JPH10233833A - Portable telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the portable telephone set that also informs a caller name in voice at the arrival of an incoming call. SOLUTION: A caller telephone number and caller name information in cross reference with the caller telephone number are stored in advance in a memory 9 and the caller name information corresponding to the caller telephone number to be received by referencing the received caller telephone number is retrieved from the memory 9. Based on the retrieved caller name information, a voice signal conversion section 10 converts the caller name into a voice signal and allows a speaker 8 to inform the caller name in voice.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone for notifying a caller's telephone number or the like by voice when an incoming call is received.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG.
When an incoming call is detected, the incoming call is notified by a ring tone (step S11), and it is determined whether the caller is a telephone using an analog line or a digital line (step S12). When it is determined that the telephone uses the telephone number, the telephone number of the caller is displayed on the display (step S13).

[0003]

However, in the conventional portable telephone, since the telephone number of the caller is only displayed on the display of the portable telephone, the telephone number of the caller must be known without looking at the display. In addition, there is a problem in that it is often not possible to immediately associate who the caller is by simply looking at the displayed telephone number.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to provide a portable telephone capable of notifying a caller's name by voice when an incoming call is received.

[0005]

A portable telephone according to the present invention has a memory in which a caller's telephone number and caller name information corresponding to the caller's telephone number are stored in advance, and a memory corresponding to the incoming caller's telephone number. And a notifying means for notifying the caller name based on the searched caller name information by voice.

According to the portable telephone of the present invention, when an incoming call is received, caller name information corresponding to the caller telephone number is retrieved from the memory based on the caller telephone number, and based on the retrieved caller name information. The caller name is announced by voice. Therefore, it is possible to solve the problem that the name of the called party is notified by voice on the receiving side, and the name cannot be recognized by looking at the telephone number display.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A mobile phone according to the present invention will be described below with reference to an embodiment.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a portable telephone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A portable telephone according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a network control circuit / communication circuit unit 1 comprising an NCU and a speech processor, a key switch unit 2 having a function instruction switch such as a ten-key switch and a hook switch, and a transmission unit. It has a receiver 3, a caller number receiving circuit 4, a telephone number display 5, a microcomputer (CPU) 6, a ring tone oscillating unit 7, and a speaker 8, and makes the hook switch of the key switch 2 off-hook to make a call. When a call is instructed and the telephone number of the other party is input by operating the numeric key switch of the key switch unit 2, the microcomputer 6
The telephone number of the dialed party is displayed on the telephone number display section 5 under the control of the network control circuit / communication circuit section 1.
Is controlled so that the other party is called via the telephone line, and a call can be made with the called party via the handset unit 3.

When an incoming call is received, the ring tone oscillating unit 7 is driven, and the speaker 8
Is driven, a ring tone is sounded and an incoming call is notified. At the same time, the caller number is received by the caller number receiving circuit section 4, and the telephone number of the caller is displayed on the telephone number display section 5 under the control of the microcomputer 6. here,
When the hook switch of the key switch unit 2 is set to the off-hook state, the network control circuit / communication circuit unit 1 is controlled by the microcomputer 6 to communicate with the other party via the telephone line via the handset unit 3. It is configured to be able to. The above configuration is similar to that of a conventional mobile phone.

On the other hand, the portable telephone according to one embodiment of the present invention has a memory 9 in which a caller telephone number and caller name information corresponding to the caller telephone number are stored in advance, and is stored in the memory 9. A voice information conversion unit 10 for converting the caller name information into a voice signal, and searching whether or not the same telephone number as the caller telephone number received at the time of the incoming call is stored in the memory 9 to find the same telephone number Reads out the corresponding caller name information from the memory 9 and sends it to the voice information conversion unit 10, converts it into a voice signal in the voice information conversion unit 10, and supplies the converted voice signal to the speaker 8 to notify it as voice. It is configured as follows.

When a caller name registration instruction switch provided on the key switch unit 2 is operated, a caller name registration mode is set, and the telephone number indicated by the ten-key switch of the key switch unit 2 and subsequently the telephone number. The caller name information corresponding to the telephone number and input by the user's voice from the microphone of the handset unit 3 is stored in the memory 9 under the control of the microcomputer 6 in correspondence. The telephone number information and the caller name information stored in the memory 9 are erased by operating a caller name erase instruction switch provided in the key switch unit 2.

The operation of the portable telephone according to an embodiment of the present invention configured as described above will be described.

The operation in the case of a call is the same as in the conventional case. The hook switch of the key switch unit 2 is set to an off-hook state, a call is instructed, the ten-key switch is operated, and the other party's telephone is operated. When the number is input, the telephone number of the dialed party is displayed on the telephone number display section 5 under the control of the microcomputer 6, and the network control circuit / communication circuit section 1 is controlled to connect the telephone line. The other party is called via the other party, and the called party and the handset unit 3
You can make a call via.

Next, an incoming call will be described. FIG.
As shown in (1), the telephone number information and the caller name information corresponding to the telephone number are stored in the memory 9 in advance (step S1). If not stored, it can be stored by the method described above.

When there is an incoming call, the ring tone oscillating section 7 is driven, and the speaker 8 is driven by the output from the ring tone oscillating section 7 to sound a ring tone to notify the incoming call (step S2). At the same time, it is checked whether the telephone line used by the caller is a digital telephone line or an analog telephone line (step S3). If it is determined in step S3 that the telephone line is a digital telephone line, the caller's number receiving circuit unit 4 makes a call. The telephone number of the caller is displayed on the telephone number display section 5 under the control of the microcomputer 6 (step S4).

Subsequent to step S4, the telephone number of the caller is referred to and a search is made as to whether or not a telephone number matching the received caller telephone number is stored in the memory 9 (step S5). As a result of the search in step S9,
When it is determined that a matching telephone number is stored, the caller name information stored corresponding to the matching telephone number is read out, supplied to the audio signal conversion unit 10, and converted into an audio signal. After the conversion, the name of the caller is notified from the speaker 8 by voice.

If it is determined in step S3 that the telephone line is an analog telephone line, steps S4 to S6 are skipped. If it is determined in step S5 that no matching telephone number is stored, step S6 is skipped. If it is determined in step S5 that the matching telephone number is not stored, default information is stored in the memory 9 in advance so that the notification that the call is a telephone is performed by voice, and the notification that the call is a telephone is made. May be performed by voice.

The signal can be received by setting the hook switch of the key switch unit 2 to the off-hook state, and the network control circuit / communication circuit unit 1 is controlled by the microcomputer 6 to communicate with the other party via the telephone line. A call can be made via the unit 3.

[0020]

As described above, according to the portable telephone of the present invention, the name of the caller is notified by voice,
When a mobile phone receives a telephone call while in a car or the like, it is possible to know who the call is from without looking away from the front.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile phone according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of the mobile phone according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of a conventional mobile phone.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Network control circuit / communication circuit part 2 Key switch part 3 Transmitter / receiver part 4 Caller number receiving circuit part 5 Telephone number display part 6 Microcomputer 7 Ring tone oscillating part 8 Speaker 9 Memory 10 Voice signal conversion part

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A memory for storing in advance a caller telephone number and caller name information corresponding to the caller telephone number, and a search means for searching the memory for caller name information corresponding to an incoming caller telephone number. And a notifying means for notifying the caller name based on the searched caller name information by voice.