optically reads a telephone number printed on a business card, a line closing section 14 that closes a line, and a telephone number that converts the telephone number into a dial signal. an automatic dial transmitting section 13 that converts and sends a dial signal to the line via the line closing section 14; a tone recognition section 15 that detects the dial tone from the line via the line closing section 14; and the above-mentioned sections and a telephone set. 1, and a control section 12 that controls the entire system.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

First, the user of the telephone 1 causes the reader 11 to read the telephone number from the called person's business card. The reading section 11 sends the telephone number read from the business card to the control section 12. Control unit 12
When the read telephone number is correctly recognized as a telephone number, it sends a call request signal to the line closing section 14. When the line closing unit 14 receives a call request signal from the control unit 12, it puts the telephone 1 in an off-hook state and closes the line.

When the tone recognition section 15 detects a dial tone from the line, it sends a signal to the control section 12 indicating that it is possible to send a dial signal. When the control section 12 receives the signal indicating that the dialing signal can be sent, it sends the dialing request code and telephone number to the automatic dialing section 13.

The automatic dial transmission unit 13 converts the telephone number received from the control unit 12 into a dial signal, and sends the dial signal to the line via the line closing unit 14.

The user uses the handset of telephone 1 (not shown), or
Listen to the ringback tone from the speaker (not shown),
Confirm the other party's response and begin the call.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention can reduce incorrect dialing by optically reading the telephone number written on paper such as a business card and automatically dialing the number.
This has the effect of reducing the number of mistaken calls.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Telephone, 11... Reading unit, 12... Control unit, 13... Automatic dialing unit, 14... Line closing unit, 15... Tone recognition unit. Agent Patent Attorney Oto Uchihara

Claims (1)

[Claims] a reader that optically reads the telephone number written on the paper;
A control unit that recognizes the telephone number read by this reader, a line closing unit that closes the line for automatic dialing based on the signal from this control unit, and a dial tone from the line that is checked and the result is transmitted to the control unit. 1. A telephone set comprising: a tone recognition section that sends a tone to the telephone line; and an automatic dialing section that converts a telephone number sent from the control section into a dial signal and sends it to the line.