JPH0193953A - Line terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To cause an opponent, to which automatic dial transmission can be executed, to be large by displaying the subscriber number of an opponent destination on a paper surface with a bar code in advance, optically reading this bar code and sending a dial signal. CONSTITUTION:The titled equipment includes a reading circuit 1, which optically reads a bar code 8a to be displayed on a telephone number list 8 in correspondence to the name of the respective opponent destinations through a light pen 1a, a processor 2 to convert this bar code to the subscriber number of the opponent destination with referring a registering circuit 3 and a signal sending circuit 4 to convert the figure of the subscriber number, which is included in the output of this processor 2, to the dial signal. For the bar code to be read by the light pen 1a, the processor 2 reads the subscriber number to correspond to the bar code from the registering circuit 3 and an impulse dial signal is sent from the signal sending circuit 4 through a line 7a to a converter 7. Namely, since the bar code can display the large number of digits to the paper surface of a narrow area, the automatic dial operation can be executed to a number of subscribers.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention is applicable to telephones, data terminal devices, and other line terminal devices that transmit dial signals to connect lines.

The present invention relates to an automatic dialing device.

〔overview〕

The present invention is a line terminal device that performs automatic dialing, by displaying the subscriber number of the other party in advance as a barcode on paper, and having the barcode read optically to send a dialing signal. This allows the number of people to whom calls can be made to be extremely large.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in the calling method of a line terminal device that sends a dial signal to the line to establish a connection, the caller makes the call by manually operating a dial or pushbutton, or uses a speed dialing method. even if at least 2
Individual numbers were calculated manually.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, conventionally, the caller manually operates a rotary dial or a pushbutton, and therefore, when making a call to a toll office, it is necessary to perform many dial operations. This is time consuming, tedious, and has drawbacks such as incorrect dialing of numbers.

Further, even when using the conventional speed dialing method, the dialing operation must be performed at least twice, so there is a risk of misunderstanding the numbers. Furthermore, since the number of abbreviated codes corresponding to each subscriber number is limited by the means for inputting the abbreviated codes, it is not possible to register a large number of destinations.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve these drawbacks and provide a line terminal device that can perform automatic dialing with a simple operation of optically reading a bar code.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention provides a line terminal device equipped with a signal sending circuit for sending a dial signal to a line, which includes means for optically reading a barcode and converting the contents of the barcode into a code representing a number, the signal sending circuit is characterized in that it includes means for converting the code representing the number sent to the output of the above means into a dial signal.

[Operation] The subscriber number of a frequently used party is displayed in advance on a piece of paper as a barcode, and this piece of paper is optically read by a device and the number is sent to the line.

The dialing signal sent to the line may be either a voice dialing signal or an impulse dialing signal.

The paper on which the barcode is displayed can be a telephone directory, telephone directory,
Business cards etc. can be used.

〔Example〕

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

In this embodiment, this is implemented in a telephone. 1st
The figure shows a block diagram of the above embodiment, and FIG. 2 shows an explanatory diagram of the above embodiment.

The telephone housing 6 includes therein a telephone circuit 5 having push buttons 6a including a numeric keypad, a handset 6b is disposed on the top surface, and is connected to an exchange 7 via a line 7a.

Here, the present invention is characterized by the barcode 8a displayed in the telephone number book 8 corresponding to the name of each party.
A reading circuit 1 optically reads the information via the light ben 1a, a processor 2 converts this into the subscriber number of the other party by referring to the registration circuit 3, and a subscriber number included in the output of the processor 2. It also includes a signal sending circuit 4 for converting numbers into dial signals.

In FIG. 2, several dozen barcodes 8a are printed in advance on a telephone number book 8, and the name of the other party, subscriber number, etc. are written therein at the time of registration.

To register the barcode and subscriber number, first press the special key (for example, the one shown with code 6b), then press the light pen 1.
The barcode 8a of the telephone number directory 8 is read by a. Next, the subscriber number associated with the bar code is input using the push button 6a, and the registration is completed by pressing the special key again. In this way, any subscriber number can be made to correspond to the dozens of barcodes printed on the telephone number book 8 shown in FIG.

Next, in order to perform a call operation using the barcode registered in this way, the call button 1b provided on the light pen 1a shown in FIG. 2 is pressed. At this time, in Figure 1,
The telephone goes off-hook to exchange 7,
The phone is in a state where it is waiting for the barcode to be read. Here, the barcode read by Light Ben 1a is
The processor 2 reads the subscriber number corresponding to the barcode from the registration circuit 3, and from the signal sending circuit 4,
The impulse dial signal is sent to the exchange 7 via the line 7a. After the transmission of the impulse dial signal is completed, the signal transmission circuit 4 is switched to the telephone circuit 5, and thereafter, normal telephone operation is started.

Normally, there are a maximum of 100 types of abbreviated codes operated on push-button telephones because the number of key presses is two digits. Therefore, the maximum number of participants that can be shortened is 100.
limited to people. However, since barcodes can display a large number of digits on a small area of paper, automatic dialing operations can be performed for a larger number of subscribers by taking into consideration the storage capacity of the registration circuit.

Further, in the above embodiment, different barcodes are displayed in advance in the telephone number book, and arbitrary subscriber names corresponding to these barcodes are later entered. Therefore, the barcode was a kind of address number for the true subscriber number.

However, if the subscriber and his/her number are known in advance, the above registration operation can be eliminated by displaying the barcode for the subscriber name to represent the true subscriber number, and the registration circuit's storage The capacity does not have to be large either.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, automatic dialing can be made to any number of destinations by simply preparing a barcode.

According to the present invention, dial operation is simple and errors are reduced.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the above embodiment. 1...Reading circuit, 1a...Light Ben, 1b...
Call button, 2... Processor, 3... Registration circuit,
4...Signal sending circuit, 5...Telephone circuit, 6...
Housing, 6a...Push button, 6b...Handset, 6c
...Special key, 7...Switchboard, 7a...Line, deceased...Telephone number book, 8a...Barcode.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A line terminal device equipped with a signal sending circuit for sending a dial signal to a line, comprising means for optically reading a bar code and converting the contents of the bar code into a code representing a number, the signal sending circuit A line terminal device characterized by comprising means for converting a code representing a number sent to the output of the above means into a dial signal.