JPH05292200A - Dialling processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enhance convenience and to perform economical dialling processing by picking up the image of the other party by a camera and discriminating whether or not the other party is present and transmitting a dial signal to the other party when he is present. CONSTITUTION:A presence information generating section 1 generates presence information indicating whether or not a person is present in a seat and a video image of plural persons is inputted to a video input section 2. A presence and absence discriminating section 3 discriminates the person to be present based on the inputted video image and stores the result to a discrimination result storage section 4. A communication control section 5 transmits the stored information to an presence information display section 6, on which the information is displayed. In order to read out the presence information from the display section 6, the communication control section 5 transmits a dial telephone number of a talking destination instructed by a speech instructing section 9. At this time, a presence information display device 8 displays the presence information and the talking destination instructing section 9 instructs the talking destination and a control section 7 transmits a signal to call the talking destination 12 via a telephone network 11. Since the presence of the other party is confirmed before making a call and the result is confirmed on the screen, the convenience and the economy are enhanced.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dialing processing method for making a call to an office or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Normally, when making a call, it is often inconvenient that it takes time to know that the other party is absent, because it cannot be confirmed whether the other party is present or absent. In order to solve this problem, as shown in FIG. 2, a TV camera 21, a means 22 for transferring the image thereof, and a display device 23 for the image are prepared, and the state of the office or the like is monitored on the calling side. , You can use the method of calling after confirming the other person's presence. In FIG. 2, 21 is a TV camera, 22 is a video transmission unit, 23 is a display device, 24 is a telephone, and 25 is a telephone network. However, this method has a problem that the cost for transferring the image is high when the distance between the TV camera 21 and the display device 23 is large. As a method for solving this problem, as shown in FIG.
Means 32 for processing an image from and determining whether the user is present or absent
Is provided and only the processed result is transferred and displayed. In FIG. 3, 31 is a TV camera, 32 is a presence / absence determination unit, 33 is an attendance information transfer unit, 34 is a display device, 3
Reference numeral 5 represents a telephone and 36 represents a telephone network.

[0003]

However, even in this case, there is a problem that it is not possible to save the trouble of pressing the button of the telephone or turning the dial to specify the telephone number when the presence is confirmed.

Further, even if a telephone call comes in while the user is absent, it cannot be known by a telephone without an answering machine function. Even if the telephone has an answering machine function, the telephone call cannot be made unless the other party speaks. There is a problem that I cannot know.

Further, even when it is known that the user cannot leave the desk and receive the call, he / she cannot notify the schedule without the answering machine function. I can't know that I'm away until I connect.

According to the present invention, it is possible to confirm in advance whether the other person is present or not, and when the other person is present, the dialing process is highly convenient and can be dialed without reentering the other party's telephone number. It is intended to provide a way.

[0007]

According to the present invention, a means for processing an image from a camera to determine whether or not a person is present at each seat such as an office, and a result of the determination is read out as presence information. , A means for displaying whether each person is present or absent, and
It consists of means for designating a specific person from the displayed judgment results and means for sending a dial signal of the telephone number corresponding to the designated person. The most important feature is to determine whether or not the result is displayed, and to send a dial signal using the display result.

[0008]

In the case of the present invention, it is possible to automatically dial when it is determined that the user is seated. It differs from the conventional method in that it has means for designating a specific person from the displayed persons and means for transmitting a dial signal of a telephone number corresponding to the designated person. Also. In the case of the conventional method, there is a method of displaying a person's name or the like on the screen and making a call by designating a specific person, but the present invention is a means for determining whether a person is present or absent, It is different in that it has a means for displaying presence or absence based on the determination result.

[0009]

EXAMPLES The principle of the present invention will now be described. FIG. 1 is a device configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is an attendance information generation unit that generates presence information indicating whether or not there is a person in a seat such as an office. An image input unit (TV camera) for inputting images of a plurality of people in an office or the like, and a presence / absence determination unit 3 for processing the images input by the image input unit 2 and determining whether or not a person is present at the seat. 4 is presence / absence determination unit 3
The judgment result accumulating section for accumulating the result obtained in step 5 is a communication control section for sending out the judgment result accumulated in the judgment result accumulating section 4, and 6 is the presence information accumulated in the judgment result accumulating section 4. A communication control unit 7 for reading out the presence information from the presence information display unit 6 and for transmitting a dial signal of the telephone number of the call destination instructed by the call destination instruction unit 9. , 8 is a presence information display device for displaying presence information, 9 is a call destination instruction unit for instructing a call destination, 10 is a telephone, 11 is a telephone network, and 12 is a call destination.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of the communication control unit 7 in FIG. In the figure, 41 is a presence information read control unit that controls reading of presence information, 42 is a dial signal control unit that controls transmission and reception of dial signals, 4
Reference numeral 3 is a transmitter for transmitting a dial signal, and 44 is a receiver for receiving a dial signal.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the operation of the transmitting section in FIG. 4, in which 105 is the callee instruction section 9
The coordinate value on the touch panel of the instructed position output by (the touch panel in this figure), 101 is a coordinate-name-telephone number correspondence unit that associates the coordinate value 105 with the designated name and telephone number, and 102 is a callee instruction unit. An attendance information reference unit for referring to whether the call destination instructed in 9 is present or absent, 103 is a dial unit for transmitting the dial signal obtained by the coordinate-name-phone number correspondence unit 101, and 104 is from the dial unit 103. It is a dial signal transmitted.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the processing of the coordinate-name-telephone number correspondence section 101 shown in FIG. 10, in which 51 is a coordinate-name-telephone number correspondence table, and 52 is a name corresponding to the coordinate value 105. Is read from the coordinate-name-phone number correspondence table 51 and stored in the memory, and 53 is the coordinate value 105.
The telephone number corresponding to the coordinate-name-phone number correspondence table 51
Read from and hold in memory.

FIG. 6 shows the processing of the presence information reference unit shown in FIG. 10, where 61 is the name-presence information correspondence table read from the determination result storage unit 4, 62 is the name held in the above 52, and 6
3 is a name 62 read from the name-occupancy information correspondence table 61
Represents presence / absence information corresponding to.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the flow of processing of the transmitting unit 43 shown in FIG. 10, in which 71 represents a step of holding the name corresponding to the coordinate value 105 in the memory, and 72 represents the coordinate value 105. The step of holding the corresponding telephone number in the memory is shown. In step 73, the presence / absence information of the person whose name is held in step 71 is acquired. In the case of being present, the telephone number is read from the memory in step 74, Step 7
In step 5, the telephone number read in step 74 is called. If it is absent in step 73, return to the start and coordinate value 10
Wait to receive 5.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a method of reading out the presence information from the presence information display unit 6 shown in FIG. Step 81
Then, the telephone line is connected, the judgment result is requested in step 82, the reading result is transferred from the judgment result accumulating portion 4 in step 83, and the result is displayed on the presence information display device 8 in step 84.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an apparatus according to an embodiment corresponding to claim 2. In FIG. In the figure, reference numerals 91 and 92 are presence information generation units, and 93 and 94 are presence information display units. Presence information generation of a person who has the presence information display unit 94 is performed by the presence information generation unit 91. The presence information generation unit 92 generates the presence information of the person who has the presence information display unit 93. The communication control unit 95 goes to read out the presence information from the presence information display units 93 and 94, sends out the dial signal of the telephone number of the call destination instructed by the call destination instruction unit 9, and records the absent telephone. .. Further, 96 is a presence information display device for displaying presence information and a record of absent telephone calls, and 97 is a display unit for absent telephone records.

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining the configuration of the communication control section 95. In the figure, 111 is a reception recording section for recording a telephone call while absent, and other reference numerals 41, 42, 4 are shown.
3 and 44 correspond to FIG. 4, and differ from FIG. 4 in that reception recording is performed.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a recording process for a telephone call in the absence of communication by the communication control unit 95. In step 121, a dial signal is received, and in step 122, it is judged whether or not a response is made and a response is made. If not, it is recorded in the reception recording unit 111 in step 123, and the reception record is displayed on the presence information display device 96 in step 124. When the response is made in step 122, the process ends in step 125.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram of an apparatus according to an embodiment corresponding to claim 3, wherein 131 and 133 are presence information generating sections, 134 and 135 are presence information display sections, and
The presence information generation unit 131 generates the presence information of the person who uses the presence information display unit 134, and the presence information generation unit 133 generates the presence information of the person who uses the presence information display unit 135. And Reference numeral 132 is a leaving schedule recording unit for recording the leaving schedule, 136 is a presence information display device for displaying the presence information and leaving schedule, and 137 is for reading the presence information from the presence information display units 134 and 135. Is a communication control unit that sends out a dial signal of the telephone number of the call destination instructed by the call destination instruction unit 9 and transmits and receives the scheduled leaving schedule. Again 13
Reference numeral 8 denotes a communication control unit that reads out the presence information from the determination result storage unit 4 and transmits the presence information, and transfers the leaving schedule received from the presence information display units 134 and 135 to the leaving schedule recording unit 132.

FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining the procedure for recording the leaving schedule from the presence information display unit in the presence information generation unit.
In the figure, in step 141, the presence information display unit and the corresponding presence information generation unit are connected, in step 142 the leaving information display unit transmits the leaving schedule to the communication control unit 138, and in step 143. The communication control unit 138 records the leaving schedule in the leaving schedule recording unit 132.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a seating information display device displaying an example of a scheduled leaving schedule, in which 151 is shown.
Shows an example of presenting a schedule for leaving the seat, and the others correspond to those in FIG.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. First, the overall processing flow will be described with reference to FIG. The image input from the image input unit 2 is processed by the presence / absence determination unit 3, and the determination result is stored in the determination result storage unit 4 each time the presence / absence information display unit 6 displays the communication control unit 7 and the telephone. The determination result is read out to the determination result storage unit 4 via the network 11 and the communication control unit 5 and displayed on the presence information display device 8. Next, the call destination is instructed using the call destination instruction unit 9, the dial signal is transmitted from the communication control unit 7, and the call destination 12 is called via the telephone network 11.

In FIG. 1, the video input section 2 is a TV.
The camera and presence information display device 8 are monitors, and the callee instruction unit 9 represents a touch panel mounted on the screen of the monitor 8. The callee is instructed by touching the name of the person who is trying to make a call. The presence / absence determination unit 3 may be, for example, Japanese Patent Application No. 2-
It is realized by the method shown in No. 410819.

Next, the configuration of the communication control unit 7 of the attendance information display unit 6 will be described with reference to FIG. The communication control unit 7 is composed of a presence information reading control unit 41 for reading the presence information and a dial signal control unit 42 for connecting a telephone.
Further, the dial signal control unit 42 is composed of a transmitting unit 43 for making a telephone call and a receiving unit 44 for receiving a telephone call.

The operations of the call destination instructing section 9 and the calling section 43 in the operation of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG.
By touching the name of the person who wants to talk on the call destination instruction unit 9 (touch panel) with a finger or the like, the coordinate value 105 of the position is output and passed to the transmission unit 43. Transmitter 43
First, the coordinate-name-phone number correspondence unit 101
Then, the coordinate value 105 is converted into the corresponding name and telephone number. In the presence information reference unit 102, the presence / absence information of the callee is acquired from the name obtained in the coordinate-name-phone number correspondence unit 101, and a dial signal is sent to the dial unit 103 only when the presence is present. Give instructions. The dial unit 103 is
A dial signal is transmitted using the telephone number obtained by the coordinate-name-telephone number correspondence unit 101. In the coordinate-name-phone number correspondence unit 101, in addition to the name and telephone number,
Other information can also be associated. Further, the presence information reference unit 102 can be deleted and a dial signal can be transmitted regardless of presence / absence.

The processing of the coordinate / name / telephone number correspondence unit 101 will be described with reference to FIG. The coordinate column of the coordinate-name-telephone number correspondence table 51 shows two diagonal coordinates of the rectangle, and when the coordinate value 105 is included in the rectangular area represented by those coordinates, the same line as the diagonal coordinate is shown. The names and telephone numbers are associated with each other and stored in the memory in operations 52 and 53, respectively.

The processing of the presence information reference unit 102 will be described with reference to FIG. The name 62 is searched in the name column of the name-occupancy information correspondence table 61, and the presence / absence information in the same row is read as information 63.

The processing flow of the transmission unit 43 will be described with reference to FIG. The coordinate value 105 is received, the name and the telephone number corresponding to the coordinate value 105 are stored in the memory by the processing shown in FIG. 5, (steps 71 and 72), and the presence / absence information of the person whose name is stored in step 71. 6 is obtained by the processing shown in FIG. 6, and if the user is present, the telephone number held in step 72 is read (step 74), and the telephone number is called in step 75. When it is absent in step 73, the dial signal is not transmitted and the coordinate value 105 is returned.
Wait to receive.

The presence information display unit 6 shown in FIG. 1 with reference to FIG.
A method of reading out the seat attendance information will be described. The determination result obtained by the presence / absence determination unit 3 is written and updated in the determination result storage unit 4 every time a determination is made. First, in step 81, the communication control unit 7 on the attendance information display unit 6 side and the communication control unit 5 on the determination result storage unit side are connected. Next, at step 82, a transfer request for the determination result is sent from the presence information display section 6 to the communication control section 7.
To the communication control unit 5 via. In step 83, the communication control unit 5 receiving this request reads the determination result from the determination result storage unit 4 and transfers it to the communication control unit 7. In step 84, the communication control unit 7 transfers the determination result to the presence information display device 8. The presence information display device 8 displays the received determination result.

Next, the flow of processing will be described with reference to FIG. Here, it is assumed that the person using the presence information display unit 93 makes a call while nobody is present and no one answers. At this time, the communication control unit 95 records that a telephone call was made while the user was absent, and displays the number of telephone calls, for example, the number of telephone calls, at the position of the display unit 97 of the presence information display device 96. At this time, if both the user and the other party use the ISDN line, the telephone number of the other party can be recorded and displayed.

The configuration of the communication controller 95 will be described with reference to FIG. The communication control unit 95 includes a presence information reading control unit 41 that reads the presence information and a dial signal control unit 42 that connects a telephone. Further, the dial signal control unit 42 includes a transmission unit 43 for making a telephone call, a reception unit 44 for receiving a telephone call, and a reception recording unit 111 for recording an absent telephone call.

The flow of processing in which the communication control unit 95 records an absent telephone will be described with reference to FIG. Step 121
In step 122, the receiving unit 44 receives the dial signal.
In step 123, the reception unit 44 determines whether or not the dial signal has been answered. If not, the number of times the reception recording unit 111 is called, the date and time of the call, or the telephone number of the other party. Record the number as a reception record,
In step 124, the reception record is displayed on the presence information display device 96. Incidentally, by adding a database such as a telephone number-name correspondence table to the reception recording unit 111, the telephone number can be recorded so that it is possible to display who made the call in step 124.

The processing flow will be described with reference to FIG.
Here, it is assumed that the name of the person who uses the presence information display unit 134 is “Sakai” and that the presence information generation unit 131 generates the presence information of “Sakai”. When "Sakai" wants to present the schedule of leaving the seat for 2 to 3 PM, the presence information display unit 134 to the communication control units 137, 1
The leaving schedule recording unit 1 of the presence information generation unit 131
In 32, record the schedule of "leaving from 2 PM to 3 PM". When the leaving schedule is recorded, it is presented on the attendance information display device 136 of the attendance information display unit 135 displaying “Sakai”, for example, as in a presentation example 151 shown in FIG.

The process of recording the above-mentioned leaving schedule will be described with reference to FIG. First, in step 141, the presence information display unit 134 and the presence information generation unit 131 are connected to the communication control unit 137,
Connect via 138. Next, the presence information display unit 134 transmits the leaving schedule to the communication control unit 138 using, for example, a keyboard of a personal computer, a push button of a telephone, or the like. In step 143, the communication control unit 13
8 passes the received leaving schedule to the leaving schedule recording unit 132 for recording.

The presentation of the leaving schedule will be described with reference to FIG. The presence information display unit 1 according to the method described in claim 1.
35 to read the presence information from the presence information generation unit 131, and if the presence information recording unit 1 of the presence information generation unit 131
When the leaving schedule is recorded in 32, the leaving schedule is transmitted to the presence information display unit 135 together with the presence information, and the presence information is displayed on the presence information display device 136 in the form as shown in the example 151. Present your appointment. The schedule for leaving the seat may not be always presented, but may be presented only when the position of the absentee on the touch panel is touched.

[0036]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Before making a call, you can check the presence / absence of the other party, and you can dial by specifying on the confirmed screen, you can also know the phone while you are absent, and record your leaving schedule -It becomes possible to provide a dialing processing method that is highly convenient and economical.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a device configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram for explaining a conventional method.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram for explaining another conventional method.

FIG. 4 shows a configuration of a communication control unit shown in FIG.

5 is a diagram illustrating a process of a coordinate-name-phone number correspondence unit of FIG.

6 is a diagram showing a process of an attendance information reference unit in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a flow of processing of a transmission unit in FIG.

8 is a diagram illustrating a method of reading out attendance information from the attendance information display unit in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a device configuration diagram of an embodiment of claim 2;

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an operation of a transmission unit in FIG.

11 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a communication control unit illustrated in FIG.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a recording process of a telephone in the absence of the communication control unit shown in FIG. 9;

FIG. 13 is a device configuration diagram of an embodiment of claim 3;

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a procedure of recording a scheduled leaving schedule from the presence information display unit in the presence information generation unit.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a presence information display device displaying an example of a scheduled leaving schedule.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 presence information generation unit 2 video input unit 3 presence / absence determination unit 4 determination result storage unit 5 communication control unit 6 presence information display unit 7 communication control unit 8 presence information display device 9 call destination instruction unit 10 telephone 11 telephone Network 12 Call destination 41 Presence information reading control unit 42 Dial signal control unit 43 Sending unit 44 Receiving unit 51 Coordinate-name-phone number correspondence table 52 Retaining name in memory 1 53 Retaining phone number in memory 2 61 Name -Attendance information correspondence table 62 Name of memory 1 63 Presence / absence information 91 Presence information generation unit 92 Presence information generation unit 93 Presence information display unit 94 Presence information display unit 95 Communication control unit 96 Presence information display Device 97 Display section of telephone record in absence 101 Coordinate-name-phone number correspondence section 102 Occupancy information reference section 103 Dial section 104 Dial signal 105 Coordinate value 111 Reception record Part 131 presence information generation unit 132 unattended scheduled recording unit 133 presence information generation unit 134 presence information display unit 135 presence information display unit 136 presence information display device 137 communication control unit 138 communication control unit

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A means for determining whether or not a person is present or absent at each seat by processing an image of a plurality of people's seats in an office or the like, and a presence or absence of the judged presence or absence. A means to transfer information, a means to display the presence or absence of each seat person based on the transferred presence information, and a specific person from the displayed people A dialing processing method comprising means and means for transmitting a dial signal of a telephone number corresponding to a designated person. 2. The dialing processing method according to claim 1, further comprising means for recording and displaying that a telephone call was made while the user was absent. 3. The dialing processing method according to claim 1, further comprising means for recording / presenting a schedule of leaving the seat.