JPH0591179A - Communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability at dialing by a dialer. CONSTITUTION:A picture memory 13 stores a picture to be displayed onto 9 division display areas resulting from a display area of a display device 10 to be divided, and displayed on the display device 10 via a picture SW11. A different transmitter corresponding to each identification number is stored to each page of a telephone number memory 21. When the operator observes a picture displayed on the display device 10 and identification number information 18 is entered from a ten-key 17, a telephone number memory control circuit 19 references page display information 16 entered from a picture memory control circuit 14 to obtain a storage address of the telephone number read from the telephone number memory 21 and outputs the result as read address designation information 20. Then the telephone number information 22 is read from the telephone number memory 21 and transferred to a dial register 23a of a call control section 23 and the call control section 23 makes a call to a telephone number represented by the telephone number information 22.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication device having a dialing function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As an essential function of a communication device such as a telephone accommodated in a public NW, there is a dial function for designating a telephone number of the other party.

The basic dialing method that has been used for a long time is a method of directly inputting the telephone number of the other party by using a dial key or a numeric keypad. Although this method has the feature that you can enter any phone number, you need to enter a number with a large number of digits for input, so even if you call someone you often call, you can use the same number of times. I had to re-enter.

As a method of remedying this drawback, one-touch dials, speed dials, etc. have been devised and put to practical use. In these methods, the telephone number is stored in the memory in advance in association with the identification number, and one of a plurality of keys corresponding to the specially prepared identification number is pressed (one-touch dial) or the numeric keypad is used. By directly inputting the identification number (speed dial), the telephone number of the other party can be read from the memory and the read telephone number can be called, simplifying the dial operation to the registered party. ing.

[0005]

On the other hand, among recent communication devices, those which can display a natural image in a communication device and a data terminal which mutually transmit a natural image such as a still image telephone and a videophone are popular. I am doing it. Even in these communication devices, the dial operation prior to the communication actually follows the conventional dial method, and the natural image display function of the communication device is not fully utilized during dialing.

An object of the present invention is to provide a communication device having improved operability when dialing.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a communication device of the present invention comprises a display device for displaying an image,
An image memory for storing at least one screen image corresponding to an identification number assigned to each divided display area, and an image memory for storing each image to be displayed in a plurality of divided display areas of the display device. Correspondingly, a telephone number memory for storing different telephone numbers, an identification number designating means for designating one of the identification numbers, and a control for reading the telephone number of the identification number designated by the identification number designating means from the telephone number memory. And a call number memory control circuit, and the call control unit makes a call to the telephone number read from the telephone number memory.

[0008]

In the present invention, since the familiar image such as the home or office of the other party or the face of the other party is displayed on the display device at the time of one-touch dialing, the other party can be selected intuitively and quickly (hereinafter, Visual one-touch dial).

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

Recent communication devices such as ISDN telephones and TV telephones set the telephone number of the other party in the dial register of the call control unit of the communication device and set a trigger by some method to set the dial register in the dial register. The set telephone number is read out and the calling operation is started. There are various methods for this trigger. For example, in the preset dial of a telephone, the calling operation is started by pressing the confirmation button after inputting the telephone number. Further, in the manual dialing, the operation state of the ten-key pad for dialing after starting the dialing operation is monitored, and the calling operation is started when the ten-key pad is not pressed for a certain period of time. Further, in the related one-touch dial of the present invention, the telephone number corresponding to the pressed key of the plurality of one-touch keys is read from the telephone number memory and set to the dial register to immediately start the calling operation. It has become. Therefore, in the present invention, in order to simplify the explanation, the explanation is given up to the setting of the telephone number of the other party in the dial register of the call control unit of the communication device, and the subsequent control is performed by the call control unit as described above. Method.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a communication device according to a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a correspondence between a display screen dividing method and an identification number, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an image memory 13 in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the writing method of an image.

The number of divisions of the display screen of the display device 10 is 9 in this embodiment (the same applies to the following embodiments), and as shown in FIG. 9 is attached to each. The image SW11 is set on the contact 11a side when the communication device having the display device 10 operates normally, and the contact 11b at the time of visual one-touch dialing.
Set on the side. When it is set on the contact 11a side, when the communication device is a TV phone, the received image or the monitor image of the self image is input. The switching button 12 is a switching button for switching between an operating state as a normal communication terminal and an operating state of the visual one-touch dial. The state of the F / F (flip-flop) 25 is inverted every time it is pressed, and the image switching S is performed.
The state of W11 is reversed every time the switching button 12 is pressed.
The image memory 13 stores images at the time of visual one-touch dialing, and is controlled by the image memory control circuit 14. The screen selection button 15a is a button for returning the screen displayed on the display device 10 to the image on the previous page, and the screen selection button 1
A button 5b advances the screen displayed on the display device 10 to the image of the next page. The image memory control circuit 14 is F / F2.
The output 5 outputs the page display information 16 for displaying the page number of the image output by the image memory 13 while the state of the image SW 11 is controlled to the contact 11b side. Numeric keypad 17
Is for inputting the identification numbers 1 to 9 of the divided display areas 1 to 9 (identification number designating means), and outputs the identification number information 18 by operating the ten keys 17. The telephone number memory control circuit 19 outputs the read address designation information 20 of the telephone number memory 21. The telephone number memory 21 outputs telephone number information 22 based on the read address designation information 20. The call control unit 23 includes a dial register 23a in which the telephone number information 22 is set, and outputs the communication display information 24 while the call control unit 23 is in the communication control state. Output period is F /
F25 is reset and the image switching SW is fixed to the contact 11a side.

For the sake of explanation, it is assumed that the images corresponding to the identification numbers 1 to 9 are already stored in the image memory 13 for each of the divided display areas 1 to 9. For example, as shown in FIG. 3 (a), a master 100 is created by attaching a photograph or the like corresponding to each of the divided display areas 1 to 9 to the panel. As shown in FIG.
It is possible to store a desired image in the image memory 13 by capturing a signal of one screen of the output image signal in the image memory 13 and storing the image signal in the image memory 13.

The image SW11 is controlled by the state of the F / F25, and is set to the contact 11a side in a normal state other than the visual one-touch dial mode. Further, the F / F 25 operates so as to set the image SW11 to the contact 11a side by the communication display information 24 output during the communication period by the call control unit 23. Therefore, the operation of the switching button 12 is invalid during communication. On the other hand, the output state of the F / F 25 (control state of the image SW11)
Is also input to the image memory control circuit 14. The image memory control circuit 14 stops the operation when the output state of the F / F 25 sets the image SW 11 to the contact 11a side, and also stops the output of the page display information 16. The telephone number memory control circuit 19 stops its operation while the page display information 16 output from the image memory control circuit 14 is stopped, and ignores the identification number information 18 input from the ten-key pad 17. Through the above series of operations, when the image SW 11 is set on the contact 11a side, the image memory control circuit 14 and the telephone number memory control circuit 19 stop operating, and the operation of the screen selection buttons 15a and 15b and the ten key 17 is performed. Are ignored and useless information is prevented from being input to the dial register 23a of the call control unit 23. Also, F / F25
Thus, the operation of the switching button 12 is ignored during communication, and it is prevented that an unnecessary image for a visual one-touch dial is displayed during communication.

Next, in a state where communication is not in progress, the image SW11
When the switch button 12 is pressed while the contact point is set to the contact 11a, the state of the F / F 25 is reversed, and the image SW11
Is switched to the contact 11b side and the visual one-touch dial mode is set. Therefore, the image memory 1
The image read from 3 is input to the display device 10, and a screen for visual one-touch dial, for example, FIG. 3A is displayed on the display device 10. This screen is a still image when the image memory 13 is a still image memory, and a moving image when the image memory 13 is a moving image memory, but a still image memory is generally sufficient. Further, the image memory 13 may be capable of storing an image for one screen, but may be capable of storing a plurality of screens. By using the image memory capable of storing a plurality of screens as the image memory 13, the operation which has been conventionally a speed dial due to the limitation of the number of selection buttons can be realized as a one-touch dial. The page display information 16 output from the image memory control circuit 14 is the image memory 13
Is a state display signal indicating which page of the screen of the image memory 13 is being displayed when a plurality of screens can be stored. The selection of the plurality of screens is performed by the screen selection buttons 15a and 15b. For example, when the screen selection button 15b is pressed, the image memory control circuit 1
4 designates a page obtained by adding 1 to the page number of the image that has been read out in the image memory 13. The image memory 13 is controlled to reproduce the image of the page designated by this page designation. At this time, the page display information 16 output from the image memory control circuit 14 is also changed to the one indicating the number designated in the image memory 13 at the same time. Also, screen selection button 1
When 5a is pressed, the page selection of the image memory control circuit 14 is reduced by 1 to the previous page, and the screen selection button 1
The same operation as in the case of 5b is performed. Further, when the image memory control circuit 14 designates the reading of the last page of the image memory 13, if the screen selection button 15b is pressed, it is ignored, or one page is designated and the ring-shaped control is performed. To do. Similarly, when the screen selection button 15a is pressed during the designation of one page, this is ignored, or the final page is designated and either one of the ring-shaped controls is performed.

The telephone number memory control circuit 19 is a numeric keypad 1
When the identification number information 18 is input from 7, the page display signal 16 input from the image memory control circuit 14 is referred to, the storage address of the telephone number to be read is obtained from the telephone number memory 21, and the read address designation information is obtained. Output as 20. When the telephone number memory 21 detects the read address designation information 20, it reads the telephone number of the corresponding address and transfers the telephone number information 22 to the dial register 23a of the call control unit 23. The method of storing the telephone number in the telephone number memory 21 is as shown in FIG.
From the above description, it is clear that the structure can be specified by the page number specified by and the identification number specified by the identification number information 18.

As is apparent from the above description, the operation of the ten-key pad 17 is to select the display screen displayed on the display device 10, for example, one of the nine display screens shown in FIG. Keys "1" to "9" are provided corresponding to the divided display areas 1 to 9 shown in FIG. "1" to "9" on the ten-key pad 17 indicate the state of this arrangement. It is possible to provide a dedicated numeric keypad as the numeric keypad 17, but it is also possible to use a touch panel or a general numeric keypad for dialing.

When the image memory has one screen, it goes without saying that the screen selection buttons 15a and 15b are unnecessary, but the image memory control circuit 14 is also unnecessary. When omitting the image memory control circuit 14, the F / F2 is used instead of the page display information 16 input to the telephone number memory control circuit 19.
The output of No. 5 is input to the telephone number memory control circuit 19 so that the identification number information 18 by operating the numeric keypad 17 when the visual one-touch dial mode is not set can be ignored. Further, since the read address to the telephone number memory 21 has a one-to-one correspondence with the identification number, the portion for obtaining the storage address in the telephone number memory control circuit 19 is simplified.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the essential parts of a dial device according to the second embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is an example in which a transparent touch sensor 26 is used in place of the numeric keypad 17,
A touch sensor control circuit 27 that receives the output of the touch sensor 26 and outputs the identification number information 18 is provided. As shown in FIG. 5, the touch sensor 26 is attached to the entire display surface of the display device 10, and an image displayed on the display device 10 is viewed through the touch sensor 26. The touch sensor 26 is divided into areas corresponding to the divided display areas 1 to 9 shown in FIG. 2, and the identification number 1 corresponds to each area.
9 (illustrated as (1) to (9) in FIG. 5) are attached. The touch sensor control circuit 27 determines which divided area the position information indicating the touched position, which is output from the touch sensor 26, belongs to, and outputs the corresponding identification number as the identification number information 18, and the telephone number. Input to the memory control circuit 19. Other operations are the same as those in the first embodiment. According to this embodiment, the identification number can be input quickly and without error. FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a dial device according to a third embodiment of the present invention. The present embodiment is an example in which the dial key of the dial communication device is also used as the ten-key for inputting the identification number, and the dial-key changeover switch 30 and the dial key 32 are provided in place of the ten-key 17.

The dial key switch SW30 is normally set on the side of the contact 30a and serves as a key for inputting dial information to the dial register 23a of the call control section 23. The dial key switch SW30 operates in synchronization with the image SW11, the state is determined by the output state of the F / F25 like the image SW11, and is set on the contact 30b side only in the visual one-touch dial mode. The operation information output by the operation of is input to the telephone number memory control circuit 19 as the identification number information 18. In this case, the dial key 32 "0",
Although "*" and "#" are also inputted as the identification numbers, the telephone number memory control circuit 19 ignores these unnecessary information and only "1" to "9" are the valid identification number information 18. Of course. Although not described, unnecessary information from the dial key 32 can be used for other control. In the present invention, the "*" key is used to select the screen selection button 15.
It is also possible to prevent the number of operation keys of the dial device from increasing by using a “#” key instead of the a instead of the screen selection button 15b. Further, it is obvious that the touch panel 26 described above can be used for other purposes other than the visual one-touch dial mode by performing the same switching as the dial key switching SW 30. According to this embodiment, the number of parts of the communication device is reduced,
Therefore, the cost is also reduced.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of a dial device according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is an example in which a mouse is used to output the identification number, and the superimpose circuit 4
0, marker generation circuit 41, coordinate control circuit 42, mouse 4
3 is provided instead of the numeric keypad 17.

When the mouse 43 (positional information generating means) is moved, the positional information 4 indicating whether the mouse 43 is moved up, down, left or right
4 is output. When the click button of the mouse 43 is clicked, click information 45 is output. The coordinate control circuit 42 manages the position of the marker 46 displayed on the display device 10 and outputs the marker position information 47 for moving the marker 46 in the direction indicated by the input position information 44. When the click information 45 is input, the identification number of the divided display area corresponding to the position of the marker 46 is output as the identification number information 18. This coordinate control circuit 42
It is sufficient to manage the position of the marker 46 of FIG. 2 by the position management corresponding to the nine divided display areas 1 to 9 shown in FIG. 2, and the marker position information 47 output to the marker generation circuit 41 also includes the identification numbers 1 to 9. It is possible to use. In this case, when the position of the marker 46 is, for example, the position of the identification number 5 (see FIG. 2 below), if the position information 44 from the mouse 43 indicates upward movement, the marker position information 47.
Is changed to “2” and the position of the marker 46 is changed to the position of “2”. Similarly, when the position information 44 indicates the movement to the left, the marker position information 47 is changed to "4" and the position of the marker 46 is changed to the position "4". However, when the position of the marker 46 is managed at the position of the identification number 9, if the position information 44 indicates rightward or downward, the input is ignored and the state is not changed. .. The same applies when the position of the marker 46 is another position. Next, when the click information 45 is input to the coordinate control circuit 42 from the mouse 43, the identification number of the divided display area corresponding to the position of the marker 46 managed by the coordinate control circuit 42 at that time is set as the identification number. It is output as information 18 and input to the telephone number memory control circuit 19.

The marker generation circuit 41 uses the marker position information 47.
At the position corresponding to the marker 4 in the divided display area whose identification number is the number indicated by the marker position information 47 in the above example.
A marker pattern is generated so that 6 is displayed and is input to the superimpose circuit 40. Superimpose circuit 4
At 0, the marker pattern from the marker generation circuit 41 is superimposed on the image signal from the image memory 13 and displayed on the display device 10. In addition, this superimpose circuit 40 is F /
The operation state is controlled by the output of F25, and the above-mentioned marker is superimposed only when the state is in the visual one-touch dial mode to prevent the marker 46 from being displayed during other states such as during communication. There is. In addition, FIG.
Although the marker 46 is illustrated by an arrow in this example, the shape of the marker 46 only needs to know which of the divided display areas is selected when the click information 45 is generated by clicking the mouse 43. Of course, a rectangular frame or the like surrounding the divided display area may be used. According to the present embodiment, since the marker 46 is displayed so as to be superimposed on the image, the identification number can be input without error.

In the above description, the position information 44 and the click information 45 are generated by the mouse 43, but other methods are also possible. For example, the position information 44 may be generated by a joystick, a confirmation button may be provided, and the click information 45 may be generated when the confirmation button is pressed.
It is also possible to provide up, down, left, and right arrow keys instead of the joystick, and thereby generate the position information 44. Further, similarly to the description of FIG. 6, the dial key of the dial device is switched to, for example, “4”,
The purpose can also be achieved by considering the dial buttons “6”, “2”, and “8” as the operation buttons of “left”, “right”, “up”, and “down” and also using them as dial keys. .. Further, the coordinate control circuit 42 inputs the confirmation information 48 to the marker generation circuit 41 at the time when the click information 45 is input from the mouse 43, and the marker generation circuit 41 is displaying from the time when the confirmation information 48 is input. It is also possible to change the display method (color, shape, etc.) of the marker 46. As a result, it is possible to visually confirm that the other party to call is surely selected.

As is clear from the above description, according to the above embodiment, it is intuitive from the image of the house or person (illustrated in FIG. 3A) showing the characteristics of the communication partner displayed on the display device 10. You can select a communication partner. When the transparent touch sensor 26 is used as shown in the example of FIG. 5, a person who wants to talk can be called by touching and displaying the displayed image itself with a finger.

Although the above embodiment provides great convenience as described above, it is often used by a plurality of people such as family members and colleagues in the home or office. In this case, it is expected that depending on the user, the other party cannot be identified only by the displayed image.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a dial device according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention which solves this problem. In this embodiment, a telephone number information editing circuit 55 is newly provided,
A telephone number memory control circuit 50 and a telephone number memory 53 are provided instead of the telephone number memory control circuit 19 and the telephone number memory 21.

In the present embodiment, the parts given the same numbers as in FIG. 1 operate exactly the same as in the embodiment of FIG. Further, the superimposing circuit 40 operates exactly the same as the embodiment shown in FIG. In order to simplify the description, only different operation parts will be described below. The page output from the image memory control circuit 14 when the visual one-touch dial mode is entered by operating the switching button 12 or when the page of the image read out from the image memory 13 is changed by operating the screen selection buttons 15a or 15b. The display content of the display information 16 changes. The telephone number memory control circuit 50 sets, as the page telephone number information 54, a set of telephone number information corresponding to the page displayed by the page display information 16 each time the display content of the page display information 16 changes. The page telephone number transfer instruction information 52 for giving an instruction to transfer to the editing circuit 55 to the telephone number memory 53 is output, and the telephone number memory 53 is instructed. The page telephone number transfer instruction information 52 is a storage address and a readout instruction of nine sets of telephone numbers for each of the divided display areas 1 to 9 corresponding to the page of the screen being displayed. The telephone number memory 53 reads out the designated telephone number based on the page telephone number transfer instruction information 52 from the telephone number memory control circuit 50, and transfers it to the telephone number information editing circuit 55 as page telephone number information 54. The structure of the telephone number memory 53 is almost the same as that shown in FIG. 4, but as shown in FIG. 9, it has a remarks column such as the name of the other party corresponding to each telephone number shown in FIG. Different from The telephone number information editing circuit 55 edits the telephone numbers and remarks for each of the divided display areas 1 to 9 based on the page telephone number information 54 transferred from the telephone number memory 53, and displays them in a display pattern for superimposing display on the display screen. The converted signal is input to the superimposing circuit 40, superimposed on the image signal from the image memory 13 and input to the display device 10 for display. The operation state of the superimpose circuit 40 is controlled by the output state of the F / F 25, and the display pattern described above is superimposed only when the state is the visual one-touch dial mode, as in the case of the embodiment of FIG. is there. FIG. 10 shows the telephone number information editing circuit 5
5 shows an example of a display pattern edited in 5. This example exemplifies the divided display area 200 with the identification number 1. For each display area, the identification number is displayed in the portion 200a, a note such as a name is displayed in the portion 200b, and the telephone number is displayed in the portion 200c. An example is shown. In this way, by displaying the telephone number, the name of the other party, etc. corresponding to each of the displayed images, the display contents for each of the divided display areas 1 to 9 displayed on the display device 10 even when the images cannot be identified by the images alone. This makes it possible to recognize the other party more reliably.

The operations of the telephone number memory control circuit 50 and the telephone number memory 53 after the subsequent operation of inputting the identification number by the ten-key pad 17 are completely the same as the operations of the telephone number memory control circuit 19 and the telephone number memory 21 in the embodiment of FIG. Is the same.

Next, when the telephone number memory control circuit 50 outputs the read address designation information 20 corresponding to the identification number information 18 selected by the operation of the ten keys 17,
The selected identification number information 18 is input to the telephone number information editing circuit 55 as the selected identification number information 51, and the telephone number information editing circuit 55 superimposes it on the divided display area corresponding to the input selected identification number information 51. It is also possible to change the display method, for example, the display color, of all the identification numbers, remarks, and telephone numbers that are present, or a part thereof. As a result, it is possible to visually confirm which one of the displayed opponents has been selected, so that the convenience can be further improved.

In the above description, the telephone number memory control circuit 5
When the identification number information 0 is input by operating the ten-key pad 17, the read address designation information 20 is output and the telephone number is transferred from the telephone number memory 53 to the dial register 23a of the call control unit 23. It is also possible to provide the read address designation information 20 corresponding to the identification number selected at that time when the confirmation button is pressed. By doing so, it becomes possible to confirm the selected partner and make a call. This function will be described with reference to FIG.
Further, the identification number designating means by the touch panel 26 described in the embodiment of FIG. 5 and the identification number designating means which also functions as the dial key 32 described in the embodiment of FIG.
It is obvious that the above embodiment can be used as it is. Further, the identification number designating means described in the embodiment of FIG. 7 also inputs the output of the marker generating circuit 41 in FIG. 7 as the input of the superimposing circuit 40 in FIG. 8 together with the output of the telephone number information editing circuit 55. This makes it easy to use.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram of a dial device according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention. The present embodiment shows another example of the identification number designating means in the embodiment of FIG. The operation of each part in this embodiment is the telephone number information editing circuit 55.
The operation is exactly the same as that of the embodiment shown in FIGS. That is, when the visual one-touch dial mode is switched by operating the switching button 12, different images are displayed on the display device 10 for each of the divided display areas 1 to 9, and the divided display area 1 corresponds to the images of the divided display areas. As described in the embodiment of FIG. 8, the telephone numbers and the remarks are displayed in a superimposed manner for every 9 items.
Further, the coordinate control circuit 42 determines the coordinate position of the marker on the basis of the coordinate information 44 input from the mouse 43 and outputs it as the marker position information 47, as described in the embodiment of FIG. The marker position information 47 in this embodiment is most conveniently the identification number of the divided display area.

The telephone number information editing circuit 55 determines which of the divided display areas the position indicated by the marker position information 47 input from the coordinate control circuit 42 is, and only the corresponding divided display area has the telephone number. Change the display method of or remarks, for example, display color.

In the embodiment of FIG. 7, the marker display is used to indicate which of the divided display areas is confirmed by clicking the mouse 43.
In this embodiment, the display method such as the telephone number and the display color of the remarks that are superimposed and displayed in the corresponding divided display area is changed. Therefore, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 11, when the mouse 43 is clicked, a partner displayed in a divided display area whose display color is different from the others is selected, and the coordinate control circuit 42 determines that the corresponding divided display area has an identification number. It is output as the identification number information 18 and input to the telephone number memory control circuit 50. The subsequent operation is exactly the same as that of the embodiment shown in FIG. According to this embodiment, it is possible to visually confirm the selected partner.

In this embodiment, a confirm button is provided instead of the mouse 43, click information 45 is generated by operating this button, and coordinate information 44 can be made by a joystick or arrow keys. 7
Is as described in the embodiment.

In the above description, the change of the display color or the like of the confirmed divided display area is input from the telephone number memory control circuit 50 to the telephone number information editing circuit 55.
The confirmation information 48 output from the coordinate control circuit 42 described in the embodiment of FIG. 7 is input to the telephone number information editing circuit 55 instead of the selected identification number information 51 to change the display color and the like. Of course, the same function can be realized by further changing the display color of the divided display area.

In the above description of each embodiment, the display method may be changed a plurality of times, but different display methods may be used. For example, first change the white display color to green and then May be changed to red, etc. It is also possible to display an appropriate message at the time of change.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram of a dial device according to the seventh embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the divided display areas 1 to
An image confirmation SW 60, a flip-flop 61, an image confirmation button 62, an image memory write control is an example of a method of storing an image in the image memory 13 in association with a telephone number registered corresponding to each 9 identification number. A circuit 63, a writing button 65, an image reducing circuit 66, a writing image input terminal 67, and a confirmation button 68 are newly provided.

The writing of the telephone number in the telephone number memory 53 is carried out by a conventional telephone having a one-touch dialing function, and there is a conventional technique in which a memo such as a name can be written corresponding to the telephone number. Therefore, it is possible to write the necessary information in the telephone number memory 53 prior to writing the image by the conventional technique. It is assumed that the necessary information has already been written and stored in the telephone number memory 53 by such a conventional technique.

In FIG. 12, the parts with the same numbers as in FIG. 8 operate exactly the same as in the embodiment of FIG. However, the telephone number memory control circuit 50 is of a type in which the read address designation information 20 is output when the confirmation button 68 is pressed, as described in the description of FIG. That is, the telephone number memory control circuit 50 only outputs the selected identification number information 51 when the numeric keypad 17 is operated and the identification number information 18 is input. Next, confirm button 68
When is pressed, the read address obtained from the identification number information 18 and the page display information 16 output by the last operation of the numeric keypad 17 before the press is output as the read address designation information 20, and the telephone number memory 53 controls the call. The telephone number information 22 is transferred to the dial register 23a of the section 23. Therefore, the identification number to be selected can be freely changed by operating the ten-key pad 17 until the confirmation button 68 is pressed. As a matter of course, when the ten key 17 is operated before the confirmation button 68 is pressed, the selected identification number information 51 is also changed to the corresponding identification number according to the identification number information 18.

The image confirmation SW 60 is a writing image input terminal 67.
For confirming the image input to the contact 60a, which is normally set on the contact 60a side, and is input to the write image input terminal 67 when the image confirmation button 62 is pressed to set on the contact 60b side. , An image from a VTR or a television camera can be confirmed on the display device 10.

The F / F 61 reverses its state each time the image confirmation button 62 is operated, and controls the state of the image confirmation SW 60.
Similar to the F / F 25, the F / F 61 uses the communication display information 24 from the call control unit 23 to display an image confirmation switch during communication.
It is controlled so that 60 is not set on the contact 60b side. When the image confirmation button 62 is pressed while the image confirmation SW 60 is on the contact 60a side in a state other than during communication, the F / F 61 is inverted, and the image confirmation SW 60 has the contact 60.
The image set on the side b and input to the write image input terminal 67 can be confirmed on the display device 10. When the image confirmation button 62 is pressed again, the image confirmation SW 60 moves to the contact 60a side, and the normal state is set. The image reduction circuit 66 reduces the image input to the write image input terminal 67 into an image having the size of the divided display area (1/9 in this example), and inputs the image to the image memory 13. The image memory writing control circuit 63 is a circuit for controlling the position for writing the reduced image on the selected page of the image memory 13, and based on the selection identification number information 51 output from the telephone number memory control circuit 50. To obtain the write area address indicating which area on the screen of the selected page the selected divided display area is,
When the write button 65 is pressed, the obtained write area address is used as the write area address information 64 in the image memory 13
To enter. The image memory writing control circuit 63 has an F /
The output of F61 is input, and the state of F / F61 changes the setting state of the image confirmation SW 60 to the contact 60b side, that is,
Only when the image input from the write image input terminal 67 is in the confirmation state, the above-mentioned writing area address information 64 is output, and the output state of the F / F 61 sets the image confirmation SW 60 to the normal contact 60a side. In the case where the write button 65 is turned on, the pressing operation of the write button 65 is ignored. This prevents writing to the image memory 13 when the write button 65 is inadvertently pressed.

Next, the operation from the normal state in which the image confirmation SW 60 is set on the contact 60a side and the image SW 11 is set on the contact 11a side to writing an image and returning to the normal state will be described.

First, the switching button 12 is operated to set the visual one-touch dial mode. As is apparent from the description of the embodiment of FIG. 8, by this operation, the telephone numbers, names, etc., respectively corresponding to the images in the divided display areas 1 to 9 read from the image memory 13 (see FIG. 10).
Are superimposed and displayed. Of course, among the divided display areas, only the superimposed telephone number, name, etc. are displayed in the area where no image is written. In this state, the screen selection button 15a or 15b is operated to select the screen having the divided display area to be stored.

Next, the ten key 17 is operated to select the identification number of the divided display area to be written. By this operation, the display color or the like of the selected divided display area is changed, and the selected divided display area is visually identified. At this time, the selected identification number information 51 from the telephone number memory control circuit 50 is input to the telephone number information editing circuit 55,
It is also input to the image memory writing control circuit 63. The image memory writing control circuit 63 obtains the writing area address of the image memory 13 based on the selected identification number information 51, and the write button 6
When the effective pressing operation 5 is performed, the write area address information 64 can be output.

Next, the image confirmation button 62 is pressed to set the image confirmation SW 60 on the contact 60b side, and the image input to the write image input terminal 67 is confirmed. By this operation,
The image memory writing control circuit 63 is in a state of identifying the pressing operation of the write button 65 as a valid pressing operation.

The above-mentioned confirmed image (write image input terminal 6
If the (image input to 7) is to be written in the selected divided display area, the write button 65 is pressed. By this operation, the image memory writing control circuit 63
Outputs the already obtained write area address as the write area address information 64. When detecting the input of the write area address information 64, the image memory 13 specifies the image input from the write image input terminal 67 reduced to the size of the divided display area by the image reduction circuit 66 by the write area address. Write in the designated area.

By the above operation, the writing of the image in the designated divided area is completed. The written result is displayed because if the image confirmation button 62 is pressed again and the image confirmation SW 60 is returned to the normal contact 60a side, the image in the image memory 13 returns to the state displayed on the display device 10. The written result can be confirmed by the displayed image. If the writing result is good, the switching button 12 is pressed to return to the normal state and the writing operation is completed. According to this embodiment, since the image reduction circuit 66 and the image memory writing control circuit 63 are included,
The convenience of the device is increased.

The above operation is the same when an image is already written in the designated divided display area, and it is needless to say that the same operation can be performed when changing an image which is already written. is there.

The identification number input method described with reference to FIGS. 5, 6, 7, and 11 can of course be applied to the embodiment of FIG. However, in the example of using the mouse of FIGS. 7 and 11, since the operation similar to the operation of the confirmation button 68 of FIG. 12 is performed by the click button of the mouse, the confirmation button 68 is not provided and the telephone number memory control circuit is not provided. It is more operable to set 50 so that the read address information 20 is output when the identification number information 18 described in the embodiment of FIG. 8 is input.

[0051]

As described above, the present invention has the following effects. (1) According to the invention of claim 1, at the time of one-touch dialing, a familiar image such as the home or office of the other party or the face of the other party is displayed, so that the other party can be visually selected and called by the image. The operability is far superior to the conventional one in which one of a plurality of one-touch dial buttons corresponding to a registered telephone number is selected to make a call. In particular, if it is applied to a communication device for images such as a still image telephone or a videophone, it can be used as a display device, a superimpose circuit, a screen reduction circuit, etc. It is possible to provide an image communication device that matches an image age in the future, in which an image is used from a place where dialing is performed. (2) The invention of claim 2 is an image displaying an identification number corresponding to each divided display area, the name of the other party, a telephone number, etc. at a predetermined position in each area of the divided display area. Since it is displayed by being superimposed on, it is possible to more reliably recognize the other party. (3) According to the third aspect of the invention, since the identification number is input using the transparent touch sensor attached to the entire display screen of the display device, the identification number can be input quickly and without error. (4) In the invention of claim 4, since the dial key is also used as the ten-key for inputting the identification number, the number of parts of the communication device is reduced, and therefore the cost is also reduced. (5) According to the invention of claim 5, the marker is displayed so as to be superimposed on the image, so that the identification number can be input without fail. (6) In the invention of claim 6, since the display format of the marker being displayed is changed from the time when the confirmation information is input, it is possible to visually confirm that the other party to call is selected. (7) The invention according to claims 7 and 8 is such that the identification number, the name of the other party, the telephone number, etc. superimposed on the divided display area indicated by the marker information confirmed by clicking the mouse or pressing the confirmation button are displayed. By changing the display method of all or part of it, you can select the opponent more reliably. (8) The invention according to claim 9 is such that, when one of the identification numbers assigned to the respective divided display areas is designated, the identification number superposed on the divided display area corresponding to the designated identification number,
Since the display method of all or part of the other party's name, telephone number, etc. is changed, the selected other party can be visually confirmed. (9) According to the tenth aspect of the invention, since the image reduction circuit and the image memory writing control circuit are provided as means for storing the image in the image memory, the convenience of the apparatus is increased.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a communication device according to a first embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of division of a display screen and identification numbers of divided display areas.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a method of writing an image in an image memory 13 in the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a logical structure of a telephone number memory 21 in the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a main part of a communication device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a communication device according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of a communication device according to a fourth exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a communication device according to a fifth exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a logical structure of a telephone number memory 53 in the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of a telephone number and the like in the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram of a communication device of a sixth exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram of a communication device according to a seventh embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 to 9 divided display area 10 display device 11 image SW 12 switch button 13 image memory 14 image memory control circuit 15a, 15b screen selection button 16 page display information 17 numeric keypad 18 identification number information 19,50 telephone number memory control circuit 20 read address Specified information 21,53 Telephone number memory 22 Telephone number information 23 Call control section 23a Dial register 24 In-communication display information 25,61 F / F 26 Touch sensor 27 Touch sensor control circuit 30 Dial switch SW 31 Dial information 32 Dial key 40 Super Imposing circuit 41 Marker generating circuit 42 Coordinate control circuit 43 Mouse 44 Position information 45 Click information 46 Marker 47 Marker position information 48 Confirmation information 51 Selection identification number information 52 Page telephone number transfer instruction information 54 Page telephone number information 55 telephone number information editing circuit 62 image confirmation button 63 image memory writing control circuit 64 writing area address information 65 writing button 66 image reducing circuit 67 writing image input terminal 68 confirmation button 100 master 101 TV camera

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. In a communication device having a dialing function, a display device for displaying an image, and an image to be displayed in a plurality of divided display regions of the display device are displayed in each divided display region. An image memory for storing at least one screen corresponding to the assigned identification number, a telephone number memory for storing different telephone numbers corresponding to the respective identification numbers, and an identification number designated by one of the identification numbers And a telephone number memory control circuit for controlling the telephone number of the identification number designated by the identification number designating means to be read from the telephone number memory. The call control section is read from the telephone number memory. A communication device that makes a call to a telephone number. 2. The telephone number memory further stores remarks including the name and the like of the other party corresponding to each telephone number, and the telephone number memory control circuit changes each time the page displaying the page display information changes. An instruction to output a set of telephone number information corresponding to the page as page telephone number information to the telephone number memory, and based on the instruction, based on the page telephone number information output from the telephone number memory, A telephone number information editing circuit that edits a telephone number and remarks for each divided display area and converts the telephone number and remarks into a display pattern for superimposing display with the image read from the image memory, and predesignates each area of the divided display area. The superimposing circuit for superimposing and displaying the identification number, the name of the other party, the telephone number, etc. corresponding to each divided display area on the displayed image. The communication apparatus according. 3. The transparent touch sensor, wherein the identification number designating means is attached to the entire display surface of the display device,
By touching the touch sensor, the position information output from the touch sensor is analyzed to detect the touched position on the display surface of the display device, and the corresponding identification number is obtained from the detected position on the display surface. The communication device according to claim 1, comprising a touch sensor control circuit that determines and outputs. 4. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the identification number designating means is an ordinary dial key. 5. The identification number designating means superimposes the marker generating circuit for generating a marker at a position on the display screen indicated by the marker position information and the marker on the image read from the image memory, and displays the marker. A superimpose circuit to be displayed on the display screen of the device, a position information generating means for generating position information and confirmation information, and the marker information by converting the position information into marker position information which is a position on the display screen of the marker. And a coordinate control circuit which outputs the identification number corresponding to the divided display area in which the marker is located when the confirmation information is input to the circuit and the confirmation information is input from the position information generating means. Item 2. The communication device according to Item 1 or 2. 6. The communication device according to claim 5, wherein the marker control circuit changes the display format of the marker being displayed from the time when the confirmation information is input. 7. The identification number designating means determines a coordinate position of a marker based on position information generating means for generating position information and confirmation information and the position information, and the telephone number information editing circuit as marker position information. And a coordinate control circuit that outputs identification number information to the telephone number memory control circuit, and the telephone number information editing circuit divides the position indicated by the marker position information input from the coordinate control circuit. 3. A method of determining which of the display areas is to be changed and changing the display method of all or part of the identification number, the name of the other party, the telephone number, etc., which are superimposed and displayed in the corresponding divided display area.
The communication device according to 1. 8. The identification number designating means comprises a ten-key or dial key for outputting identification number information to a telephone number memory control circuit, and a confirmation button for outputting confirmation information. The telephone number memory control circuit is operated from the ten-key pad. When the identification number information is input, the input identification number is output to the telephone number information editing circuit as selected identification number information,
When the confirmation information is input, the identification number corresponding to the selected identification number information output to the telephone number information editing circuit is confirmed as the identification number corresponding to the calling party and corresponds to the confirmed identification number. The telephone number editing circuit controls reading the telephone number from the telephone number memory, and the telephone number editing circuit displays all of the identification number, the name of the other party, the telephone number, etc. displayed by weight in the divided display area corresponding to the selected identification number information. The communication device according to claim 2, wherein a display method of a part of the communication device is changed. 9. An identification number of 1 assigned to each divided display area.
The method of displaying all or a part of the identification number, the name of the other party, the telephone number, etc., which are superimposed and displayed in the divided display area corresponding to the specified identification number, is changed when one of them is determined. The communication device according to any one of 5, 7, and 8. 10. An image for reducing an image of an input image signal into an image having a size of the divided display area as means for storing an image in the image memory in association with an identification number of each of the divided display areas. Reduction circuit and the reduced one
The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising an image writing control circuit that stores an image for a screen in a specified divided area of the image memory in association with the identification number.