JPH09146892A - Electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the equipment on which the telephone number of a proper noun which is entered into schedule information of a specific period can easily be confirmed. SOLUTION: A period setting part 15 sets the specific period from the current date and time clocked by an RTC 14, an extraction part 16 extracts a proper noun from the schedule information stored in a schedule storage part 13, and a comparison part 17 retrieves the telephone number of the extracted proper noun from a telephone number storage means 18 and reads it out, so that the extracted proper noun and read telephone number are stored in an address storage part 20 while made to correspond to each other. With a display indication button 24 pressed, the stored proper noun and telephone number are displayed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic device capable of managing personal information such as a schedule and a telephone directory function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, in the invention disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-44154, in order to prevent the user from forgetting to make a call, the time to make a call is set in advance, and at that time the phone is called. There was one that automatically made a number.

Further, a schedule or the like is stored in advance in the electronic notebook, and the user is notified of the fact that the scheduled time has come by an alarming means such as an alarm at the scheduled time together with the contents of the schedule. When it is necessary to make a call in accordance with the contents of the schedule, there is a method in which the telephone number of the destination is cut, for example, the name of the destination is cut from the contents of the destination and a search is performed using the search character.

[0004]

As described above, in the prior art disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-44154, it is necessary to connect the device to the telephone line at the scheduled time, and the stationary device is required. Then, there is no particular problem, but it is practically difficult for a small-sized device such as a portable device to be connected to the telephone line at the scheduled time. Further, even if the device is a stationary device, the telephone line is automatically connected if the device is not in front of the device at the scheduled time, which may cause the other party to wait. In addition, it is impossible to know in advance who to call.

In another conventional technique, after confirming the alarm notification of the scheduled time, the user extracts the other party of the telephone from the contents of the schedule, searches the telephone directory by the other party's name, displays the telephone number, etc. Was necessary.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a device capable of easily confirming a telephone number of a proper noun described in schedule information within a specific period.

Further, the present invention provides a device in which the telephone number of the proper noun stored in the schedule information after a specific period from the current date can be additionally stored with the change of the date, and the load on the device is lightened. The purpose is to

Further, in the present invention, the unnecessary information in the past is not stored indefinitely, and the unnecessary information in the past is deleted so that the effective use of the memory and the unnecessary information are not displayed. The purpose is to provide a device that can be easily confirmed.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made for the purpose of solving the above problems, and in the invention according to claim 1, a schedule information storage means for storing a date and schedule information of the date, and a proper noun. And a telephone number storage means for storing the telephone number of the proper noun, a time counting means for clocking the current date, a period setting means for setting a specific period from the current date clocked by the time counting means, and the period Extraction means for extracting proper nouns from the schedule information stored in the schedule information storage means within the period set by the setting means, and telephone numbers of the proper nouns extracted by the extraction means by the telephone number storage means Reading means for searching and reading; storage means for storing the extracted proper noun and the read telephone number in association with each other; Display means for displaying the stored proper names and telephone numbers in the serial storage means, an electronic device characterized by comprising a.

With the above structure, the invention according to claim 1 extracts the proper noun from the schedule information within a certain period, reads out the telephone number of the extracted proper noun, and stores and displays it.

According to the second aspect of the invention, schedule information storage means for storing the date and schedule information for the date, telephone number storage means for storing the proper noun and the telephone number of the proper noun, and the current date. Timing means, an addition means for adding a specific period to the changed current date when the change of the current date is timed by the timing means, and the schedule information storage means for the added date. Extracting means for extracting proper nouns from the schedule information stored in, reading means for reading out the telephone number of the proper noun extracted by the extracting means by searching the telephone number storing means, and the extracted proper nouns. Storage means for storing the read telephone number, and display means for displaying the proper noun and the telephone number stored in the storage means. An electronic device, characterized by Bei.

With the above structure, in the invention according to the second aspect, the proper noun is extracted from the schedule information of the current date, and the telephone number of the extracted proper noun is read out, stored and displayed.

In the invention according to claim 3, the date of the schedule information including the proper noun stored in the storage means is deleted from the storage means from the present date measured by the time counting means. 3. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising: a deleting unit that deletes.

With the above structure, in the invention according to the third aspect, the date of the stored schedule information including the proper noun is deleted from the past date from the clocked current date.

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an external view of an electronic device having the functions of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the electronic device body 1 is composed of an input / output unit 2 and a lid unit 3. The lid 3 is the electronic device body 1
It is hinged to the side surface of the and has the role of rotating to protect the input / output unit 2.

Although not shown, a control circuit for controlling the entire electronic device, a memory for storing programs and data, a power supply unit for supplying power to necessary parts, etc. are built in the electronic device main body. There is.

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the input / output unit 2. The input / output unit 2 includes a liquid crystal display unit 201 and a function selection key 202.
An operation selection key 203 and a transparent tablet 204 as a coordinate input means for inputting a pen. The input / output unit 2 also includes a key (not shown) for inputting text data such as character and number information.

The liquid crystal display unit 201 is of a thin type and is of a matrix type capable of displaying characters, and may have a backlight on the back surface if necessary.

The function selection keys 202 are a group of keys for selecting various functions (calendar, schedule, address book, memo, calculation, clock, dictionary, etc.) of the electronic device 1.

The operation selection key 203 is a group of keys for selecting common operations such as menu display and cursor control function in the function arbitrarily selected by the function selection key 202.

The transparent tablet 204 is a liquid crystal display unit 20.
1, the function selection key 202 and the operation selection key 203 are arranged so as to cover all of them. The position coordinates of the transparent tablet 204 are detected by pointing the transparent tablet 204 with a pen, and functions such as function selection, operation selection, character input, and image data input are performed according to the position coordinates.

FIG. 3 is a system block diagram of the electronic equipment main body 1. In FIG. 3, a central control unit 8 controls the entire device and controls operation processing such as input and output according to various commands. The tablet controller 4 detects the position coordinates from the transparent tablet 204. The liquid crystal drive circuit unit 5 displays various information on the liquid crystal display unit 201 by driving the common circuit 6 and the segment circuit 7 based on the control signal from the central control unit 8. The RTC (Real Time Clock) 9 outputs the current time based on a clock (not shown). The battery 12 supplies each component with the power required for operating the electronic device via a power supply circuit (not shown). A ROM (Read Only Memory) 10 stores a program area 101 that stores various functions of electronic equipment and a control program that operates the central control unit 8 to implement the present invention, and a dictionary such as a foreign language dictionary. A dictionary area 102 for storing and a font information area 1 for storing fonts for displaying character information on screen data forming various screen displays.
03, and a coordinate information area 104 that stores the coordinate positional relationship between the transparent tablet 204 and the liquid crystal display unit 201. RAM (random access memory)
Reference numeral 11 denotes a memo area 110 for storing various data such as character information, numeral information, and image information input to the electronic device body 1, and schedule information for storing date and time and schedule contents corresponding to the date and time as schedule information. Area 1
11, a work area 112 for temporarily storing data by arithmetic processing and the like, and a telephone directory area 113 for storing a destination name and a telephone number corresponding to the destination.

FIG. 4 is a detailed block diagram of the functional portions of the present invention. The RTC 14 is equivalent to the RTC 9 in FIG. 3 and measures the current time. The period specifying unit 15 is set in advance, for example, one week (7 days), and is for specifying the date for one week set from the current date obtained from the RTC 14, RTC
Assuming that October 11 is clocked at 14, the period specifying unit 15 determines that the 12th, 13th, 14th including 11th,
The 15th, 16th, and 17th are output in order with the year and month. The date output from the period specifying unit 15 occurs when the date change is sent from the RTC 14, that is, once a day. The date specified by the period specifying unit 15 is sent to the area A of the schedule storage unit 13. The schedule storage unit 13 is a detailed representation of the schedule information area 111 in FIG. 3, in which area A stores date information, and the date and time when the schedule is executed are stored in schedule units. .. Further, the planned contents are stored in the area B so as to correspond to the area A. The schedule storage unit 13 sequentially sends the scheduled contents of the region B stored corresponding to the date of the region A storing the date specified by the period specifying unit 15 to the extraction unit 16.

In the extraction unit 16, the schedule storage unit 13
The name candidates stored in the area B are extracted, and the name candidates are sent to the comparison unit 17. Regarding the name extraction method, the technology of detecting the word following the name / company such as "company", "office", and extracting the characters before it as the company name,
It is used in business card recognition devices, etc.
For example, by setting “san”, “don”, “mr”, “company”, “office”, etc., candidates for names and company names can be extracted.

The telephone directory 18 includes areas such as an address portion A indicating the position of each information, an index portion B storing a name as a telephone number finding, and a telephone number portion C storing a telephone number. is there. The telephone directory 18 includes the address designation section 2
The contents of the index area B of the telephone directory are sequentially sent to the comparison unit 17 by the address instruction of No.

In the comparing section 17, the telephone directory 18, that is, the index area B of the telephone directory area 113 shown in FIG.
Whether or not the same name as the schedule content extracted by the extraction unit 16 exists is compared, and the telephone directory 1
Search for a match with 8. When the comparison unit 17 finds that the name extracted by the extraction unit 16 is in the telephone directory index area B, the comparison unit 17 sends a signal to the AND circuit 19. The AND circuit 19 functions as a gate that responds to the signal from the comparison unit 17, and the AND circuit 1
Addresses from the address area A of the telephone directory 18 are always added to the other terminals of the terminal 9. The AND circuit 19 receives the signal from the comparison unit 17 and stores the address of the telephone directory 18 in the address storage unit 20.

The display instruction button 24 is used for the address storage unit 2.
0 and a signal to the gate unit 21, and in response to the signal from the display instruction button 24, the address storage unit 20 sends the stored address information to the telephone directory 18. Phonebook 18 that received address information from address storage unit 20
The gate unit 2 includes an index area B of the telephone directory corresponding to the address area A indicated by the address from the address storage unit 20 and a telephone number area C in which the telephone number is stored.
Output to 1.

In the gate section 21, the gate is opened in response to the signal from the display instruction button 24, and the name and telephone number which are indexes from the telephone directory 18 are displayed in the display buffer 23.
The display buffer 23 displays the telephone directory index and the telephone number indicated by the address in the address storage unit 20.
Can be stored.

That is, as described in the above description, the address storage unit 20 stores in the telephone directory 18 the name described in the scheduled contents within one week from the time (today) of the RTC 14.
If the name is included in the schedule scheduled in the near future, the telephone number corresponding to the name can be confirmed by storing the information stored in the address storage unit 20 as the address of the. .

In FIG. 4, the contents are extracted and searched from all the schedule contents of the specific period in response to the date change from the RTC 14, but in response to the date change, the information for the new date is added or the information is not added. By deleting the necessary information, more efficient extraction / search can be performed.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram for performing addition / deletion processing. The basic part has the same function as in FIG. In order to perform the additional processing, a date adding unit 26 is provided instead of the period specifying unit 15, and a function of adding a specific number of days (for example, 6 days) to the date of the RTC is provided, and the AND circuit 1 is newly added.
9'is provided, and the date of the scheduled contents extracted together with the contents of the address area A of the telephone directory 18 is sent to the address storage unit 20. It is possible to add information by providing the date determination unit 27 that stores the date and address of the scheduled contents sent to the address storage unit 20 in association with each other and compares the context of the date, and the RTC 14 Unnecessary information can be erased by erasing the stored contents of the RTC 14 regarding an old date before the date in response to the date change signal.

With the above configuration, it is possible to additionally store the data, and it becomes unnecessary to rewrite all the information every time the date is changed.

The operation of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 6 shows the schedule storage unit 13 of FIGS. 4 and 5.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the stored contents of the above, and a plurality of date (only the month and day is shown for explanation) information and planned contents are stored in association with each other.

FIG. 7 shows the telephone directory area 18 shown in FIGS. 4 and 5.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of an address, a name,
A plurality of telephone numbers are stored correspondingly.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the storage contents of the address storage unit 20 of FIG. 5, in which addresses are stored in association with dates. Address storage unit 2 of FIG.
In 0, only the address on the right side of FIG. 8 is stored.

FIG. 9 is a flow chart of the processing for storing the telephone directory address in the address storage unit 20 of FIG.

In step S1, it is detected whether the date change signal from the RTC 14 of FIG. 4 is generated, and the process waits until the date change signal is generated. By detecting the generation of the date change signal from the RTC 14 in step S1, a date for a preset period, for example, 7 days is calculated in step S2. If today is 10/2, 10/2, 10/3, 10/4, 10/5, 10
/ 6, 10/7, and 10/8 are specified and sequentially sent to the schedule storage unit 13.

In step S3, it is determined whether the schedule is set on the date specified in step S2. The determination is NO (NO) when the schedule contents are not stored on all the days specified in step S2 or when the following process is completed for all the specified days.

In the storage example of FIG. 6, since the schedule of "delivering the product to Mr. Sasaki" is stored on 10/2, the process proceeds to step S4, and the name (destination) is selected from the scheduled contents in step S4. Extract. The name extraction method in step S4 can be achieved by adopting the technique described above. In the storage example of FIG. 6, there is a word “san” in the scheduled content of 10/2, and the preceding character “Sasaki” is extracted in step S4.

In step S5, it is determined whether or not the name candidate character is extracted from the scheduled content in step S4.
If extracted, the process proceeds to step S6. In step S6, it is searched whether or not the target name is stored by comparing characters in order with the name in the name area B in FIG. 7, and when it is determined that the name is stored, step S7 At area A, which is the address of that name,
7 ”is stored in the address storage unit 20.

The storage contents of FIG. 8 are created by performing the above-described processing of step S3, step S4, step S5, step S6, and step S7 for all the specific days specified in step S2 (however, No date is stored in the example of FIG.

Next, FIG. 10 shows the address storage unit 2 of FIG.
It is a flowchart figure of the process of deletion / addition of the telephone book address to 0. As already shown in FIG. 8, the address storage unit 2
It is assumed that data is stored in 0.

In step S8, it is detected whether the date change signal from the RTC 14 of FIG. 5 is generated, and the process waits until the date change signal is generated. In step S8, the date is read from the RTC 14 by detecting the generation of the date change signal from the RTC 14, and whether the information before the date read in step S9, that is, in the past, is stored in the address storage unit 20 or not. Judge,
When the information is stored, the information is erased in step S10, and in step S11, a process of sequentially filling the areas having the information is performed.

For example, in the storage state of FIG.
The processing when the date is changed from October to October will be described below. In step S9, the 10/2 information stored in the area A, which has become the past information, is erased,
In step S11, the information of 10/6 of the area B is transferred to the area A, and the information of 10/7 of the area C is transferred to the area B.

In step S12, a process of adding a predetermined date (6th) to the date (10/3) of the RTC 14 is performed. In step S13, step S1
It is determined whether the schedule is stored on 10/9 calculated by adding in 2. In the schedule content of FIG. 6, since “health checkup” is stored on 10/9, the name is extracted in step S14. If there is no corresponding day in step S13, it means that there is no schedule to be added. However, since the schedule content of October 9 does not include the name, the process returns from step S15 to step S13 to determine whether there is another schedule on the same day. In this example, there is only one schedule, and there is no additional information on October 9. Therefore, 10/6 and 10/7 are stored in the area A and the area B together with the address in the address storage unit 20 of FIG.

When the name is extracted in step S14, the process is moved to the next process. Step S1
5 and step S16 are almost the same as steps S6 and S7 in FIG. 9, except that the address storage unit 20 is different in step S17.
The difference is that the contents stored in include the date.

FIG. 11 is a flow chart of the processing when the display instruction button 24 shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 is input. In step S18, it is determined whether or not the display instruction button 24 has been operated, and by detecting the operation,
Proceed to step S19. In step S19, it is detected whether or not the address is stored in the address storage unit 20. When the address is stored in the address storage unit 20, the address is given to the dictionary in step S20, and the name and telephone number output from the dictionary are stored in the display buffer 23 through the gate unit 21 in step S21. .
When all the addresses stored in the address storage unit 20 have been output, the contents are displayed on the display unit in step S22.

FIG. 12 shows a screen example displaying the schedule contents, FIG. 13 shows a screen example when the display instruction button 24 is operated on 10/2, and FIG. 14 a screen when the display instruction button 24 is operated on 10/3. Here is an example:

With the above processing, it is possible to confirm the information of the person related to the upcoming schedule on the display screen.

In the above description, only the name of the telephone directory has been described as a search target, but the service content is stored in addition to the name, and the content of the service can be searched for, so that the scheduled content is “moving”. For example, “×× Moving company ○○○○ − ○○
-○○○○ "can be displayed.

[0051]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the proper noun is extracted from the schedule information within a certain period, and the telephone number of the extracted proper noun is read out, stored and displayed. You can easily check the phone number of the proper noun of.

In the invention according to claim 2, the proper noun is extracted from the schedule information of the current date, and the telephone number of the extracted proper noun is read out, stored and displayed. Therefore, the proper noun in the schedule information is displayed. You can easily check the phone number of the noun and reduce the load on the device.

According to the third aspect of the invention, the date of the stored schedule information including proper nouns is deleted from the past dated current date, so that effective use of the memory and unnecessary storage. Not displaying the information makes it easier to check the contents.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of an electronic device having a function of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the input / output unit 2.

FIG. 3 is a system block diagram of the electronic device body 1.

FIG. 4 is a detailed block diagram of functional parts of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram for performing addition / deletion processing.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a schedule storage unit 13.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents in a telephone directory area 18.

8 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of the address storage unit 20. FIG.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a process of storing a telephone directory address in the address storage unit 20.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a process of deleting / adding a telephone directory address in the address storage unit 20.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a process when a display instruction button 24 is input.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying schedule contents.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a screen when the display instruction button 24 is operated on 10/2.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a screen example when the display instruction button 24 is operated on October 3rd.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 electronic device main body 2 input / output section 3 lid section 4 tablet control section 5 liquid crystal drive circuit section 6 common circuit 7 segment circuit 8 central control section 9, 14 RTC 10 ROM 11 RAM 12 battery 13 schedule storage section 15 period specifying section 16 extraction Part 17 Comparison part 18 Phonebook 19 AND circuit 20 Address storage part 21 Gate part 23 Display buffer 24 Display instruction button 25 Address designation part 26 Date addition part 27 Date judgment part

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A schedule information storage means for storing a date and schedule information for the date, a telephone number storage means for storing a proper noun and a telephone number of the proper noun, and a clock means for clocking the current date, Period setting means for setting a specific period from the current date measured by the time measuring means, and a proper noun is extracted from the schedule information stored in the schedule information storage means within the period set by the period setting means. Extracting means, reading means for reading the telephone number of the proper noun extracted by the extracting means by searching the telephone number storage means, and associating the extracted proper noun with the read telephone number And a display unit for displaying the proper noun and the telephone number stored in the storage unit. An electronic device. 2. A schedule information storage means for storing a date and schedule information for the date, a telephone number storage means for storing a proper noun and a telephone number of the proper noun, and a clocking means for clocking the current date, When the change of the current date is timed by the time counting means, the addition means for adding a specific period to the changed current date, and the schedule information stored in the schedule information storage means for the added date are unique from Extracting means for extracting a noun, reading means for reading out the telephone number of the proper noun extracted by the extracting means by searching the telephone number storage means, the extracted proper noun and the read telephone number And a display unit for displaying the proper noun and the telephone number stored in the storage unit. Child equipment. 3. The schedule information including a proper noun stored in the storage means includes a deletion means for deleting from the storage means a date past the present date measured by the time measurement means. The electronic device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that.