JPH06121025A - Cordless telephone system with automatic answering function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the cordless telephone system with automatic answering function where miniaturization of a slave machine is not hindered and many information are reported in the slave machine. CONSTITUTION:When state data of a master machine 10 is received by a transmission/reception circuit 40 of a slave machine 30, it is stored in a CPU 44 through a MODEM base band circuit 43. If a state display key in a key matrix 45 is depressed in this state, the CPU 44 drives a speech synthesizing circuit 46 in accordance with contents of the stored state data to output an aural signal. This signal is outputted from a speaker 50 through a speaker amplifier 48.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cordless telephone device having an answering machine function, and more particularly to the state of a base unit, that is,
The present invention relates to a cordless telephone device having an answering function, which is configured to notify the number of stored messages by the answering function, a set state of the answering function and other states by voice in a cordless telephone.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a cordless telephone device having an answering machine function of this kind, a status such as an outside call, an extension call, or an answering machine set of a base unit is displayed by lighting a light emitting diode (LED) of a handset. It is known to do so.

However, the status display by turning on the LED is
Since the amount of information that can be displayed is small, recently, LED devices have been
Liquid crystal display (LC
There is also proposed a cordless telephone device having an answering machine, in which D) and the like are provided and the state of the parent device is displayed using the LCD or the like.

However, the structure for displaying the status of the master unit using the LCD or the like has a problem that the slave unit becomes large and hinders the miniaturization of the slave unit.

[0005]

As described above, since the conventional cordless telephone device having the answering machine uses the LED as the indicator for displaying the state of the master unit, there is a limit to the amount of information that can be displayed. There is a problem that,
In order to avoid this problem, a configuration has been proposed in which an LCD or the like is provided in the child device and the state of the parent device is displayed by this LCD or the like, but in this case, the child device becomes large and the child device is small. There was a problem that it hindered the conversion.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a cordless telephone device having an answering machine function that can notify a large amount of information in a slave unit without hindering miniaturization of the slave unit.

[0007]

To achieve the above object, the present invention comprises a master unit connected to a telephone line and having an answering machine function, and a slave unit connected to the master unit by a wireless line. In a cordless telephone device with an answering machine,
The master unit includes an information transmitting unit that generates information indicating a state of the master unit and transmits the information to the slave unit via the wireless line, and the slave unit uses the information transmitting unit. It is characterized by comprising a notifying means for notifying the state of the master unit by voice based on the information indicating the state of the master unit transmitted from the master unit.

[0008]

The master unit uses the information transmitting unit to generate information indicating the state of the master unit and transmits the information to the cordless telephone via the wireless line. The slave unit uses the notifying unit to transmit the information transmitting unit. By using the information indicating the state of the master unit transmitted from the master unit, the state of the master unit is notified by voice.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a cordless telephone device having an answering machine function according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the base unit 10. In FIG. 1, the base unit 10 is mainly composed of a CPU 6, and further has a telephone circuit 2, an answering machine circuit 3 and a plurality of base unit transmitting / receiving circuits 4 and 4 connected to a line terminal 1 (note that In this embodiment, there are two master transceiver circuits 4. Then, each base transceiver circuit 4,
4 is configured to be able to transmit and receive wireless signals via the transmitting and receiving circuits 40 and 40 of the slaves 30 and 30 and the antennas 7 and 60.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the child device 30. In FIG. 2, the slave unit 30 is mainly composed of a CPU 44, and further, the slave unit transmitting / receiving circuit 40,
Modem baseband circuit 43, key matrix 45,
A handset 51 connected to the modem baseband circuit 43,
Transmitting amplifier 47, transmitter 4 connected to transmitting amplifier 47
9, a speaker amplifier 48, a speaker 50 connected to the speaker amplifier 48, a voice synthesis circuit 46, a power supply circuit 52,
A battery 53 that supplies power to the power supply circuit 52 is provided.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing detailed functions of the CPU 6 in the base unit 10. CPU6 is telephone circuit 2
Telephone circuit control means 20 for controlling the telephone, answering machine circuit control means 21 for controlling the answering machine 3, parent machine transmitting / receiving circuits 4, 4
The wireless transmission / reception circuit control means 22 and the state data control means 23 for controlling

FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram showing detailed functions of the CPU 44 in the handset 30. The CPU 44 controls the silent transmission / reception circuit control unit 24 for controlling the slave unit transmission / reception circuit 40, the modem baseband circuit control unit 25 for controlling the modem baseband circuit 43, the voice synthesis circuit control unit 28 for controlling the voice synthesis circuit 46, and the key matrix 45. It is composed of a key input control means 27 for controlling the, and a state data control / memory means 26.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, the slave unit 30 is initially in a standby state and is in a standby state for receiving status data from the master unit 10 (step 100).

In this state, when the state data control means 23 inside the CPU 6 of the base unit 10 outputs the state data indicating the current state of the base unit 10 from the wireless transmission / reception circuit control means 22, this state data is transmitted to the handset unit. Transmitter / receiver circuit 4 of 30
Received with 0. That is, the status data is received from the parent device (step 110). Then, the status data received by the transmission / reception circuit 40 of the slave unit 30 is demodulated into digital data by the modem baseband circuit 43, and stored in the status data control / memory means 26 via the modem baseband circuit control means 25 in the CPU 44. Remembered.

Next, when a status display key (not shown) in the key matrix 45 is pressed in this state (step 120
YES), the state data stored in the state data control / memory means 26 by the key input control means 27 is sent to the voice synthesis circuit control means 28, and the voice synthesis circuit control means 28 responds to the contents of the sent data. Voice synthesis circuit 4
6 to drive, for example, state data control / memory means 26
The state data stored in the inside is the answering machine 3 of the base unit 10.
Indicates that two messages have been received, the voice synthesizing circuit 46 outputs a voice signal such as "there are two messages". Then, this audio signal is output from the speaker 50 via the speaker amplifier 48 (step 130).

When the status data such as the number of messages is output from the speaker 50 in this way, it is next determined whether or not there is a message in the answering machine 3 of the base unit 10 (step 140).
It is checked whether or not the base unit 10 is in use (step 1
50), when there is a message in the answering machine 3 of the master device 10 (YES in step 140) and the master device 10 is not in use (NO in step 150), the master device 10 and the slave device 30 are automatically linked ( In step 160), the slave transmission / reception circuit 40 and the master transmission / reception circuit 4 automatically exchange data to form a wireless communication path. As a result, the message stored in the answering machine 3 of the base unit 10 is transmitted / received by the transmission / reception circuit 4
Is sent to the transmitter / receiver circuit 40 of the child device via the modem, and the message is output from the speaker 50 via the modem baseband circuit 43 and the speaker amplifier 48 (step 170).

If there is no message in step 140, the process returns to step 110. Also, if there is a message and the base unit is in use, the process returns to step 110 and waits for the end of the use state of the base unit.

If the status display key is not pressed (NO at step 120) and the call key is not pressed (NO at step 180), the status display key is awaited to be pressed, and if the call key is pressed here. Performs a call operation (step 190).

As described above, in this embodiment, the slave unit 30
Stores the state data transmitted from the base unit 10 in the state data control / memory unit 26, and synthesizes a voice signal indicating the state of the base unit 10 based on the state data stored in the state data control / memory unit 26. Since it is formed by the unit 46 and is configured to notify the state of the base unit 10 by voice in addition to the speaker 50, it is not necessary to provide the handset unit 30 with a large display such as an LCD for displaying the state. It becomes possible to notify a lot of information of the base unit 10 without hindering miniaturization of the handset. .

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention, the base unit generates the information indicating the state of the base unit by the information transmitting means and transmits the information to the cordless telephone via the wireless line. Since the slave unit is configured to notify the state of the master unit by voice based on the information indicating the state of the master unit transmitted from the master unit by the information transmitting unit, the slave unit is miniaturized. Therefore, it is possible to provide a cordless telephone device having an answering machine function that can notify a large amount of information in a slave unit without hindering the communication.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a base unit side of a cordless telephone device having an answering machine function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a cordless telephone device having an answering machine according to an embodiment of the present invention on the slave side.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing details of a CPU of the parent device shown in FIG.

4 is a functional block diagram showing details of a CPU of the slave shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of an embodiment to which the present invention is applied.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Line Terminal 2 Telephone Circuit 3 Answering Machine 4 Master Unit Transmitter / Receiver Circuit 6 CPU 10 Master Unit 30 Handset 40 Handset Transmitter / Receiver Circuit 43 Modem Baseband Circuit 44 CPU 45 Key Matrix 46 Voice Synthesis Circuit 47 Speech Amplifier 48 Speaker Amplifier 49 Transmission Speaker 50 Speaker 51 Receiver 52 Power circuit 53 Battery

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A cordless telephone device having an answering machine, comprising a master unit connected to a telephone line and having an answering machine function, and a slave unit connected to the master unit via a wireless line. An information transmission unit that generates information indicating a state of the master unit and transmits the information to the slave unit via the wireless line is provided, and the slave unit is transmitted from the master unit by the information transmission unit. A cordless telephone device having an answering machine, comprising a notifying means for notifying the state of the master unit by voice based on information indicating the state of the master unit.