JPH10313352A - Portable telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable telephone set in which a recipient easily confirms the arrival of an incoming call to its own portable telephone set. SOLUTION: The telephone set is provided with a voice output section 5, an operation device 3 or a voice input section 6 that is an input device to receive character information, such as a name of a recipient as incoming-call tone information, a storage device 7 that stores the incoming-call tone information received from the input device, and a voice signal output circuit 8 that reads the incoming-call tone information stored in the storage device, synthesizes voice signals and outputs the synthesized signal based on the incoming call tone information. In this case, the voice signal which is outputted from the voice output circuit 8 is outputted from the voice output section 5 as an incoming-call tone.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone such as a digital portable telephone and a PHS, and more particularly to a portable telephone improved so that a receiver can easily confirm an incoming call to his portable telephone. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional portable telephone is configured so that a desired one can be selected from several ring tone patterns in order to distinguish it from a ring tone of a pager or another portable telephone. .

[0003]

As described above, a conventional portable telephone is constructed so that it can be distinguished from ringtones of other portable telephones by selecting from several ringtone patterns. However, in practice, the ringtones are very similar or sometimes exactly the same. Therefore, one's own ringtone is often confused with another ringtone, especially in crowded places such as crowds and trains, where the receiver receives a call to his or her mobile phone and another person's mobile phone. It was difficult and inconvenient to distinguish them. In addition, when a mobile phone rings during a program on a television or the like, the user often mistakenly recognizes that his or her mobile phone has received an incoming call. Furthermore, in recent years, the number of mobile phones spread has exceeded 20 million units, and in the situation where more mobile phones are expected to spread in the future, it is easy for false recognition of incoming calls to occur more frequently under the current situation. Is expected.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a portable telephone which enables a recipient to easily confirm an incoming call to his portable telephone.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a portable telephone according to the present invention comprises an audio output unit,
An input device for inputting incoming ringing tone information, a storage device for storing incoming ringing tone information input from the input device, and reading out incoming ringing tone information stored in the storage device, based on the incoming ringing tone information. A portable telephone equipped with a voice signal output circuit for outputting a voice signal by outputting the voice signal output by the voice output circuit at the time of an incoming call from the voice output unit as a ringing tone. It is. Further, the portable telephone according to the present invention is characterized in that the storage device includes a first incoming call sound storage device capable of storing character information input from the input device as incoming call sound information. . Also, the portable telephone according to the present invention,
The audio signal output circuit includes a first audio signal output circuit for synthesizing and outputting an audio signal based on the character information. Further, the portable telephone according to the present invention is characterized in that the storage device includes a second ringing tone storage device capable of storing voice information input from the input device as ringing tone information. It is. The portable telephone according to the present invention is characterized in that the audio signal output circuit includes a second audio signal output circuit for outputting the audio information as an audio signal.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the receiver stores his / her name as character information in the storage device, and uses his / her name when receiving a call to synthesize and call, for example, a voice "Mr. For example, it is possible to store the favorite music as sound information in a storage device as sound information and make the favorite music as a ringing tone at the time of an incoming call. It is extremely unlikely to cause a false recognition of

[0007]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a portable telephone according to the present invention. In the figure, a portable telephone includes a wireless processing device 1, a main control device 2, an operation device 3, a call voice transmission / reception circuit unit 4, a voice output unit 5, a voice input unit 6, a first ringing tone storage device. 7-1, a second ringing tone storage device 7-2, a first voice signal output circuit section 8-1, and a second voice signal output circuit section 8-2.

The wireless processing device 1 converts a received data signal into data that can be easily processed by the main control device 2, and converts a data signal sent from the main control device 2 into data that can be easily transmitted.

The main control device 2 stores the incoming call sound information transmitted from the operation device 3 or the voice input unit 6 via the call sound receiving circuit 4, and stores the incoming call sound information stored in the incoming call. Based on this, processing such as outputting an audio signal is performed, and the entire telephone is controlled.

The operating device 3 is used for inputting a telephone number, setting a mode of the main control device 2, inputting incoming call ring information, and the like. The operating device 3 is formed by a plurality of buttons such as dial buttons that can be used as a number of control buttons and kana character or alphabet input buttons.

The call voice transmission / reception circuit unit 4 controls transmission / reception of call voice. The voice output unit 5 outputs a call voice or outputs a voice signal as a ringing tone, and includes a speaker and an output circuit to the speaker. The voice input unit 6 is for inputting a call voice or for inputting a ringing tone, and includes a microphone. Both the operation device 3 and the voice input unit 6 function as input devices for ringing tone information.

First ringing tone information storage device 7-1
Stores character information such as the name of the recipient input from the operation device 3 via the main control device 2. Further, the second incoming call sound information storage device 7-2 stores the sound information such as the music of the receiver's favorite input from the sound input unit 6 via the call sound transmitting / receiving circuit unit 4 and the main control device 2. Remember.

The first voice signal output circuit 8-1 generates a voice signal based on the character information sent from the first ringing tone information storage device 7-1. With this voice signal, the receiver can be notified of the incoming call by the name of the receiver stored in advance, for example, "This is a telephone call to Mr. XX." The second voice signal output circuit 8-1 generates a voice signal based on the voice information sent from the second ringing tone information storage device 7-2. By this audio signal, for example, the receiver can be notified of the incoming call by outputting the music of the receiver's preference.

The first operation of the embodiment having the above configuration will be described. The main control device 2 is set in advance to the first ringing tone recording mode by the operating device 3, and in this first recording mode, the first ringing tone information is stored from the operating device 3 via the main control device 2. Character information such as the name of the receiver is registered in the device 7-1. Then, after the main control device 2 is set to the first standby mode by the operation device 3, when there is an incoming call from another telephone, the wireless processing unit 1 notifies the main control device 2 that there is an incoming call. When the main controller 2 determines that there is an incoming call, it reads out the character information stored in the first ringing tone information storage device 7-1, and reads the character information into the first voice signal output circuit unit 8-
1, the first audio signal output circuit section 8-1 synthesizes an audio signal based on the sent character information, and the audio signal is output as audio from the audio output section 5 to call the receiver. . For example, a synthesized voice such as "This is a telephone call to XX" is output to call the recipient. Thereafter, a predetermined incoming call process is performed, and when the call ends, the process returns to the first standby mode again.

A second operation of the embodiment having the above configuration will be described. The main control device 2 is set in advance to the second incoming call ringing recording mode by the operation device 3, and in the second recording mode, the voice input unit 6 transmits the call voice via the communication voice transmission / reception circuit unit 4 and the main control device 2. Then, voice information such as music of the recipient's preference is registered in the second ringing tone information storage device 7-2. Then, after the main control device 2 is set to the second standby mode by the operation device 3, when there is an incoming call from another telephone, the wireless processing unit 1 notifies the main control device 2 that there is an incoming call. When the main control device 2 determines that there is an incoming call, the second incoming call sound information storage device 7
-2 is read out, and the voice information is sent to the second voice signal output circuit unit 8-2. The second voice signal output circuit unit 8-2 reads A voice signal is generated based on the voice signal, and the voice signal is output as voice from the voice output unit 5 to call a receiver. Thereafter, a predetermined incoming call process is performed, and when the call ends, the process returns to the second standby mode again.

The voice output unit 5 can be provided with a voice output unit of the call voice transmission / reception circuit unit 4 and a voice output unit of the first or second voice signal output circuit unit 8 which are different from each other. In addition, as the ringing tone, the storage device 7
In addition to those registered in -1 and 7-2, a plurality of bell sounds registered in advance in another storage device (not shown) can be selected and used.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention,
When an incoming call is received from another phone, the recipient can call the user with his / her favorite calling sound, so that even if there is an incoming call in a crowd, misidentification of the incoming call may occur. Has the effect of being able to be extremely reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 wireless processing device 2 main control device 3 operating device 4 call voice transmitting / receiving circuit portion 5 voice output portion 6 voice input portion 7-1 first incoming call ring storage device 7-2 second incoming call ring storage device 8- 1. First audio signal output circuit section 8-2 Second audio signal output circuit section

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An audio output unit, an input device for inputting ringing tone information, a storage device for storing ringing tone information input from the input device, and ringing tone information stored in the storage device And a portable telephone equipped with an audio signal output circuit for outputting an audio signal based on the incoming call sound information, wherein the audio signal output by the audio output circuit at the time of an incoming call is called from the audio output unit. A portable telephone characterized by outputting as sound. 2. A first storage device in which said storage device can store character information input from said input device as ringing tone information.
The portable telephone according to claim 1, further comprising a ringtone storage device. 3. The portable telephone according to claim 2, wherein said audio signal output circuit includes a first audio signal output circuit for synthesizing and outputting an audio signal based on said character information. . 4. The portable storage device according to claim 1, wherein said storage device includes a second ringing sound storage device capable of storing voice information input from said input device as ringing sound information. Phone. 5. The portable telephone according to claim 4, wherein said audio signal output circuit includes a second audio signal output circuit for outputting said audio information as an audio signal.