JPH09270848A - Multi-functional telephone system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely deliver a message to a destination, even when a reply party is a person or an automatic answering telephone set, by sending a message to be recorded at detection of silence after the reply in the case of sending a recorded message to a prescribed destination. SOLUTION: A voice detection circuit 4 starts detecting silence as to whether or not a voice signal from the destination is a silence signal, based on a reply of the destination based on automatic dialing, and when the silence state is detected for a prescribed time, a message recorded in a recording and reproduction IC 9 is sounded by a voice recording and reproducing circuit 8 and sent to external lines L1, L2 via an amplifier 10 and a speech circuit 6. Even when the destination is an automatic answering telephone set, since a silence interval is caused to record the message after transmission of a reply message from the automatic answering telephone set replying automatically the incoming call, the recorded message is sent from this telephone set to the automatic answering telephone set. When the destination party is at home, since a silent interval is produced after hooking-off for the reply, the recorded message is sent to the destination person.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multi-function telephone device which is connected to a general telephone line and automatically dials a preset telephone number and automatically sends a stored message.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when answering an incoming call from an outside line automatically answers the answering machine function of a multifunction telephone device, a response message indicating that the user is absent is sent, and a message message from the caller is recorded and recorded. After completion, once the outside line is opened, the outside line is closed again, the dial stored in advance is read out, and a predetermined destination, for example, the office where the user of the multifunctional telephone device exists, is automatically dialed and the above-mentioned recording is made after the response. There was a function to send out the message that was done.

[0003]

In the conventional multi-function telephone apparatus, when the answering machine is automatically answered by the absence of the other party who dialed automatically, the message recorded at the same time as the automatic answering of the answering machine is recorded. There is a problem that the message is transmitted (the message message recorded above is transmitted while the answering message is being transmitted by the answering machine), and the message message cannot be accurately transmitted to the other party.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to reliably convey a message that a user wants to send (message) even if the other party is an answering machine.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve such a problem, according to the present invention, when voice detection means for detecting the presence or absence of voice from the other party based on the response of the other party based on automatic dialing detects silence. The recorded message is sent out. As a result, since the recorded message is sent when the other party is silent, the message can be surely transmitted to the other party regardless of whether the other party's responder is a human or an answering machine. The message is a message from a caller who arrives at the telephone line after automatically answering an incoming call. As a result, it is possible to surely convey the message of interest to the other party. Further, the message is a message message recorded by the user in advance. As a result, the message message can be reliably transmitted to the other party. Also, a control unit for executing the message sending function after recording the message is provided. As a result, it is possible to surely convey the message of interest to the other party. Further, it is provided with setting means for setting the time for sending the message message, and a control section for executing the message sending function at the time set by the setting means. As a result, the message message can be reliably transmitted to the other party at the designated time. Further, the voice detecting means is for detecting that silence continues for a predetermined time. As a result, the recorded message can be reliably transmitted to the other party.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a multifunction telephone device according to the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a CPU that controls all of the multi-function telephone device, 2 is a dial circuit for sending dial signals to telephone lines (hereinafter referred to as outside lines) L1 and L2, and 3 is an outside line L1 and L2. B to detect a busy tone signal (hereinafter referred to as BT)
T detection circuit, 4 is a voice detection circuit that detects the presence or absence of a voice signal from the outside lines L1 and L2, 5 is a holding sound circuit that sends a holding sound to the outside lines L1 and L2, etc. via the communication circuit 6, and 7 is the other party It is a reverse detection circuit that detects a reverse signal indicating the response of.

Reference numeral 8 is a voice recording / reproducing circuit, which is a response message for answering machine input from the microphone 11 by the user, a message message for message described later, and the external lines L1, L.
2. Recording a message from the caller input via the call circuit 6 and the amplifier 10 in the recording / reproducing IC 9 and reproducing each recorded message.

Further, 12 is a PB receiver for receiving PB signals from the outside lines L1 and L2, 13 is a memory for storing the telephone number of the other party, 14 is an indicator, and 15 is a transfer setting key 1.
5A, a function key including a recording key 15B for setting a mode for recording the response message and the message message in the recording / reproducing IC 9, a setting key 15C for setting a mode for setting a telephone number, a current time and a designated time, and 16 is a dial Key, 18 is a clock section, 19 is a loop closing circuit for closing the loop, HS1 is a hook switch, PC is 16 Hz
The photo coupler outputs an incoming signal detected by the detection circuit 17 to the CPU 1. Further, T is a transmitter and R is a receiver.

Next, referring to a flow chart based on a program in the CPU 1 shown in FIG. 2, a message message in which a message from the sender of the present invention is recorded or a message message previously recorded by the user himself is predetermined. The processing operation in the message transmission mode for automatically transmitting to the other party will be described. Here, message transmission includes the following two types of message transmission. When the message transmission mode is set, after automatically answering an incoming call from an outside line, the message from the caller is recorded and the line is released when the recording is completed. After the line is opened, the line is closed again, the recorded message is automatically dialed to the previously stored destination (office where the user exists, etc.), and the recorded message is recorded according to the response from the destination. Send a message to send. If the user himself / herself has to contact a designated destination at a designated time but cannot make a call, the calling time, the telephone number and the message message are stored in advance and stored at the designated time. Sending a message by automatically dialing the existing phone number and sending the recorded message according to the response of the other party. Function key 1
When the transfer setting key 15A in 5 is operated, the message transmission mode is set, and when the transfer setting key 15A is operated again, the message transmission mode is released. When the user of this apparatus uses the message for message transmission, the telephone number of the other party is set in advance by operating the setting key 15C and the dial key 16. In addition, when using as a message message transmission, the time when the message message should be transmitted by operating the setting key 15C and dial key 16
The destination telephone number is set and a message message to be transmitted is recorded from the microphone 11 by operating the recording key 15B. After that, the transfer setting key 15A is operated to set the message transmission mode.

In the present embodiment, the case where the present apparatus is used for message transmission will be described below. First, the CPU 1 determines whether it is the designated time to transmit the message message in step 1. Since the designated time is not set here, the designated time is “N”. In step 2, the 16 Hz detection circuit 17 and the photocoupler PC determine whether or not the incoming call is detected. If the incoming call is not detected (“N”), Returning to step 1, when an incoming call is detected ("Y"), the loop closing circuit 19 closes the loop with the outside lines L1 and L2 in step 3 to automatically answer the incoming call. In step 4, the start address of the response message of the recording / reproducing IC 9 is set in the recording / reproducing IC 9, the voice is reproduced by the voice recording / reproducing circuit 8, and the voice is transmitted to the outside lines L1 and L2 via the amplifier 10 and the communication circuit 6. When the sending of the response message is completed, the message message from the caller input through the outside lines L1 and L2, the communication circuit 6 and the amplifier 10 in step 5 is set in the recording / reproducing IC 9 and recorded. After that, when the caller finishes the message and releases the line, the BT detection circuit 3 detects a busy tone and opens the line in step 6.

At step 10, an initial process for setting the start address of the message or message, the number of retries indicating the number of redials, etc. in the work area of the memory 13 is executed.

In step 11, the loop with the outside lines L1 and L2 is closed to capture the line, as in the above-described automatic incoming call response.
In step 12, the destination telephone number stored in advance in the memory 13 is read out and the dial circuit 2 is used to access the outside line L1
The destination telephone number is automatically sent to L2. Step 1
When the dial transmission end signal output from the dial circuit 2 is detected in step 3, it is judged that the transmission of the other party's telephone number is completed ("Y"), and in step 14, the other party's answering machine automatically answers. An outside line L1 generated by
Whether or not the other party responded is determined by whether the reverse detection circuit 7 receives the reverse signal from L2. Step 1
When "4" becomes "Y", in step 15, the voice detection circuit 4 starts to detect whether or not the voice from the other party is silent. Normally, an answering machine automatically becomes silent for a certain period of time after recording a message after sending a response message indicating that it is absent when an incoming call is automatically answered. When this silence is detected ("Y"), a timer (not shown) is started, and it is determined in step 16 whether the silence has continued for a predetermined time. And step 15
Then, if no sound is detected for a predetermined time in step 16, step 16 becomes "Y", and in step 17, the above-mentioned predetermined address is set in the recording / reproducing IC 9 and the recorded message is voiced by the voice recording / reproducing circuit 8 and is amplified. 10. Send to the outside lines L1 and L2 via the communication circuit 6. When the transmission of the message is completed, step 18 becomes "Y" and the series of processes is completed. Therefore, even if the other party is an answering machine, there is no sound for a certain period of time after the response message is sent and a message message is recorded after the response message is automatically sent, and the message message recorded at this time is transmitted. In addition, after the other party responds "Yes, it is ○○" after an off-hook operation at home based on an incoming call, there is no sound for a certain period of time, and when the voice detection circuit 8 detects this silence, the recorded message message is sent. In this way, whether the respondent of the other party is a human or an answering machine, the recorded message can be surely transmitted to the other party.

The BT detection circuit 3 performs BT detection in order to determine whether or not the other party's telephone is in use in step 20 until the other party's response is detected in step 14. If the BT is not detected (“N”), the process returns to step 14 to continuously detect the response of the other party, and when the BT is detected (“Y”), the retry counter (not shown) in which the retry count is set is decremented. However, since the other party is using the telephone, step 21
Then, it is judged whether the number of retries has reached a predetermined number (0).
The line is captured by and the automatic dialing of the destination telephone number is performed again. If the number of retries has reached the predetermined number in step 21, the series of processes is ended.

When the silence detection in step 15 is "N", that is, when voice is present, the BT detection in step 30 is performed as in step 20. If no BT is detected, the process returns to step 15 to detect silence. I do. If BT is detected in step 30, the retry counter is decremented, and in step 31, it is determined whether the number of retries has reached a predetermined number as in step 21,
If the number of times is a predetermined number, after a certain period of time elapses, the line is captured in step 11 and the automatic dialing of the destination telephone number is performed again. Then, if the number of retries has reached the predetermined number in step 31, a series of processing is ended.

If the message message transmission is started in step 17 and the message message transmission end determination is "N" in step 18, BT detection is performed in step 40.
This means that if the destination is an answering machine and the time required to send a message recorded by the caller is shorter than the time it takes to record a message on this phone, the line is sent to the other party while the recorded message is being sent. This is done in order to detect this line release because it may be released by the destination. If BT is not detected in step 40 (“N”)
Returning to step 18, it is continuously judged whether or not the message has been transmitted. Here, when step 40 detects BT,
In step 41, a message message stop signal is output to the voice recording / reproducing circuit 8, the address obtained by subtracting the address corresponding to the BT detection time from the address stopped in step 42 is stored in the memory 13, and the external line is opened. Returning to step 11, the line is captured and the automatic transmission of the destination telephone number is started again. Therefore, when the answering machine of the other party automatically answers in step 14 and detects a silence for a predetermined time, the message is returned to the address stored in the memory 13 and a message message is sent out. It is possible to send the continuation, and it is possible to reliably convey the message of interest to the other party.

When this apparatus is used as a message message, the processing from step 10 onward is carried out in the same manner as in the case of sending a message by detecting that the designated time has come in step 1.

Further, the number of message messages and message messages to be transmitted is not limited to one each.

The medium for storing the message is not limited to the recording IC but may be recorded on a magnetic tape or the like.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention,
When sending a recorded message to a predetermined destination, the recorded message is sent when silence is detected after the destination responds, and the message recorded when the destination is silent is sent. Since it is sent, whether the respondent of the other party is a human or an answering machine can reliably transmit the message to the other party,
A remarkable effect can be obtained in the multifunction telephone device. Also,
The message is a message from a caller who arrives at the telephone line after automatically answering an incoming call. As a result, it is possible to surely convey the message of interest to the other party. Further, the message is a message message recorded by the user in advance. As a result, the message message can be reliably transmitted to the other party. Also, a control unit for executing the message sending function after recording the message is provided. As a result, it is possible to surely convey the message of interest to the other party. Further, it is provided with setting means for setting the time for sending the message message, and a control section for executing the message sending function at the time set by the setting means. As a result, the message message can be reliably transmitted to the other party at the designated time. Further, the voice detecting means is for detecting that silence continues for a predetermined time. As a result, the recorded message can be reliably transmitted to the other party.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the entire configuration in this embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of CPU control in this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 2 Dial circuit 3 BT detection circuit 4 Voice detection circuit 5 Hold tone circuit 6 Call circuit 7 Reverse detection circuit 8 Voice recording / reproducing circuit 9 Recording / reproducing IC 12 PB receiver 13 Memory 14 Display 15 Function key 16 Dial key 17 16Hz detection Circuit 18 Clock section 19 Loop closed circuit

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A multi-function telephone device which is connected to a telephone line and has a message sending function for automatically dialing a predetermined destination and sending a recorded message, wherein the other party is based on the response of the other party based on the automatic dialing. A multi-function telephone device comprising: a voice detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of voice from the beginning; and a message transmitting means for transmitting the message when the voice detecting means detects silence. 2. The multi-function telephone device according to claim 1, wherein the message is a message message from a caller who arrives at the telephone line after automatically answering an incoming call. 3. The multi-function telephone device according to claim 1, wherein the message is a message recorded by a user and recorded in advance. 4. The multi-function telephone device according to claim 2, further comprising a control unit that executes the message sending function after recording the message. 5. The apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising setting means for setting a time at which the message message is sent out, and a control section for executing the message sending function at the time set by the setting means. And a multifunctional telephone device. 6. The multi-function telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the voice detecting means detects that silence continues for a predetermined time.