JPH11136429A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a facsimile equipment capable of performing call termination informing for clearly recognizing a facsimile from whom is terminated at the time of facsimile call termination and performing the similar call termination informing at the time of telephone call termination as well. SOLUTION: This facsimile equipment provided with a call termination informing function is provided with a storage part 2 for storing a caller number and a caller name voice information in correspondence and a caller number detection part 4 for extracting the caller number from reception signals. When the caller number extracted by the caller number detection part 4 is stored in the storage part 2, a main control part 1 reads the caller name voice information or the like corresponding to the caller number from the storage part 2 and a digital voice message including a caller name is synthesized from the read voice information or the like in a voice synthesis part 5 and voice outputted by a voice output part 6.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus for notifying an incoming call when an incoming call is received, and more particularly to a facsimile apparatus capable of notifying an incoming call by a voice message including a caller's name when receiving a facsimile or telephone call.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a facsimile machine,
Even if a facsimile arrives, the user does not notice the call unless the user is waiting at the facsimile machine installation location. Therefore, when a facsimile is received from a specific partner, a facsimile apparatus having an incoming call notification function for notifying a user of the fact has been conventionally provided. For example, JP-A-3-18
In the facsimile apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 1272, a terminal number of a specific destination is stored, and when a facsimile is received from the destination of the terminal number, a voice message indicating that fact is reproduced. Further, in the facsimile apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 4-242370, a terminal number or ID code of a specific destination is stored, and when a facsimile is received from the destination of the terminal number or ID code, the fact is notified. Is played. Also,
In the communication device disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H5-222565, identification information of the other party is stored, and when a facsimile is received from the other party of the identification information, a different melody or voice is reproduced depending on the other party. To the user.

[0003]

However, the prior art disclosed in the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Nos. 3-181272 and 4-242370 cannot distinguish from whom. However, the conventional technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H5-222565 has a difficulty that the user must remember who each melody or voice corresponds to. Further, according to the conventional technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H5-222565, when this is applied to a device having a telephone function, it is not known who has called the telephone. The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve the problems of the conventional technology as described above, and at the time of facsimile reception, it is possible to easily and clearly recognize who received a facsimile, and also to receive a call notification, It is another object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus that can perform similar incoming call notification.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a facsimile apparatus having an incoming call notifying function, comprising a caller identification code and a caller name voice information or a caller. Caller storage means for storing voice information including a name in association with each other, caller extraction means for extracting a caller identification code from a received signal, and caller identification code extracted by the caller extraction means Is stored in the caller storage means, the voice information associated with the caller identification code is read from the caller storage means, and a voice message including a caller name is generated from the read voice information. And a voice output unit for performing the operation. According to the second aspect of the present invention, based on the device configuration of the first aspect, the telephone further includes a telephone function and extracts a caller identification code from a DTMF signal transmitted from the other telephone. When the caller identification code extracted by the telephone caller extraction means is stored in the caller storage means, voice information associated with the caller identification code is stored in the caller storage means. And a voice output unit configured to generate a voice message including a caller name from the read voice information. Claim 3
According to the invention described in (1), on the premise of the device configuration according to claim 1 or 2, depending on the extraction result of the caller extracting means or the telephone caller extracting means, a ringing sound or a voice message is output. Alternatively, there is provided an incoming call notification selecting means for selecting whether to make no sound. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the invention, the voice information stored in the sender storage means is a character string.

[0005] With the above configuration, according to the first aspect of the invention, if the sender identification code extracted from the received signal is stored in the sender storage means, the sender identification code is associated with the sender identification code. The read voice information is read from the sender storage means, and an incoming call notification voice message including the name of the caller is generated and output from the read voice information. In the invention according to claim 2, when the caller identification code extracted from the DTMF signal sent from the other party's telephone is stored in the caller storage means, the voice associated with the caller identification code is stored. Information is read from the sender storage means, and a voice message including the name of the sender is generated and output from the read voice information. Further, according to the third aspect of the present invention, according to the extraction result and the setting result of the caller identification code, no sound, a ringing sound, or a voice message is output. According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, a speech is synthesized from the character string stored in the sender storage means and output.

[0006]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the facsimile apparatus has a main control unit 1 for controlling and managing the entire apparatus, a storage unit for storing a caller number or a caller identification code and a caller name associated therewith (sender storage). Means) 2, a communication control unit 3 including a network control device and a modem for performing facsimile communication control and telephone connection control, and a caller number or a caller identification from a received signal received from a public line through the communication control unit 3. Caller number detector for detecting code (caller extracting means)
4. a voice synthesizing unit 5 for synthesizing digital voice information from a character string; a voice output unit for generating an analog voice signal from the digital voice information synthesized by the voice synthesis unit 5 and outputting voice to a speaker (voice output means) 6, an operation unit 7 including ten keys and function keys. The main control unit 1 and the caller number detecting unit 4 are realized by a common or individual CPU and a ROM having a built-in program. Further, the caller number may be a terminal number (telephone number). The caller identification code is composed of alphanumeric characters and the like.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation content of the first embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment,
As shown in FIG. 3, in the storage unit 2, a caller number (or a caller identification code) and a caller name (in order to make it easy to see, are shown in kanji and the like by the operation unit 7, It is assumed that a caller table that is associated with (actually registered in katakana) is stored in advance. First, when the communication control unit 3 receives a facsimile signal from a public line and receives a predetermined signal in which a caller number (or a caller identification code) is set, the communication control unit 3 converts the received signal into a caller number. It passes to the detection unit 4. The caller number detector 4 extracts the caller number from the received signal (S1) and stores it in a predetermined area of the storage unit 2. Subsequently, the main control unit 1 searches the caller table in the storage unit 2 and checks whether the caller number stored in the predetermined area is registered in the caller table (S2). Then, if it is registered (Yes in S2), the main control unit 1, as shown in FIG. 4 (a), transmits a caller name character string (for example, "") corresponding to the caller number (for example, N2). 4), and obtains a character string (for example, “Samakara Facsimile Gato Dote Olima”) previously stored in a predetermined area of the storage unit 2 (see FIG. 4B), and converts them to FIG. (
By combining them as shown in c), character string voice information as incoming notification information is created and passed to the voice synthesizer 5.

In the voice synthesizing unit 5, individual digital voice information (for example, PCM voice information) of all kana characters including, for example, muddy sounds are stored. A digital voice message is synthesized by sequentially acquiring digital voice information of each character being processed (S3). When the synthesized digital voice message is passed to the main control unit 1 in order from the beginning, the main control unit 1 passes it to the voice output unit 6.
In the voice output unit 6, the digital voice message is converted into an analog voice message. From the speaker in the voice output unit 6, "A facsimile has arrived from Company B Suzuki."
Is output (S4). On the other hand, if it is determined in step S2 that the received caller number is not registered (No in S2), a ringing tone indicating a facsimile incoming call is output from a speaker in voice output unit 6, or The process exits this operation flow without outputting any voice or ringing tone (S5).

FIG. 5 shows an operation flow when registering information as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. In this flow, first, an input mode is selected using an icon or a menu displayed on the liquid crystal display device or the like of the operation unit 7 (S11), and a caller number and a caller name to be associated with the caller number are input from the ten keys (S12). ). For example, the sender name "Suzuki" is 33 according to the table shown in FIG.
Enter 3822. Similarly, a character string as shown in FIG. 4B is also input (S12). Subsequently, the main control unit 1 stores the pair of the caller number and the caller name acquired as the character code in the caller table in the storage unit 2 as the character code, and stores the character string as shown in FIG. The character code is stored in a predetermined area in the storage unit 2 (S
13). As described above, according to this embodiment,
When a facsimile is received from any of a plurality of registered callers, an incoming call notification with the name of the caller is given by voice, so that the user can easily and clearly know from whom the facsimile arrived. .

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation content of the second embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment,
Even if the other party is a telephone, incoming call notification by voice message or the like can be made, and incoming call notification can be made according to the caller ID extraction result and based on a preset incoming call notification method. For example, when receiving a facsimile call, if the other party is a registered caller, the incoming call is notified by voice message, and if it is not a registered caller, the incoming call is notified by a ring tone. Incoming call notification is performed, and if it is set so that neither a ringing tone nor a voice message is output unless the caller is a registered caller, such processing is performed. That is, as shown in FIGS. 8A and 8B, the incoming call notification method is set in advance in the notification method setting table in the storage unit 2 for each case. First, at the time of an incoming call, the communication control unit 3
It is determined whether an NG signal has been received (S21). When the CNG signal is received (Yes in S21)
s) The other party determines that it is a facsimile machine, and determines whether the extracted caller number is registered as described above. If it is registered, it refers to the upper left column of the notification method setting table shown in FIG. 8 and performs no ringing (voice output: 0, ringing tone: 0), outputs a ringing tone, It is determined whether to output (S23). Thus, in the example of FIG. 8, the voice output is selected, and the voice synthesized as described above is output (S25). On the other hand, if the caller number has not been registered, the lower left column of the notification method setting table is referred to, and in the example of FIG. 8A, a ringing tone is output (S26). FIG. 8 (b)
In the example described above, no sound is generated (S24).

On the other hand, if no CNG signal is detected in step S21 (No in S21), main control unit 1 determines that the other party is a telephone, and caller number detecting unit 4 may send a call from the other telephone. DTMF that can't be done
The signal is monitored and detected (S27). In other words, if a caller (caller) of the other party's telephone wants an incoming call notification including the caller's name, he or she inputs the same caller number as in the case of facsimile communication using the push button. Then, it is determined whether the incoming call notification method is a ringing tone or a synthesized voice (S28), and when the caller number sent by the DTMF signal is detected, the main control unit 1 sets the notification method setting table. Referring to the upper right column, the synthesized voice is output in the case of FIG. 8 (S25). If the caller number is not detected or the detected caller number is not registered, a ringing tone is output (S2).
6). As described above, according to the second embodiment, it is possible to use the same sender table as in the case of facsimile reception and to perform an incoming call notification including the name of the sender in the case of telephone reception if necessary. Further, regardless of facsimile reception or telephone reception, correspondence to the caller number detection result can be performed as set in advance. In the above description, the audio information is stored as a character string (text). However, an analog audio signal input from a microphone may be stored as, for example, PCM. Alternatively, only the part of the caller name may be stored as a character string, a voice synthesized by the voice synthesis means may be output, and the other part may be converted into an analog voice signal input from a microphone and stored in PCM.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following excellent effects can be exhibited. According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the caller number or the caller identification code extracted from the received signal is stored in the caller storage means, the voice information associated with the caller identification code or the like is transmitted. An incoming call notification voice message including the name of the caller is generated from the read voice information read from the caller storage means.
Since it is output, when a facsimile is received, it is easy and clear to know from whom the facsimile arrived. Also,
According to the second aspect of the present invention, if the caller number or the caller identification code extracted from the DTMF signal sent from the other party telephone is stored in the caller storage means, it corresponds to the caller identification code and the like. The attached voice information is read out from the caller storage means, and a voice message including the name of the caller is generated and output from the read voice information. It is easy and clear to see. Further, the sender storage means can be used in common for both facsimile and telephone. According to the third aspect of the present invention, the user remains idle, a ringing tone sounds, or a voice message is output in accordance with the extraction result and the setting result of the caller identification code and the like. , A desired incoming call notification method can be selected. According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, since voice is synthesized and output from the stored character string, voice information of many caller names can be easily set.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the facsimile apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a data configuration diagram of a main part of the facsimile apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIGS. 4A, 4B, and 4C are explanatory diagrams of main parts of the facsimile apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing another operation content of the facsimile apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is another explanatory diagram of a main part of the facsimile apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the facsimile apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIGS. 8A and 8B are data configuration diagrams of main parts of a facsimile apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Description of Signs] 1 Main control unit (incoming call notification selection unit), 2 storage unit (sender storage unit), 3 communication control unit, 4 caller number detection unit (caller extraction unit), 5 voice synthesis unit, 6 Voice output unit (voice output means), 7 operation unit.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile apparatus having an incoming call notification function, a caller storage means for storing a caller identification code and caller name voice information or voice information including a caller name in association with each other, Caller extracting means for extracting a caller identification code from a signal, and when the caller identification code extracted by the caller extraction means is stored in the caller storage means, the caller identification code is associated with the caller identification code. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a voice output unit configured to read out the read voice information from the caller storage unit and generate a voice message including a caller name from the read voice information. 2. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a telephone function, and further comprising telephone caller extraction means for extracting a caller identification code from a DTMF signal sent from the other party's telephone. When the caller identification code extracted by the caller extraction means is stored in the caller storage means, voice information associated with the caller identification code is read from the caller storage means, and from the read voice information A facsimile apparatus, wherein voice output means is configured to generate a voice message including a caller name. 3. A facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a ringing tone, a voice message is output, or no sound is emitted according to the extraction result of the caller extracting means or the telephone caller extracting means. A facsimile apparatus comprising an incoming call notification selecting means for selecting whether to perform the call. 4. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the voice information stored in the caller storage means is a character string.