JPH06326759A - Telephone device with image recognizing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily and accurately dial a telephone number displayed on the screen of a television device, etc. CONSTITUTION:A video signal which is outputted from the television device or a VTR device is inputted, and data of one optional picture included in the video signal is read by a video signal reading device 1, which finds image data from the read video data and develops the data on an image memory 11. An image recognition device 5 discriminates and recognize the image data on the image memory and converts the data into telephone number data. This telephone number is dialed by placing a telephone device 8 in operation by a telephone controller 7 to prevent an operator from mireading the telephone number and further misdialing the telephone number owing to input misoperation.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention uses a video signal output from a television set or a VTR device as an input, and an image recognition function capable of automatically calling a telephone number on an arbitrary screen included in the video signal. Telephone device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional telephone device, when making a call to a telephone number provided on a television or the like, an operator visually reads the telephone number displayed on the television screen or is provided with voice guidance. First, the operator recognizes the telephone number, and then the recognized telephone number,
A telephone call was made by manually inputting using a telephone number input device such as a dial device attached to the telephone device.

[0003]

However, in the above device, the telephone number displayed on the screen of the television or guided by voice is read by the operator or heard by the operator to obtain the telephone number. I made a phone call by recognizing it and using the phone number input device such as a dial device attached to the phone device to make a phone call. Is likely to make a mistake in entering the phone number due to an error in the operation of the phone number input device, or even make a call to the phone number displayed on the TV screen after the display of the phone number disappeared from the TV screen. In some cases, the telephone number is input by the memory of the operator, which is one of the major factors that cause an error in dialing the telephone number.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems, prevents the operator from making a mistake in reading or listening to a telephone number, and making a mistake in making a call due to a mistake in inputting the telephone number, and also displays the telephone number displayed on the screen of the television or the like. By eliminating the need for a series of operations, such as reading a phone number, listening to a telephone number that is guided by voice from a TV, and entering the read or heard telephone number into the telephone device using the telephone number input device, The purpose is to realize a simpler operating environment for the operation to apply the power.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a video signal reading device which receives a video output signal of a television device or a VTR device as an input and reads an arbitrary one screen contained in the video signal, and A display control device that develops image data for one screen developed by a video signal reading device into display data, an image display device that displays the display data developed by the display control device, and a telephone of the image data. A coordinate input device for designating and inputting a region where numbers are displayed, and a telephone number included in the region designated by the coordinate input device out of the image data sent from the video signal reading device. An image recognition device to be sought, a telephone number display device for displaying a telephone number recognized by the image recognition device, and a transmission from the image recognition device. A telephone control device for making a call to a destination telephone number, a telephone device controlled by the telephone control device, an operation input device for performing various operation inputs, and an image memory for storing image data and various display image information And having.

[0006]

According to the present invention, a video signal output from a television device or a VTR device is used as an input, and data of one screen included in the video signal is read by the video signal reading device and read by the video signal reading device. Image data is obtained from the image data, developed on the image memory, the image data on the image memory is identified and recognized by the image recognition device, and converted into telephone number data. By operating the telephone device by the telephone control device to make a telephone call to the telephone number, it is possible to prevent the operator from making a mistake in reading or listening to the telephone number, or making a mistake in inputting the telephone number, and at the same time, in the TV. A series of operations such as reading the telephone number displayed on the screen of the device, listening to the telephone number that is announced by voice from a television, etc., and inputting the read or heard telephone number into the telephone device using the telephone number input device. By eliminating the need for operations, an easier operating environment for making phone calls is realized.

That is, it becomes possible to make a call accurately and quickly with a simple operation for the telephone number displayed on the screen of the television device.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of a telephone device with an image recognition function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a television set or a VTR.
A video signal reading device for inputting a video output signal of the device and reading an arbitrary one screen included in the video signal, 2
Is a display control device for developing one screen of image data developed by the video signal reading device 1 into display data, 3
Is an image display device for displaying the display data developed by the display control device 2, 4 is a coordinate input device for designating and inputting an area in which the telephone number is displayed in the image data, and 5 is a video signal. Of the image data sent from the reading device 1, an image recognition device for obtaining a telephone number included in the area designated by the coordinate input device 4, and 6 is a telephone for displaying the telephone number recognized by the image recognition device 5. A number display device, 7 is a telephone control device for making a call to the telephone number destination sent from the image recognition device 5, 8 is a telephone device controlled by the telephone control device 7, 9 is a telephone line, and 10 is various operations. An operation input device 11 for inputting is an image memory for storing image data and various kinds of display image information.

FIG. 2 shows a concrete connection configuration diagram of the telephone device with an image recognition function of FIG. 1. The same functional blocks as those in FIG. 1 are designated by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof will be omitted.

Here, 12 is image data on the image display device 3, 13 is character data (telephone number), 14 is an abbreviated number data storage area, 15 is a speed dial function, and 16 is a television device.

The operation of the telephone device with an image recognition function configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 2, when the operator wants to call the telephone number displayed on the screen of the television device 16, he / she operates the operation input device 10 to instruct the device to read the telephone number.

This device starts the video signal reading device 1 by operating the operation input device 10, develops the image displayed on the screen of the television device 16 at that time on the image memory 11, and , The contents of the screen are displayed on the image display device 3 through the display control device 2.

After confirming the contents displayed on the image display device 3, the operator uses the coordinate input device 4 to instruct the image recognition device 5 of the image data 12 in the range to be recognized as a telephone number from the image data. ·input.

The image recognition device 5 performs image recognition by using the image data 12 within the range designated by the coordinate input device 4 among the image data on the image memory 11 as a telephone number,
After being converted into character data (telephone number) 13, it is sent to the telephone control device 7 and the telephone number display device 6.

The telephone number display device 6 displays the received character data 13 as a destination telephone number. Further, the telephone control device 7 causes the telephone device 8 to temporarily register the received character data 13 as a destination telephone number in the abbreviated number data storage area 14 and use the abbreviated dial function 15 to automatically make a call. Send a control signal. The telephone device 8 automatically calls the abbreviated telephone number temporarily registered in the abbreviated number data storage area 14 in accordance with the control signal sent from the abbreviated dial function 15.

By the procedure described above, it becomes possible to make a correct call to the telephone number displayed on the screen of the television device or the like by a simple operation.

[0020]

As described above, the telephone device with the image recognition function of the present invention converts / reads the image data displayed on the television or the like into the image data by using the image data reading device, and calls the image recognition device. A telephone device that is error-free and easy to use is provided by automatically dialing a telephone number that has identified and recognized the number.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of a telephone device with an image recognition function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a specific connection diagram of the telephone device with an image recognition function of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Video signal reading device, 2 ... Display control device,
3 ... Image display device, 4 ... Coordinate input device, 5 ... Image recognition device, 6 ... Telephone number display device, 7 ... Telephone control device, 8 ... Telephone device, 9 ... Telephone line, 10 ... Operation input device, 11 ... Image Memory, 12 ... Image data, 13
… Character data (telephone number), 14… Abbreviated number data storage area, 15… Speed dial function, 16… Television device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A video signal reading device for inputting a video output signal of a television device or a VTR device and reading an arbitrary one screen included in the video signal, and image data for one screen developed by the video signal reading device. A display control device for expanding the display data into display data, and an image display device for displaying the display data expanded by the display control device,
Of the image data, a coordinate input device for designating and inputting a region where a telephone number is displayed, and a region designated by the coordinate input device of the image data sent from the video signal reading device. An image recognition apparatus for obtaining a telephone number included in the image recognition apparatus, a telephone number display apparatus for displaying the telephone number recognized by the image recognition apparatus, and a telephone control for making a call to a telephone number destination sent from the image recognition apparatus. Device, a telephone device controlled by the telephone control device, an operation input device for performing various operation inputs, and an image memory for storing image data and various display image information, with an image recognition function Telephone device.