JPH04135354A - Telephone system with caller estimating function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To estimate a telephone number of the call originating side before picking a telephone receiver up on the reception side by providing a voice converting means at a reception side telephone device so as to convert a voice signal telephone number transmitted from an exchange to a voice and to generate it. CONSTITUTION:An exchange 23 is equipped with a number detecting means 21 to detect the telephone number of a call origination side telephone device 2, and a voice signal transmitting means 22 to convert the detected telephone number to the voice signal and to transmit it to a reception side telephone device 26 as a ringer signal, and the reception side telephone device 26 is equipped with a voice converting means 25 to convert the signal telephone transmitted from the exchange 23 to the voice and to generate it. Therefore, the reception telephone device 26 synthesizes the voice instead of outputting the ringer signal for the announced telephone number and repeatedly and continuously generates the telephone number by the voice. Thus, before picking the receiver up on the reception side, the transmission side telephone number is estimated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a telephone device with a caller estimation function that allows a receiving telephone device to estimate the telephone number of a calling party.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the flow from the calling side of the telephone device to calling the receiving side and picking up the receiver's handset.

(1) is an instruction to dial the other party's phone number, (2)
is the originating telephone device, (3) is a call request instruction to the exchange device, (4) is the exchange device, (5) is a call instruction from the exchange device (4) to the other party's telephone device, and (6) is the other party's telephone device. (Receiving) Telephone device, (7) is a ringing tone, and (8) is a person picking up the receiver.

Next, the operation will be explained.

In response to the destination telephone number dialing instruction (1), the telephone device (2) notifies the switching device (4) of the telephone number in question by the call request instruction (3). The switching device (4) searches for the telephone device (6) having the telephone number and issues a call instruction (
5), a calling instruction is given to the telephone device (6). The telephone device (6) receives the calling instruction (5) and emits a ringing tone (7). The person on the receiving end will hear the ringtone (7)
), pick up the receiver and perform operation (8), the ringtone (7) will be muted and the call (telephone conversation) will be terminated.
becomes possible.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In the conventional telephone call method, the person on the receiving end only hears the ringing tone when a call is received, has no way of guessing who is calling, and also has problems in which the person on the receiving end picks up the phone. If the receiver hangs up the moment you try to pick up the phone, you will end up not knowing where the caller came from.Furthermore, if you pick up the receiver while you can talk to the caller, you will not be able to answer the caller's question. In some cases, the caller hangs up immediately without saying a word, or remains silent for a long time, or even if there is a prank call, threatening call, or harassing call, you may not know who is calling or where the call came from. There were problems such as poor service for telephone users.

This invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a telephone device with a caller estimation function that allows the receiving side to estimate the calling party's telephone number before picking up the telephone receiver. purpose.

[Means to solve the problem]

A telephone device with a caller estimation function according to the present invention is a switching device that receives a telephone number transmitted from a calling telephone device and connects a line to a receiving telephone device corresponding to the telephone number to the calling telephone device. In the switching device, the switching device includes a number detecting means for detecting the telephone number of the calling side telephone device, and an audio signal transmitting means for converting the detected telephone number into an audio signal and transmitting it as a ring tone to the receiving side telephone device. The receiving telephone device is provided with voice converting means for converting the voice signalized telephone number transmitted from the switching device into voice and uttering the voice signal.

[Operation] When the telephone device on the calling side makes a call, the switching device learns and stores the telephone number of the telephone device that made the call, and the switching device further notifies the telephone device on the receiving side of the telephone number.

As a result, the receiving telephone device performs speech synthesis on the notified telephone number instead of emitting a ring tone, and continues to generate the telephone number repeatedly by voice until the telephone receiver is picked up. You can get the caller's phone number before picking up the call.

〔Example〕

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be explained below with reference to the drawings. 1st
In the figure, (1) is an instruction to dial the telephone number of the other party, (2) is an instruction to call the calling party's telephone device, (3) is an instruction to request a call to the switching device, and (21) is the telephone number of the calling party's telephone device. Number detection means to understand (know) 4 digits, (22)
(23) is the switching device according to this embodiment; (24) is the receiving side; A number notification instruction that notifies the telephone device of the last four digits of the telephone number of the calling side telephone device from the exchange device, (25) converts the last four digits of the calling side telephone number notified by the number notification instruction (24) into voice. (26) is the telephone device according to the present embodiment; (27) is a notification instruction to the recipient that repeatedly utters the last four digits of the telephone number of the originating telephone device until the receiver is picked up; (8) is a person picking up the receiver.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained according to the above configuration.

First, the caller dials (or presses) the telephone number of the person he or she wishes to call.

The light instruction is notified to the switching device (23). This exchange device (
23) uses the number detection means (21) to check the last four digits of the calling party's telephone number, memorize it, and connect to the line of the other party's telephone number as before.

After the line is connected, the voice signal transmitting means (22) additionally transmits and outputs the last four digits of the calling party's telephone number, which is known by the number detecting means (21), to the telephone device of the other party.

The receiving telephone device converts the last four digits of the calling party's telephone number into voice (instead of the traditional ringing tone) and repeats it until the receiver picks up the receiver. For example, the voice at this time is the caller's phone number 01.
In the case of 23, zero, one, two, sun,...(2-3 seconds of silence)..., zero, one, 21 sun,..., zero, one, two, sun, The first thing you hear is... The recipient notices this voice and picks up the phone to make a call.

In this embodiment, the last four digits of the calling party's phone number are output as voice, but not only the last four digits, but the entire number such as 03-012-0123 may be output as voice, or the last four digits can be voice output. Before the output, only the first sound of °°boo°° or °゛biyuro, piyuro'' may be pronounced.

Examples: “Buro, Buro..., Zero, One, Ni San,...
..., zero, one, two, san, ..., zero, one, two, san, ...'' Also, if the last four digits of the number are not spoken aloud, the call will be disconnected or the call will not be received. The caller's telephone number may be displayed on a visible portion of the telephone device until the caller arrives.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the calling party's telephone number is known at the time of calling the recipient's telephone, which is useful in preventing false calls, threatening calls, prank calls, false calls, etc. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing the instructions from making a telephone call to receiving (calling) and the process from creating the calling party's telephone number to outputting voice in an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a conventional flow up to reception. In the figure, (2) is the calling side telephone device, (21) is the number detection means, (22) is the voice signal transmission means, (23) is the switching device, (24) is the number notification instruction, and (25) is the voice conversion means, (26) is a receiving side telephone device, and (27) is a voice-transformed telephone number. (Spontaneous) October 29, 1990, Japanese Patent Application No. 2-216671, Name of the invention Relationship to the case of a person amending a telephone device with caller estimation function Patent applicant address: 2 Sara-chome, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 3rd name
Name (801) Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd. Representative Moriya Shiki 4, Agent address 4th floor, Nakayama Building, 1-9-13 Nihonbashi Honmachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Detailed description of the invention in the specification. 6. Contents of the Amendment The statement "It is known at the time of calling" on page 7, lines 19 and 20 of the specification is amended to "It is known at the time of calling."that's all

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a device equipped with a switching device that receives a telephone number called from a calling telephone device and connects a line to the receiving telephone device corresponding to the telephone number to the calling telephone device, the switching device has a telephone number from the calling party. It is equipped with a number detecting means for detecting the telephone number of the telephone device, and an audio signal transmitting means for converting the detected telephone number into an audio signal and transmitting it as a ring tone to the receiving telephone device, and the receiving telephone device is connected to the switching device. 1. A telephone device with a caller estimation function, characterized in that it is equipped with a voice conversion means that converts a voice-signaled telephone number that has been transmitted into voice and utters the voice signal.