JPH07297938A - Composite terminal equipment for voice/data communication - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the compound terminal equipment for voice / data communication equipped with a high display function for facilitating operation confirmation or the like even in the waiting state of a telephone set unit mode. CONSTITUTION:When the power source of a personal computer part 1 is turned on, a telephone set part 2 transmits an open request signal to a protocol control part 11 and after the incoming of an open confirm signal is waited, the waiting state is provided. Next, an application part 12 transmits an open request signal to the protocol control part 11 and after the incoming of an open confirm signal is waited, the waiting state is provided. Afterwards, the application part 12 transmits a time setting request through the protocol control part 11 to the telephone set part 2. The telephone set part 2 displays time data contained in the time setting request on an LCD 251 and afterwards, while counting and updating these time data as an initial value, those updated data are successively displayed on the LCD 251.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a voice / data communication composite terminal device capable of selectively executing voice communication by a telephone unit or voice / data communication by a combined operation of a telephone unit and a personal computer unit. The present invention relates to improvement of information display control for the telephone unit in the single operation mode of the telephone unit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As one of today's communication terminals, a telephone section having at least a display unit and a personal computer section having a communication control function are provided. The telephone section itself performs voice communication, and the telephone section and a personal computer. A composite terminal device for voice / data communication is known, which is capable of performing voice / data communication by combining with a unit.

In this type of apparatus, the personal computer section generally controls a voice / data communication in combination with a protocol control section (abbreviated as PTC) for controlling data transmission / reception in a terminal device and a network and a telephone section. And an application unit (abbreviated as AP) for performing. A display unit such as an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is provided as the telephone unit, and a terminal device having a normal telephone function is used.

In the voice / data communication composite terminal device having such a configuration, power for the telephone unit is supplied from the personal computer unit. When the power of the personal computer is turned on,
Each IPL process (start-up process) of the protocol control unit and the application unit is started. Hereinafter, an example of the power-on process in the conventional device of this type will be described with reference to the control sequence shown in FIG. First, when the power of the personal computer section is turned on, the IPL programs of the telephone section (TEL), protocol control section (PTC) and application section (AP) start. The telephone part is IPL
When started, an "open request" signal is transmitted to the protocol control unit (3a). This "open request"
The protocol control unit that has received the signal then transmits an "open confirmation" signal to the telephone unit (3b). Then, the telephone unit enters the standby state after receiving the "open confirmation" signal.

On the other hand, when the application section starts the IPL, it sends an "open request" signal to the protocol control section (3c). The protocol control unit that has received this "open request" signal then transmits an "open confirmation" signal to the application unit (3d).
Then, the application section confirms this "open confirmation".
Upon receiving the signal, it enters the standby state.

[0006] In this type of apparatus, after the power supply is started up and the standby state is entered as described above, the voice communication by the telephone unit alone or the voice / data communication by the combined operation of the telephone unit and the personal computer unit can be performed. it can. Here, an outline of the voice communication operation in the operation mode (single mode) by the telephone unit alone will be described with reference to the control sequence shown in FIG.

First, when an operation of off-hook or dial input is detected in the telephone unit, a character display of "HASHIN" is displayed on the display (LCD) (S41),
A "call setup request" signal is transmitted to the protocol control unit (4a). Next, when the "call setting acceptance display" signal is received from the protocol control unit 11 (4b), the characters "Yobida Shichu" are displayed on the LCD (S42). Then, when the "call display" signal and the "response display" signal are received from the protocol control unit (4c, 4d), the "response confirmation" signal is transmitted to the protocol control unit (4e) and the "Tsuuuuuuuuuuuu" is displayed on the LCD. Is displayed (S43), the call state is set.

When a disconnection operation is detected in the call state, the characters "sets" are displayed on the LCD (S4
4), a "disconnection request" signal is transmitted to the protocol control unit (4f). After that, when the "release display" signal is received from the protocol control unit (4g), "ready" is displayed on the LCD.
Is displayed (S45), and the process returns to the standby state.

As described above, in the conventional device of this type, the status is displayed on the LCD in the stand-alone mode of the telephone unit in which control by the application unit of the personal computer unit is not involved. In this conventional device, when the telephone unit is in the stand-alone mode, the operation can be confirmed by displaying the state corresponding to the operation when the telephone unit is in the stand-alone mode. Since no information is displayed, it is unavoidable that the display capability is inferior to that of a general telephone from the viewpoint of checking the operation.

[0010]

As described above, in the above-described conventional voice / data communication composite terminal device, in the stand-alone mode of the telephone section without the application section of the personal computer section, the display function that the telephone itself can have is as follows. Only the status display function according to a certain operation, since the information display is not made in the stand-by state of the single unit mode, it can have a display capability inferior to that of a general telephone,
There was a problem that the operation confirmation of the telephone section had to be inaccurate.

The present invention eliminates the above problems and improves the display capability by displaying some information in the stand-alone mode of the telephone unit in the stand-alone mode, thereby making it possible to reliably confirm the operation of voice and data. An object is to provide a composite terminal device for communication.

[0012]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention comprises a telephone unit having at least a display unit and a personal computer unit having a communication control function, and is based on voice communication by the telephone unit alone or by combined operation of the telephone unit and the personal computer unit. In a composite terminal device for voice / data communication capable of selectively performing voice / data communication, the control signal is provided in the personal computer unit and transmits a control signal for displaying specific information to the telephone unit when the operation thereof is started. A control signal transmission means and a specific information display provided on the telephone unit for displaying the specific information on a display based on a control signal from the control signal transmission means and updating the display information with time. And updating means.

[0013]

In the present invention, the IPL when the power of the personal computer is turned on
After the telephone unit is in the standby state due to the processing, the personal computer unit transmits the control information for displaying the specific information to the telephone unit, and the telephone unit displays the specific information on the display based on the control information. After that, the display information is updated as time passes.
According to the configuration of the present invention, for example, the personal computer section sends the time data at the start of operation of the personal computer section to the telephone as the specific information for display, and thereafter, the received time data is sequentially updated as the initial value. By displaying, the display function of time information etc. can be added to the telephone unit even in the stand-by state in the stand-alone mode in which the application unit of the personal computer unit is not involved, and the operation confirmation can be performed more accurately as the display capability is improved. .

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a compound terminal device for voice / data communication according to the present invention,
The personal computer unit 1 is connected to a separate telephone unit 2. In this composite apparatus, the personal computer section 1 is configured to include a protocol control section 11 and an application section 12. Here, the protocol control unit 11 includes the control transmission line interface circuits 111 and 114, the memory 112,
It is composed of a CPU 113, and the application unit 12 is a CP.
It consists of U121 and memory 122.

On the other hand, the telephone section 2 includes a control transmission line interface circuit 21, a memory 22, a CPU 23, a voice control circuit 24, a handset 241 and a speaker 242 controlled by the voice control circuit 24, and an LCD control circuit 2.
5. LCD2 controlled by the LCD control circuit 25
51, key / hook switch control circuit 26, circuit 2
6 is provided with a key unit 261 which is controlled.

As described above, in the personal computer section 1, the protocol control section 11 controls data transmission / reception with the terminal device and the network. Further, the application unit 12 controls voice / data communication by a composite operation with the telephone unit 2. The telephone unit 2 is a device that performs the basic operation of voice communication, and the voice communication is performed by the telephone unit 2 alone.
Alternatively, it can be operated in combination with the application unit 12.

In this composite operation, the application section 12 sends a predetermined control signal to the CPU 23 of the telephone section 2 via the control transmission path interface circuit 114 in the protocol control section 11 and the control transmission path interface circuit 21 of the telephone section 2. be able to. Then, the CPU 23 controls the operation of each unit based on the control signal. Here, the application section 12 of the personal computer section 1 has a clock function for measuring the time, and the application section 12 allows the CPU 23 of the telephone section 2 to operate.
The time data can be included in the control signal transmitted to the. In particular, in the present invention, this type of time data transmission processing is performed at the time of operation start-up when the personal computer unit 1 is powered on.

The rising operation of the device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the control sequence shown in FIG. In the device of the present invention, the telephone unit 2 is powered by the personal computer unit 1
Supplied from When the power supply of the personal computer unit 1 is turned on, the IPL programs of the telephone unit 2, the protocol control unit 11 and the application unit 12 are started.

First, the telephone section 2 transmits an "open request" signal to the protocol control section 11 upon IPL start (2a). The protocol control unit 11 having received the "open request" signal then transmits an "open confirmation" signal to the telephone unit 2 (2b). And
After receiving this "open confirmation" signal, the telephone section 2 enters a standby state.

On the other hand, the application unit 12 uses the IPL
When started, an "open request" signal is transmitted to the protocol control unit 11 (2c). The protocol control unit 11 that has received this "open request" signal then transmits an "open confirmation" signal to the application unit 12 (2d). Then, the application unit 12
Upon receiving this "open confirmation" signal, the system enters the standby state.

Subsequently, the application section 12 transmits a "time setting request" signal to the telephone section 2 via the protocol control section 11 (2e). This "time setting request"
The signal includes time data corresponding to the time measured by the clock function of the application unit 12.
Here, the telephone unit 2 extracts the time data from the "time setting request" signal received from the application unit 12 and displays it on the LCD 251 (S21). When the display of the time data is completed, the telephone unit 2 transmits a "time setting confirmation" signal to the application unit 12 via the protocol control unit 11 (2f). Then, the application unit 12 receives the "time setting confirmation" signal and enters the standby state.

On the other hand, the telephone unit 2 displays the time data on the LCD 251 based on the “time setting request” signal received from the application unit 12, and then updates the display data with the displayed time data as an initial value. , The updated time data is sequentially displayed on the LCD 251.

In this way, after the control at the start of the operation is completed, it becomes possible to perform voice communication by the telephone unit 2 alone or voice / data communication by cooperation between the telephone unit 2 and the personal computer unit 1. . Of these, the telephone unit 2
The voice communication operation in the simplex mode is performed in the same manner as in the conventional case according to the control sequence shown in FIG.

That is, in this single unit mode, when the telephone unit 2 detects an off-hook or dial input operation via the key / hook switch control circuit 26, the LCD
The character "HUSHIN" is displayed on the LCD 251 via the control circuit 25 (S41), and a "call setting request" is transmitted to the protocol control unit 11 (4a). Then, when the "call setting acceptance display" signal is received from the protocol control unit 11 (4b), the characters "Yobidashichu" are displayed on the LCD 251 (S42).

Subsequently, when the "call display" signal and the "response display" signal are received from the protocol control unit 11 (4c, 4
d), a "response confirmation" signal is transmitted to the protocol control unit 11 (4e), the characters "Tsuwachu" are displayed on the LCD 251 (S43), and the voice control circuit 24 is controlled to set the call state.

When the disconnection operation is detected in the call state, the characters "Setsuda" are displayed on the LCD 251 (S
44), a "disconnection request" signal is transmitted to the protocol control unit 11 (4f). Then, the protocol control unit 11
When the "release indication" signal is received from (4g), LCD2
"Ready" is displayed on 51 (S45), and the process returns to the standby state. When returning to this standby state, the telephone unit 2
The control of the time display, which has been performed before the start of the transmission operation in the single unit mode, is similarly restarted.

As described above, in the above-described embodiment, the telephone unit 2 operates based on the "time setting request" signal received from the application unit 12 when the personal computer unit 1 starts operating.
The time data at the time of rising is displayed on the LCD 251, and thereafter, the time data is updated with the displayed time data as an initial value, and the updated data is sequentially displayed on the LCD 251.

In this type of conventional device, the telephone section 2 itself does not have a function of setting the time, and effective information for confirming the operation is obtained in the stand-alone state of the telephone section 2 in the stand-alone mode. Could not have the display function of. In this regard,
According to the present invention, by the above-described control in which the current time is displayed on the LCD 251 immediately after the start of the operation, the telephone unit 2 is not involved in the combined operation with the application unit 12 even in the standby state of the telephone unit 2 in the stand-alone mode.
The information display function of can be added. As a result, in the telephone unit 2, the current time can be known by referring to the display information, which is very useful in confirming the operation. In the above embodiment, only the time data is referred to as the specific information displayed in the stand-by state of the telephone alone mode, but this type of specific information can also be used in combination with information relating to the date, time, day of the week, etc. Needless to say.

[0029]

As described above, according to the composite terminal device for voice / data communication of the present invention, when the operation of the personal computer section is started, the specific information such as time data at the time of the start is sent from the personal computer section to the telephone section. In addition to inputting, the telephone unit displays the specific information on the display unit, and the specific information is continuously displayed while being updated over time, so the time is displayed even when the telephone unit is in the stand-by mode. It has an excellent advantage that it can have a display function for information and the like, and contributes to accurate operation confirmation as the display capability is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a compound terminal device for voice / data communication according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a control sequence when the operation of the composite terminal device for voice / data communication of the present invention is started.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a control sequence at the start of operation of a conventional composite terminal device for voice / data communication.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a control sequence when the telephone unit alone of this type of compound terminal device for voice / data communication is operated.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 PC part 11 Protocol control part 111, 114 Control transmission line interface circuit 112 Memory 113 CPU 12 Application part 121 CPU 122 Memory 2 Telephone part 21 Control transmission line interface circuit 22 Memory 23 CPU 24 Voice control circuit 241 Handset 242 Speaker 25 LCD control Circuit 251 LCD (liquid crystal display) 26 key / hook switch control circuit 261 key section

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A telephone unit having at least a display,
A composite terminal device for voice / data communication, comprising a personal computer unit having a communication control function, and capable of selectively executing voice communication by a telephone unit alone or voice / data communication by a combined operation of a telephone unit and a personal computer unit, Control signal sending means provided in the personal computer section for sending a control signal for displaying specific information to the telephone section at the time of operation start-up, and a control signal from the control signal sending section provided in the telephone section And a specific information display updating means for displaying the specific information on a display based on the above and updating the displayed information according to the lapse of time. 2. The composite terminal device for voice / data communication according to claim 1, wherein at least the time data at the start-up time of the operation of the personal computer section is used as the specific information.