JPH06245019A - Public line communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To remarkably simplify operability at the time of retrieving, etc., an opposite party number. CONSTITUTION:Before accessing a telephone number retrieving system provided by NTT(Nippon telephone and telegram Co.) as one example of a public line network, an input picture is displayed on a panel part 16 and a user inputs the name and the address of the opposite party whose telephone number is to be inquired. Next, after a line with the center of NTT is connected by calling from a network control part 13, when a command interpreting part 21 executes protocol conversion and ensures a synchronizing state, input data is converted into a JIS code by a data interpreting part 22 and transmitted a data by way of modem 12. When data such as the telephone number. etc., is transmitted from the center of NTT, the piece of data is demodulated by the modem 12 to display a retrieving result on the pannel 16, to automatically transmit it, to register it as auto-dial information, to output it by hard copy, or to register it as an address book and to output it by hard copy.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a public line communication device such as a facsimile machine or a telephone, and more particularly to a public line communication device suitable for a function of making a call using a one-touch dial or an abbreviated number.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a public line communication device such as a facsimile device or a telephone, a one-touch dial or an abbreviated number and a destination number are registered in advance and the destination is operated by operating the one-touch dial key or inputting the abbreviated number. The ability to automatically dial numbers is known. Therefore, the user can make a call without entering a destination number having a long number of digits.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional public line communication device, the destination number must be registered in advance for automatic dialing.
For this registration, it is necessary to search the telephone directory, and in the case of a facsimile, it is necessary to ask by telephone from the other party, so there is a problem that the search and registration operations are troublesome.

In order to improve such operability, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-284051 proposes to optically read a number by a scanner and send a telephone number to a line. The reading operation is complicated,
Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-22672 proposes a facsimile that sends a call to a line using a destination telephone number registered in an electronic notebook, but even in this case, the operation is not easy.

In view of the above conventional problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a public line communication device capable of greatly simplifying the operability when searching for a destination number.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the first means is a decoding means for accessing a telephone number search service provided by a public line network and decoding the telephone number of the other party, and the decoding means. Display means for displaying the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the means.

The second means is characterized in that it comprises means for automatically dialing the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means in the first means.

The third means is characterized in that it comprises means for registering the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means in the first or second means as auto dial information.

The fourth means is characterized in that it comprises means for outputting, as a hard copy, the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means in the first to third means.

A fifth means is characterized in that it comprises means for registering, as an address book, the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means in the first to fourth means.

A sixth means is characterized in that it comprises means for outputting as a hard copy the address book registered by the registration means in the fifth means.

[0012]

With the first means, the destination number can be retrieved using the telephone number retrieval service provided by the public line network, so that the operability when retrieving the destination number is greatly simplified. be able to.

In the second means, since the telephone number search service provided by the public line network can be used to automatically dial the destination number, the operability when calling the destination is greatly simplified. be able to.

In the third means, since the telephone number of the other party can be registered as the auto-dial information by utilizing the telephone number search service provided by the public line network, the trouble of transferring the search result can be omitted. It is also possible to greatly simplify the operability when searching for the other party's number and making a call to the other party.

In the fourth means, the telephone number search service provided by the public line network can be used to output the telephone number of the other party as a hard copy, so that the trouble of copying the search result can be omitted. In addition, the operability when searching for the destination number and calling the destination can be greatly simplified.

In the fifth means, the telephone number search service provided by the public line network is used to register the telephone number of the other party as an address book, so that the trouble of copying the search result can be omitted, and , It is possible to greatly simplify the operability when searching for a destination number and making a call to the destination.

In the sixth means, the telephone number search service provided by the public line network is used to output the address book of the other party's telephone numbers as a hard copy, so that the labor of copying the search results can be omitted. In addition, the operability when searching for the destination number and calling the destination can be greatly simplified.

[0018]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a facsimile apparatus as an embodiment of a public line communication apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a timing chart showing a communication sequence when a telephone number search service provided by a public line network is automatically called. Three
Is a timing chart showing a communication sequence when an automatic call is received from a telephone number search service provided by a public network, FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an input screen of the telephone number search service, and FIG. 5 is an output screen of the telephone number search service. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a hard copy of the telephone number search result.

In FIG. 1, a reading unit for reading an original includes a reading scanning unit 1, a reading processing unit 2, and a reading processing unit 2.
The recording unit configured by the line memory 3 and the line memory control unit 4 for recording an image on recording paper is configured by the recording scanning unit 5, the recording processing unit 6, the line memory 3, and the line memory control unit 4. ing. It should be noted that this embodiment is constructed in full duplex.

The image information read by the reading scanning unit 1 is temporarily transferred to the line memory 3 via the reading processing unit 2.
Stored in the data bus 8 and then read out from the line memory 3 in accordance with the compression mode of the information compression unit (and the decompression unit) 7 to remove the redundancy, and the data bus 8 (and address bus 9).
It is stored in the RAM (random access memory) 10 via the. In this case, the RAM 10 is used as a transmission buffer, the stored image is sent to the data modem 12 via the communication control unit 11 and modulated, and the modulated signal is sent to the line via the network control unit 13.

On the other hand, the image information received via the line is
It is sent to the data modem 12 via the network control unit 13 and demodulated, and the demodulated image data is output to the data bus 8 via the communication control unit 11 and stored in the RAM 10. In this case, the RAM 10 is used as a reception buffer, the accumulated images are sequentially read out, expanded by the information decompression unit (and compression unit) 7, and stored in the line memory 3. Then, it is read from the line memory 3, output to the recording scanning unit 5 via the recording processing unit 6, and recorded on recording paper.

Regarding the image information, the network controller 13
However, the communication control information is read and understood by the communication control unit 11, and transmission control and error control are executed. RAM1 having a non-volatile function when journal information is required
Stored in 0.

A call signal for network control is controlled by the network control unit 13, and image information that does not require information compression or decompression is read by the reading processing unit 2 and the line memory 3.
Can be temporarily stored in the RAM 10 via the data bus 8 or directly output to the outside for image processing and image communication. Further, the image-processed information or the image-synthesized information is directly input, or is superimposed on other image information and temporarily stored in the line memory 3, and is output to the recording scanning unit 5 via the recording processing unit 6. It is also possible to record on a recording paper.
The line memory 3 can be used separately from the information compression unit and the decompression unit 7, and the compressed information can be decompressed and output via the line memory 3 regardless of the reading scan or the recording scan. .

The MPU (microprocessor) 14 performs overall control of the system control of the entire facsimile apparatus, information flow management, communication control, and network control.
The program for this is ROM (Read Only Memory)
It is stored in 15. The main system control is the control related to the man-machine interface by various panel switches of the panel unit 16 and the panel display unit, and the mechanical control of the reading unit and the recording unit by various drivers and sensors of the mechanism control unit 17. It is a related control.

The number of input / output terminals and the control system of the panel section 16 differ greatly depending on the type and type of panel switch and panel display section, and the mechanism control section 17 is mechanical and mechanical in the reading section and the recording section. Although the type and quantity of the driver and the sensor are greatly different depending on the configuration, the control can be performed by the MPU 14. In addition, the DMA controller 18
RAM so that the MPU 14 can perform high-speed processing
Direct access to memory such as 10.

In this embodiment, as an example of a public line network, a telephone number search system (so-called angel line) provided by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is accessed to search the telephone number of the other party. A command interpreting unit 21 and a data interpreting unit 22 are provided. This system called "Angel Line" is one in which a computer provides the so-called "104th telephone number inquiry service" by a conventional operator instead, and is a dedicated terminal for accessing this computer (so-called angel note). And software for various personal computers have been developed.

In this system, the RS232C data transfer system is adopted, and CCITT, V21, 22, 2
The 2bis communication standard (FIGS. 2 and 3) is used. Therefore, since the ordinary facsimile apparatus does not perform the data transfer of this type, the command interpreting unit 2
1 and the data interpreter 22 access this system to retrieve a telephone number.

To explain the operation, first, before accessing, an input screen as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the panel section 16,
The user enters the name and address of the person to inquire for a telephone number. Then, the call from the network control unit 13 causes NT
After connecting the line with the center of T, the command interpreter 21 performs protocol conversion to secure the synchronization state. When the synchronization state is secured, the input data is converted into a JIS code by the data interpretation unit 22, and the modem 1 is set in a predetermined order.
2 to send.

Then, when data such as a telephone number is transmitted from the NTT center, the data is demodulated by the modem 12 and, if necessary, converted by the data interpreter 22 into an internal code unique to this facsimile apparatus. As shown in FIG. 5, the search result is displayed on the panel unit 16. Finally, when the user confirms the search result and supports the line disconnection, the command interpreter 22 and the network controller 13 disconnect the line.

Therefore, according to the above embodiment, the command interpreting unit 21 and the data interpreting unit 22 can retrieve the telephone number of the other party by using the telephone number retrieval system provided by NTT. The operability when searching for a number can be greatly simplified.

Further, it is possible to make a call to the destination number searched as described above, register it as an auto dial such as a one-touch dial or a speed dial, print it by the recording scanning unit 5, or register it as an address book. it can. For example, when transmitting to the destination number, the modem 12 demodulates the search result data received as described above, and if necessary, the data interpreting unit 22 converts the data into an internal code unique to this facsimile apparatus and once. It is stored in the RAM 10.

Next, after the retrieval result is read from the RAM 10 and displayed on the panel section 16 and the line with the NTT center is disconnected, when the user gives an instruction through the panel section 16 to the other party, the other party The number can be dialed by dialing the line from the network control unit 13.

When registering as auto dial, the search result data received as described above is used by the modem 12
Then, the data is interpreted by the data interpreting unit 22 if necessary, and is temporarily stored in the RAM 10 after being converted into an internal code unique to this facsimile apparatus.

Next, when the retrieval result is read from the RAM 10 and displayed on the panel section 16 and the user gives an instruction through the panel section 16 to register the one-touch dial key or the speed dial number and the destination number in association with each other, the RAM 10 is displayed.
Register with. Therefore, when making a call using the auto dial, the information registered in the RAM 10 is stored in the panel unit 16
The number of the other party is read out by operating the one-touch dial key of the panel section 16 or input of the speed dial number, and the number of the other party is automatically dialed by dialing the line from the network control section 13. it can.

Further, the information registered in the RAM 10 is displayed on the panel section 16, and when a print instruction is given, this data is created as raster data and written in the line memory 3,
As shown in FIG. 6, printing can be performed via the recording scanning unit 5. Further, as shown in FIG. 7, a telephone directory memory 23 is added to the configuration shown in FIG. 1 to store telephone directory data including the name, address and telephone number of the other party, and this stored data is displayed on the panel section 16. Alternatively, as shown in FIG.
It is possible to configure to print via.

[0036]

As described above, according to the invention of claim 1, the decryption means for accessing the telephone number search service provided by the public line network to decrypt the telephone number of the other party, and the decryption means Since the display means for displaying the telephone number of the called party is provided, the operability when searching for the called party number can be greatly simplified.

Since the invention according to claim 2 is provided with means for automatically dialing the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means in the invention according to claim 1, the operability when making a call to the other party is improved. It can be greatly simplified.

The invention according to claim 3 is the invention according to claim 1 or 2.
In the invention described in the above, since the means for registering the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means as the auto-dial information is provided, it is possible to save the trouble of copying the search result, and to search the destination number. It is possible to greatly simplify the operability when making a call to the other party.

The invention according to claim 4 is the invention according to claims 1 to 3.
In the invention described above, since the means for outputting the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means as a hard copy is provided, it is possible to save the trouble of copying the search result, and to retrieve the destination number. The operability when making a call to the other party can be greatly simplified.

The invention according to claim 5 is the invention according to claims 1 to 4.
In the invention described above, since the means for registering the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means as the address book is provided, it is possible to save the trouble of transcribing the search result, and to search the destination number. The operability when making a call to the other party can be greatly simplified.

Since the invention according to claim 6 is provided with means for outputting the address book registered by the registration means as a hard copy in the invention according to claim 5, the trouble of transferring the search result can be omitted. In addition, the operability when searching for the destination number and calling the destination can be greatly simplified.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a facsimile apparatus as an embodiment of a public line communication apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a timing chart showing a communication sequence when a telephone number search service provided by a public line network is automatically called.

FIG. 3 is a timing chart showing a communication sequence when an automatic incoming call is received from a telephone number search service provided by a public line network.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an input screen of a telephone number search service.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an output screen of a telephone number search service.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a hard copy of a telephone number search result.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a facsimile apparatus according to a second embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a hard copy of a telephone directory according to the second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 5 recording / scanning unit 10 RAM 12 data modem 13 network control unit 14 MPU 16 panel unit 21 command interpreting unit 22 data interpreting unit 23 telephone directory memory

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. Decoding means for accessing a telephone number search service provided by a public line network to decipher the telephone number of the other party, and display means for displaying the telephone number of the other party deciphered by the deciphering means. Public line communication device equipped with. 2. The public line communication device according to claim 1, further comprising means for automatically dialing the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means. 3. The public line communication device according to claim 1, further comprising means for registering the telephone number of the other party, which is decrypted by the decrypting means, as auto dial information. 4. The public line communication device according to claim 1, further comprising means for outputting a hard copy of the telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means. 5. The public line communication device according to claim 1, further comprising means for registering a telephone number of the other party decrypted by the decryption means as an address book. 6. The public line communication device according to claim 5, further comprising means for outputting the address book registered by the registration means as a hard copy.