JPH08265409A - Telephone set provided with automatic informing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a telephone set provided with an automatic informing function capable of calling a specific contact party by simple operation excluding key operation or the like. CONSTITUTION: The telephone set is provided with a hook detecting circuit 4 for detecting the off-hook of a hand set 1, an informed party registering memory 7 for registering the telephone number of an informed party, an automatic calling means 6, and a signal processing part 5 having a timer function. When any ten-key 8 is not depressed within a prescribed time after hooking off the hand set 1, the means 6 is driven and the telephone number registered in the memory 7 is automatically called.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone having an automatic notification function that allows a telephone number registered in advance to be called by simply lifting a handset.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, telephones having functions of speed dial and one-touch dial are widely used,
If the phone number is registered in advance in correspondence with the shortened code or the one-touch code, the other party's phone can be called with a simple operation.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional telephone, even when the calling party is frequently specified, the abbreviated code or the one-touch code must be operated each time the calling is made. It was necessary to remember the correspondence between the phone number and. In addition, elderly people feel abnormal in their body, lift the handset, and children, relatives,
If you fall while trying to ask a specific contact such as a security company, you can not contact because you can not operate the speed dial or one-touch dial, it is discovered that this old man fell down. There was a problem that it was delayed and caused a troublesome situation.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a telephone having an automatic notification function capable of calling a specific contact by a simple operation without key operation. And

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention as claimed in claim 1, which is proposed to achieve the above object, is a hook detection circuit for detecting lifting of a handset, and a report destination in which a telephone number of the report destination is registered. A registration memory, an automatic calling means, and a signal processing part having a timer function are provided, and after the handset is lifted, when there is no operation of any numeric keypad, the automatic calling means is activated, It is configured to automatically call the telephone number registered in the report destination registration memory.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a hook detection circuit, a notification destination registration memory, an automatic calling means having a calling destination memory, and a signal processing unit are provided, and after a handset is lifted, a predetermined operation is performed. When there is a numeric keypad operation for more than a predetermined number of digits within the time, the numeric keypad operation is accepted for a further specified waiting time, the automatic calling means is activated, and the telephone number specified by the numeric keypad operation is automatically On the other hand, even if there are no more than a predetermined number of numeric keypad operations within a predetermined time after the handset is lifted and more than a predetermined number of numeric keypad operations are performed within that predetermined time, the numeric keypad operation will be performed within the next waiting time. If not, activate the automatic calling means,
The telephone number of the callee registered in the callee registration memory is automatically called.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a hook detection circuit, a notification destination registration memory in which a plurality of telephone numbers of notification destinations are registered, an automatic caller, and a signal processor are provided, and the handset is lifted. After that, when the numeric keypad is operated within a predetermined time, the signal processing unit compares the number in the middle of inputting the telephone number operated by the numeric keypad with the telephone number registered in the report destination registration memory, and The telephone number stored in the above-mentioned registered addressee registration memory is automatically called.

The present invention according to claim 4 provides the invention according to claims 1 to 3.
The telephone set described in (1) is provided with an emergency call registration switch, and by operating this emergency call registration switch and operating a predetermined ten-key, the call destination telephone number is registered in the call destination registration memory.

[0009]

In the telephone having the automatic notification function according to the present invention, the telephone number of a specific contact is registered in the notification registration memory by operating the emergency notification registration switch and operating a predetermined numeric keypad in advance. By doing so, the following operations are possible. In the telephone set according to claim 1, when the hook detection circuit detects that the handset is lifted, the signal processing unit activates a timer, and when there is no operation of the ten-key within a predetermined time, the automatic calling means is activated. , Automatically call the telephone number registered in the report registration memory. Also,
When the numeric keypad is operated within a predetermined time, the telephone number corresponding to the operation is called, and the telephone number registered in the notification destination registration memory is not called.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the hook detection circuit detects that the handset is lifted, the signal processing unit activates a timer to check whether or not there is a numeric keypad operation for a predetermined digit or more within a predetermined time. Monitor. When a ten-key operation is performed for a predetermined number of digits or more, the ten-key operation is accepted for a further specified waiting time, the automatic calling means is activated, and the telephone number designated by the ten-key operation is automatically called. . On the other hand, if there is no numeric keypad operation for more than a predetermined number of digits within the predetermined time, and even if there is a numeric keypad operation for more than a predetermined number of digits within the predetermined time, there is no numeric keypad operation within the waiting time, an automatic call is made. The means is operated to automatically call the telephone number of the report destination registered in the report destination registration memory.
As a result, even if the numeric keypad is operated by mistake within a predetermined time, the telephone number of a specific contact can be automatically called.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, when the hook detection circuit detects that the handset is lifted, the signal processing unit starts a timer, and when the ten key is operated within a predetermined time, the ten key is operated. The number in the middle of inputting the telephone number is compared with the telephone number registered in the report destination registration memory to search for a partially matching telephone number. Here, if there is a matching phone number,
The registered telephone number is automatically called. As a result, even if the subsequent operation cannot be performed during the operation of the ten-key pad, the telephone number of the specific contact, which is one of those registered in the notification destination registration memory, can be automatically called.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a telephone T having an automatic notification function according to the present invention. This telephone set T is connected to a telephone line L, and has a call circuit 2 and a control contact 3 for making a call with the handset 1, a hook detection circuit 4 for detecting lifting of the handset 1, a CPU.
And the like, and a signal processing unit 5 having a timer function to control the signals of each unit, an automatic calling means 6 for automatically dialing, a RAM, etc. It comprises a report destination registration memory 7 in which a telephone number is registered, a ten-key pad 8, an emergency call registration switch 9 and the like.

According to the present invention having such a configuration, the following operation becomes possible if the telephone number of a specific contact is registered in advance in the notification destination registration memory 7. The method of registering the above-mentioned telephone number is, for example, by operating the ten keys 8 such as "'*' + telephone number + '#'" or operating the emergency notification registration switch 9 to change to the registration mode, and then pressing the ten keys 8. The telephone number is operated to input the telephone number, and for example, "##" is input at the end of the telephone number (claim 4). According to this, it is not necessary to add a shortened code or a one-touch code, and a plurality of telephone numbers can be registered.

When the hook detection circuit 4 detects that the handset 1 is lifted up after the telephone number is registered in the notification destination registration memory 7 in this way, the signal processing unit 5 causes the control contact 3 to operate.
Is closed and a built-in timer is started to monitor whether the ten key 8 is operated within a predetermined time. When there is no operation of the ten-key pad 8 within a predetermined time, the pre-registered telephone number is read from the notification destination registration memory 7,
The automatic calling means 6 is operated to call automatically (claim 1). When the ten key 8 is operated within a predetermined time, the operated ten key is dialed and the telephone number registered in the notification destination registration memory 7 is not called.

2A and 2B are views for explaining the above operation. 9A shows an example of calling a telephone number registered in the report destination registration memory 7, and FIG. 9B shows an example of calling a telephone number operated by the ten keys 8. In this figure, the predetermined time after lifting the handset 1 is set to 5 seconds, and when the ten key 8 is not operated within 5 seconds, the telephone number (012-345-6789) of the specific contact is When some numeric keypad 8 is operated within 5 seconds, the operated telephone number (078-654-3210) is called.

Next, another operation of the telephone set T having the automatic notification function according to the present invention will be described. Handset 1
When the hook detection circuit 4 detects the lifting of the key, the signal processing unit 5 activates a timer to monitor whether or not there is a ten-key operation for a predetermined digit or more within a predetermined time. When the numeric keypad 8 is operated for a predetermined number of digits or more, another timer is further activated to further accept the operation of the numeric keypad 8 for a specific waiting time.

Since the automatic calling means 6 has a calling destination memory, when the waiting time ends due to a time-out, the telephone number input during this waiting time is called from the calling destination memory. Read out, activate the automatic calling means 6,
The telephone number designated by the operation of the ten keys 8 is automatically called from the beginning. On the other hand, even if there is no operation of the ten-key pad 8 for a predetermined digit or more within a predetermined time (including no operation at all) and there is an operation of the ten-key pad 8 for a predetermined digit or more within the predetermined time, the waiting time When the ten key 8 is not operated, the automatic calling means 6 is operated to automatically call the telephone number registered in the notification destination registration memory 7 (claim 2). As a result, even if the ten key 8 is erroneously operated within the predetermined time, the telephone number of a specific contact can be automatically called.

3A to 3D are diagrams for explaining the above operation. (A) to (c) of the same figure show an example of calling a telephone number registered in the report destination registration memory 7,
FIG. 3D shows an example of calling a telephone number operated by the ten keys 8. In this figure, both the predetermined time after the handset 1 is lifted and the waiting time after the numeric keypad 8 is operated for a predetermined digit (two digits in the figure) or more within the predetermined time are both set to 5 seconds. Has been done.

In FIGS. 1A and 1B, the handset 1
Since there is no operation on the numeric keypad 8 for more than two digits within 5 seconds after lifting the, the telephone number (012-345-6789) of the specific contact is called after 5 seconds has elapsed. The numeric keypad 8 was operated for 2 digits or more within 5 seconds after the handset 1 was lifted (2 digits), but since the numeric keypad 8 was not operated during the waiting time thereafter, after the waiting time of 5 seconds (handset Lifting 1 1
Calling a specific contact phone number after 0 seconds.

In FIG. 3D, the numeric keypad 8 is operated for two digits or more within 5 seconds after the handset 1 is lifted, and the numeric keypad 8 is operated during the waiting time thereafter, so it is not an erroneous operation. After the waiting time, the telephone number (078-654-3210) operated by the ten-key pad 8 is called after the handset 1 is lifted.

The predetermined time after lifting the handset 1 described above, the waiting time after that, the predetermined digit by the operation of the ten-key pad 8, etc. are not limited. For example, the waiting time is measured at the time when the handset 1 is lifted. (For example, it takes 20 seconds for the handset 1 to be lifted, and if there is no operation on the numeric keypad 8 for a predetermined digit (for example, 2 digits) even during the waiting time, the telephone registered in the report destination registration memory 7) If you want to call a number, or if there is an operation of even one digit in the predetermined time after lifting the handset 1, the waiting time is entered after the predetermined time has elapsed, and the ten-key operation is performed between the predetermined time and the waiting time. Immediately if the number of digits that have been input is compared with a predetermined digit (for example, 3 digits) or if there is a numeric keypad operation for a predetermined digit during the predetermined time or waiting time described above. It proceeds to wait, or may be performed a call.

The flowchart shown in steps 100 to 110 of FIG. 4 shows an example of the above operation. When the handset 1 is lifted, a timer 1 for measuring a predetermined time thereafter is activated, and if a ten-digit numeric keypad 8 is operated, a waiting time (timer 2) is started. During that time, if there is a ten-digit operation of a predetermined digit such as three digits (including one digit where the ten-key operation was previously performed), calling is started by the telephone number being operated. If the conditions other than the above are satisfied (predetermined time or waiting time is over), automatic calling is performed by the telephone number registered in the notification destination registration memory 7.

Next, another operation of the telephone set T having the automatic notification function according to the present invention will be described. When the hook detection circuit 4 detects that the handset 1 is lifted, the signal processing unit 4 activates a timer, and the numeric keypad 8 is activated within a predetermined time.
Judge whether or not there is an operation. When the numeric keypad 8 is operated, the numbers in the middle of inputting the telephone numbers operated by the numeric keypad 8 are sequentially compared with the telephone numbers of a plurality of notification destinations registered in the notification destination registration memory 7. If there is a partially matching telephone number, the telephone number is read from the notification destination registration memory 7 and the automatic calling means 6 is activated to call the telephone number (claim 3). As a result, even if the subsequent operation cannot be performed while the numeric keypad 8 is being operated, the specific telephone number can be called.

The number of digits of the telephone number that is used to make the automatic call may be the number of digits that can be distinguished from other telephone numbers registered in the notification destination registration memory 7, and may be the numeric keypad 8 or a predetermined number. The switch may be set. Further, the matching of a part of the telephone numbers is not limited to the case where the predetermined digits from the beginning completely match, and if the determined number of digits of the predetermined digits at the beginning matches, an automatic call is made. You may do it. According to this, a desired telephone number can be called even if an erroneous operation is performed.

[0025]

According to the telephone having the automatic notification function according to the first aspect of the present invention, a specific telephone number can be automatically called by a simple operation of lifting the handset. In particular, at home where the elderly live alone, when an abnormality occurs in the body, it is possible to easily notify the specific contact of the abnormality (emergency call function). In addition, it is convenient because a person who frequently calls can be called automatically by waiting for a predetermined time without key operation (hotline function). Further, when the particular party is busy, the call can be automatically reissued by simply moving the handset down or up.

According to the telephone having the automatic notification function of the second aspect, if a normal ten-key operation is performed within a predetermined time after the handset is lifted, it can be used as a conventional telephone, and the notification destination registration memory. Do not make a call to a specific telephone number registered in. On the contrary, even if the ten key is operated by mistake within a predetermined time, it is possible to make an emergency call to automatically call a specific contact.

According to the telephone having the automatic notification function described in claim 3, even when the telephone number is being input, the specific telephone number registered in advance in the notification destination registration memory can be automatically called. I can. Therefore, even if an abnormality occurs during the input of the telephone number, the abnormality can be reported. According to the telephone having the automatic notification function according to claim 4, the telephone number of a specific contact is registered in the notification destination registration memory according to claims 1 to 3 by a simple switch operation and ten-key operation. You can do it.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a configuration of a telephone having an automatic notification function according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the telephone having the automatic notification function according to the present invention (claim 1).

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining another operation of the telephone having the automatic notification function according to the present invention (claim 2).

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the telephone having the automatic notification function according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 T: Telephone equipped with automatic notification function 1 ... Handset 2 ... Communication circuit 3 ... Control contact 4 ... Hook detection circuit 5 ... Signal processing unit 6 ... Automatic calling means 7 ... Report destination registration memory 8 ... Numeric keypad 9 ... Emergency report registration switch L ... Telephone line

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A hook detection circuit for detecting lifting of a handset, a callee registration memory in which a telephone number of a callee is registered, an automatic caller, and a signal processor having a timer function. If no numeric keypad is operated within a predetermined time after lifting, the automatic call function is activated to automatically call the telephone number registered in the notification destination registration memory. Equipped telephone. 2. A hook detection circuit for detecting lifting of a handset, a callee registration memory in which a callee telephone number is registered, an automatic calling means having a callee memory, and signal processing having a timer function. When a ten-key operation for a predetermined number of digits or more is performed within a predetermined time after the handset is lifted, the ten-key operation is accepted for a further specified waiting time to activate the automatic calling means. , While automatically calling the telephone number specified by the numeric keypad operation, there is no numeric keypad operation for more than a predetermined digit within a predetermined time after the handset is lifted, and there is a numeric keypad operation for more than a predetermined digit within the predetermined time. However, if there is no numeric keypad operation during the next waiting time, the above-mentioned automatic calling means is activated and the telephone number of the callee registered in the callee registration memory is automatically Telephone with an automatic notification function is configured to be call. 3. A hook detection circuit for detecting lifting of a handset, a callee registration memory in which a plurality of callee telephone numbers are registered, an automatic caller, and a signal processor having a timer function, When the numeric keypad is operated within a predetermined time after the handset is lifted, the signal processing unit displays the telephone number operated by the numeric keypad and the telephone number registered in the report destination registration memory. And a telephone having an automatic notification function configured to automatically call a telephone number stored in the notification destination registration memory that is partially matched. 4. An emergency call registration switch is provided, and the callee telephone number is registered in the callee registration memory by operating the emergency call registration switch and operating a predetermined ten key. A telephone equipped with the automatic notification function described in any one of 1.